By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) president Enock Dongo said the June salary has incapacitated nurses from going to work at a time when the country is fighting the coronavirus.
Said Dongo:
There was a slash in terms of the total package and after inquiring with Government we were told that this is due to arrears that were being paid.
It was spread over four months from January. Now the four months elapsed and we are now back to reality and we always knew that would happen.
How are we going to budget with $3 500 as we are the people going to work while everyone else is on lockdown and we are not being provided with transport?
Whatever Government will offer us in local currency will be inadequate as prices are going up on a daily basis.
We are in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis and we do not want to withdraw our labour as that would be a recipe for disaster.
The government has confirmed slashing the salaries for all civil servants, previously reported by ZimEye yesterday.
Yesterday soldiers and police officers acting in defiance of their Commander In Chief, Emmerson Mnangagwa, went on a rampage ordering citizens to go back home, in various parts of the country.
This comes amid concerns that while prices of basic commodities are constantly increasing in the country, salaries remain stagnant.
Basic commodities, although priced in local currency, are largely pegged against the black market US$-local currency cross-rate.
The exchange rate at the parallel market yesterday was US$1: $70 via electronic transfers and US$1: $45 for cash transactions. The official rate is 1:25.
These price hikes are against the recent Government and industry moratorium that prices should revert to March 25 levels.
Nurses yesterday received their June salaries minus $2 000 from around $6 000 in May while other civil servants received salaries with a difference ranging from about $490 going upwards.
In an interview, the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, Mr Simon Masanga, said Government was seized with matters affecting civil servants.
“We are going to call civil servants for a meeting to discuss what Government has to offer as stated by the Minister recently. We are aware of the high cost of living and Government is treating it as a matter of urgency so that we resolve this issue and other conditions of service,” said Mr Masanga.
“It is unfortunate that I cannot give dates but it will be very soon and we will be able to engage and map a way forward.”
Apex Council secretary general, Mr David Dzatsunga said they had already written to Government citing concerns over the high cost of living compared to their salaries.
“We had already written to Government and there have been talks from Government and they are aware of our disgruntlement just that nothing is being done on the ground to ensure our members’ issues are addressed,” said Mr Dzatsunga.
“It is an open secret that people are in dire straits. $2 500 is not adequate and where does one start to budget against monthly needs?”
He said the Apex Council was ready to engage the Government for the way forward.
The Zimbabwe Nurses Association president Mr Enock Dongo said their June salary incapacitated them from going to work.
“There was a slash in terms of the total package and after inquiring with Government we were told that this is due to arrears that were being paid. It was spread over four months from January. Now the four months elapsed and we are now back to reality and we always knew that would happen,” said Mr Dongo.
“How are we going to budget with $3 500 as we are the people going to work while everyone else is on lockdown and we are not being provided with transport.”
He said nurses would be better off with US$ salaries.
“Whatever Government will offer us in local currency will be inadequate as prices are going up on a daily basis. We are in the middle of the Covid-19 crisis and we do not want to withdraw our labour as that would be a recipe for disaster,” he said. – Chronicle/additional reporting.
By A Correspondent. Police in Karoi are under fire for exposing a whistleblower who tipped them of a returnee from South Africa who avoided quarantine by sneaking into the country.
Human rights defenders have called on the police to behave professionally and protect people who give them tip-offs about illegal activities.
Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum programmes co-ordinator Musa Kika said international and human rights compliant practice stipulated that witnesses and whistleblowers must be protected.
“Not only is this to protect those who assist authorities to combat crime and unearth illegal activity, but it is also to encourage responsible citizenship by ensuring that citizens are vigilant and co-operate with authorities,” Kika said.
“Regrettably, as a country, we have not invested much in setting up infrastructure to protect witnesses and whistleblowers. We have no legislation addressing this protection at the moment. It is an area of law reform needing urgent attention.”
Kika added that whistleblowers suffered as a result of unwarranted exposure by the authorities, but still retained their right to sue the authorities and the individuals concerned when necessary.
Transparency International Zimbabwe executive director Muchaneta Mundopa concurred that whistleblowers played an important role in exposing corruption and other forms of wrongdoing and should be protected.
“exposing the identity of whistleblowers is irresponsible and can have tragic consequences,” Mundopa said.
“It is sad that with all the corruption that is happening in Zimbabwe, we still don’t have legal provisions for the protection of whistleblowers yet they are an integral tool in fighting and combatting corruption.
“We need to develop and adopt proper legislation to protect people who expose criminal activities.
“This is not the first time we have heard of law enforcement personnel revealing the identify of whistleblowers; it is really a cause of concern and if not regulated, will result in less people willing to expose acts of misconduct or corruption.”
Karoi residents recently raised the red flag after police exposed a whistleblower who had tipped them about four returnees from South Africa who escaped from Vuti Secondary School quarantine centre. One of them was arrested by villagers in Sanyati.
However, Mashonaland West police spokesperson Inspector Ian Kohwera said if there was anyone who was not happy over the conduct of the police, they were free to approach senior officers with their concerns.
Econet’s pricing for smart data bouquets has been reviewed as expected and here’s what subscribers will now pay.
Daily bundles
Remember the days a $1 used to get you 250MB. Well, wake up! Those days are long gone.
Weekly bundles
The pricing of these bundles is a bit contradictory. For years, Econet and other MNOs have told consumers that the lower the time limit the cheaper the data is. The 20MB & 250MB are priced equally and lower than their daily counterparts.
By A Correspondent- Former War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his two deputies Kembo Mohadi and Contanstino Chiwenga for allegedly dumping fellow freedom fighters soon after landing the presidency.
Dube said war veterans were now feeling let down after they put their lives on the block to push for the late former President Robert Mugabe’s ouster in a November 2017 coup.
“War veterans are living very difficult lives. We did not expect that because the President is a war veteran, the Minister of Defence and War Veterans (Oppah Muchinguri) is a war veteran, even the Vice-Presidents are war veterans,” Dube said at the weekend.
“It is just that when people get to higher offices, they tend to forget others and close the door. When we tell people that war veterans are starving, they don’t understand because their plate is full.
“I don’t see why war veterans should be living such difficult lives. Sometimes we should not forget where we came from because when our leaders came to power, the war veterans were happy and said at last, we will live well.”
The straight-talking Dube, who served as War Veterans minister in 2016 following the expulsion of Chris Mutsvangwa, dismissed the monthly pension payouts they receive from government as a pittance.
On several occasions, the government has announced plans to improve the welfare of ex-combatants, but failed to honour its pledge.
“We should not take pride at coming to funerals and fire gun salutes for war veterans when they die when we ignore their plight when they are still living,” Dube said.
The former Makokoba legislator also recently tongue-lashed presidential spokesperson George Charamba, accusing him of “living in the past” and exhibiting a condescending attitude after the former shot down his suggestion for a government of national unity to resolve the country’s multi-faceted crises.
MDC Alliance secretary-general Chalton Hwende said there was nothing unusual about MDC Vanguard leader Shakespeare Mukoyi’s defection to the Thokozani Khupe camp saying it is his right to join any political party of his choice.
Hwende made the remarks after Mukoyi was paraded by Khupe as the MDC-T interim youth assembly leader when the party held its inaugural national standing committee meeting at Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House in Harare on Monday.
Hwende said Mukoyi had not made a formal announcement but had been spotted making public appearances with Dr Khupe.
Hwende said the party wished Mukoyi well in his endeavours and political path. “The MDC is a democratic movement. People leave and people join the party on a daily basis. People are always free to go out and seek political fortunes elsewhere. However, those who want to continue fighting for a free and democratic Zimbabwe are with Advocate Chamisa. We also understand that a few of our former colleagues have elected to join the Zanu PF and they are associating with Thokozani Khupe and Douglas Mwonzora, so we wish him well in his political endeavours,” said Hwende.
He said following the departure of a number of party leaders, the party had embarked on an online recruitment campaign which, he claimed, saw their online platform “crashing due to oversubscription.”
Former leader of the disbanded Alliance vigilante group, the Vanguard, Shakespeare Mukoyi who was on Monday proclaimed as the Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T youth leader is set to pour his heart out in a presser set for today, Wednesday.
Before the latest development, he was the deputy youth leader in the Chamisa led MDC Alliance.
Mukoyi, who rose to prominence in the party as a foot soldier when it was being led by the late Morgan Tsvangirai was a one-time Chamisa loyalist, campaigning for him since 2003 in Kuwadzana constituency after the death of the then party’s spokesperson Learnmore Jongwe who was the constituency’s MP.
Sources said Mukoyi felt betrayed ahead of the 2018 general elections when he was promised that he would run for MP in Kuwadzana where he grew up as Chamisa was eyeing the presidency, only to be arm-twisted to leave the seat for Charlton Hwende, now the party’s secretary general whom many party members in the suburb considered an outsider.
Mukoyi said he had a “big” announcement to make today regarding his political life.“Unfortunately, right now I am not in a position to comment anything with regards to that matter. So far, I have not commented on this to any media house because I am preparing a presser. Talking to you before the presser will be like pre-empting what the youth assembly wants to divulge to the nation so something is happening but I will divulge more details at the presser. We expect it to be tomorrow if all arrangements go well,” said Mukoyi.
Yesterday Econet wireless warned that they were going to hike (well they said review but we know the drill well enough to call it a hike) their data and SMS bundles today.
Late in the day NetOne also signalled to their customers that they would be hiking their own bundles on the 18th.
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Our readers have inundated us with enquiries on how to register as an MDC Alliance member on WhatsApp platforms.
Below is the step by step process as provided by the party.
There are three types of membership the party offers:
Zimbabwe, which comes with a ZW$60 annual subscription fee. One may apply for Zimbabwe membership if they are permanently resident and only work and reside in Zimbabwe. Fees Are Strictly in Zimbabwe dollar;
Africa (excluding Zimbabwe), which comes with annual subscription of US$20. One may apply for Africa membership if they are permanently resident and mainly work and live in any country in Africa outside of Zimbabwe; and
Rest of World (excluding Africa), for which the annual subscription fee is US$70. One may apply for World membership if they are permanently resident and mainly work and live in any country outside of Africa.
For local membership, supporters have payment options which include EcoCash and bank transfers. An option is also available for members to visit their nearest branch and complete the registration formalities, including cash payments.
THE MDC Alliance led by Advocate Nelson Chamisa last night launched its new look website, with key features being the ability for party supporters to log in and pay membership fees as the opposition party gears for building a support base ahead of the 2023 elections.
The website, with the domain name mdcallianceparty.org, went live last night at 20.00 hours, and eagerly awaiting supporters immediately logged in, paid their annual membership fees and posted screenshots on social media to encourage others to do the same.
In addition to the website, the MDC Alliance also launched a full suite membership registration, subscription, donation and volunteer sign-up that includes a WhatsApp function.
In his key message to the membership which was uploaded on the website, Chamisa hinted that the journey towards preparing for the 2023 elections had just begun.
“Every election is a choice. A choice of ideologies and ideas.
The choice is between the old and the new and even more than a choice between parties, or personalities, it’s a choice between philosophies.
For Zimbabwe the time is now or never. Together we are aware of what it takes to make our economy stronger and fairer.
We know what it takes to make our communities safer. We know what it takes to make our life more affordable, and livelihoods more secure. We know that we need to strengthen, not abandon, the promise of economic transformation that will lead to a prosperous, inclusive and shared economy. We know that inclusion makes us stronger, and we know what it takes to lead the country both with the example of our power, and with the power of our example.
However, some party supporters who visited the website expressed discomfort at the insistence by the party leadership to continue using the MDC Alliance brand.
There are fears that the rival camp led by Thokozani Khupe will soon launch a lawsuit to stop Chamisa from using the MDC brand, logos, insignia and all symbols that are associated with the party left by the late Morgan Tsvangirai.
Below is an engagement debating the reasons why the military on Tuesday ordered citizens to disobey their boss, Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Mnangagwa has ordered people to go back to work and build the economy, but within 96 hrs, soldiers are telling the public to disregard his “presidential” instruction.
On the 12th June, Mnangagwa told the nation, to return to work to revamp the economy;
Soldiers are openly telling people to ignore their Commander In Chief's order to return to work. This comes as the military spokesman claimed to ZimEye saying the military chaos today is a lockdown operation. But ED says… JUMP ON https://t.co/eY98GsdO0a TO WATCH THE EXCLUSIVE pic.twitter.com/YwkPtQTYy0
…within less than 4 days, the military are seen busy in the streets ordering the citizens to do the opposite, to turn their backs and go home, in what will certainly see the economy suffer setbacks.
Soldiers ramming through the streets telling people to disobey Emmerson Mnangagwa pic.twitter.com/4EwmyCcVmq
In this feature, ZimEye contacts Emmerson Mnangagwa himself and also the senior military, among other core sources to the story, to find out what on earth is going on between the Limpopo and the Zambezi rivers.
The interviews come as state security insiders tell ZimEye, “soldiers are clearly tense.”
They explain the situation saying, “Someone spread a rumour of a coup, so Mnangagwa was trying to change military generals following that rumour, so they refused, so it’s that tense.
“Mnangagwa misfired because he took coup rumours very seriously, ” they added, as they spoke of a report by an American preacher called Nathan Hambyrd who alleges that Mnangagwa will be assassinated as ‘a hot bullet goes through his head.’
Says Hambyrd, “”Mr Mnangagwa, your thievery, your ungodly life, your murders, your abductions, your rapes, your pillaging, your immorality, your promiscuity, your devil worshipping, God is going to take your breath from you, a hot bullet will find you.
“It will go through your flesh, and blood will spill out everywhere, I’m not going to do it, but it will come from your own people, and that is the will of God, for you to bleed and die.”
“Mnangagwa believes in spiritualism from vapositori and witch doctors, so if he hears anything from the spiritualists, he becomes worked up.
Mr Mnangagwa… your thievery, your ungodly life, your murders, your abductions, your rapes, your pillaging…immorality…God is going to take your breath from you…" – @nathanhambyrd pic.twitter.com/VcjDrPuvlC
One of Hambyrd’s predictions of Mnangagwa’s sudden end. “Mr Mnangagwa, your thievery, your ungodly life, your murders, your abductions, your rapes, your pillaging, your immorality, your promiscuity, your devil worshipping, God is going to take your breath from you, a hot bullet will find you. It will go through your flesh, and blood will spill out everywhere, I’m not going to do it, but it will come from your own people, and that is the will of God, for you to bleed and die.”
“So now, he went on to shake the branch with its swarm of bees, so the army errupted into a loud disquiet, the soldiers are not happy,” they said.
Names and ranks of the generals up for firing had not been published at the time of writing (this report is being updated).
The leak, is however confirmed by a full Joint Operations Command announcement by the Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe flanked by full colour military generals when the US preacher’s name was dropped, as Kazembe also attacked the country’s leading investigative news network, ZimEye.com.
So which ranks are in a disquiet then?, our reporter asked, to which ZimEye was told, “when soldiers are fed up, what happens is when generals above are given money and perks, the lower ranks complain, but this larger part of the army even if it complains, nothing happens because they operate under a firm command structure; the lower ranks can never go into action without an order from the top.
“If the military can be allowed to roam around abusing their power it means that there is somebody up there who is allowing it to happen,” they added.
While video evidence from Harare and Bulawayo, showed soldiers as non violent albeit still sending people home, in their Commander In Chief’s own hometown, Zvishavane, it was blood on the floor, as it were – the direct message from the military to Mnangagwa was blasted louder: Soldiers who were reportedly beating civilians in surrounding areas of nearby Mberengwa following a sharp increase in fuel prices at Mnangagwa’s petrol stations. Below were some submissions from sources in the area, which ZimEye verified with several sources there.
A submission from Zvishavane
In ZANU PF’s stronghold, Masvingo town, there were no beatings, although soldiers and police were roaming about in the neighbourhoods.
ZimEye reached out to Mnangagwa for a comment and his spokesman, George Charamba angrily reacted as he lashed out saying, “first disabuse your readers of the alarmist story you ran and then you and I can engage,” he said, while referring to the video article showing how soldiers went round the cities ordering workers to disobey their(the soldiers’) own commander in chief, to go back home.
Charamba’s denial came as a highly reliable source within the army has revealed to ZimEye.com that soldiers have closed off all major urban centres in the country in protest against government’s move to reduce their salaries by ZWL$1000.
Members of the military were apparently warned last month that they will receive reduced salaries this month (June) because a back pay that had been spread for four months – February to May – has been paid up.
A letter communicating this change, which ZimEye republishes, states in part, “expect a reduction in net salaries with effect from June 2020, because if the cessation of the backpay.”
The leaked letter written to military lower ranks
Contacted for a comment, military spokesman Col Overson Mugwisi had a different story. He told ZimEye the ongoing military deployment is all to do with the coronavirus lockdown.
“Talk to the police, they’re in charge of the lockdown,” he said, referring to the COVID lockdown.
Below is a screenroll of the spokesman’s responses: “Who is turning away people?
“My brother I think you know the truth that lockdown measures are being done by the police.
Military spokesman (O Mugwisi-OM): Who is turning away people? My brother I think you know the truth that lockdown measures are being done by the police. I really don't know why you have an obsession of talking to the military…Talk to the police,theyre charge of the lockdown.. pic.twitter.com/n7yxMsNnxp
“I really don’t know why you have an obsession of talking to the military…
“Talk to the police,they’re in charge of the lockdown…”
But the national COVID lockdown was officially scaled down to Level 2 last week Friday, with ZANU PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa announcing saying, people should now return to work to revamp the economy.
Towards the end of the day, state security sources reiterated to ZimEye, “there might not be a coup but there is a loud disquiet in the military ranks and it has been permitted.”
