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FULL TEXT: ED’s Preference For The Dead Over The Living Is Mind Boggling
The failed Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime never ceases to amaze!
By Stephen Chuma| 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 is the MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Spokesperson
Kazembe Kazembe Accuses Citizen Of Bribing Police Officers
By Jane Mlambo| Home Affairs minister who is also responsible for the police, Kazembe Kazembe has accused citizens of bribing police officers blaming it for the worsening corruption levels in the country.
He was responding to questions from journalists on what government was doing to end corruption which has seen police officers pocketing as much as USD$2 from citizens without face masks.
Kazembe said citizens should stop paying the police but instead reporting them including recording videos.
“The police cannot corrupt themselves. I am kindly asking the citizenry to stop corrupting the police, we are the ones who are paying the police (bribes).
“Why are we paying them? Report them, no one is above the law. Let us all police the police and let us stop corrupting them.”
Kazembe added citizens had a right to video record bribe-taking officers for further disciplinary action.
“I am sure you have realised these days even the police are getting arrested. These days with the gadgets we have you can simply record a police officer who is asking for a bribe.” said Kazembe.
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Police Boss Arrested Over Criminal Abuse Of Duty
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission has announced the arrest of ZRP Head of Asset Recovery and Forfeiture Unit, Chief Superintendent Josephat Mutipforo on charges of criminal abuse of duty as a public officer.
This was revealed by ZACC on its Twitter account.
ZACC added that Mutipforo will appear in court at the Harare Magistrates Court today.
“ZACC has arrested Chief Sup Josephat Mutipforo the ZRP Head of Asset Recovery and Forfeiture Unit. He is being charged with criminal abuse of duty as a public officer.He is appearing in court today at the Harare Magistrates court,” the anti-graft body said.
ZACC has arrested a number of political heavyweights and senior civil servants on charges of corruption though convictions have been hard to come by as most of the arrested officials are acquitted, putting to question the country’s commitment to end graft amid allegations of catch and release.
Priscilla Charumbira Arrested Over Criminal Abuse Of Office
By A Correspondent- Police in Harare yesterday arrested Harare City Council town planner Priscilla Charumbira for criminal abuse of office.
In a statement, police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said Charumbira contravened section 174 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23 when she unprocedurally approved a sub-division of land which had been set aside for other purposes without authority from Local Government, Public Works and Urban Development minister July Moyo.
“The matter came to light following a tip-off which was received by police and prompted investigations into the matter. The suspect will appear in court soon,” he said.
“The Zimbabwe Republic Police will leave no stone unturned in the quest to account for all people involved in illegal land allocation and other criminal activities.”
Charumbira, who is wife of president of the Chiefs’ Council Fortune Charumbira, is alleged to have irregularly changed land use plan for open spaces in Sunningdale and along Samora Machel Avenue and allocated the land to “friends” at the expense of the deserving public.
The land in Sunningdale was parcelled to Metro Peech wholesale while service stations were set up on residential land along Samora Machel Avenue without change of land use authority sometime in 2016.
The Sunningdale land was reserved for recreational facilities, but was unprocedurally turned into a commercial zone.
Charumbira was also accused of unprocedurally allocating an open space opposite Harare Quarry to one Chisvo.-Newsday
Govt Directs Hwindis To Pay Tax
By A Correspondent- Government has directed workers in the transport sector, including commuter omnibus drivers and conductors, to register with the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) as part of social protection measures being adopted to cater for them when they reach retirement age.
This is part of a robust social protection system that Government is adopting as it realises that informal sector players miss out on cushioning grants when they reach retirement age.
By law, every employee in formal employment should be registered with Nssa, have the requisite contributions and premiums paid for them to Nssa and be able to benefit from the National Pension Fund and Workers’ Compensation Fund when they retire or are injured in a work-related accident.
Already, Government is remodelling and professionalising the transport sector which has seen all commuter omnibuses (kombis) operating in the cities now required to join the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company ambit.
The new measures can also address unfair labour practices that are common in the sector where drivers and conductors can be fired willy-nilly without any recourse.
The Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Ministry through Nssa and the Transport and Infrastructural Development Ministry have rolled out the programme to ensure that players in the transport sector are registered with Nssa, as a prerequisite for operating licences.
“Following a new policy directive to enhance safety and social security of the employees in this sector, the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) in partnership with the Transport and Infrastructure Development would like to advise all public and commercial road transport operators, that they are now required to be holders of a valid Nssa Clearance Certificate prior to the renewal of application of an operating transport permit or licence,” read a statement.
“All public and commercial road transport operators are therefore mandated to regularise their standing with Nssa to avoid delays in the issuance of their licences by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development.”
Some kombi drivers said the scheme will be welcome if it assists them to get treatment when they are involved in accidents.
Others felt they needed more information on how it works.
A kombi driver, Mr Zenzo Nkomo, who plies the Bulawayo-Nkayi road said they operate using verbal contracts with the main focus of their duties being to meet the employer’s targets.
“I don’t know much about these pension contributions. We are just drivers and as you might know, there is no job security in this sector. Today I might drive this kombi but I can lose the job whenever I have differences with my employer. We have to meet the employer’s targets and failure to do so can cost one a job. So, we have to do whatever is necessary to remain on the job as it has become more difficult to get another job considering that urban kombis were banned,” said Mr Nkomo.
Speaking on the development, Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Professor Paul Mavima said it was Government’s intention that players in the informal sector fall under a pension scheme.
“We are pushing to make sure that all business operators in Zimbabwe, formal or non-formal, should register with Nssa. We are building a very sustainable social protection system and we do not want to leave any Zimbabwean behind. Everyone is going to get into old age one day and they want to be prepared for that. This is why transport operators, kombi operators should register so that whoever they are employing should contribute to Nssa and in their old age they can also benefit from this social protection system that we are working so hard to ensure that its viable and sustainable,” said Prof Mavima.
He said Nssa is involved in several investment projects to make the pension fund viable to the benefit of contributors.
Prof Mavima said economic stability will also be crucial in making the pension scheme sustainable, especially noting that previously the public lost savings due to unstable economic environment.
“We have received actuarial reports, we have given indications about what we have to do to keep it viable and sustainable. In terms of contribution levels and in terms of investments that we should embark on. We are emphasising on investments retaining value. For example, Nssa has an international investment portfolio that brings in foreign currency. But our actuarialists have indicated that if we invest in horticulture, for example in the production of macadamia nuts and we manage it properly we will also export that product,” he said.
Development practitioner and National University of Science and Technology (Nust) Institute of Development Studies lecturer Dr Nqobizitha Dube said joining pension schemes, will be ideal for players in the informal sector.
But he observed that the programme’s implementation presents challenges for informal sector players due to their irregular incomes.
“It is always ideal to be protected by social security agencies such as Nssa but this always requires regular payments that one can plan for. Unfortunately, this is not the case for most informal sector participants whose income is highly irregular. It would be better to push for social security through the already existing transport unions or groupings.
They know how to best organise themselves. Also, drivers are the employees and the owner of the vehicle rarely drives it,” said Dr Dube.
“The contractual arrangements between owner and driver are rarely that formal. Also, because the drivers are the employees, such a plea should be coming from the drivers and not being pushed to owners or entrepreneurs.”
He said if it not properly managed it would result in reduction of incomes for employees in the sector.
Dr Dube said the erosion of savings is another issue that Government needs to address before aiming to attract players in the sector to contribute to a pension fund.
“Erosion of incomes is still fresh but once the employees are formally employed with contracts, they become part of Nssa. Government has to show the advantages of this and also show that we have career drivers and conductors in the public transport system run by private players. Also, what happens when the owner drives his own car?” asked Dr Dube.-statemedia
After 40yrs, Still Failing To Hold Free And Fair Elections: “To Find Strait Gate And Narrow Way”
By Wilbert Mukori- The root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic and political crisis is the country’s failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. For 40 years the nation has beeb stuck with corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship and it shows.
40 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have left the country’s, once robust and promising, economy in ruins. Unemployment has soared to nauseating heights of 90%, basic services such as education and health care have all but collapsed and over 34% of the population now live in extreme poverty.
The de facto Zanu PF one-party dictatorship has stifled public debate and democratic competition making politic such a dirty and dangerous game only corrupt and incompetent thugs seek public office. It is this death of quality leaders in both the ruling party and the multitude of opposition parties, 130 at the last count, that explains the political paralysis in Zimbabwe.
The economic meltdown has pushed the nation to the very edge of the precipitous abyss, the economic hardships have made the country politically and socially unstable. There is only so much suffering and deaths human beings can tolerate before the rebel, we are not that far from reaching that limit in Zimbabwe.
It is not too late to stop and turn back from the abyss. All we need to do is implement the democratic reforms to ensure the next elections are free, fair and credible elections. A very tall order but not mission impossible!
If we are ever going to have free, fair and credible elections, we need to understand why the country has failed to have such elections so far.
During the fight for independence there was never any doubt in the blacks’ mind that they were fighting to end white colonial exploitation and oppression and replace it with black majority rule where all will enjoy freedom, justice, peace, liberty and economic prosperity. “One man! One vote!” was the rallying cry.
The black nationalists who took up arms to fight to end white colonial rule were called “freedom fighters” and “liberators”. There was never an qualms they could be anything else much less the corrupt and murderous tyrants many have turned out to be. Of course, we were being naive and have paid dearly for our naivety.
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
Matthew 7:13-14
In 1980, Robert Mugabe and his fellow Zanu PF nationalists did not withdraw all the party’s freedom fighters into Assembly Points as agreed in the Lancaster House Talks. The fighters campaign message to the populous was that the civil war would continue if Zanu PF did not win the elections.
Some people have tried to dismiss Zanu PF’s threat to make the country ungovernable as just an electioneering gambit that had very little effect in the electoral outcome. The 1983 to 1987 Gukurahundi massacre in which over 20 000 innocent Zimbabweans were murdered in cold blood has settled the question of what Zanu PF would do to secure absolute power.
The primary purpose of the Gukurahundi massacre was to force the late Dr Joshua Nkomo and his PF Zapu to sign the 1987 Unity Accord merging the two party into Zanu PF and paving the way for the imposing of the de facto one party dictatorship. Ever since, Zanu PF has blatantly rigged the elections under the pretext those calling for free and fair elections were threatening unity and peace. A feeble excuse for denying the people their basic freedoms and rights and to justify abandoning the straight and narrow path.
By the late 1990s many Zimbabweans had finally come to the conclusion that Mugabe and many his Zanu PF cronies were corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs and not the liberation heroes and heroines who cared about the freedoms and rights of all Zimbabweans. It was a bitter pill to swallow but many did swallow it. There was a national consensus that the nation will need to carryout democratic changes designed to end Zanu PF’s carte blanche dictatorial powers to rig elections.
In 1999 Morgan Tsvangirai and his friends launched their party, November for Democratic Change (MDC), promising to deliver the democratic changes, as their party name implied, the nation was dying for. Sadly, after 21 years on the political stage, 5 of which in the 2008 to 2013 GNU, MDC has failed to implement even one token reform.
By continuing to participate in flawed and illegal elections the MDC have given credibility to the process and, by extension, given some modicum of legitimacy to the vote rigging Zanu PF regime.
To avoid taking the final steps over the edge of the precipitous abyss, Zimbabwe must ensure the next elections are free, fair and credible. There are two courses of action:
Plan A
Must implement the democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections. Since any Zanu PF led government, on its own or in a GNU arrangement, will not implement the reforms, the party will never reform itself out of office; Zanu PF must step down to allow the appointment of a body that will implement he reforms.
The opportunity to pressure Zanu PF to step down was lost because the opposition participated in the July 2018 elections. Still the worsening economic meltdown is putting the regime under great pressure as this is unsustainable.
Plan B
If the 2023 elections go ahead with no reforms in place; this time, no stone must be left unturned to ensure the outcome is declare null and void and Zanu PF regime declared illegitimate. The world must be left in no doubt that the Zimbabwe opposition participating in these flawed elections are sell-out with no political credibility.
The people of Zimbabwe must wake up to the political reality that the opposition are running with the povo hare and hunting with the Zanu PF hounds.
The very fact that Zanu PF thugs have blatantly rigged the elections again and again for the last 40 years and we, the people, have allowed the regime to get away with it speaks volumes of our own political naivety.
Freedoms and rights including the right to a free vote and even the right to life are God given and every man and woman’s birth right. But like everything else in this world, these freedoms and rights will only be enjoyed by those who take their responsibility to claim them as their own and, if need be, defend them with their very lives.
If we are ever going to have free, fair and credible elections and the enjoy the fruits of good governance then we must earn it by demanding reforms. Like it or not, we are masters of our own destiny, we are our own liberators.
ED To Address The Nation Wednesday. What Will He Say?
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa is on Wednesday expected to address several challenges facing the country when he delivers his State of the Nation Address (Sona).
This comes amid a crisis that has seen civil servants declaring incapacitation.
His address will coincide with the opening of the Third Session of the Ninth Parliament and sets the government’s legislative agenda for the coming session.
The Apex Council, an umbrella body for all civil servants bodies, said the President must “give us a signal” of where the country is going by prioritising the starving government workers.
“The State of the Nation is very much excluding government workers,” Apex Council spokesperson David Dzatsunga said.
“We have expectations that we hope the President will address.
“We wait to see how the government reacts to a crisis in education where the government is failing to pay the teachers. In fact, the generality of civil servants are not happy and he has to give us a signal of where we are going.”
Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe president Takavafira Zhou said Mnangagwa must show leadership in addressing the plight of the teachers.
“We expect the President to open dialogue with teachers so that he is fully apprised about the situation in schools,” Zhou said.
“We also expect the President to urge the Finance minister (Mthuli Ncube) to allocate more resources to the education sector for the welfare of teachers and prioritisation of pupils and teachers’ health and safety.”
He said the President must also address the issue of peace and stability which is key in the development of any sector.
“We expect the President to address how as a nation we can rekit our industries, enhance productivity and export so that the state can boost its coffers. The President must also address the issue of peace and stability in the country that are prerequisites for sustainable development.”
Community Working Group on Health executive director Itai Rusike said they expect Mnangagwa to fulfil promises he has been making.
“We hope that President Mnangagwa will fulfil the promises that he made in his election manifesto to the people of Zimbabwe,” Rusike said.
Johannes Marisa, president of the Medical and Dental Medical Private Practitioners of Zimbabwe said: “The President should address the longstanding concerns and grievances of health workers by coming out with concrete solutions for the conditions of services for the health workers.”
“Provision of PPE (personal protective equipment) for the frontline health workers needs to be addressed for the safety of the health workforce and their clients,” he said.
MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson Clifford Hlatywayo said there was little to expect from Mnangagwa’s Sona.
“We are not expecting anything but the usual rhetoric,” he said.
MDC-T acting spokesperson Khalipani Phugeni said the President must show the same energy exhibited in combating COVID-19 in addressing the economy and service delivery issues.
Passengers Association Condemns ZUPCO’s Death Traps
By A Correspondent- The Passenger Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has condemned the state of most conventional buses operating under the Zupco franchise, describing them as unroadworthy and death traps to the commuting public.
At the height of escalating private commuter omnibus fares, Zupco integrated old conventional buses to operate as urban public transporters.
PAZ has blamed the aging Zupco fleet and poor maintenance for the majority of accidents recorded in most cities across the country.
PAZ president Tafadzwa Goliati said the majority of Zupco buses were not fit for public transportation, posing a serious danger to passengers.
“We have seen a sharp increase in accidents involving Zupco buses. Some of the buses being used to carry passengers are not road worthy,” he said.
Goliati said they did not understand how some of the buses got clearances to operate.
“Even if you take someone who has no idea about cars and buses, they will clearly tell you that these buses are not roadworthy and not fit to carry passengers,” Goliati said.
“Some of the buses do not have brakes, stones are used to stop them when loading passengers and these buses are being used to transport passengers. This is a death trap for passengers.”
Last Saturday, 21 passengers were injured along Lytton Road in Harare after a Zupco bus driver failed to negotiate a curve. Another Zupco bus driver last month lost control of the vehicle at Mbare’s Mupedzanhamo market and rammed into a pillar, injuring over a dozen pedestrians.
A woman in Bulawayo last month also escaped death by a whisker after a Zupco bus veered off the road in the city centre, and sped towards her while she was standing on a pavement.
Zupco southern region manager Tinaye Ruwasako said they had not received such reports in Bulawayo.
“We do not have such reports in Bulawayo, maybe check with Harare,” Ruwasoka said.
Zupco chief executive officer Evaristo Mdangwe was not reachable on his mobile yesterday. Messages sent to him had not been responded to by the time of going to print last night.
Did Mliswa Say White Owned Companies Are Receiving More Forex Than Black Owned?
By Jane Mlambo| Firebrand Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has dropped a bombshell claiming that white owned companies are receiving more foreign currency than indigenous firms, in what could hint at what is happening in the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe run forex auction system.
Mliswa made the revelations while rebutting Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena for taking Manicaland provincial minister Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba to task over abuse of office.
Mliswa said Gwaradzimba was unprocedurally summoned to parliament when the question of who allocated land to her son should have been answered by lands ministry.
While defending Gwaradzimba, Mliswa said Zimbabwe had pertinent issues at stake which demanded attention including unfair allocation of foreign currency at the auction system.
” There are more pertinent issues at stake like why are the white owned companies receiving more forex than the indigenous ones & yet they purport to be earning forex?,” said Mliswa.
Zimbabwe has been running a ‘successful’ forex auction system which has gone to stabilise the exchange rate.
Mliswa’s claims if escalated have the potential to destabilise the system.
Leaked Chat: Tapiwa Mashakada Fails To Handle Complaints From His Constituency. Full Text
[9/15, 14:40] Musavengana Nyasha: ????????????????
Makadii VaMashakada?
Ndinonzi Musavengana Nyasha. I am a member of the Midlands, Waterfalls committee.
The committee was formed for the purpose of keeping ourselves informed on issues to do with service delivery amongst other matters to do with our community.
We are requesting a meeting with you so that tinoonesana nezve nyaya dzakadai.
At this time of Covid, there will just be a maximum of 5 representatives of the committee and all precautionary protocols like social distancing and the wearing of masks will be observed.
[9/15, 17:43] Mashakada: Ok it’s fine let’s see from next week
[9/15, 17:46] Musavengana Nyasha: We will wait to hear from you. Please try to give us advance warning of at least 3 days.
[9/15, 17:48] Mashakada: Sharp. Yamurikuti Midlands ndeipi zviye
[9/15, 17:51] Musavengana Nyasha: Aizve. Hamutoziva constituency yenyu?
Area ine Lord Malvern School. Mukatsvaga map ye Waterfalls inenge iri more specific.
[9/15, 17:54] Mashakada: I know all corners of waterfalls but there is no such place like Midlands in my view
[9/15, 17:58] Musavengana Nyasha: Your “view” is mistaken. Like l said, look for a map. Midlands is between Cheviot, Parktown and Malvern. Our addresses are written in full as Midlands, Waterfalls just like ana Parktown, Waterfalls. Pa Zindoga is part of Midlands, with the next shops pane OK being Malvern.
[9/15, 18:00] Mashakada: Ok great
[9/24, 10:03] Musavengana Nyasha: Makadii? I’ve been waiting to hear from you.
I’ve also realised that this statement is typical of politians. It is positive without really meaning anything.
When are we going to meet?
[9/24, 11:09] Mashakada: Ok ndiani wangu uyu
[9/24, 12:44] Musavengana Nyasha: ????????????????
Makadii VaMashakada?
Ndinonzi Musavengana Nyasha. I am a member of the Midlands, Waterfalls committee.
The committee was formed for the purpose of keeping ourselves informed on issues to do with service delivery amongst other matters to do with our community.
We are requesting a meeting with you so that tinoonesana nezve nyaya dzakadai.
At this time of Covid, there will just be a maximum of 5 representatives of the committee and all precautionary protocols like social distancing and the wearing of masks will be observed.
[9/24, 12:44] Musavengana Nyasha: ??
[9/24, 12:48] Mashakada: Ok but I don’t why all the chats are deleted yes I remember
[9/24, 12:48] Mashakada: Don’t know why.
[9/24, 12:48] Mashakada: I will advise u date
[9/24, 12:55] Musavengana Nyasha: It helps to have a time frame to work with. We are your constituents and you need to prioritise meeting with us without leaving it to chance.
