Former MDC-T National Chairman, Lovemore Moyo has been named as potential contestants in the upcoming reconstructed MDC-T Extraordinary Elective Congress set for November or December.
Moyo the former speaker of Parliament and chairman is tipped for the post of vice president or chairperson.
Other MDC-T big names appearing in the contest are secretary general Douglas Mwonzora, national chairman Morgan Komichi, Paurina Mpariwa, Elias Mudzuri and Khupe.
Khupe wants to retain her position as the president of the party.
She is likely to battle it out with Mwonzora for the president position.
Komichi will likely square off against Mudzuri for the vice president position.
Mpariwa is likely to be nominated to be chairperson of the MDC-T women’s wing and Shakespeare Mukoyi being tipped to land the post of the youth chairperson.
Abednico Bhebhe is likely to be retained as the organising secretary.
Gift Chimanikire is tipped to be the secretary general. The party’s spokesperson Khalipani Phungeni is likely to retain his post.
Samuel Sipepa Nkomo is also in the race for one of the senior portfolios posts in the party.
Komichi confirmed that the nomination process has begun in the various provinces to select candidates.
“The candidates are campaigning in the various provinces and it is likely to be a highly contested congress with many candidates expressing their interest to contest and one has to be nominated by provinces,” Komichi said.
He said a number of the senior party members wanted to contest for powerful portfolios at the congress but were keeping their cards close to their chest.
The closing date for the nomination is October 25. Komichi said the preparation for the elective congress slated for December is going on smoothly with over 4 000 delegates being expected to participate.
Komichi said his party was going ahead with congress preparations and all the MPs and councillors and other leaders in the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa were not welcomed to participate.
Other party members of the MDC Alliance have approached the court challenging the directive by Khupe to bar them from attending and contesting for any post at the congress.
“We know that party members of MDC Alliance are being sponsored by Chamisa and his party seeking to stop our congress or to gate-crash and participate but they will not be successful,” Komichi said.
Diversified media group Zimbabwe Newspapers 1980 Ltd’s online streaming service, Zimpapers Television Network (ZTN), has presented credentials for consideration of a television licence to the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ).
Fourteen companies have applied for TV licences, including ZTN, whose online streaming has already attracted interest from various quarters.
The group’s board chairman, Mr Tommy Sithole, led ZTN’s presentation on Wednesday, and said they will be guided by preserving the national interest.
“Our vision as a group is to fully serve the diverse needs of our content consumers, and television is the next big thing for us,” he said.
“A television license will give us more opportunities to serve our nation by doing the things we do best. Educating our people about themselves, the country and bringing the world closer to them.
“Entertaining them through the promotion of our own very rich culture, the arts and sport.”
Mr Sithole said they will be informing people about nation building and bring to life that of which the people fought for, with many others paying the ultimate price.
“We assure you that the national interest shall be our guiding principle as indeed it has always been,” he said.
“The welfare of our nation is the development and happiness of Zimbabweans and shall be the determining factor in how we apply for the licence we seek from you today.”
Zimpapers Chief Executive Officer Mr Pikirayi Deketeke said the application for a television licence was not only a financial proposition, but to also aid the stable’s goals to give expression to the country’s political, social and economic aspirations of the majority.
He said the company was already employing more than 1 000 people and was looking to add more human resources, which dovetails into President Mnangagwa’s vision of creating employment.
“As a business whose majority shareholders are the people of Zimbabwe, through the Zimbabwe Mass Media Trust, it is incumbent upon Zimpapers that it plays a leading role in the development of our country,” said Mr Deketeke.
“Over the last 40 years, we have invested in our capacity to create and distribute content on multiple platforms, and have demonstrated our ability to do so guided by the national interest and the public benefit while maintaining profitability for the benefit of all our shareholders.”
ZTN General Manager Nomsa Nkala gave a detailed overview of the operations of the online streaming services.
President Mnangagwa has delivered the State of the Nation Address and officially opened the third session of the Ninth Parliament.
In his account, Mnangagwa hailed what he called the stability in the economy brought about by policies contained in the Transitional Stabilisation Fund and the adoption of the foreign currency auction system.
He said the stability and improvements in the economy had resulted in a decrease in imports and growth of exports and foreign currency receipts.
Mnangagwa also said other sectors of the economy that include energy, tourism and agriculture among others were poised for growth.
The President also outlined the third session’s legislative agenda that is expected to consolidate the Government’s political and economic reform agenda.
He said Parliament had passed 10 Bills out of 39 that were expected to be tabled before Parliament.
Six Zimbabwean players have been registered for the EPL 2020/21 season.
The league released the squads for the campaign on Wednesday with Aston Villa midfielder Marvelous Nakamba the most notable Zimbabwean registered to play in the top-flight this term.
The rest are little known youngsters under the age of 21 who are eligible to represent Zimbabwe.
These Warriors prospects were registered on an additional list of U21 players that can be called to feature in any game in this season, as indicated in EPL rules.
They include Reiss Nelson (Arsenal), Jimiel Chikukwa and Ethan Kachosa (Leeds United), Jethro Maswanhise (Leicester City) and Micheal Ndiweni (Newcastle United).
Leicester City striker Admiral Muskwe is a notable absentee since he is now 22-years old and could not make it into the 25-man list of senior players. He will be confined to the U23 set-up which plays in the Premier League 2.
List of registered Zim players in the EPL this season:
Marvelous Nakamba (Aston Villa – Midfielder) Reiss Nelson (Arsenal – Midfielder) Jimiel Takunda Chikukwa (Leeds United – Striker) Ethan Takudzwa Kachosa (Leeds United – Defender) Tawanda Jethro Maswanhise (Leicester City – Midfielder) Michael Nqobile Ndiweni (Newcastle United – Midfielder)-Soccer 24
By A Correspondent| Former war veterans minister Tshinga Dube has told Zanu PF bigwigs to wait for the party congress to succeed President Emmerson Mnangagwa whom he said should be given time to deal with the current economic problems facing the country.
Dube dismissed current succession fights as useless outside a party congress.
He made the remarks in an interview with The Daily News.
“Bigwigs must wait for the Zanu PF congress if they want to succeed Mnangagwa. This is where the succession issue can be dealt with. All the current fights are useless.
“For now, I think those who are talking about succession must wait and give … Mnangagwa time to deal with the current economic problems. Succession is decided by congress,” Dube said.
“President Mnangagwa must be supported to execute his mandate, not factionalism and unnecessary succession wars. These are not necessary at all.
“There is an urgent need for unity of purpose in the party,” he said.
Match day 1 of the 2020/21 UEFA Champions League season came to and end with some shocking and impressive results.
A depleted Shakhtar Donetsk, which was missing ten regular players for various reasons, stunned Real Madrid 3-2 in the Spanish capital.
Donetsk raced to a 3-0 half time lead with Zinedine Zidane’s charges could not recover from as Luka Modric and Vinicius’ second half strikes only but just put respectability on the scoreline.
Defending champions Bayern Munich sent early warning shots with a comprehensive 4-0 thrashing of Atletico Madrid.
Liverpool edged Ajax 1-0 in Amsterdam. Nicholas Tagliafico’s first half own goal proved decisive.
Romelu Lukaku’s 90th minute equalizer salvaged a point for Inter Milan, as they played out a 2-2 draw with Borrusia Monchengladbach in Milan.
Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City beat FC Porto 3-1 at the Etihad thanks to goals by Sergio Aguero, Ikay Gundogan and Fellan Torres.-Soccer 24
Mesut Ozil has responded to his axing from the Arsenal squad for the English Premier League season, describing the snub as ‘deeply disappointing’.
The 32-year old, who is taking home a salary of £350 000 ($450 000) a week, has also been omitted from the team’s Europa selection. He has not featured in a game under coach Mikel Arteta since March.
In a statement posted on social media, Ozil said: “This is a difficult message to write to the Arsenal fans that I’ve played for over the past few years.
“I’m really deeply disappointed by the fact that I have not been registered for the Premier League season for the time being.
“Upon signing my new contract in 2018, I pledged my loyalty and allegiance to the club that I love, Arsenal, and it saddens me that this has not been reciprocated.
“As I have just found out, loyalty is hard to come by nowadays. I’ve always tried to remain positive from week to week that there’s maybe a chance to get back in the squad soon again. That’s why I kept silent so far.
“Before the Coronavirus break, I was really happy with the development under our new coach Mikel Arteta – we’ve been on a positive way and I would say my performances were on a really good level.
“But then things changed, again, and I was no longer allowed to play football for Arsenal.
“What else can I say? London still feels like home, I still have many good friends in this team, and I still feel a strong connection with the fans of this club.
“No matter what, I will keep fighting for my chance and not let my 8th season at Arsenal end like this.
“I can promise you that this hard decision won’t change anything in my mindset – I will continue to train as best as I can and wherever possible use my voice against inhumanity and for justice.”-Soccer 24
Farai Dziva|MDC Alliance Secretary General, Charlton Hwende has implored Zimbabweans to ignore the “Anti-Sanctions Day” arguing participating in the event will authenticate Zanu PF propaganda.
Hwende accused Zanu PF of being insensitive to the plight of suffering Zimbabweans.
“Participating in this call by @ZANUPF_Official is the same with endorsing Abduction and torture of innocent Zimbabweans.
21 people who were shot and killed in Jan 2019 by soldiers have not received justice.
You will be endorsing theft of elections and Corruption #Musaitiswe,” Hwende wrote on Twitter.
By A Correspondent- Buhera South Member of Parliament Joseph Chinotimba’s second wife is demanding a divorce token after she moved out of her matrimonial house on Tuesday.
Locardia Dzitiro wants MP Chinotimba to take her back to her parents according to the Shona custom.
“There is nothing like divorcing a wife at a police station,” said Dzitiro.
“If he no longer loves me he must give me a token of divorce and leave me in the hands of my parents.
“He never caught me nakεd or having s_εx with that man the way he wants his relatives to believe.”
“They interrogated me with the assistance of his sisters who never attended the funeral of our child only to appear at the police station to force me out of the house,” said Dzitiro.
Dzitiro said she hasn’t had a chance to get her belongings.
“They want to remove my property in my absence as if they caught me at a lodge,” said Dzitiro.
“We were in the company of two other men and the car was parked by the roadside but his sisters are spreading falsehoods.
Dzitiro was reported to have been caught ki_ssing and carεssing a married man identified as Mahachi near VID in Belvedere on Tuesday.
A scuffle ensued and the matter ended at Milton Park Police Station where they received counselling.
Speaking at the police station on Tuesday after the scuffle, Dzitiro said Hon Chinotimba was neglecting her needs.
“VaChinotimba lost affection for me long ago and does not give me the attention I expect as a young woman; apa havabvire nekuda vana vadiki vavasingazokwanisa.
“I am his second wife with three children and we lost a child recently. He had taken that child for DNA saying the baby was not his.
“He opened up about accessing the DNA results which he never showed me; only to tell a police officer.
“Vanogara vari Buhera saka ini vanoda kuti ndiite seiwo?”
She also took a swipe at her lover’s wife whom she accused of not giving her husband enough love.
“VaChinotimba ordered me to pack my belongings and I do not care. I am leaving him,” said Dzitiro.
At the same police station, Hon Chinotimba also narrated how he come to track Dzitiro and take their late baby for DNA tests.
“In May this year I discovered that this woman was cheating on me and I decided to take our last born for DNA tests but I ended up harassing the DNA officials over delaying to give me results which I want to believe were influenced by this woman.
“I later collected the results and kept them although the child later passed on.”
He then ordered Dzitiri to pack her belongings and leave–HMetro
The Mighty Warriors have been drawn in Group C of the 2020 COSAFA Women’s Championship scheduled for next month in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Ten teams will participate in the tournament that will run from 3-14 November.
Zimbabwe’s group has Botswana and Tanzania while hosts and defending champions South Africa are the top seeds in Group A and have been drawn alongside Eswatini, Comoros and Angola.
Zambia will come up against old foes Malawi and Lesotho in Group B.
Only the top team in each pool and the best runner-up advance to the semifinals.
Heartburn is a burning pain in your chest, just behind your breastbone. The pain is often worse after eating, in the evening, or when lying down or bending over.
Occasional heartburn is common and no cause for alarm. Most people can manage the discomfort of heartburn on their own with lifestyle changes and over-the-counter medications.
Heartburn that is more frequent or interferes with your daily routine may be a symptom of a more serious condition that requires medical care.
Symptoms
Symptoms of heartburn include:
A burning pain in the chest that usually occurs after eating and may occur at night Pain that worsens when lying down or bending overBitter or acidic taste in the mouth
When to see a doctor
Seek immediate help if you experience severe chest pain or pressure, especially when combined with other signs and symptoms such as pain in the arm or jaw or difficulty breathing. Chest pain may be a symptom of a heart attack.
Make an appointment with your doctor if:
Heartburn occurs more than twice a week Symptoms persist despite use of over-the-counter medications You have difficulty swallowing You have persistent nausea or vomiting You have weight loss because of poor appetite or difficulty eating.
Causes
Heartburn occurs when stomach acid backs up into the tube that carries food from your mouth to your stomach (esophagus).
Normally when you swallow, a band of muscle around the bottom of your esophagus (lower esophageal sphincter) relaxes to allow food and liquid to flow down into your stomach. Then the muscle tightens again.
If the lower esophageal sphincter relaxes abnormally or weakens, stomach acid can flow back up into your esophagus (acid reflux) and cause heartburn. The acid backup may be worse when you’re bent over or lying down.
Risk factors
Certain foods and drinks can trigger heartburn in some people, including:
Spicy foodsOnionsCitrus productsTomato products, such as ketchupFatty or fried foodsPeppermintChocolateAlcohol, carbonated beverages, coffee or other caffeinated beveragesLarge or fatty meals
Being overweight or pregnant also can increase your risk of experiencing heartburn.
Complications
Heartburn that occurs frequently and interferes with your routine is considered gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
GERD treatment may require prescription medications and, occasionally, surgery or other procedures.
GERD can seriously damage your esophagus or lead to precancerous changes in the esophagus called Barrett’s esophagus.
Source :Mayo Clinic
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Farai Dziva|Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa has vowed to deal ruthlessly with perceived government opponents.
Speaking at the Official Opening of the Third session of the Ninth parliament in Harare on Thursday, Mr Mnangagwa accused detractors of working round the clock to disrupt government efforts to revive the economy.
“I would like to commend our security forces for working hard to defend our sovereignty and integrity.
We know that there are individuals who are working round the clock to disrupt and destabilize government programmes.We will deal with them accordingly, ” said Mr Mnangagwa.
Mr Mnangagwa also spoke of what he described as tremendous achievements of the new dispensation.
“We are the in the process of creating jobs for our people.We are happy with the reopening of our companies,” said Mr Mnangagwa.
However, political analysts dismissed Mr Mnangagwa’s speech as a cacophony of high sounding words and mere rhetoric.
By A Correspondent- Former Zanu PF Youth League chairperson Kudzanai Chipanga has been ordered to vacate, with immediate effect, a farm he was allocated in Manicaland Province.
Following a meeting of the ZANU PF politburo in Harare on Wednesday, the party’s acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa said Chipanga was illegally allocated the farm which is set to be occupied by the Manicaland State University by the vanquished G40 faction.
Chinamasa further told reporters that the politburo also threw out an application from Chipanga to rejoin the ruling party.
Said Chinamasa:
As you are aware he was expelled from the party in November 2017 for his activities and alignment with the G40 elements who did much damage to the party causing mayhem and disunity in the party.
He applied to be readmitted first in 2018 and then again in January this year. After taking into account the pivotal role that Kudzai Chipanga played in driving the G40 agenda, carrying out the activities and the gravity of the offences that he committed, the Politburo has seen it fit to turn down his application to join the party.
By A Correspondent- Government workers Tuesday expressed anger on the government after it had announced that the state will give US$500 in funeral assistance to families of civil servants who would have died.
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) described the gesture as “insensitive” suggesting that the government should rather address the workers’ salary issue instead of offering the funeral assistance.
ZCTU’s resident, Peter Moyo, said workers deserve some respect, better lives and “not better burials.”
His remarks were echoed by Raymond Majongwe the secretary-general of the Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe who told ZimLive that workers wanted better living standards.
He said: They (government) are simply saying we should smile all the way to our graves and not our banks. It’s very unfortunate that the government is planning more on our funerals than our present conditions of living.
We want better living and working conditions, not death conditions. Our take is that there’s nothing compassionate about splurging on an employee when he or she passes on. True compassion will be seen when you start paying a living salary to our members.
This comes when government workers have since last year embarked on a spate of protests over poor salaries and poor working conditions.
Scores of health caregivers in the public sector embarked on protests and some ended deserting public institutions opting for privately owned one which offered attractive remuneration and working conditions.
Meanwhile, teachers have not returned to work since the reopening of schools on 28 October demanding the restoration of their 2018 salaries (US$500).
They are currently earning about US$30 per month.
The government has for a sustained period of time failed to come up with a way to resolve the impasse it has with workers.statemedia
BUHERA South Member of Parliament Joseph Chinotimba on Tuesday caused a scene at Belvedere Vehicle Inspection Department by blocking a Norton man’s vehicle he suspected of carεssing and kissing his second wife.
VID officials and onlookers were treated to a show as Chinotimba and team dragged Mahachi of Maridale Park while assaulting him accusing him of dat_ing his second wife Locardia Dzitiro.