THE MDC Alliance led by Advocate Nelson Chamisa last night launched its WhatsApp facility giving the ability for party supporters to pay membership fees as the opposition party gears for building a support base ahead of the 2023 elections.
The response was overwhelming for the party.
“Hello all! Our WhatsApp platform could not cope with the volumes last night so we are in the process of upgrading it right now.
Please keep registering and donating on the website! #MDCAlliance #GetInvolved
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TRANSPARENCY IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT DURING COVID-19
“The second Republic will not tolerate siphoning of public funds through various nefarious activities for personal gain. Those found wanting will face the full wrath of the law,” `ED warns against abuse of funds’ Herald, 09 November, 2018.
As COVID-19 resources continue to be donated from local and international players to strengthen the Zimbabwean response to the pandemic, the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD), Transparency International Zimbabwe (TI-Z) and Magamba Network are concerned about allegations of abuse of public funds, weak procurement processes and limited systems of checks and balances within government. These continue to threaten the key facets of transparency, accountability and integrity in the management of public funds.
The media for the past few weeks has pointed out skewed procurement procedures and price gouging in the procurement of Covid-19 related supplies. For instance, Drax International LLC is said to have been awarded a contract to supply personal protective equipment (PPEs) worth US$987 720 against a local market value of US$325 000. Additionally, briefcase organisations such as Jaji Investments, a company registered in Namibia, is alleged to have been awarded contracts to supply Covid-19 equipment to the Ministry of Health and Child Care without going through a competitive bidding process. These cases illustrate endemic levels of corruption that flouts procurement rules and regulations. Corruption of this nature indicates institutional weakness in procurement processes and lack of transparency processes in selection on government suppliers. Precautionary measures must therefore be taken to guard against “tenderpreneurship” in which individuals and companies are awarded government tenders without going through the open contracting processes as provided for in Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Act of 2017.
The three organisations cited herein have taken notice that one Delish Nguwaya, a representative of Drax International has been charged with fraud and the matter is pending at the courts. It is our expectation and that of every Zimbabwean that due process of the law will take its course and this case does not fall victim of the “catch and release” phenomena synonymous with many cases of grand corruption in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD), Transparency International Zimbabwe (TI-Z) and Magamba Network are therefore concerned about the following:
TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL ZIMBABWE
• The massive looting of public resources under the guise of Covid-19 procurement. Several reports by the Auditor-General’s Office and parliamentary portfolio committees, have in the past exposed poor public finance management by public institutions and individuals whose interests are to plunder wealth, including donations.
• Public contracting continues to be shrouded in secrecy as evidenced by the lack of open contracting in COV1D-19 procurement and the sidestepping of procurement procedures and regulations in the Covid-19 related procurement.
• State capture characterised by the collusion between the private sector and political exposed persons that have created a vicious circle that undermines the respect for rule of law and the effective functioning of democratic institutions in as far as public procurement is concerned. In light of the above, we recommend that the Government of Zimbabwe to:
• Ensure public disclosure of beneficial ownership of companies awarded public contracts by creating an online beneficial ownership register to inculcate a culture of transparency when awarding public procurement contracts.
• Set up electronic procurement system (e-procurement) for Covid-19 and other public procurement systems. Countries like Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya have successfully established online open contracting systems and Zimbabwe should emulate the same in advancing transparency and accountability.
• Guarantee protection of whistle-blowers by enacting fit-for-purpose whistle-blowers legislation
• Conduct due diligence of the companies before awarding public contracts. Establish the management and ownership of the company, when the company was registered, authenticity, company capitalisation, physical location, revenue and margin trends, market size and market growth, stock price history, tax compliance, competition among other critical factors.
• Release fortnightly procurement updates: what we need and what has been bought for the same period.
• Reinforce oversight bodies and anti-corruption agencies to alleviate the abuse of COVID-19 earmarked resources. Such institutions include the Parliament of Zimbabwe, Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (PRAZ), Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) and the Competition Tariff Commission.
• Take action against those that do not comply with procurement procedures as provided for by the Public Finance Management Act and the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Act to ensure that public procurement is conducted in a manner that is transparent, fair, honest, cost-effective and competitive.
THE country’s COVID-19 confirmed positive cases are now at 391 following four cases that were confirmed positive this Tuesday.
The cases are all returnees from South Africa and are all under isolation.
Meanwhile 241 returning citizens who are employed by an American cruise ship are back in the country and have been accommodated at a local hotel where they will be quarantined.
THE 241 returning citizens are employed by an American cruise ship company called the Norwegian. The returnees comprising mostly young men and women flew into Harare from the United States of America where they had assembled.
Some of the returning residents said they were not tested for COVID-19 prior to their departure. The Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr John Mangwiro who was at the Robert Mugabe International airport to meet the group and oversee the clearing processes said COVID-19 testing on the returnees will commence this Tuesday evening with results expected by end of day this Wednesday.
Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr John Mangwiro
The returnees were taken from the airport in buses after special clearance procedures were conducted.
While the World Health Organization had classified coronavirus transmission in Zimbabwe as sporadic with no discernible clusters, the majority of positive cases have been recorded amongst returnees.
The last two months have seen an increase in the number of returning citizens coming from South Africa, Botswana and Mozambique with Zimbabwean embassies in different countries facilitating the acquisition of necessary travel permits.
All returning citizens and residents have to undergo quarantine and testing measures recommended by the World Health Organisation before they finally join their families.
Since the first case of coronavirus was confirmed in Zimbabwe on the 20th of March this year, 62 recoveries have been recorded while four succumbed to the deadly virus.
Speaking during a prayer and fasting session at state house on Monday, ZAOGA founder, Ezekiel Guti said ZANU PF coupist, Emmerson Mnangagwa is God’s servant. He said this just as 3 female MDC activists who are victims of torture, were unlawfully imprisoned. Said Guti’: “Heavenly Father, we want to thank you for hearing when our president call upon you for us all. Thank you…I believe that you have heard the cry of our President and the wisdom which he has done to prepare us… – VIDEO LOADING BELOW
Ezekiel Guti says Mnangagwa is God's servant, "Heavenly Father, we want to thank you for hearing when our president call upon you for us all. Thank you…I believe that you have heard the cry of our President and the wisdom which he has done to prepare us… -@ZTNnews pic.twitter.com/QPpgbvP5jw
Health and Child Care Minister Obadiah Moyo could find himself in trouble after he snubbed a summon to appear before the Zimbawe Anti Corruption Commission on Tuesday.
Moyo was summoned by the commission over a multi million dollar deal by his Ministry was corruply awarded to Drax Sagl, a company that is allegedly not ‘fit and proper’ for the deal, and accused of inflating prices.
Zacc regarded Moyo as a person of interest following his alleged involvement in the murky deal. ZACC summoned Moyo with a possibility of an immediate arrest after completing evaluation of the statement he submitted last week.
“He was asked to report at 12 midday but he requested postponement to 4pm citing that he was attending cabinet meeting which were reasonable grounds.
“He however failed to turn up and did not explain his absence,” Sources said.
Moyo is likely to be charged with Finance Ministry Secretary George Guvamatanga, Natpharm chief executive Florah Sifeku and former health ministry secretary Agnes Mahomva who were also asked to submit similar reports to ZACC last week.
“They all face similar charges although two of them will turn out as State witnesses,” according to sources.
Moyo is alleged to have given a greenlight to the award the contract to Drax International with full knowledge that it had failed security checks twice.
It is further alleged that he recommended Drax’s capacity and untainted record to Natpharm chief executive Florah Sifeku.
Guvamatanga’s alleged involvement stems from appending his signature for the release of funds from Treasury, but he has since stated that he submitted due diligence reports to relevant authorities including the line minister.
The Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T has warned MDC Alliance legislators and councillors who allegedly deviate from the dictates of the original MDC that the party will not hesitate to recall them.
Following Monday’s MDC-T Standing Committee meeting, the Supreme Court created opposition party’s Acting President, Dr Thokozani Khupe has asserted her control and authority over the party declaring that all the 103 MDC Alliance MPs fall under her.
“MDC-T has 103 MPs in Parliament meaning that I am currently the leader of that political party which has 103 MPs in that Parliament,” highlighted Dr Khupe.
The MDC-T Secretary General, Senator Douglas Mwonzora noted that all MDC MPs should tow Khupe’s line or risk being recalled from Parliament.
“We also discussed the issue of recalls of councillors as well as members of parliament who have joined other political parties. We are going to proceed with these but we will deal with these on a case by case basis. Those who have joined other political parties cannot continue to represent us in Parliament. The High court ruled that we can continue our recalls. In other words the interdict that sought to stop us from recalling was dismissed by Justice Chitapi,” said Mwonzora.
Mwonzora castigated the faction led by Advocate Nelson Chamisa for being political drama queens fond of propaganda evident in their lies about the takeover of the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai building.
“We received a report on the handover and takeover of Morgan Tsvangirai House and this has been a subject of a lot of propaganda which has unfortunately sucked in some of the countries in this world because of the images that were broadcast by our colleagues. We view it as malicious to suggest that the handover takeover of this building involved the army and the police. The army has been patrolling the streets since the declaration of the lockdown,” noted Mwonzora.
Mines and Mining Development Ministry leadership’s inaction to fix Certificate issuance problems has created loopholes for corrupt Mines Officials to manipulate leading to gold leakage onto the parallel market, unending claim disputes, and illegal mining amongst others.
Corruption is rife at the Ministry’s provincial offices dotted across the country with double allocations being a common feature which is usually a deliberate attempt to wrestle high yielding claims by corrupt Mines Ministry Officials to the highest bidder or persons with much deeper pockets.
This is how the corrupt syndicates operate;
An ordinary person or prospector is allowed to part ways with his hard-earned cash to acquire a prospectors license zwl1000.
The Ministry hands him over to a pegger who charges from US$300 to 500 (some are known to advertise for US$2000 and all work is done quickly and certificates issued immediately).
Pegger does his or her part and submits the documents to the ministry such that they may come and verify what has been done by the pegger. The customer pays registration fees of zw$1,000 (also customer incurs a cost, fuel or hiring a car, time wasted, loss of business attending to this, etc)
Once the documents are in the Ministry’s hands the customer awaits a call from the ministry such that the customer may show the mines officers the temporary beacons marked by the pegger. (This is where the whole process dies).
As the customer waits for no 4 to take place time will be ticking and the prospector’s licenses life span expires and Mines Ministry is not compelled to action expired applications.
While waiting for no.4 the Ministry has no staff and no vehicle and no fuel to attend to applications. They do not accept to be ferried to and from the site by miners for security reasons.
While waiting for no.4 the Ministry will be taking in new applications and collecting 1 and 3 non-stop.
For years this system has been happening at mines offices to the point that their maps are so heavily marked and you can’t tell who is who on their maps. In Mines Gweru Office’s case, they direct you to peggers that charge for one to browse their maps.
With all the money collected year in and year out Mines Ministry cannot afford, either new maps or Fuel to service their mining areas, etc.
On the other hand, special grants applications will be also flowing in and getting trapped just like the above.
When anyone with under the table money, or a well-connected person comes through, their application is processed fast and a site visit is done and certificate/s issued.
Certificates are being issued but the question is to who and why are procedures of first come first serve not followed especially to those who paid through the nose. Recently as many as 600 claims were forfeited and experts questioned ministry’s motive for taking such a retrogressive action which likely resulted in killing off struggling small scale mining projects. Mining Zimbabwe recently sent the Mines and Mining Development Minister a list dating back to 2017 of miners still awaiting certificates and up to now, there has been no action taken.
Mr Stanley Takaona of the Zimbabwe HIV and AIDS Activist Union Community Trust
PEOPLE living with HIV and AIDS are having difficulties in accessing second line drugs from public institutions and are being forced to buy them from pharmacies at US$25 for one-month’s supply.
Mr Stanley Takaona of the Zimbabwe HIV and AIDS Activist Union Community Trust (ZHAUCT) said some members of his organisation were turned away from Wilkins Hospital and given prescriptions to source the drugs from pharmacies.
“Patients on anti-retroviral therapy (ART) have been turned away from Wilkins in Harare where they normally access their supplies. I have followed up with the authorities at the hospital and I am reliably informed that a consignment of the second line drugs is yet to be received at NatPharm. It’s a sad scenario and people’s health is at stake,” he said.
Mr Takaona said second and third line drug regimens were expensive and turning away patients on ART was akin to passing a death sentence on them.
“Patients cannot afford the high cost of drugs in these Covid-19 times where supplies from pharmacies cost US$25. If ever there is a stockout at any health centre, we recommend that they get support from other institutions. Harare City Council is not taking our lives seriously. They could have referred patients to Harare Hospital or other hospitals where minimal supplies can be given to patients.”
Mr Takaona said under normal circumstances, ART patients on the second line drug regime received drug supplies of up to three months.
The National AIDS Council (NAC) is on record as saying the country has bought enough (ART) drug stocks to cover supplies for the next six months.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi
The Zimbabwe Republic Police says that they are addressing complaints by Bulawayo and Harare residents who were blocked from going to work by security forces on Monday.
The entire business in Bulawayo CBD was brought to a halt as residents failed to report for duty after soldiers manning roadblocks ordered them to return home.
Many workers had to walk home after being dropped at the different entry points manned by the army as there was no transport to take them home.
Harare residents faced the same challenge on Monday when they were also ordered to go back home at the roadblocks.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the Zimbabwe Republic Police had received members of the public’s complaints.
“As we speak the Officer Commanding Bulawayo Province and the Officer Commanding Harare Province have received some of those complaints and concerns which are being addressed. We urge members of the public who might face movement challenges, especially those with exemption letters to contact the local police. They can contact the local Officer Commanding District, Officer Commanding Province and if there is no joy, they can contact police Headquarters,” said Asst Comm Nyathi.
“All checkpoints, all roadblocks have got national guidelines which were communicated to police commanders.
“We expect officers to act according to those guidelines which will soon be availed to the media for the benefit of members of the public.
“If there are any deviations by officers from these guidelines which were clearly communicated and clearly articulated, the public has the right to raise concerns with the command,” said Asst Comm Nyathi.
Health and Child Care Deputy Minister Dr John Mangwiro
OVER 9 000 Zimbabweans have returned home from 48 countries following the outbreak of Covid-19.
The figure includes 241 who arrived at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport from the United States yesterday and were received by Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care Dr John Mangwiro.
They were expected to immediately undergo testing for Covid-19 and are housed at a local hotel.
All of the returnees are employed by an American cruise company which will foot the cost of their stay.
Secretary for Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Mr Simon Masanga appeared before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare yesterday to give a brief on his ministry’s interventions in the ongoing fight against the pandemic.
He said South Africa and Botswana provided the majority of the returnees with 4 257 and 2 787, respectively.
Mr Masanga said returnees from South Africa and Botswana could have volunteered to come back or had been deported.
Countries that have provided returnees include Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, DRC, Nigeria, South Sudan, Sudan, Guinea, Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Lesotho, Togo, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Namibia, Cameroon and Swaziland.
In Europe and the Middle East, countries where the returnees came from were the United Kingdom, Israel, Yemen, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Greece, Germany, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Scotland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Croatia, Belarus, Czech Republic, Sweden and Belgium.
In the Americas, the returnees have been from Argentina, Canada, Brazil, Falkland Islands and Panama.
In Asia, the locals that have returned home were from China, Hong Kong and The Philippines.
Mr Masanga said: “We have established more than 50 quarantine stations across the country. When this programme started, we were accommodating our returnees around Plumtree and Beitbridge, but as we continued to receive more and more people it meant our institutions that were looking after our people became inadequate and then we decided to open up other centres across the country.
“We are mostly using schools and colleges because we were not paying for accommodation and also providing food and clothing for some of the returnees.”
Mr Masanga said testing for Covid-19 on the returning citizens would improve following the arrival of testing kits on Friday last week that were already being distributed.
He said Government had so far spent at least $120 million on the welfare of the returnees that were housed at the quarantine centres.
DYNAMOS have warned that their players risk being slapped with heavy fines if they are caught engaging in money games or violating the Covid-19 lockdown rules.
Coach Tonderayi Ndiraya told Classic 263 radio that the club will not hesitate to hit players hard in the pocket if they are found on the wrong side of the lockdown rules, saying such acts not only tarnished the image of Dynamos, but their sponsor and the nation as a whole.
“I am glad to say that we have been very fortunate, we got a sponsor who is taking care of the boys and we wouldn’t want to disappoint that sponsor by engaging in these money game activities because it indeed paints a very bad picture.
Our players are taken very good care of and that is the reason why I say we will hit their pockets if they engage in money games,” said Ndiraya.
DeMbare are bankrolled by tobacco company Rudland and George, a subsidiary of Gold Leaf Tobacco.
Sporting activities across the country were suspended indefinitely due to the Covid-19 pandemic that has ravaged the world, but earlythis month, the Government cleared 15 sports classified as low risk to resume activities-State media
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe through its Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has engaged law enforcement agents to prosecute illegal forex traders posting foreign currency exchange rates on social media platforms. This comes as the local currency continues lose ground against major currencies.
It now trades at around 1:70 and above against the US$ on the parallel market at a time when the official fixed exchange rate remains at 1:25.
The trend has worsened pricing distortion and further weakened consumer spending while dampening business sentiment.
Authorities say the wild exchange rate has nothing to do with economic fundamentals and is being driven by speculative tendencies.
In a notice yesterday, the FIU said it has been monitoring social media platforms where foreign currency dealers have been advertising and promoting their illegal trade.