[9/24, 12:56] Musavengana Nyasha: You can’t be too busy to make that happen. Otherwise who are you representing?
[9/24, 13:09] Mashakada: If you wanna push me into a corner and not allow me to tell you how I intend to proceed and engage you, we may then as well forget about it and you exercise your democratic right come 2023. I cannot dance to your tune coz you must know the Hatfield stakeholders are many and I have to plan my diary
[9/24, 13:33] Musavengana Nyasha: I am simply expressing my opinion and suggesting that we come up with something more concrete than the last time where you seemed to have forgotten about my request of your meeting. How does that put you in a corner?
Of course you have to plan your diary. And so do we!
Your attitude is very poor and disappointing.
[9/24, 13:35] Musavengana Nyasha: Just saying “you will advise me of date” is the same as “we will see from next week”. It is too open-ended and quite frankly means nothing.
[9/24, 13:39] Musavengana Nyasha: We, the members of the Midlands, Waterfalls Committee, don’t need to be lectured to about our “democratic rights”. We know them.
It should be yours and our privilege to meet and discuss matters concerning our constituency.
Don’t create reasons for us not to meet or for you to avoid your responsibilities. Where is the “Honourable” part of your being an MP?
[9/24, 14:33] Mashakada: This is what I found disrespectful
[9/24, 14:35] Mashakada: You are not the best person to represent that area coz your language is terrible and you do not have public relations. You are talking to an adult not a kid whom you can tell to jump.
[9/24, 15:17] Musavengana Nyasha: My brother, you are a seasoned politician, who has been insulted by people of other parties and l am sure, even some of your own. I did not insult you. I never told you to jump.Criticise my lack of PR if you lime, but don’t lose sight of what matters…which is…the way forward.
After all is said and done, what matters is the constituency and what needs to be done.
[9/24, 15:19] Musavengana Nyasha: If l am not mistaken, you haven’t met people from this area since…when?
So, when overtures are made for us to meet, should we prioritise the pride or lack of PR between 2 people instead of the needs of the community?
[9/24, 15:20] Musavengana Nyasha: Kana tatadza kutaurirana zvakanaka yova hondo here kana kuti pogadziriswa and we move forward?
[9/24, 15:22] Musavengana Nyasha: You didn’t give a good impression by not knowing our area (part of your constituency; not getting back to us on when we would meet after saying “next week” … So, 1st impressions both sides have been bad.
But, surely, we can move past that?
[9/24, 15:29] Mashakada: Yes we can move past this if you may remain less judgemental
[9/24, 15:32] Musavengana Nyasha: Great! So, when can we have the meeting??
[9/24, 15:38] Mashakada: I said next week
[9/24, 15:38] Mashakada: Coz iam out of town
[9/24, 15:38] Mashakada: Please itemize the issues here
[9/24, 15:44] Musavengana Nyasha: To be fair, this is what you said today after saying that “we will see from next week” the previous week….
But let’s move on..
Since we have never met, l would say that the issues should basically be about your vision and plans for our area just as we share ours with you. And then we craft a way forward pertaining to how we work together and also establish better and constant communication lines.
[9/24, 15:45] Musavengana Nyasha: As l said last time, we do need enough notice for the meeting so that members can clear their schedules or suggest alternate dates.
[9/24, 15:46] Mashakada: I want you to state your problems straight to the point. We start from there. We are all living in Zimbabwe I don’t promise heaven on earth.
[9/24, 15:46] Mashakada: Iam not a campaign trail do zve vision does not apply
[9/24, 15:50] Musavengana Nyasha: I never asked you to promise heaven on earth. And by “vision” l am not talking about the formal “vision and mission” kind of statements. I am talking about basic things. Surely you know what ails your constituency and how you plan to solve or help solve those problems?
We just share how we see these things and see how we can work together.
[9/24, 15:52] Musavengana Nyasha: You are right, you are not on a campaign trail. And we would hate it if you spoke to us as if you were.
Tinoda kuonesana mamiriro ezvinhu toona kuti tingashanda tese sei.
[9/24, 15:52] Mashakada: Should I report the whole constituency vision to you? Let us narrow it to Midlands
[9/24, 15:54] Musavengana Nyasha: ?That is entirely up to you. My first concern is Midlands, then we move on to Waterfalls, in that order.
[10/2, 14:46] Musavengana Nyasha: Makadii Va Mashakada? Next week yamakareva yavakutopera.
[10/2, 16:33] Mashakada: Had a program in byo
[10/2, 18:09] Musavengana Nyasha: Yes. You told me you were out of town and that we would meet this week. Saka zvakamira sei?
[10/3, 07:33] Musavengana Nyasha: ???????
[10/3, 07:34] Mashakada: Ndozvandirikuti iam in Bulawayo. Back Monday
[10/3, 07:35] Musavengana Nyasha: The question still stands. When do you propose we meet?
[10/3, 07:53] Musavengana Nyasha: Are you suggesting that we meet on Monday?
[10/3, 09:22] Mashakada: Wait for me. You will hear from me.
[10/3, 09:29] Musavengana Nyasha: Mr Mashakada. That is not how we should communicate. I have been “waiting” for you since we started this conversation. We all have things to do. This is not about one person deciding paanodira kuona vamwe. I would expect you to actually make time to meet us the people of your constituency. You have been saying next week, next week every week now.
Meetings are organized between 2 parties. One suggests an actual date and the other party confirms it or suggests an alternative. You do not seem to see the need for this meeting.
Hamusikuikoshesa kana kuti koshesa.
[10/3, 10:18] Mashakada: Shamwari. Wait for me to come back to you at my own convenience because iam showing you kuti I have not been in Harare so don’t push me to keep giving you dates when IAM not available. Leave it up to me now. I will give you date and time for our meeting. Ok.
[10/3, 10:21] Musavengana Nyasha: No. It is not OK.
[10/3, 10:28] Musavengana Nyasha: You put yourself up to represent us. And we elected you. To represent us. Not to be there at your convenience.
Musazoti mavara azara vhu Va Mashakada.
We have tried patiently to make you aware of your responsibilites and to meet with you but to no avail.
You have already indicated that, as far as you are concerned, it is the next elections that matter where you said we should then exercise our rights as voters.
What gives you the impression that we want to wait that long for someone who is too busy and important to meet us so that he can truly represent us and not himself?
I Have A Heart Problem Don’t Harass Me: Manicaland Minister
By Jane Mlambo| Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs, Ellen Gwaradzimba yesterday pleaded with Lands and Agriculture Committee chairperson Justice Mayor Wadyajena to stop harassing her as she had a heart problem while threatening to escalate the issue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
This followed a heated exchange during her appearance before the parliamentary Committee to answer to allegations of allocating her son a productive macadamia farm in Chipinge.
Gwaradzimba said she got the nod from the late lands minister Perrence Shiri to write an offer letter to her son, despite the absence of documentation proving her case.
“Why are you being hard on me? Everything was done procedurally. I am not the one who issued the offer letter for the land. (The late agriculture minister) Perrance Shiri gave the offer letter. After all, the issue has been overtaken by events,” she said.
“I fought to liberate you from the liberation war but now you summon me over land issues. We liberated you to be parliamentarians and get the land but you are now ill-treating us.
“Who is sending you to harass me? I have a heart problem and am a blood pressure patient. Do not continue harassing me,” said Gwaradzimba amid laughter from the committee members.
Minister Fraudulently Acquired Huge Farm For Her Son Born At The Liberation War Front | UPDATED
Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs and Devolution Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba facilitated the take over of a highly productive farm in Manicaland by her son who she conceived during the liberation war without following proper procedures.
Mr Rememberance Mbudzana, the son of the Minister grabbed the farm from a white commercial farmer after his mother fraudulently sort a letter of allocation from former Agriculture Minister, the late Perence Shiri without the District lands committee meeting.
Minister Gwaradzimba said while the Provincial Lands Committee did not meet to deliberate, she was empowered to write on its behalf as its chairperson before she eventually regularised that decision later.
“Yes, Rememberance is my first born son whom I had during the revolution with my late husband.
“Sometimes in January 2019 he was offered that land after he had applied in 2008,” said Minister Gwaradzimba.
She said Mr Mbudzana was given the land after Chief Mapungwana, who had initially been allocated the property, failed to take occupation.
When asked to provide evidence that Mr Mbudzana had applied for land in 2008, Minister Gwaradzimba said she had left documents in her office in Mutare.
Mr Mukoyi said he saw Mr Mbudzana’s application for land made in 2014 but said he could not remember whether it was a fresh application or if it was a renewal.
This riled the committee which queried why both Minister Gwaradzimba and Mr Mukoyi did not bring documentary papers as directed in a letter inviting them to give evidence before the Parliamentary Committee.
Cde Wadyajena also read a letter from Chief Mapungwana who disputed allegations that he did not take occupation of the said farm, saying despite his demand to be shown the farm as per procedure, officials from the Ministry of Lands continued procrastinating, only to hear that Mr Mbudzana had been given the land.
Nigerian Musician In London To Campaign For Sanctions
By A Correspondent- Popular Nigerian musician, Burna Boy has revealed that he is in London where he is campaigning that sanctions be imposed against Nigerian government officials.
This comes amid a crippling end SARS protest in Nigeria that started on 8 October after a video of a member of a Nigerian police special force branded Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) shooting a civilian went viral on social media.
Protests broke out in Nigeria and they have worsened in the last few days which prompted the West Africa nation to impose a 24-hour long curfew on Lagos. Reports of police officers’ open firing on protestors have also circulated.
Amid all this, the country’s popular and vocal talent has said he is in London and he is advocating for sanctions to be imposed on Nigerian government officials.
I am in London and Im doing my best to make sure sanctions are imposed against Nigerian Government Officials. I need all citizens of all European countries ,America , Asia EVERYWHERE to please Do the Same. THEY MUST ALL PAY!!
Burna Boy became popular with Zimbabweans after he showed solidarity with Zimbabweans during the Zimbabwean lives matter movement that was protesting human rights abuses in Zimbabwe. So popular was Burna Boy’s tweet in Zimbabwe that some Twimbos refused to vote for Jah Prayzah in the AEAUSA and vowed to vote for Burna Boy.
Cabinet Gives Back To White Farmer Coffee Estate Fraudulently Taken Away From Him By Minister Of State
Paul Nyathi
The now-cancelled allocation of a portion of Farfield Coffees Estate in Chipinge to Mr Rememberance Mbudzana, the son of Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs and Devolution Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba, was made on the basis of a letter by the minister, the chairperson of Parliament’s portfolio committee on Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement, Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator, Justice Mayor Wadyajena (Zanu PF), said yesterday.
The portfolio committee, after hearing evidence, said the then Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement Perrance Shiri, who issued the offer letter for the farm, had been wrongly informed that there was a resolution from the Provincial Lands Committee.
The committee was concerned over a letter that Minister Gwaradzimba wrote to Minister Shiri and said this was irregular given that the Provincial Lands Committee had not yet met to deliberate on the allocation of the farm to Mr Mbudzana.
Wadyajena said Minister Shiri issued the offer letter based on misrepresentation by Minister Gwaradzimba when she wrote a letter purporting that the decision to give Mr Mbudzana the farm was a lands committee recommendation when she had unilaterally made such a decision as the lands committee chairman, as she admitted in her evidence to the Portfolio Committee, saying she intended to regularise the position later.
Acting Provincial Lands Officer Mr Clifford Mukoyi had told the committee in yesterday’s meeting that they did not meet as a Provincial Lands Committee to deliberate on the issue.
He admitted amid grilling from legislators that Minister Gwaradzimba could have been in conflict of interest when she presided over the allocation of a piece of land to her son without the involvement of the Provincial Lands Committee.
Cabinet has since resolved the ownership dispute after it ruled that the initial owner, Mr Richard Le Vieux, stays put at the farm and continues commercial production while alternative land is sought for Mr Mbudzana.
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Harare Town Planner Nabbed
By A Correspondent- Police in Harare yesterday arrested Harare City Council town planner Priscilla Charumbira for criminal abuse of office.
In a statement, police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said Charumbira contravened section 174 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23 when she unprocedurally approved a sub-division of land which had been set aside for other purposes without authority from Local Government, Public Works and Urban Development minister July Moyo.
“The matter came to light following a tip-off which was received by police and prompted investigations into the matter. The suspect will appear in court soon,” he said.
“The Zimbabwe Republic Police will leave no stone unturned in the quest to account for all people involved in illegal land allocation and other criminal activities.”
Charumbira, who is wife of president of the Chiefs’ Council Fortune Charumbira, is alleged to have irregularly changed land use plan for open spaces in Sunningdale and along Samora Machel Avenue and allocated the land to “friends” at the expense of the deserving public.
The land in Sunningdale was parcelled to Metro Peech wholesale while service stations were set up on residential land along Samora Machel Avenue without change of land use authority sometime in 2016.
The Sunningdale land was reserved for recreational facilities, but was unprocedurally turned into a commercial zone.
Charumbira was also accused of unprocedurally allocating an open space opposite Harare Quarry to one Chisvo.-Newsday
Mhangura Couple Kills Toddler For Soiling Self
By A Correspondent- Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has confirmed that they arrested a Mhangura Couple for murdering their toddler and burying her body along the Hunyani River bank.
ZRP National Spokesperson spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the development and said they arrested 32-year-old Norest Masvova and his twenty-four-year-old wife Elizabeth Dinhidza for killing their toddler and concealing their crime:
Investigations have been instituted on a couple who went for gold panning along the Hunyani River with their two-year-old daughter on August 30.
They were arrested on October 13 after a domestic dispute where the woman revealed the murder of the child due to a beating.
According to the publication, the Mhangura couple went panning with their toddler and she soiled herself and her father Masvova assaulted her which led to her death:
Norest Masvova (32) and his wife Elizabeth Dinhidza (24) were allegedly panning for gold along Hunyani River together with their two-year-old daughter when the incident happened.
The toddler reportedly soiled herself and Masvova assaulted her all over the body leading to her death. The couple allegedly went on to secretly bury the child on the river bank.
The girl’s remains have since been exhumed after the matter came to light during a domestic dispute.
Meanwhile, the country is still coming to terms with the ritual murder of Tapiwa Makore who was murdered by his namesake Tapiwa Makore and a local herdman Tafadzwa Shamba.
In another incident, a stepfather from Zvimba murdered his child after he came home drunk and accused them of asking for food from the neighbors.-statemedia
Updated: Former Cabinet Minister Collapses And Dies
Former Cabinet minister and diplomat, Ambassador Florence Chitauro died on Monday at the age of 75 after a stroke.
Family spokesperson Mr Thomas Chitauro said the former minister collapsed and died at her Borrowdale Brooke home.
“She had a severe stroke,” he said. “She died at her Borrowdale Brooke home while waiting for a mechanic to come and repair her vehicle. We are waiting for her brother to come and decide on the burial arrangements.”
Before her death, Ambassador Chitauro spent most of her time at her farm at Pickstone in Chegutu and would occasionally visit her Harare home.
She was married to the late former Defence Secretary and first Vice-Chancellor of Bindura University of Science Education, Dr James Chitauro, who died in April 2014 after a short illness.
In her Government career, Ambassador Chitauro was appointed non-Constituency Member of Parliament and Deputy Minister for Labour, Planning and Social Welfare in August 1990. In 1995, she entered Cabinet as Minister of National Affairs, Employment Creation and Cooperation and the following year moved back to the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, as the minister.
In 1998, she was part of the taskforce on War Victims Compensation Fund, which took care of war veterans. In 2003, Ambassador Chitauro was appointed Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to Australia, where she was involved in a row with the then Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, after calling him a dictator over the way he chaired a group that suspended Zimbabwe from the Commonwealth.
She retired on November 28, 2006.
Ambassador Chitauro is survived by four children. Mourners are gathered at 34 Sunriver Manors, Borrowdale Brooke in Harare.
Tapiwa Mashakada Says The MDC-T Will Fully Participate In The Anti Sanctions Events With ZANU PF
Paul Nyathi
The Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T, says it will take part in the anti-sanctions commemorations on Sunday.
Speaking in the National Assembly during debate on the effectiveness of the re-engagement process, MDC-T secretary for finance and economic affairs, who is also Hatfield legislator, Dr Tapiwa Mashakada, said the opposition was opposed to sanctions on Zimbabwe.
“We, in the opposition, do not support sanctions. We want the sanctions removed like yesterday. So, we want to help you to remove these sanctions. We don’t support sanctions. We want them removed,” he said.
He said that the party’s acting president Dr Thokozani Khupe, as the chairperson of the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) International Re-engagement committee, has been on a thrust to re-engage the Western world.
“Dr Khupe has been doing a lot of work to try to assist in re-engagement and engagement so she must be supported to assist in that regard. However, those issues must also be addressed as I have highlighted so that we have no excuse for any other country continuing to maintain sanctions on Zimbabwe,” he said.
As opposition parties, Dr Mashakada said their role was not to just attack the Government but also advise.
Hopewell Chinono Suing The Magistrate Who Removed Beatrice Mtetwa From Representing Him.
Paul Nyathi
Hopewell Chin’ono says that he is suing the magistrate who removed lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa from representing him during his bail hearing.
Speaking to the SABC about his court case., Chin’ono said he is being prosecuted through the Anti Corruption Unit yet his charges were inciting public violence and in no way linked to corruption.
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Crazy ZANU PF Anti Sanctions Day Competition – Dance Like Mnangagwa And Win!
Paul Nyathi
THE ruling Zanu-PF has called on the nation to compete in a dance competition called Ngazviende Dance Challenge, where people replicate dance moves by the President Mnangagwa to win prizes to commemorate Anti-Sanctions Day.
“Replicate these sublime dance moves by The President His Excellency Dr ED Mnangagwa and stand a chance to win fabulous prizes as we commemorate the Anti-Sanctions Day.
“Record yourself dancing the Ngazviende and post on your social media page/handle and tag Zanu-PF Party,” read the message from the party’s information department.
This Saturday, Bulawayo will play host to an Anti-Sanctions Virtual Gala at the Rainbow Hotel. It will be broadcast live on ZBCtv with President Mnangagwa expected to address the nation during the show.
Kariba Mayor And Councillors Allegedly Listed As Beneficiaries Of The WFP Covid-19 Vulnerable People Cash Disbursements
State Media
In a suspected corruption racket, Kariba Mayor Councillor George Masendu, several councillors and local business people have been included on a list of vulnerable people expected to benefit from the World Food Programme (WFP) cash disbursement programme.
A businessman with operations in Nyamhunga suburb whose name was on the list was removed after some alert residents raised alarm.
The programme seeks to provide relief to vulnerable households through cash disbursements of US$12 per person per month for basic food purchases.
However, people of means were included on the list where at least 10 000 people are expected to benefit.
Contacted for comment, Mayor Masendu professed ignorance over the issue.
“If indeed my name is on the list, it has nothing to do with me as I have never met or interacted with any of the people who were compiling the list,” he said.
“I have two families so the name could have been forwarded by one of my wives. Otherwise I have not received anything,” he said.
Authorities are now scrutinising the list to weed out underserving people.
One of the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said some of the names might have found their way onto the list because the people that were compiling it were not aware of the status of the people.
“We do not expect councillors and businessmen to be on the list because their circumstances do not fit the criteria required. This makes a mockery of the whole process,” said the official.
Mnangagwa Korea Relations Kick Off With Covid-19 Donation From Korea
State Media
President Mnangagwa yesterday saluted India and the Republic of Korea for standing with Zimbabwe in the fight against Covid-19 after receiving medicines, personal protective equipment (PPEs), testing kits, face masks among other items aimed at curbing the spread of the pandemic.
India donated a consignment of goods worth over US$4 million which include 17 critical cold chain items of medicines worth US$350 000, 1 000 tonnes of rice, industrial machines at the Indo-Zim Technology Centre worth US$2,92 million and 10 ambulances which will be handed over next month.
The Republic of Korea (South Korea) donated Covid-19 testing kits worth about US$300 000 and 100 000 face masks.
President Mnangagwa expressed gratitude for the donations by the two countries, saying they would go a long way in mitigating the spread of the pandemic and also strengthening Zimbabwe’s relations with the two countries.
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga, Vice President Kembo Mohadi, several Cabinet ministers and senior Government officials, attended the handover ceremony
“I am here to express my deep appreciation and gratitude for the donations which you have extended to Zimbabwe. I am aware that this is not the first time to make donations to Zimbabwe relating to the fight against Covid-19. You have shown compassion by coming to our assistance in other areas such as education, agriculture, commerce and industry.