Mahachi’s movements with Dzitiro were reportedly being monitored and his luck ran out when he parked his vehicle near VID where he is reported to have received a thorough beating.
Dzitiro confirmed her shenanigans with Mahachi arguing that Hon Chinotimba was no longer giving her the attention she needed as a young woman.
“To be honest with you they found us. We were not having sεx but they were quick to accuse us of ki_ssing and carεssing,” said Dzitiro.
“VaChinotimba lost affection for me long ago and does not give me the attention I expect as a young woman, apa havabvire nekuda vana vadiki vavasingazokwanisa.
“I am his second wife with three children and we lost a child recently. He had taken that child for DNA saying the baby was not his.
“He opened up about accessing the DNA results which he never showed me; only to tell a police officer.
“Vanogara vari Buhera saka ini vanoda kuti ndiite seiwo?”
She also took a swipe at her lover’s wife whom she accused of not giving her husband enough love.
“VaChinotimba ordered me to pack my belongings and I do not care. I am leaving him,” said Dzitiro.
Mahachi refused to entertain H-Metro as he struggled to walk.
His clothes were soiled with dust after the scuffle that saw him being dragged out of the car.
“I have no comment,” said Mahachi.
Mai Mahachi removed her wedding ring and handed it over to Mahachi before police officers claiming that God had disclosed the latter’s evil actions that had caused suffering to her family for some time.
MP Chinotimba narrated how he came to track Dzitiro and take the late baby for DNA tests.
“Mahachi usandipewo muyedzo ini handingakuchengetere mukadzi; nekudaro toranai muende,” MP Chinotimba was heard saying on top of his voice.
“Saka unoda kuti tochinjana vakadzi here tiende mbiri munyika muno yekuti kune varume vakachinjana vakadzi.
“God who is above knows everything and I am sure all the photographs of what you were doing will be shown to you in due season.
“In May this year I discovered that this woman was cheating on me and I decided to take our last born for DNA tests but I ended up harassing the DNA officials over delaying to give me results which I want to believe were influenced by this woman.-H-Metro
Mai Charumbira, a town planner in city of Harare was arrested yesterday on allegations of abuse of office..She was remanded in custody yesterday but surprisingly she slept comfortably at her home. Today she appeared in court before Bianca Makwande (Trio Magistrate) & granted bail pic.twitter.com/BnEm2thM7V
Buhera South Member of Parliament Joseph Chinotimba on Tuesday caused a scene at Belvedere Vehicle Inspection Department by blocking a Norton man’s vehicle he suspected of caressing and kissing his second wife.
VID officials and onlookers were treated to a show as Chinotimba and team dragged Mahachi of Maridale Park while assaulting him accusing him of dating his second wife Locardia Dzitiro.
Joseph Chinotimba
Mahachi’s movements with Dzitiro were reportedly being monitored and his luck ran out when he parked his vehicle near VID where he is reported to have received a thorough beating.
Dzitiro confirmed her shenanigans with Mahachi arguing that Hon Chinotimba was no longer giving her the attention she needed as a young woman.
Mahachi accompanied by a police officer
“I am his second wife with three children and we lost a child recently. He had taken that child for DNA saying the baby was not his.
“He opened up about accessing the DNA results which he never showed me; only to tell a police officer.
“Vanogara vari Buhera saka ini vanoda kuti ndiite seiwo?”
She also took a swipe at her lover’s wife whom she accused of not giving her husband enough love.
“VaChinotimba ordered me to pack my belongings and I do not care. I am leaving him,” said Dzitiro.
Mahachi refused to entertain H-Metro as he struggled to walk.
His clothes were soiled with dust after the scuffle that saw him being dragged out of the car.
“I have no comment,” said Mahachi.
Mai Mahachi removed her wedding ring and handed it over to Mahachi before police officers claiming that God had disclosed the latter’s evil actions that had caused suffering to her family for some time.
MP Chinotimba narrated how he come to track Dzitiro and take the late baby for DNA tests.
“Mahachi usandipewo muyedzo ini handingakuchengetere mukadzi; nekudaro toranai muende,” MP Chinotimba was heard saying on top of his voice.
Mahachi’s car
“Saka unoda kuti tochinjana vakadzi here tiende mbiri munyika muno yekuti kune varume vakachinjana vakadzi.
“God who is above knows everything and I am sure all the photographs of what you were doing will be shown to you in due season.
“In May this year I discovered that this woman was cheating on me and I decided to take our last born for DNA tests but I ended up harassing the DNA officials over delaying to give me results which I want to believe were influenced by this woman.
Locardia Dzitiro
“I later collected the results and kept them although the child later passed on.
“You must collect your belongings and I will accompany you to your parents since there is no more affection between us.
“At one time this woman asked me to look for alternative accommodation for her and I refused since she wanted to rent a house in Hopley leaving free accommodation in Belvedere.
“That was the time I suspected that she was cheating and I kept on seeing Mahachi’s small car around our area,” he said.
Locardia and her sister leaving police station
MP Chinotimba wrestled with this writer ordering the deletion of what had been captured after learning that H-Metro had been following proceedings.
“What are you doing here?” asked Hon Chinotimba charging towards the writer.
“I am supposed to be at the farm and you want to write this nonsense; Can you delete everything you recorded?
“I do not want this published. Please, police officers take his mobile phone and delete everything,” he said in anger.
He later calmed down and got into his vehicle and left, ordering his children to follow.
Dzitiro and her sister had to walk to Belvedere while Mahachi and his wife were accompanied by two police officers to Norton after Mai Mahachi threatened to assault her husband over the matter. H-Metro
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said his government is encouraged by the economic stability which he attributed to the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP).
Mnangagwa made the remarks in his state of the nation address (SONA) during which he also indicated that sanctions imposed on the country by Western states continued to choke efforts to revive the collapsed economy. The president said:
Our Transitional Stabilisation Programme has delivered and there are causes for optimism. My government is indeed encouraged by the current economic stability evident since the launch of the foreign exchange auction system in June. The system has resulted in the stability of the foreign exchange rate as well as the prices of our goods and services.
In spite of the global and local economic impact of the covid-19 pandemic, our exports increased by 4.9 % to $USD1,96 billion during the first half of 2020 from $USD1,86 billion in 2019 for the comparative period.
Meanwhile, imports declined by 5,9% from $USD1,96 billion to $USD1,84 billion during the 2019 and 2020 first half comparative periods. In addition, foreign currency receipts have performed better than anticipated, appreciating by 18% as at end of August 2020 coupled by diaspora remittances which further stability.
Zimbabwe aims to have achieved an upper-middle-income economy status by 2030 and the government believes it is on the right track.
some economic analysts, however, say the Southern African country has a long way to go after suffering the worst recession in a decade when the incumbent government came to power two years ago.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects that the economy will further dip this year before regaining next year.
IMF’s projection is contradicting with that of the minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube who says the economy will not sharply recede contrary to earlier projections.-statemedia
Farai Dziva|Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa has vowed to deal ruthlessly with perceived government opponents.
Speaking at the Official Opening of the Third session of the Ninth parliament in Harare on Thursday, Mr Mnangagwa accused detractors of working round the clock to disrupt government efforts to revive the economy.
“I would like to commend our security forces for working hard to defend our sovereignty and integrity.
We know that there are individuals who are working round the clock to disrupt and destabilize government programmes.We will deal with them accordingly, ” said Mr Mnangagwa.
Mr Mnangagwa also spoke of what he described as tremendous achievements of the new dispensation.
“We are the in the process of creating jobs for our people.We are happy with the reopening of our companies,” said Mr Mnangagwa.
However, political analysts dismissed Mr Mnangagwa’s speech as a cacophony of high sounding words and mere rhetoric.
Meanwhile social media users have challenged Mr Mnangagwa to address issues that are affecting ordinary Zimbabweans- including civil servants.
“Your speech is divorced from the reality on the ground.Address the bread butter issues that are affecting us,” commented one, Esyln on Facebook.
“This is the usual rhetoric – nothing new.Concede failure and go -simple,” wrote Smartman.
Heartburn is a burning pain in your chest, just behind your breastbone. The pain is often worse after eating, in the evening, or when lying down or bending over.
Occasional heartburn is common and no cause for alarm. Most people can manage the discomfort of heartburn on their own with lifestyle changes and over-the-counter medications.
Heartburn that is more frequent or interferes with your daily routine may be a symptom of a more serious condition that requires medical care.
Symptoms
Symptoms of heartburn include:
A burning pain in the chest that usually occurs after eating and may occur at night Pain that worsens when lying down or bending overBitter or acidic taste in the mouth
When to see a doctor
Seek immediate help if you experience severe chest pain or pressure, especially when combined with other signs and symptoms such as pain in the arm or jaw or difficulty breathing. Chest pain may be a symptom of a heart attack.
Make an appointment with your doctor if:
Heartburn occurs more than twice a week Symptoms persist despite use of over-the-counter medications You have difficulty swallowing You have persistent nausea or vomiting You have weight loss because of poor appetite or difficulty eating.
Causes
Heartburn occurs when stomach acid backs up into the tube that carries food from your mouth to your stomach (esophagus).
Normally when you swallow, a band of muscle around the bottom of your esophagus (lower esophageal sphincter) relaxes to allow food and liquid to flow down into your stomach. Then the muscle tightens again.
If the lower esophageal sphincter relaxes abnormally or weakens, stomach acid can flow back up into your esophagus (acid reflux) and cause heartburn. The acid backup may be worse when you’re bent over or lying down.
Risk factors
Certain foods and drinks can trigger heartburn in some people, including:
Spicy foodsOnionsCitrus productsTomato products, such as ketchupFatty or fried foodsPeppermintChocolateAlcohol, carbonated beverages, coffee or other caffeinated beveragesLarge or fatty meals
Being overweight or pregnant also can increase your risk of experiencing heartburn.
Complications
Heartburn that occurs frequently and interferes with your routine is considered gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
GERD treatment may require prescription medications and, occasionally, surgery or other procedures.
GERD can seriously damage your esophagus or lead to precancerous changes in the esophagus called Barrett’s esophagus.
Source :Mayo Clinic
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Farai Dziva|The MDC Alliance Youth Assembly has challenged Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to take care of the needs of civil servants while they are alive instead of waiting for them to die.
This comes after the announcement by Information Ministry Permanent Secretary, Nick Mangwana, that the government will -with immediate effect- pay the sum of US $ 500 to the family of a civil servant who dies in office.
Read the MDC Alliance Youth Assembly statement below :
21-10-2020
The failed Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime never ceases to amaze!
At a time when everyone is expecting the government to address the nervous plight of civil servants, Mnangagwa’s carefree government pulled another shock.
This time a bizarre, an extraordinary more than befitting coverage on Star FM’s Tilda Live show where strange happenings are unpacked!
For some strange reasons, Mnangagwa through his mouthpiece, one Ndavaningi Mangwana this week announced that government is willing to pay US$500 demanded by civil servants only over their dead bodies.
What this means is that for teachers, nurses, soldiers, police and other civil servants in order to access a decent wage, they have to die first.
Mnangagwa’s ‘love’ and preference for the dead over the living defies logic!
This is not the first time that Mnangagwa’s regime has exhibited unparalleled gravitation towards the dead.
In 2018, the same regime shocked all and sundry when they forked out millions of US dollars from state coffers just to hire a luxurious plane for repatriation of the corpse of former First Lady, Grace Mugabe’s mother.
Even by own admission, Dr Amai as Grace is referred to was shocked by the affluence albeit through extravagance extended to her dead mother.
Again last year, the same heartless regime offered to build a US$10 million mausoleum for the late Robert Mugabe at a time when the economic was heavily sneezing.
This week’s US$500 offer for dead civil servants comes at a time when teachers are groaning under the yoke of incapacitation which has seen schools being reduced to mini shebeens and brothels.
This ZANU PF regime has become a danger to the living!
Stephen Sarkozy Chuma MDCAllianceYouthAssemblyNationalSpokesperson
Farai Dziva|MDC Alliance Secretary General, Charlton Hwende has implored Zimbabweans to ignore the “Anti-Sanctions Day” arguing participating in the event will authenticate Zanu PF propaganda.
Hwende accused Zanu PF of being insensitive to the plight of suffering Zimbabweans.
“Participating in this call by @ZANUPF_Official is the same with endorsing Abduction and torture of innocent Zimbabweans.
21 people who were shot and killed in Jan 2019 by soldiers have not received justice.
You will be endorsing theft of elections and Corruption #Musaitiswe,” Hwende wrote on Twitter.
Farai Dziva|Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa has vowed to deal ruthlessly with perceived government opponents.
Speaking at the Official Opening of the Third session of the Ninth parliament in Harare on Thursday, Mr Mnangagwa accused detractors of working round the clock to disrupt government efforts to revive the economy.
“I would like to commend our security forces for working hard to defend our sovereignty and integrity.
We know that there are individuals who are working round the clock to disrupt and destabilize government programmes.We will deal with them accordingly, ” said Mr Mnangagwa.
Mr Mnangagwa also spoke of what he described as tremendous achievements of the new dispensation.
“We are the in the process of creating jobs for our people.We are happy with the reopening of our companies,” said Mr Mnangagwa.
However, political analysts dismissed Mr Mnangagwa’s speech as a cacophony of high sounding words and mere rhetoric.
I thought I should share with you my sentiments towards the economic sanctions imposed by US upon our country Zimbabwe.
Like always, let me begin by appreciating the gallant sons and daughters of the soil, who laid their lives for this nation and continent. I salute you!!
Two groups of people I think should wake-up from the political slumber.
Those who campaign for the uplifting of sanctions, pushing the banner “SANCTIONS MUST GO”
Those who campaign for free and fair elections.
There is nothing like free and fair elections, even in the USA. Politics is about using whatever you have at your disposal to outsmart your opponent or competitor. It will never be fair.
Likewise, sanctions are also a diplomatic tool used by US or institutions to push their agenda and interests. It’s either you submit to them or get sanctioned.
The intended purpose or motive of these sanctions is to coerce the government of the targeted country to change its behaviour to America’s liking or to make the populace suffer so much that they overthrow the government FOR the US. Sanctions are meant to bring a nation to its knees.
The US wants to turn self sufficient countries into aid-dependant nations. After imposing sanctions, the countries that impose sanctions will pretend like they care by delivering aid. The blockade costs created by sanctions the US imposed were over $30 billion and after such a punishment, Venezuela was given a so called humanitarian aid worthy $20 million. To me its a way of saying, “I’m choking and killing you so that I can reward you with a cookie.” That’s real global politics, using whatever they have, to push their interests.
Human rights violations are mere diplomatic justifications used to cover up the main reason behind the imposition of sanctions. For instance, in our country Zimbabwe, we don’t hear of sanctions imposed after Gukurahundi, because by then, we were a Western puppet. Aslong you have accepted to be a puppet, you can violate human rights and yet no sanctions would be imposed.
This is why I condemn campaigns against sanctions. To me, they sound politically shallow. You don’t campaign for sanctions to go but you outsmart them.
Actually, when our regional boards like SADC, supports the “SANCTION MUST GO” mantra, they are actually pushing a foreign agenda that Pan-Africanism is not achievable, we will need to be puppets of the West or East to survive, which is actually an insult to African Intelligence.
To me, imposition of sanction is sign that you are in the right direction of achieving your national and continental DESTINY. Any country without sanctions imposed, is enough proof that it’s a Western or Eastern puppet, sunk deep into their pocket.
Zimbabwe or Africa has the resources. We just have to shun corruption and utilise the resources we have. We just have to rise above sanction. If we want to rise into a super-power, then we need to outsmart diplomatic economic sabotage. The politics between political parties is just a pinch of sand in a desert, meant to divert our mind from the real politics, which is the global politics. This is when you make sure your nation or continent compete and achieve by being a super-power.
African destiny is bigger than what we see or think. It is the biggest threat to the West or East. They know that Africa is a sleeping giant.
So let’s stop singing the old hymes synthesized with Western or Eastern propaganda. Sanctions don’t need to go, unless we accept being puppets of the foreign powers. We just need to outsmart them. Our late great African leader, Gaddafi lectured us how we can achieve our Destiny.
PAN-AFRICANISM is the way. It doesn’t suffocate the majority neither loot the resources to benefit only a minority. It pushes policies that defends and benefit its people. We don’t even need democracy or elections to achieve the Zimbabwe and Africa we want. Those are foreign systems. Even the $US is not precious more than our fertile land, wildlife and minerals. Failure to utilise the resources we have, will prove their propaganda correct and even destroy our path to African destiny.
Actually, we need to build our country and continent, above partisan lines. Zimbabwe is bigger than any political party. We won’t achieve the Zimbabwe we want as ZanuPf or opposition but as Zimbabweans. Let’s hold hands and move together. Toxic politics will only benefit politicians.
Let’s transform our mindset by prioritising the well-being of the most vulnerable poorest people of our society and the future generations. We also need to invest more in intelligence, so that we can match and outsmart their intelligence organisations, responsible for orchestrating the systems that pull us down.
Conclusively, poor leadership that loots national resources is what we need to address.
Africa should actually outsmart and rise above sanctions!!
By A Correspondent- Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe on Wednesday promised to deal with the issue of learner drivers whose provisional licences expired during the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
This comes after scores of learner drivers whose provisional licences expired when the country was under lockdown were this week turned away by the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID).
Reports indicate that the VID advised the learner drivers to rewrite their provisional licence tests. A provisional licence costs US$15.