“The FIU is aware of WhatsApp groups that have mushroomed in the country for the specific purpose of promoting and facilitating illegal foreign currency trade.
“Identified persons will be investigated and prosecuted for illegally trading in or advertising illegal trading in foreign currency,” said the FIU.
Together with police, banks, mobile money or mobile phone service providers and relevant regulatory agencies, the FIU has embarked on an exercise to identify and take action against individuals who create, advertise on or participate (actively or passively) in WhatsApp groups or other platforms for illegal forex trading.
It said mobile phone numbers used to join or advertise on the illegal groups will be shared with mobile phone operators and the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) for barring.
Other mobile phone numbers registered in the names of such persons will also be identified and barred-State media
ZIMBABWE’S year-on-year inflation spiked to 785,55 percent for the month of May 2020, according to data from the Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency (Zimstat) released yesterday.
The agency said that year-on-year inflation rate for last month increased by 785,55 percent.
“This means that prices as measured by the all items Consumer Price Index increased by an average of 785,55 percent between May 2020 and May 2019,” said Zimstat.
The agency also indicated that the month-on-month inflation rate in May 2020 was 15,13 percent shedding 2,51 percentage points on the April 2020 rate of 17,64 percent.
This means that prices as measured by the all items Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by an average rate of 15,13 percent from April 2020 to May 2020.
“The month-on-month food and non alcoholic beverages inflation rate stood at 14,72 percent in May 2020, shedding 13,65 percentage points on the April rate of 28,37 percent.
“The month on month non-food inflation rate stood at 15,41 percent, gaining 4,03 percentage points on the April 2020 rate of 11,38 percent,” said the agency.
In March, the Government said the fiscal and monetary policies it is implementing will stabilise the exchange rate and keep under check, inflationary pressures, which have seen the annual inflation rate surging in recent months.
The rising inflation continues to limit options for consumers who have suffered diminishing spending power as prices relentlessly increase in response to changes on the exchange rate.
Treasury plans to liberalise the formal foreign currency trading system as part of measures to limit informal activities and ensure all the foreign exchange is traded through registered channels for the benefit of the economy-State media
By Dorrothy Moyo | The following remarks were made by the MDC Alliance Secretaty General, Chalton Hwende over the defection of former Vanguard leader, Mr Shakespear Mukoyi to the renegade, Thokozani Khupe.
Mukoyi has been appointed into Khupe’s structures despite her accusations that he (Mukoyi) has been a Nelson Chamisa front-man for what she describes as violence. In an incident at the MDC Bulawayo offices in August 2017, ironically, it is Khupe who is seen unleashing violence against Mukoyi (6 months before her boss, Morgan Tsvangirai’s death.)
During the same press conference on Monday, as Khupe was announcing saying she was in good books with her boss Tsvangirai days before his death, her own aide Morgen Komichi was conspicuous through loud body language of firm disagreement.
Hwende said Mr Mukoyi had not made a formal announcement but had been spotted making public appearances with Dr Khupe. Hon. Hwende said the party wished Mr Mukoyi well in his endeavours and political path. “The MDC is a democratic movement. People leave and people join the party on a daily basis. People are always free to go out and seek political fortunes elsewhere. However, those who want to continue fighting for a free and democratic Zimbabwe are with Advocate Chamisa. We also understand that a few of our former colleagues have elected to join the Zanu PF and they are associating with Thokozani Khupe and Douglas Mwonzora, so we wish him well in his political endeavours,” said Mr Hwende
Villagers in Chilonga, Chiredzi in Masvingo Province have threatened to drag the government to court over the planned eviction meant to allow Dendairy to embark on a lucerne grass project.
Through lawyers from the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), the villagers wrote a letter a fortnight ago to Local Government minister July Moyo challenging the planned ejection.
Reads the letter in part: We have been instructed to request your office to furnish us with information in your custody and control, which our clients are entitled to in terms of Section 62 of the Constitution within 14 days of your receipt of this letter, which relates to the following: confirmation of whether or not villagers in Chilonga Communal Area will be displaced to pave way for a lucerne production project, government relocation plan for the Chilonga community and issues of compensation in case of displacements, how the government is going to engage the local community over the ancestral land (and) copies of all documents relating to the transaction between the ministry of Local Government and the Lucerne investor.
The villagers said that they were not consulted, they were not informed of where they will be relocated and how they will benefit from the project adding that the move ejects them from their ancestral lands.
They are also worried that the government will leave them stranded as was the case with victims of Tokwe-Mukorsi floods- Daily News
Should we keep on sending non-performing MPs for the sake of balancing gender only? Or should we do more?
Here is my take on the PR system beyond 2023.
In October 2019, the government gazetted Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2, which seeks to introduce several amendments to the 2013 Constitution.
Parliamentary Consultations on this Second Amendment are set to start shortly which has opened pertinent conversations about the proposed ammendments.
Today, I want to specially focus on the women’s quota (PR system).
According to the 2013 constitution, the PR system was set to end after 10 years but if the Constitutional Ammendment Bill No.2 is to be adopted, then the PR system will continue beyond 2023. …but do we really need it? Has it achieved enough thus far to merit a continuation?
Has it politically empowered women in such a way that come next election, women who were previously in parly based on the quota system can not only directly contest, but contest and win?
Personally I have a number of issues concerning the current qouta system and as women and youth go out for Parliamentary public consultations beginning this week, I would like them to voice out these issues.
I suggest that the qouta system be continued but with these reforms:
1) A ballot be available for the selection of women for PR in each province. Let’s get women electing other women in their provinces with the top 6 going to parliament.
In this way candidates will have an opportunity to either contest as independent or under a political party. The party list system is exclusionary and subject to abuse by party bigwigs which is why the media is awash with claims and counter claims that PR MP y and x got in parly through the bedroom. Let’s do away with PR women who serve party political masters.
By being directly elected by other women, they will also have direct constituencies which the current quota system does not provide. They will have a people to which they can report back to.
2) Let’s put limits to women who are participating in PR.
The major purpose of a PR system is to mentor young women, isn’t it? If so, I think we need an age limit, is it not possible to say anyone above 35 or 50 isn’t eligible to contest under PR? I say this because many women in parliament through the PR system right now are just old women sleeping day in, day out without any serious political future.
Secondly, I think people who have previously saved as MPs before (both as PR and/ constituent MP) should not be allowed to go back in parliament through the PR system, they need to leave that space for others.
We’ve people like Priscilla Misihairambwi-Mushonga who has been in Parliament twice before but is now back in parliament as a PR MP
. Isn’t that defeating the whole purpose of PR? Are we not recycling “dead wood” in the name of political empowerment for women? 3) Let’s make the political environment more friendly and safe for women.
While the PR system is trying to balance the numbers in parliament, it’s failure to achieve a 50-50 gender balance can be attributed to a political environment that is not friendly for women.
This needs to be tackled to ensure equal participation of males and females in politics and parliament.
The ongoing brutality being perpetuated at Netsai, Cecilia and Joana, for example, will only serve to scare young women away from politics.
Most women fear for their lives and dignity because of what they see happening to other women in politics.
There is need to level the playing field in such a way that we can have more women participating in politics.
To conclude, I think we need to continue with the PR system and even introduce it to youths (but not with the paltry 10 seats that were proposed by the government) but we need to reform it!
The MDC Alliance Youth Assembly today commemorates the heroic efforts of yesteryear young black Africans from Soweto, South Africa who rose to challenge Apartheid dictatorship in 1976.
What is inspiring and more challenging is that authors of the heroic 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising were mere pupils in their early teenage years yet they found courage to confront the evils of their time.
As we mark this day, our generation is faced with a brutal military regime of Emmerson Mnangagwa which has used every tick and trick in books of dictatorship to suffocate and abuse its citizens.
From broad daylight military killings to abductions, torture, rape and imprisonment, Mnangagwa has done everything there is to do in suppressing our basic rights.
This day comes at a time when our youth female leaders are rotting and languishing at Chikurubi Maximum Prison for simply exposing the abduction, torture and rape they went through at the hands of Mnangagwa’s military dictatorship.
Just like Hector Peterson who had to pay the ultimate price for questioning Apartheid laws, Cecilia Chimbiri, Netsai Marova and Joanna Mamombe were made to go through some of the worst forms of human abuse for simply exercising their democratic rights.
Just like Hector Peterson who was killed by Apartheid police for demanding to be taught in his own language, vendor Hilton Tamangani was gruesomely beaten and died in police custody for simply trying to eke out a living through selling airtime in a country where unemployment is hovering above 90 percent.
Just like Hector Peterson who was shot by Apartheid police for demanding a bright future, Sylvia Maphosa and 6 others were horribly shot by the military on 01 August 2018 for the simple reason that they rejected Emmerson Mnangagwa in the ballot box.
As a people, a generation and Assembly, we have lost so much at the hands of this monstrous military dictatorship which is by far worse than the Apartheid regime when it comes to disregard of human life and dignity.
Today calls for more Hector Petersons who questions the status quo especially at a time when Emmerson Mnangagwa’s military dictatorship has become the law unto self.
The time is ripe for this generation to fulfill the dreams of those who sacrificed for freedom and independence during our liberation struggles.
It is time for a June 1976 on Mnangagwa’s military dictatorship!
Stephen Sarkozy Chuma MDCAllianceYouthAssemblyNationalSpokesperson
Farai Dziva|MDC Alliance councillor for ward 4, Masvingo Urban, Godfrey Kurauone says he has nothing to worry about as he was only performing his social responsibility duty of feeding hungry people.
Kurauone related how government agents visited his house and accused him of violating lockdown restrictions.
On Monday, Councillor Kurauone bought lunch for the homeless in Masvingo.
Kurauone said : “CID officers came to my house at 9:28am and accused me of breaching the Covid-19 regulations yesterday after giving food to the disadvantaged and homeless people.
However, l informed them that, it is my social responsibility as councillor to feed the hungry. “
“This is an act of harassment. I think they are harassing me because l am from the MDC Alliance led by President Chamisa, who defeated ED in 2018 harmonised elections.”
Should we keep on sending non-performing MPs for the sake of balancing gender only? Or should we do more?
Here is my take on the PR system beyond 2023.
In October 2019, the government gazetted Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2, which seeks to introduce several amendments to the 2013 Constitution.
Parliamentary Consultations on this Second Amendment are set to start shortly which has opened pertinent conversations about the proposed ammendments.
Today, I want to specially focus on the women’s quota (PR system).
According to the 2013 constitution, the PR system was set to end after 10 years but if the Constitutional Ammendment Bill No.2 is to be adopted, then the PR system will continue beyond 2023. …but do we really need it? Has it achieved enough thus far to merit a continuation?
Has it politically empowered women in such a way that come next election, women who were previously in parly based on the quota system can not only directly contest, but contest and win?
Personally I have a number of issues concerning the current qouta system and as women and youth go out for Parliamentary public consultations beginning this week, I would like them to voice out these issues.
I suggest that the qouta system be continued but with these reforms:
1) A ballot be available for the selection of women for PR in each province. Let’s get women electing other women in their provinces with the top 6 going to parliament.
In this way candidates will have an opportunity to either contest as independent or under a political party. The party list system is exclusionary and subject to abuse by party bigwigs which is why the media is awash with claims and counter claims that PR MP y and x got in parly through the bedroom. Let’s do away with PR women who serve party political masters.
By being directly elected by other women, they will also have direct constituencies which the current quota system does not provide. They will have a people to which they can report back to.
2) Let’s put limits to women who are participating in PR.
The major purpose of a PR system is to mentor young women, isn’t it? If so, I think we need an age limit, is it not possible to say anyone above 35 or 50 isn’t eligible to contest under PR? I say this because many women in parliament through the PR system right now are just old women sleeping day in, day out without any serious political future.
Secondly, I think people who have previously saved as MPs before (both as PR and/ constituent MP) should not be allowed to go back in parliament through the PR system, they need to leave that space for others.
We’ve people like Priscilla Misihairambwi-Mushonga who has been in Parliament twice before but is now back in parliament as a PR MP
. Isn’t that defeating the whole purpose of PR? Are we not recycling “dead wood” in the name of political empowerment for women? 3) Let’s make the political environment more friendly and safe for women.
While the PR system is trying to balance the numbers in parliament, it’s failure to achieve a 50-50 gender balance can be attributed to a political environment that is not friendly for women.
This needs to be tackled to ensure equal participation of males and females in politics and parliament.
The ongoing brutality being perpetuated at Netsai, Cecilia and Joana, for example, will only serve to scare young women away from politics.
Most women fear for their lives and dignity because of what they see happening to other women in politics.
There is need to level the playing field in such a way that we can have more women participating in politics.
To conclude, I think we need to continue with the PR system and even introduce it to youths (but not with the paltry 10 seats that were proposed by the government) but we need to reform it!
RBZ Targets Foreign Currency Dealers Who Advertise On WhatsApp App :Full Text
ACTION AGAINST ILLEGAL FOREIGN CURRENCY TRADING ADVERTS
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has been monitoring social media platforms where foreign currency dealers have been advertising and promoting their illegal trade.
The FIU is aware of WhatsApp groups that have mushroomed in the country for the specific purpose of promoting and facilitating illegal foreign currency trade.
The FIU, in collaboration with the police, banks, mobile money / mobile phone service providers and relevant regulatory agencies, has embarked on an exercise to identify and take action against individuals who create, advertise on or participate (actively or passively) in WhatsApp groups or other platforms for illegal foreign currency trading.
The FIU and relevant institutions will take the following immediate actions:
• The mobile phone numbers used to join or advertise on the illegal groups will be shared with mobile phone operators and POTRAZ for barring; • Other mobile phone numbers registered in the names of such persons will also be identified and barred;
• Any mobile money wallets registered in the names of such persons will be frozen and the persons barred from accessing mobile money services with any operator; • Bank accounts owned by a person so identified will be frozen and the person will be blacklisted and barred from accessing banking services with any bank; and
• Identified persons will be investigated and prosecuted for illegally trading in or advertising illegal trading in foreign currency.
Members of the public are requested to report to the FIU any person, mobile phone number or bank account that continue to be used to engage in or advertise illegal foreign currency activities, using the following contact details:
FIU mobile and WhatsApp number: 0714039897 Financial Intelligence Unit 15 June 2020
RBZ Targets Foreign Currency Dealers Who Advertise On WhatsApp App :Full Text
ACTION AGAINST ILLEGAL FOREIGN CURRENCY TRADING ADVERTS
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has been monitoring social media platforms where foreign currency dealers have been advertising and promoting their illegal trade.
The FIU is aware of WhatsApp groups that have mushroomed in the country for the specific purpose of promoting and facilitating illegal foreign currency trade.
The FIU, in collaboration with the police, banks, mobile money / mobile phone service providers and relevant regulatory agencies, has embarked on an exercise to identify and take action against individuals who create, advertise on or participate (actively or passively) in WhatsApp groups or other platforms for illegal foreign currency trading.
The FIU and relevant institutions will take the following immediate actions:
• The mobile phone numbers used to join or advertise on the illegal groups will be shared with mobile phone operators and POTRAZ for barring; • Other mobile phone numbers registered in the names of such persons will also be identified and barred;
• Any mobile money wallets registered in the names of such persons will be frozen and the persons barred from accessing mobile money services with any operator; • Bank accounts owned by a person so identified will be frozen and the person will be blacklisted and barred from accessing banking services with any bank; and
• Identified persons will be investigated and prosecuted for illegally trading in or advertising illegal trading in foreign currency.
Members of the public are requested to report to the FIU any person, mobile phone number or bank account that continue to be used to engage in or advertise illegal foreign currency activities, using the following contact details:
FIU mobile and WhatsApp number: 0714039897 Financial Intelligence Unit 15 June 2020
Farai Dziva|MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson, Clifford Hlatywayo has challenged Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to stop harassing innocent and hapless citizens.
Hlatywayo told ZimEye.com on Monday the regime was desperate to silence democratic forces through arrests, abductions, torture and intimidation of citizens.
He said Mnangagwa must focus on addressing factors affecting millions of suffering Zimbabweans.
“The issues that are affecting Zimbabweans in general are very clear . Mnangagwa must address the issues that are affecting ordinary Zimbabweans.
Unfortunately Mnangagwa has chosen to gag democratic voices through violence, intimidation and torture.
Instead of protecting the three girls, Joana, Cecilia and Netsai, Mnangagwa’s administration is determined to cow them into submission.
The girls must be released as a matter of urgency,” said Hlatywayo.
He added: ” Mnangagwa is in panic mode and he is at war with citizens. He is using every weapon at his disposal to silence dissenting voices.”
Farai Dziva|MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson, Clifford Hlatywayo has challenged Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to stop harassing innocent and hapless citizens.
Hlatywayo told ZimEye.com on Monday the regime was desperate to silence democratic forces through arrests, abductions, torture and intimidation of citizens.
He said Mnangagwa must focus on addressing factors affecting millions of suffering Zimbabweans.
“The issues that are affecting Zimbabweans in general are very clear . Mnangagwa must address the issues that are affecting ordinary Zimbabweans.
Unfortunately Mnangagwa has chosen to gag democratic voices through violence, intimidation and torture.
Instead of protecting the three girls, Joana, Cecilia and Netsai, Mnangagwa’s administration is determined to cow them into submission.
The girls must be released as a matter of urgency,” said Hlatywayo.
He added: ” Mnangagwa is in panic mode and he is at war with citizens. He is using every weapon at his disposal to silence dissenting voices.”
By Simba Chikanza | Gloves are clearly off today, no doubt about that, the evidence too clear – and why are soldiers all of a sudden disobeying their Commander in Chief today? Is there a coup, and to what extent is the military disquiet?
