By A Correspondent- Former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo while responding to a tweet by the Information Ministry permanent secretary Nick Mangwana warned him against making public comments based on cabinet reports regarding abducted persons.

He said this while responding to Mangwana’s tweet where he said:

“We presented 3 scenarios over the alleged abduction of Joanna Mamombe et al. 1- There was no abduction 2- Third Force did it 3- MDC and anti-ED characters within the establishment did it. We will release irrefutable evidence that there was no abduction. Scenario 1 is correct.”

Prof Moyo however responded to Mangwana and said:

“We? Be careful. As information minister I burnt my fingers by making public comments based on cabinet reports on abducted persons. The reports had constructive lies to protect state agents, the abductors. My advice to you @nickmangwana: let the security arms speak for themselves!”

The government is yet to produce irrefutable evidence to substantiate their claims as posted by Mangwana.

-Twitter

By A Correspondent- Zimbabwe has recorded 13 more coronavirus cases on the 13th of June bringing the total number of known cases in the country to 356.

The development was announced in a statement by the Ministry of Health and Child Care which observed that of all the new cases, 12 are returnees from South Africa whilst 1 was from the United Kingdom.

The Ministry also reported that 3 more people recovered from the virus bringing the total number of recoveries to 54 while deaths remain at 4.

The majority (8) of the new cases were from Masvingo Province.

By A Correspondent- The MDC Alliance victims of abduction and torture will spend the weekend in jail after Harare Magistrate Bianca Makwande indicated that she will hand down her ruling on their bail application next week after they were arrested on Wednesday 10 June 2020 and charged with falsifying their abduction and torture at the hands of suspected state security agents.

Harare West legislator Hon. Joana Mamombe aged 27 years, Cecilia
Chimbiri aged 31 years and Netsai Marova aged 25 years appeared before
Magistrate Makwande after they were arrested by Zimbabwe Republic Police members and charged with a cocktail of charges including publishing or communicating false statements prejudicial to the state as defined in section 31(a)(ii) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, publishing or communicating false statements prejudicial to the state as defined in section 31(a)(iii) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act.

The trio was also charged with defeating or obstructing the course of justice as defined in section 184(1)(f) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act.

Prosecutor Charles Muchemwa told Magistrate Makwande that Hon.
Mamombe, Chimbiri and Marova stage managed their abduction and told
falsehoods to their lawyers, relatives and friends that they had been
abducted on 13 May 2020.

Muchemwa said the false statements by the MDC-Alliance youth leaders
attracted some adverse comments from local and international organisations including from some heads of missions at some foreign embassies and the United Nations Special Rapporteurs, who condemned
the abduction and torture, thereby tarnishing the image of the country
and affecting the country’s prospects of an economic recovery.

In response to the allegations by Muchemwa, Alec Muchadehama and
Jeremiah Bamu, the lawyers from Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights,
representing the trio told Magistrate Makwande that their clients were
being victimised for seeking justice over their abduction, torture and
sexual molestation and that the arrest and prosecution of the trio was
an attempt by Zimbabwean authorities to cover up their abduction and
torture.

The lawyers argued that their clients who are victims of abduction and
enforced disappearance and torture had been turned into villains.

While Muchemwa had argued that Hon. Mamombe, Chimbiri and Marova
should be denied bail and detained in prison because they would flee
Zimbabwe with the assistance of some foreign embassies before they
stand trial, Muchadehama and Bamu dismissed the claim as scandalous.

Magistrate Makwande postponed the matter to Monday 15 June 2020 when
she will hand down her ruling on the trio’s bail application.

Hon. Mamombe, Chimbiri and Marova went missing on 13 May 2020 when
they were abducted in Harare and were found on 15 May 2020 after being
dumped in Bindura in Mashonaland Central province.

They have already been charged with committing public violence after
they were arrested on 26 May 2020 for allegedly participating in an
anti-government protest against hunger during the national lockdown
period as defined in section 37 of the Criminal Law (Codification and
Reform) Act and for contravening section 5(3) (a) as read with section
5(1) of Statutory Instrument 99 of 2020 of Public Health (COVID-19
Prevention, Containment and Treatment) (National Lockdown) Order, 2020
and will stand trial in August.

Retraction On Daily News Article

On Sat 13th June our news network re-ran a story with a headline which misled readers to believe that Professor Jonathan Moyo has criticised MDC President Nelson Chamisa on allegedly gagging party leaders and restricting media communications to spokesperson Fadzai Mahere.

The same headline appeared on the ZimEye.com Facebook and Twitter pages.

We apologize for this misleading headline and admit that it did not represent Professor Jonathan Moyo’s comments on his Twitter page. It was not our intention to misrepresent the remarks or in any way be disingenuous in our reporting.

We also apologize to Jonathan Moyo, Nelson Chamisa and Fadzai Mahere for in any way, misleading the public.

We once again apologize for the inappropriate headline.

Own Correspondent

Energy Minister Fortune Chasi this week got himself into trouble after it emerged that he instructed ZESA authorities to withdraw corruption charges against Wicknell Chivhayo.

The Minister has tried to explain himself out and we publish below his efforts to do that.

“My thanks go to all who have given their views on the Gwanda project. I have endeavored to express myself on this project. But I do think that I may not have adequately expressed myself. Let me clarify an issue which has attracted criticism.

There are essentially 2 issues which must be separated & dealt with that way. Mr Chivhayo faces criminal prosecution. Never have I even thought about that process. It’s of no consequence to the execution of the project.

The other issue is a civil matter between the parties. Zesa has lost twice and there’s an appeal before the Supreme Court.

In the criminal appeal recently the court ordered that Mr Chivhayo goes back for trial in respect of which he had been acquitted in the lower court.

Simultaneously zesa had lodged an appeal in respect of aspects of the contract with Mr Chivhayo. That appeal is still pending. It was this appeal that has drawn my ire. It constitutes an albatross around the project. I was also concerned about the fact that.

whilst employees got no increases, lawyers would always be paid. Legal issues & fees together suggest the parties sit down & talk. In doing so Chitapi J spoke on our behalf as Zimbabweans. Added to this the fact that ZESA IS INSOLVENT. Staff have not had salary reviews since 2012.

Appoint has been that I have reposed trust in individuals to the detriment of institutions. The Judicary is a key institution. It ordered that the parties settle. It was exasperated. I am asking that that order be respected. From the day of the court order the parties never spoke

This is contemptuous of the court. I have pointed this out in very clear terms to zesa, where gvt is sole shareholder. Their attitude was too dilatory given the exigencies of power in the country.

Subsequently, I called them to the table and told that the disrespect of the order was simply unacceptable. I need to “develop” power as minister of Energy & Power Developmént.

There has also been a very curious suggestion that I may be interfering with witnesses in the Chivhayo trial. This is preposterous. This is an acute case of overzealousness.

However, for what it’s I can assure you that that is not the case. I’m focusing on the civil matter. As I said whilst zesa must protect the “national interest” thru the courts, it can not afford protracted LITIGATION.

I used the word “litigation” in my letter. No reference whatsoever to the PROSECUTION of Mr Chivhayo. The dramatics personae (the players” in the PROSECUTION are the State and the accused. It’s not zesa and Intratek or Mr Chivhayo. Only the Prosecutor can stop. Not even zesa.