Meanwhile, Kazembe admitted that nobody had thought about the issue but his Ministry will now look into the issue urgently.
He said:
I think it’s an issue that needs to be looked at. It’s a genuine concern. Nobody thought of it. I will attend to the issue as a whole as I’m sure a lot of people are affected.
Through Statutory Instrument 144 of 2020, the government extended by six months from March 30 the validity of certain documents including learner’s licences, defensive driving certificates and public service vehicle driver retests.
The Zimbabwean government imposed a hard lockdown at the end of March to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus and since June, restrictions have been gradually lifted allowing most economic and social activities to resume.-statemedia
Mai Charumbira, a town planner in city of Harare was arrested yesterday on allegations of abuse of office..She was remanded in custody yesterday but surprisingly she slept comfortably at her home. Today she appeared in court before Bianca Makwande (Trio Magistrate) & granted bail pic.twitter.com/BnEm2thM7V
Manicaland Provincial Affairs Minister Ellen Gwaradzimba who is under investigation for alleged abuse of office on Tuesday told the chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Justice Mayor Wadyajena to behave well and restrain himself in his conduct
She told him this when she appeared before his committee in parliament recently..
She told him he was a disrespectful child who was big trouble to elders. She threatened to approach president Emmerson Mnangagwa to influence his dismissal as the chair of the committee.
Wadyajena accuses Gwaradzimba of misleading the late Lands Minister Perrance Shiri, to allocate a part of Farfell Coffee Estates to her son Remembrance Mbudzana.
By A Correspondent- The body of a two-year-old girl allegedly murdered by its parents and buried in a shallow grave in Mhangura, a town in northern Zimbabwe, has been exhumed.
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the development, adding that the girl’s parents have been arrested.
It is alleged that the father, Norest Masvosva (30), assaulted the child to death using a wooden switch after accusing her of soiling herself and later buried the corpse along the Hunyani riverbank.
The alleged murder occurred on August 30 when the couple had gone for gold panning along the Hunyani River
The case came to light last week after the child’s mother, Elizabeth Dinhidza reported her husband to the police following a domestic dispute.
Assistant Commissioner Nyathi told ZTN News that the reasons given for the murder were incredible, hence the investigation.
Nyathi, however, refused to comment on speculation that the murder could yet be another ritual killing of an innocent child.
He said:We are conducting investigations and the two parents have been arrested and the body has since been exhumed.
We want to find out the motive because the reasons being given are just unbelievable, that the child was killed for just messing up some pants, which is really disturbing.
… As police we don’t want to speculate, let’s just wait for investigations to proceed.
Last month a seven-year-old boy from Murewa, Tapiwa Makore, was murdered by his uncle in a suspected ritual killing.
Some of Tapiwa’s body parts are still missing and he is yet to be buried.-statemedia
ZimEye will be livestreaming on our facebook page the State of the Nation Address by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
The address will be at 12pm at State House
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to make his State of the Nation Address (SONA) this afternoon. Do you think he will address the Zimbabwean crisis and table solutions?
MDC Alliance (MDC-A) supporters in Chiredzi have castigated the party’s president, Nelson Chamisa, for neglecting a former Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officer fired for supporting him.
John Mahlabera is reportedly living in abject poverty after he was sacked from ZPCS on charges of using traitorous or disloyal words towards President Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2018.
Chamisa promised to include Mahlabera in his security team when he was campaigning for the 2018 general elections but has reneged on the pledge two years on.
Mahlabera, who was stationed at Chiredzi Prison, attended a Chamisa campaign rally held at Tshovani Stadium, Chiredzi on June 10, 2018, when the youthful leader praised Mahlabera’s “bravery” for openly criticising Mnangagwa’s government.
The State accused Mahlabera of “showing loyalty to the opposition party president, thereby exhibiting disloyalty and disgraceful conduct to the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe.”
Mahlabera said following his discharge from the ZPCS, he tried to follow up on the job offer through text messages to Chamisa but his mobile number became unreachable.-Newsday
By A Correspondent- About 150 workers at Diamond Cement, a Chinese run company near Kwekwe have reportedly been forcibly separated from their families for the past five months by the company.
The company management allegedly made the decision because they fear that if the workers go home, they will bring back the coronavirus.
The workers are reportedly living in squalid conditions and are being made to sleep in cargo containers.
The workers recently petitioned the company management to be allowed to go and see their families but they were reportedly told that anyone who leaves the company will not come back.
Diamond Cement spokesperson George Makonese told Masvingo Mirror that the workers were not forced to stay at the company’s premises but did so voluntarily.
He said:
Yes, we have employees staying at the plant but they signed indemnity forms. No one was forced to stay at the plant.
However, if one leaves, there is a process by which one will come back because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is true that the workers had a meeting with the Managing Director over the issue recently and everything was resolved.
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) secretary-general Japhet Moyo said it was unfair for companies to keep workers at the workplace for more than two weeks.
Moyo said he will send a delegation to go and look into the matter.
By A Correspondent- On Sunday at around 9pm, the 10 unknown men pounced on the four victims who were at their house at Ayimersfield farm in Goromonzi.
They introduced themselves as police officers from CID minerals department and were looking for Mr Alexio Kambasha whom they wanted in connection with illegal gold panning issues.
Kambasha confirmed that he was the one they were looking for and they handcuffed him. Three of the gang members entered the house and ordered the other three artisanal miners to sit.
The suspects demanded that Kambasa give them a gun and he told them that he did not have one.
They reportedly lifted the bed and took a safe containing 12g of unpurified gold and US$10 000.
They also took a satchel containing airtime worth $3 000 and escaped, leaving Mr Kambasa handcuffed.statemedia
By A Correspondent- Thokhozile Muziboreva, an MDC Alliance provincial council member for Masvingo has died.
Muziboreva (58) who was the party’s secretary for tourism in the National Women’s Assembly died suddenly at Morgenster Mission Hospital on October 9, 2020 after she succumbed to diarrhea.
Sarah Matanga, an MDC member of the Provincial Council confirmed the death.
Muziboreva was buried at Chikarudzo in Chikoto Village under Chief Shumba on October 11, 2020.
She is survived by four children following the death of her husband last year.
Muziboreva has been an MDC member since the party’s formation in 1999.
National organising secretary Amos Chibaya, National chair lady Mugido Muchirairwa, Secretary for National Women Assembly Monica Mukwada, Provincial Councilor Muranganwa Chanyawu, Masvingo Mayor Collen Maboke and Chief Shumba attended the funeral.-MasvingoMirror
Mai Charumbira who is @cohsunshinecity town planner was arrested yesterday over land corruption ( yet they blame MDC A),remanded in custody yesterday but slept at her home. Today she appeared in court before Bianca Makwande (who denied #MDCTrio bail) & granted bail.#ZanuPfMustGopic.twitter.com/sQuoNqkSZE
The body of a two-year-old girl allegedly murdered by its parents and buried in a shallow grave in Mhangura, a town in northern Zimbabwe, has been exhumed.
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the development, adding that the girl’s parents have been arrested.
It is alleged that the father, Norest Masvosva (30), assaulted the child to death using a wooden switch after accusing her of soiling herself and later buried the corpse along the Hunyani riverbank.
The alleged murder occurred on August 30 when the couple had gone for gold panning along the Hunyani River
The case came to light last week after the child’s mother, Elizabeth Dinhidza reported her husband to the police following a domestic dispute.
Assistant Commissioner Nyathi told ZTN News that the reasons given for the murder were incredible, hence the investigation.
Nyathi, however, refused to comment on speculation that the murder could yet be another ritual killing of an innocent child. He said:
We are conducting investigations and the two parents have been arrested and the body has since been exhumed.
We want to find out the motive because the reasons being given are just unbelievable, that the child was killed for just messing up some pants, which is really disturbing.
… As police we don’t want to speculate, let’s just wait for investigations to proceed.
Last month a seven-year-old boy from Murewa, Tapiwa Makore, was murdered by his uncle in a suspected ritual killing.
Some of Tapiwa’s body parts are still missing and he is yet to be buried.
By A Correspondent- Admire Chisi, a 25-year-old Ruwa man who was on Tuesday arrested for practising medicine without qualifications, was able to convince his neighbours that he was a genuine doctor working at Parirenyatwa Hospital.
Chisi’s neighbour, Brian Chivona told The Herald that the whole neighbourhood was satisfied that the young man, who stays in Zimre Park with a friend and a sister, was a medical doctor as he went to Parirenyatwa Hospital daily.
Meanwhile, Harare lawyer Wellington Pasipanodya of Manase & Manase Legal Practitioners urged the health profession to introduce more stringent security measures to detect masquerades in time.
He said:
This type of mischief is common to many professions in Zimbabwe. What needs to be done is to introduce an electronic tag system to identify each hospital staff member using identity tags.
Further, all doctors must be issued with practising certificates which can be produced upon demand by the general public.
Lastly, ordinary accountability systems like staff meetings, duty rosters and random spot checks of medical personnel against the database of the Health Professions Authority can be done to prevent a repeat of this act.
Another lawyer, Caleb Mucheche, accused the Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals management of negligence and dereliction of duty and called for an overhaul of the HR and security departments.
Said Mucheche:
Failure to detect such a bogus doctor for that long smacks of gross negligence or dereliction of duty by hospital management, human resources and security departments.
The bogus doctor committed a serious criminal offence by falsely posing as a doctor and endangering human lives at such a big and busy hospital especially now during coronavirus.
There is a need for an overhaul of management, human resources department and security departments at that hospital to prevent future incidents like this.
Professor Lovemore Madhuku says Zimbabweans wasted their time and votes when they went out to vote for both Emmerson Mnangagwa and Nelson Chamisa in 2018.
Madhuku said this while addressing members of his National Constitutional Assembly in Kwekwe recently.
“People voted for Mnangagwa and Chamisa in 2018 elections. These were the main contenders in the elections since they polled more votes than any other leaders on the ballot,” said Madhuku.
He added it was a waste of votes cast for Mnangagwa and Chamisa.
“Those who voted for Mnangagwa, what can they really say they voted for? The economy is now in worse shape. People are now suffering more while those who voted for Chamisa, it was a vote which has gone to waste again,” said Madhuku.
“Besides giving Chamisa prestige that he gained a considerable number of votes, and inflating the vote figures and vote-rigging claims, there is nothing much he can do for the people as he is not in power. So voting for those two didn’t change the prospects of Zimbabweans.”
“Either MDC or Zanu PF do not care about the people. Give me an example of an MDC councillor or MP who did anything for the people if not for their personal development. The only development seen in opposition MPs is their own personal development,” Madhuku said.
“In rural areas, people have been voting for Zanu PF since 1980, but is there any noticeable development from the party? No! People will tell you it’s our party. In urban areas, people have been voting for the MDC since 2000 but have there been any change in their lives?”
“In Manicaland where I come from, there is an MP for Mutare Central Innocent Gonese. Gonese has been in Parliament since 2000 but he has done nothing for the people of Mutare for all those years. He even wants to contest in the 2023 elections. The Zimbabwean electorate must be better than that,” he said.
He told party members the NCA was going to offer an alternative leadership in the 2023 elections.
By A Correspondent| A Harare elderly woman was ordered to sell her posh flat in the Harare CBD and hand the money to controversial preacher Walter Magaya for a fake property he claimed was under construction in the Westgate area.
The self proclaimed prophet forced the vulnerable elder, who is a pensioner, to trade off her residence for a non existent mansion.
To force his sale through, Magaya had shown her a place where he announced he is building new flats, in Wonderland Estates (after Westgate along Lomagundi road).
This is a scheme first exposed by ZimEye.com three years ago.
ZimEye remains dedicated to expose more of Magaya’s frauds, to give victims a voice so they can recover their money’s.
At one point Magaya had already taken the woman to the fake property “saying this is yours.” She would 3 years later discoverthat it was all fake and the whole piece of land is actually owned by some Chinese businessperson.
At one time during court hearings, the elder’s lawyer tried to obtain restitution from an unfinished property at the estate, only to be told that the so called MAGAYA estate has since been sold off to some undisclosed Chinese businessmen, as the complainant narrates.
“My client was concerned saying she might be killed by MAGAYA’s people. According to her MAGAYA kills those who exposes him,” the lawyer Frank Nyangani tells ZimEye.
“It was MAGAYA who persuaded her saying you can actually sell this flat and invest in this bigger thing,” he adds.
He continues saying, “all along she was scared if the matter is published…”
Mr Nyangani however said she has since changed her mind and now says, “if he kills me let him kill me.”
Magaya had shown her 20 houses.
Magaya’s defence was the elderly had paid USD70,000 and he says this was a deposit; she is supposed to pay USD 140,000 so she must pay him an additional USD70,000 and he will refund her USD70,000 in bond note value.
A writ of execution has since been obtained to attach Magaya’s property.
The case against MDC Alliance MP Joana Mamombe is set for record breaking turnout now with the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) demanding to be included in it.
The JSC has approached the High Court seeking to be included in the ongoing case.
In an urgent chamber application filed with the High Court, the JSC argues as the employer of the trial magistrate, it must be afforded an opportunity to be heard on the question of costs and make representations in that regard.
It said this was now impossible because the magistrate, Bianca Makwande, did not refer the matter to it.
JSC said its intention is not to meddle or interfere with the merits of the case but solely for administration purposes.
“The applicant has become aware of the proceedings under Case HC5435/20, as is the employer of the third respondent (Bianca Makwande),” reads part of the application file at the High Court.
“The third respondent was obliged, under terms of her employment, to refer the matter to the applicant (JSC). The applicant does not wish to participate in or be drawn in respect of the substantive merits or demerits of the main application as between the respondents.
“The applicant’s interest is limited to the draft order, in particular paragraph three which seeks to depart from the precedent in this jurisdiction by inviting this Honourable Court to make an order of costs against a judicial officer in respect of conduct that has occurred during the normal course and scope of his or her employee,” said JSC.
It said it has an interest in the outcome of the proceedings, especially regarding the issue of costs.
Mamombe is cited by the JSC as the first respondent while Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi is the second respondent and Makwande as the third respondent.
In his founding affidavit to support the application, the JSC secretary, Walter Chikwanha said the commission “must be afforded an opportunity to assist the court in arriving at a decision as regards the order of costs sought, which protect the interests of the JSC, its employees and the broad interests of justice insofar as punitive orders of costs are proposed to be made against JSC officers.”
A totally bogus doctor, a young man without a medical qualification to his name, worked in the Parirenyatwa casualty unit for seven months until Tuesday this week, accepted by staff, security and patients simply because he wore a white coat and carried a stethoscope.
Admire Chisi (25) was finally rumbled when the head of casualty took an interest, found the young man was remarkably ignorant, investigated and called the police, who took him away on charges of impersonating a public officer although other charges may be laid. It is unlikely that he was paid, but that is not yet certain
But what concerns a lot of people is how human resources, security and hospital administration generally could admit him into the building, let alone allow him to deal with patients, for so long.
Social commentators have claimed that the bogus doctor could have been a CIO agent and someone within the hospital is aware of that.
Chisi took advantage of the doctors’ strike and the general staff shortage in the health sector to penetrate the hospital system in April this year, although that was when there was a tight lockdown and security had been supposedly tightened. But the increased pressure on senior medical staff might explain why it took so long to figure out he was a very bad doctor if qualified.
Parirenyatwa Hospital yesterday issued a statement confirming Chisi was a fake doctor and that they had handed him over to the police.
“On October 20 2020, Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals discovered that the Accident and Emergency Department had been infiltrated by a fake medical doctor who posed as a physician registrar.
“The matter was discovered after our vigilant casualty staff doubted his medical proficiency and made some inquiries. The suspect has been handed over to the police who are now handling the matter,” reads the statement.
However, labour lawyers, medical experts and other commentators questioned how the hospital could enjoy the services of a bogus doctor for seven months.
They blasted the leadership for failing to properly supervise staff while the security section of the institution was criticised for laxity.
Top labour lawyer Mr Caleb Mucheche said the hospital management exhibited negligence and dereliction of duty.
“Failure to detect such a bogus doctor for that long smacks of gross negligence or dereliction of duty by hospital management, human resources and security departments.
“The bogus doctor committed a serious criminal offence by falsely posing as a doctor and endangering human lives at such a big and busy hospital especially now during coronavirus.
“There is need for an overhaul of management, human resources department and security departments at that hospital to prevent future incidents like this,” he said.
Zimbabwe Medical and Dental Practitioners Council president Dr Francis Chirowa said it was surprising that a hospital with sectional heads could take that long to detect the fraud.
“One cannot just walk into the hospital and assume duties of a medical practitioner without producing a practicing certificate. It is surprising considering there is a head of Casualty who should be able to know all the doctors under him and ensure there is a duty roster for all staff,” he said.
Dr Chirowa said Chisi’s case was the third such fraud since independence and measures must be put in place to protect patients.
“In the 1980s we had a similar case at Harare Hospital (now Sally Mugabe Hospital) where someone masqueraded as a doctor. We also had another case of another man who illegally practiced at Mpilo, United Bulawayo Hospitals and Mberengwa. That one ended up causing deaths.
“The Parirenyatwa case is now the third one and there is need for management at hospitals to be more vigilant to save our patients from fake doctors,” he said.
A security expert Mr Brian Kashangura of Vandrift Security Services said the case exposes the laxity of the security at the hospital.
“It clearly shows there are no systems to protect patients at the hospital. How can a stranger work for that long without being questioned? The chief executive officer should do the honourable thing and step down,” he said.