Mnangagwa has ordered people to go back to work and build the economy, but within 96 hrs, soldiers are telling the public to disregard his “presidential” instruction.
On the 12th June, Mnangagwa told the nation, to return to work to revamp the economy;
Soldiers are openly telling people to ignore their Commander In Chief's order to return to work. This comes as the military spokesman claimed to ZimEye saying the military chaos today is a lockdown operation. But ED says… JUMP ON https://t.co/eY98GsdO0a TO WATCH THE EXCLUSIVE pic.twitter.com/YwkPtQTYy0
…within less than 4 days, the military are seen busy in the streets ordering the citizens to do the opposite, to turn their backs and go home, in what will certainly see the economy suffer setbacks.
Soldiers ramming through the streets telling people to disobey Emmerson Mnangagwa pic.twitter.com/4EwmyCcVmq
In this feature, ZimEye contacts Emmerson Mnangagwa himself and also the senior military, among other core sources to the story, to find out what on earth is going on between the Limpopo and the Zambezi rivers.
The interviews come as state security insiders tell ZimEye, “soldiers are clearly tense.”
They explain the situation saying, “Someone spread a rumour of a coup, so Mnangagwa was trying to change military generals following that rumour, so they refused, so it’s that tense.
“Mnangagwa misfired because he took coup rumours very seriously, ” they added, as they spoke of a report by an American preacher called Nathan Hambyrd who alleges that Mnangagwa will be assassinated as ‘a hot bullet goes through his head.’
Says Hambyrd, “”Mr Mnangagwa, your thievery, your ungodly life, your murders, your abductions, your rapes, your pillaging, your immorality, your promiscuity, your devil worshipping, God is going to take your breath from you, a hot bullet will find you.
“It will go through your flesh, and blood will spill out everywhere, I’m not going to do it, but it will come from your own people, and that is the will of God, for you to bleed and die.”
“Mnangagwa believes in spiritualism from vapositori and witch doctors, so if he hears anything from the spiritualists, he becomes worked up.
Mr Mnangagwa… your thievery, your ungodly life, your murders, your abductions, your rapes, your pillaging…immorality…God is going to take your breath from you…" – @nathanhambyrd pic.twitter.com/VcjDrPuvlC
One of Hambyrd’s predictions of Mnangagwa’s sudden end. “Mr Mnangagwa, your thievery, your ungodly life, your murders, your abductions, your rapes, your pillaging, your immorality, your promiscuity, your devil worshipping, God is going to take your breath from you, a hot bullet will find you. It will go through your flesh, and blood will spill out everywhere, I’m not going to do it, but it will come from your own people, and that is the will of God, for you to bleed and die.”
“So now, he went on to shake the branch with its swarm of bees, so the army errupted into a loud disquiet, the soldiers are not happy,” they said.
Names and ranks of the generals up for firing had not been published at the time of writing (this report is being updated).
The leak, is however confirmed by a full Joint Operations Command announcement by the Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe flanked by full colour military generals when the US preacher’s name was dropped, as Kazembe also attacked the country’s leading investigative news network, ZimEye.com.
So which ranks are in a disquiet then?, our reporter asked, to which ZimEye was told, “when soldiers are fed up, what happens is when generals above are given money and perks, the lower ranks complain, but this larger part of the army even if it complains, nothing happens because they operate under a firm command structure; the lower ranks can never go into action without an order from the top.
“If the military can be allowed to roam around abusing their power it means that there is somebody up there who is allowing it to happen,” they added.
While video evidence from Harare and Bulawayo, showed soldiers as non violent albeit still sending people home, in their Commander In Chief’s own hometown, Zvishavane, it was blood on the floor, as it were – the direct message from the military to Mnangagwa was blasted louder: Soldiers who were reportedly beating civilians there following a sharp increase in fuel prices at Mnangagwa’s petrol stations. Below were some submissions from sources in the area, which ZimEye verified with several sources there.
A submission from Zvishavane
In ZANU PF’s stronghold, Masvingo town, there were no beatings, although soldiers and police were roaming about in the neighbourhoods.
ZimEye reached out to Mnangagwa for a comment and his spokesman, George Charamba angrily reacted as he lashed out saying, “first disabuse your readers of the alarmist story you ran and then you and I can engage,” he said, while referring to the video article showing how soldiers went round the cities ordering workers to disobey their(the soldiers’) own commander in chief, to go back home.
Charamba’s denial came as a highly reliable source within the army has revealed to ZimEye.com that soldiers have closed off all major urban centres in the country in protest against government’s move to reduce their salaries by ZWL$1000.
Members of the military were apparently warned last month that they will receive reduced salaries this month (June) because a back pay that had been spread for four months – February to May – has been paid up.
A letter communicating this change, which ZimEye republishes, states in part, “expect a reduction in net salaries with effect from June 2020, because if the cessation of the backpay.”
The leaked letter written to military lower ranks
Contacted for a comment, military spokesman Col Overson Mugwisi had a different story. He told ZimEye the ongoing military deployment is all to do with the coronavirus lockdown.
“Talk to the police, they’re in charge of the lockdown,” he said, referring to the COVID lockdown.
Below is a roll if the spokesman’s responses :”Who is turning away people?
“My brother I think you know the truth that lockdown measures are being done by the police.
Military spokesman (O Mugwisi-OM): Who is turning away people? My brother I think you know the truth that lockdown measures are being done by the police. I really don't know why you have an obsession of talking to the military…Talk to the police,theyre charge of the lockdown.. pic.twitter.com/n7yxMsNnxp
“I really don’t know why you have an obsession of talking to the military…
“Talk to the police,they’re in charge of the lockdown…”
But the national COVID lockdown was officially scaled down to Level 2 last week Friday, with ZANU PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa announcing saying, people should now return to work to revamp the economy.
Towards the end of the day, state security sources reiterated to ZimEye, “there might not be a coup but there is a loud disquiet in the military ranks and it has been permitted.”
By Patrick Guramatunhu- It is often said the distinction between madness and genius is a fine line, the same cannot be said about the yawning chasm that separate piety humility and blasphemy. Emmerson Mnangagwa has crossed that chasm!
“Dear God, Jehovah and the only true God, Father of our saviour Jesus Christ. I humble myself before you, together with the people of Zimbabwe over whom You made me a servant leader!” proclaimed Mnangagwa in his prayer yesterday.
Everyone with any democratic credentials worth a spit condemned Zimbabwe’s July 2018 elections as a farce.
“The electoral commission lacked full independence and appeared to not always act in an impartial manner. The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability,” stated the EU Zimbabwe 2018 Election Mission final report.
“As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards!”
There are many things we can argue about and agree to differ, if we cannot agree. But there are others which are establish historic facts that must be respected and accept as such, that the July 2018 elections were not free, fair and credible is one of these historic facts.
ZEC failed to produce something as basic for elections as a verified voters’ roll, for Pete’s sake!
Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess because Zimbabweans, from all walks of life, notably academics and church leaders, have all shied away from holding Zanu PF and other political leaders to democratic account. Zanu PF leaders have been allowed to ride roughshod over the people, denying them their freedoms and rights including the right to free, fair and credible elections and even the right to life. This must stop!
The people of Zimbabwe must learn the importance of speaking the truth to power – a recurring theme in the Christian Bible. A theme our church leaders have seemingly forgotten!
To therefore evoke the name of God and proclaim that God Himself made him (Mnangagwa) “a servant leader” over the nation is blasphemy because it implies God was involved in the rigged July 2018 elections.
Last week, Mnangagwa proclaim 15 June 2020 a National Day of Prayer and Fasting. He invited several church leaders to join him in the praying and fasting at State House.
Several high profile leaders attended the State House gathering including Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ZCBC), the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ), the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC), the Indigenous Zimbabwe Inter-denominational Council of Churches, as well as the Zimbabwe Elders Forum.
By participating in July 2018 elections Nelson Chamisa and his MDC friends and the coterie of other opposition politicians gave some modicum of credibility to the flawed and illegal election process. And, by extension gave some modicum of legitimacy to this Zanu PF regime.
The country’s church leaders have in turn given the regime their modicum of legitimacy by attending activities hosted by Mnangagwa as the State President. In his public prayer yesterday, Mnangagwa has gone one step further and proclaimed himself chosen by God to leader. The many church leaders gathered at State House were first-hand eye-witnesses to the profanity. Those church leaders who were not at State House have, nonetheless, since seen the video recording of the prayer with their own eyes and heard with their own ears.
So, what are our church leaders now going to do about this illegitimate and blasphemous Zanu PF regime?
Silence, it must be said, is consent – a maxim of common law!
Chimoio. — Mozambican police at the weekend detained a self-styled “prophet” who used his religious activities to front for his real career as a burglar.
The “prophet”, 35-year-old Crispine Baptista, is accused of a string of burglaries in Chimoio, capital of the central province of Manica, and in Machipanda, on the border with Zimbabwe. He would visit houses, supposedly to prophesy, but in reality he was reconnoitring the homes of victims, intending to return after nightfall to burgle them.
Baptista confessed his crimes, and said he turned to robbery as from 2018. He said this was “the devil’s work”, although he had sworn to serve God. “I stole in Machipanda and in Chimoio”, he said.
“I visited some of the places by day for my work of prophecy, but I would also reconnoitre. At night I would rob. Many victims are my patients” (as he described those who used his prophetic services).
“I don’t know what happened to me”, he added. “This can only be the work of the devil. I am a religious man and a prophet. I have sworn to serve God.”
“I stole to help my family”, he claimed. “After the thefts, I sold the goods in Chimoio.”
After Baptista’s arrest, the police recovered some of the stolen property.
The Manica provincial police spokesperson, Mateus Mindu, said the arrest of the “prophet” was thanks to denunciations by members of the public-The Herald
Proton, a bread brand in Zimbabwe has announced new prices for its commodities including bread cookies and other confectioneries which will be effective starting on the 17th of June.
The bakery announced that a superior white and superior seeded loaves, in that order will now cost $60.30 and $75.20 while burgers will now require $44.25.
A BULILIMA man fatally stabbed his friend for refusing to pay him after he had won a $10 bet in a card game.
Matabeleland South provincial police spokesperson, Chief Inspector Philisani Ndebele confirmed the incident which occurred at Ntoli Business Centre on Thursday last week at around 5PM. He said the suspect Delani Ndlovu (28) stabbed Oscar Moyo (29) with an Okapi knife in the stomach and chest.
“I can confirm that we recorded a murder case which occurred at Ntoli Business Centre in Bulilima.
Delani Ndlovu and Oscar Moyo were playing a game of cards when they had a misunderstanding over an undisclosed issue. They started fighting and Ndlovu drew an okapi knife and stabbed Moyo in the chest and stomach.
“Moyo was rushed to a nearby clinic where he was pronounced dead upon arrival.
Ndlovu is still at large and we appeal to anyone with information that could lead to his arrest to contact the nearest police station.
As police we continue to urge people to desist from engaging in violence during disputes.
People should also desist from carrying dangerous weapons in public. These weapons have been the cause of a number of violent crimes of which some result in the loss of life,” he said.
Chief Insp Ndebele also urged members of the public to desist from engaging in illegal activities such as gambling.
A source close to the investigations who preferred anonymity said Ndlovu and Moyo were playing a game of cards and had each placed a $10 bet.
He said Ndlovu won and Moyo refused to pay up resulting in the altercation.
The source said when other villagers intervened, Ndlovu had already stabbed Moyo and fled from the scene-Chronicle
By A Correspondent- The University of Oxford has reported that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland scientists have made a breakthrough in the fight against the deadly Coronavirus by discovering that an existing drug called dexamethasone can help to cure infected patients.
According to an Oxford University news release issued on Tuesday, a total of 2104 patients were randomised to receive dexamethasone 6 mg once per day (either by mouth or by intravenous injection) for ten days and were compared with 4321 patients randomised to usual care alone.
Among the patients who received usual care alone, 28-day mortality was highest in those who required ventilation (41%), intermediate in those patients who required oxygen only (25%), and lowest among those who did not require any respiratory intervention (13%)
Peter Horby, Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, and one of the Chief Investigators for the trial, was quoted in the statement saying,
Dexamethasone is the first drug to be shown to improve survival in COVID-19. This is an extremely welcome result. The survival benefit is clear and large in those patients who are sick enough to require oxygen treatment, so dexamethasone should now become standard of care in these patients. Dexamethasone is inexpensive, on the shelf, and can be used immediately to save lives worldwide.”
BBC reports that the UK government has 200,000 courses of the drug in its stockpile and says the NHS will make dexamethasone available to patients.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson celebrated the discovery saying it is a remarkable British scientific achievement.
By a Correspondent- Zanu PF Youth League has joined progressive youths in the world in celebrating the 29th edition of the Day of the African Child.
Addressing the media, Zanu-PF Acting Deputy Secretary for Youth Affairs Tendai Chirau said the onus is on the current generation of Zimbabwean children and youths to recalibrate their minds and step forward in creating and sustaining a heritage.
“We must never forget that the main beneficiaries of Vision 2030 are today’s children and the onus is on all Zimbabweans to make this vision 2030 a reality. Success requires focus as well as resilience and we must never waver in the face of local and foreign retrogressive forces who are desperate to reverse our independence,” he said.
Chirau said the carnage from the Soweto uprising must forever remind all citizens that independence was not served on a silver platter.
“As ZANU-PF youth we continue to draw from the Soweto uprising, important lessons on the critical role youths in the struggle for Africa’s socio-economic and political liberation. It is the responsibility of the current generation of young Africans to consolidate the gains of the Soweto Uprising and not only defend the continent but advance it,” he said.
The 29th Day of the African Child is being held under the theme “Access to a Child-friendly Justice System in Africa.
By A Correspondent- The Vice President of the opposition MDC Alliance, Welshman Ncube has castigated the leader of the MDC-T, Thokozani Khupe for claiming that she leads a party with 103 legislators.
Khupe made the remarks on Monday at Morgan Tsvangirai House during a press conference which followed the MDC-T’s first Standing Committee meeting at the building.
Khupe claimed that the Supreme Court (SC) ruling on the MDC leadership crisis had restored her as the leader of the MDC left by the late former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai which fielded those MPs for the 2018 elections.
She said by virtue of thae fact that she was now the party’s leader, everyone who belonged to the party was under her leadership.
Commenting on the remarks, Ncube said:
The ability to feel shame is one of the most important social constraints which protects us from perverse conduct.
How does one become so SHAMELESS that she can sit in front of cameras & claim leadership & control of MPs who clobbered her in an election?
In 2018, Khupe formed the MDC-T party (which she says is no longer in existence), contested the 2018 elections and lost.
Her candidates for Parliamentary seats contested against those who were under the MDC Alliance ticket and lost.
The development comes amid revelations that in several towns Tuesday, frustrated soldiers were ordering citizens to go back home without giving them any valid reasons for that move.
ZimEye has it on good authority that today’s soldiers actions was a result of their pay cut which saw some of them receiving what they described as “peanuts and aittime money” for salaries.
Said one caller in an interview with ZimEye:
“…. Chamisa’s deafening silence is confusing them. The frustration is felt by all and sundry but Chamisa has remained quiet…..”
By A Correspondent- Villagers in Chilonga, Chiredzi in Masvingo Province have threatened to drag the government to court over the planned eviction meant to allow Dendairy to embark on a lucerne grass project.
Through lawyers from the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), the villagers wrote a letter a fortnight ago to Local Government minister July Moyo challenging the planned ejection. Reads the letter in part:
We have been instructed to request your office to furnish us with information in your custody and control, which our clients are entitled to in terms of Section 62 of the Constitution within 14 days of your receipt of this letter, which relates to the following: confirmation of whether or not villagers in Chilonga Communal Area will be displaced to pave way for a lucerne production project, government relocation plan for the Chilonga community and issues of compensation in case of displacements, how the government is going to engage the local community over the ancestral land (and) copies of all documents relating to the transaction between the ministry of Local Government and the Lucerne investor.
The villagers said that they were not consulted, they were not informed of where they will be relocated and how they will benefit from the project adding that the move ejects them from their ancestral lands.
They are also worried that the government will leave them stranded as was the case with victims of Tokwe-Mukorsi floods.
By A Correspondent- The situation in most urban towns was generally tense as soldiers reportedly went on a rampage frustrating citizens and even beating them up while ordering them to go back home.
Watch our live discussion on the day’s events in the video downloading below. Please be patient while the video downloads.
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MOTORISTS are set to be hit with new tollgate fees as government seeks to keep the charges at par with the United States dollar, NewsDay has learnt.
Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Joel Biggie Matiza confirmed the development.
“The toll fees are being reviewed and I can say the process is currently underway. The new toll fees will be out soon after we complete the whole (reviewing) process,” he said.
Motorists are currently paying $10 (US$,16) at black market rate for light vehicles, but inflation has rendered it worthless. Matiza, however, said he did not know what the new charges will be. Zimbabwe National Road Administration board chairperson Michael Madanha said the proposed rates were awaiting Finance ministry approval.
“Definitely the toll fees are going to be reviewed up and anytime soon we will be having the new charges. We have already come up with proposed rates and we wait for approval from the Finance ministry. I am not privy as to what the new charges will be like as this lies with the Zinara executive,” he said.
The upward review of the toll fees was triggered by the current runaway inflation that has seen the local currency fast losing value against the US dollar.
In July last year, government increased toll fees that saw light vehicles being required to pay $10 up from $2, mini-buses $15 up from $4 and conventional buses $20 up from $5. Heavy vehicles and haulage trucks paying $25 and $50, respectively.