“We are happy as Zimbabweans that our relations continue to grow from strength to strength,” said President Mnangagwa.
He also commended the Republic of Korea for standing with Zimbabwe despite itself facing the Covid-19 challenge.
“Despite the fact that the Republic of Korea suffered the impact of Covid-19, your Government rose to the challenge and within a short period, you were able to bring down the transmissions of Covid-19.
“I am aware that there is a resurgence but I know that you have the capacity to deal with the resurgence in your country. Despite that challenge, you have been able to think of us Zimbabwe. We are a small economy, a developing economy.
“We do not have the capacities which many countries do have in terms of the health infrastructure to fight the pandemic. We feel lucky that our friends with resources have come forward and you have assisted us to mitigate the impact of the pandemic.
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“We the people of Zimbabwe, are deeply touched by the compassion which you have shown to us.”
Turning to India, President Mnangagwa said the Asian country stood with Zimbabwe even during the liberation struggle.
“There are several consignments that have come from India to assist us in our fight to reduce the impact of Covid-19 in Zimbabwe,” he said.
President Mnangagwa commended the Government of India for containing the spread of Covid-19.
“I am happy to hear that it is now flattening and the Government of India has proceeded to do research in order to bring out vaccines that will assist to fight the pandemic.
“I have no doubt that the spirit that India, in particular the Prime Minister of India, my brother (Narendra) Modi, has towards Zimbabwe, with the success of research on the vaccine, I have no doubt that Zimbabwe is in your mind also to assist with regards to fighting and mitigating the impact of Covid-19,” he said.
President Mnangagwa also hailed the donation of rice received from the Indian Government to mitigate food shortages in the country.
“You have gone further to recognise that for three consecutive years, we had a drought in the country and the consignment of 1 000 tonnes of rice is not the first time. This is happening for many times and this is coming at a critical time. Zimbabwe is going through a very hard period in terms of food security.”
He said the country had put in place measures to ensure food sufficiency by constructing a number of dams for irrigation purposes.
“We have instituted agricultural strategy programmes to make our country food sufficient by introducing measures which we think will make us survive during the period of drought.
“We have constructed many dams and produced more irrigation schemes in the country so that we have enough hectarage under irrigation to produce enough grain whether climate change brings about drought or not. We are confident that we will succeed in that regard,” he said.
India has also extended US$200 million to support power generation at Hwange Thermal Power Station.
“I was advised that the process is going on now and we have no doubt that with that support, we should have excess energy at the end of that exercise,” he said
Republic of Korea ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Do Bong Kae said his country would cement the bilateral relations existing between the two countries.
“The Government of the Republic of Korea is pleased to provide Zimbabwe with Covid-19 testing kits worth about US$300 000. Korea also donated 100 000 face masks. We need to collaborate towards the fight against the pandemic.
“Korea is also working towards reducing the transmission of HIV and Aids from mother to child in three African countries, Zimbabwe included,” he said.
He commended the Government of Zimbabwe for managing to reduce the spread of the pandemic compared to other countries.
“I would like to acknowledge that Zimbabwe has managed to keep the spread of Covid-19 relatively low compared to other neighbouring countries.
“I would like to commend the Covid-19 task force in Zimbabwe for working tirelessly towards the fight against the spread of the pandemic,” he said.
Indian Ambassador to Zimbabwe Masakui Rungsung said his country was committed to cooperating with Zimbabwe in the fight against the spread of the pandemic.
“I am happy that the fifth consignment of medicines has arrived from the Indian Government for donation to the Government and the people of Zimbabwe.”
He said India was now working towards development of vaccines as it intensified the fight against the pandemic.
On the support to industry, Ambassador Rungsung said India had also donated machines at the Indo-Zim Technology Centre.
The US$2,92 million worth of machines already in Zimbabwe were awaiting technical experts from India to commission them.
The machines would be instrumental in supporting the downstream small industries thereby creating jobs.
Woman Drops And Dies In Byo CBD, Watch City Health Rush With Covid-19 Fumigation Equipment While Ambulance Failed To Make It In Time.
A BULAWAYO woman who had been informed about the death of her uncle collapsed and died in the city centre just after doing her shopping.
According to witnesses the woman died outside the Legal Resources Centre Offices at Amalungelo House Building at corner Fort Street and 8th Avenue at about 2PM on Tuesday.
Police identified the deceased as Pamela Tshuma (56) of Njube suburb.
A neighbour, Miss Nokuthula Dube who was travelling with the late woman said the now deceased had in the morning received news of the death of her uncle in the rural areas and she suspected it might have affected her.
“She received the news about the death of her uncle in the morning while at the bank. We came to the supermarket for shopping and while in the queue she complained of shortness of breath. We requested that she be served ahead of others which was done before she left to wait for me outside, “she said.
A vendor who sells her wares outside the supermarket, Ms Beauty Dube, said when the deceased left the supermarket she joined her where she operates from.
“She came out of the supermarket and rested near where I was seated. We were talking and I did not sense anything.
When her neighbour came out of the supermarket, she stood up preparing to go. She then asked how much I was selling beetroot for but before she could take money from her purse, she fell down,” said Ms Dube.
She said they phoned an ambulance which responded late.
“We tried assisting by calling an ambulance but it took time to arrive and when it came they certified her dead and left the body. She collapsed around 2PM but our emergency services came very late as you can see the body has been here for hours now which is unfortunate,” she said.
Bulawayo City Council health department Covid-19 response team came to disinfect the body as per Covid-19 regulations which stipulates that all deaths must be treated as being linked to the virus.
By 4.15PM when this news team left the scene, the body was still to be removed with police officers recording statements while multitudes of people were milling around.
Acting Bulawayo Police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Nomalanga Msebele confirmed receiving the sudden death report.
“Police in Bulawayo are investigating a case of sudden death which occurred in the Central Business District. On 19 October the now deceased received a death message on her cellphone stating that her uncle had passed on,” she said.
Asst Insp Msebele said the body of the late Tshuma was taken to United Bulawayo Hospitals mortuary awaiting postmortem.
Suspected Islamist Militants Raid Prison And Set Free 1300 Prisons Including Captured Rebels In The DRC
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo – Armed men freed more than 1,300 prisoners from a jail in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in a coordinated attack on Tuesday, the town’s mayor said, blaming an Islamist militant group operating in the area.
Only 110 of 1,456 inmates, including a number of militia fighters, remained following the simultaneous early morning assaults on the Kangbayi central prison in Beni and the military camp defending it, said Modeste Bakwanamaha.
“The attackers, who came in large numbers, managed to break the door with electrical equipment,” Bakwanamaha told Reuters. “We believe it was the ADF who did this.”
The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed group active in eastern Congo since the 1990s, has killed more than 1,000 civilians since the start of 2019, according to U.N. figures, despite repeated military campaigns aimed at destroying it.
Islamic State said fighters from its Central African Province franchise carried out the attack, according to its AMAQ news agency. The group has claimed responsibility for several suspected ADF attacks in the past.
But U.N. experts have consistently found that claims ADF is linked to international jihadists are overblown or false, said Dan Fahey, a former U.N. investigator.
Escapes are common from Congo’s overcrowded and poorly secured prisons. A similar number of inmates escaped when the same jail was attacked in June 2017.
“This sounds more like an attack by Mai Mai (local rebels), who did the attack three years ago,” Fahey said.
Two inmates were shot dead during Tuesday’s raid, which started at around 4:30AM, police said on Twitter.
The bolt on the prison’s front door appeared to be cut, as well as the metal grate behind it, Reuters TV footage in the aftermath of the raid showed.
“We were sleeping in the morning, but around 4AM we heard a really loud exchange of fire,” said Lukiya Bafana Ruban, one of the few inmates who decided not to flee.
“May the state have mercy on us because we voluntarily stayed here in prison.”
Kangbayi prison holds members of local rebel groups as well as ADF fighters. Bakwanamaha said there were rumours ADF fighters in the prison were preparing a break-out in the days preceding the attack.
By midday around 20 prisoners had returned to the prison, he added.
A year ago the army launched a large-scale counter-insurgency campaign against the ADF. In response, the group abandoned its bases, split into smaller, more mobile groups, and retaliated against civilians.
– Reuters
Govt Concedes To Paying Civil Servants US$500 But The Worker Must Die To Get The Money…
Paul Nyathi
THE government has conceded to pay civil servants US$500 equivalence but only when the goverment employee dies as funeral assistance.
On strike teachers who are part of Civil servants have been demanding to be paid US$520 or its equivalent Zimbabwe dollar.
However, the government has flatly declined the request, resulting in them downing tools together with nurses and doctors.
On Tuesday, the ministry of information secretary, Nick Mangwana announced the government would start paying, as funeral cover, an equivalent of US$500 for every civil servant who passed away.
“Starting immediately, government will pay an equivalent US$500 in funeral assistance for any civil servant who passes away. This is regardless of any funeral policy the member may have. The money is paid to a surviving spouse, adult children, or agreed dependent,” he said.
Full Text: Obert Gutu Shock Ranting. Says MDC Was Paid US$10m For Sanctions On Zimbabwe. How Much Has He Been Paid By ZANU PF To Say This?
By Obert Gutu
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
ZANU PF Chief Whip Tries To Whip Opposition MPs To Speak Against Sanctions
State Media
Parliamentarians from across the political divide have been challenged to join the nation in calling for the removal of illegal sanctions imposed on the country.
This comes as the country will on Sunday commemorate the second anniversary of the Sadc Anti-Sanctions Day following its adoption at the regional body’s Heads of State and Government Summit held in Tanzania last year.
Moving a point of privilege in the National Assembly yesterday, Zanu PF chief whip Pupurai Togarepi also proposed that the legislators craft a joint statement calling for the unconditional removal of the embargo.
“On the 25th of October the country will be united in calling for the removal of the illegal sanctions. Therefore, I call on the MPs to join fellow Zimbabweans in the call for their removal.
“SADC and other progressive nations have stood with Zimbabwe and have called for the removal of sanctions. As representatives of the people, we stand with them in calling for the removal of sanctions,” Togarepi said.
He added: “Even as MPs we can come up with a joint statement for the removal of sanctions for the development of this country.
The US and the EU imposed sanctions on the country 20 years ago in retaliation to Government’s adoption of the land reform exercise meant to correct historical colonial imbalances.
Although the EU has rolled back most of its sanctions the US’s punitive measures set out in the misnamed Zimbabwe Economic Recovery and Democracy Act remain in existence and have prevented the country from accessing international lines of credit. It increased the country’s risk profile.
Commemorations to mark this year’s anti-sanctions day will be hosted virtually, including President Mnangagwa’s address to the nation.
Murehwa Boy’s Remains Still Can’t Be Buried
State Media
The burial of the seven-year-old boy, Tapiwa Makore, killed and dismembered in a suspected ritual murder in Murehwa, will be delayed as police need the results of DNA tests on the torso, recovered first, and the limbs, found in a toilet later, to prove all the body parts belong to the boy.
Police are still hunting for the boy’s head, suspected to have been taken for ritual purposes.
The boy was murdered on the night of September 24 this year after being kidnapped earlier from the family garden.
The boy’s uncle, Tapiwa Makore (senior) and the uncle’s domestic worker, Tafadzwa Shamba, have since been arrested for the kidnapping and killing and have been remanded in custody for trial.
Results of the first samples of the torso sent for DNA tests last month were expected last week, but police later recovered the boy’s legs from a toilet and samples from the recovered legs were last week taken for testing.
The test results are expected in about two to three weeks’ time.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the burial might have to be delayed because results cannot be released piecemeal.
“Forensic tests are ongoing,” he said. “We have sent more samples to the laboratory and the family has to wait a bit until the results are out. The boy’s family has been appraised of the developments and they have to be patient until the tests are done.
“A comprehensive report, including all the samples, will be released once they are done with all the tests.”
Asst Comm Nyathi appealed for information on the whereabouts of the missing head.
“Up to now, we have not yet found the boy’s head and we appeal for information from those in the know so that we can recover it,” he said. “Definitely, someone out there knows where the head is. We appeal for cooperation so that we recover it and complete our investigations.”
Are You Going To Mnangagwa’s Anti Sanctions Gig?
Bindura At It Again As Deputy Mayor Beats Up The Mayor
State Media
Bindura Mayor Councillor Carlos Tokyo was slapped in public by his deputy, Nobert Dokotera, on Monday afternoon for allegedly telling a team investigating land management by Bindura Municipality that Clr Dokotera had grabbed some stands, a court heard yesterday.
Cllr Tokyo (40), of Ward 5, and Dokotera (39), of Ward 10, are both MDC-Alliance councillors.
Dokotera appeared yesterday before Bindura magistrate Ms Samantha Dhlamini facing assault charges and was remanded to October 27 on $800 bail.
On Monday, Clr Tokyo arrived at Chipadze shopping centre at around 1pm and started greeting fellow party members. Dokotera jumped out of a vehicle parked nearby and allegedly slapped Cllr Tokyo on the face, head and shoulders, accusing the Mayor of telling the investigating team that he grabbed some residential stands.
The court heard that Dokotera was restrained by Jacob Gweture and Jonah Kapasi.
That investigating team, led by Mr Morgan Hungwe, started their work on October 11 and is expected to conclude today. They are looking into land management in Bindura by council managers and councillors from 2016 to this year.
This is not the first time for Bindura Municipal officials to engage in a fistfight.
In January, 2018 former Bindura mayor Mr Innocent Zvigumbu and the council’s finance director Mr Lovemore Warurama fought after failing to agree on the contents of a 2016 special audit report conducted by the then Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing.
Zvigumbu was accused of bringing to the table a fictitious report which had nothing to do with the ministry’s audit.
After their fight, the two made separate reports to police, accusing each other of assault.
Chamber secretary Naison Machingauta and Warurama appeared in court on allegations of assaulting Zvigumbu but they were acquitted after a full trial.
LEAKED – Team Ferret Memo On 21 People Targeted For Surveillance
Below is a commentary over the state security memo released in August in which 21 Zimbabweans are named to targets by the state apparatus….
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3 500 Full-Time CIOs Deployed Around Zimbabwe
By Keith SilikaI | HAVE previously gone on several drinking sprees with the former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), Menard Muzariri.
I was introduced to him by a mutual friend. When he knew that I was with the Police Protection Unit (PPU) and also from Mt Darwin, we hit it off! We partied in the usual night spots in Harare and Chitungwiza and he would occasionally summon me to go and look for women for him! One time we partied with some South African intelligence operatives whom he introduced to me. He never talked work and I would never dare ask him questions. At that time I was not aware of his role in the Gukurahundi democide. These experiences and other interactions with intelligence, forensics, and policing personnel whetted my curiosity in those fields.
The Zimbabwean state, since it came into being after independence from Britain in 1980, has been known for various democides which include political violence, crimes against humanity, state-sanctioned murder, violence and illegal mining atrocities.
The purpose of this opinion piece is to outline the contemporary state intelligence tactics, structure, resources and modus operandi in relation to murders and abductions in Zimbabwe. I will primarily focus on the CIO. The paper will also elucidate some of the actions and profiles of other perpetrators such as the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), War Veterans (WV) and Zanu PF Youth Wing (YW).
The present CIO, formerly the Special Branch, came into being in 1981 and was headed by Ken Flower until his retirement in 1984. The Special Branch was responsible to the Deputy Commissioner (Crime and Security prior to its incorporation into the President’s Office). The present CIO boss is Isaac Moyo and is deputised by Brigadier-General Walter Tapfumaneyi and former National University of Science and Technology Pro-Vice-Chancellor Gatsha Mazithulela. Between the two of them they supervise various key branches—such as internal, external, counter-intelligence, military intelligence, training, close protection unit, technical, training, administration and another simply known as Branch Six. In addition, there are desks on social media, trade unions, projects, terrorism, and propaganda.
There are currently around 3 500 full-time staff and around 2 000 part-time “assets” deployed mostly in Zimbabwe. There are also operatives in most African countries and in Europe. In terms of locations where they operate from, a decade ago SW Radio Africa published a credible list which is found here. In addition to these locations like most intelligence agencies around the world, the CIO has safe houses and farms dotted around the country. As readers might be aware, Zimbabwe was listed as one of the countries which the CIA used for renditions. This is the abduction and torture of suspects by the CIA carried out in other countries with permission.
Before discussing the shenanigans of the Zimbabwe intelligence service, let us discuss briefly how a professional service like this should function. Firstly, it should not be based in the Office of the President for obvious reasons such as bias, corruption, misuse and manipulation. Hallmarks of the present CIO. The purpose of a professional intelligence service is to gather intelligence, manage information, work on evidence and disclosure, and support other security services. In Zimbabwe, as this paper will demonstrate, the CIO literally serves at the pleasure of the President. However, I must admit not all intelligence services are 100% professional, the extent to which they are dubious is the problem in Zimbabwe.
Now readers might want to know what intelligence is. The CIA (1999), defines intelligence as knowledge and foreknowledge of an individual’s or entity’s surroundings used for present and future decision making and action. Intelligence can also be viewed as actions or processes used to produce knowledge. Global Intelligence Working Group (2003) defines law enforcement intelligence as the acquisition and analysis of information to produce intelligence which can be used for decision making.
There are plenty of examples within Zimbabwean contexts that can be used to illustrate some of these definitions. Take the Catholic Church’s former archbishop of Bulawayo province, Pius Ncube. The CIO had information that, despite his being a devout priest, he had a weakness for the ladies. They had this information for years and were waiting for the right opportunity to use that information (intelligence) to shut his anti-Mugabe stance down. And they used that, albeit successfully, I should say. Readers can think of dozens of other examples of such successful use of information, particularly against politically connected individuals. Remember former Vice-President Joice Mujuru previously mentioning that Mugabe has files on everyone. This is the kind of information that they have.
So how is intelligence of ordinary citizens collected by the CIO? This is done covertly, overtly, through social media, some of it comes through the ZRP, ZNA and paid informers. Covert intelligence is information gathered through undercover, technical surveillance, and pseudo operations. Zimbabwean CIO operatives like being known and most of them are not exactly discreet. There are various videos of human rights defenders (HRD) who have been followed by operatives and subsequently filmed them.
The Namatai Kwekweza video is one such example. The purpose of such aggressive form of surveillance is to intimidate and to distract the individual. What sort of intelligence or information does the CIO collect? Well, they note everything from shoe size, clothing, friends, family drinking habits, sporting activities, vehicles used, work, addresses and, in some extreme cases, they can collect DNA. This information is often fed into a software system, analysed, rated for use, or marinated. Marination is when any useful information is kept for future use.
Let me give you a practical example below on how that information looks like presently. Previously, intelligence was kept on index cards which took ages to search and input intelligence.
Let us cite the example of well-known journalist Hopewell Chin’ono. What does his profile look like on their system? Here is an example:
Pictures Addresses Associates Vehicle Crimes Intelligence and Operations
Schematic of CIO intelligence system.
Each of the above tabs will be interactive and when you click on them they will show you further contents associated with an individual. In addition, as you go from left to right, depending on operational level of clearance, one will not be able to see certain information. The intelligence section is the most populated as it will contain detailed descriptive intelligence on an individual. For high-profile individuals, there might be daily updates or intelligence. If there is a high level of intelligence from multiple sources, this will force the analyst to make actionable decisions. This can be either an arrest, abduction, warning or assault etc. So what do most intelligent notes look like? Here is an example:
On 05/10/2020 Chin’ono was seen in the company of Jacob Ngarivhume at Belgravia shops at approx. 3pm. Hopewell was wearing blue jeans, grey t shirt and black shoes. Jacob was wearing blue trousers, grey shirt, and white trainers. The long range listening device was not working hence could not hear conversation. Both individuals stayed at the shops for approximately 2 hours and left in their respective vehicles which are already on file
When this information has been sent, it then becomes rated according to the source of information, intelligence evaluation, information content, and risk assessment. Also, as demonstrated information is easily falsified, politicised, and accepted. If you look at the history of all opposition leaders from Joshua Nkomo to Nelson Chamisa, most of the intelligence gathered against them is false and grossly exaggerated. Recent statements by security Minister Owen Ncube about Operation Light House is one such example.