Harare lawyer Mr Wellington Pasipanodya of Manase & Manase Legal Practitioners said the health profession must introduce more stringent security measures to detect bogus doctors in time.
“This type of mischief is common to many professions in Zimbabwe. What needs to be done is to introduce an electronic tag system to identify each hospital staff member using identity tags. Further, all doctors must be issued with practicing certificates which can be produced upon demand by the general public.
“Lastly, ordinary accountability systems like staff meetings, duty rosters and random spot checks of medical personnel against the database of the Health Professions Authority can be done to prevent a repeat of this act,” he said.
PRETORIA – Self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary will have to spend more time in jail.
They’ll be remanded in custody at the Kgosi Mampuru prison in Pretoria until Friday.
The State’s case against self-proclaimed Prophet Shepherd Bushiri, his wife Mary Bushiri and a third accused, Landiwe Ntlokwane, has been rolled over to Friday.
They appeared in the Pretoria Central Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
They faced charges of fraud, theft and money laundering relating to an amount of R102 million.
The court heard earlier that the State wanted the bail application postponed, but Bushiri’s legal team opposed this.
Advocate Anneline Van Den Heever, on behalf of the accused, told the court they were ready to proceed and that the State was not entitled to have the matter postponed.
“When you arrest, you must be ready to proceed. One expects that when one applies for a warrant of arrest in a matter that has been investigated for a prolonged period, the State and investigation team should have their house in order,” she argued before the court.
The court, however, ran out of time to hear the State’s response and subsequently rolled the matter over to Friday.
Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG), the church which Bushiri leads, released a statement on Tuesday confirming the arrest of Mary Bushiri.
In addition, the statement revealed that their leader had handed himself over to the Hawks.
The self-proclaimed prophet and his wife were set to go on trial in May 2021 for a separate fraud and money laundering case in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria.
Their status in the country was also questioned.
According to a high court ruling, their permanent residency remains unchanged.
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President Mnangagwa delivers his annual State of the Nation Address (SONA) today when he opens the Third Session of the Ninth Parliament and sets the Government’s legislative agenda for the coming session.
The Head of State and Government will address virtually a joint sitting of both the National Assembly and Senate, with all legislators following the speech on Zimpapers Television Network (ZTN) and ZBC.
This first virtual SONA is because of the need to minimise risks of Covid-19 infection.
Since the 2018 elections that saw Mnangagwa snatch victory from MDC Alliance’s Nelson Chamisa, the opposition MPs have been walking out on Mnangagwa as soon as he settles in parliament for his address.
Speaker of parliament Jacob Mudenda has even gone to the extent of punishing the MPs by docking their allowances.
In an interview yesterday, Clerk of Parliament Mr Kennedy Chokuda said all was set for SONA and official opening of the Third Session of the Ninth Parliament.
Some legislators will follow proceedings from the Chamber, with others follow from their gadgets such as phones and television.
“All is now set for the official opening by His Excellency President Mnangagwa, who will also deliver the State of the Nation Address. The President will give us direction in terms of Government’s legislative agenda,” said Mr Chokuda.
He said entrance to Parliament Building will be restricted as part of measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.
In his announcement last week, Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda said the official opening of the Third Session of the Ninth Parliament was consistent with Section 140 of the Constitution, which relates to Presidential addresses and messages to Parliament.
“The President may at any time address either House of Parliament or a joint sitting of both Houses,” reads the Constitution.
“At least once a year the President must address a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament on the state of the nation, and the Speaker and the President of the Senate must make the necessary arrangements for Parliament to receive such an address.”
There are a number of Bills that are still outstanding that Parliament will deal with in the coming session.
The Zimbabwe Media Commission Bill, which has sailed through the National Assembly, must now be considered by the Senate.
The Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill, the Financial Adjustment Bill, the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (Number 1) Bill, the Marriages Bill, the Constitutional Court Amendment Bill, the Pension and Provident Funds Bill, the Manpower Planning and Development Bill, and the Centre for Education, Innovation, Research and Development Bill are in various stages of becoming law.
Some of the Bills are meant to align statute law with the Constitution or bring into effect the necessary political and legal reforms that the Second Republic has set out to achieve.
There is also the much-awaited Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill, which initially went through Parliament, but President Mnangagwa withheld his assent and referred it to the House so that it could address concerns that he felt were not consistent with the Constitution.
Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday said the SONA was important for every Zimbabwean.
“This is when the President will talk to the Parliamentarians to give his legislative agenda, the Bills which are supposed to come to Parliament. He will also talk about the economic and social progress in the country. He will also talk to the nation about what the country has achieved.
“This is a very important day for all Zimbabweans across the political divide; we all need to listen to the President, let us all watch on TV, we should be able to understand where this country is coming, where we are and where it is going,” said Minister Mutsvangwa.
She said today will be the first time that the opening of the a session of Parliament would be done virtually due to the Covid-19 restrictions that discourage huge gatherings.
President Mnangagwa will address the nation from State House while all National Assembly and Senate representatives will assemble at Parliament Building around 11am.
President Mnangagwa will be at State House by noon, where he will inspect a guard of honour and then proceed to address the nation.
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…You have very educated Zimbabweans, the majority of them educated by zanu-pf since independence, and then use the education to spite their country, they use their eloquence to undermine the economy of their country -Patrick Chinamasa at @ZANUPF_Official press conference 21 Oct pic.twitter.com/tXEqggcXfl
In fact I always say and regret that you have very educated Zimbabweans, the majority of them educated by Zanu-pf since independence, and they use their education to spite their country, they use their eloquence to undermine the economy of their country, to put into disrepute the very country that educated them. –
THE rolling ZANU PF party recently indicated that their annual conference was gong to go ahead at all costs under strict Covid-19 regulations.
The party had declared that the number of delegates to the conference which was set to be held in Mashonaland Central province in December would be scaled down in line with COVID-19 guidelines.
The party’s administration director Dickson Dzora even visited the provincial capital, Bindura, to assess potential venues for the province.
He said delegates would be reduced from their usual numbers of between 7 000 to 9 000 to even less than half the number.
“There are major decisions to be made, one of which is the number of delegates under COVID-19, the conference is normally attended by 7 000 to 9 000 delegates, but the provincial leadership is expected to make recommendations on how the figures should be cut in light of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Dzora said.
All that has gone into flames after President Mnangagwa’s deputy, Constantino Chiwenga, who is also Health minister, last week suspended the holding of by-elections citing COVID-19, which meant that the party can not be caught in double standards holding its conference while elections are banned.
The ZANU PF Politburo yesterday resolved to indefinitely postpone the party’s 19th Annual People’s Conference to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 as directed by Chiwenga.
Briefing the media after the 345th Session of the Politburo, Zanu PF acting secretary for Information and Publicity Patrick Chinamasa said the conference had been postponed indefinitely to allow the Government, the party and people to contain the pandemic without undue disturbances.
Chinamasa said the Politburo received a report from the Conference Coordinating Committee chaired by the party’s national chairperson Cde Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri on the state of preparedness of the party to hold the National People’s Conference.
“However in line with Covid-19 Level 2 restrictions currently obtaining, the Politburo resolved that having done well to contain the Covid-19 disaster as compared to other countries, the party must not get carried away. In times of national emergencies such as Covid-19, the priority of the party should be to protect the lives of our people and the security of our nation,” said Chinamasa.
He said the Politburo deliberated on various options available on holding the conference with suggestions on either, holding it virtually or postponing it indefinitely and hold it when the situation normalises.
“After lively, honest and frank deliberations, the Politburo took the decision to postpone the Annual People’s Conference indefinitely, to allow the Government, party and the people to contain the Covid-19 pandemic without undue disturbances.”
The conference, Chinamasa said, would be held when the situation normalises and whenever that happens, Mashonaland Central Province would still host it.
“At this moment we decided that we must comply with the Covid-19 regulations restrictions so that we do not jeopardise or risk the lives of our population,’’ said Chinamasa.
The ZANU PF Politburo meeting on Wednesday cracked its whip on several party members involved in disciplinary cases.
The party’s National Disciplinary Committee chaired by Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, presented to the Politburo updates on disciplinary hearings that took place on various cases of members of the party.
In the case of former Zanu PF deputy secretary for Youth Affairs Chipanga Kudzanai from Manicaland, party spokesperson told journalists in a post meeting brief that the Politburo turned down his application for readmission.
“Cde Chipanga applied to rejoin the party following his expulsion in 2017. The Party felt it was too early to readmit him following the gravity of the offences he had committed against the party and leadership during the G40 era. As such, his application was turned down,” he said.
On the case of former Zanu PF vice chairman for Mashonaland West Province who is also Chegutu West legislator Dexter Nduna, Chinamasa said the Mashonaland West Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) recommended the suspension of Nduna from holding a position in the party for a year.
Chinamasa said Nduna however remains a card-carrying member and the Politburo endorsed the recommendation from Mashonaland West Province.
The Politburo’s decision comes after the Zanu PF Mashonaland West provincial disciplinary committee recommended his suspension for five years over a number of allegations, including dishonesty and fanning divisions in the party.
The legislator is alleged to have defied the party directive to hold primary elections for Ward 2 Chegutu urban, inciting and instigating violence during the primary elections by organising mobs to disturb the smooth running of elections and deliberately submitting a wrong name as a sole candidate for the party in the ward.
Nduna was also charged with dividing the party by misrepresenting facts of the rightful candidates to the first 2020 executive meeting, disloyalty, dishonesty and bringing the name of the party into disrepute.
On the matter regarding Aplonia Munzverengwi from Mashonaland East, Chinamamasa said the Politburo endorsed the Mashonaland East Women’s League’s decision to redeploy her to the position of Deputy Secretary for Lands of the Women’s League.
She was the Zanu PF Women’s league secretary for Commissariat
Chinamasa said in the case of former Matabeleland North former Youth chairman, Tamuka Nyoni, the Politburo endorsed the decision of the National Disciplinary Committee to rescind his expulsion to a suspension for five years without holding a position while remaining a card-carrying member.
Nyoni was suspended on allegations of misconduct after he reportedly received money from pressure group Tajamuka/Sesjikile to organise foiled July 31 protests.
On the case of Makhosini Hlongwane and Tapiwa Matangaidze from Midlands Province, who applied for readmission into the party,
Chinamasa said the Politburo referred the matter to the PCC Midlands Province to look into the issue before it is deliberated at higher level. The matter, he said, was not procedurally brought to the NDC.
The indefinite suspension of by-elections, which were scheduled for December 5, was Constitutional because it was taken in terms of the law and according to applicable health environment prevailing in the country, legislators heard yesterday.
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said it was important to note that Zimbabwe was still under Covid-19 restrictions such as a night curfew and limiting numbers at gatherings.
He said the Government had judiciously taken note that by-elections would endanger the lives of people given the prevailing environment.
Minister Ziyambi said this in the National Assembly during the question and answer session.
Mbizo MP, Settlement Chikwinya (MDC Alliance) had asked why Zimbabwe had suspended by-elections when the World Health Organisation had given the green-light to carry out political activities.
He said some countries were holding both by-elections and general elections.
“The opinion of WHO is perfectly okay as an authority,” said Minister Ziyambi. “As a country, we will establish how that is applicable in our environment. We have a state of emergency and several Statutory Instruments were issued to control the pandemic, including one that deals with by-elections.
“Once we feel that the situation has normalised we will lift the suspension. Let us remember that we have a curfew and if we proceed with those by-elections, we will criminalise a lot of people (for moving at night).
“When we make regulations, we do so in terms of the enabling legislation. When advice is given by international organisations, we analyse it to see how it is applicable in our environment. We cannot endanger our people; we cannot expose our people.”
In a related matter, Acting Speaker of the National Assembly, Tatenda Mavetera, said the Parliamentary Legal Committee was still considering the Statutory Instrument issued suspending by-elections.
From: The Secretary General, Douglas Togaraseyi Mwonzora
Re: Developments within the party
Greetings to all members of the MDC-T family. On the 17th and 18th of October, 2020 we held meetings of the National Executive Committee and the National Councils respectively. These meetings were well attended and the debates were robust, frank and productive. The two meetings made far reaching resolutions.
Among other things the meetings resolved that the Extraordinary Congress will be held in the week of the 13th to the 20th of December, 2020.
The Nomination process will commence around the 1st of November, 2020. It was agreed these processes will be open only to members of the MDCT.
Where people have joined, formed or are supporting other political parties, they can not take part in the process.
Further the meetings denounced and rejected the calls by G40 and the new MDC Alliance Party leaders for their members to come to our Congress.
Their agenda is to disturb our legitimate process of electing our substantive leader to replace President Morgan Tsvangirai.
We can never allow them to do this. As we go through our processes we appeal for peace, love and unity.
We should all desist from hate language against each other. We want to deliver the best Congress in the history of Zimbabwe ever.
We notice a lot of propaganda being peddled against our leaders by the enemies of democracy. They have sought to *scandalize* our rural penetration strategy but we will not relent.
Throughout the country our people are excited about our impending Congress. We have totally confounded the prophets of doom and our delegates are attending our meetings in numbers.
In a bid to derail our progress the so called MDC Alliance Party, being nose-led by G40 have mounted Court application after court application against us.
These applications are based on the same wrong interpretation of the law, the Supreme Court judgement and the constitution of our party. We would like to thank our lawyers for the great work that they are doing.
We know that you may be anxious about MRT House. Let your hearts not be troubled as we are in the process of totally repossessing it. After our congress we would like the Party to start a process of kick starting a serious reform process in Zimbabwe.
In this regard we will deal with social, political and economic reforms that must take Zimbabwe out of the current morass.
Among the electoral reforms we will deal with is the diaspora vote. This will see the enfranchisement of millions of Zimbabweans living in the diaspora.
We should resist temptations to retaliate against the toxic hate and propaganda being directed against us. We can never allow ourselves to be dragged into a race to the bottom.
We are on our way to achieve great things and together we will win.
LAGOS. — Nigerian security forces have opened fire on hundreds of protesters in Lagos, as rallies against police brutality continued in defiance of a 24-hour curfew imposed by the government earlier in the day.
Graphic scenes posted on social media showed protesters fleeing as security forces, including soldiers, shot live rounds towards the crowds.
At least seven people were killed according to DJ Switch, a popular disc jockey, who broadcast live from the scene on Instagram. Protesters were seen struggling to remove shrapnel from injured protesters and in one case failing to resuscitate a casualty.
In other videos protesters carrying bloodied Nigerian flags are seen pleading with security officials to allow medics to treat victims.
“They started firing ammunition toward the crowd. They were firing into the crowd,” Alfred Ononugbo, 55, a security officer told Reuters. “I saw the bullet hit one or two persons.”
Lagos state government said it would open an investigation into the shooting, which witnesses said took place around 7pm.
Fears had grown of increased unrest after a curfew was imposed by Lagos’s governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, earlier in the day in an attempt to shut down protests against the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars) police unit that have erupted across Nigeria.
Thousands have taken to the streets in recent weeks against the federal Sars unit, now dissolved but long accused of extra-judicial killings, torture and extortion.
More broadly the demonstrations have railed against systemic abuse by Nigerian police forces, but they have in turn been met by violence.
Last week, the Nigerian army warned it was ready to step in against “subversive elements and troublemakers”, while police have repeatedly fired on protesters across Nigeria. Armed gangs have attacked protesters in Lagos and the capital Abuja.
The demonstrations had “degenerated into a monster threatening the wellbeing of our society”, said Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos, in a statement on Tuesday after a police station was set on fire in the Iganmu area of Lagos on Tuesday morning. The national police chief also ordered the immediate deployment of anti-riot forces following increased attacks on police facilities, a police spokesman said. — Africanews.
The British Home Office policy of forcibly removing immigrants unannounced, has been declared illegal. The major plank of the UK’s strategy for removing failed migrants has been ruled illegal because it prevents the courts from considering their cases.
In a significant ruling, the Court of Appeal said the policy risked removing people from the UK even if they had a right to be in the country.
The policy has been used in 40,000 removal cases.
Campaigners who brought the challenge said the Home Office had endangered lives by short-cutting the law.
The unanimous judgment against the Home Office was taken by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett, and two other senior judges.
It’s not clear whether ministers will attempt to go to the Supreme Court but a Home Office spokesman said it is going to reform a failing immigration system.
The controversial policy which has been ruled illegal was introduced in 2015 in an attempt to prevent last-minute applications to stop removals – sometimes at the steps of the plane.
It has been suspended for 18 months during the legal battle. Removals have been carrying on under a far slower and complicated procedure that allows more time for appeals.
Under the 2015 policy, officials told failed applicants – whether they were asylum seekers, economic migrants or people making other claims – that they had 72 hours to make final representations. After that, they could be flown out of the UK, without notice, on any date in the following three months.
Charity Medical Justice said the rules meant people with a genuine case to be in the UK simply could not present their arguments in time to a judge.
In examples submitted to the court, the charity said the Home Office had repeatedly removed people – only to bring them back again.
In one case, a man who had evidence that relatives had been murdered in his home country, had to be flown back to the UK and he was later found to be a genuine refugee.
The three Court of Appeal judges said the Home Office’s aspiration to speed up removals was not in itself illegal – but in practice the policy had prevented effective appeals and that had risked serious injustices.
“The right to access the court is an absolute and inviolable right,” said the court.
“The right to access to the court is not a relative right to be balanced against other rights and interests, the convenience of the executive or the courts, or the risks of abuse of process.”