The Secretary-General of the opposition MDC Alliance, Chalton Hwende has said a businessman based in South Africa has offered to pay a membership fee for 3500 people.
This comes as the party recently announced that it was recruiting new members who upon registration need to pay a membership fee amounting to $60. Posting on Twitter, Hwende said:
One businessman based in SA has just called me to offer to pay membership fee for 35 branches in rural areas to help us with our rural penetration Strategy each branch has 100 members so he will pay for 3500 members @ $210 000rtgs. Let’s adopt rural branches and help the Party.
The opposition in the country has often been accused of neglecting the rural vote which has unfortunately been the difference between the opposition and the ruling party in each and every election.
The recruitment drive comes at the backdrop of a leadership crisis in the MDC that has seen some of the MDC Alliance leaders and members defecting to MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe.
Traffic brought to a standstill along Luveve Road in Bulawayo as soldiers blocked the road into town.
Heavily Armed anti riot police and army officers in Harare and Bulawayo on Tuesday launched a surprise early morning massive crackdown on civilians who were in town intending to conduct various business activities, bringing the central business districts to a standstill.
As early as 5 am, State security agents were seen patrolling the city’s streets chasing away workers, motorists, and people queuing for various services such as in banks, fuel stations, and vegetable markets.
Commenting on the shutdown, former information minister, Jonathan Moyo, said some occult seemed to be in panic mode.
“More sights and sounds of soldiers and police acting funny in Bulawayo this morning. Some occult seems to be in panic mode, since going public with weird coup rumours. Someone else seems to be poking the panic, to expose it. The result is confusion in the streets!”
More sights and sounds of soldiers and police acting funny in Bulawayo this morning. Some occult seems to be in panic mode, since going public with weird coup rumours. Someone else seems to be poking the panic, to expose it. The result is confusion in the streets!#ZanupfMustGopic.twitter.com/BT7ipzFR4T
By Simba Chikanza | Below is an engagement debating the reasons why the military on Tuesday ordered citizens to disobey their boss, Emmerson Mnangagwa.
https://youtu.be/vNkAzXKqHls
Mnangagwa has ordered people to go back to work and build the economy, but within 96 hrs, soldiers are telling the public to disregard his “presidential” instruction.
On the 12th June, Mnangagwa told the nation, to return to work to revamp the economy;
…within less than 4 days, the military are seen busy in the streets ordering the citizens to do the opposite, to turn their backs and go home, in what will certainly see the economy suffer setbacks.
In this feature, ZimEye contacts Emmerson Mnangagwa himself and also the senior military, among other core sources to the story, to find out what on earth is going on between the Limpopo and the Zambezi rivers.
The interviews come as state security insiders tell ZimEye, “soldiers are clearly tense.”
They explain the situation saying, “Someone spread a rumour of a coup, so Mnangagwa was trying to change military generals following that rumour, so they refused, so it’s that tense.
“Mnangagwa misfired because he took coup rumours very seriously, ” they added, as they spoke of a report by an American preacher called Nathan Hambyrd who alleges that Mnangagwa will be assassinated as ‘a hot bullet goes through his head.’
Says Hambyrd, “”Mr Mnangagwa, your thievery, your ungodly life, your murders, your abductions, your rapes, your pillaging, your immorality, your promiscuity, your devil worshipping, God is going to take your breath from you, a hot bullet will find you.
“It will go through your flesh, and blood will spill out everywhere, I’m not going to do it, but it will come from your own people, and that is the will of God, for you to bleed and die.”
“Mnangagwa believes in spiritualism from vapositori and witch doctors, so if he hears anything from the spiritualists, he becomes worked up.
One of Hambyrd’s predictions of Mnangagwa’s sudden end. “Mr Mnangagwa, your thievery, your ungodly life, your murders, your abductions, your rapes, your pillaging, your immorality, your promiscuity, your devil worshipping, God is going to take your breath from you, a hot bullet will find you. It will go through your flesh, and blood will spill out everywhere, I’m not going to do it, but it will come from your own people, and that is the will of God, for you to bleed and die.”
“So now, he went on to shake the branch with its swarm of bees, so the army errupted into a loud disquiet, the soldiers are not happy,” they said.
Names and ranks of the generals up for firing had not been published at the time of writing (this report is being updated).
The leak, is however confirmed by a full Joint Operations Command announcement by the Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe flanked by full colour military generals when the US preacher’s name was dropped, as Kazembe also attacked the country’s leading investigative news network, ZimEye.com.
So which ranks are in a disquiet then?, our reporter asked, to which ZimEye was told, “when soldiers are fed up, what happens is when generals above are given money and perks, the lower ranks complain, but this larger part of the army even if it complains, nothing happens because they operate under a firm command structure; the lower ranks can never go into action without an order from the top.
“If the military can be allowed to roam around abusing their power it means that there is somebody up there who is allowing it to happen,” they added.
While video evidence from Harare and Bulawayo, showed soldiers as non violent albeit still sending people home, in their Commander In Chief’s own hometown, Zvishavane, it was blood on the floor, as it were – the direct message from the military to Mnangagwa was blasted louder: Soldiers who were reportedly beating civilians there following a sharp increase in fuel prices at Mnangagwa’s petrol stations. Below were some submissions from sources in the area, which ZimEye verified with several sources there.
A submission from Zvishavane
In ZANU PF’s stronghold, Masvingo town, there were no beatings, although soldiers and police were roaming about in the neighbourhoods.
ZimEye reached out to Mnangagwa for a comment and his spokesman, George Charamba angrily reacted as he lashed out saying, “first disabuse your readers of the alarmist story you ran and then you and I can engage,” he said, while referring to the video article showing how soldiers went round the cities ordering workers to disobey their(the soldiers’) own commander in chief, to go back home.
Charamba’s denial came as a highly reliable source within the army has revealed to ZimEye.com that soldiers have closed off all major urban centres in the country in protest against government’s move to reduce their salaries by ZWL$1000.
Members of the military were apparently warned last month that they will receive reduced salaries this month (June) because a back pay that had been spread for four months – February to May – has been paid up.
A letter communicating this change, which ZimEye republishes, states in part, “expect a reduction in net salaries with effect from June 2020, because if the cessation of the backpay.”
The leaked letter written to military lower ranks
Contacted for a comment, military spokesman Col Overson Mugwisi had a different story. He told ZimEye the ongoing military deployment is all to do with the coronavirus lockdown.
“Talk to the police, they’re in charge of the lockdown,” he said, referring to the COVID lockdown.
Below is a screenroll of the spokesman’s responses: “Who is turning away people?
“My brother I think you know the truth that lockdown measures are being done by the police.
“I really don’t know why you have an obsession of talking to the military…
“Talk to the police,they’re in charge of the lockdown…”
But the national COVID lockdown was officially scaled down to Level 2 last week Friday, with ZANU PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa announcing saying, people should now return to work to revamp the economy.
Towards the end of the day, state security sources reiterated to ZimEye, “there might not be a coup but there is a loud disquiet in the military ranks and it has been permitted.”
MDC Alliance Vice President Professor Welshman Ncube has taken shame at the leader of the MDC-T, Thokozani Khupe for claiming that she leads a party with 103 legislators.
Khupe claimed that the Supreme Court (SC) ruling on the MDC leadership crisis had restored her as the leader of the MDC left by the late former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai which fielded those MPs for the 2018 elections.
She said by virtue of the fact that she was now the party’s leader, everyone who belonged to the party was under her leadership.
Commenting on the remarks, Ncube said:
The ability to feel shame is one of the most important social constraints which protects us from perverse conduct. How does one become so SHAMELESS that she can sit in front of cameras & claim leadership & control of MPs who clobbered her in an election?
— Prof. Welshman Ncube (@Welshman_Ncube) June 16, 2020
Fraud accussed businessman Delish Nguwaya will languish in remand prison for the next two weeks after he was denied bail by Harare magistrate, Vongai Muchuchuti.
Muchuchuti ruled Nguwaya is facing a very serious offence likely to attract a lengthy custodial sentence if convicted and reason which may force him to flee the country.
She also said the fraud case had attracted public outcry and people will lose confidence in the justice system if he is let out on bail although it is now a constitutional right.
“The accused is likely to interfere with witnesses if granted bail and is likely to re-offend,” said the magistrate before remanding him to June 30 for his routine remand.
Nguwaya was arrested Friday and is accused of lying to government that his company was a medical firm in a bid to be awarded tenders for Covid-19 medical supplies to the Health Ministry using his companies Drax SAGL and Drax International.
The State alleges Nguwaya lied Drax was based in Switzerland, but it was only a consulting company with no experience in the manufacturing of medicines.
Acting on this misrepresentation, Health Minister Obadiah Moyo authorised a US$2 million medicine supply deal through NatPharm.
Nguwaya allegedly did the same using a company Drax International and won a supply deal worth US$40 million.
The matter came to light after a notable variance on prices charged by the companies to those prevailing on the market.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said on Tuesday by-elections for vacant constituencies and wards will be held after the government has relaxed lockdown restrictions.
The assurance follows an outcry mainly from the opposition that the electoral body was strangling democracy by suspending the holding of elections.
But ZEC said the “suspension of by-elections and other electoral activities was done in compliance with executive Presidential powers invoked as a result of a global pandemic recognised by the law as An Act of God.”
Zimbabwe has since March 30 undergone different levels of Covid-19 lockdown that are aimed at curbing the spread of the deadly virus.
Besides restricting the movement of citizens, the government has prohibited gatherings of over 50 people.
As of June 15, the country had recorded 387 confirmed Covid-19 infections, 54 recoveries and 4 deaths.
ZEC urged stakeholders to be patient as it was working on a draft policy that would guide the conduct of elections in the Covid-19 era.
“Again it should be noted that by-elections were suspended and not postponed which means that they will be conducted when lockdown restrictions have been relaxed to allow such activities to resume without posing danger to the health of those involved,” the electoral body said.
“The Commission would like to advise its stakeholders to be patient while it finalises a draft on the Covid19 Electoral Practice Policy that will guide electoral staff, the electorate and other stakeholders on how to conduct themselves before, during and after electoral processes to avoid contracting the novel Coronavirus.”
A number of seats have fallen vacant following either the death or recall of incumbent Parliamentarians and councilors.
Zimbabwe’s biggest gold miner RioZim Ltd said on Tuesday it had stopped had stopped production due to delays in payments for deliveries to the country’s sole buyer of bullion, which left the company unable to meet its operational expenditures.
Gold is Zimbabwe’s single largest foreign currency earner, and Fidelity Printers and Refiners, an arm of the central bank, has a monopoly on buying and refining all the country’s output.
However, a shortage of foreign currency in Zimbabwe has led to payment problems in the mining sector.
RioZim said it was owed US$2.46 million and $65.48 million Zimbabwe dollars (US$2.6 million) by Fidelity for gold deliveries.
That made it difficult to pay for electricity, fuel and a portion of salaries, which are all denominated in U.S. dollars, said RioZim, which owns three gold mines and a diamond mine.
“The company has therefore been forced to stop production of bullion due to its inability to buy essential consumables and spaces and is actively placing all its gold mines on care and maintenance until a viable solution is found,” RioZim said.
The company mines gold at Cam and Motor Mine in Kadoma, Renco Mine in Masvingo. It also owns Murowa Diamonds, Empress Nickel Refinery and Sengwa Coal Mine.
Fidelity and the central bank were not immediately available to comment.
The situation is similar to a case in 2018 during a credit crunch when RioZim accused Fidelity of making late payments, which Fidelity and the central bank both denied doing.
At that time RioZim temporarily halted production and sued Fidelity and the central bank for US$92 million over late payments. The arrears were later cleared and production resumed but the court case is still ongoing.
Large gold producers are paid 70 percent of their earnings in dollars and the balance in local currency at a fixed exchange rate that miners say disadvantages them.
That is because the Zimbabwe dollar is pegged at 25 to the U.S. dollar but trades at up to 90 per U.S. dollar on the black market. Most prices are calculated using the black market exchange rate.
The Chamber of Mines and tobacco farmers have urged the central bank to scrap the fixed exchange rate and allow the local unit to freely float.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa with the US Ambassador
The United States (US) government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), would provide US$10m to Zimbabwe to help fight COVID-19.
The funds will go to the World Food Programme (WFP) for humanitarian assistance for nearly 100,000 vulnerable people in eight urban areas.
“This additional funding, which will help people facing increased food insecurity in Zimbabwe’s urban areas, demonstrates the US commitment to the people of Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans in urban areas need to practice social distancing measures to protect themselves from COVID-19 and continue to feed their families,” US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Brian Nichols said.
With this additional funding, US assistance to the COVID-19 response in Zimbabwe exceeds US$18 million.
USAID has provided nearly US$15 million, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided US$3 million, and PEPFAR has reprogrammed US$150,000 to deal with COVID-19.
Through this $10 million in new funding, USAID will collaborate with WFP to address increasing food insecurity in urban areas.
In September 2019, the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) determined that more than 2.2m Zimbabweans in urban areas face food insecurity as a result of rising food prices.
In May 2020, WFP estimated that this number had increased by as much as one million people as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, which further constrained the economy and severely affected Zimbabweans whose livelihoods depend on the informal sector.
This funding will ensure that nearly 100,000 people in eight urban districts have access to cash transfers that will ensure adequate food supplies between July and December 2020.
USAID’s emergency assistance to urban areas complements the more than US$110 million that USAID provided to rural areas in 2019, which reached more than 1.8 million rural Zimbabweans across 22 districts.
The United States remains committed to supporting the people of Zimbabwe to improve health outcomes, increase agricultural productivity, stimulate economic growth, protect human rights, and improve democratic governance in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Simba Chikanza | Below is an engagement debating the reasons why the military on Tuesday ordered citizens to disobey their boss, Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Mnangagwa has ordered people to go back to work and build the economy, but within 96 hrs, soldiers are telling the public to disregard his “presidential” instruction.
On the 12th June, Mnangagwa told the nation, to return to work to revamp the economy;
Soldiers are openly telling people to ignore their Commander In Chief's order to return to work. This comes as the military spokesman claimed to ZimEye saying the military chaos today is a lockdown operation. But ED says… JUMP ON https://t.co/eY98GsdO0a TO WATCH THE EXCLUSIVE pic.twitter.com/YwkPtQTYy0
…within less than 4 days, the military are seen busy in the streets ordering the citizens to do the opposite, to turn their backs and go home, in what will certainly see the economy suffer setbacks.
Soldiers ramming through the streets telling people to disobey Emmerson Mnangagwa pic.twitter.com/4EwmyCcVmq
In this feature, ZimEye contacts Emmerson Mnangagwa himself and also the senior military, among other core sources to the story, to find out what on earth is going on between the Limpopo and the Zambezi rivers.
The interviews come as state security insiders tell ZimEye, “soldiers are clearly tense.”
They explain the situation saying, “Someone spread a rumour of a coup, so Mnangagwa was trying to change military generals following that rumour, so they refused, so it’s that tense.
“Mnangagwa misfired because he took coup rumours very seriously, ” they added, as they spoke of a report by an American preacher called Nathan Hambyrd who alleges that Mnangagwa will be assassinated as ‘a hot bullet goes through his head.’
Says Hambyrd, “Mr Mnangagwa, your thievery, your ungodly life, your murders, your abductions, your rapes, your pillaging, your immorality, your promiscuity, your devil worshipping, God is going to take your breath from you, a hot bullet will find you.
“It will go through your flesh, and blood will spill out everywhere, I’m not going to do it, but it will come from your own people, and that is the will of God, for you to bleed and die.”
“Mnangagwa believes in spiritualism from vapositori and witch doctors, so if he hears anything from the spiritualists, he becomes worked up.
Mr Mnangagwa… your thievery, your ungodly life, your murders, your abductions, your rapes, your pillaging…immorality…God is going to take your breath from you…" – @nathanhambyrd pic.twitter.com/VcjDrPuvlC
One of Hambyrd’s predictions of Mnangagwa’s sudden end. “Mr Mnangagwa, your thievery, your ungodly life, your murders, your abductions, your rapes, your pillaging, your immorality, your promiscuity, your devil worshipping, God is going to take your breath from you, a hot bullet will find you. It will go through your flesh, and blood will spill out everywhere, I’m not going to do it, but it will come from your own people, and that is the will of God, for you to bleed and die.”
“So now, he went on to shake the branch with its swarm of bees, so the army errupted into a loud disquiet, the soldiers are not happy,” they said.
Names and ranks of the generals up for firing had not been published at the time of writing (this report is being updated).
The leak, is however confirmed by a full Joint Operations Command announcement by the Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe flanked by full colour military generals when the US preacher’s name was dropped, as Kazembe also attacked the country’s leading investigative news network, ZimEye.com.
So which ranks are in a disquiet then?, our reporter asked, to which ZimEye was told, “when soldiers are fed up, what happens is when generals above are given money and perks, the lower ranks complain, but this larger part of the army even if it complains, nothing happens because they operate under a firm command structure; the lower ranks can never go into action without an order from the top.
“If the military can be allowed to roam around abusing their power it means that there is somebody up there who is allowing it to happen,” they added.
While video evidence from Harare and Bulawayo, showed soldiers as non violent albeit still sending people home, in their Commander In Chief’s own hometown, Zvishavane, it was blood on the floor, as it were – the direct message from the military to Mnangagwa was blasted louder: Soldiers who were reportedly beating civilians in surrounding areas of nearby Mberengwa following a sharp increase in fuel prices at Mnangagwa’s petrol stations. Below were some submissions from sources in the area, which ZimEye verified with several sources there.
A submission from Zvishavane
In ZANU PF’s stronghold, Masvingo town, there were no beatings, although soldiers and police were roaming about in the neighbourhoods.