Some, maybe out of genuine ignorance, or mischief, say I have directed that the PROSECUTION ends. No, I haven’t & I can’t at all.

I must thank all of who have commented on this. In my view that is as it be. You help public officers like myself to account

More: Advocate Frotune Chasi

By Own Correspondent

Suspected CIO agents nearly assassinated the father of the tortured MDC Alliance leader Cecilia Chimbiri on Friday night.

The incident reportedly happened at just after 8pm when Mr Henry Chimbiri was travelling to his home.

The development comes just after the three tortured activists who include Harare West MP Joana Mamombe, Netsai Marova and Cecilia, got UN backing, as experts at the world body ordered the Zimbabwe Republic Police to drop charges against them citing that they did nothing unlawful on the 13th May 2020. Within 48hrs of the announcement, the state rushed to heap several charges against them.

Mr Chimbiri was driving from the capital city, and he narrates the story as follows:

I was involved in a near accident, a high speed car chase and had two of my vehicle tyres damaged by potholes yesterday at around 2020hrs .

The cars that chased me were all unplated: a sedan black Toyota and a black Honda Fit.

They tried to sandwich my car but l would have none of it as l managed to escape at a high speed in my C240 mercedes. I am terribly shocked but unshaken by the behaviour of State agents who are being used wasting taxpayers coffers.

Previously on Monday 8th June 2020, l and Mr Kumbirai Mafunda (ZLHR) had a similar chase along 2nd Street and Baines Ave near the offices for the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights: it was by 4 agents who were in a white mercedes which l only managed to read the last number without the check letters 0441 …

lt is my belief that they want to silence me and put fear in me. I will have none of it. And l don’t fear them. The struggle is on.
I had two of my vehicle tyres separated/ damaged by potholes along High Glen road near Olivine Industrial Complex in a high speed chase by two unplated vehicles.

I managed to reach home in Budiriro. I humbly seek any help to replace the tyres and service the vehicle that is helping me run up and down for my three daughters who are now incarcerated in remand prison. An amount ranging $250 can help buy the tyres and refuel.

I am now out of pocket and unable to move today to see my daughters in Remand prison.

I am hurt and depressed. The State Agents are after my life. I will not have none of it.

I will fight for my freedom of expression and media space.

By Bishop Ancelimo Magaya

‘Bring no more vein oblations, incense are an abomination to me, the new moon and Sabbath, the calling of assemblies, (be they presidential), I cannot, away with them! It is an iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moon and appointed feast, my soul hates. They are trouble unto me. I am weary to bear them. And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. When you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood’, (Isaiah 1:13-15).

Verse 15 in particular, captures what God promises to do on the 15th of June. The just called for presidential national day of prayer is a development that has happened not only at a time when the president and his aides have just promised another spate of violence, persecution, arbitrary arrests and abductions through the guise of the ‘Long arm of the Law’, but also at a time when they have just brutally tortured the three young women for their involvement in the flash demonstration, arrested honorable Biti and company for requesting the police to facilitate their entry into their party headquarters, but also at a time when many fingers are pointing to the first family in relation to corruption allegations surrounding the supply of COVID response equipment.

It is common knowledge that this second republic has blood in their hands.

They killed on the 1st of August 2018, they killed on October 10 2018, they killed from January 14-16 2019 and applied law selectively wherein they arrested those that looted but those that raped and killed still roam the streets.

They have just killed a man in Bulawayo during this COVID-19. They then call for a national day of prayer. God will not hear. The event will be loathsome before him.

The first thing to do Mr President is to openly repent of your sins: murder, corruption, deceit etc. The scripture that you quoted places a condition of leaving your wicked ways. I charge that you do so sincerely, submit to the authority of the church for guidance and counsel. Without that, the 15th of June national day of prayer is a nullity before God and the church.

For the church and the citizenry, let us push persistently through labor pains, the birthing of a new Zimbabwe.

God save Zimbabwe.

By A Correspondent- Drax Consult SAGL Zimbabwe representative Delish Nguwaya was on Saturday remanded in custody to Monday for a bail hearing.

Nguwaya is facing fraud charges after his company procured, at exorbitant prices, personal protective equipment for the Ministry of Health and Child Care.

In a very unusual development, Nguwaya, who was arrested Friday around 1800hrs was brought to court in a prison van which reversed into the courtyard, in an act which deterred journalists and photographers from taking his pictures.

Drax International is strongly linked with Collins Mnangagwa the son of President Mnangagwa. Collins has however denied any association with the company.

The state is opposing his bail arguing that he is a convicted criminal who also has other cases that are pending.

Find the state’s Request for Remand:

The Matabeleland South provincial taskforce committee on Covid-19 has called for the speedy transfer of returnees to their respective provinces as the province is running out of quarantine space.

Speaking during a meeting on Wednesday, Acting Provincial Development Co-ordinator who is also the chairperson of the taskforce committee, Ms Sithandiwe Ncube, said with the opening of schools imminent the province had lost a number of quarantine facilities and more which had been identified were not ready for use.

The province has over the past month recorded an upsurge in the number of deportees returning home through the Plumtree and Beitbridge border posts. They have been housed at quarantine centres in Beitbridge and Plumtree while awaiting to be transferred to their respective areas.

In Plumtree returnees were being housed at Plumtree High School and Allen Redfern Primary School but with the opening of schools which has been scheduled for end of July, returnees have to be removed from schools that were being used as quarantine facilities to make way for learners.

“We are running out of quarantine space and if we continue to receive people from either border we will have a challenge. At the moment we are working on relocating those being quarantined in schools to other facilities to make way for opening of schools. With learning institutions now out of the picture we have a challenge.

“Most of the facilities which we have identified as quarantine centres are just halls which need partitioning, ablution facilities and other works which require funds.

“As a result, there is need for returnees which we have in the province or those that we will be receiving to be transferred to their respective areas speedily.

“For those from this province we have referred them to their respective districts to make way for more people that will be coming in.

State Media

Government has blamed poor road network for failure to feed hungry villagers in Nkayi, Matabeleland North province, amid reports that the majority of people in the district were starving.

Humanitarian aid agencies estimate that 7,7 million people in rural and urban areas are at risk of severe hunger, owing to climate change-induced drought and COVID-19 economic shocks.

A collapsing economy characterised by ever-rising prices of basic commodities has exacerbated the situation, pushing many into deep ends of poverty.

Government claimed it was providing food aid to ease the crisis, but reports show that hunger is affecting many in Nkayi.

In an interview yesterday, Matabeleland North Provincial Affairs minister Richard Moyo blamed Nkayi’s poor road network for failure to transport food aid from Bulawayo to the villagers.

“That is why I was with the Transport minister last week touring unfinished road projects in the province. We have some truckers who are refusing to transport the grain, citing bad roads in Nkayi,” Moyo said.

When Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza on Friday toured the Bulawayo-Nkayi and Bulawayo-Tsholotsho road rehabilitation projects, he said the completion of the roadworks remained a major priority.

Moyo added: “Of course, we have some truckers that agree, but they are very few. What we have said now is let us have the Nkayi Road re-graded in the interim to allow truckers to transport the grain to the villagers there so that no one starves.”

Former Nkayi South legislator Abednico Bhebhe described the hunger situation in the district as dire, blaming the government for abdicating its responsibility to ensure the right to food is guaranteed.