If the intelligence is correct and further investigation were done, why then not arrest the individuals in question or mount an operation? In Zimbabwean contexts, detailed surveillance of individuals is limited to high-profile individuals found in opposition and human rights groups. Surveillance of Nelson Chamisa, for example, will be in technological terms and the use of operatives. Technological devices can be planted on vehicles, associates and can be unwittingly downloaded via clips in chat groups/social media which have a worm. I had the privilege of working at the US embassy in Harare during my PPU days. They sweep their vehicles for devices every single day. The devices used to check are readily available and some can be found here.
In terms of overt surveillance, operatives will normally be a six-men team, the two advance party (AP), static team (ST), and direct observation (DO) team. The DO team are the ones observable and have been reported numerous occasions by individuals being followed in Zimbabwe. The ST are static and normally are on the peripheral edges of a target. The AP team are the ones who know the route normally taken by a target and can be used often to intercept. The Sanderson Makombe incident can give you a loose indication on how the teams worked in the incident that ended up in two people dying. For “minor” individuals, the surveillance team will be smaller; as you can see, it is very expensive due to the number of people and resources involved.
Another important source of intelligence in contemporary contexts is social media and the hacking of phones. The CIO has a dedicated cyber unit which carries out offensive and defensive operations on selected targets. They have additional access to the military intelligence (MI) unit based at Mt Hampden as reported by Professor Jonathan Moyo. There are myths associated with what they can reasonably do or perform. They cannot hack your WhatsApp as it has end-to-end encryption. However, messages can be read before they are encrypted or after they are decrypted. That means any spyware dropped on the phone by an attacker could read the messages. Edward Snowdon encourages people to use other apps such as Signal. In addition, all companies and individuals who have local server emails are easily hacked. I remember telling Paston Dzamara about his email which he later changed. To demonstrate this, we can look at the Baba Jukwa investigation which led the then assistant police commissioner Crispen Makedenge nowhere.
Even Facebook messages are safe unless, of course, you have unwittingly downloaded spyware on your phone from a WhatsApp group, in which case they can read and see everything. In addition, unless you are a targeted individual, they do not have the capacity and personnel to carry out analysis of millions of people like what China does, for example. In terms of internet, the Tor browser is useful if you want to circumvent the prying eyes of the CIO. I am aware that Prof Moyo is currently banging on about the Mt Hampden listening centre which is apparently being manned by Group Captain Peacemaker Credo Kereke. However, as demonstrated previously, the CIO has not been able to effectively utilise those tools as they currently rely on abduction and the physical examination of devices. Readers might be reminded that big companies such as Facebook and Apple will not even supply information to the FBI.
Lastly, let us move on to the abduction and torture of individuals by the CIO. What is the plan, what do they do, and where do they take them? Since 2000, there has been more than 5 000 abductions by the state and associated organs.
Each respective state apparatus has an associated signature. However, I am going to focus on the CIO. The purpose of abduction is normally to scare, disable, or elicit information that otherwise was not obtained during normal surveillance methods, as discussed previously. Before an abduction takes place, intelligence is synthesised and an operation order is issued by a senior intelligence officer.
This order will contain information such as purpose, personnel, location, target, resources, risk assessment, and tactics. In addition, there will be trigger plans—these are the processes to implement in case something goes wrong. If we cite the example of Itai Dzamara, these processes were in place when he was abducted on 9 March 2015. I spoke to the late Patson Dzamara at that time a few weeks after Itai’s abduction and suggested they apply for mobile phone triangulation of his phone, but I believe the idea was shot down by the police. Itai’s mobile phone would have indicated who was travelling with him and where he was taken if the phone was on.
This I also strongly suggested in the Tawanda Muchehiwa abduction as the perpetrators used his phone to lure other victims. The nearest mobile phone mast to that location has details of individuals who were close to him. This is dependent on their mobiles being on. The state is aware what exactly happened as they have obfuscated the information at every turn. My theory on Itai Dzamara is that something went wrong during the abduction and torture, resulting in the officers in question implementing the trigger plan.
Let us discuss abductions using Harare as a snapshot in order to unpack tactics and locations. The way the CIO abduct, torture and leave individuals either dead or alive has explanations within psychological and criminological contexts and I have identified certain concepts. Routine activities theory (RAT), presupposes that for an offence to occur, three elements need to be present. That is, a motivated offender (CIO), suitable victim (human rights defender), and the absence of a capable guardian (ZRP). The optimal foraging theory (OFT) can be used as a theoretical framework for applying abduction site prediction modeling to aid in locating the missing. This will be illustrated briefly in the next section.
Offender profiling is guarded by two significant assumptions, consistency and homology theory. The consistency assumption suggests that perpetrators often repeat offences in an analogous fashion. This can partly explain the methods of various state entities in the massacres and abductions that have taken place in Zimbabwe. The 5 Brigade, for instance, were very consistent in their methodologies in searching, detaining and killing of people in Matabeleland.
The homology theory proposes that the way an offence is committed is related to background characteristics of the perpetrator (The more training, resources, time the offender has the greater the opportunities and severity of torture). We can use the Jestina Mukoko abduction as an example within that context. This can be explained in other various signature kidnappings by either MI, the Ferret Team/s or War Veterans.
Let us discuss these aspects using the dozens of abductions that have taken place in Harare in the last few years. If we look at the abductions of Jestina Mukoko, Patson Dzamara, Joana Madamombe, Peter Mugombeyi, Samantha Kureya, to name but a few, a pattern emerges. The location of torture and subsequent release are within an hour of Harare and include: Beatrice farming area, Mt Hampden (near Cyber Centre), Mazowe, Bindura, Seke/Dema junctions, Snake Park, Nyabira, Nharira Hills and Lake Chivero. Anyone can actually map this (I have a map!). The operatives are operating within their comfort zone in an analogous fashion. They also have a stand down area nearby and are familiar with the area. Now that the cat is slightly out of the bag, they might change tact! In forensic contexts there might be still a wealth of information which is available in these locations.
Another aspect with regards abductions of civilians in Zimbabwe is the issue of injection of unknown substances by the CIO. Examples of people who have been subjected to such methods include Job Sikhala and Mugombeyi. The CIO inherited personnel and equipment used by the Special Branch and other Rhodesian forces. As reported by Cross in Rhodesia and Chemical Biological Warfare 1975-1980, Zimbabwe had a chemical warfare unit which poisoned thousands of guerrillas in the liberation war. Curiously, if you look at the press release in the appointment of deputy director of the CIO, Dr Mazithulela, it states that he is the chairman of the National Authority on Chemical Weapons Convention! Now why is Zimbabwe in the convention and what chemical weapons do we have? So what substances are being injected into detainees? We know the CIA, the rendition colleagues of the CIO, use Scopolamine aka “Truth Serum”. Other substances are sodium thiopental and phenobarbital. If any of the barbiturates were administered to Joana Mamombe, for example, it might explain her present physical and mental health. People metabolise and respond differently to certain drugs.
In concluding this piece, it is important for human rights defenders and other victim groups to implement community safety and abduction prevention/mitigation measures. These can be found in countering some of the activities elucidated above. Examples is the use of smart bracelets and registering on the Sentinel project for satellite tracking. These are all legal and can be found in technological, psychological and simple security measures. So those concerned should data capture low-hanging fruits such as vehicles used, names published, and locations. There are also opportunities on the technological fronts in the phone of cleaning devices and use of virtual private networks (VPNs) as alert tool, using social media and a bit of journalistic work as demonstrated by Chin’ono.
Peace.
About the writer: Silika, based in the United Kingdom, is a former policeman in Zimbabwe and has a PhD in Forensic Archaeology.
Tragedy As Woman Collapses In City Centre
A BULAWAYO woman who had been informed about the death of her uncle collapsed and died in the city centre just after doing her shopping.
According to witnesses the woman died outside the Legal Resources Centre Offices at Amalungelo House Building at corner Fort Street and 8th Avenue at about 2PM on Tuesday.
Police identified the deceased as Pamela Tshuma (56) of Njube suburb.
A neighbour, Miss Nokuthula Dube who was travelling with the late woman said the now deceased had in the morning received news of the death of her uncle in the rural areas and she suspected it might have affected her.
“She received the news about the death of her uncle in the morning while at the bank. We came to the supermarket for shopping and while in the queue she complained of shortness of breath. We requested that she be served ahead of others which was done before she left to wait for me outside, “she said.
A vendor who sells her wares outside the supermarket, Ms Beauty Dube, said when the deceased left the supermarket she joined her where she operates from.
“She came out of the supermarket and rested near where I was seated. We were talking and I did not sense anything.
When her neighbour came out of the supermarket, she stood up preparing to go. She then asked how much I was selling beetroot for but before she could take money from her purse, she fell down,” said Ms Dube.
She said they phoned an ambulance which responded late.
“We tried assisting by calling an ambulance but it took time to arrive and when it came they certified her dead and left the body. She collapsed around 2PM but our emergency services came very late as you can see the body has been here for hours now which is unfortunate,” she said.
Bulawayo City Council health department Covid-19 response team came to disinfect the body as per Covid-19 regulations which stipulates that all deaths must be treated as being linked to the virus.
By 4.15PM when this news team left the scene, the body was still to be removed with police officers recording statements while multitudes of people were milling around.
Acting Bulawayo Police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Nomalanga Msebele confirmed receiving the sudden death report.
“Police in Bulawayo are investigating a case of sudden death which occurred in the Central Business District. On 19 October the now deceased received a death message on her cellphone stating that her uncle had passed on,” she said.-Chronicle
Eight Test Positive For Coronavirus In English Premier League
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
ZRP Speaks On WhatsApp Rumour Of Machete Gang At Chinhoyi University
By Dorrothy Moyo | The Zimbabwe Republic Police, ZRP, has spoken dismissing a report of alleged machete gang attack on Chinhoyi University of Technology students as claimed by a whatsapp audio which is being narrated by a certain man who claims to be a parent of a student at CUT.
In a statement the police force said:
The correct position is that two suspects, one believed to be a former student and another man went to “W” hostel at the northern side of the premises and stole two laptops between 3am and 5am today.
The suspects gained entry through an unlocked door and a student who discovered the offence said one of them is a former student. No students were attacked, abused or had food taken as falsely claimed in the whatsapp audio.
Police are now investigating the theft case. Let us be responsible in our quest to break news through whatsapp.
Teenager Jailed For Gruesome Murder
A TEENAGE boy from Nyamandlovu who strangled his 13-year-old cousin to death and set the body alight using paraffin before burying it in a shallow grave has been sentenced to 18 years in jail.
Nqobile Moyo (18) of Stand 16 Village 2B Stanhope North in Nyamandlovu committed the crime in January this year.
It was alleged that he raped the now deceased at night in a bedroom hut they shared with other siblings in the absence of the elders before strangling her to death, but Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Christopher Dube-Banda who was on circuit in Hwange last week found him not guilty of the rape offence.
The judge said there was no evidence for rape as the post mortem showed that the deceased had not been penetrated.
The post-mortem stated that the juvenile girl died of neck constriction and strangulation.
On the murder charge, Justice Dube-Banda found Moyo guilty of murder with actual intent.
Nothing was suspended from the 18 years sentence.
Prosecuting, Ms Memory Munsaka said Moyo and the deceased Rumbidzai Mkwananzi were cousins and resided at the same homestead.
“On the 16th day of January 2020, the deceased and two other siblings aged eight years were left in the custody of the accused by the accused mother Mrs Margaret Moyo as she went to Bulawayo. On the 19th of January the accused, deceased and the two others retired to bed,” said the prosecutor.
She said the deceased and another little girl who used to share a bedroom hut with Mrs Moyo moved to the accused’s bedroom hut because they were scared to sleep alone.-Chronicle
Man Stabs Wife For Attending Birthday Party
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
Zim Cricket Coach Blocked From Flying To Pakistan
ZIMBABWE Cricket (ZC) says head coach Lalchand Rajput will miss the Pakistan tour owing to travel guidelines stipulated by the Government of India for its citizens.
In his absence bowling coach Douglas Hondo will take charge of the team that has since arrived in Pakistan.
“The Embassy of India in Harare wrote to Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) asking that Rajput, who is an Indian national, be exempt from visiting Pakistan for the limited-overs tour in accordance with the travel guidelines stipulated by the Government of India for its citizens.
“The Embassy of Pakistan in Harare had issued a visa to Rajput.
“With Rajput unavailable for the tour, ZC has appointed Zimbabwe bowling coach Douglas Hondo to take charge of the team for the three one-day international matches and as many Twenty20 international games against Pakistan,” read a statement from ZC.
Zimbabwe will face Pakistan in three one-day international (ODI) matches and as many Twenty20 international (T20I) games. The ODI matches, which will be part of the inaugural ICC Cricket World Cup Super League, are scheduled for October 30 and November 1-3.
The T20I series is pencilled for November 7, 8 and 10. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) yesterday announced an experienced squad ahead of the Zimbabwe series.
Pakistan head coach and chief selector, Misbah-ul-Haq, says they will not experiment in the One Day Internationals against visiting Zimbabwe as every match counts for ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 direct qualification.
“We have resisted the temptation of experimenting in the ODIs for three simple reasons. Firstly, we cannot afford to be complacent and have to respect each and every opponent irrespective of their strength or international ranking.
“Secondly, every ODI counts as it leads towards automatic qualification for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023, and thirdly, we have not played any ODI cricket in the past 12 months,” said Misbah-ul-Haq.- Herald
Coronavirus Death Toll Rises
Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) Coronavirus update –
20 October 2020:
New cases: 28
Locals: 20
Returnees: 8
from South AfricaDeaths: 1
Mat SouthRecoveries: 9
PCR Tests Done:
791
National Recovery Rate: 94%
Active Cases: 244
Total Cumulative Cases: 8187
Total Recoveries: 7692
Total Deaths: 233
Our Duty Is To Save Suffering Zimbabweans -Obey Sithole
Farai Dziva|MDC Alliance is determined to save the people of Zimbabwe from the jaws of poverty and economic quagmire created by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration, the party’s Youth Assembly leader Tererai Obey Sithole has said.
Speaking after a youth rally in Chiredzi West on Sunday, Sithole condemned the looting of State funds by Zanu PF bigwigs.
Said Sithole :
“We were in Chiredzi RDC, Ward 18 where we had a youth rally.
The ward is under the stewardship of firebrand Youth leader, Cllr Gilbert Mutubuki.
We have a duty to serve and save the people of Zimbabwe from the jaws of poverty created by ED and his illegitimate cabal.
We shall do this by building a Mobilized, Organized and Radical Grassroots Assembly Nationwide [MORGAN].
Many thanks to the people of Chiredzi for supporting the cause.”
MDC Alliance Launches MORGAN Programme. ..
Farai Dziva|MDC Alliance is determined to save the people of Zimbabwe from the jaws of poverty and economic quagmire created by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration, the party’s Youth Assembly leader Tererai Obey Sithole has said.
Speaking after a youth rally in Chiredzi West on Sunday, Sithole condemned the looting of State funds by Zanu PF bigwigs.
Said Sithole :
“We were in Chiredzi RDC, Ward 18 where we had a youth rally.
The ward is under the stewardship of firebrand Youth leader, Cllr Gilbert Mutubuki.
We have a duty to serve and save the people of Zimbabwe from the jaws of poverty created by ED and his illegitimate cabal.
We shall do this by building a Mobilized, Organized and Radical Grassroots Assembly Nationwide [MORGAN].
Many thanks to the people of Chiredzi for supporting the cause.”
Mwonzora “Sees Red” In Masvingo
Farai Dziva|Mr Douglas Mwonzora is using Vincent Tsvangirai’s popularity in a desperate attempt to push for the MDC T presidency, it has emerged.
Mr Mwonzora was in Masvingo at the weekend and he addressed paltry gatherings in Masvingo Urban and Chivi Central Constituencies respectively.
Despite being accompanied by Vincent Tsvangirai (son of the legendary MDC founding President and former Prime Minister, Right Honourable Morgan Richard Tsvangirai) – Mr Mwonzora failed to attract the attention of members of the 2014 MDC T structures as he had anticipated.
Sources in the MDC T have disclosed Mr Mwonzora is also trying to buy loyalty from members of the MDC T 2014 structures.
“Mr Mwonzora is using Vincent Tsvangirai’s popularity to push for the presidency.Actually he is fighting for his own cause that has nothing to do with Thokozani Khupe’s ambitions.
Mwonzora must stop abusing our icon Morgan Tsvangirai’s legacy,” the source told ZimEye.com.
“Cunning” Mwonzora’s Tricks Exposed
Farai Dziva|Mr Douglas Mwonzora is using Vincent Tsvangirai’s popularity in a desperate attempt to push for the MDC T presidency, it has emerged.
Mr Mwonzora was in Masvingo at the weekend and he addressed paltry gatherings in Masvingo Urban and Chivi Central Constituencies respectively.
Despite being accompanied by Vincent Tsvangirai (son of the legendary MDC founding President and former Prime Minister, Right Honourable Morgan Richard Tsvangirai) – Mr Mwonzora failed to attract the attention of members of the 2014 MDC T structures as he had anticipated.
Sources in the MDC T have disclosed Mr Mwonzora is also trying to buy loyalty from members of the MDC T 2014 structures.
“Mr Mwonzora is using Vincent Tsvangirai’s popularity to push for the presidency.Actually he is fighting for his own cause that has nothing to do with Thokozani Khupe’s ambitions.
Mwonzora must stop abusing our icon Morgan Tsvangirai’s legacy,” the source told ZimEye.com.
Zim Does Not Belong To Zanu PF
Farai Dziva|Fearless human rights activist Namatai Kwekweza has dismissed the discourse indicating that Zanu PF is a party of patriots.
On the contrary Zanu PF bigwigs are haters of ordinary citizens, argued Kwekweza.
“Don’t get confused MaZimbo any party that gets into power and doesn’t work to ensure that ALL Zimbos are safe, secure and well governed is not a party of patriots.
Any party that abducts people and lies about it, is not a party of patriots. #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
Zanu Pf is just a political party. It is not the state. ZANU pf is not Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe is not ZANU PF. ZANU pf can not monopolize the definition of patriotism. Even in ZANU pf there are no patriots. That’s why our country has fallen. #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
ZANU PF is not the whole of Zimbabwe
Just because we are not ZANU PF members, doesn’t mean we hate Zimbabwe. Just because you are a ZANU PF member it doesn’t mean you love Zimbabwe. #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
ZANU PF people are some of the biggest haters of Zim and it’s people. Think abductions, looting, political violence, authoritarianism. 40years after independence Zimbabwe still looks like a growth point by world standards because of ZANU PF looting. These people don’t love Zim,” Kwekweza wrote on Twitter.
Zimbabwe Is Not Zanu PF
Farai Dziva|Fearless human rights activist Namatai Kwekweza has dismissed the discourse indicating that Zanu PF is a party of patriots.
On the contrary Zanu PF bigwigs are haters of ordinary citizens, argued Kwekweza.
“Don’t get confused MaZimbo any party that gets into power and doesn’t work to ensure that ALL Zimbos are safe, secure and well governed is not a party of patriots.
Any party that abducts people and lies about it, is not a party of patriots. #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
Zanu Pf is just a political party. It is not the state. ZANU pf is not Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe is not ZANU PF. ZANU pf can not monopolize the definition of patriotism. Even in ZANU pf there are no patriots. That’s why our country has fallen. #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
ZANU PF is not the whole of Zimbabwe
Just because we are not ZANU PF members, doesn’t mean we hate Zimbabwe. Just because you are a ZANU PF member it doesn’t mean you love Zimbabwe. #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
ZANU PF people are some of the biggest haters of Zim and it’s people. Think abductions, looting, political violence, authoritarianism. 40years after independence Zimbabwe still looks like a growth point by world standards because of ZANU PF looting. These people don’t love Zim,” Kwekweza wrote on Twitter.
Dambudzo Mnangagwa “Accuses” Councillor Kurauone Of Plotting To Remove ‘My Father From Power’
Own Correspondent|Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s son is one of the key witnesses in the trial of Councillor Godfrey Kurauone, it has emerged.
According to State papers seen by ZimEye.com, Dambudzo Mnangagwa is among the witnesses in the trial of Councillor Kurauone.
Councillor Kurauone is accused of plotting to remove Mr Mnangagwa from power.
Read part of the State outline below :
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Schoolgirl Tests Positive For Coronavirus
A FORM Four pupil at a Bulawayo school tested positive for Covid-19 resulting in her contacts who include her classmates, being forced to self-isolate at home.