ZimEye reached out to Mnangagwa for a comment and his spokesman, George Charamba angrily reacted as he lashed out saying, “first disabuse your readers of the alarmist story you ran and then you and I can engage,” he said, while referring to the video article showing how soldiers went round the cities ordering workers to disobey their(the soldiers’) own commander in chief, to go back home.
Charamba’s denial came as a highly reliable source within the army has revealed to ZimEye.com that soldiers have closed off all major urban centres in the country in protest against government’s move to reduce their salaries by ZWL$1000.
Members of the military were apparently warned last month that they will receive reduced salaries this month (June) because a back pay that had been spread for four months – February to May – has been paid up.
A letter communicating this change, which ZimEye republishes, states in part, “expect a reduction in net salaries with effect from June 2020, because if the cessation of the backpay.”
The leaked letter written to military lower ranks
Contacted for a comment, military spokesman Col Overson Mugwisi had a different story. He told ZimEye the ongoing military deployment is all to do with the coronavirus lockdown.
“Talk to the police, they’re in charge of the lockdown,” he said, referring to the COVID lockdown.
Below is a screenroll of the spokesman’s responses: “Who is turning away people?
“My brother I think you know the truth that lockdown measures are being done by the police.
Military spokesman (O Mugwisi-OM): Who is turning away people? My brother I think you know the truth that lockdown measures are being done by the police. I really don't know why you have an obsession of talking to the military…Talk to the police,theyre charge of the lockdown.. pic.twitter.com/n7yxMsNnxp
“I really don’t know why you have an obsession of talking to the military…
“Talk to the police,they’re in charge of the lockdown…”
But the national COVID lockdown was officially scaled down to Level 2 last week Friday, with ZANU PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa announcing saying, people should now return to work to revamp the economy.
Towards the end of the day, state security sources reiterated to ZimEye, “there might not be a coup but there is a loud disquiet in the military ranks and it has been permitted.”
The opposition MDC Alliance has castigated the government’s “fast-track” Constitutional Amendment Bill public hearings despite protests from stakeholders.
The hearings started on Monday 15 June 2020 in several parts of the country. We present the party’s statement in full below.
STATEMENT ON FAST-TRACK CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PUBLIC HEARINGS
The MDC Alliance notes with deep concern that the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs has proceeded to hold public hearings on Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment No. 2 Bill notwithstanding protests from the public. We believe that respect for the Constitution is the bedrock of a strong society and that any Constitution-amendment process must be people-driven.
The public hearings commenced yesterday, the 15. of June 2020 and are scheduled to run until the 19. of June 2020. Initially, they were meant to run between March 29 to April 4, 2020, but the process was suspended due to the COVID-19 national lockdown. The lockdown remains at ‘Level 2′. It is yet to be lifted. This means that freedom of assembly is still greatly curtailed. The decision to fast-track the public-hearing process means that most people will not be able to attend the public hearings and make their voices heard due to restrictions on movement as well as the size of public gatherings. Section 328(4) of the Constitution requires that the public be given an opportunity to express their views on constitutional amendments and Parliament must provide facilities to enable them to do so. This decision is grossly unreasonable as it violates the citizens’ right to be heard and consulted in this important process.
The MDC Alliance maintains that Government’s focus should be on aligning laws to the Constitution as opposed to amending it. The proposed amendments entrench more power in the Executive and remove necessary checks and balances that are integral for the independence of the Judiciary and separation of powers. The proposed decoupling of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s delimitation process from the population census leaves the former process exposed and vulnerable to gerrymandering and political abuse.
ServicesBuildingHomeGroceries DatingJobsCommercialHealth The attempt to amend over twenty clauses to the Constitution in such a fast-track manner confirms that if the Government had the political will to align laws to the Constitution, it would have done so. No changes should be effected to the Consitution until sincere reforms are implemented – including addressing the socio-economic crisis, the deteriorating human rights situation and the chronic scourge of corruption.
We demand that the Government implements the Constitution and carries out systemic political reform. We encourage citizens to continue to speak out and register their dissatisfaction with this clear violation of their rights.
Farai Dziva|SuperSport United boss Stan Matthews has responded to reports linking Bidvest Wits coach Gavin Hunt back to the Pretoria-based side.
Wits sold their Premier Soccer League status to businessman Lawrence Mulaudzi, who will rename the club Tshakhuma Tsha Madzhivhandila (TTM). The deal will see the buyer keep the majority of the squad but will not keep Hunt and his backroom staff.
In the wake of the aforementioned development, there were reports suggesting that the Matsatsansa hierarchy would rop in Hunt when he becomes free at the end of the season but Matthews has debunked them.
“Gavin is an amazing coach who has a special place in our history books and would be an asset to any club,” Matthews told South African publication Kick Off.
“But we have a head coach that we very happy with and we are certainly not looking to make any changes to our technical team.
“Just because a good coach like Gavin Hunt may be available now doesn’t mean we forget our loyalties and obligations to Kaitano, or anybody else at the club,” he added.
Freshly-recruited Olympique Lyon striker Tino Kadewere has commented on the ‘tough competition’ at the club as he begins a new life there.
The 24-year old Zimbabwean was unveiled by the Les Gones on Wednesday after taking part in his first training at the club where he will be until 2024.
Within the Lyon ranks are also ‘big name’ players like Memphis Depay, Houssem Aouar, Moussa Dembélé, Jeff Reine-Adélaïde and Martin Terrier but the former Prince Edward School pupil insists what matters most is training well and letting the manager determine.
“If you look at the different choices I’ve made, I’ve always opted for teams where I can grow as much as possible. It’s the same thing here with the OL.
Some very good players have been trained or have progressed here like Karim Benzema, Alexandre Lacazette or Juninho. Here I want to develop and grow as a player,” he told the Ligue 1 website.
“I’m full of confidence after clinching the title of top scorer at Le Havre and I hope to bring it here. My role here will depend on my performance in training and those of my team-mates. The most important thing is to play as well as possible in training; the coach will decide.” he added-Soccer 24
The Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (ZINARA) will soon announce new tollgate fees as it seeks to keep the charges at par with the United States dollar.
Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Joel Biggie Matiza confirmed the development to NewsDay recently.
He said: The toll fees are being reviewed and I can say the process is currently underway. The new toll fees will be out soon after we complete the whole (reviewing) process.
ZINARA board chairperson Michael Madanha said the proposed rates were awaiting Finance ministry approval.
Madanha said: Definitely the toll fees are going to be reviewed up and anytime soon we will be having the new charges. We have already come up with proposed rates and we wait for approval from the Finance ministry. I am not privy as to what the new charges will be like as this lies with the Zinara executive.
In July last year, the government increased toll fees that saw light vehicles being required to pay $10 up from $2, mini-buses $15 up from $4 and conventional buses $20 up from $5. Heavy vehicles and haulage trucks paying $25 and $50, respectively. Runaway inflation has rendered the charges worthless-NewsDay
HARARE – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed an additional US$10 million in funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for families in urban areas of Zimbabwe struggling to meet their daily food needs due to the impacts of COVID-19.
The contribution will assist almost 100,000 people with monthly cash transfers equivalent to US$13 each, enabling them to meet almost two-thirds of their daily food requirements.
A September 2019 Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) report said that more than 2.2 million people in cities and towns faced food insecurity, not least because of surging prices.
COVID-19 has exacerbated economic instability, significantly impacting urban residents already living hand to mouth, many of them working multiple jobs in the informal sector.
WFP forecasts that by March next year at least 3.3 million people – almost half (47%) the country’s urban population – will be food insecure.
“This additional funding underscores the strong commitment of the American people and government to the people of Zimbabwe” said US Ambassador Brian A. Nichols.
“This generous and timely contribution will help alleviate the suffering of a large number of people struggling to cope with the twin shocks of COVID-19 and a still deteriorating economy,” said Eddie Rowe, WFP Zimbabwe Representative and Country Director.
WFP is scaling up its urban assistance programme to deliver monthly cash transfers to at least 550,000 Zimbabweans in 20 of the country’s most food insecure urban areas.
Read more about how WFP’s urban assistance helps families in Zimbabwe here
The United Nations World Food Programme – saving lives in emergencies and changing lives for millions through sustainable development. WFP works in more than 80 countries around the world, feeding people caught in conflict and disasters, and laying the foundations for a better future.
Lights, camera, action! That is a phrase usually associated with film production but one of legendary football commentator Peter Drury’s all time favorites.
While Drury usually spits that phrase at the beginning of the Premier League season, he might be tempted to use it regardless when Aston Villa host Sheffield United tomorrow, to usher-in the resumption of the English top flight following a three month Covid-19-enforced break.
The global pandemic had robbed football administrators, coaches, players and fans three months of action but after the Bundesliga and LaLiga resumed, the English Premier League follows suit with all eyes on Villa Park.
For relegation-threatened Aston Villa, to say this one is a must-win is a big understatement, they are languishing in the drop-zone just four points above bottom-placed Norwich City in a 6-team relegation battle which is likely to go down to the wire.
The Claret and Blue, Bournemouth, Watford, West Ham, Norwich and Brighton are all in danger of relegation, in a battle which can also rop in Southampton and Newcastle.
While Marvelous Nakamba and his teammates will be happy to return to doing what they love the most, playing football, pressure will immediately be felt but a win tomorrow will see them leap out of the relegation zone for the remaining nine games.
After Sheffield, Villa host Chelsea (June 21) and then travel to St. James’ Park for a date with Newcastle (June 24) and then host Wolves three days later as games will come thick and fast in the congested Premier League return.
Smith’s men need to defend better if they are to entertain any chances of staying up- they have conceded the most goals in the league this season -56 and they had lost four consecutive games prior to the break, the last one being a dreadful 0-4 defeat to Leicester City.
The Birmingham-based side will look to talisman and captain Jack Grealish for inspiration as well as welcome back from injury Scottman John McGinn, who has recovered during the break and a win against Sheffield will take a huge amount of pressure off their shoulders-Soccer 24
By A Correspondent- MSU said students will sit for examinations from July 6 to August 28 depending on the faculty.
In a statement, the institution said:
The University would like to advise final year students that plans for opening our campuses in preparation for the end of semester examinations are at an advanced stage.
Remote teaching for these classes will continue until 19 June 2020. Thereafter, students will return to campus under a phased approach.
Please take note that only registered students will be allowed to write examinations. MSU Student ID cards will be required for entry into university premises to reduce the risk of entry by unauthorised persons.
MSU said it will also provide all students with on-campus accommodation as a precautionary measure to reduce exposure to Covid-19.
Studies were suspended in March following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
Warriors and SuperSport United striker Evans Rusike says he is grateful to God for another year added.
He turned 30 on Saturday. “I just want to thank the Lord for my birthday and everyone who wished me a happy birthday.” “It was such a happy day as l spent it with my family.
“And l’m just grateful to God. For he is the one who made this day to come to pass,” he said.
He added: “Yes l had to spend my birthday in lockdown because of the restrictions due to Covid-19 but the truth is l’m not usually an outgoing person. “So yeah it was okay like that, l usually celebrate my birthday’s with my family and that’s what l did.
“Lockdown or no lockdown what’s important is the gift of life and l’m grateful for that.” The former Hwange player says his birthday wish is that he heals fast and get on the pitch.
“I’m still far away from fitness so it’s my wish that l heal fast so that l can go back to do what l love doing which is playing football.
“I miss the beautiful game and can’t wait to start enjoying it. “I’m working on my fitness though l still have a long way to go but l’m hopeful that l will be okay soon,” he said.
Rusike also took the chance to advise his fans and fellow Zimbabweans to stay safe during this time.
“Life is the greatest gift from God and I urge all Zimbabweans and the rest of the world to always stay hygiene , stay home and follow the rules set by our governments to fight this pandemic out of the picture.
“We know we might to meet with family and friends but if you love them you must maintain your social distance because we need them to be safe,” he said- H-Metro
By Simba Chikanza | Gloves are clearly off today, no doubt about that, the evidence too clear – and why are soldiers all of a sudden disobeying their Commander in Chief today? Is there a coup, and to what extent is the military disquiet?
Mnangagwa has ordered people to go back to work and build the economy, but within 96 hrs, soldiers are telling the public to disregard his “presidential” instruction.
On the 12th June, Mnangagwa told the nation, to return to work to revamp the economy;
Soldiers are openly telling people to ignore their Commander In Chief's order to return to work. This comes as the military spokesman claimed to ZimEye saying the military chaos today is a lockdown operation. But ED says… JUMP ON https://t.co/eY98GsdO0a TO WATCH THE EXCLUSIVE pic.twitter.com/YwkPtQTYy0
…within less than 4 days, the military are seen busy in the streets ordering the citizens to do the opposite, to turn their backs and go home, in what will certainly see the economy suffer setbacks.
Soldiers ramming through the streets telling people to disobey Emmerson Mnangagwa pic.twitter.com/4EwmyCcVmq
In this feature, ZimEye contacts Emmerson Mnangagwa himself and also the senior military, among other core sources to the story, to find out what on earth is going on between the Limpopo and the Zambezi rivers.
The interviews come as state security insiders tell ZimEye, “soldiers are clearly tense.”
They explain the situation saying, “Someone spread a rumour of a coup, so Mnangagwa was trying to change military generals following that rumour, so they refused, so it’s that tense.
“Mnangagwa misfired because he took coup rumours very seriously, ” they added, as they spoke of a report by an American preacher called Nathan Hambyrd who alleges that Mnangagwa will be assassinated as ‘a hot bullet goes through his head.’
Says Hambyrd, “”Mr Mnangagwa, your thievery, your ungodly life, your murders, your abductions, your rapes, your pillaging, your immorality, your promiscuity, your devil worshipping, God is going to take your breath from you, a hot bullet will find you.
“It will go through your flesh, and blood will spill out everywhere, I’m not going to do it, but it will come from your own people, and that is the will of God, for you to bleed and die.”
“Mnangagwa believes in spiritualism from vapositori and witch doctors, so if he hears anything from the spiritualists, he becomes worked up.
Mr Mnangagwa… your thievery, your ungodly life, your murders, your abductions, your rapes, your pillaging…immorality…God is going to take your breath from you…" – @nathanhambyrd pic.twitter.com/VcjDrPuvlC
One of Hambyrd’s predictions of Mnangagwa’s sudden end. “Mr Mnangagwa, your thievery, your ungodly life, your murders, your abductions, your rapes, your pillaging, your immorality, your promiscuity, your devil worshipping, God is going to take your breath from you, a hot bullet will find you. It will go through your flesh, and blood will spill out everywhere, I’m not going to do it, but it will come from your own people, and that is the will of God, for you to bleed and die.”
“So now, he went on to shake the branch with its swarm of bees, so the army errupted into a loud disquiet, the soldiers are not happy,” they said.
Names and ranks of the generals up for firing had not been published at the time of writing (this report is being updated).
The leak, is however confirmed by a full Joint Operations Command announcement by the Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe flanked by full colour military generals when the US preacher’s name was dropped, as Kazembe also attacked the country’s leading investigative news network, ZimEye.com.
So which ranks are in a disquiet then?, our reporter asked, to which ZimEye was told, “when soldiers are fed up, what happens is when generals above are given money and perks, the lower ranks complain, but this larger part of the army even if it complains, nothing happens because they operate under a firm command structure; the lower ranks can never go into action without an order from the top.
“If the military can be allowed to roam around abusing their power it means that there is somebody up there who is allowing it to happen,” they added.
While video evidence from Harare and Bulawayo, showed soldiers as non violent albeit still sending people home, in their Commander In Chief’s own hometown, Zvishavane, it was blood on the floor, as it were – the direct message from the military to Mnangagwa was blasted louder: Soldiers who were reportedly beating civilians there following a sharp increase in fuel prices at Mnangagwa’s petrol stations. Below were some submissions from sources in the area, which ZimEye verified with several sources there.
A submission from Zvishavane
In ZANU PF’s stronghold, Masvingo town, there were no beatings, although soldiers and police were roaming about in the neighbourhoods.
ZimEye reached out to Mnangagwa for a comment and his spokesman, George Charamba angrily reacted as he lashed out saying, “first disabuse your readers of the alarmist story you ran and then you and I can engage,” he said, while referring to the video article showing how soldiers went round the cities ordering workers to disobey their(the soldiers’) own commander in chief, to go back home.
Charamba’s denial came as a highly reliable source within the army has revealed to ZimEye.com that soldiers have closed off all major urban centres in the country in protest against government’s move to reduce their salaries by ZWL$1000.
Members of the military were apparently warned last month that they will receive reduced salaries this month (June) because a back pay that had been spread for four months – February to May – has been paid up.
A letter communicating this change, which ZimEye republishes, states in part, “expect a reduction in net salaries with effect from June 2020, because if the cessation of the backpay.”
The leaked letter written to military lower ranks
Contacted for a comment, military spokesman Col Overson Mugwisi had a different story. He told ZimEye the ongoing military deployment is all to do with the coronavirus lockdown.
“Talk to the police, they’re in charge of the lockdown,” he said, referring to the COVID lockdown.
Below is a roll if the spokesman’s responses :”Who is turning away people?
“My brother I think you know the truth that lockdown measures are being done by the police.
Military spokesman (O Mugwisi-OM): Who is turning away people? My brother I think you know the truth that lockdown measures are being done by the police. I really don't know why you have an obsession of talking to the military…Talk to the police,theyre charge of the lockdown.. pic.twitter.com/n7yxMsNnxp
“I really don’t know why you have an obsession of talking to the military…
“Talk to the police,they’re in charge of the lockdown…”
But the national COVID lockdown was officially scaled down to Level 2 last week Friday, with ZANU PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa announcing saying, people should now return to work to revamp the economy.