“To blame roads is a diversionary tactic by a failing government. The hunger situation in Nkayi is very bad as we are witnessing families going for days without a meal. It is the direct responsibility of the government to feed its people and not to wait for non-governmental organisations to play that role,” Bhebhe said. The Bulawayo-Nkayi Road, whose construction began in 1993 and was supposed to be completed by 2009, is in a sorry state and the same reads for the Bulawayo-Tsholotsho Road. Less than 50km of the nearly 170km Bulawayo-Nkayi Road has been widened and resurfaced.

Former Vice-President Joice Mujuru once blamed hunger for the government’s failure to finish construction of the Bulawayo-Nkayi Road, saying billions of dollars meant for the project were diverted to feed hungry Zimbabweans.

Zanu PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu also once told State media the construction of the roads was affected by sanctions as partners pulled out before the work was complete.

-Newsday

By A Correspondent- Police officer, Constable Talson Hove (30) stationed at the Lupane Police Station, who is accused of insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa, was convicted by the police disciplinary court and sentenced to 14 days in detention.

Hove’s lawyer Bruce Masamvu confirmed the development on Friday saying the disciplinary court was presided over by a Superintendent Mutepfe. Masamvu said:

Hove has been convicted at police trial and sentenced to 14 days in detention and ordered to pay a  fine of $300. He was convicted for saying Mnangagwa has failed and ‘our salary is now equivalent to US$100 only.’

Hove is among a number of people who have so far bee arrested for remarking that president Mnangagwa has failed to rule Zimbabwe resulting in the country’s economy deteriorating at an unparalleled rate since Mnangagwa took over from his long time boss and mentor, the late Robert Mugabe.

Mnangagwa took over in 2017 giving the nation high hopes that he would turn around of the fortunes of the troubled, but, the opposed has transpired so far with economic and humanitarian and political crises having worsened.

Prior to the conviction, Hove had applied for discharge citing violation of his right to free expression but the disciplinary court dismissed his application for discharge and ruled that he should proceed to trial.

Newsday

By A Correspondent- Harare West legislator Joana Mamombe and two other party activists Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova have denied charges that they lied to police about being abducted and tortured last month, their lawyer said, as the women were remanded in custody.

Mamombe, Chimbiri and Marova were arrested at their lawyer’s offices.

They had visited the lawyer to discuss another case in which they were charged over their participation in a protest last month.

The three women were admitted to hospital with various injuries after they were arrested in that case and said they had been taken to a place out of town by unidentified men who allegedly sexually assaulted one of them.

Their lawyer, Alec Muchadehama, said the three were charged with “making false statements prejudicial to the state.”

“When they reported their abduction to the police, the police are now saying they were not telling the truth,” Muchadehama told journalists outside the Harare magistrate’s court Friday.

He said they “are denying the charges.”

MDC-Alliance spokeswoman Fadzayi Mahere queried how the women could be said to have lied about their abduction and torture when they had injuries to show for the assaults.

On arrival at the court Marova was seen limping and using a crutch, and was helped by Mamombe.

The three were remanded in custody until the magistrate rules on a bail application on Monday.

On Wednesday, nine UN special rapporteurs — who do not speak for the UN but report their findings to it — called on Zimbabwe to drop the earlier charges against the women and stop the reported pattern of disappearances and torture.

“Targeting peaceful dissidents, including youth leaders, in direct retaliation for the exercise of their freedom of association, peaceful assembly and freedom of expression, is a serious violation of human rights law,” they said.

– AFP

By A Correspondent- On Friday, the Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission interrogated the Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Obadiah Moyo and the former permanent secretary Dr Agness Mahomva over the procurement of overpriced personal protective equipment (PPEs).

A local publication reports that the interrogation degenerated into chaos after Mahomva accused Moyo “of handpicking the controversial company, Drax International.”

Speaking to the publication, an anonymous source said:

The two, Moyo and Mahomva arrived around 5:30 pm and left around 2130 hours.

The interrogation turned nasty as Mahomva fumed that her stint at the health ministry was marred by the minister’s interference.

Mahomva’s statement comes at a time when officials from the president’s office said Drax failed security checks but the health minister went ahead to deal with such a “shelf company.”

It also comes after the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, George Guvamatanga who authorised the procurement absolved himself of any wrongdoing saying he exchanged several correspondences with the Health Ministry, the president’s office and the National Pharmacy where he raised a red flag over the deal.

He added that his hands were tied on the matter

-ZimMorningPost

ZimEye.com Editorial

Retraction On Daily News Article

On Sat 13th June our news network re-ran a story with a headline which misled readers to believe that Professor Jonathan Moyo has criticised MDC President Nelson Chamisa on allegedly gagging party leaders and restricting media communications to spokesperson Fadzai Mahere.

The same headline appeared on the ZimEye.com Facebook and Twitter pages.

We apologize for this misleading headline and admit that it did not represent Professor Jonathan Moyo’s comments on his Twitter page. It was not our intention to misrepresent the remarks or in any way be disingenuous in our reporting.

We also apologize to Jonathan Moyo, Nelson Chamisa and Fadzai Mahere for in any way, misleading the public.

We once again apologize for the inappropriate headline.

By A Correspondent- Owners of Harvest House have revealed that none of the MDC formations by whatever name or description own the property but the MDC Alliance is in occupation of the property with the blessing of the company.

Said Ian Muteto Makone in a letter dated 5 June 2020:

To Whom it may concern.

I Harvest House Pvt Ltd the company,

owns a certain piece of land situated in the district of Salisbury called Stand 856 Salisbury Township of Salisbury Lands measuring 892 square metres, together with all buildings and improvements there on known as Harvest House, 44 Nelson Mandela Avenue, Harare (hereinafter so called the property).

2. None of the MDC formations, by whatever name or description, own the property

3. The company is not in occupation of the property. The MDC Alliance , since its formation, has been in undisturbed possession of the property with the permission and blessing of the company.

The MDC Alliance does not own the property. It is in occupation with the permission and blessing of the company.

4. The company expects that its property rights will be respected. It reserves its right in this regard.

Ian Muteto Makone

Director

By A Correspondent- Owners of Harvest House have revealed that none of the MDC formations by whatever name or description own the property but the MDC Alliance is in occupation of the property with the blessing of the company.

Said Ian Muteto Makone in a letter dated 5 June 2020:

To Whom it may concern.

I Harvest House Pvt Ltd the company,

owns a certain piece of land situated in the district of Salisbury called Stand 856 Salisbury Township of Salisbury Lands measuring 892 square metres, together with all buildings and improvements there on known as Harvest House, 44 Nelson Mandela Avenue, Harare (hereinafter so called the property).

2. None of the MDC formations, by whatever name or description, own the property

3. The company is not in occupation of the property. The MDC Alliance , since its formation, has been in undisturbed possession of the property with the permission and blessing of the company.

The MDC Alliance does not own the property. It is in occupation with the permission and blessing of the company.

4. The company expects that its property rights will be respected. It reserves its right in this regard.

Ian Muteto Makone

Director

By A Correspondent- Owners of Harvest House have revealed that none of the MDC formations by whatever name or description own the property but the MDC Alliance is in occupation of the property with the blessing of the company.

Said Ian Muteto Makone in a letter dated 5 June 2020:

To Whom it may concern.