The pupil is part of the exam classes pupils that resumed lessons on September 28 to prepare for Zimbabwe School Examination Council (Zimsec) examinations which are set to start on December 1.
The girl’s Covid-19 positive results were confirmed last Tuesday and school authorities immediately followed laid down measures meant to curb the spread of the pandemic.
The measures are part of the Primary and Secondary Education Ministry’s Standard Operation Procedures (SOP) guiding schools for safe reopening under the Covid-19 environment.
Officials at the school confirmed the case, highlighting that it could have emanated from the community.
The authorities said all health guidelines were followed and the pupil is recovering from home.
“We are pleased to note that the pupil is at home and doing fine. She was tested at one of the public hospitals in Bulawayo and was advised to isolate.
Staff members and other learners who were in contact with the learner were tested and so far, we have not encountered any further Covid-19 related challenges at the school. The school continues to observe Covid-19 prevention guidelines as outlined by the Ministry of Health and Child Care,” said the official.
Bulawayo acting provincial medical director Dr Welcome Mlilo said health officials were working with the school to ensure the situation is properly managed.-Chronicle
Man Brutally Kills Grandfather
A TSHOLOTSHO man who fatally head-butted his grandfather, who was also a village head, before stealing some groceries from him has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for culpable homicide.
Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Christopher Dube-Banda who was on circuit in Hwange last week found Thembinkosi Sibanda (33) not guilty of murder but guilty of a lesser charge of culpable homicide.
In his defence, Sibanda, who was represented by Ms Charity Manyeza of Ndove and Associates, said he had no intention to kill his grandfather, Fundani Ncube, who was 59.
Sibanda said he met and fought a stranger in darkness and only later realised that it was his grandfather.
He said he then took his groceries home for safekeeping because the deceased was drunk.
The two resided at separate homesteads in Sifungo Line, Mahlathini area in Tsholotsho and were both drunk on the fateful day after spending the day drinking beer together with other patrons at Bubude Business Centre.
Sibanda will serve an effective eight years after the judge suspended two years on condition of good behaviour.
Prosecuting, Mrs Martha Cheda said Sibanda followed his grandfather and attacked him.
“On the 26th of June 2019 the deceased was at Bubude Business Centre where he bought some groceries and thereafter went to a nearby bar to drink beer with the accused and two others. The deceased left the business centre at 10pm going home and was carrying his groceries.
“The accused followed the deceased and head butted him twice on the head below the left ear. The deceased fell to the ground and bled from nose and mouth. The accused took the deceased’s groceries and left the scene,” said Mrs Cheda.
Some villagers found the deceased’s lifeless body the following morning and at the crime scene was an okapi knife which Sibanda had dropped during the attack.
The villagers rushed the lifeless body to Bubude Clinic where Ncube was confirmed dead.
Villagers tracked foot prints from the crime scene to Sibanda’s homestead where the deceased’s groceries were recovered.
Sibanda was arrested and clothes he had been wearing the previous night were found with blood stains.-Chronicle
“Zanu Pf Is A Minority That Survives, Rules By Force”
By Fanuel Chinowaita- The denial of freedom of the masses by Zanu pf led government has gone too far. What the Zanu pf led government is forgetting is that its party is a minority which survives and rule through force . But no one has monopoly over that forever.
The scientific concept of dictatorship, relying on the force supplied by the army, police and secret services is uncalled for.
It is on record that Mnangagwa had been and is still an overzealous agent of the purges since Mugabe error. He presided over the purges of the Ndebele people in the 1980s , killing about 20 000 people. All this was done to remain on power.
Zanu pf led government wants to be the only master of minds, thoughts, the mouthpiece, leader and organiser of the people yet it is the source of the confusion and misfortunes in the country.
Now we cry of too much suffering, unemployment, hunger and starvation, poor healthy and education facilities, but we have so many resources which are abused by very few misguided individuals, who claim to be more human than others.
By now Zimbabwe should be one of the most better country, with almost everyone enjoying, but people like Emerson Mnangagwa and his cabinet of thieves and fools preserve the status quo through uniformed and secret services engages in far more multitudinous and brutal operations against the Zimbabwean people.
The use of riot, soldiers and secret services to abduct, torture, kill, arresting people and spending more time in prison.
While in prison, the use of drugs that killed so many prisoners has been reported. They use drugs that can produce extreme depression and shock reaction. Prolonged or excessive injections can cause exhaustive collapse, severe skin reactions, destruction of memory system, a spasmodic lack of control of muscular movements, malignant tumors and also cancer.
Rest in Power Morgan Tsvangirai, Rebecca Mafikeni, Patson Dzamara and many who died of suspected drugs in the prison.
May the souls of Itai Dzamara, Paul Chizuze, Tonderai Ndira and others who were abducted and killed also rest in Power.
Time is coming. We will do a complete overhaul of a rotten Zanu pf system. Removing the president only like what we did to Robert Mugabe is a waste of time and resources. “One can not perform a surgery without severing membranes, destroying tissues and spilling blood.”
Zimbabweans were born eagles, they can not be in a cage of stupids. Zanu pf Is a cage.
It is always good to remind you that ideas can not be murdered with bullets, torture and prisons. It’s only that we are law abiding citizens, we are not afraid of you.
Fanuel writes in his own capacity as the freelance Journalist, Human rights defender and TheWatchdog of the Community.
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18 Year Old Murderer Sentenced To 18 Years In Prison
A TEENAGE boy from Nyamandlovu who strangled his 13-year-old cousin to death and set the body alight using paraffin before burying it in a shallow grave has been sentenced to 18 years in jail.
Nqobile Moyo (18) of Stand 16 Village 2B Stanhope North in Nyamandlovu committed the crime in January this year.
It was alleged that he raped the now deceased at night in a bedroom hut they shared with other siblings in the absence of the elders before strangling her to death, but Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Christopher Dube-Banda who was on circuit in Hwange last week found him not guilty of the rape offence.
The judge said there was no evidence for rape as the post mortem showed that the deceased had not been penetrated.
The post-mortem stated that the juvenile girl died of neck constriction and strangulation.
On the murder charge, Justice Dube-Banda found Moyo guilty of murder with actual intent.
Nothing was suspended from the 18 years sentence.
Prosecuting, Ms Memory Munsaka said Moyo and the deceased Rumbidzai Mkwananzi were cousins and resided at the same homestead.
“On the 16th day of January 2020, the deceased and two other siblings aged eight years were left in the custody of the accused by the accused mother Mrs Margaret Moyo as she went to Bulawayo. On the 19th of January the accused, deceased and the two others retired to bed,” said the prosecutor.
She said the deceased and another little girl who used to share a bedroom hut with Mrs Moyo moved to the accused’s bedroom hut because they were scared to sleep alone.
Ms Munsaka said in the early hours of January 20 Moyo left his blankets and joined the now deceased in her blankets on the floor where he strangled her to death.
He dragged the body out of the yard for about one kilometre where he dug a shallow grave and put it inside.
Moyo poured paraffin on the body before setting it alight, the court was told.
He then covered the remains with soil and grass and went back to sleep.
In the morning Moyo reported to relatives and neighbours that his cousin was missing.
Villagers formed a search party and discovered the shallow grave.
Moyo was arrested after investigations by the police.
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Thirteen Injured In Harare City Centre Accident
State Media
THIRTEEN people were seriously injured when an unregistered Nissan Caravan kombi collided with a Honda Fit at the intersection of Churchill Avenue and Freedom Legacy Way near Borrowdale race course yesterday morning.
Of the 13 people that were injure, 12 were in the kombi. Both vehicles were extensively damaged. National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi told The Herald yesterday that the driver of the Nissan Caravan allegedly drove through a red robot.
“The accident occurred around 6am at the intersection of Borrowdale Road and Churchill Road where the driver of a Honda Fit who was driving along Churchill Road, due east and on approaching the intersection, the driver of a white unregistered Nissan Caravan proceeded through a red robot and the vehicles collided.
“As a result, the Nissan Caravan landed on its right side with 12 people in the Nissan Caravan sustaining various injuries while one person in the Honda Fit sustained serious injuries and was unconscious. All the injured were rushed to Parirenyatwa Hospital,” said Asst Comm Nyathi.
The Honda Fit was taken to the VID Eastlea, while the Nissan Caravan was taken to Borrowdale Police Station and would be sent to the VID.
Asst Comm Nyathi said it was wrong for motorists to go through red robots as they put other peoples’ lives at risk.
He also urged motorists to ensure that their vehicles have number plates. Yesterday’s accident follows the one where 21 passengers were injured on Saturday after a bus belonging to Changu Bus Service that is contracted to Zupco overturned along Lytton Road in Harare after the driver failed to negotiate a curve.
The injured were taken to Sally Mugabe Central Hospital for treatment. The bus was taken to VID for inspection.
It remains unclear what caused the driver to lose control.
Investigations into the matter are continuing.
“Zim Can Grow Its Economy Without International Aid”: War Vets
By A Correspondent- Zimbabwe’s liberation warfighters have said the country has enough resources to grow its economy without getting assistance from the international community.
They speak as the Southern African country and indeed the whole of SADC are gearing up for the anti-sanctions day commemorations slated for 25 October.
The government is pushing for the removal of sanctions which are considered to be among the leading factors choking efforts to transform the fortunes of a once vibrant economy.
Speaking to ZBC News, the chairperson of the War Veterans Association for Bulawayo, Cephas Ncube said as the government works on the re-engagement strategy, locals must tap into local resources to build a sustainable economic base.
He said:
While there is dialogue on the removal of sanctions, the full exploitation of natural resources such as minerals, land solar power and water, could actually grow our economy and all that is needed is for us to put our heads together and agree on how we are going to work as a nation to build our country using what we have and this can work well for us.
The issue of sanctions has divided the nation with some, especially in the opposition, saying they should remain intact until Zimbabwe has implemented the much-needed reforms.
Some say the coercive measures should be lifted, “yesterday,” as they have a huge adverse impact on the general populace.
Sanctions were imposed on Zimbabwe following the fast track land reform at the turn of the millennium which was characterised by the widespread violation of human rights.-statemedia
Parents Of Murdered Toddler Arrested
State Media
POLICE have arrested a Mhangura couple after they allegedly murdered their two-year-old daughter and secretly buried her along Hunyani River bank.
Norest Masvova (32) and his wife Elizabeth Dinhidza (24) were allegedly panning for gold along Hunyani River together with their two-year-old daughter when the incident happened.
The toddler reportedly soiled herself and Masvova assaulted her all over the body leading to her death.
The couple allegedly went on to secretly bury the child on the river bank.
The girl’s remains have since been exhumed.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident.
“Investigations have been instituted on a couple who went for gold panning along the Hunyani River with their two-year-old daughter on August 30.
“They were arrested on October 13 after a domestic dispute where the woman revealed the murder of the child due to a beating.”
Anonymous Letter Exposes Plans To Fire Msholozi From The ANC
IOL
Durban – A letter, purportedly written by 10 ANC members from Mandeni in KwaZulu-Natal, claims that there are plans to get former president Jacob Zuma, expelled from the ruling party.
The letter surfaced on Monday and it has already reached its intended recipient, the ANC in KZN. Its authors are demanding that the ruling party holds a national general council (only the national office can convene the council – not provinces) so that they can use the opportunity to speak out as members.
However, the letter failed the basic tests of verification as it was only sent to the ruling party via email, yet the same email bounced when Independent Media tried to reach the author for further clarity.
The email address was the only contact information on the letter that made several serious allegations, with some of them outright outlandish and untrue.
Talking about the plan to expel Zuma, the letter claims that the ongoing criminal charges emanating from the arms deal would be the weapon for his opponents.
“We have concrete evidence of the existence of a grouping of leaders that has been secretly approaching activists in the province for the purposes of using them to profile and promote Cyril Ramaphosa in KwaZulu Natal while discrediting all those perceived to be supporters of President Zuma. What is most disturbing and outrageous in all of this, is their plan to have President Zuma expelled from the ANC,” the letter claims.
They further named the five senior ANC members who hail from KZN who are known supporters of Ramaphosa and who they claim want Zuma out using the “step aside” resolution of the ruling party.
According to them, the leaders recently met in Mpangeni and Pietermaritzburg where the clandestine plot to get rid of Zuma was hatched and further polished.
But their claims were roundly rebutted by the ANC in the province.
Provincial spokesperson, Nhlakanipho Ntombela, said the leaders named in the letter have told the party that they have never engaged in the plot they are accused of hatching.
“Yes we have received it (the letter). We are still going to process it firstly by ascertaining the individual who wrote it as it has no contact details other than email address and the other 10 signatories. Secondly, we can confirm that the alleged individuals in the letter dispute the contents and the alleged plot they are said to be engaged on. Worse they have never met as that grouping of individuals for a very long time,” Ntombela said.
The same letter also dived into the reportedly pending arrest of ANC secretary-general, Ace Magashule and claim that he would be nabbed before this year folds.
“Despite the recent speculation, we know that the Secretary General, comrade Ace Magashule, is to be arrested by December 2020 and he will be forced into stepping aside,” the members claimed in the letter.
It is worth noting that the Hawks have publicly said it had no plans to arrest Magashule. Magashule himself told the SABC while campaigning in Lenasia, Johannesburg on Sunday that his lawyers were in touch with the law enforcement agencies regarding the matter.
Residents Of Hatfield Constituency Plead For The Recall Of Their “Missing Person,” MP Tapiwa Mashakada
RESIDENTS in Harare’s Waterfalls suburb are baying for their MP, Tapiwa Mashakada’s head and want him re-called for being an absentee legislator.
The disgruntled residents, led by former radio personality, Musavengana Nyasha, said Mashakada has never been to Midlands, which is part of Hatfield constituency since his re-election in 2018.
Midlands covers part of Lord Malvern High School to Zindoga Shopping Centre.
The residents said their area has been neglected for too long and now has a cocktail of problems ranging from unattended potholes, erratic water supply and poor service delivery.
Mashakada is the legislator for Hatfield under which Waterfalls falls. The former Economic Planning and Investment Promotion minister during the Government of National Unity from 2009 to 2013, angered the residents when he bluntly told Nyasha during a chat over the phone that if they feel he has failed as an MP, they have a constitutional right to remove him in the forthcoming elections.
He recently dumped MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa where he was the secretary for policy research and crossed the floor to join the Thokozani Khupeled MDC-T.
The MP further irked residents when he argued that there was no place called Midlands in his constituency.
Mashakada could not be reached for comment yesterday. However, MDC-T acting spokes-person Khaliphani Phugeni confirmed receiving a report from Waterfalls residents complaining about Mashakada’s arrogance and said he forwarded it to his superiors.
“I can confirm we received a complaint from Waterfalls residents. I did forward it to the party. However, our weekly standing committee meeting couldn’t take place because on Wednesday, we were being sworn in in Parliament. Wednesday is our weekly meeting day,” Phugeni said.
Nyasha said he was disappointed by the way the matter was being handled.
“I am disappointed with the party’s attitude. Initially, I had thought that it was only their MP Mashakada who prioritised his own agenda ahead of that of the constituency he purportedly represents.
“Mashakada and clearly his party too, believe that we should wait for 2023 to remove him as our representative. We are saying 2023 is too far. I challenge the MP and his party to tell you the last time or times he met his constituents. I challenge them to list what he has actually done for that constituency since he became MP,” Nyasha added.
Source – newsday
Zim Dollar Maintains Its Rate At $81.35 To US$1
Paul Nyathi
The local currency unit maintained its 81,34 trend against the United States dollar since the previous auction on Tuesday last week.
The central bank data showed that raw materials dominated allocations followed by machinery, consumables, services, fuel, electricity and gas.
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) this Tuesday conducted the weekly foreign currency auctions for both the Small to Medium Enterprises and the Main Foreign Currency auction at which the Zimbabwe dollar slightly lost value against the United States dollar. Below are the results of the auction.
Number of bids received:
Small-Medium Entreprises – 146
Main – 238
Number of Bids disqualified:
Small-Medium Entreprises – 14
Main – 15
Total Value of Bids Accepted:
Small-Medium Entreprises – USD1 740 633.79
Main – USD27 057 595.85
The official rate this week stands at $81.3499 from $81.3458 last week.
Donald Trump Removes Sudan From List Of State Sponsors Of Terrorism
Aljazeera
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has said the United States will remove Sudan from its State Sponsors of Terrorism list after the government in Khartoum paid compensation to victims of attacks.
Trump, who is seeking re-election next month, said in a Twitter post on Monday Sudan had agreed to pay $335m to “US terror victims and families”.
“New government of Sudan, which is making great progress, agreed to pay $335 MILLION to US terror victims and families. Once deposited, I will lift Sudan from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. At long last, JUSTICE for the American people and BIG step for Sudan!” he wrote.
Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan, reporting from Khartoum, said the development was “quite significant for the Sudanese administration and the people of Sudan”.
“They believe that with Sudan removed from the list of the state sponsors of terrorism the foreign investment will come and the economy will improve,” she said.
The removal from the list has been a top priority for Sudan’s transitional government which has been in power since August last year following the military removal of longtime President Omar al-Bashir in the face of months-long protests against his rule.
The US government added Sudan to its list of state sponsors of “terrorism” in 1993 over allegations that al-Bashir’s government was supporting “terrorist” groups. The designation makes Sudan technically ineligible for debt relief and urgently needed financing from major international institutions.
The US Congress would need to approve the removal after being formally notified by the president.
Shortly after Trump’s Twitter post, Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok thanked Trump and said Sudanese authorities were looking forward to his “official notification to Congress rescinding the designation of Sudan as a state-sponsor of terrorism, which has cost Sudan too much”.
Earlier in the day, a US government source had told the Reuters news agency negotiations related to Sudan’s deposit in escrow of a $335m settlement to victims of al-Qaeda attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 were expected to conclude in the next two days.
The deal could also set in motion steps by Sudan toward establishing diplomatic relations with Israel, a US official told Reuters, following similar US-brokered moves in recent weeks by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain. Details were still being worked out, the source said.
Trump made no mention of US efforts to get Sudan to become the latest Arab state to forge ties with Israel.
Sudan had insisted that any announcement of Khartoum’s de-listing not be explicitly linked to normalisation with Israel.
Differences remain between Sudanese political and military officials on how far and how fast to go in warming of relations with Israel.
Hamdok had previously told US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that his government did not have a mandate to make a decision on the matter.
One possibility, one US official said earlier, would be for Washington to first announce Sudan’s delisting and then leave it to Sudan and Israel to go public later with an agreement on establishing relations.
Prophet Shepherd Bushiri And His Wife Arrested On Another Money Laundering Case Involving R102 Million
JOHANNESBURG – Self-proclaimed Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife, Mary, are among four people – both couples – who have been arrested by the Hawks over allegations of money laundering amounting to R102 million.
The flashy pastor has been in the Hawks’ crosshairs for some time now, having appeared in court last week on another money laundering case.
Bushiri has been dogged by scandal and scrutiny since launching a prosperity charismatic church called the Enlightened Christian Gathering.
This is the second arrest of the couple by the Hawks in as many months, with the current preceded by a February 2019 action over a suspected R15 million money-laundering scheme.
In a statement, the Hawks explain that Bushiri handed himself over at a Pretoria police station after trying to evade the authorities, while his wife was arrested at their Sandton home.
The Hawks’ Colonel Katlego Mogale: “Four suspects including a pastor aged between 25 and 39 were arrested for alleged involvement in fraud and money laundering worth R102 million.”
The Hawks added that its serious organised crime investigation team arrested the first couple, Willah Mudolo and Zethu Mudolo, at OR Tambo International Airport on Saturday.
They have already appeared before the Pretoria Magistrates Court where their case was postponed to the end of the month for a bail hearing.
After 22 Months In Prison, MDC Activist Is Found Not Guilty By The High Court On Appeal
Paul Nyathi
The High Court on Monday reversed a three-year jail sentence imposed on a pro-democracy activist who was arrested during fuel price riots in January 2019.
The activist, Tonderai Masanga of Southlea Park, Harare, was arrested together with 13 others and accused of committing public violence.
A Mbare Magistrate sentenced him to 36 months in prison but he appealed against the ruling leading to his subsequent acquittal by Justices Benjamin Chikowere and Phildah Muzofa this Monday.