Towards the end of the day, state security sources reiterated to ZimEye, “there might not be a coup but there is a loud disquiet in the military ranks and it has been permitted.”
Farai Dziva|Members of the dreaded Ferret Team on Tuesday confronted MDC Alliance Youth Assembly organising secretary Godfrey Kurauone and accused him of breaching lockdown restrictions.
Kurauone, the councillor for ward 4 Masvingo Urban, bought lunch for the homeless on Mnangagwa’s National Day of Prayer.
See full report below: The dreaded Ferret team known for abductions and torture of opposition activists has just paid an unwanted and uninvited visit to the home of our MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Organizer, Clr Godfrey Kurauone just now! Organ Kurauone’s crime is refusing to take part in Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Command Fasting Day held yesterday.
Below is Clr Godfrey Kurauone’s statement:
“4 people have just left my home … Tendai David Runganga Gumbo from CIO, Sibanda from Police Intelligence, Tshabangu from Law and Order and the other one who did not disembark from the car.
They accused me of not following Covid -19 regulations yesterday when I gave food to the disabled homeless people.
Hanzi we have come to warn u to stop what you are doing.”
Stephen Sarkozy Chuma MDCAllianceYouthAssemblyNationalSpokesperson
WHO is a global organization, but we are also proud and active members of the cities and communities we live in.
Since the 20 th of March, Geneva’s famous Jet d’Eau fountain has been switched off while the city was in lockdown.
Yesterday I had the enormous honour of re-starting the Jet d’Eau, as a symbol of the city reopening now that the number of cases has declined.
I’m deeply grateful to the city and canton of Geneva for their hospitality and support for WHO, and for illuminating the Jet d’Eau in blue in honour of WHO and the United Nations.
But although new cases here in Geneva are now in the single digits, we are continuing to see an escalating pandemic globally.
As the pandemic accelerates in low- and middle-income countries, WHO is especially concerned about its impact on people who already struggle to access health services – often women, children and adolescents.
The indirect effects of COVID-19 on these groups may be greater than the number of deaths due to the virus itself.
Because the pandemic has overwhelmed health systems in many places, women may have a heightened risk of dying from complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
WHO has developed guidance for health facilities and community activities on maintaining essential services, including for women, newborns, children and adolescents.
This includes ensuring women and children can use services with appropriate infection prevention and control measures, and respectful maternal and newborn care.
WHO has also carefully investigated the risks of women transmitting COVID-19 to their babies during breastfeeding.
We know that children are at relatively low-risk of COVID-19, but are at high risk of numerous other diseases and conditions that breastfeeding prevents.
Based on the available evidence, WHO’s advice is that the benefits of breastfeeding outweigh any potential risks of transmission of COVID-19.
Mothers with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 should be encouraged to initiate and continue breastfeeding and not be separated from their infants, unless the mother is too unwell.
WHO has detailed information in our clinical guidance about how to breastfeed safely.
WHO is also concerned about the impact of the pandemic on adolescents and young people.
Early evidence suggests people in their teens and 20s are at greater risk of depression and anxiety, online harassment, physical and sexual violence and unintended pregnancies, while their ability to seek the services they need is reduced.
School and university closures can also have a dramatic impact on the ability of adolescents to access preventive services.
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The MDC Alliance Youth Assembly today commemorates the heroic efforts of yesteryear young black Africans from Soweto, South Africa who rose to challenge Apartheid dictatorship in 1976.
What is inspiring and more challenging is that authors of the heroic 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising were mere pupils in their early teenage years yet they found courage to confront the evils of their time.
As we mark this day, our generation is faced with a brutal military regime of Emmerson Mnangagwa which has used every tick and trick in books of dictatorship to suffocate and abuse its citizens.
From broad daylight military killings to abductions, torture, rape and imprisonment, Mnangagwa has done everything there is to do in suppressing our basic rights.
This day comes at a time when our youth female leaders are rotting and languishing at Chikurubi Maximum Prison for simply exposing the abduction, torture and rape they went through at the hands of Mnangagwa’s military dictatorship.
Just like Hector Peterson who had to pay the ultimate price for questioning Apartheid laws, Cecilia Chimbiri, Netsai Marova and Joanna Mamombe were made to go through some of the worst forms of human abuse for simply exercising their democratic rights.
Just like Hector Peterson who was killed by Apartheid police for demanding to be taught in his own language, vendor Hilton Tamangani was gruesomely beaten and died in police custody for simply trying to eke out a living through selling airtime in a country where unemployment is hovering above 90 percent.
Just like Hector Peterson who was shot by Apartheid police for demanding a bright future, Sylvia Maphosa and 6 others were horribly shot by the military on 01 August 2018 for the simple reason that they rejected Emmerson Mnangagwa in the ballot box.
As a people, a generation and Assembly, we have lost so much at the hands of this monstrous military dictatorship which is by far worse than the Apartheid regime when it comes to disregard of human life and dignity.
Today calls for more Hector Petersons who questions the status quo especially at a time when Emmerson Mnangagwa’s military dictatorship has become the law unto self.
The time is ripe for this generation to fulfill the dreams of those who sacrificed for freedom and independence during our liberation struggles.
It is time for a June 1976 on Mnangagwa’s military dictatorship!
Stephen Sarkozy Chuma MDCAllianceYouthAssemblyNationalSpokesperson
Farai Dziva|Members of the dreaded Ferret Team on Tuesday confronted MDC Alliance Youth Assembly organising secretary Godfrey Kurauone and accused him of breaching lockdown restrictions.
Kurauone, the councillor for ward 4 Masvingo Urban, bought lunch for the homeless on Mnangagwa’s National Day of Prayer.
See full report below: The dreaded Ferret team known for abductions and torture of opposition activists has just paid an unwanted and uninvited visit to the home of our MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Organizer, Clr Godfrey Kurauone just now! Organ Kurauone’s crime is refusing to take part in Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Command Fasting Day held yesterday.
Below is Clr Godfrey Kurauone’s statement:
“4 people have just left my home … Tendai David Runganga Gumbo from CIO, Sibanda from Police Intelligence, Tshabangu from Law and Order and the other one who did not disembark from the car.
They accused me of not following Covid -19 regulations yesterday when I gave food to the disabled homeless people. Hanzi we have come to warn u to stop what you are doing.”
Stephen Sarkozy Chuma MDCAllianceYouthAssemblyNationalSpokesperson
Farai Dziva|MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson, Clifford Hlatywayo has challenged Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to stop harassing innocent and hapless citizens.
Hlatywayo told ZimEye.com on Monday the regime was desperate to silence democratic forces through arrests, abductions, torture and intimidation of citizens.
He said Mnangagwa must focus on addressing factors affecting millions of suffering Zimbabweans.
“The issues that are affecting Zimbabweans in general are very clear . Mnangagwa must address the issues that are affecting ordinary Zimbabweans.
Unfortunately Mnangagwa has chosen to gag democratic voices through violence, intimidation and torture.
Instead of protecting the three girls, Joana, Cecilia and Netsai, Mnangagwa’s administration is determined to cow them into submission.
The girls must be released as a matter of urgency,” said Hlatywayo.
He added: ” Mnangagwa is in panic mode and he is at war with citizens. He is using every weapon at his disposal to silence dissenting voices.”
By A Correspondent- The MDC T led by Thokozani Khupe has revealed that the party’s top leadership is yet to reveal the way forward regarding POLAD.
Responding to a question on the way forward considering that several former MDC Alliance top leaders including Douglas Mwonzora, Morgen Komichi, Paurina Mpariwa and Engineer Elias Mudzuri were initially against POLAD while Thokozani Khupe joined POLAD at its inception, Douglas Mwonzora said:
“We are an opposition party that is going to engage with Zanu Pf the same way that Morgan Tsvangirai engaged with Zanu Pf..”
WHO is a global organization, but we are also proud and active members of the cities and communities we live in.
Since the 20 th of March, Geneva’s famous Jet d’Eau fountain has been switched off while the city was in lockdown.
Yesterday I had the enormous honour of re-starting the Jet d’Eau, as a symbol of the city reopening now that the number of cases has declined.
I’m deeply grateful to the city and canton of Geneva for their hospitality and support for WHO, and for illuminating the Jet d’Eau in blue in honour of WHO and the United Nations.
But although new cases here in Geneva are now in the single digits, we are continuing to see an escalating pandemic globally.
As the pandemic accelerates in low- and middle-income countries, WHO is especially concerned about its impact on people who already struggle to access health services – often women, children and adolescents.
The indirect effects of COVID-19 on these groups may be greater than the number of deaths due to the virus itself.
Because the pandemic has overwhelmed health systems in many places, women may have a heightened risk of dying from complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
WHO has developed guidance for health facilities and community activities on maintaining essential services, including for women, newborns, children and adolescents.
This includes ensuring women and children can use services with appropriate infection prevention and control measures, and respectful maternal and newborn care.
WHO has also carefully investigated the risks of women transmitting COVID-19 to their babies during breastfeeding.
We know that children are at relatively low-risk of COVID-19, but are at high risk of numerous other diseases and conditions that breastfeeding prevents.
Based on the available evidence, WHO’s advice is that the benefits of breastfeeding outweigh any potential risks of transmission of COVID-19.
Mothers with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 should be encouraged to initiate and continue breastfeeding and not be separated from their infants, unless the mother is too unwell.
WHO has detailed information in our clinical guidance about how to breastfeed safely.
WHO is also concerned about the impact of the pandemic on adolescents and young people.
Early evidence suggests people in their teens and 20s are at greater risk of depression and anxiety, online harassment, physical and sexual violence and unintended pregnancies, while their ability to seek the services they need is reduced.
School and university closures can also have a dramatic impact on the ability of adolescents to access preventive services.
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What’s lacking in Zimbabwe is honest leadership and honest followership. We have corruption right on the President’s doorstep with his children accused and no effort whatsoever to rebut that. Throwing yourself at the mercy of prayer as if you are the victim is completely out of place.
LEADERSHIP HASN’T ARRIVED INTO THE NEW DISPENSATION
The President is clearly taking people fore-granted and has totally forgotten his promise to the masses who supported his ascendancy in November 2017. He promised he would depart from the Past and hence the words “New Dispensation”.
A New Dispensation that fails to understand what it is renewing is a dishonest exploration into nowhere. So in that regard the Zimbabwe ship has no honest Captain and sailors.
The President and his team are failing and they have no decorum to acknowledge that. How do they face their God in prayer if they cannot start by confessions? Are they going there clean and with clear consciences in the middle of all that’s happening in our country? What has the Government of President Mnangagwa not done to make our country the ever-sombre resident of mother-Earth? But to make matters even worse we have followers who also don’t understand why they came out in November 2017 to force President Mugabe out after 37years of stagnation, oppression and all the other ills he allowed into our country. We have followers who cannot hold their leader to account and they too haven’t renewed themselves into a new dispensation of followers and have allowed corruption and oppression to take root and with it the stagnation, sinking even, we see in our country. As long as we don’t know what had to be renewed we are doomed as a country.
EXPECTATION VS DELIVERY DEFICIT
Once again, just like in the era of President Mugabe there is failure to align expectations with the reality on the ground. In the New Dispensation we expected leadership that was service-oriented, leadership that would be accountable and transparent and that would actively seek the upliftment of our people and not a close circle of relatives and friends. We also expected a bold followership which was ready to force their leader into being accountable and shape him in the image of the unfulfilled aspirations of the past and the rectified mistakes of our history, not into an infallible leader but into a listening, delivering, pragmatic, tolerant, accountable and every person’s leader we could all be proud of.
That our president still calls his opponents mhandu(enemies) in this day and age, and has zero tolerance to transparency and actively seeks the punishment and silencing of whistleblowers and still holds on to the archaic views that President Mugabe held is a reflection of his zeal for the suppression of democracy.
When our President wished sanctions away by the ridiculous chants:
“Hatizvidi. hatizvidi, Ngazviende, ngazviende” he showed himself as a person not only out of his depth in the post but completely out of touch with reality. Instead of doing that our President had to build the confidence of his own nation in him by rallying them behind him and gain credence as a person who was really bent on making people’s lives better. Pardoning corruption, appointing the Foreign Minister’s wife as the head of ZACC regardless of how good she is are all seen as jokes in bad taste. Listening to divisive characters such as Patrick Chinamasa is as equally bad for the country as appointing Energy Mutodi, with all the land scams he was synonymous with, to the post of deputy spokesperson. Prayer before an honest introspection of all this is a distasteful joke.
PREOCCUPATION WITH DESTROYING THE ALTERNATIVE VOICE
Once again we are seeing a President who is pre-occupied with silencing opposition.
When you still identify with the same principles as what you term the old dispensation, and when you share the same “enemies” with what you renewed it has to dawn on you that yours is not a “New Dispensation” it is just an extension of the past. I won’t be surprised that President Mnangagwa even on this day of “National Prayer” his main prayer was for the demise of the country’s opposition and for ZANU PF to be the only remaining party.
Our President still majors in trivialities in the same way his predecessor did. Theirs is not the success of Zimbabwe but primarily that of his family and inner circle with ZANU PF picking up the residue and remnants.
If the effort put in making ZANU PF formidable and sustainable was transferred to making Zimbabwe prosperous then we would have a country second to none in the whole world.
ZANU PF destroys it’s enemies with an efficiency I personally envy and I always wish if that was the same efficiency invested by our government in destroying Zimbabwe main enemies; poverty, famine, stagnation, diseases etc. But no, all of those can wait as long as power vests in a leader ZANU PF chooses. This is the mantra that makes the President choose his Foreign Minister’s wife to chair ZACC even though she is compromised from day one. Her excellence or lack of it do not count as that is clearly shrouded by the position her husband holds right at the top of government.
NO HISTORY OF SUCCEEDING ON ITS OWN
Zimbabwe seems to be the only country whose governing party is afraid of a vibrant opposition which has the capacity to unseat it.
A governing party that knows what it is doing cannot be afraid of a vibrant opposition as it will have ample evidence under it’s cuff to show off with as a successful incumbent. But the truth with ZANU PF is it is not able to run a country on it’s own. Between 1980-1987 when the country was relatively successful the country was a coalition government of ZANU, PF ZAPU and CAZ(Republican Party) together with John Landau and Chris Andersen’s parties. Between 1987 and 1998 it was ZANU PF when the former PF-ZAPU ministers in cabinet were still beholden to the people of Zimbabwe and had not yet assumed a true ZANU PF character.
When they did assume a true ZANU PF character and the cabinet became a truly one party cabinet the country fell apart until another coalition the GNU with MDC-T and MDC managed to get the economy to recover. But again with the assumption of a truly one party cabinet from 2013, ZANU PF is openly, embarrassingly and shamelessly failing the country once again. Myopia-led political parties such as ZANU PF need others and a vibrant opposition should always be encouraged not destroyed.
I PRAY FOR ZIMBABWE
With this confronting us and our country really on the backfoot, I do pray for a nation needing deliverance. Our country is being failed by it’s leadership and also its followership.
The leadership is demonstrably out of depth if there is leadership to still talk about but we also have compatriots who are failing to hold the leadership, pretentious as it is, to account.
We have failed to renew ourselves and have forgotten how we allowed 37years of our oppression to take root.
We have to be bold enough and ask God to hold our leaders to account and demand from them true leadership and success for our country.
Should we keep on sending non-performing MPs for the sake of balancing gender only? Or should we do more?
Here is my take on the PR system beyond 2023.
In October 2019, the government gazetted Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2, which seeks to introduce several amendments to the 2013 Constitution.
Parliamentary Consultations on this Second Amendment are set to start shortly which has opened pertinent conversations about the proposed ammendments.
Today, I want to specially focus on the women’s quota (PR system).
According to the 2013 constitution, the PR system was set to end after 10 years but if the Constitutional Ammendment Bill No.2 is to be adopted, then the PR system will continue beyond 2023. …but do we really need it? Has it achieved enough thus far to merit a continuation?
Has it politically empowered women in such a way that come next election, women who were previously in parly based on the quota system can not only directly contest, but contest and win?
Personally I have a number of issues concerning the current qouta system and as women and youth go out for Parliamentary public consultations beginning this week, I would like them to voice out these issues.
I suggest that the qouta system be continued but with these reforms:
1) A ballot be available for the selection of women for PR in each province. Let’s get women electing other women in their provinces with the top 6 going to parliament.
In this way candidates will have an opportunity to either contest as independent or under a political party. The party list system is exclusionary and subject to abuse by party bigwigs which is why the media is awash with claims and counter claims that PR MP y and x got in parly through the bedroom. Let’s do away with PR women who serve party political masters.
By being directly elected by other women, they will also have direct constituencies which the current quota system does not provide. They will have a people to which they can report back to.
2) Let’s put limits to women who are participating in PR.
The major purpose of a PR system is to mentor young women, isn’t it? If so, I think we need an age limit, is it not possible to say anyone above 35 or 50 isn’t eligible to contest under PR? I say this because many women in parliament through the PR system right now are just old women sleeping day in, day out without any serious political future.
Secondly, I think people who have previously saved as MPs before (both as PR and/ constituent MP) should not be allowed to go back in parliament through the PR system, they need to leave that space for others.
We’ve people like Priscilla Misihairambwi-Mushonga who has been in Parliament twice before but is now back in parliament as a PR MP
. Isn’t that defeating the whole purpose of PR? Are we not recycling “dead wood” in the name of political empowerment for women? 3) Let’s make the political environment more friendly and safe for women.