I Harvest House Pvt Ltd the company,

owns a certain piece of land situated in the district of Salisbury called Stand 856 Salisbury Township of Salisbury Lands measuring 892 square metres, together with all buildings and improvements there on known as Harvest House, 44 Nelson Mandela Avenue, Harare (hereinafter so called the property).

2. None of the MDC formations, by whatever name or description, own the property

3. The company is not in occupation of the property. The MDC Alliance , since its formation, has been in undisturbed possession of the property with the permission and blessing of the company.

The MDC Alliance does not own the property. It is in occupation with the permission and blessing of the company.

4. The company expects that its property rights will be respected. It reserves its right in this regard.

Ian Muteto Makone

Director

By A Correspondent- Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa said he has no time to discuss issues that are before the courts with regards to the ownership of the main opposition headquarters, the Morgan Tsvangirai House, which was invaded by the Khupe-led splinter group last week.

In an inteview with a local publication, Chamisa said he was not fazed by Harvest House squabbles but on the State House.

He said:

“My focus is not on the Harvest House, that one belongs to the people. My dispute is at the State House. We must be talking about who should be occupying the State House.

“We are in a crisis as a nation and the central issue is on the occupants of the State House. Once that is resolved then Zimbabweans will be free,” Chamisa said.

Chamisa said the people are in a state of shock at how the state is involved in MDC issues.

“Everyone is in state of shock. Look at the cost of keeping riot police at Harvest House. How much fuel is lost by policing the innocent citizens. That is wrong politics and wrong politics is expensive.

“We can do better than that and invest all those resources in changing the people’s livelihoods.

“We have more police vans in the CBD than delivery vans. Government is in mortal combat with its own people and a time is coming when they will get tired.”

On being asked on the way forward Chamisa said: “There has to be a mechanism where citizens will demand a resolution.”

“The circumstances are enough signal for everyone to demand transformation. This government’s priorities are wrong and that is the only signal for everyone to demand that we are aligned in a direction facing forward,” he said.

-ZimMorningPost

By A Correspondent- Mr Buzwani Ngwenya the father of 20-year-old Tawana Ngwenya who is alleged to have brutally murdered Thabelo Mazolo, and mutilated her body has opened up on his son’s act.

Tawana, allegedly cut off palms and breast before stuffing the deceased’s body in a drum of acid under the instruction of a South African based traditional healer in a get rich quick ritual spoke about the shocking gruesome murder committed by his young son.

Speaking to the state media, Ngwenya said:

He was a quiet young man and seemed to be in good books with Thabelo. She would call him for assistance whenever she was in town on business. They appeared to get along very well. I’m crushed to learn he could have killed her in this beastly manner.

I am afraid to even approach Thabelo’s family but we obviously have to meet over this at some time. I need some respectable people to accompany me to talk to them. These people have been very good to us. I do not know what evil spirit possessed him to do this.

Imagine we were looking for her and he was assisting us yet he could have known she was already dead. I feel like I’m losing my mind.

Neighbours who also spoke to the publication about Tawana also said he was polite, respectfully and a soft-spoken young man who was always formally dressed:

He was a smart formal dresser. He never wore casual stuff like jeans. He worked at a company that sells chemicals and was known for selling detergents in the area. He looked like a focused young man. I cannot believe he committed this cold-blooded killing. I guess the quiet ones always shock us.

The Allan Wilson schooled Tawana will be transferred to Bulawayo where he will assist the police with investigations, while his unfortunate victim Thabelo Mazolo will be buried in Zhombe tomorrow.

-StateMedia

By A Correspondent- A Durban court that had convened to hear the bail application of Fungai Nyamadzawo who is alleged to have killed her 6-year-old daughter Alexia before making a false report that she was kidnapped, was adjourned after the state said it has obtained information about Fungai’s mental status and a history of mental illness, and it needed more time to subpoena the reports from medical professionals, News24 reports

The Prosecutor Sanesh Rambaran according to the publication said:

“….the defence had some doctors’ reports “which might be relevant” and the State intended to subpoena the reports from the medical professionals. This was to ascertain whether or not she should be sent for mental observation to establish her fitness to stand trial and her mental capacity at the time of the commission of the offence.

Her lawyer Rakesh Maharaj addressing journalist after the hearing reportedly said his client was very emotional and that it had been challenging to get instructions from her.

Fungai who is facing, kidnapping, obstruction of justice and murder charges will be remanded in custody till 17 June 2020.

FORMER Cabinet Minister and MDC Alliance sympathizer Professor Jonathan Moyo has said reports that Nelson Chamisa has gagged party officials from speaking their own views on social media platforms reduces the party into a “toothpaste company” and exposes Chamisa as a “Stanilist and control freak”.

Lately, several top opposition officials including Job Sikhala and Dr. Tapiwa Mashakada had turned to social media and online publications to air their views on party issues, but the Daily News reports that Chamisa has gagged all officials.

The report says Chamisa insists that only spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere speaks to media.

Responding to the developments, Professor Moyo said on Twitter: “Pray this is not true. Only Stalinists and control freaks restrict messaging to a select group of party apparatchiks.”

The self-exiled Moyo said that in political movements, as many people must be able to speak and articulate the party position, but was quick to add that this was achievable where leadership instils discipline in the party.

“In political communication, it’s not about WHO should speak but WHAT should be said by EVERYONE: message discipline. What’s needed are MANY voices with One message!” said Moyo, who revealed that he funded the MDC Alliance election campaign in 2018.

When Moyo was told by one of his followers that it was important for the sake of professionalism to have only the spokesperson speak on politics, the political science guru dismissed the idea of gagging people on their own private social media platforms.

“That may be true for toothpaste companies, not for political parties!” Moyo retorted.

The Chamisa camp has been hit by reports that apart from Sikhala and Mashakada, six legislators will next week make a switch to the rival opposition camp led by Thokozani Khupe

iHarare/Daily News

By A Correspondent- A Harare Magistrate Mrs Vongai Muchuchuti Guwuriro convicted High Court Judge Justice Joseph Mafusire’s son Tendai Mafusire of theft and sentenced him to 12 months in prison.

35-year-old Tendai pleaded guilt to the charges of theft and he pleaded for leniency as he said he stole his mother’s clothes and personal items valued at $2448 to buy drugs.

6 months of his sentence were suspended on condition of good behaviour and another 6 months on condition he makes restitution.

It is the state’s case that Tendai who resides at  25 Bieby Road, Glen Forest Borrowdale:

Forced open the main door to his mother’s house and stole various goods and clothes valued at US$2 448. The police were informed that Tendai was selling the loot in Hatcliffe,

Armed with the information, police arrested Tendai and upon interviewing him they recovered goods worth US$1 638.

The prosecutor also said Tendai was biting the hand that feeds him and his parents had tried to reprimand him but failed.

-StateMedia

Own Correspondent

Zimbabwe is returning to almost full economic activity with the reopening of the informal economy.

By last night, the number of confirmed Covid-19 positive cases had reached 343, with another 11 cases announced yesterday.

Is this a good decision by Mnangagwa? Make your call in the poll on the link below.

A Harare Magistrate Mrs Vongai Muchuchuti Guwuriro convicted High Court Judge Justice Joseph Mafusire’s son Tendai Mafusire of theft and sentenced him to 12 months in prison, The Herald reports.

35-year-old Tendai pleaded guilt to the charges of theft and he pleaded for leniency as he said he stole his mother’s clothes and personal items valued at $2448 to buy drugs.