Masanga had, however, already spent 22 months in prison. His lawyer Tinashe Chinopfukutwa said:
The judges set aside Masanga’s conviction and found him not guilty and acquitted him.
During the protests triggered by an over 150 percent increase in the price of fuel decreed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, scores of people were arrested, killed, and or assaulted by state security forces who were deployed into homes.
Human rights groups documented nearly two dozen killings by the military and police, while over 75 people were treated for gunshot wounds.
Commenting on the exoneration of the activist, MDC Alliance national spokesperson, advocate Fadzayi Mahere said the right to protest is dead in Zimbabwe. She added:
Any demonstration is quashed by the police then a frivolous, political trial follows only for the protesters to be acquitted of the charges. Any pretence that we are a constitutional democracy has been eroded. Shameful.
Last year, a series of MDC protests were blocked by police arguing that there was concrete evidence to suggest the demonstrations were to degenerate into chaos.
MDC Alliance Youth To Kembo Mohadi, “Lies Can Never Solve The Economic Question.”
MDC Alliance youths have hit back at Vice-President Kembo Mohadi’s claims that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has improved the lives of ordinary people since taking over power from the late former President Robert Mugabe in a military coup in 2017.
Mohadi made the remarks in Beitbridge last week while addressing government officials, among them Cabinet ministers, following a tour of infrastructure built in the border town by government.
However, MDC Alliance youth spokesperson Stephen Chuma said Mohadi was out of touch with reality.
“Kembo Mohadi’s ridiculous assertions that the country’s fortunes have become better under Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime clearly expose high levels of insincerity and pathological lies of this so called new dispensation,” Chuma said.
“Certainly Mohadi cannot hide under piecemeal and snail-paced roadworks where nothing significant is happening except overhaul of the remaining tarred strip albeit without replacing it.”
He added: “Mohadi suddenly forgets that from 1980 he was part of the old establishment that ruined the once breadbasket of Africa. Maybe because of old age, the usually bed-ridden Mohadi is Vice-President Kembo Mohadi now suffering from serious Alzheimer’s dementia.”
“Is it not a public secret that life for the ordinary people has gone from bad to worse under Emmerson Mnangagwa’s short reign? From the education sector to health sector, there are cost increases everywhere and one wonders what positives Kembo Mohadi refers to,” he said.
“It is time Zanu-PF leaders know that lies, delusion and insincerity can never solve the economic question.”
The country is currently experiencing its worst economic crisis in a decade.
Source – newsday
Angry Chitungwiza Municipal Workers Raid Land And Allocate Themselves Stands
State Media
More than 1 000 Chitungwiza municipal workers at the weekend invaded Mhundwa village under Manyame Rural District Council and started pegging themselves stands in pastures and fields in protest against the refusal by their employer to allocate them housing stands.
The workers accused their bosses of gross incompetence by turning a blind eye to activities of land barons while failing to provide them with residential stands.
They also demanded the firing of the entire Chitungwiza municipality management. Chitungwiza municipality workers union president Mr Ephraim Katsinha said the workers decided to take matter into their own hands after their plea for residential stands appeared to have fallen on deaf ears.
“We have approached our employer several times over the years, to request for a residential stands for our members to no avail,” he said.
“What is painful is that some workers have been working for this council for over 30 years but don’t even own a house. They are turning a blind eye to the activities of land barons who are taking up large tracts of land under council’s jurisdiction without any benefit accruing to it,” he said.
On why they had decided to grab land, which falls under another local authority, Mr Katsinha said it was a protest strategy to make their grievances heard.
Chitungwiza mayor Councillor Lovemore Maiko called on the workers to follow proper channels when airing their grievances.
“We are yet to obtain the details on this land invasion in Manyame by our workers. However it must be noted that we are a law-abiding entity and we operate and do our things within the confines of the law at any level of the council,” he said.
Manyame rural district council ward one councillor Mr Blessing Tangwara said the invasion was reported to the police.
Harare metropolitan provincial development coordinator, Mr Tafadzwa Muguti, who officiated at the ground breaking ceremony of Chitungwiza council’s town house yesterday, called on the council to address the issues raised by its workers.
Nigerian Govt Declares Military Curfew As Citizen Riots Against Police Brutality And Corruption Intensify
Paul Nyathi
THE governor of Lagos state has declared a 24-hour curfew across Nigeria’s biggest city to prevent protests sparked by police violence “degenerated into a monster”.
The governor said “nobody except essential service providers and first responders must be found on the streets” as he declared the curfew in effect from 4pm local time (15:00 GMT) on Tuesday.
“We will not watch and allow anarchy in our dear state,” Babajide Sanwo-Olu said on Twitter.
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrations began in response to a video that circulated online showing a man being beaten, apparently by members of SARS.
In response to the widespread demonstrations, the Nigerian government announced that it would disband the SARS unit, but the daily protests have continued as participants demand an end to police brutality and corruption.
Demonstrators had also besieged the unit’s headquarters in Abuja.
They chanted “End SARS” and poured red paint on the street in front of the building – a symbolic reference to the alleged killings by SARS officers.
On Monday, Amnesty International said at least 15 people have been killed since protests erupted this month in Nigeria against police brutality.
The rights group said two police officers were among the victims while hundreds of people have been injured.
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Mapeza Blasts TTM Bosses
Norman Mapeza has revealed more details on his premature exit at South African side TTM, accusing the club hierarchy of not being honest.
Mapeza spent a few days with the team but did not take charge of any training session. He also did not sign any contract during his short stay there.
In an interview with The Herald, the former Warriors coach dismissed claims by chairman Lawrence Mulaudzi that he left South Africa without notice.
“We had a meeting with the club president (Lawrence Mulaudzi) and the CEO, the president was also concerned by the huge number of players at training and wanted to know what was happening,” he said.
“I told him that I had been told that there were 27 players by the CEO (Sello Chokoe) and we would get some five, or so, more players from Orlando Pirates but the CEO flatly denied that and said he never told me anything like that.
“That’s the first time I picked out that we were heading for problems because I come from a background where I stand by every word that I say and, when the person who is supposed to be your immediate boss, starts disputing some of the things he told you, then it’s not a good environment.
“I have to make it clear that, even before I left Harare for South Africa, I had this feeling that things would not work out as well as we had hoped, I don’t know why I was feeling like that but that is the truth and, sadly, that is what happened.’’
The gaffer also said that it was Chokoe who ordered him, along with his assistant Daniel Vheremu, to be barred from using his hotel room until they produced police clearances.
“The next thing, a technical director (who is now the team coach) was brought in and I wasn’t told anything about that and had to ask what was happening because if you are a technical crew, you work as a team and you need to trust each other.
“Things were not just going according to what we had expected and matters came to a head when we arrived at the hotel, where we were staying, and we were told that an instruction had been left that we should not gain access into our rooms unless we produced police clearances.
“Maybe, the CEO was sure that we had not satisfied all the Covid-19 requirements, when we came to South Africa, like maybe we had jumped the border, and wanted to try and use that against us.
“He didn’t know that we had fulfilled every step but you could tell that things were not what they used to be and we tried to get hold of him but his mobile phone was off.
“Since we had our clothes, and other stuff, in our rooms, we asked if we could take them out and we ended up putting them in (Washington) Arubi’s car and that’s when we decided to go to Johannesburg and later to come back home,” he added.-Soccer 24
Dzvukamanja Feels The Heat At Orlando Pirates
Terrence Dzvukamanja has admitted there is a lot of competition at Orlando Pirates but says he will use every opportunity he gets to play football.
The 26-year old moved to the Soweto giants last month and made his debut on Saturday in the MTN8 quarterfinal victory against Cape Town City. The forward started and scored the solitary goal in the encounter, heading in a cross from Wayde Jooste in the 23rd minute.
Speaking after the match, Dzvukamanja conceded that it’s not easy to get into the Pirates’ first team.
“It is not easy to play here, because there is a lot of competition,” he said. “So for me, I just said to myself ‘Terry, use the time you have got’ and I must give thanks to the coaches and my teammates.
“Without them, I was not going to score. So I give credit to them.”-Soccer 24
Stop Abusing Morgan Tsvangirai’s Legacy, MDC T Official Challenges Mwonzora
Farai Dziva|Mr Douglas Mwonzora is using Vincent Tsvangirai’s popularity in a desperate attempt to push for the MDC T presidency, it has emerged.
Mr Mwonzora was in Masvingo at the weekend and he addressed paltry gatherings in Masvingo Urban and Chivi Central Constituencies respectively.
Despite being accompanied by Vincent Tsvangirai (son of the legendary MDC founding President and former Prime Minister, Right Honourable Morgan Richard Tsvangirai) – Mr Mwonzora failed to attract the attention of members of the 2014 MDC T structures as he had anticipated.
Sources in the MDC T have disclosed Mr Mwonzora is also trying to buy loyalty from members of the MDC T 2014 structures.
“Mr Mwonzora is using Vincent Tsvangirai’s popularity to push for the presidency.Actually he is fighting for his own cause that has nothing to do with Thokozani Khupe’s ambitions.
Mwonzora must stop abusing our icon Morgan Tsvangirai’s legacy,” the source told ZimEye.com.
Police Find Weapon That Was Used To Kill Bafana Bafana Goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa
Nearly six years after he was murdered in cold blood, the South African Police Service (SAPS) have reportedly made a massive breakthrough in unmasking his killer after it emerged the weapon used to commit the crime, has been found.
The then Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates goalkeeper was killed by unknown men in Vosloorus, at the house of musician Kelly Khumalo on the 26th of October 2014.
Police are still to give South Africans answers on who killed the late goalkeeper and his father Sam died on the 29th of July 2019, with those responsible for his son’s death still to be brought to book.
According to a publication across the Limpopo News24 however, police have made a massive breakthrough after finding the weapon allegedly used to murder Meyiwa.
The publication also reported that police have also identified the man who fired the shots on that fateful night, which is one of the darkest episodes in the history of South African sport.-Soccer 24
ZIFA Names Replacement For Expelled Board Member
The ZIFA Executive Committee has co-opted Central Region chairman, Stanley Chapeta, into the national board as replacement of Chamunorwa Chiwanza who was expelled in August last year.
Chiwanza, an ally of former president Philip Chiyangwa, was found guilty of fraud and bringing local football into disrepute. The association accused him of sabotage which resulted in national team players striking during the Afcon 2019.
In a statement released on Tuesday, ZIFA confirmed the elevation of Chapeta who participated and lost against Chimwanza for the exco member post in the last ZIFA polls held in 2018.
The statement reads: “The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) Executive Committee has co-opted Stanley Chapeta into the national executive in terms of Art. 32(9) of the ZIFA statutes.
“Chapeta, who, at the time of his elevation, was the chair of the ZIFA central region, comes in to fill the gap caused by the expulsion of Chamunorwa Chiwanza by the disciplinary committee in 2019.
“The co-option is with effect from the 12th of October2020when the Executive Committee unanimously agreed to bring him on board.”-Soccer 24
Impact Of Coronavirus On Public Health Systems Worldwide
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health, food systems and the world of work.
The economic and social disruption caused by the pandemic is devastating: tens of millions of people are at risk of falling into extreme poverty, while the number of undernourished people, currently estimated at nearly 690 million, could increase by up to 132 million by the end of the year.
Millions of enterprises face an existential threat. Nearly half of the world’s 3.3 billion global workforce are at risk of losing their livelihoods.
Informal economy workers are particularly vulnerable because the majority lack social protection and access to quality health care and have lost access to productive assets. Without the means to earn an income during lockdowns, many are unable to feed themselves and their families. For most, no income means no food, or, at best, less food and less nutritious food.
The pandemic has been affecting the entire food system and has laid bare its fragility. Border closures, trade restrictions and confinement measures have been preventing farmers from accessing markets, including for buying inputs and selling their produce, and agricultural workers from harvesting crops, thus disrupting domestic and international food supply chains and reducing access to healthy, safe and diverse diets. The pandemic has decimated jobs and placed millions of livelihoods at risk. As breadwinners lose jobs, fall ill and die, the food security and nutrition of millions of women and men are under threat, with those in low-income countries, particularly the most marginalized populations, which include small-scale farmers and indigenous peoples, being hardest hit.
Millions of agricultural workers – waged and self-employed – while feeding the world, regularly face high levels of working poverty, malnutrition and poor health, and suffer from a lack of safety and labour protection as well as other types of abuse.
With low and irregular incomes and a lack of social support, many of them are spurred to continue working, often in unsafe conditions, thus exposing themselves and their families to additional risks. Further, when experiencing income losses, they may resort to negative coping strategies, such as distress sale of assets, predatory loans or child labour. Migrant agricultural workers are particularly vulnerable, because they face risks in their transport, working and living conditions and struggle to access support measures put in place by governments.
Guaranteeing the safety and health of all agri-food workers – from primary producers to those involved in food processing, transport and retail, including street food vendors – as well as better incomes and protection, will be critical to saving lives and protecting public health, people’s livelihoods and food security.
In the COVID-19 crisis food security, public health, and employment and labour issues, in particular workers’ health and safety, converge. Adhering to workplace safety and health practices and ensuring access to decent work and the protection of labour rights in all industries will be crucial in addressing the human dimension of the crisis. Immediate and purposeful action to save lives and livelihoods should include extending social protection towards universal health coverage and income support for those most affected.
These include workers in the informal economy and in poorly protected and low-paid jobs, including youth, older workers, and migrants.
Particular attention must be paid to the situation of women, who are over-represented in low-paid jobs and care roles.
Different forms of support are key, including cash transfers, child allowances and healthy school meals, shelter and food relief initiatives, support for employment retention and recovery, and financial relief for businesses, including micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. In designing and implementing such measures it is essential that governments work closely with employers and workers.
Countries dealing with existing humanitarian crises or emergencies are particularly exposed to the effects of COVID-19. Responding swiftly to the pandemic, while ensuring that humanitarian and recovery assistance reaches those most in need, is critical.
Now is the time for global solidarity and support, especially with the most vulnerable in our societies, particularly in the emerging and developing world.
Only together can we overcome the intertwined health and social and economic impacts of the pandemic and prevent its escalation into a protracted humanitarian and food security catastrophe, with the potential loss of already achieved development gains.
We must recognize this opportunity to build back better, as noted in the Policy Brief issued by the United Nations Secretary-General.
We are committed to pooling our expertise and experience to support countries in their crisis response measures and efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. We need to develop long-term sustainable strategies to address the challenges facing the health and agri-food sectors.
Priority should be given to addressing underlying food security and malnutrition challenges, tackling rural poverty, in particular through more and better jobs in the rural economy, extending social protection to all, facilitating safe migration pathways and promoting the formalization of the informal economy.
We must rethink the future of our environment and tackle climate change and environmental degradation with ambition and urgency.
Only then can we protect the health, livelihoods, food security and nutrition of all people, and ensure that our ‘new normal’ is a better one…
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Will Mwonzora Bid To Use Tsvangirai Son’s Popularity To Push For Presidency Work?
Farai Dziva|Mr Douglas Mwonzora is using Vincent Tsvangirai’s popularity in a desperate attempt to push for the MDC T presidency, it has emerged.
Mr Mwonzora was in Masvingo at the weekend and he addressed paltry gatherings in Masvingo Urban and Chivi Central Constituencies respectively.
Despite being accompanied by Vincent Tsvangirai (son of the legendary MDC founding President and former Prime Minister, Right Honourable Morgan Richard Tsvangirai) – Mr Mwonzora failed to attract the attention of members of the 2014 MDC T structures as he had anticipated.
Sources in the MDC T have disclosed Mr Mwonzora is also trying to buy loyalty from members of the MDC T 2014 structures.
“Mr Mwonzora is using Vincent Tsvangirai’s popularity to push for the presidency.Actually he is fighting for his own cause that has nothing to do with Thokozani Khupe’s ambitions.
Mwonzora must stop abusing our icon Morgan Tsvangirai’s legacy,” the source told ZimEye.com.
We Are Determined To Save And Serve Suffering Zimbabweans-Obey Sithole
Farai Dziva|MDC Alliance is determined to save the people of Zimbabwe from the jaws of poverty and economic quagmire created by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration, the party’s Youth Assembly leader Tererai Obey Sithole has said.
Speaking after a youth rally in Chiredzi West on Sunday, Sithole condemned the looting of State funds by Zanu PF bigwigs.
Said Sithole :
“We were in Chiredzi RDC, Ward 18 where we had a youth rally.
The ward is under the stewardship of firebrand Youth leader, Cllr Gilbert Mutubuki.
We have a duty to serve and save the people of Zimbabwe from the jaws of poverty created by ED and his illegitimate cabal.
We shall do this by building a Mobilized, Organized and Radical Grassroots Assembly Nationwide [MORGAN].
Many thanks to the people of Chiredzi for supporting the cause.”
Let’s Stop Theft Of State Resources By Zanu PF Before We All Perish -MDC Alliance
Farai Dziva|The MDC Alliance(Namibia) has implored the suffering citizens of Zimbabwe to unite in the battle against Zanu PF tyranny.
In a statement released on Monday, MDC Alliance accused Zanu PF of being insensitive to the plight of suffering citizens.
Read full statement below :
19 OCTOBER 2020
POLITICS HAS BECOME A PERMANENT TOOL FOR THE PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION OF STATE RESOURCES IN ZANUPF, MDC ALLIANCE NAMIBIA ASSERTS.
At a juncture of widespread poverty and extreme economic woes, Zanupf politicians are not ashamed to choose conspicuous extravagance and barefaced corruption manifesting through some greedy ministers who continue to loot with impunity.
Mdc Alliance Namibia is cobra-headed to witness stomach politicians of plunder and self-enrichment forging ahead eating on behalf of the masses who continue to gnash their teeth in abject poverty.
The incumbent Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr John Mangwiro, has learned nothing from the corrupt and fired former Minister of Health Dr Obadiah Moyo who was dismissed over his involvement in US$60 million Covid-19 procurement scandal. The incessant tender storms rocking our different parastatals emanate from the selective application of the law against criminals in Zimbabwe. There is outright disconnection between the aspirations of the poor and practical implementation by both elected and appointed leaders in government. We are quite aware that the politicians are being protected by the weaponised law that does not convict the looters of our state resources.
Mdc Alliance Namibia is absolutely infuriated by the behaviour of clueless Zanupf and their greedy ministers who are allowed to rob state institutions when the generality of Zimbabweans are all over the globe hunting for quality livelihoods and they are struggling to keep their heads above poverty. Only a small number of well-connected individuals could walk away with a cool US$60 million and continue to live a normal life out of jail worse without any pay back of the stolen money from the state.
The Health and Child Care Deputy Minister Dr John Mangwiro allegedly railroad the National Pharmaceutical Company (NatPharm), in dramatic events, including visiting the parastatal’s workers at night and bullying them with dismissal, to award a US$5.6 million contract to an undeserving company – Young Health Care. This is contained in the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zaac) report which says the Deputy Minister had ‘personal interest’ in the matter.
Moreover,the investigation, conducted from 31st August to September 4 this year , looked into circumstances of how the Ministry of Health and Child Care administered a Covid-19 tender (NAT ITCB FWWK 04/2020) for the purchase of laboratory equipment, reagents and consumables.
The pro-Zanupf newspaper, The Sunday Mail, recently reported that senior Government Officials were allegedly caught with hands in the till over the Covid-19 materials procurement.
This is incontrovertible evidence to prove that politics has become a tool for self-enrichment.
The desperate Zanupf government has been afflicted by the inability to practically implement all those good laws and policies for the benefit of all our people especially the youths.
It has become apparent that the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten more poorer.
Moreso, the suspected violations stem from allegations against the Deputy Minister are that he coaxed NatPharm to give Young Health Care a tender and advance payments before delivery of goods.
This is in direct contravention of the Public Finance Management Act and Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets. It is clear that the corrupt minister used his political power as a springboard for the primitive accumulation of state funds.
Dr Mangwiro, annexed the duties of the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary through issuing innumerable directives to NatPharm. Young Health Care , cropped up and was offered a contract through a directive from then acting Permanent Secretary Dr Gibson Mhlanga , at a time when it was not even registered with the Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) as required by law.
The NatPharm acting director , Mr Zealous Nyabadza thwarted the alleged unlawful act by the Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care officials resulting in a public tendering process which was deferred to allow Young Health Care to register with Praz.