Home Secretary Priti Patel has repeatedly accused what she has called “activist lawyers” of slowing down immigration removals.
And in the judgment, the Lord Chief Justice said there were “endemic” problems of false and fanciful late claims, some of which involved a “minority of lawyers”, unconnected to the case before them.
But the judges stressed that the Home Office’s solution had prevented judges from considering genuine cases because someone could be put on a flight before they had had a chance to go to court.
A spokesman for Medical Justice said the policy had unfairly treated many of its sick clients.
“One of our society’s most precious treasures is access to justice,” said the spokesman.
“Chillingly, away from the public gaze, this policy denied that fundamental right on a massive scale causing serious harm to extremely vulnerable people and risking life.
“It was effectively a shortcut to removal. Quashing the policy brings us back towards equal access to justice for all.”Source – BBC
Acting Zanu PF spokesperson, Patrick Chinamasa has accused Zimbabweans of being unpatriotic.
Speaking at a Zanu PF media briefing in Harare on Wednesday, Chinamasa claimed Zanu PF educated Zimbabweans and citizens must return the favour by defending their country.
A 49-YEAR-OLD man from Sikombingo Village in Lower Gweru in the Midlands Province has been arrested for allegedly impregnating his 15-year-old stepdaughter after raping her three times.
Each time his wife, the victim’s mother, was away, the accused would sneak into the bedroom where the complainant slept with her other siblings before raping her.
In one of the counts, one of the siblings woke up to relieve herself and allegedly witnessed her father raping the complainant.
Each time the accused raped the complainant, he allegedly threatened her with death if she dared report the rape to anyone.
When the complainant’s mother discovered the pregnancy, she allegedly lied that her boyfriend was responsible as she feared being killed by the accused.
This was heard when the accused appeared before Gweru regional magistrate Mrs Phathekile Msipa facing three counts of rape.
The accused who has pleaded guilty to just one count, was remanded out of custody to October 27 for continuation of trial.
Mr Talent Tadenyika is representing the State.-Chronicle
Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief THE trial of former Kwekwe magistrate Story Rushambwa (48) who was arrested together with the Clerk of Court Bright Mpiyabo (45) on allegations of abuse of office, kicked off at the Gweru magistrates court yesterday.
The pair who apppeared before Gokwe regional magistrate Mr Taurai Manwere, pleaded not guilty.
The trial of the duo who are on $2 000 bail each, continues today.
Rushambwa was early this year suspended from work pending investigations after he was arrested together with Mpiyabo on allegations of illegally facilitating the release of a stolen vehicle to controversial businessman Shepherd Tundiya.
Rushambwa has since been dismissed from work following a disciplinary hearing on June 1 which found him guilty and recommended his dismissal.
It is alleged that sometime in October last year, a Toyota Hilux vehicle was impounded by the police anti-corruption unit from John Mapurazi, a miner in Kwekwe.
The vehicle was allegedly taken as an exhibit after it was fraudulently imported into the country.
The State alleges the vehicle was then handed over to Zimra for customs management.
It is alleged that on December 27 last year, Mapurazi made an ex parte application seeking the release of the vehicle.
Rushambwa and Mpiyabo allegedly hatched a plan to order the release of the motor vehicle to Mapurazi.
Mpiyabo deliberately withheld the record so that the matter could be presided over by Rushambwa despite the fact that Rushambwa was on leave.
The State alleges Mpiyabo then placed the record before Rushambwa well knowing he was on leave.
Rushambwa presided over the application in the absence of Mapurazi who was now being represented by Tundiya who is not a legal practitioner.
The magistrate went on to grant the order for the release of the motor vehicle to Mapurazi showing favour to him.
The former officer-in-charge of CID Gweru, Detective Inspector Leonard Gwandu has been sentenced to three years in jail for the same case.-Chronicle
Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief THE trial of former Kwekwe magistrate Story Rushambwa (48) who was arrested together with the Clerk of Court Bright Mpiyabo (45) on allegations of abuse of office, kicked off at the Gweru magistrates court yesterday.
The pair who apppeared before Gokwe regional magistrate Mr Taurai Manwere, pleaded not guilty.
The trial of the duo who are on $2 000 bail each, continues today.
Rushambwa was early this year suspended from work pending investigations after he was arrested together with Mpiyabo on allegations of illegally facilitating the release of a stolen vehicle to controversial businessman Shepherd Tundiya.
Rushambwa has since been dismissed from work following a disciplinary hearing on June 1 which found him guilty and recommended his dismissal.
It is alleged that sometime in October last year, a Toyota Hilux vehicle was impounded by the police anti-corruption unit from John Mapurazi, a miner in Kwekwe.
The vehicle was allegedly taken as an exhibit after it was fraudulently imported into the country.
The State alleges the vehicle was then handed over to Zimra for customs management.
It is alleged that on December 27 last year, Mapurazi made an ex parte application seeking the release of the vehicle.
Rushambwa and Mpiyabo allegedly hatched a plan to order the release of the motor vehicle to Mapurazi.
Mpiyabo deliberately withheld the record so that the matter could be presided over by Rushambwa despite the fact that Rushambwa was on leave.
The State alleges Mpiyabo then placed the record before Rushambwa well knowing he was on leave.
Rushambwa presided over the application in the absence of Mapurazi who was now being represented by Tundiya who is not a legal practitioner.
The magistrate went on to grant the order for the release of the motor vehicle to Mapurazi showing favour to him.
The former officer-in-charge of CID Gweru, Detective Inspector Leonard Gwandu has been sentenced to three years in jail for the same case.-Chronicle
Arsenal attacking midfielder, Mesut Ozil has criticised the club after he was omitted from Mikel Arteta’s 2020/21 English Premier League squad.
Ozil had already been left out of the Gunners’ squad for the Uefa Europa League despite being one of the club’s most paid players. Responding to the omission, Ozil said:
I’m really deeply disappointed by the fact that I have not been registered for the Premier League season for the time being.
Upon signing my new contract in 2018, I pledged my loyalty and allegiance to the club that I love, Arsenal, and it saddens me that this has not been reciprocated.
As I have just found out, loyalty is hard to come by nowadays. I’ve always tried to remain positive from week to week that there’s maybe a chance to get back in the squad soon again. That’s why I kept silent so far.
Before the coronavirus break I was really happy with the development under our new coach Mikel Arteta — we’ve been on a positive way and I would say my performances were on a really good level. But then things changed, again, and I was not longer allowed to play football for Arsenal.
The German international added that “no matter what,” he will keep fighting for his chance and not let his “8th season at Arsenal end like this.” He added:
I can promise you that this hard decision won’t change anything in my mindset — I will continue to train as best as I can and wherever possible use my voice against inhumanity and for justice.”
The London-based club has expressed intentions to ship the former Real Madrid playmaker but Ozil is adamant he will see through his contract which expires next year.-CNN
News headlines have been screaming about “ jump ship” councilors in Bulawayo and Gweru.
The Khupe followers, have been celebrating non-existent miracle councillors, who are said to have crossed from MDC Alliance to MDC Toko.
This is false and just self pleasing propaganda on the part of the unelectable deserters who after losing congress positions are burying their political carreers by joining the Supreme Court constructed entity .
For the record, MDC Alliance councillors have a strong bond with their sponsoring party , the MDC Alliance. Nothing will sway them from their focus to deliver superior services fulcrumed on the MDC Alliance SMART local governance policy. They are ready for anything, shunning the deceivery of dangled carrots and weathering the storm of unnecessary and unlawful and immoral recalls by Mwonzora and company, which recalls have no relationship whatsoever with the aspirations of the people.
The MDC Alliance councilors at the Bulawayo and Gweru stations of deployment are fully engaged with dealing with water challenges and informal sector infrastructure for enhancement of their trade , which activities are clearly on the locus of the health and sanitation as well as local economic development in our cities. We as the MDC Alliance Alternative Ministry cannot be more proud of our Deployees who have stood steadfastly on the mission to deliver smart and superior services to the people. The recall and threats side shows cannot distract these men and women of grit from their mission.
Our happiness is amplified by the sterling work that is happening in Mutare. The Mayor and his team are completing a water delivery pipeline to Dangamvura to consign the perennial problem of running water shortages to the past.
They have also invested in modern ambulances for the convenience of the sick in Mutare, all this in-spite of the collapsed national economy.
Not to be out done, Chiredzi town councill as lead by Chairman G Hwende is attracting investment into the sugar industry backboned town on the mission to make Chiredzi a Smart City in the near future.
We call upon Zanu to manage its appetite for interference and allow the councils to deliver in accordance with the provisions of devolved local authorities
Sesel Zvidzai Sec Local Government and Rural Development
Farai Dziva|The MDC Alliance Youth Assembly has challenged Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to take care of the needs of civil servants while they are alive instead of waiting for them to die.
This comes after the announcement by Information Ministry Permanent Secretary, Nick Mangwana, that the government will -with immediate effect- pay the sum of US $ 500 to the family of a civil servant who dies in office.
Read the MDC Alliance Youth Assembly statement below :
21-10-2020
The failed Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime never ceases to amaze!
At a time when everyone is expecting the government to address the nervous plight of civil servants, Mnangagwa’s carefree government pulled another shock.
This time a bizarre, an extraordinary more than befitting coverage on Star FM’s Tilda Live show where strange happenings are unpacked!
For some strange reasons, Mnangagwa through his mouthpiece, one Ndavaningi Mangwana this week announced that government is willing to pay US$500 demanded by civil servants only over their dead bodies.
What this means is that for teachers, nurses, soldiers, police and other civil servants in order to access a decent wage, they have to die first.
Mnangagwa’s ‘love’ and preference for the dead over the living defies logic!
This is not the first time that Mnangagwa’s regime has exhibited unparalleled gravitation towards the dead.
In 2018, the same regime shocked all and sundry when they forked out millions of US dollars from state coffers just to hire a luxurious plane for repatriation of the corpse of former First Lady, Grace Mugabe’s mother.
Even by own admission, Dr Amai as Grace is referred to was shocked by the affluence albeit through extravagance extended to her dead mother.
Again last year, the same heartless regime offered to build a US$10 million mausoleum for the late Robert Mugabe at a time when the economic was heavily sneezing.
This week’s US$500 offer for dead civil servants comes at a time when teachers are groaning under the yoke of incapacitation which has seen schools being reduced to mini shebeens and brothels.
This ZANU PF regime has become a danger to the living!
Stephen Sarkozy Chuma MDCAllianceYouthAssemblyNationalSpokesperson
Farai Dziva|Thokozani Khupe and Douglas Mwonzora’s political hopes have been deflated after MDC Alliance councillors countrywide refused to be swayed by recalls.
Below is a statement written by MDC Alliance Secretary for Local Government Sesel Zvidzai:
News headlines have been screaming about “ jump ship” councilors in Bulawayo and Gweru.
The Khupe followers, have been celebrating non-existent miracle councillors, who are said to have crossed from MDC Alliance to MDC Toko.
This is false and just self pleasing propaganda on the part of the unelectable deserters who after losing congress positions are burying their political carreers by joining the Supreme Court constructed entity .
For the record, MDC Alliance councillors have a strong bond with their sponsoring party , the MDC Alliance.
Nothing will sway them from their focus to deliver superior services fulcrumed on the MDC Alliance SMART local governance policy. They are ready for anything, shunning the deceivery of dangled carrots and weathering the storm of unnecessary and unlawful and immoral recalls by Mwonzora and company, which recalls have no relationship whatsoever with the aspirations of the people.
The MDC Alliance councillors at the Bulawayo and Gweru stations of deployment are fully engaged with dealing with water challenges and informal sector infrastructure for enhancement of their trade , which activities are clearly on the locus of the health and sanitation as well as local economic development in our cities.
We as the MDC Alliance Alternative Ministry cannot be more proud of our Deployees who have stood steadfastly on the mission to deliver smart and superior services to the people. The recall and threats side shows cannot distract these men and women of grit from their mission.
Our happiness is amplified by the sterling work that is happening in Mutare. The Mayor and his team are completing a water delivery pipeline to Dangamvura to consign the perennial problem of running water shortages to the past.
They have also invested in modern ambulances for the convenience of the sick in Mutare, all this in-spite of the collapsed national economy.
Not to be out done, Chiredzi town councill as lead by Chairman G Hwende is attracting investment into the sugar industry backboned town on the mission to make Chiredzi a Smart City in the near future.
We call upon Zanu to manage its appetite for interference and allow the councils to deliver in accordance with the provisions of devolved local authorities
Sesel Zvidzai Sec Local Government and Rural Development
Emmerson Mnangagwa will deliver his annual State of the Nation Address (Sona) today when he opens the Third Session of the Ninth Parliament and sets the Government’s legislative agenda for the coming session.
The Head of State and Government will address virtually a joint sitting of both the National Assembly and Senate, with all legislators following the speech on Zimpapers Television Network (ZTN) and ZBC.
This first virtual Sona is because of the need to minimise risks of infection for Covid-19. The President combined the two presentations, of giving the State of the Nation address and the Government’s legislative programme, last year as well.
In an interview yesterday, Clerk of Parliament Mr Kennedy Chokuda, said all was set for Sona and official opening of the Third Session of the Ninth Parliament. Some legislators will follow proceedings from the Chamber while others follow from their gadgets such as phones and television.
“All is now set for the official opening by His Excellency President Mnangagwa, who will also deliver the State of the Nation Address. The President will give us direction in terms of Government’s legislative agenda,” said Mr Chokuda.
He said entrance to Parliament building will be restricted as part of measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.
In his announcement last week, Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda said the official opening of the Third Session of the Ninth Parliament was consistent with Section 140 of the Constitution, which relates to Presidential addresses and messages to Parliament.
“The President may at any time address either House of Parliament or a joint sitting of both Houses,” reads the Constitution.
“At least once a year the President must address a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament on the State of the Nation, and the Speaker and the President of the Senate must make the necessary arrangements for Parliament to receive such an address.”
There are a number of Bills that are still outstanding that Parliament will deal with in the coming session.
The Zimbabwe Media Commission Bill, which has sailed through the National Assembly, must now be considered by the Senate.
The Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill, the Financial Adjustment Bill, the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (Number 1) Bill, the Marriages Bill, the Constitutional Court Amendment Bill, the Pension and Provident Funds Bill, the Manpower Planning and Development Bill, and the Centre for Education, Innovation, Research and Development Bill are in various stages of becoming law.
Some of the Bills are meant to align statute law with the Constitution or bring into effect the necessary political and legal reforms that the Second Republic has set out to achieve.
There is also the much-awaited Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill, which initially went through Parliament, but Mnangagwa withheld his assent and referred it to the House so that it could address concerns that he felt were not consistent with the Constitution.
Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday said the Sona was important for every Zimbabwean.
“This is when the President will talk to the Parliamentarians to give his legislative agenda, the Bills which are supposed to come to Parliament. He will also talk about the economic and social progress in the country. He will also talk to the nation about what the country has achieved.
“This is a very important day for all Zimbabweans across the political divide; we all need to listen to the President, let us all watch on TV, we should be able to understand where this country is coming, where we are and where it is going,” said Minister Mutsvangwa.
She said today will be the first time that the opening of the a session of Parliament would be done virtually due to the Covid-19 restrictions that discourage huge gatherings.
Mnangagwa will address the nation from State House while all National Assemby and Senate representatives will assemble at Parliament Building around 11am.
Mnangagwa will be at State House by noon, where he will inspect a guard of honour and then proceed to address the nation. Herald
TOUTS operating outside the Bulawayo Passport Offices are allegedly cashing in on desperate travel document seekers as they claim to be working with registry officials to facilitate processing of passports.
If stories being told by the touts are true, then there could be massive corruption playing out at the passport offices.
The Registrar General’s (RG) Office which was closed in March, is now partially opened and is processing travelling documents mainly for diaspora-based Zimbabweans who want to regularise their stay in neighbouring countries.
Due to Covid-19 prevention measures, the passport office limits the number of clients being served a day to about 30 to maintain social distancing.
This is said to have created loopholes as some touts are allegedly joining queues at the dead of the night so that they sell their spots to travel document seekers at dawn for up to R200.
To get an appreciation of what is happening a Chronicle news crew yesterday pretended to be among the desperate document seekers who wanted to submit passport applications for diaspora-based relatives.
At about 9.30AM, the RG’s office-employed security guard told travelling document seekers that they had taken in the maximum number of people to be served on the day. There was, however, a hive of activity just outside the registry gate despite the guard’s announcement.
Touts operating just by the gate bragged that they had connections within the registry offices and they could assist individuals to access required documents for a fee.
They mentioned names of employees at the RG’s office who could assist in the processing of the documents for a “fee”.
One of the touts only identified as Zulu said it did not matter if registry officials had reached their daily limit as the figure could be increased once applicants paid money.
“At the moment they are only serving those who are submitting documents for Zimbabweans based in the diaspora.
If you want us to facilitate that your papers get processed even now, we can organise with our people inside so that they help you. But that will cost you US$100 for the ZW$600 passport. It will just take a week and the passport will be out. If you are serious, I will connect you with my contact inside then you also buy me just a US$2 quart of beer because you can wait for days without getting any assistance,” said Zulu.
However, Chronicle is aware that even after following due processes, a passport for the diaspora-based citizen can be processed within the same timeline.
Earlier this month, there were no long queues at the RG’s offices as one of the journalists managed to submit an application without challenges.