While the PR system is trying to balance the numbers in parliament, it’s failure to achieve a 50-50 gender balance can be attributed to a political environment that is not friendly for women.
This needs to be tackled to ensure equal participation of males and females in politics and parliament.
The ongoing brutality being perpetuated at Netsai, Cecilia and Joana, for example, will only serve to scare young women away from politics.
Most women fear for their lives and dignity because of what they see happening to other women in politics.
There is need to level the playing field in such a way that we can have more women participating in politics.
To conclude, I think we need to continue with the PR system and even introduce it to youths (but not with the paltry 10 seats that were proposed by the government) but we need to reform it!
Farai Dziva|MDC Alliance councillor for ward 4, Masvingo Urban, Godfrey Kurauone says he has nothing to worry about as he was only performing his social responsibility duty of feeding hungry people.
Kurauone related how government agents visited his house and accused him of violating lockdown restrictions.
On Monday, Councillor Kurauone bought lunch for the homeless in Masvingo.
Kurauone said : “CID officers came to my house at 9:28am and accused me of breaching the Covid-19 regulations yesterday after giving food to the disadvantaged and homeless people.
However, l informed them that, it is my social responsibility as councillor to feed the hungry. “
“This is an act of harassment. I think they are harassing me because l am from the MDC Alliance led by President Chamisa, who defeated ED in 2018 harmonised elections.”
RBZ Targets Foreign Currency Dealers Who Advertise On WhatsApp App :Full Text
ACTION AGAINST ILLEGAL FOREIGN CURRENCY TRADING ADVERTS
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has been monitoring social media platforms where foreign currency dealers have been advertising and promoting their illegal trade.
The FIU is aware of WhatsApp groups that have mushroomed in the country for the specific purpose of promoting and facilitating illegal foreign currency trade.
The FIU, in collaboration with the police, banks, mobile money / mobile phone service providers and relevant regulatory agencies, has embarked on an exercise to identify and take action against individuals who create, advertise on or participate (actively or passively) in WhatsApp groups or other platforms for illegal foreign currency trading.
The FIU and relevant institutions will take the following immediate actions:
• The mobile phone numbers used to join or advertise on the illegal groups will be shared with mobile phone operators and POTRAZ for barring; • Other mobile phone numbers registered in the names of such persons will also be identified and barred;
• Any mobile money wallets registered in the names of such persons will be frozen and the persons barred from accessing mobile money services with any operator; • Bank accounts owned by a person so identified will be frozen and the person will be blacklisted and barred from accessing banking services with any bank; and
• Identified persons will be investigated and prosecuted for illegally trading in or advertising illegal trading in foreign currency.
Members of the public are requested to report to the FIU any person, mobile phone number or bank account that continue to be used to engage in or advertise illegal foreign currency activities, using the following contact details:
FIU mobile and WhatsApp number: 0714039897 Financial Intelligence Unit 15 June 2020
In BYO, vendors along Fort & 2nd St, near MDC offices have been arrested. 3 Support Unit Vehicles are parked outside the offices but their intentions are unknown. Businesses operating adjacent to the offices have been ordered to close down for the day –@zppinfo
By A Correspondent- Addressing the media at Morgan Tsvangirai House, leader of the splinter faction of the MDC T Thokozani Khupe declared that her party is the official opposition in the country following the Supreme Court ruling which appointed her acting president.
Said Khupe, while flanked by Douglas Mwonzora, Morgan Komichi and Emgeneer Elias Mudzuri:
“After the Supreme Court ruling this is our first National Standing Committee meeting. We met here as a leadership and say let us reflect back on what happened and let us correct that.
These are the founding members of the MDC T. Most of the members that you are seeing here are the real founders of the MDC T…The people you are seeing here are the founding members of the MDC T…
We are here today, we are standing, we are now up on our toes, feet and on our toes We are rearing to go. Our desire as the opposition that will make sure that Zimbabweans have a better life. We want to make sure that we become a government in waiting…”
In an interview post 2018, Khupe who contested the 2018 elections using the MDC T logo and brand is however on record saying she was content with her performance in the presidential elections where she polled a paltry 45 573 votes.
While she boasted of beating 17 other contenders (men) who were vying for the country’s top job, Khupe who was proclaimed leader of the MDC T by a Supreme Court ruling was a distant third on the number of votes that she got compared to her former ally Nelson Chamisa of MDC Alliance who garnered 2 147 436 votes while Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zanu PF got 2 460 463 votes, which to date are disputed.
It therefore remains to be seen whether Khupe will indeed get the backing of the masses and only time will tell.
By A Correspondent- Shakespear Mukoyi, leader of infamous opposition MDC Alliance vigilante group, the Vanguard, has dumped MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa for rival MDC-T interim president Thokozani Khupe.
Mukoyi, one of the party youths accused of allegedly trying to burn down a thatched hut in which Khupe and reinstated MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora sought refuge during the burial of MDC founding president Morgan Tsvangirai in Humanikwa Village, Buhera, reportedly apologised to her Monday at the party’s first Standing Committee meeting at the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House.
Tsvangirai died in February 2018 and before his burial, a fierce battle over the control of the party ensued between Khupe and Chamisa.
Chamisa emerged winner but was dethroned last March after the Supreme Court ruled he was illegitimate leader of the MDC-T.
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The court also appointed Khupe interim president with the task of organising an extraordinary congress to elect a new leader to replace Tsvangirai.
By A Correspondent- Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mdala Mguni has torched a storm after the local authority offered him to rent a 2,5 hectare council plot for a paltry $165 (US$2) per month.
The advertisement dated May 29 by the town Clerk Christopher Dube stated that Mguni would engage in urban farming for 25 years on the piece of land located in Lower Rangemore.
Thus read the notice: “Proposed lease of Lot 3 Lower Rangemore to his Worship the Mayor Councillor Solomon Mguni, notice is hereby given in terms of section 152 (2) of the Urban Councils Act (Chapter 29:15) that the council intends to lease Lot 3 of Lot 3 Lower Rangemore in Extent approximately 2,5 hectares as shown on the drawing number TPA 8942 to his Worship the Mayor…”
The principal conditions of lease attached are: “the stand shall be used for urban agricultural activities only, a monthly rental of $165 bond excluding VAT shall be paid subject to review, any developments on the stand shall be in accordance with the approved plans and relevant council bylaws. All costs related to the least of the stand to be borne by the applicant.”
The town clerk stated that a copy of council’s resolution dated on March 4 concerning the proposed lease may be seen on application at the director of housing and community services offices.
“Any persons objecting to the above proposal are hereby required to lodge their objections with the undersigned… not later than 19 June,” the advertisement read.
By Wilbert Mukori- Yesterday was 15th June 2020, Zimbabwe’s “Presidential Day of Prayer and Fasting!”
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, himself, at State House surrounded by a number of the nation’s church leaders, led in the prayer and fasting. He prayed for God’s forgiveness for all our sins and for Him to heal our land Zimbabwe of the corona virus.
“Forgive those who have worship idols and false gods! Forgive us for all our immorality and uncleanliness! Forgive us for every act of injustice and corruption that has made the poor to suffer and the innocent to die,” beamed Mnangagwa’s voice.
“Forgive us as individuals and as a nation even for the sins for which we may be unaware ….. You are a merciful god and we ask you to forgive our sins and heal our land, the land of Zimbabwe. Make this storm to cease ….”
My mind was drifting; Mnangagwa’s voice reminded me of Unoka in Chinua Achebe’s book, Things Fall Apart.
“Many years ago when Okonkwo was still a boy his father Unoka, had gone tp consult Agbala. The priestess in those days was a woman called Chika. She was full of power of her go, and she was greatly feared. Unoka stood before her and began his story,” wrote Achebe.
“’Every year,’ he said sadly, ‘before I put any crop in the earth, I sacrifice a cock to Ani, the owner of all land. It is the law of our fathers. I also kill a cock at the shrine of Ifejioku, the god of yams. I clear the bush and set fire to it when it is dry. I saw the yams when the first rains has fallen, and stake them when the young tendrils appear. I weed –‘
‘Hold your peace!’ screamed the priestess, her voice terrible as it echoed through the dark void. ‘You have offended neither the gods nor your fathers. And when a man is at peace with his gods and his ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm. You Unoka, are known in all the clan for the weakness of your matchet and your hoe. When your neighbours go out with their axe to cut down virgin forests, you sow your yams on exhausted farms that take no labour to clear. They cross seven rivers to make their farms, you stay home and offer sacrifice to a reluctant soil.
‘Go home and work like a man!’”
That is truly prophetic!
“Hold your peace!’ the voice of the modern-day Chika would scream at Mnangagwa. “The people of Zimbabwe have offended neither the gods nor their fathers. And when a nation is at peace with its gods and ancestors, the nation’s prosperity will be good or bad according to the country’s system of governance.
“You Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa and your fellow Zanu PF cronies, are known the world over for incompetence, corruption and vote rigging. When your neighbours pass laws to protect and uphold the freedoms and human rights of all their people, you have ridden roughshod over your people denying them their freedoms, rights and human dignity to gratify your insatiable greed for political power and wealth.
“40 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruptions have left millions of Zimbabweans living in abject poverty and made Zimbabwe one of the poorest nations on earth. Instead, of owning up to your misrule and failures; you bury your head in the sand and blame the drought, sanctions, etc. for the country’s misfortunes.
“Corona virus is a pandemic that has befallen all nations, hence the name, pandemic. Those nations like South Korea and New Zealand who have mobilised the human and material resources timeously have weathered the corona virus storm with very low economic loses and human suffering and deaths.
“Zimbabwe’s economy was already in total meltdown and its heath care service all but collapsed and this Zanu PF’s blundering incompetence in the handling of the corona virus has only made a bad situation even worse. It is already clear that corona virus will be dealing a terrible economic, social and humanitarian blow to Zimbabwe.
“After 40 years of bad governance and with the country’s very existence on the line; the people of Zimbabwe must finally grasp the nettle implement the democratic reforms necessary to end the curse of bad governance. Like Unoka, we must finally work like a man!
“No god will ever do for us, what we can do for ourselves! A day of prayer and fasting is just another excuse for doing nothing to end bad governance in Zimbabwe!”
The MDC Alliance is concerned by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s unconstitutional decision to indefinitely suspend electoral activities because of the COVID-19 pandemic without regard for the Constitution, the country’s electoral laws and respect for the citizens’ civil and political rights. We are of the firm view that ZEC’s conduct is unlawful, unreasonable and unfair for the reasons that are set out below:
1. The indefinite suspension of electoral activities violates section 158(3) of the Constitution which states that elections should be conducted within 90 days following a parliamentary or local authority vacancy. There is no provision for the postponement of this 90-day time frame. The Chiredzi Ward 16 by-election was indefinitely postponed by ZEC on the 25th of March 2020.
Additionally, there are five confirmed local government vacancies. Most of them have exceeded the 90-day time frame. Accordingly, ZEC is in breach of the Constitution. The Constitution is the supreme law and supersedes any Act of Parliament or subsidiary legislation. ZEC has fallen foul of this binding constitutional provision. It has not approached a court of law to correct the anomaly in accordance with best practice as seen in other jurisdictions faced with the same difficulty.
2. ZEC has acted unilaterally in deciding to issue a blanket indefinite suspension of electoral activities. The electoral management body did not consult political parties, civic society organisations or voters as would be required by the dictates of sound administrative conduct.
3. The statement by ZEC is vague concerning which electoral activities have been suspended. There is no clarity on the status of by-elections in local authorities, constituency seats, proportional representation vacancies, and legally stipulated continuous electoral activities that include voter education and voter registration which require minimal physical interaction. With appropriate social distancing and hygiene etiquette measures, we believe that all these electoral activities can continue in the same way that court and parliamentary activities have resumed, without causing a public health disaster.
4. Notwithstanding the COVID-19 pandemic, electoral reforms remain outstanding. We demand electoral reforms and the alignment of electoral laws to the Constitution. Most urgently, consultation on the delimitation exercise should commence forthwith.
ByOwn Correspondent| A highly reliable source within the army has revealed to ZimEye.com that soldiers have closed off all major urban centres in the country in protest to government’s move to reduce their salaries by ZWL$1000.
Members of the military were apparently warned last month that they will receive reduced salaries this month (June) because a back pay that had been spread for four months – February to May – has been paid up.
Contacted for a comment, military spokesman Col Overson Mugwisi had a different story. He told ZimEye the ongoing military deployment is all to do with the coronavirus lockdown.
“Talk to the police,they’re in charge of the lockdown,” he said, referring to the COVID lockdown.
Below is a roll if his responses:’Who is turning away people? My brother I think you know the truth that lockdown measures are being done by the police.
“I really don’t know why you have an obsession of talking to the military…
“Talk to the police,they’re in charge of the lockdown…”
Military spokesman (O Mugwisi-OM): Who is turning away people? My brother I think you know the truth that lockdown measures are being done by the police. I really don't know why you have an obsession of talking to the military…Talk to the police,theyre charge of the lockdown.. pic.twitter.com/n7yxMsNnxp
But the lockdown was scaled down to Level 2 week, with ZANU PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa announcing saying, people should now return to work to rebuild the economy.
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People being turned away in the capital city Harare, at turnoff in Arcturus as well off Mabvuku tatodzima mota kupaka." pic.twitter.com/52nIhyUjZg
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In a memorandum dated 28 May 2020, Lieutenant J.V. Nsimba said the cessation of the back pay will result in reduced net salaries for members of the military.
This is a developing story, more details to be provided as they unfold.
ByOwn Correspondent| A highly reliable source within the army has revealed to ZimEye.com that soldiers have closed off all major urban centres in the country in protest to government’s move to reduce their salaries by ZWL$1000.
Members of the military were apparently warned last month that they will receive reduced salaries this month (June) because a back pay that had been spread for four months – February to May – has been paid up.
Contacted for a comment, military spokesman Col Overson Mugwisi had a different story. He told ZimEye the ongoing military deployment is all to do with the coronavirus lockdown.
“Talk to the police,they’re in charge of the lockdown,” he said, referring to the COVID lockdown.
Below is a roll if his responses:’Who is turning away people? My brother I think you know the truth that lockdown measures are being done by the police.
“I really don’t know why you have an obsession of talking to the military…
“Talk to the police,they’re in charge of the lockdown…”
Military spokesman (O Mugwisi-OM): Who is turning away people? My brother I think you know the truth that lockdown measures are being done by the police. I really don't know why you have an obsession of talking to the military…Talk to the police,theyre charge of the lockdown.. pic.twitter.com/n7yxMsNnxp
But the lockdown was scaled down to Level 2 week, with ZANU PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa announcing saying, people should now return to work to rebuild the economy.
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People being turned away in the capital city Harare, at turnoff in Arcturus as well off Mabvuku tatodzima mota kupaka." pic.twitter.com/52nIhyUjZg
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In a memorandum dated 28 May 2020, Lieutenant J.V. Nsimba said the cessation of the back pay will result in reduced net salaries for members of the military.
This is a developing story, more details to be provided as they unfold.
By Own Correspondent| State security agents have visited MDC Alliance Masvingo City Councillor Godfrey Kurauone at his home to interrogate him over his programme to feed the vulnerable yesterday, a day government set as a national day of prayer and fasting.
According to the MDC Alliance, the agents who visited him include, Gumbo from CIO, Sibanda from Police Intelligence, Tshabangu from Law and Order and another who did not disembark from his car.
“They threatened him for feeding the vulnerable yesterday,” the party said.
As we come before you on this National Day of Prayer in Zimbabwe, give us the wisdom and courage to deal with corrupt and inept leaders we have. Wipe them off the throne like you did to Belchazaar of Babylon.
Isa1:15-16,When you spread out your hands,I’ll hide My eyes from you;Even though you make many prayers,I’ll not hear.Your hands are full of blood.“Wash yourselves,make yourselves clean;Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.Cease to do evil pic.twitter.com/kryeLox22x
“I only heard it on TV and its shocking that our leaders are not aware that we have been fasting since November 2017.”
Pray for looting, blinding us. Praying for who. Honestly @edmnangagwa foolishly considers that prayer without action will solve our problems. The Lord I know doesn't work like that.
I subscribe to the National Day of Prayer. What could have been clarified is that Zimbabwe is NOT a Christian nation. The Constitution upholds freedom of religion. If we couch the Day in Christianity, where does it leave Muslims, traditionalists? Are they to look to the cross?
Workers are in roadblock queues.. Time & productivity wasted Fuel tankers& Goods trucks are in Traffic roadblock queues, revenues going People dont need a National day of Prayer. We are praying for the country in our businesses & homes etc https://t.co/wQ9w0cSFYw
1/3 Dear @edmnangagwa, Your call for national day of prayer is not just puzzling but frightening. It's confirmation that you're clueless about what needs to be done to solve man made crisis in #Zimbabwe due to poor governance.Will prayer stop corruption & repression? @mdczimbabwepic.twitter.com/zwn8XI7TBu
This National Day of Prayer and fasting is a dishonest fast! I will not pray and fast in solidarity with the corrupt. I will pray for their repentance and God's justice for his people, Zimbabwe. Isaiah 58 yese zvayo pic.twitter.com/6rysDvPmrY
Workers should not suffer the humiliation of being dehumanized at the roadblocks daily. The Government want workers to stay home, let us stay home until the Government want us to go to work. pic.twitter.com/1DoAiHvGW8
The Financial Intelligence Unit has revoked a directive issued to banks limiting internal transfer amounts following representations made by the Bankers Association of Zimbabwe.
On June 4, the FIU directed all banks to limit internal transfers to just two per day.