6 months of his sentence were suspended on condition of good behaviour and another 6 months on condition he makes restitution.

It is the state’s case that Tendai who resides at  25 Bieby Road, Glen Forest Borrowdale:

Forced open the main door to his mother’s house and stole various goods and clothes valued at US$2 448. The police were informed that Tendai was selling the loot in Hatcliffe,

Armed with the information, police arrested Tendai and upon interviewing him they recovered goods worth US$1 638.

The prosecutor also said Tendai was biting the hand that feeds him and his parents had tried to reprimand him but failed.

Own Correspondent

Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 cases continues to rise after recording 11 new cases yesterday taking the total number to 343, 51 recoveries and four deaths.

The new cases were all from returnees from South Africa.

Read the Ministry of Health and Child Care daily update for yesterday 12 June 2020…

State Media

MDC-Alliance members — Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova were yesterday denied bail in court on new charges of publishing false information or obstructing the course of justice.

This emerged yesterday at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts, where they were being charged with publishing or communicating false information prejudicial to the State, with an alternative charge of obstructing the course of justice.

Mamombe, Chimbiri and Marova, represented by lawyers Jeremiah Bamu and Alec Muchadehama, were not asked to plead when they appeared before Ms Bianca Makwande, but were remanded in custody until Monday for ruling on their bail application.

The State, represented by Charles Muchemwa, Tafara Chirambira and Teddy Kamuriwo, opposed bail saying they were facing a serious offence and had gained sympathy in other jurisdictions, which may assist them to flee. The State said the trio faced a jail term of up to 20 years upon conviction.

“The borders are porous and they are likely to abscond trial,” said Mr Muchemwa. “They are facing a serious offence and there is overwhelming evidence against them.”

In their application for bail, the three told the court that they had other pending matters, charges of breaching lockdown regulations during an unapproved demonstration, which were more serious.

“The court must balance the interest of justice and the interests of the accused,” said Mr Muchadehama.

“Nothing has been placed before the court to suggest the accused should be denied bail. Nothing came from the State in terms of evidence. The accused are denying the charges and the charges are nonsensical and they are being charged for nothing. They are now being turned into villains. The accused would like to make an undertaking that they will voluntarily avail themselves to police whenever they want them.”

The three told the court that they were seeing a psychiatrist as part of their recovery from hospital. They argued that they had since surrendered their passports to the Clerk of Court and there was no way they could abscond trial.

Ms Makwande remanded the three in custody to Monday for bail ruling.

Allegations against the trio are that on May 13 at around 12.30pm they gathered at Choppies Supermarket in Warren Park 1 with other MDC-Alliance youths and staged a demonstration against the recalling of their MPs from Parliament and the alleged misuse of funds for the Covid-19 pandemic by Government.

On the same day, they allegedly called their friends, family and lawyers, saying they had been arrested at a roadblock near Exhibition Park and were taken to Harare Central Police Station. Upon receiving the communication, their lawyer Mr Jeremiah Bamu reportedly went to the police CID Law and Order.

Mr Bamu is alleged to have approached a senior officer, saying the accused had been arrested and taken to Harare Central Police Station. According to the State, checks were made and it was established that they were not arrested.

On the same day, social media platforms and local newspapers were awash with news that the three had been arrested, it is alleged.

Two days later, on May 15 at around 1am, Mr Bamu advised the police that the three were at Muchapondwa business centre in Bindura.

The police and Mr Bamu went to the business centre, collected them and took them to a hospital in Waterfalls, Harare, since they claimed to have been tortured.

On May 19, Marova told a police detective that she was abducted and tortured by the police, with Mamombe and Chimbiri later interviewed on May 25, according to the State.

It is said investigations by the police revealed that they were never abducted, but allegedly stage-managed the kidnapping.

Further accusations are that during the time of the alleged kidnapping, they were at Belgravia Shopping Centre in Harare.

The State alleges that they were seen at around 1645hrs in a Mercedes Benz, which was being driven by Mamombe.

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Own Correspondent

After abduction, torture and arrest of MDC Alliance activist Cecilia Chimbiri and her colleagues Netsai Marowa and MP Joanna Mamombe, state security agents have turned their focus to outspoken Henry Chimbiri, Netsai’s father.

The father who is also an MDC Alliance member survived an assassination attempt on Friday evening in the Harare City Centre.

Watch video downloading below as Chimbiri explains his narrow escape. Please be patient as the video downloads.

State Media

Zimbabwe is returning to almost full economic activity with the reopening of the informal economy, where three quarters of the economically active population earn their living, but under the “new normal” of masks, registration with local authorities, high levels of personal hygiene, social distancing and minimum non-business travel.

By last night, the number of confirmed Covid-19 positive cases had reached 343, with another 11 cases announced yesterday, all among returning residents and citizens in formal quarantine.

Almost all cases have been in this quarantined group with very few infections within the community.

Announcing new permitted activities, President Mnangagwa stressed that Zimbabwe remained under Level Two lockdown and that with the threat of Covid-19 still hanging over the country, people had to embrace the new normal ways of living to minimise the risks of infection.

All in the informal sector needed to register before resuming operations, with a Government spokesman last night saying this meant registering with their local authority under long-existing regulations. Fuller details would be available within a few days, with the legally required amendments to the lockdown regulations.

Compulsory wearing of masks in public, and other laid down rules such as washing or sanitisation of hands and social distancing would remain.

Most of the formal sectors, along with agriculture, food markets, tobacco marketing and the informal industrial sector, have already been allowed to reopen under set conditions and, in many cases, restricted opening hours.

At the same time, the moratorium on rent payments will be ended but rent arrears can be settled in instalments over six months.

Religious services with a maximum of 50 people present can now resume and in full compliance of the Covid-19 prevention measures.

People have been urged to travel only when necessary.

In his Covid-19 update address at State House, the President said the threat posed by the global virus is still hanging over Zimbabwe and therefore people should start embracing the new normal that has been brought by the pandemic, which at present has no cure.

“Over the last few months, you have been burdened with a truly heavy task. This is not an ordinary period in our history. A new normal has emerged. For the first time, we have asked you not to go to work, not to see your families, and to keep your distance from each other. This is the very opposite of the Zimbabwean way which is characterised by warmth and closeness. The vast majority of Zimbabweans have acted selflessly, and with great responsibility.

“Like a country in wartime, you put your nation first and put aside individual needs and rights. You understood that the battle against this deadly virus which has taken hundreds of thousands of lives around the world, is an existential threat, one which is of the proportion of a conventional war,” said the President.

The rapid response by the Government, to enforce a national lockdown following the first reported case of Covid-19 has been credited with minimising infections in the country.

Even as the country and the world at large is yet to emerge from the contagion and its crippling effects on global economies, the President said Zimbabweans have to work hard under the new normal and pledged to ensure that the country will enjoy, the freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and religion as well as freedom to vote in free and open elections as promised by the Second Republic under his leadership.

The effects of the worldwide pandemic have been made worse by the fact that Zimbabwe was still emerging from decades of economic recession when it was forced to declare a lockdown, while the impact of natural disasters such as Cyclone Idai and successive droughts was still very much bei0ng felt.

“These are hardly the conditions in which to implement tough spending cuts and deep structural economic reforms. But we have no choice. If we do not reform now, we will continue to drown in debt or peddle along in mediocrity. Zimbabweans deserve better. Zimbabwe deserves better.