In the interactions with the touts, one could even be forgiven to assume that some of them were directly employed by the RG’s Office. They seem to be well informed with what is happening at the offices.
Although Chronicle could not confirm one of the tout’s assertions, he seemed to know when the last batch of passports was released.
The country had a backlog of about 400 000 passports before the lockdown which came into effect at the end of March.
“At the moment they are issuing passports that were applied for in February last year. Although, the registry is not issuing passports for locally-based people, we can organise it for you for US$210,” said the tout.
“These days it’s difficult to get inside here as they are taking a limited number of people. You can even engage us to queue for you and pay R200 or else join the queue around 3AM. Those that want us to queue for them have to be here by 7AM so that there is no challenge.”
A travel document seeker, Mrs Tendai Chimombe said authorities should investigate the ongoings at the passport office.
“I came here yesterday and found these touts telling the same story that they can facilitate that I access travel documents. When you talk to them you might think there is a mini- registry office by the gate as they seem to know everything. To make matters worse, RG’s Office officials are not that friendly and they seem to enjoy dismissing people. While I cannot substantiate whether these touts can really assist one to acquire documents, there is no smoke without fire. We cannot institutionalise corruption by paying bribes to get services. There is definitely a need to investigate alleged corruption at the passport office,” said Mrs Chimombe.
Bulawayo provincial registrar Mrs Jane Peters said the touts have become a nuisance to the registry and dismissed assertions that they were working with officials.
“The touts are not mine to comment about. They are outside our gates and we have no control over their activities.
We have even reported them to the police. Those who want to give them money can do so at their own peril. They might be knowing some of the officials so they can even claim to be working with them even if it is not true,” said Mrs Peters.
Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe did not respond to questions. owever, last month Minister Kazembe told media in Bulawayo that the registry office had managed to reduce the passport backlog.
“This Covid-19 pandemic caught us off guard, even Treasury was affected but when we started operations, our officials took advantage of this to work on clearing the passport backlog. We have since managed to print more than 200 000 copies which is 50 percent of what was lagging behind,” said Minister Kazembe.
“Further, people should be made aware that printing passports is not just a process which is done overnight, I hear some people saying that we must get the material locally but that is not possible because passport printing is something that is controlled internationally hence we have to import most of the printing material but our officials are working round the clock to further reduce the backlog.” –Chronicle
It is beyond debate that for the past decades or so, Zimbabwe has been reeling under the disastrous and debilitating effects of illegal sanctions that were imposed against the country by some powerful Western countries such as the United Kingdom and the US.
Although on the surface, the reason behind the imposition of these ruinous illegal sanctions was allegedly because of rampant human rights abuses taking place in Zimbabwe, in reality, these Satanic illegal sanctions were motivated as a direct and lethal response to the land reform programme that was accelerated at the beginning of the year 2000.
Around 4 500 white commercial farmers owned almost 90 percent of the fertile commercial farmland in Zimbabwe before the advent of the historic and revolutionary land reform program.
Of course, no rocket science is needed to know that such an unfair and racially stratified land tenure system was not only unfair and discriminatory, but it was also grossly unsustainable in both the medium and long term.
Put bluntly, this skewed and unfair land tenure system was an accident waiting to happen.
I was the national spokesperson of the country’s largest opposition political party, MDC, between 2014 and 2018 and I have got an intricate insider’s knowledge and appreciation of the real reasons why these illegal sanctions were imposed by some powerful Western nations.
Far from punishing the Government for alleged human rights abuses, these killer illegal sanctions were actually imposed in order to make the economy “scream’’.
The end game was to engineer a socio-economic and political uprising against the Zanu PF-led Government and replace it with a puppet and pliant government that would not only reverse the land reform programme by giving back land to the white former commercial farmers but that would also, both directly and indirectly, take instructions from London and Washington DC in particular.
This was a grand plan that was oiled by big money. No less than US$10 million was channelled to MDC over the years in order to push this regime change agenda that, inter alia, also took the form of so-called targeted sanctions.
These illegal sanctions are tantamount to a weapon of mass destruction (WMD). They are anything but targeted. In reality, these demonic sanctions hit the ordinary people more than they hit the ruling elite in Zimbabwe. By closing all normal access to financial packages and loans from conventional sources such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, these illegal sanctions literally made Zimbabwe’s economy scream for almost two decades.
While other developing countries in Africa and elsewhere receive financial bail outs in the form of budgetary support and funding for infrastructural development, Zimbabwe has been losing out on this front. Consequently, the cost of money in Zimbabwe has become unusually high compared to other Sub-Saharan countries. Because money is expensive in Zimbabwe largely as a result of the direct effects of these illegal economic and financial sanctions, the knock-on effect on the cost of doing business has been nothing short of catastrophic.
Sanctions against Zimbabwe have successfully managed to paint Zimbabwe as a rogue and pariah State where most major Western private conglomerates and state-owned enterprises have legally been stopped from doing business by evil pieces of legislation such as the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (ZIDERA). ZIDERA was passed by the United States Congress in 2001 and ever since, it has been the most lethal tool against the socio-economic resurgence of Zimbabwe. ZIDERA is like a lethal injection that has been administered to the Zimbabwean economy.
It actually criminalises the doing of business with any Zimbabwean corporate by any American company.
Sponsored by a notorious and racist regime change activist, Senator Flake, ZIDERA was partially amended in 2018 but it still remains a dangerous and poisonous tool used to cause continued contraction and collapse of the Zimbabwean economy. Until complete and total regime change is achieved in Zimbabwe, I can bet my bottom dollar that these powerful Western countries will never agree to the immediate and unconditional lifting of all forms of sanctions against Zimbabwe.
The regime change project in Zimbabwe has, much to the chagrin and disappointment of its prime movers and sponsors, spectacularly collapsed. It’s dead in the water. Largely because of personal greed and lack of a sound and progressive Pan-Africanist ideological grounding, MDC is now a pale shadow of its former self. The MDC is now in terminal decline and the numerous squabbling factions that have since emerged are a clear manifestation of the embarrassing failure of the regime change project.
A former labour-backed political party that was originally formed in order to advance the cause of the working class, students and peasants, MDC , wittingly or unwittingly, allowed itself to be hijacked by the super-rich and financially influential local as well as foreign bourgeoisie interests.
The moment that the MDC got hijacked by white former commercial farmers and their powerful kith and kin based overseas was the moment when an otherwise strong and formidable political party took the kiss of death.
The party was thereafter packaged as a neo-liberal puppet political movement that was simply being bankrolled by some rich Western nations and their powerful surrogates to effect regime change in Zimbabwe and nothing else. It didn’t help matters when some high-ranking MDC officials actually actively took part in the structuring and drafting of ZIDERA. That was the ultimate manifestation of puppetry and treachery. History shall, indeed, judge these traitors very harshly.
The Government should start to design effective strategies not only to circumvent these illegal sanctions, but also to establish a viable import-substitution strategy. It is commendable that the Second Republic has gone out of its way to adopt and implement a re-engagement policy with these powerful Western countries that have imposed illegal sanctions against Zimbabwe.
However, more still needs to be done to ensure that the national economy is rebooted with or without these illegal sanctions. Thus, the need to explore and expand South-South co-operation cannot be over-emphasised.
The cold, hard fact is that these powerful Western countries hate the Zanu PF-led Government. The relentless attack on Zimbabwe particularly in the mainstream global media is worrisome.
With the advent of social media, millions of US dollars have been unleashed to portray Zimbabwe as a country in a serious crisis; as a country in turmoil and also a country that is being run by a government that doesn’t respect the people’s fundamental human rights such as freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of association.
The media war that is currently being waged against the government of Zimbabwe needs an equally sleek and effective counter-attack strategy.
Extracted from State Media
◆ Obert Chaurura Gutu is a former MDC spokesperson
It is beyond debate that for the past decades or so, Zimbabwe has been reeling under the disastrous and debilitating effects of illegal sanctions that were imposed against the country by some powerful Western countries such as the United Kingdom and the US.
Although on the surface, the reason behind the imposition of these ruinous illegal sanctions was allegedly because of rampant human rights abuses taking place in Zimbabwe, in reality, these Satanic illegal sanctions were motivated as a direct and lethal response to the land reform programme that was accelerated at the beginning of the year 2000.
Around 4 500 white commercial farmers owned almost 90 percent of the fertile commercial farmland in Zimbabwe before the advent of the historic and revolutionary land reform program.
Of course, no rocket science is needed to know that such an unfair and racially stratified land tenure system was not only unfair and discriminatory, but it was also grossly unsustainable in both the medium and long term.
Put bluntly, this skewed and unfair land tenure system was an accident waiting to happen.
I was the national spokesperson of the country’s largest opposition political party, MDC, between 2014 and 2018 and I have got an intricate insider’s knowledge and appreciation of the real reasons why these illegal sanctions were imposed by some powerful Western nations.
Far from punishing the Government for alleged human rights abuses, these killer illegal sanctions were actually imposed in order to make the economy “scream’’.
The end game was to engineer a socio-economic and political uprising against the Zanu PF-led Government and replace it with a puppet and pliant government that would not only reverse the land reform programme by giving back land to the white former commercial farmers but that would also, both directly and indirectly, take instructions from London and Washington DC in particular.
This was a grand plan that was oiled by big money. No less than US$10 million was channelled to MDC over the years in order to push this regime change agenda that, inter alia, also took the form of so-called targeted sanctions.
These illegal sanctions are tantamount to a weapon of mass destruction (WMD). They are anything but targeted. In reality, these demonic sanctions hit the ordinary people more than they hit the ruling elite in Zimbabwe. By closing all normal access to financial packages and loans from conventional sources such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, these illegal sanctions literally made Zimbabwe’s economy scream for almost two decades.
While other developing countries in Africa and elsewhere receive financial bail outs in the form of budgetary support and funding for infrastructural development, Zimbabwe has been losing out on this front. Consequently, the cost of money in Zimbabwe has become unusually high compared to other Sub-Saharan countries. Because money is expensive in Zimbabwe largely as a result of the direct effects of these illegal economic and financial sanctions, the knock-on effect on the cost of doing business has been nothing short of catastrophic.
Sanctions against Zimbabwe have successfully managed to paint Zimbabwe as a rogue and pariah State where most major Western private conglomerates and state-owned enterprises have legally been stopped from doing business by evil pieces of legislation such as the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (ZIDERA). ZIDERA was passed by the United States Congress in 2001 and ever since, it has been the most lethal tool against the socio-economic resurgence of Zimbabwe. ZIDERA is like a lethal injection that has been administered to the Zimbabwean economy.
It actually criminalises the doing of business with any Zimbabwean corporate by any American company.
Sponsored by a notorious and racist regime change activist, Senator Flake, ZIDERA was partially amended in 2018 but it still remains a dangerous and poisonous tool used to cause continued contraction and collapse of the Zimbabwean economy. Until complete and total regime change is achieved in Zimbabwe, I can bet my bottom dollar that these powerful Western countries will never agree to the immediate and unconditional lifting of all forms of sanctions against Zimbabwe.
The regime change project in Zimbabwe has, much to the chagrin and disappointment of its prime movers and sponsors, spectacularly collapsed. It’s dead in the water. Largely because of personal greed and lack of a sound and progressive Pan-Africanist ideological grounding, MDC is now a pale shadow of its former self. The MDC is now in terminal decline and the numerous squabbling factions that have since emerged are a clear manifestation of the embarrassing failure of the regime change project.
A former labour-backed political party that was originally formed in order to advance the cause of the working class, students and peasants, MDC , wittingly or unwittingly, allowed itself to be hijacked by the super-rich and financially influential local as well as foreign bourgeoisie interests.
The moment that the MDC got hijacked by white former commercial farmers and their powerful kith and kin based overseas was the moment when an otherwise strong and formidable political party took the kiss of death.
The party was thereafter packaged as a neo-liberal puppet political movement that was simply being bankrolled by some rich Western nations and their powerful surrogates to effect regime change in Zimbabwe and nothing else. It didn’t help matters when some high-ranking MDC officials actually actively took part in the structuring and drafting of ZIDERA. That was the ultimate manifestation of puppetry and treachery. History shall, indeed, judge these traitors very harshly.
The Government should start to design effective strategies not only to circumvent these illegal sanctions, but also to establish a viable import-substitution strategy. It is commendable that the Second Republic has gone out of its way to adopt and implement a re-engagement policy with these powerful Western countries that have imposed illegal sanctions against Zimbabwe.
However, more still needs to be done to ensure that the national economy is rebooted with or without these illegal sanctions. Thus, the need to explore and expand South-South co-operation cannot be over-emphasised.
The cold, hard fact is that these powerful Western countries hate the Zanu PF-led Government. The relentless attack on Zimbabwe particularly in the mainstream global media is worrisome.
With the advent of social media, millions of US dollars have been unleashed to portray Zimbabwe as a country in a serious crisis; as a country in turmoil and also a country that is being run by a government that doesn’t respect the people’s fundamental human rights such as freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of association.
The media war that is currently being waged against the government of Zimbabwe needs an equally sleek and effective counter-attack strategy.
Extracted from State Media
◆ Obert Chaurura Gutu is a former MDC spokesperson
New York, October 21, 2020–Nigerian authorities should ensure that journalists are able to do their jobs freely and safely while covering protests against police brutality in the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. In recent days, local media have reported violence against protesters and journalists during the demonstrations in Nigeria, which began as a movement to disband the police’s Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
“Journalists in Nigeria must be permitted to freely report on demonstrations without threat of violence or intimidation,” said Angela Quintal, CPJ’s Africa program coordinator. “Journalists in Nigeria are too often attacked simply for working to keep the Nigerian public and the world informed about what is happening in their country. Journalists’ safety is part of what it means to have freedom of the press, and is critical for Nigerian democracy.”
Own Correspondent|A leaked security and intelligence document has revealed how Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa is plotting to silence perceived political opponents.
See below part of the document:
FOLLOWING A JOC MEETING HELD ON THE 1OTH OF AUGUST 2020 ON THE BACKDROP OF ONGOING INCESSANT ATTACKS ON THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE CMM HIS EXCELLENCY CMM CDE EMMERSON MNANGAGWA CMM THE RULING PARTY ZANU PF AND THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE BY MALCONTENTS IN ZIMBABWE AND IN THE DIASPORA WHO ARE WORKING IN CAHOOTS WITH OUR ERSTWHILE COLONISERS TO DESTABILISE ZIMBABWE AND PAVE WAY FOR AN ILLEGAL REGIME CHANGE CMM IT IS HEREBY DIRECTED THAT ALL SECURITY SERVICES BE ON HIGH ALERT AND REINVIGORATE EFFORTS TO STOP THIS GROWING ANTI- GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN.
THE CAMPAIGNS ARE NOT ONLY MEANT TO FORMENT VIOLENCE AND SABOTAGE GOVERNMENT’S ONGOING EFFORTS TO REVIVE THE ECONOMY BUT TO SUBVERT A CONSTITUTIONALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT AND REPLACE IT WITH FOREIGN FUNDED OPPOSITION POLITICAL PARTIES STOP THIS IS A DIRECT ASSAULT ON OUR NATIONAL DEFENCE AND SECURITY SYSTEM STOP IT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT THE UNDERLISTED PERSONS COMPRISING OPPOSITION POLITICIANS CMM FORMER ZANU PF MEMBERS CMM EX SECURITY SERVICES MEMBERS CMM MEDIA PERSONNEL CMM ACTIVISTS AMONG OTHERS HAVE BECOME SECURITY THREATS BENT ON SOILING THE IMAGE OF ZIMBABWE THROUGH SPREADING LIES CMM HATE SPEECH CMM ANTI GOVERNMENT STATEMENTS CMMINCITING VIOLENCE AND INITIATING HASHTAGS SUCH AS THE RECENT ZANUPFMUSTGO AND ZIMBABWEANSLIVESMATTER CAMPAIGNS STOP THIS HAS REACHED A TIPPING POINT THEREFORE THOSE SPEARHEADING THE CAMPAIGNS SHOULD BE TRACKED DOWN CMM ARRESTED AND BROUGHT BEFORE THE COURTS OF JUSTICE STOP THE ARREST OF HOPEWELL CHIN’ONO AND JACOB NGARIVHUME HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL BUT THERE IS CRITICAL NEED TO WIDEN THE NET SO THAT THOSE LEADING ONLINE CAMPAIGNS ARE ARRESTED STOP THIS SECURITY OPERATION MUST BE CONDUCTED WITH GUIDELINES SET BY THE INTER AGENCY COMMITTEE[SEE ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES] AND ALL ACTIVITIES BE RECORDED AND COMMUNICATED AS STIPULATED IN THE AFOREMENTIONED GUIDELINES.