Mdc Alliance Namibia have also learnt that when NatPharm reiterated on competitive bidding, Young Health Care Limited subsequently submitted a bid price of US$3 600 000 for the same items. This saw a reduction of 36 percent in the price in antithesis with the initial quotation by Young Health Care for supply of commodities under direct procurement , where prices quoted were devilish. It amounted to plethoric US$5 600 000, which was coincidentally the identical amount that was available in the ministry’s coffers, insinuating that the company had innermost information. As citizens in the diaspora, we are interested to know the owner of Young Health Care Company who had accurate financial details of the Ministry’s fiscus.
Furthermore, after twenty (22) companies advanced their interest, Dr John Mangwiro ostensibly side-stepped and wooed NatPharm top managers , at odd hours , to unceremoniously award the tender to Young Health Care before terrorising the vulnerable parastatal’s employees with dismissal if they acted otherwise.
He forged demanding that a purchase order be issued that same , dark night. Young Health Care was then illegally awarded a contract to supply goods worth US$124 630 instead of US$922 000 that had been demanded as advance. As Mdc Alliance Namibia, we resonate with Bayart who describes African political power in the post-colonial era and draws specific attention to the relationship between patrimonialism , clientelism, corruption and power.
This nature of corruption blight brings forth linkages between government and institutionalised fraud:smuggling , the plundering of state resources , the growth of ego, privatisation of state institutions (state capture) and the development of ‘economies of plunder’. We absolutely condemn Zanupf politicians for eating on behalf of the starving unsuspecting masses. It invites cynicism and disillusionment when Zanupf politicians continue to shift blame on sanctions, opposition, journalists , the media analysts , local business people, citizens in the diaspora and so on. It has become clear that our poverty and suffering in Zimbabwe and outside is artificially made by Zanupf. The depletion of social trust has a numbing effect on communal survival tactics and strategies.
The uncouth behaviour of Zanupf ministers must be resisted with equal measure. It spews forth a particularly vile concoction of greed, graft and arrogance.
In a nutshell, Mdc Alliance Namibia, urges Zaac to be objective in combating corruption in government. This politics of the belly attests to a distinctively African trajectory of power that we need to comprehend as part of a long-term historical development.
Corruption and greed have become Zanupf’s modus operandi. They are now permanent features of their human existence.
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COVID-19 And The Future …
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health, food systems and the world of work.
The economic and social disruption caused by the pandemic is devastating: tens of millions of people are at risk of falling into extreme poverty, while the number of undernourished people, currently estimated at nearly 690 million, could increase by up to 132 million by the end of the year.
Millions of enterprises face an existential threat. Nearly half of the world’s 3.3 billion global workforce are at risk of losing their livelihoods.
Informal economy workers are particularly vulnerable because the majority lack social protection and access to quality health care and have lost access to productive assets. Without the means to earn an income during lockdowns, many are unable to feed themselves and their families. For most, no income means no food, or, at best, less food and less nutritious food.
The pandemic has been affecting the entire food system and has laid bare its fragility. Border closures, trade restrictions and confinement measures have been preventing farmers from accessing markets, including for buying inputs and selling their produce, and agricultural workers from harvesting crops, thus disrupting domestic and international food supply chains and reducing access to healthy, safe and diverse diets. The pandemic has decimated jobs and placed millions of livelihoods at risk. As breadwinners lose jobs, fall ill and die, the food security and nutrition of millions of women and men are under threat, with those in low-income countries, particularly the most marginalized populations, which include small-scale farmers and indigenous peoples, being hardest hit.
Millions of agricultural workers – waged and self-employed – while feeding the world, regularly face high levels of working poverty, malnutrition and poor health, and suffer from a lack of safety and labour protection as well as other types of abuse.
With low and irregular incomes and a lack of social support, many of them are spurred to continue working, often in unsafe conditions, thus exposing themselves and their families to additional risks. Further, when experiencing income losses, they may resort to negative coping strategies, such as distress sale of assets, predatory loans or child labour. Migrant agricultural workers are particularly vulnerable, because they face risks in their transport, working and living conditions and struggle to access support measures put in place by governments.
Guaranteeing the safety and health of all agri-food workers – from primary producers to those involved in food processing, transport and retail, including street food vendors – as well as better incomes and protection, will be critical to saving lives and protecting public health, people’s livelihoods and food security.
In the COVID-19 crisis food security, public health, and employment and labour issues, in particular workers’ health and safety, converge. Adhering to workplace safety and health practices and ensuring access to decent work and the protection of labour rights in all industries will be crucial in addressing the human dimension of the crisis. Immediate and purposeful action to save lives and livelihoods should include extending social protection towards universal health coverage and income support for those most affected.
These include workers in the informal economy and in poorly protected and low-paid jobs, including youth, older workers, and migrants.
Particular attention must be paid to the situation of women, who are over-represented in low-paid jobs and care roles.
Different forms of support are key, including cash transfers, child allowances and healthy school meals, shelter and food relief initiatives, support for employment retention and recovery, and financial relief for businesses, including micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. In designing and implementing such measures it is essential that governments work closely with employers and workers.
Countries dealing with existing humanitarian crises or emergencies are particularly exposed to the effects of COVID-19. Responding swiftly to the pandemic, while ensuring that humanitarian and recovery assistance reaches those most in need, is critical.
Now is the time for global solidarity and support, especially with the most vulnerable in our societies, particularly in the emerging and developing world.
Only together can we overcome the intertwined health and social and economic impacts of the pandemic and prevent its escalation into a protracted humanitarian and food security catastrophe, with the potential loss of already achieved development gains.
We must recognize this opportunity to build back better, as noted in the Policy Brief issued by the United Nations Secretary-General.
We are committed to pooling our expertise and experience to support countries in their crisis response measures and efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. We need to develop long-term sustainable strategies to address the challenges facing the health and agri-food sectors.
Priority should be given to addressing underlying food security and malnutrition challenges, tackling rural poverty, in particular through more and better jobs in the rural economy, extending social protection to all, facilitating safe migration pathways and promoting the formalization of the informal economy.
We must rethink the future of our environment and tackle climate change and environmental degradation with ambition and urgency.
Only then can we protect the health, livelihoods, food security and nutrition of all people, and ensure that our ‘new normal’ is a better one…
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How Zanu PF Is Killing Ordinary Citizens Softly…
19 OCTOBER 2020
POLITICS HAS BECOME A PERMANENT TOOL FOR THE PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION OF STATE RESOURCES IN ZANUPF, MDC ALLIANCE NAMIBIA ASSERTS.
At a juncture of widespread poverty and extreme economic woes, Zanupf politicians are not ashamed to choose conspicuous extravagance and barefaced corruption manifesting through some greedy ministers who continue to loot with impunity. Mdc Alliance Namibia is cobra-headed to witness stomach politicians of plunder and self-enrichment forging ahead eating on behalf of the masses who continue to gnash their teeth in abject poverty.
The incumbent Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr John Mangwiro, has learned nothing from the corrupt and fired former Minister of Health Dr Obadiah Moyo who was dismissed over his involvement in US$60 million Covid-19 procurement scandal. The incessant tender storms rocking our different parastatals emanate from the selective application of the law against criminals in Zimbabwe. There is outright disconnection between the aspirations of the poor and practical implementation by both elected and appointed leaders in government. We are quite aware that the politicians are being protected by the weaponised law that does not convict the looters of our state resources.
Mdc Alliance Namibia is absolutely infuriated by the behaviour of clueless Zanupf and their greedy ministers who are allowed to rob state institutions when the generality of Zimbabweans are all over the globe hunting for quality livelihoods and they are struggling to keep their heads above poverty. Only a small number of well-connected individuals could walk away with a cool US$60 million and continue to live a normal life out of jail worse without any pay back of the stolen money from the state.
The Health and Child Care Deputy Minister Dr John Mangwiro allegedly railroad the National Pharmaceutical Company (NatPharm), in dramatic events, including visiting the parastatal’s workers at night and bullying them with dismissal, to award a US$5.6 million contract to an undeserving company – Young Health Care. This is contained in the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zaac) report which says the Deputy Minister had ‘personal interest’ in the matter.
Moreover,the investigation, conducted from 31st August to September 4 this year , looked into circumstances of how the Ministry of Health and Child Care administered a Covid-19 tender (NAT ITCB FWWK 04/2020) for the purchase of laboratory equipment, reagents and consumables. The pro-Zanupf newspaper, The Sunday Mail, recently reported that senior Government Officials were allegedly caught with hands in the till over the Covid-19 materials procurement.
This is incontrovertible evidence to prove that politics has become a tool for self-enrichment.
The desperate Zanupf government has been afflicted by the inability to practically implement all those good laws and policies for the benefit of all our people especially the youths.
It has become apparent that the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten more poorer.
Moreso, the suspected violations stem from allegations against the Deputy Minister are that he coaxed NatPharm to give Young Health Care a tender and advance payments before delivery of goods.
This is in direct contravention of the Public Finance Management Act and Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets. It is clear that the corrupt minister used his political power as a springboard for the primitive accumulation of state funds.
Dr Mangwiro, annexed the duties of the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary through issuing innumerable directives to NatPharm. Young Health Care , cropped up and was offered a contract through a directive from then acting Permanent Secretary Dr Gibson Mhlanga , at a time when it was not even registered with the Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) as required by law.
The NatPharm acting director , Mr Zealous Nyabadza thwarted the alleged unlawful act by the Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care officials resulting in a public tendering process which was deferred to allow Young Health Care to register with Praz.
Mdc Alliance Namibia have also learnt that when NatPharm reiterated on competitive bidding, Young Health Care Limited subsequently submitted a bid price of US$3 600 000 for the same items. This saw a reduction of 36 percent in the price in antithesis with the initial quotation by Young Health Care for supply of commodities under direct procurement , where prices quoted were devilish. It amounted to plethoric US$5 600 000, which was coincidentally the identical amount that was available in the ministry’s coffers, insinuating that the company had innermost information. As citizens in the diaspora, we are interested to know the owner of Young Health Care Company who had accurate financial details of the Ministry’s fiscus.
Furthermore, after twenty (22) companies advanced their interest, Dr John Mangwiro ostensibly side-stepped and wooed NatPharm top managers , at odd hours , to unceremoniously award the tender to Young Health Care before terrorising the vulnerable parastatal’s employees with dismissal if they acted otherwise. He forged demanding that a purchase order be issued that same , dark night. Young Health Care was then illegally awarded a contract to supply goods worth US$124 630 instead of US$922 000 that had been demanded as advance. As Mdc Alliance Namibia, we resonate with Bayart who describes African political power in the post-colonial era and draws specific attention to the relationship between patrimonialism , clientelism, corruption and power.
This nature of corruption blight brings forth linkages between government and institutionalised fraud:smuggling , the plundering of state resources , the growth of ego, privatisation of state institutions (state capture) and the development of ‘economies of plunder’. We absolutely condemn Zanupf politicians for eating on behalf of the starving unsuspecting masses. It invites cynicism and disillusionment when Zanupf politicians continue to shift blame on sanctions, opposition, journalists , the media analysts , local business people, citizens in the diaspora and so on. It has become clear that our poverty and suffering in Zimbabwe and outside is artificially made by Zanupf. The depletion of social trust has a numbing effect on communal survival tactics and strategies.
The uncouth behaviour of Zanupf ministers must be resisted with equal measure. It spews forth a particularly vile concoction of greed, graft and arrogance.
In a nutshell, Mdc Alliance Namibia, urges Zaac to be objective in combating corruption in government. This politics of the belly attests to a distinctively African trajectory of power that we need to comprehend as part of a long-term historical development.
Corruption and greed have become Zanupf’s modus operandi. They are now permanent features of their human existence.
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MDC Alliance Seeks To Reinforce Rural Support Base
Farai Dziva|MDC Alliance is determined to save the people of Zimbabwe from the jaws of poverty and economic quagmire created by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration, the party’s Youth Assembly leader Tererai Obey Sithole has said.
Speaking after a youth rally in Chiredzi West on Sunday, Sithole condemned the looting of State funds by Zanu PF bigwigs.
Said Sithole :
“We were in Chiredzi RDC, Ward 18 where we had a youth rally.
The ward is under the stewardship of firebrand Youth leader, Cllr Gilbert Mutubuki.
We have a duty to serve and save the people of Zimbabwe from the jaws of poverty created by ED and his illegitimate cabal.
We shall do this by building a Mobilized, Organized and Radical Grassroots Assembly Nationwide [MORGAN].
Many thanks to the people of Chiredzi for supporting the cause.”
Harare Accident Leaves 13 Seriously Injured
By A Correspondent- At least 13 people were seriously injured in a traffic accident that occurred yesterday at the intersection of Churchill Avenue and Freedom Legacy Way which is close to the Borrowdale Race Course in Harare, The Herald reports.
The accident which involved a Nissan Caravan and a Honda Fit was confirmed by ZRP National Spokesperson Assitant Commissioner Paul Nyathi who said the driver of the Nissan Caravan ran a red light:
The accident occurred around 6am at the intersection of Borrowdale Road and Churchill Road where the driver of a Honda Fit who was driving along Churchill Road, due east and on approaching the intersection, the driver of a white unregistered Nissan Caravan proceeded through a red robot and the vehicles collided.
As a result, the Nissan Caravan landed on its right side with 12 people in the Nissan Caravan sustaining various injuries while one person in the Honda Fit sustained serious injuries and was unconscious. All the injured were rushed to Parirenyatwa Hospital
In another incident that occurred in Harare on Saturday, 21 people were injured when a ZUPCO bus they were traveling in veered off the road when the driver failed to negotiate a corner. Another ZUPCO bus last month developed a fault and rammed into 8 vehicles and injured 10 people including Shamiso Muguti whose legs had to be amputated. -statemedia
Zimbabwe Is Not Zanu PF, Declares Human Rights Activist
Farai Dziva|Fearless human rights activist Namatai Kwekweza has dismissed the discourse indicating that Zanu PF is a party of patriots.
On the contrary Zanu PF bigwigs are haters of ordinary citizens, argued Kwekweza.
“Don’t get confused MaZimbo any party that gets into power and doesn’t work to ensure that ALL Zimbos are safe, secure and well governed is not a party of patriots.
Any party that abducts people and lies about it, is not a party of patriots. #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
Zanu Pf is just a political party. It is not the state. ZANU pf is not Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe is not ZANU PF. ZANU pf can not monopolize the definition of patriotism. Even in ZANU pf there are no patriots. That’s why our country has fallen. #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
ZANU PF is not the whole of Zimbabwe
Just because we are not ZANU PF members, doesn’t mean we hate Zimbabwe. Just because you are a ZANU PF member it doesn’t mean you love Zimbabwe. #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
ZANU PF people are some of the biggest haters of Zim and it’s people. Think abductions, looting, political violence, authoritarianism. 40years after independence Zimbabwe still looks like a growth point by world standards because of ZANU PF looting. These people don’t love Zim,” Kwekweza wrote on Twitter.
Revealed: Mnangagwa Son “Accuses” Councillor Kurauone Of Plotting To Overthrow Own Dad
Own Correspondent|Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s son is one of the key witnesses in the trial of Councillor Godfrey Kurauone, it has emerged.
According to State papers seen by ZimEye.com, Dambudzo Mnangagwa is among the witnesses in the trial of Councillor Kurauone.
Councillor Kurauone is accused of plotting to remove Mr Mnangagwa from power.
Read part of the State outline below :
Mangwiro Tender Scandal Sucks VP Chiwenga
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga who doubles as Health and Child Care minister is in the eye of a storm following revelations that he instructed his deputy and personal doctor, John Mangwiro, to fast-track the US$5,6 million Covid-19 materials tender scam.
This was revealed by the deputy minister himself in a statement on Monday following a scathing article which appeared in State media on Sunday.
“It is not correct that I interfered with the bidding process. On August 14, 2020 at around 2100 hours I received a phone call from the Hon Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care (Chiwenga). He wanted me to get an update on what was causing the delays to the procurement of the Covid-19 requirements,” said Dr Mangwiro.
The Health deputy minister deputises Chiwenga. He is also a personal doctor of the feared VP having spent months with him in South Africa and China when Chiwenga fell critically ill in 2019.
Dr Mangwiro said he convened the meeting at night as it was an “emergency”.
“I could not sleep over an emergency and as such I called (acting NatPharm managing director) Mr Zealous Nyabadza to urgently convene a meeting to appraise me on what was causing the delays. Mr Z Nyabadza explained that Young Health Care Limited had won the tender to supply some of the equipment,” said Dr Mangwiro.
The Health ministry is apparently both a cash cow and source of conflict for factions supporting President Mnangagwa on one hand and his deputy, Chiwenga, on the other.
Mnangagwa’s close ally and appointee to the Health ministry, Obadiah Moyo, was ousted from government in dramatic fashion in July this year after he was fingered in a US$60 million dollar Covid-19 tender scandal.
Chiwenga then took over the ministry after a prolonged leadership vacuum at the ministry. Interestingly his close ally is now being accused of the same crime.
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Drama As Mnangagwa’s Son Turns Up A Witness Against Councillor Kurauone, Trial For Undermining His Own Father “The President”
By Farai D Hove | Emmerson Mnangagwa’s son, Dambudzo junior is set to be a witness in the case against Masvingo based, MDC Alliance Councillor Godfrey Kurauone.
An affidavit seen by ZimEye reveals Dambudzo, a teacher, and a police officer cited in the case . The male ZRP cop in his statement, states in part:
I am a male adult residing at house 5 Duiker • I am employed as a teacher at Tashinga primary school Chiredzi. MY mobile number is 0773 85 and 0713 *93. ….
- On the 26th day of June 2020 at around 1700 hours I was at Glow service station Masvingo with Dambudzo Mnangagwa and Enerst Muchenjeri. I heard commuters who were queuing for ZUPCO buses at corner Hofmeyer street and Leopold Takawira avenue cheering at the southern side of Leopold Takawira avenue” Councillor Kurauone, Councillor Kurauone” I then went to the crowd with Dambudzo Mnangagwa and Enerst Muchenjeri to see what was happening.
- I then saw and heard Godfrey Kurauone saying “let’s unite and remove this corrupt government and President Mnangagwa and his criminals must go.” while commuters were cheering…”
Mupfumira’s Trial Dates Set For November
By A Correspondent- The trial of former Tourism Minister, Prisca Mupfumira and the former NSSA director contribution and collections, Barnabas Matongera, in which they are accused of abuse of office has been set for November.
The duo is accused of flouting tender procedures when they approved a housing project in Gweru involving the development of 200 stands.4
Magistrate Ngoni Nduna set their hearing for November 18, 19 and 20 on a continuous row at the Harare Magistrates’ Court.
Their trial was supposed to have commenced Monday but the State was yet to furnish the duo with some documents to prepare their defence.
Mupfumira, through her lawyer Mr Sylvester Hashiti, applied for scraping of her bail reporting conditions, but the State represented by prosecutor Michael Reza said it was not prepared to respond to the application saying she must go back to the High Court where she was granted bail.
Mupfumira was arrested last year over corruption and has since been relieved of her duties as the minister of Tourism.
Meanwhile, some have expressed concern over the way the state is handling the case saying there is a lack of enthusiasm on the part of the state suggesting that the government might not be committed to fighting corruption in the country
Land Barons’ Assets To Be Forfeited
By A Correspondent- The government in a bid to fight graft has decided to forfeit assets belonging to Land Barons because they were bought with proceeds from illegally selling state and council land.
The matter came to light during a meeting between Chitungwiza Municipality management and Harare Provincial Development Coordinator Mr. Tafadzwa Muguti. Mr. Muguti said he had a meeting with the Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo, and senior police officers and they discussed the issue. Said Mr. Muguti:
There are people amassing enormous wealth at the expense of the poor. I am happy to say that with effect from today, we are going to start asset forfeiture from people like land barons. This morning, I met Minister Moyo, commissioners of police and their spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi, and we have put a taskforce in place.
These things (forfeiture) have always been provided for under the law. It is not like we are crafting a new law. This week you shall see ZRP going after assets of those who acquired wealth illegally by selling land which was not theirs. So to those who have got houses and cars we will take what belongs to the State. That means if the money was supposed to have benefited Chitungwiza Municipality, it should be directed there.
We are not looking at the political party you support. As you committed these crimes, we are coming after you. We are doing this for the sake of progress of this great nation.