“Although our lockdown remains at Level 2, let us begin to further open up, remembering that we all have a role to play. Government, hand in hand with an empowered private sector, will do all in its power to open up the economy, to provide the jobs and the opportunities the people of Zimbabwe so richly deserve.

“Likewise, the creation of jobs, the commitment to new opportunities for our talented youth, must once again be driven to the top of our agenda. We cannot and will not allow the period of Covid-19 to appear in our history books as anything more than a mere hurdle which we jumped over along the path to prosperity.

“As your President, I commit that we will work twice as hard, work with promise and purpose, to improve your lives, and to give your children a better future. It is time to accelerate our development. From the pains of the pandemic, we must now find new impetus in rebuilding.

“The liberalisation of our economy must continue in earnest. This includes the privatisation of bloated State industries which must now be expedited. Investment commitments must now be turned into tangible jobs. Our creative people must be allowed to grow and prosper,” said the President.

He added that reforms that are “stuck in the wheels of bureaucracy, must be unleashed, catalysed and implemented. The time for action is now. However, as the workforce is slowly released from a painful lockdown, let us remember that we are not returning to the old normal, but to a very new normal which must cause each and every one of us to rethink our lives. How we communicate, how we do business, how we meet and greet, and how we protect the health of our neighbours, our family, and indeed ourselves”.

The President reminded Zimbabweans, to observe the Covid-19 preventive measures that he said although they may look “rudimentary” can save lives.

“In this new normal, we must be vigilant. We must not rest. The virus is still with us. It has neither disappeared nor been destroyed. It has neither vanished nor been vanquished; it lives amongst us. So please act with caution. Wear a mask at all times when you are outside your homes.

“Don’t cough into your hands and maintain social distance wherever possible. Do not spend time in enclosed spaces with strangers, and ensure that windows are open in workspaces. Wash or sanitise your hands regularly and thoroughly.

“This may seem rudimentary, but these small acts may just save the life of your grandmother or grandfather, brother or sister, mother or father, friend or co-worker; even your own life. This will not last forever. We will — someday — return to the warm ways of Zimbabwe once again. However, the status-quo and the immediate future demand our active diligence,” said the President.

In the fight against the global pandemic, Zimbabwe has received assistance from both local and international partners noticeably China, a country that the President saluted for coming to the assistance of Zimbabwean people during the ominous times of Covid-19.

Apart from coming up with a scientific approach to the new normal, the President has also called upon the whole nation to prayer and fasting on Monday to seek divine intervention against the global contagion.

By Simba Chikanza | Suspected CIO agents nearly assassinated the father of the tortured MDC Alliance leader Cecilia Chimbiri last night.

The incident reportedly happened at just after 8pm when Mr Henry Chimbiri was traveling to his home. (This is a developing story)

The development comes just after the three tortured activists who include Harare West MP Joana Mamombe, Netsai Marova and Cecilia, got UN backing, as experts at the world body ordered the Zimbabwe Republic Police to drop charges against them citing that they did nothing unlawful on the 13th May 2020. Within 48hrs of the announcement, the state rushed to heap several charges against them.

Mr Chimbiri was driving from the capital city, and he narrates the story as follows:

I was involved in a near accident, a high speed car chase and had two of my vehicle tyres damaged by potholes yesterday at around 2020hrs .

The cars that chased me were all unplated: a sedan black Toyota and a black Honda Fit.

They tried to sandwich my car but l would have none of it as l managed to escape at a high speed in my C240 mercedes. I am terribly shocked but unshaken by the behaviour of State agents who are being used wasting taxpayers coffers.

Previously on Monday 8th June 2020, l and Mr Kumbirai Mafunda (ZLHR) had a similar chase along 2nd Street and Baines Ave near the offices for the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights: it was by 4 agents who were in a white mercedes which l only managed to read the last number without the check letters 0441 ..

lt is my belief that they want to silence me and put fear in me. I will have none of it. And l don’t fear them. The struggle is on.

I had two of my vehicle tyres separated/ damaged by potholes along High Glen road near Olivine Industrial Complex in a high speed chase by two unplated vehicles. I managed to reach home in Budiriro. I humbly seek any help to replace the tyres and service the vehicle that is helping me run up and down for my three daughters who are now incarcerated in remand prison. An amount ranging $250 can help buy the tyres and refuel. I am now out of pocket and unable to move today to see my daughters in Remand prison. I am hurt and depressed. The State Agents are after my life. I will not have none of it. I will fight for my freedom of expression and media space.

State Media

The High Court has reserved judgment in an urgent chamber application filed by MDC-Alliance to regain Harvest House following their recent eviction by MDC-T led by Dr Thokozani Khupe.

The matter was heard before Justice David Mangota. MDC-A was seeking a spoliation order, that is an order declaring the takeover of the building by the MDC-T illegal and restoring possession to the MDC-A.

The applicants are MDC-A and Chalton Hwende and they are suing MDC-T, Dr Khupe, Douglas Mwonzora, the Ministry of Defence and War Veterans and the Commissioner General of Police. The MDC-A lawyer Mr Alec Muchadehama argued that the eviction was not lawful and peaceful based on the events of June 4 when the MDC-T took over the building.

He said the notice by recently reinstated secretary general, Mr Douglas Mwonzora of the handover-takeover to their members was the factual foundation that proves the MDC-T was not in occupation of Harvest House before the eviction.

Mr Muchadehama added that the presence of the police and the army on the day in question to assist Dr Khupe to take total ownership of the building and was an indication that the act was not peaceful as alleged.

MDC-T and its leaders, represented by Professor Lovemore Madhuku, argued that the MDC-A’s application should not be entertained as it lacked merit.

He further argued that the MDC-A should not even be heard because the group had dirty hands by its contemptuous attitude towards the courts.

In his major argument, Prof Madhuku contended since the inception of the MDC as a political party it had been in charge of the Harvest House despite factional disputes.

The MDC-T led by Dr Khupe was the legally recognised MDC party and so had the right to the building.

“The MDC-A has failed to even produce an lease agreement to support their case.”

“The handover-takeover was of the security personnel which belong to MDC as an entity. Changes were caused by issues of allegiance within the MDC factions,” said Madhuku. He said there was not enough evidence on paper to prove MDC-A was in possession of the building so a final order could not be granted on the basis of speculations.

The police and the army, through their lawyer, distanced themselves from the MDC infighting, saying that their presence at Harvest house was only to ensure that Covid-19 regulations on social distancing were observed.

The army said it was never deployed there to help seize the building and that its duty was not to favour any political party and therefore could not be roped into the MDC fights.

State Media

Another 40 buses joined the Zupco urban fleet yesterday, with President Mnangagwa commissioning them in Chinhoyi, the capital of Mashonaland West Province.

Mashonaland West, home of the cities of Chinhoyi and Kadoma, plus the municipalities of Chegutu and Kariba, and a spread of smaller towns, will be allocated 21 of the buses, with Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) having exclusive use of one. The other 19 will reinforce the Zupco fleet in other provinces.

“The launch of these buses in Chinhoyi is a clear demonstration of the commitment by the Government towards the devolution policy,” President Mnangagwa said. “We shall therefore continue to guarantee inclusive growth through addressing multifaceted development gaps in the implementation of our devolution agenda.