EFFORTS INCLUDING ENGAGING INTERPOL AND SARPCCO, SHOULD ALSO BE MADE TO LOCATE THOSE IN THE DIASPORA. ACTIVITIES BY SO CALLED HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CMM NGOS CMM CSOS CMM EX MEMBERS OF THE SECURITY FORCES SHOULD BE MONITORED STOP INFORMATION GATHERED BY OUR INTELLIGENCE TEAMS REVEALS THAT SOME EX SECURITY SERVICES MEMBERS ARE LINKED TO SERVING MEMBERS CMM CONNECTIONS WHICH HAVE LED TO THE LEAKING OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN STOP THIS IS A SERIOUS SECURITY BREACH WHICH SHOULD BE STOPPED FORTHWITH STOP ALL COMMANDERS SHOULD THEREFORE BE VIGILANT AND ENSURE THAT ALL OFFICERS UNDER THEIR COMMAND ARE COMMITTED TO THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS CRUCIAL OPERATION STOP THE UNDERLISTED INDIVIDUALS SHOULD BE TRACKED AND INFORMATION THAT MAY LEAD TO THEIR ARREST SHOULD BE TOP PRIORITY STOP INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS SHOULD CULTIVATE MORE INFORMERS AND ENSURE THE SUCCESS OF THIS OPERATION STOP…
It is imperative that our defence and national security is under threat from individuals w ho are persistently and unjustifiably spreading lies and inciting violence through digital platforms in an effort to forment negative attitude towards the government of Zimbabwe.
This evolution has set the stage for antagonism in Zimbabwe, therefore requires a fundamental shift in the way we counter threats to our national defence and security. In light of this, additional strategies are hereby provided to improve the effectiveness of all intelligence operations.
A new reporting procedure has been established [See Standard Reporting Procedure] .
No reports or comments should be released to the press or into the public domain before clearance from the national command.
Only commanders are now allowed to sign and dispatch correspondence. No any other member should sign or dispatch correspondence on behalf of the office bearer.
Only district commanders will now authorise subscriber checks. Key contacts of the targeted individuals should always be obtained and used for tracking main targets.
Commanders should ensure that teams are properly constituted, and their budgets drawn timeously.
This information should be sent to the national command centre via the new established channel. All officers should once again sign a new oath of secrecy.
All arrests, however minor, should be communicated and fed into the new database.
Own Correspondent|A leaked security and intelligence document has revealed how Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa is plotting to silence perceived political opponents.
See below part of the document:
FOLLOWING A JOC MEETING HELD ON THE 1OTH OF AUGUST 2020 ON THE BACKDROP OF ONGOING INCESSANT ATTACKS ON THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE CMM HIS EXCELLENCY CMM CDE EMMERSON MNANGAGWA CMM THE RULING PARTY ZANU PF AND THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE BY MALCONTENTS IN ZIMBABWE AND IN THE DIASPORA WHO ARE WORKING IN CAHOOTS WITH OUR ERSTWHILE COLONISERS TO DESTABILISE ZIMBABWE AND PAVE WAY FOR AN ILLEGAL REGIME CHANGE CMM IT IS HEREBY DIRECTED THAT ALL SECURITY SERVICES BE ON HIGH ALERT AND REINVIGORATE EFFORTS TO STOP THIS GROWING ANTI- GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN.
THE CAMPAIGNS ARE NOT ONLY MEANT TO FORMENT VIOLENCE AND SABOTAGE GOVERNMENT’S ONGOING EFFORTS TO REVIVE THE ECONOMY BUT TO SUBVERT A CONSTITUTIONALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT AND REPLACE IT WITH FOREIGN FUNDED OPPOSITION POLITICAL PARTIES STOP THIS IS A DIRECT ASSAULT ON OUR NATIONAL DEFENCE AND SECURITY SYSTEM STOP IT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT THE UNDERLISTED PERSONS COMPRISING OPPOSITION POLITICIANS CMM FORMER ZANU PF MEMBERS CMM EX SECURITY SERVICES MEMBERS CMM MEDIA PERSONNEL CMM ACTIVISTS AMONG OTHERS HAVE BECOME SECURITY THREATS BENT ON SOILING THE IMAGE OF ZIMBABWE THROUGH SPREADING LIES CMM HATE SPEECH CMM ANTI GOVERNMENT STATEMENTS CMMINCITING VIOLENCE AND INITIATING HASHTAGS SUCH AS THE RECENT ZANUPFMUSTGO AND ZIMBABWEANSLIVESMATTER CAMPAIGNS STOP THIS HAS REACHED A TIPPING POINT THEREFORE THOSE SPEARHEADING THE CAMPAIGNS SHOULD BE TRACKED DOWN CMM ARRESTED AND BROUGHT BEFORE THE COURTS OF JUSTICE STOP THE ARREST OF HOPEWELL CHIN’ONO AND JACOB NGARIVHUME HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL BUT THERE IS CRITICAL NEED TO WIDEN THE NET SO THAT THOSE LEADING ONLINE CAMPAIGNS ARE ARRESTED STOP THIS SECURITY OPERATION MUST BE CONDUCTED WITH GUIDELINES SET BY THE INTER AGENCY COMMITTEE[SEE ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES] AND ALL ACTIVITIES BE RECORDED AND COMMUNICATED AS STIPULATED IN THE AFOREMENTIONED GUIDELINES.
EFFORTS INCLUDING ENGAGING INTERPOL AND SARPCCO, SHOULD ALSO BE MADE TO LOCATE THOSE IN THE DIASPORA. ACTIVITIES BY SO CALLED HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CMM NGOS CMM CSOS CMM EX MEMBERS OF THE SECURITY FORCES SHOULD BE MONITORED STOP INFORMATION GATHERED BY OUR INTELLIGENCE TEAMS REVEALS THAT SOME EX SECURITY SERVICES MEMBERS ARE LINKED TO SERVING MEMBERS CMM CONNECTIONS WHICH HAVE LED TO THE LEAKING OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN STOP THIS IS A SERIOUS SECURITY BREACH WHICH SHOULD BE STOPPED FORTHWITH STOP ALL COMMANDERS SHOULD THEREFORE BE VIGILANT AND ENSURE THAT ALL OFFICERS UNDER THEIR COMMAND ARE COMMITTED TO THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS CRUCIAL OPERATION STOP THE UNDERLISTED INDIVIDUALS SHOULD BE TRACKED AND INFORMATION THAT MAY LEAD TO THEIR ARREST SHOULD BE TOP PRIORITY STOP INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS SHOULD CULTIVATE MORE INFORMERS AND ENSURE THE SUCCESS OF THIS OPERATION STOP…
It is imperative that our defence and national security is under threat from individuals w ho are persistently and unjustifiably spreading lies and inciting violence through digital platforms in an effort to forment negative attitude towards the government of Zimbabwe.
This evolution has set the stage for antagonism in Zimbabwe, therefore requires a fundamental shift in the way we counter threats to our national defence and security. In light of this, additional strategies are hereby provided to improve the effectiveness of all intelligence operations.
A new reporting procedure has been established [See Standard Reporting Procedure] .
No reports or comments should be released to the press or into the public domain before clearance from the national command.
Only commanders are now allowed to sign and dispatch correspondence. No any other member should sign or dispatch correspondence on behalf of the office bearer.
Only district commanders will now authorise subscriber checks. Key contacts of the targeted individuals should always be obtained and used for tracking main targets.
Commanders should ensure that teams are properly constituted, and their budgets drawn timeously.
This information should be sent to the national command centre via the new established channel. All officers should once again sign a new oath of secrecy.
All arrests, however minor, should be communicated and fed into the new database.
IN a fit of rage, a Makokoba suburb man allegedly stabbed his wife with an empty broken beer bottle for ‘disrespecting’ him by defying his orders not to attend a party in the same neighborhood.
It’s alleged that Vincent Moyo (37) from Makokoba suburb assaulted his wife Busisiwe Sibanda when he met her in the streets of Makokoba suburb on her way from a from a birthday party that he had barred her from.
Moyo allegedly assaulted his wife for defying his orders not to come home after sunset after she attended a birthday party in the same suburb near St Columbus High School.
The matter has since spilled into courts and Moyo has appeared before the Bulawayo magistrate Mr Shepherd Munjanja charged with assault.
He was remanded out of custody to 26 October.
Sibanda who had blue eyes due to the assault however, felt pity for her husband and begged the magistrate to remand him out of custody.
“On the 10th of October 2020 around 2300 hours the complainant was coming from a birthday party when she met the accused person a few metres from their place of residence and the accused person attacked the complainant for disrespecting him.
“He broke a beer bottle and stabbed her on both hands, back and on the head before he assaulted the complainant all over the body using clenched fists,” said the prosecutor Mr Terrence Chakabuda.
After the assault, the complainant allegedly fell down and the accused person went on to assault her using clenched fists and booted feet all over her body resulting in her seeking medical attention at Mpilo Central Hospital .-Chronicle
The Premier League (PL) often referred to as the English Premier League or the EPL has recorded eight (8) new coronavirus cases following the recent test on players and staff.
The development was announced in the PL’s Monday statement which, however, did not disclose the identity of the affected clubs and persons. Read the statement in part:
The Premier League can today confirm that between Monday 12 October and Sunday 18 October, 1 575 players and club staff were tested for Covid-19. Of these, there were eight new positive tests.
The league said the individuals who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus would now self-isolate for 10 days.
A total of 42 people including Liverpool’s Sadio Mane have tested positive for the virus in seven rounds of testing since the new campaign began on 12 September.
There have been more than 750 000 Covid-19 infections and over 43 000 deaths in the United Kingdom, according to a Reuters tally.
This comes when the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has said the spread of coronavirus in Greater Manchester is “grave” and he may “need to intervene” if new measures under tier three which include pub closures and a ban on household mixing indoors are not agreed.-BBC
By A Correspondent- Acting Zanu PF spokesperson, Patrick Chinamasa has blasted unpatriotic Zimbabweans.
Speaking at a Zanu PF media briefing in Harare on Wednesday, Chinamasa claimed Zanu PF educated Zimbabweans and citizens must return the favour by defending their country.
By A Correspondent- Tragedy struck a Chitungwiza family Wednesday after a jojo tank reportedly collapsed and killed two minor children.
According to a source privy to the development, the incident happened Wednesday afternoon in Unit A Chitungwiza.
Said the source:
“A Jojo tank at Causten Ganda’s house which was not properly installed fell on three minors. Two children were pronounced dead on arrival at Chitungwiza hospital. The house where all this happened is opposite Maruza shopping centre.”
Efforts to get a comment from the police regarding the incident was an ongoing process by the time of writing.
This is a developing story, Refresh this page for latest details.
Zimbabwe allrounder Elton Chigumbura hopes to recover his best for on the Chevrons tour to Pakistan.
Chigumbura says that he has put his injuries behind him and is raring to prove his batting prowess in conditions that may provide a great platform for the big-hitter.
In 2015 Chigumbura scored his maiden ODI ton against Pakistan in Lahore.
Chigumbura set to reclaim his place Speaking to the media from quarantine after arriving in Pakistan earlier this week, Chigumbura said: “I have struggled with my form.
“I had a couple of injuries that put me away for quite some time.
“So it was down to my injuries I was out for almost a year, not playing international cricket. And when I came back again, I got another injury, for which I had to go and get the surgery done.
“Right now, I’m looking forward to this series, hopefully, to get back to where I was. And these wickets in Pakistan are good wickets to bat on. So hopefully I can carry on from last time when I was in Pakistan.
“I am fully fit now. I got an Achilles injury last year. When I was about to just start playing again, then the Covid-19 pandemic happened. So I’m happy to be back in the squad. Hopefully we get a chance to enjoy every moment.”
Chigumbura insists the Zimbabwe camp are focused on achieving 2023 World Cup qualification after missing out on the 2019 tournament.
“We have to try and start winning games,” Chigumbura added.
“Everyone is really focused. It’s not just the series that will determine our future – every game that you play in the [ODI] Super League is very important for the team so that we qualify for the next World Cup overseas. And we take it one game at a time, but everyone in the team is very ready and eager to go.
“It’s important that we have to play to win, not to just compete. So all those mindsets are things that we have spoken about in training and everyone is aware of what we need to do as a team and as individuals when it comes to these international games. And hopefully we start on a good note.
“I believe we can be competitive. We came here to win. Everyone, they’re willing to go out there and express themselves. Everyone is raring to go, especially after being out of cricket for almost six, seven months.”
Zimbabwe play the first ODI against hosts Pakistan in Rawalpindi on Friday 30 October.
GOVERNMENT has invited the MDC Alliance and MDC-T to grace the SADC Anti-Sanctions commemorations set for 24 October.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it remains unclear where the commemorations will be held but Zanu PF will hold an e-gala in Bulawayo.
However, secretary of information Nick Mangwana has said the government had invited an invitation to the MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe and Nelson Chamisa’s MDC Alliance to add their voices against sanctions.
The West and the US imposed sanctions against Zimbabwe at the turn of the millennium accusing the Zanu PF regime of failing to obey the rule of law and implementing economic and political reforms.
The West insists it willing to remove the sanctions if Harare implements the reforms.
However, Mangwana confirmed the government had joined hands with different stakeholders such as businesses, churches, political parties, and civil society for this year’s commemorations.
“We have joined hands with other progressive stakeholders such as business, political parties, and civil society to hold this year’s anti-sanctions e-gala. We extend an invitation to the MDC-T and MDC-A and others to come and give a shout against sanctions,” he said.
The Zanu PF National People’s Conference which was scheduled to be held in Bindura has been postponed indefinitely due to covid-19.
This was announced by the party’s acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa and Secretary for Health Dr David Parirenyatwa after a Politburo meeting held this Wednesday.
The Politburo also reiterated Mnangagwa’s clarion call for the unconditional removal of illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the USA and its allies.
The Party applauded Mnangagwa and His Government for the positive steps they have taken to re-engage the West and their allies who have imposed illegal sanctions on the country.
“However, in its active support for the President’s re-engagement drive, which has seen relations relatively improving, the Party reiterates its position that re-engagement should not be taken or misconstrued as a sign of weakness but the progressive and right thing to do to create harmony among nations,” said Chinamasa.
The Politburo went on to thank SADC members and other countries for standing with Zimbabwe in calling for the removal of the illegal sanctions.
“Politburo expressed its gratitude to SADC Member countries that have stood with us and have given meaningful and active solidarity to the Party, Government and People of Zimbabwe as they confront the illegal sanctions needlessly imposed on us for taking back our land. The President reiterated that the Land Reform Program is irreversible and therefore maintaining these sanctions will not change anything.
“The Politburo also expressed sincere gratitude to the African Union member countries, China, Russia, Members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Progressive Civil Rights Movements in the USA headlined by the December 12 Movement, Progressive Nations of the World and eminent personalities across the globe who have joined the People of Zimbabwe, Government and His Excellency, the President in calling out for the unconditional removal of these illegal sanctions.”
Meanwhile, the Politburo has also directed and reiterated the position of the law, which forbids civil servants from contesting for positions in the Party.
IPS|Dotted across the Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo, the water tanks installed in private residences is evidence that years of a water crisis, that has seen some suburbs here going for months without running water, has not spared anyone. The large plastic drums, locally called Jojo tanks after the company that manufacturers them, and which have a storage range of up to 10,000 litres, have assumed a class status of sorts in Bulawayo.
Desperate residents, like Philemon Hadebe, who can afford to have responded to the water crises by installing the giant tanks in their residences.
Such tanks are traditionally used to harvest rain water and also store groundwater, but in COVID—19’s new normal, everything has been upended.
“This is about survival,” Hadebe told IPS.
“You cannot go for weeks without water in a house where you have kids that’s why I bought this thing,” he said pointing to the 2,500 litre water tank in his yard.
“I let the water run whenever it is made available (in the taps) and it has helped a lot to stock up for when the taps run dry for days and even weeks,” he said.
Is he is not concerned about the water bill?
“You have no time to worry about the water bill. These are desperate times,” Hadebe said. It’s despite the fact that the local municipality has lamented the failure of residents to settle their bills, which the council says has crippled service delivery.
Those residents who cannot afford bulk storage use any container available, including 2-litre plastic containers. But when these run out, they turn to unprotected water sources, a practice city health officials say has resulted in a spike of waterborne diseases such as typhoid and dysentery.
Last week, the city’s health department reported an increase in diarrhoea cases, with residents saying the municipality has done little to solve the decades old water crisis.
The local authority blames water shortages on a range of factors that include low levels in supply dams, breakdown of infrastructure installed before the country’s independence in 1980 and also constant power outages said to cripple pumping water from dams.
“The water crisis is man made,” said Emmanuel Ndlovu, coordinator of the Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BUPRA).
“Bulawayo has always faced a perennial water problem which has been met with a tepid preparedness by council. Every year the city is plunged into a crisis. The last such crisis was in 2007 but the current one has been the worst ever,” Ndlovu told IPS.
While some residents are installing water tanks, this comes at a steep cost.
Prices of water tanks range from about $1,000 for a 10,000 litre tank to $280 for 2,500 litres and $460 for 5,000 litres.
Business has been brisk for the manufacturers, but this has come at a huge cost for the city’s efforts to save the little water left in supply dams.
Early this month, the city’s town clerk Christopher Dube highlighted the extent of the water crisis, telling local media that the city had run out ideas.
“We no longer have water in the city while consumption has increased. Residents have also resorted to buying Jojo tanks (bulk water containers) and whenever we shut supplies we do so because our reservoirs would have run dry,” Dube said.
The municipality says stocking water by residents has led to a citywide increase of water consumption, and fines imposed on excessive water used have not deterred residents such as Hadebe.
Other residents have resorted to sinking boreholes in their homes, and selling the water. But concerns have previously been raised by municipality about the haphazard and unregulated groundwater.
As part of long-term efforts to address the water crisis, and which might render domestic bowsers redundant, the African Development Bank (AfDB) is supporting the city with a $33 million grant under the Bulawayo Water and Sewerage Services Improvement Project (BWSSIP).