We have people that have taken the power of local authorities, some of them conniving with staff members to issue offer letters. Offer letters are not title deeds.
Recently ZRP arrested 6 land barons in Harare as the ZRP announced it was intensifying its investigations into land barons.-statemedia
BREAKING: India Blocks Zim Cricket Coach From Touring Pakistan
SPORTS STAR: Zimbabwe head coach Lalchand Rajput has not travelled with the team to Pakistan for the limited-overs series. The Zimbabwe Cricket claimed that the Indian Embassy in Harare wrote to them asking that Rajput be exempted from visiting Pakistan, even though the Pakistan Embassy in Harare had issued him a visa.
In his absence, former Zimbabwe international, Douglas Hondo, will serve as the interim coach of the side for the three ODIs and three T20Is. The Zimbabwe team landed in Islamabad on Tuesday morning without Rajput, leading to speculations that there could have been visa issues.
However, both Zimbabwe Cricket and Pakistan Cricket Board maintained that the former India cricketer was issued a visa.
Rajput, however, was not available for a comment at the time of publishing this story.
SOURCE: SPORTS STAR
Teachers Open For Genuine Dialogue Over Salaries Standoff
By A Correspondent- Teachers’ representative unions have said they stand ready to open, genuine dialogue with the government over the ongoing industrial action.
Eight unions released a joint statement expressing willingness to resolve the prolonged stand-off between workers and the employer. The statement read in part:
Teacher union leaders are ready to engage in meaningful dialogue any time from now to end the current logjam..
(The) Public Service Commission or the government should take teachers’ plight seriously and stop this tomfoolery of playing hide-and-seek with the lives of teachers in particular and of the innocent learners.
Teachers remain incapacitated as nothing has changed. This means our members will not be able to
report for duty anytime soon until the government faithfully engages teachers’ unions.
Teachers refused to return to school when schools were reopened on 28 September after they were prematurely closed in March when the country recorded its first coronavirus case.
They are vowing not to return to work if the government has not met their demands which include the restoration of their 2018 salaries when they were earning about US$500.
Like many other government workers, they are currently earning an equivalent of US$30 on average.-DailyNews
Terrence Manjengwa’s EarthShaking Frank-Talk At Rotten Row
By Farai D Hove | Below is a brief transcript of the franktalk by Terence Manjengwa at the Rotten Row magistrates court on the 24th August 2020.
He was with a colleague when together they spoke to a police officer who wanted to assault them:
Are you able to pay rent? Can you afford your child’s school fees?
So why do you want to beat these people?
Your child is is not able to go to school. Your child is failing to go to school.
Wait. I want to ask you if your child is going to school. The situation in the country you can see it clearly. Stop arresting people for nothing.
Do not push me. Don’t push me. I don’t care what’s weapon you have. You can assault me. I can offer you my body as a sacrifice but you yourself by tomorrow you will be miserable.
Terrence Manjengwa simply spoke the truth to a police officer and this is what happened. pic.twitter.com/QWkw9Jork4
— ZimEye (@ZimEye) October 19, 2020
“It’s A Pipe Dream To Envision Economic Transformation Without Engineers”
By Engineer Jacob kudzayi Mutisi- The only way to turn around Zimbabwe’s fortunes is to appoint professional engineers in positions of authority.
It is no secret that Zimbabwe’s infrastructure has been steadily falling apart since the 1980s. Zimbabwe is riddled with a multitude of crumbling roads and bridges, aging dams and outdated airports.
While much of the nation’s crumbling infrastructure can be attributed to a lack of funding, many feel the main culprit is simply neglect.
There is a lot of talk on why President ED Mnangagwa is “by-passing” parliament and has resorted to Statutory Instruments (SI) as a way to turn around Zimbabwe’s economy. There is now a need to have Statutory Instruments that will turn around the industrial manufacturing sector driven by professional engineers.
Zimbabwe’s political structure is mostly dominated by lawyers, economists and accountants and there is now a need to appoint professional engineers in strategic government positions.
Countries like China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and now the world’s biggest economy China has a domination of Engineers in government, advisory boards and in most of the countries strategic positions.
Reason being an engineer is a problem solver hence the definition of an engineer (“a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or structures”). These are the qualities that this country desperately needs.
Zimbabwe’s physical infrastructure we all rely on which include transport networks, roads, bridges, waste management,water and energy supplies are all in a dilapidated state.
Zimbabweans have to thank professional engineers for their digital infrastructure like communications and navigation networks that are part and parcel of the now Zimbabwe’s way of life. Zimbabwe’s engineers continue to play a huge role in healthcare, food, manufacturing and research. Professional engineers are the ones who bring innovation to our country.
As you know, Germany is known for its automobile industry. But did you know, Germany has very advanced nanotechnology applications in various industries.Japan too,has its income now mainly from Animes and Mangas.
Mangas are Japanese comics, and Anime is the Japanese version of animation. In order to design those they hire a lot of animation engineers. China is known for manufacturing electronic appliances at a cheaper cost. This is not possible without an electronics and electrical engineer.
So, engineers make a lot of difference in nation’s technology state. Talking about changes in technology by engineers,India is one more country that has a very big market of textiles, that do a lot of varieties. All these are not possible without textile engineers.
The Japanese economic growth was driven by an American engineering and industrial expert, W. Edwards Deming. Deming taught the Japanese manufacturers how to produce top quality products economically.
Some of the Japanese companies who adopted Deming theorems and concepts are Toyota Motor Corp. and Sony Corp. and became world-class producers in their fields, helping Japan become one of the planet’s dominant economic powers. Japan’s rise was the start of a regional metamorphosis. Asia eventually became a manufacturing giant.
Although American companies could have learned from Deming, most ignored him for decades even as Asian competitors gobbled away at Americans’ customer base and profits.
Zimbabwe needs professional engineers to be actively involved in building infrastructure, engineering work has a much wider and more lasting impact. It is common knowledge that infrastructure development helps to fuel economic growth.
Well-built housing and sanitation improves the quality of life of all residents in Zimbabwe. Good transport links make it easier for businesses to trade their goods, and enables the workforce to be more mobile and on time.
High-speed internet can boost productivity, improve efficiencies, and help organizations to look beyond their local or national borders… this list is endless.
There is no way Zimbabwe will develop to be a first world country without professional engineers leading from the front.
Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi is Chair of the ICT division of Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers (ZIE) , a Board Member of the Zimbabwe Institute of Directors (IOD), a Member of the Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers (ZIE) and Practising Engineer with Engineering Council of Zimbabwe (ECZ)
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WATCH: Videos Of Mnangagwa Personally Hiding Other People’s Human Skeletons
ANALYSIS | It is now more than four weeks since 7 year old Tapiwa Makore was killed and his body dismembered, “and the people who killed Tapiwa were caught, especially the one who cut his head is saying he’s the one who did it, even naming who he handed it to.
“What’s hurting is the people who killed him are there, but body is still incomplete,” the late child’s father complains saying.
The Makores tell ZimEye in separate interviews that everything is now in the hands of the police. But it is the same force that is failing to conclude the first step in the prosecution process. Then Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa is heard in file footage revealing who the police truly is in this country – they are a bunch of politicians of whom he is chief of.
He says: “We must be respected, we are majority, we are the government, we are the people, we are the army, we are the airforce, we are the police, we are everything you can think of, we determine who can do mining in Zimbabwe, we determine who can construct a railway line, we determine who can build a road in Zimbabwe, no other party can do so.”
It was on 4th April 1983 when Mnangagwa caused the Zimbabwean economy to crash as he described people as cockroaches who deserve to die for supporting protesters, who he labeled dissidents. He said everyone supporting protesters would have their days on earth reduced. 22,000 from Midlands and Matebeleland areas were killed as a result.
” But woe unto those who will choose the path of collaboration with dissidents for we will certainly shorten their stay on Earth,” he said.
The economy nosedived.
He would after that deny that anyone was killed, and what he told the BBC in 1983, is the same he repeated to France24 36 years later, in February 2019.
And then on 15th May 2015, Mnangagwa said democracy is only found in the World of the Dead. He said election winners are just corpses. (VIDEO)
Fast forward to 1st August 2018, he deployed the army onto the streets of Harare and his most senior advisor announced in his presence this was in order to change election results so they match an outcome greater than the one ZANU PF obtained in 1980.
And then in February 2019, Mnangagwa celebrated the killing of 17 people and raping of 17 women saying he would do more, to the point of physically attacking doctors and lawyers attending the victims. VIDEO:
On the 3rd January 2020, he told people in Harare’s Kuwadzana surbub, still nursing their wounds from beatings by the Zimbabwe national army, that he would re-deploy the army on them once he discovers they are the ones who stopped the rain. This is not a reading from a horror movie or a novel this is real life in modern day Zimbabwe. (VIDEO).
And now for some ‘great’ humour, in March 2020, Mnangagwa has announced a prize for the first person to die, literally (VIDEO).
Does this man have the capacity or willingness to give us Tapiwa’s head?
Former Football Star Dies In Road Accident
By A Correspondent- A road accident that occurred on Sunday reportedly claimed the life of former Black Rhinos player Leslie Kamuyoyo, The Herald reports.
The accident reportedly also claimed the life of a woman who was in the car with Muchinda and his teammate and colleague Gift “Shaft’’ Makoni was seriously injured in the accident and he is said to be in a critical condition in the hospital together with yet another female passenger who was in the car.
61-year-old Leslie Kamuyoyo survived by his wife and 4 children, Mourners are gathered at No. 3880 Chipere Close, Budiriro 2 in Harare.
The Herald published a short bio about the late star which states that Kamuyoyo was born in Mbare and he was part of the Black Rhinos squad that won the PSL title in 1984: …Was part of the Rhinos squad that won the League and Cup double in their maiden year in the top-flight league in 1984.
He joined Rhinos from BAT Ramblers where he was the team’s playmaker at the end of the 1982 season.
He accomplished this feat in a 1981 Castle Cup first round match against Dynamos at Gwanzura after he beat the country’s leading ‘keeper Japhet Muparutsa.
That match ended in a 2-2 draw before Ramblers lost the replay 3-1.
Kamuyoyo was later joined in the “two free-kick goals in one match” record book by Elvis “Chuchu” Chiweshe (Eagles, 1983) and Maxwell “MaRhino” Dube (Chapungu, 2001).
He was also part of the Rhinos squad that reached the quarter-finals of the then African Cup of Club Champions in 1985 where they lost to Senegalese top side US Goree.
After he hung up his boots, in the early ‘90s, Kamuyoyo had various coaching stints with the army teams around the country.
He was a self-anointed story teller whose favourite topic was “The Black Rhinos Sound of Music” where his voice would rise in pitch as he developed his narration about the side’s classic encounters.-statemedia
Residents Implore ED To Cut Prioritise Service Delivery Over Military Expenditure
By A Correspondent- Chiredzi residents last week called on government to reduce military expenditure in the 2021 national budget and channel more resources towards social services.
The residents were speaking during a 2021 national budget consultative meeting led by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Development chaired by Zaka North legislator Rabison Mavhenyengwa.
Human rights monitor, Marko Shoko said Zimbabwe was not at war, hence the Finance ministry should channel more resources towards education, health as well as social welfare and stop burdening the country with unnecessary military expenditure.
Patricia Zunga said morale in schools was low and the government should seriously look into the plight of teachers and pay them a salary commensurate with the work they do.
She also said there was no need for government to continue to allocate huge amounts to the Defence ministry.
“Government should consider allocating more money towards the construction of new schools in Chiredzi,” Zunga said.
United Chiredzi Residents and Ratepayers Association programmes officer Constance Chikumbo said public hospitals were in a sorry state with no medicine, burdening the poor who could not afford to get treatment at private hospitals.
“Immobility of police officers is making countless criminals unaccounted for because most police stations have no vehicles to track down reported cases,” Chikumbo said.
“This is an impetus to spiralling cases of corruption by our police force which is now taking bribes in order to open an investigation. Our hospitals need to be stocked with medicine so the government should give more resources to the Health and Child Care ministry.”
Other residents said more resources should be allocated to cater for people living with disabilities and other vulnerable members of the community.-Newsday
BREAKING: Florence Chitauro Dies.
By Dorrothy Moyo | Former Labour Minister and Senator, Florence Chitauro has died.
The widow of the late Defence secretary and first vice chancellor of Bindura University of Science Education Dr James Chitauro, has passed on after suffering a stroke.
She was one of the late President Robert Mugabe’s loudest cheerleaders,
She will be remembered for suppressing strikes against his regime, and creating the conditions that gave birth to the forming of the MDC party in 1999.
British newspapers once flighted as a former Minister who lived in a plush town house in west London with her late husband, James.
Her son and daughter live in the UK and her husband preceded her in 2014.
Florence Chitauro once stroked controversy when while ambassador to Australia she labelled former prime Minister John Howard dictator in retaliation for that countries foreign policy against Zimbabwe.
Mourners gathered at the family’s Borrowdale house in Harare.
Bhebhe Tells Mwonzora, Khupe Off
MDC-T National Organising Secretary Abednico Bhebhe has refused to attend a disciplinary hearing called by Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora accusing them of not following procedures and being resistant to the truth.
This followed an announcement by Mwonzora that Bhebhe and Harare Provincial youth leader Paul Gorekore will be disciplined for bringing the name of the party into disrepute.
“The leadership hereby ordered to commence and pursue disciplinary action against these two in terms of the party constitution.
“The national council was of the opinion that there were acts of indiscipline by Mr Gorekore and Mr Bhebhe but we resolved that the two would be dealt with in terms of our constitution. We want to assure our supporters that we will be firm with our own,” said Mwonzora.
But in response, Bhebhe said he will not attend the hearing as he had only heard it through the media.
“I will not attend such a disciplinary hearing being called through the media,” Bhebhe told NewZimbabwe.com Monday.
“The person who did that knows what needs to be done in terms of the procedures and process when one is being called to appear for a disciplinary hearing, and I am sure that has not been done.
“The party leadership should not be afraid of being told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” added Bhebhe.
“We Are Not Afraid Of Sikhala”: Mwonzora
By A Correspondent- MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has said Job Sikhala’s continued presence in Parliament is not a sign the party leadership feared him, but a matter of his unclear allegiance they are still to ascertain.
He made the remarks while addressing journalists in Harare Monday.
Mwonzora was responding to a question on whether his party was being selective in recalling MDC Alliance MPs and councillors since there are some public officials still loyal to MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa who are in office.
Sikhala, who is the Zengeza West MP and MDC Alliance vice-chairperson, is one of the officials who have remained loyal to Chamisa despite some threats by Mwonzora they risked recalls.
“We are not afraid of Mr Sikhala. He does not bite and he is a person who holds certain views, some very strongly and we do respect some of his views,” said Mwonzora.
“We do not know, he is yet to tell us the membership of his party, we have not seen the affidavit he signed renouncing the party (MDC-T).
“All members of our party who commit acts of misconduct will be dealt with in a fair manner, they will be afforded the right to be heard but if you leave the party for example by signing the affidavits which were drafted by the MDC Alliance lawyers, they would have expelled themselves.
“Those affidavits specifically stated that these people were no longer members of the MDC-T and if you specifically state that you are no longer a member of the MDC-T, you would have expelled yourself.”
Mwonzora has wielded his axe on over 20 MDC Alliance MPs and dozens of councillors he claims signed affidavits renouncing their membership to MDC-T in favour of the Chamisa-led faction.
The whole drama emanates from a March 2020 Supreme Court ruling that nullified Chamisa’s presidency and ordered an immediate return to party 2014 structures before an extraordinary congress meant to select late party leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s successor.-Newsday
Tapiwa Makore 4 Weeks Later.
ANALYSIS | It is now more than four weeks since 7 year old Tapiwa Makore was killed and his body dismembered, “and the people who killed Tapiwa were caught, especially the one who cut his head is saying he’s the one who did it, even naming who he handed it to.
“What’s hurting is the people who killed him are there, but body is still incomplete,” the late child’s father complains saying.
The Makores tell ZimEye in separate interviews that everything is now in the hands of the police. But it is the same force that is failing to conclude the first step in the prosecution process. Then Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa is heard in file footage revealing who the police truly is in this country – they are a bunch of politicians of whom he is chief of.
He says: “We must be respected, we are majority, we are the government, we are the people, we are the army, we are the airforce, we are the police, we are everything you can think of, we determine who can do mining in Zimbabwe, we determine who can construct a railway line, we determine who can build a road in Zimbabwe, no other party can do so.”
It was on 4th April 1983 when Mnangagwa caused the Zimbabwean economy to crash as he described people as cockroaches who deserve to die for supporting protesters, who he labeled dissidents. He said everyone supporting protesters would have their days on earth reduced. 22,000 from Midlands and Matebeleland areas were killed as a result.
” But woe unto those who will choose the path of collaboration with dissidents for we will certainly shorten their stay on Earth,” he said.
The economy nosedived.
He would after that deny that anyone was killed, and what he told the BBC in 1983, is the same he repeated to France24 36 years later, in February 2019.
And then on 15th May 2015, Mnangagwa said democracy is only found in the World of the Dead. He said election winners are just corpses. (VIDEO)
Fast forward to 1st August 2018, he deployed the army onto the streets of Harare and his most senior advisor announced in his presence this was in order to change election results so they match an outcome greater than the one ZANU PF obtained in 1980.
And then in February 2019, Mnangagwa celebrated the killing of 17 people and raping of 17 women saying he would do more, to the point of physically attacking doctors and lawyers attending the victims. VIDEO:
On the 3rd January 2020, he told people in Harare’s Kuwadzana surbub, still nursing their wounds from beatings by the Zimbabwe national army, that he would re-deploy the army on them once he discovers they are the ones who stopped the rain. This is not a reading from a horror movie or a novel this is real life in modern day Zimbabwe. (VIDEO).
And now for some ‘great’ humour, in March 2020, Mnangagwa has announced a prize for the first person to die, literally (VIDEO).
Does this man have the capacity or willingness to give us Tapiwa’s head?
Byo’s Queens Park Hit By Diarrhoea
By A Correspondent- Bulawayo’s Queens Park suburb has recorded diarrhoea cases as more suburbs register outbreaks of the disease which claimed 13 lives in Luveve in July and infected nearly 2 000 people.
Water shortages, ageing water and sewer infrastructure have been blamed for the recurrent diarrhoea outbreaks in the city.
Auditor-General, Midlred Chiri, in a report tabled in Parliament, recently warned that Bulawayo risked an outbreak of water-borne diseases resulting from failure to manage sewage reticulation systems.
“The community health worker for Queens Park alerted the area environmental health officer over concerns that a number of people seemed to be suffering from diarrhoea in the area. The concern was investigated and confirmed,” a council health, housing and education report read in part.
However, no deaths were recorded with the report, adding that people were avoiding council clinics because they do not want to undergo COVID-19 testing.
“Indications were that the affected were not willing to visit health facilities for fear of being tested for COVID-19. They were assured that it was not standard procedure that everyone who came to the clinic was tested for COVID-19, therefore, they should be free to go to the clinic,” the report added.
“The community health workers were advised to encourage all affected to visit the nearest clinic for treatment as diarrhoea treatment was currently free. The area environmental health officer continued to monitor the situation.”
In her report, Chiri said persistent bursting of sewage pipes and failure by councils to attend to them could result in an outbreak of fatal diseases.
“Due to failure by the urban local authorities to attend to blockages within the stipulated eight to 24 hours, raw sewage is lost into the environment before reaching the treatment plants thereby contaminating water bodies,” Chiri said.
“The raw sewage flowing on the ground will mix with potable water thereby resulting in water-borne diseases. Furthermore, delays in the repair of sewer blockage/chokes will result in backflow of sewage increasing pressure on inlet pipes and joints or weaker points will give in to pressure thereby causing further blockages.”-Newsday
Mbare Musika Closed For Renovations-At Long Last
City of Harare has closed down Mbare bus termini to pave way for renovations with buses now moved to Fourt street, Coventry holding bay, Mbudzi Complex car park and Machipisa shopping centre.
Travellers to Mutare, Mutoko, Murewa and Goromonzi will use Fourth Street bus terminus, while those travelling to Masvingo, Beitbridge and Chiredzi will use Mbudzi Complex parking and Machipisa Shopping Centre.
Those travelling to Bulawayo, Gweru, Chinhoyi, Shamva and Masvingo among other destinations will now use Coventry holding bay.
This was announced in a public notice issued by City of Harare.