“This is in fulfilment of the provisions in our Constitution, which encourage participatory governance and equitable access to national resources, wealth and public services by all Zimbabweans.

Government had engaged countries that included Belarus and China to procure more buses for Zupco, which would be distributed equally across all provinces.

President Mnangagwa said the ongoing rebuilding of the Zupco fleet sought to provide a safe, reliable and affordable mass public transport system for the commuting public.

“As Government, we are now working on innovative models, which will see the establishment of a sound financial base for each provincial and metropolitan council and local authority.

“The models will be premised on growth and development being initiated and implemented by provinces with central Government playing a facilitator role,” he said.

The President urged Zupco management to put in place measures to prevent accidents and ensure regular servicing and maintenance of the buses.

He also commended Zupco for practising recommended hygienic measures to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo said the procurement of the Zupco buses was the President’s initiative aimed at improving the livelihoods and welfare of people in the Second Republic.

Speaking at the same occasion Mashonaland West Minister of State, Mrs Mary Mliswa-Chikoka thanked President Mnangagwa for commissioning the buses in her province.

She said the provision of an efficient mass public transport system would contribute to the achievement of Vision 2030 of a middle income society by 2030.

Zupco acting chief executive officer, Mr Everisto Madangwa also thanked Government for recapitalising Zupco. He said the fleet had grown from 78 conventional buses in 2018 to 770 plus 1 000 omnibuses, including franchises.

Zupco’s employees had grown from 372 to 4 500 while depots had increased from seven in 2018 to the current 18 plus another 15 satellite depots.

Meanwhile, President Mnangagwa took the opportunity of the occasion to remind Chinhoyi residents to observe guidelines issued by Government to curb the spread of Covid-19 and urged communities to report returnees who disregarded quarantine regulations meant to protect both the returning residents and local communities.

The President also urged the residents to take part in the National Day of Fasting and Prayer to be held on Monday.

The Centre for Gender Studies is pleased to announce the appointment of Everjoice Win as Professor of Practice. Everjoice Win is currently International Director for Programmes and Global Engagement at ActionAid.

Speaking about the appointment Everjoice Win said: “It is a great honour and privilege to be invited as Professor of Practice by a prestigious institution such as SOAS. I am humbled and thrilled that SOAS has created this space for activist-practitioners like myself, to contribute and share our experience to the growing body of feminist knowledge, theory and practice. I particularly look forward to engaging with younger feminists, students, especially those who are building new movements and organising in this fast evolving world.”

Dr Awino Okech, Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies said: “The Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS is very pleased to welcome Everjoice Win as a Professor of Practice. EJ as she is known amongst her comrades is a feminist practitioner and activist who has provided thought leadership and supported feminist movements working on HIV/AIDS, feminist leadership in organisations, women’s political leadership and civil society organising more broadly. EJ has the rare talent of balancing community organising in contexts where material conditions often mean the space for dialogue about structural transformation can be limited whilst providing blue sky thinking about transnational organising. EJ not only brings an extensive body of work from the African continent that spans over thirty years but also has a history of organising with movements and actively supporting feminist and cross-movement work in over 30 countries in the global south.”

Everjoice Win has been active in feminist and social justice movements in Zimbabwe, the African continent and globally. She started her development career with a feminist organization- Women’s Action Group, in Zimbabwe, where she designed and implemented popular education and community-based development programs as well as national policy advocacy campaigns. Everjoice is one of the founders of the Zimbabwe National Constitutional Assembly, a civil society network, which spearheaded constitutional transformation in that country. In the 1990s, EJ worked with the Pan-African Women in Law and Development in Africa, (WiLDAF). The network brought together legal rights, human rights, and development organizations to demystify the law, raise women and excluded communities’ consciousness of their rights, and influence governments to promote and protect women’s human rights. Working collectively with other feminists Everjoice’s work transformed and shaped the women’s human rights landscape across some 24+ African countries. This includes the passing of new laws and policies on domestic violence, inheritance as well as shifting societal norms and values.

By Jane Mlambo| Government has announced that it will continue to subsidize mealie meal to ensure that basic commodities remain within reach of the vulnerable.

According to Public Service and Social Welfare minister Sekai Nzenza, government will maintain the ZWL$70 per 10 kilogram bag of mealie meal but has since adjusted the subsidy to millers from ZWL$73,90 to ZWL$216.15 per 10kg.

The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has been granted permission to implement a new tariff structure for domestic consumers with effect from the 11th of this month.

Below is the new ZESA Tariff structure.

The development was announced in a letter by the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority dated which is dated 11 June 2020 and addressed to the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) Managing Director Eng. Katsande.

Farai Dziva|Richard Tsvangirai, the son of the late MDC president and former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, has accused Zanu PF of using the COVID -19 pandemic to suppress democratic voices.

Quoting his late father’s words, Richard argued saying Zanu PF will not be able to rig the economy.

“Comrades, it is very unfortunate that I come to you in the middle of a pandemic, and it is with sorrow, comrades that occupants of the shake shake building have decided to capitalize on this pandemic by suffocating our democratic rights.”

“You can rig the election, but you can never rig the economy” Morgan Tsvangirayi…

He also taunted Emmerson Mnangagwa :

“Ndakatanga kuzviziva kuti ma1 paakati 10+ 4 =40. Ko iwewe?”

Farai Dziva|MDC Alliance leader, Advocate Nelson Chamisa has said Emmerson Mnangagwa must not blame the opposition for the crisis in the country.

Zimbabwe is facing a man-made governance crisis, according to Chamisa.

“The solidarity is much appreciated CIC.Zimbabwe is facing a man-made governance crisis characterized by egregious corruption, looting and institutionalized violence.We are comforted by this fluent language of brotherhood and sisterhood. One Africa..One fight against corruption,” Chamisa wrote on Twitter.

He was commenting on Julius Malema’s message on the chaos in Zimbabwe:

“We applaud the fight against corruption and looting of public funds going on in Zimbabwe. It is cruel and evil for anyone regardless of who they are to steal money meant to help citizens fight Covid-19. There is nothing revolutionary or patriotic about thieving. Pasi neMbavha,” Malema tweeted.

Chamisa also denounced the harassment of legal practitioners:

“Adv Sylvester Hashiti today became one the latest casualties of a state crackdown on lawyers as he was arrested and granted a $10000 bail over a charge of criminal nuisance. As usual, the charge is frivolous!Brilliant lawyers must be allowed to freely practice in their profession!”

Farai Dziva|Richard Tsvangirai, the son of the late MDC president and former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Right Honourable Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, has accused Zanu PF of using the COVID -19 pandemic to suppress democratic voices.

Quoting his late father’s words, Richard argued saying Zanu PF will not be able to rig the economy.

“Comrades, it is very unfortunate that I come to you in the middle of a pandemic, and it is with sorrow, comrades that occupants of the shake shake building have decided to capitalize on this pandemic by suffocating our democratic rights.”

“You can rig the election, but you can never rig the economy” Morgan Tsvangirayi…

He also taunted Emmerson Mnangagwa :

“Ndakatanga kuzviziva kuti ma1 paakati 10+ 4 =40. Ko iwewe?”

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Farai Dziva|Outspoken Norton MP Temba Mliswa has declared that Emmerson Mnangagwa will complete his current term despite heightening political tension.

Mliswa also said Mnangagwa would certainly seek another term in 2023.