According to the AfDB, the grant will “rehabilitate and upgrade water production treatment facilities, water distribution, sewer drainage networks and wastewater treatment disposal facilities in the southwestern part of the city”.
City mayor Solomon Mguni told IPS he could not discuss the issue, but in a council report last month he blamed the crisis on “vandalism of infrastructure and power outages which interrupt pumping”.
For now, residents with the financial clout are creating their own domestic solutions albeit at a cost for the long term sustainability of already strained water sources.
Pressure groups however insist the city could have done better.
“Despite the fact that water account is a the cash cow for the Bulawayo City Council, there is less investment in water resources,” Ndlovu said.
Meanwhile, the country’s meteorological services department has forecast above normal rains this season, which could provide not only relief to the parched city, but could also be bad news to Jojo tank retailers.
Own Correspondent|A leaked security and intelligence document has revealed how Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa is plotting to silence perceived political opponents.
See below part of the document:
FOLLOWING A JOC MEETING HELD ON THE 1OTH OF AUGUST 2020 ON THE BACKDROP OF ONGOING INCESSANT ATTACKS ON THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE CMM HIS EXCELLENCY CMM CDE EMMERSON MNANGAGWA CMM THE RULING PARTY ZANU PF AND THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE BY MALCONTENTS IN ZIMBABWE AND IN THE DIASPORA WHO ARE WORKING IN CAHOOTS WITH OUR ERSTWHILE COLONISERS TO DESTABILISE ZIMBABWE AND PAVE WAY FOR AN ILLEGAL REGIME CHANGE CMM IT IS HEREBY DIRECTED THAT ALL SECURITY SERVICES BE ON HIGH ALERT AND REINVIGORATE EFFORTS TO STOP THIS GROWING ANTI- GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN.
THE CAMPAIGNS ARE NOT ONLY MEANT TO FORMENT VIOLENCE AND SABOTAGE GOVERNMENT’S ONGOING EFFORTS TO REVIVE THE ECONOMY BUT TO SUBVERT A CONSTITUTIONALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT AND REPLACE IT WITH FOREIGN FUNDED OPPOSITION POLITICAL PARTIES STOP THIS IS A DIRECT ASSAULT ON OUR NATIONAL DEFENCE AND SECURITY SYSTEM STOP IT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT THE UNDERLISTED PERSONS COMPRISING OPPOSITION POLITICIANS CMM FORMER ZANU PF MEMBERS CMM EX SECURITY SERVICES MEMBERS CMM MEDIA PERSONNEL CMM ACTIVISTS AMONG OTHERS HAVE BECOME SECURITY THREATS BENT ON SOILING THE IMAGE OF ZIMBABWE THROUGH SPREADING LIES CMM HATE SPEECH CMM ANTI GOVERNMENT STATEMENTS CMMINCITING VIOLENCE AND INITIATING HASHTAGS SUCH AS THE RECENT ZANUPFMUSTGO AND ZIMBABWEANSLIVESMATTER CAMPAIGNS STOP THIS HAS REACHED A TIPPING POINT THEREFORE THOSE SPEARHEADING THE CAMPAIGNS SHOULD BE TRACKED DOWN CMM ARRESTED AND BROUGHT BEFORE THE COURTS OF JUSTICE STOP THE ARREST OF HOPEWELL CHIN’ONO AND JACOB NGARIVHUME HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL BUT THERE IS CRITICAL NEED TO WIDEN THE NET SO THAT THOSE LEADING ONLINE CAMPAIGNS ARE ARRESTED STOP THIS SECURITY OPERATION MUST BE CONDUCTED WITH GUIDELINES SET BY THE INTER AGENCY COMMITTEE[SEE ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES] AND ALL ACTIVITIES BE RECORDED AND COMMUNICATED AS STIPULATED IN THE AFOREMENTIONED GUIDELINES.
EFFORTS INCLUDING ENGAGING INTERPOL AND SARPCCO, SHOULD ALSO BE MADE TO LOCATE THOSE IN THE DIASPORA. ACTIVITIES BY SO CALLED HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CMM NGOS CMM CSOS CMM EX MEMBERS OF THE SECURITY FORCES SHOULD BE MONITORED STOP INFORMATION GATHERED BY OUR INTELLIGENCE TEAMS REVEALS THAT SOME EX SECURITY SERVICES MEMBERS ARE LINKED TO SERVING MEMBERS CMM CONNECTIONS WHICH HAVE LED TO THE LEAKING OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN STOP THIS IS A SERIOUS SECURITY BREACH WHICH SHOULD BE STOPPED FORTHWITH STOP ALL COMMANDERS SHOULD THEREFORE BE VIGILANT AND ENSURE THAT ALL OFFICERS UNDER THEIR COMMAND ARE COMMITTED TO THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS CRUCIAL OPERATION STOP THE UNDERLISTED INDIVIDUALS SHOULD BE TRACKED AND INFORMATION THAT MAY LEAD TO THEIR ARREST SHOULD BE TOP PRIORITY STOP INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS SHOULD CULTIVATE MORE INFORMERS AND ENSURE THE SUCCESS OF THIS OPERATION STOP…
It is imperative that our defence and national security is under threat from individuals w ho are persistently and unjustifiably spreading lies and inciting violence through digital platforms in an effort to forment negative attitude towards the government of Zimbabwe.
This evolution has set the stage for antagonism in Zimbabwe, therefore requires a fundamental shift in the way we counter threats to our national defence and security. In light of this, additional strategies are hereby provided to improve the effectiveness of all intelligence operations.
A new reporting procedure has been established [See Standard Reporting Procedure] .
No reports or comments should be released to the press or into the public domain before clearance from the national command.
Only commanders are now allowed to sign and dispatch correspondence. No any other member should sign or dispatch correspondence on behalf of the office bearer.
Only district commanders will now authorise subscriber checks. Key contacts of the targeted individuals should always be obtained and used for tracking main targets.
Commanders should ensure that teams are properly constituted, and their budgets drawn timeously.
This information should be sent to the national command centre via the new established channel. All officers should once again sign a new oath of secrecy.
All arrests, however minor, should be communicated and fed into the new database.
Acting Zanu PF spokesperson, Patrick Chinamasa has accused Zimbabweans of being unpatriotic.
Speaking at a Zanu PF media briefing in Harare on Wednesday, Chinamasa claimed Zanu PF educated Zimbabweans and citizens must return the favour by defending their country.
Acting Zanu PF spokesperson, Patrick Chinamasa has accused Zimbabweans of being unpatriotic.
Speaking at a Zanu PF media briefing in Harare on Wednesday, Chinamasa claimed Zanu PF educated Zimbabweans and citizens must return the favour by defending their country.
News headlines have been screaming about “ jump ship” councilors in Bulawayo and Gweru. The Khupe cabal , have been celebrating none existent miracle councilors, councilors who are claimed to have crossed from MDC Alliance to MDC Toko. This is false and just self pleasing propaganda on the part of the unelectable deserters who after losing congress positions are burying their political carreers by joining the Supreme Court constructed entity .
For the record, MDC Alliance councilors have a strong covalent bond with their sponsoring party , the MDC Alliance. Nothing will sway them from their focus to deliver superior services fulcrumed on the MDC Alliance SMART local governance policy. They are ready for anything, shunning the deceivery of dangled carrots and weathering the storm of unnecessary and unlawful and immoral recalls by Mwonzora and company, which recalls have no relationship whatsoever with the aspirations of the people.
The MDC Alliance councilors at the Bulawayo and Gweru stations of deployment are fully engaged with dealing with water challenges and informal sector infrastructure for enhancement of their trade , which activities are clearly on the locus of the health and sanitation as well as local economic development in our cities. We as the MDC Alliance Alternative Ministry cannot be more proud of our Deployees who have stood steadfastly on the mission to deliver smart and superior services to the people. The recall and threats side shows cannot distract these men and women of grit from their mission.
Our happiness is amplified by the sterling work that is happening in Mutare. The Mayor and his team are completing a water delivery pipeline to Dangamvura to consign the perennial problem of running water shortages to the past.
They have also invested in modern ambulances for the convenience of the sick in Mutare, all this in-spite of the collapsed national economy.
Not to be out done, Chiredzi town councill as lead by Chairman G Hwende is attracting investment into the sugar industry backboned town on the mission to make Chiredzi a Smart City in the near future.
We call upon Zanu to manage its appetite for interference and allow the councils to deliver in accordance with the provisions of devolved local authorities
Sesel Zvidzai
Sec Local Government and Rural Development
ZANU PF First Secretary and President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned senior party members against engaging in corrupt activities saying the fight against corruption both in the party and in the country at large continues unabated.
Speaking at the 345th session of the Politburo this afternoon, President Mnangagwa said gone are the days when members hide behind their status and abuse the name of the party to engage in corruption.
“Zanu PF and this administration will never allow the party to be a haven of malcontents and criminals.
“I thus exhort party cadres and the citizenry at all levels inline with our national development agenda to be guarantors of a corrupt free Zimbabwe. Report all cases of corruption to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and the Zimbabwe Republic Police,” he said.
Acting Zanu PF spokesperson, Patrick Chinamasa has accused Zimbabweans of being unpatriotic.
Speaking at a Zanu PF media briefing in Harare on Wednesday, Chinamasa claimed Zanu PF educated Zimbabweans and citizens must return the favour by defending their country.
A 32-year-old Harare man escaped death by a whisker after he was suddenly stabbed seven times with a knife while drinking beer in Epworth, Harare, a court heard yesterday.
Privilege Rumbe (24) was facing attempted murder charges when he appeared before Harare magistrate Mrs Judith Taruvinga.
He was remanded in custody to November 4, as magistrates cannot grant bail for violent crimes and the accused in such cases must apply for one at the High Court.
The court heard that on October 17 Justice Masvaure was drinking beer with his friends at Chiremba Business Centre, Epworth, and so was Rumbe.
It is alleged that Rumbe suddenly attacked Masvaure with a knife and stabbed him seven times all over the body over an undisclosed dispute.
The matter was reported to the police leading to Rumbe’s arrest.
Meanwhile a 39-year-old Esigodini man was fatally assaulted by five men after he had earlier on engaged in a fist fight with one of the suspects. Two of the suspects have since been arrested.
In a second killing, which occurred in Bulawayo last Thursday, a 22-year-old man was also fatally assaulted by seven men after having a misunderstanding over payment of wages.
The man’s friend was also severely assaulted. Six of the suspects have been arrested. Police said in Plumtree, a man aged 25 who was drinking beer at a shopping centre had a misunderstanding with another man over an undisclosed matter. He was then stabbed with a knife on the chest and he died on the spot.
The assailant has since been arrested and the okapi knife was recovered hidden in the thatched roof of his bedroom hut.
POLICE have to date arrested five armed robbers in connection with a robbery incident which occurred in Belvedere in Harare recently.
The five are Polite Sibanda (30), an alleged deserter from the army, Khumbulani Mapingire (38) who is alleged to be a former police officer, Mandla Malinga (45), Dingani Ndlovu (36) and Mehluli Ncube (40).
They are facing robbery, attempted murder and murder charges.
Two people died in the shootout on the day of the robbery.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the arrests.
“Two of the armed robbers, Malinga and Ndlovu were arrested in Bulawayo. They were conducting their robbery activities in Harare and Bulawayo. Police are leaving no stone unturned to bring the other five who are at large, to book,” said Asst Comm Nyathi.
Caledonia Mining Corporation which recently signed a huge mining deal with the Zimbabwean government is reportedly interested in taking over one of Zimbabwe’s largest gold operations as it embarks on an aggressive plan to acquire more assets in the country.
According to highly placed sources who spoke to Bloomberg media, the Jersey-based gold producer is weighing an acquisition of Bilboes Gold Ltd.’s Isabella-McCays-Bubi Mines, in Inyathi District of Matabeleland North Province northwest of Zimbabwe though a Caledonia spokeswoman declined to comment.
Caledonia Mining Corporation, early this month signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Zimbawe which allowed the Canadian company to identify and acquire any gold assets in the country which would boost investment and production in its gold mining and play a leading part in the drive to a US$12 billion mining sector economy by 2023.
In the MoU, which analysts equated to the 1892 Rudd Concession signed between Lobengula and The British South African Company which gave the British company gold mining rights throughout the country, Caledonia declares and affirms its intention to increase gold production in excess of 500 000 ounces, around 15,5 tonnes, by 2030.
Further, the parties acknowledge and agree that where Caledonia had specific interest in identified assets or projects towards the achievement of the target, there shall be need to enter into specific agreements governing those assets.
The Bubi mines can potentially produce more than 200,000 ounces of gold, making it the largest project by output in the country, said the person. Most of the Isabella-McCays-Bubi operations are currently mothballed as the owners search for investors.
Growth Plans
Caledonia, which has Cape Town-based fund manager Allan Gray as its biggest shareholder, would be able to return the mines to full production within a short period, said the sources.
They could be operated for more than a decade and would align with the company’s plans to grow its Zimbabwean presence. Raising financing for the deal depends on the nature of the final agreement.
The gold miner is ramping up production at its Blanket mine in the southwest of the country, and needs larger assets to expand. It sees potential in some mines which were shut down in the 1980s due to a lack of capital, Maurice Mason, the company’s vice president for corporate development said earlier this month.
Caledonia could increase its output more than eightfold through deals, to half a million ounces a year as the company considers investing $400 million in Zimbabwe over the next decade, the person said. This month, Caledonia CEO Steve Curtis signed a memorandum of understanding with the government to evaluate some of the gold assets of state-owned Zimbabwe Mining Development Corp., pending possible purchases.
THE Zimbabwe national cricket team held its first training session in Pakistan on Wednesday as they prepare for the eagerly awaited limited-overs series against the hosts.
Stand-in head coach Douglas Hondo took care of proceedings during the practice session held at the Army Cricket Ground in Rawalpindi.
The tourists all stepped out for training in a lively manner after Zimbabwe’s entire squad of 32, including support staffers, tested negative for the coronavirus after undergoing tests for the respiratory disease on their arrival in the Asian country on Tuesday.
Blessing Muzarabani bowling in Zimbabwe’s training session in Pakistan
While they have access to training facilities, they will remain quarantined in Rawalpindi until next Tuesday.
The first of the three one-day international (ODI) matches between Pakistan and Zimbabwe will be played on 30 October, with the other two scheduled for 1 and 3 November. Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium is the venue for the three ODIs, which are part of the inaugural ICC Cricket World Cup Super League.
Lahore will host the three-match Twenty20 international series between the two sides that will immediately follow on 7, 8 and 10 November.
Speaking to journalists during a virtual press conference held after the first practice session in Rawalpindi, one of the senior players in the Zimbabwean squad, Elton Chigumbura said they were in Pakistan not just to compete but to win.
“It’s important for us to get the points that we need to qualify for the next World Cup. Everyone in the team is very ready and eager to get going and hopefully we will start on a positive note. We came here to win. Every game is important for us, every player here is aware of that and you are going to see us trying to win games,’’ Chigumbura said.
Zimbabwe Squad for Pakistan tour: Chamunorwa Chibhabha (captain), Faraz Akram, Ryan Burl, Brian Chari, Tendai Chatara, Elton Chigumbura, Tendai Chisoro, Craig Ervine, Tinashe Kamunhukamwe, Wesley Madhevere, Wellington Masakadza, Carl Mumba, Richmond Mutumbami, Blessing Muzarabani, Richard Ngarava, Sikandar Raza, Milton Shumba, Brendan Taylor, Donald Tiripano, Sean Williams
Orlando Pirates have announced the signing of goalkeeper Richard Ofori from Maritzburg United on a three-year deal.
Ofori, 26, attracted interest from Pirates and other several big clubs in South Africa after his performances at United in the past two seasons.
Speaking after signing the contract, the Ghanaian said: “I am very happy to be here. It is a dream for me to be a part of this exciting squad and to work with the technical team.
“I also look forward to meeting my new teammates and being part of this exciting new project.”
Meanwhile, Pirates have also confirmed that left-back Tebogo Tlolane will move to The Team of Choice on a season-long loan deal.-Soccer 24
By Jane Mlambo| Zanu PF has also resolved that Kudzanai Chipanga should vacate the farm that he was allocated by the G40 with the farm set to be part of the proposed University of Manicaland, party acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa said.
Addressing journalists at the end of the Zanu PF politburo meeting today, Chinamasa said Chipanga had applied twice to be readmitted back into the party.
The ZANU PF politburo has turned down former Youth League Secretary Kudzanai Chipanga’s application to be readmitted into the party on the grounds that he was a G40 kingpin.
The UEFA Champions League is back on our screens and here is how things unfolded in Europe’s premier club competition.
In Kyiv, Juventus beat Dynamo Kyiv 2-0 thanks to a brace from new recruit Alvaro Morata.
Wonder kid Ansu Fati scored a goal and created another as Barcelona trounced Ferencvaros 5-1 at Camp Nou. Lionel Messi, Ousman Dembele and Pedri were also on the scoresheet as Ronald Koeman’s men completely dominated.
Marcus Rashford’s 87th minute strike propelled Manchester United to an impressive 2-1 win over PSG in Paris. United went ahead in the first half through a Bruno Fernandes penalty before Anthony Martial beat his own goalkeeper to draw PSG level in the second half half.
Chelsed and Sevilla played out a goalless draw at Stamford Bridge.
Ciro Immobile was once again the hero of the day for Lazio with a goal and assist in their 3-1 win over Borussia Dortmund.-Soccer 24