According to MDC Alliance Zimbabwe’ s economic challenges emanate from the legitimacy crisis in the country.

MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa insists Mnangagwa rigged the 2018 Presidential plebiscite.

According to Mliswa, there will never be a coup in Zimbabwe.

“One thing I can assure the people of Zimbabwe is that there will never be a coup in Zimbabwe because in the first instance there was never a coup.
It was an impeachment as I always say.

@edmnangagwa
is there for his 5 year term and will seek another in 2023. It’s unfortunate that he is on his own as his footsoldiers are not working and 90% of Ministers are not performing. The cylinders are not firing and there is too much corruption too. Time is ticking and they need to change.

The judiciary’s gear seems to have moved up but still there is need to do more. Mai Mupfumira has been relieved of her duties following the NSSA scandal and as for Killer Zivhu, he has many people crying over the money they lost through his housing project,” argued Mliswa.

He added :”No one will miss Killer Zivhu in Parliament because he never contributed. Not even once. Not even to thank his constituency. You can check the Hansard. What kind of MP is that?? Good riddance.”

Farai Dziva|ZRP Cops and soldiers are at it again!

On Thursday morning cops and soldiers invaded Masvingo’s Central Business District and assaulted local residents indiscriminately.

Police officers and soldiers have also been deployed to the residential areas of the ancient city of Masvingo.

Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government is in panic mode due to the deepening social unrest.

Commenting on the escalating crisis in Zimbabwe, MDC Alliance leader, Advocate Nelson Chamisa posted on Twitter :

UTMOST HYPOCRISY!
Churches can’t gather, elections can’t be held, informal traders can’t trade, citizens can’t move freely &only MDC-A is arrested for violating lockdown rules while Zanu-pf & its surrogates move freely.

But alas,constitutional amendment consultations can proceed!

By A Correspondent- Mourners in Gokwe were left shocked after one of their community leaders refused to attend the burial of their fellow villager, and demanded two goats and two chickens.

According to a source, village head Finias Chalisegera refused to attend both the funeral wake and burial of his subject Barnabas Mabhara saying he did not belong to his village. As a result, the source said, he ordered the family to pay him two goats and two chickens for him to attend.

The incident which has become a topical issue among community members happened last week on Thursday.

A brother to the deceased, Herbert, said mourners were left shocked how a community leader could demand to be paid to attend a funeral.

“My younger brother and a relative got sick while they were in Beitbridge. We went to fetch them. Unfortunately he (Barnabas) got seriously ill and died last week on Wednesday and was buried on Friday. It’s shocking as it defies logic because in our culture when a person dies we make a report to the local leadership and that was done but we got the shock of our lives as our very own village head told us that he would not attend because my younger brother did not belong to his village.”

He added: “Everyone in the community knows that my younger brother was born and raised here. He (Chalisegera) just came and stood outside the gate and made his demand which we turned down as a family.”

Chalisegera said:

“Who told you about that? That issue is in the hands of headman Nyambiya and it would be wiser for you to contact him.”

Fanuel Mhike who is the secretary to headman Nyambiya confirmed: “The incident happened and a family filed a report. I’m yet to meet with headman Nyambiya for the way forward.”

-StateMedia

By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwean government has dismissed claims by the United Nations that authorities were the perpetrators of human rights violations in the country.

UN human rights experts including the special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman treatment or punishment, Nils Melzer and special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression Clement Nyaletsossi Voule, who visited Zimbabwe in September last year, accused the government of targeting activists.

In response to the claims, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Nick Mangwana said:

We are observing human rights and investigating any case of disappearances including staged ones. We have never stopped anyone from coming to observe anything in this country since the inception of the new dispensation.

But I guess they have already arrived at their pre-emptive conclusions so they will have to overcome a lot of confirmation bias challenges.

The UN’s comments come when the government is accused of using security agents to abduct, torture and sexually assault Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova, all MDC Alliance officials.

Government officials claim the alleged abduction was staged to taint the image of the government.

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By A Correspondent- A Bulawayo man who was accused by his wife of allegedly deriving pleasure in making love to her by force, with the wife apparently thinking every forced sex act on her could be her last, was on Friday last week sternly ordered by the court not to forcibly enter her bedroom for the next 36 months.

Anne Chiradza who was allegedly repeatedly sexually abused by her husband Obey Chiradza revealed to the court the level of sexual and emotional abuse she was suffering at the hands of her husband.

Anne, who chillingly claimed she lost her sight as a result of her husband’s emotional abuse, told presiding magistrate Nomsa Ncube who was sitting at the Bulawayo Civil Court that Obey was also evicting her from their matrimonial house.

“I have been married to Obey Chiradza since May 2018 and we have no children together. A year after our marriage, he started abusing me verbally and, on some occasions, he sexually harassed me.

“I reported these acts of violence twice to the police and we were only counselled. As a result of his continuous abusive behaviour I am now seeking a protection order against him,” said Anne.

She insisted that her husband should not enter her bedroom while adding that the abuse worsened after she lost her sight.

“In December last year I lost my eyesight and the violence perpetrated by the respondent against me worsened. He sacked me from his company as one of the directors.

“He also stopped providing for me financially and he is also threatening to evict me from our house. This now affects my health and I always have chronic headaches. Furthermore, the respondent is refusing to pay my medical bills.”

In his defence, Obey, an accountant with the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education and based at Mhlahlandlela Government Complex in Bulawayo, asked the court to grant a reciprocal order.

“In light of the fact that our marriage has crumbled, I felt it prudent that the protection order be reciprocal and binding to both parties,” he said.

In her ruling the magistrate granted a reciprocal order compelling both parties not to sexually harass, utter threats of violence and forcibly enter each other bedrooms for the next 36 months.

-StateMedia

By A Correspondent- A Bindura resident Fradreck Utsiwegota who is serving a seven-year jail term for scaring away an investor before duping him of mining equipment worth US$500 000 has been denied bail pending his appeal against sentence and conviction at the High Court.

He was convicted of swindling a Singapore investor, Ramason Bupendra of mine machinery worth US$500 000.

Bindura provincial magistrate Mr Tinashe Ndokera ruled that there are no prospects of success in the appeal.

He added that his sentenced was based on the nature of the offence, quantity of the goods stolen and the effect to the investment and not on the monitory value.

Fradreck Utsiwegota (38) was initially sentenced to 10 years in prison before Provincial magistrate Mr Tinashe Ndokera suspended three years on condition that in the next five years he does not commit a similar offence.

The anti-corruption court heard that On July 5, 2012 Utsiwegota and Bupendra registered Decade Mining (Pvt) Limited and both become directors.

Bupendra left for Singapore in July 2013 and left Utsiwegota in charge of the company assets and day to day running of the business.

Utsiwegota continuously discouraged Bupendra to return to Zimbabwe saying the political situation was bad. He came back last year after President Mnangagwa won the 2018 elections.

Upon his return, Bupendra found the mine deserted.

-Online

My Fellow Zimbabweans.
On 16 May 2020, I made my COVID-19 Update Statement, wherein I announced that Zimbabwe would continue on the Level 2 lockdown for an indefinite period. I further committed that the situation would be reviewed at regular intervals. Hence my address today.
Allow me to begin with a word of gratitude. Thank you all for your patience; thank you for your perseverance.

Over the last few months, you have been burdened with a truly heavy task. This is not an ordinary period in our history. A new normal has emerged. For the first time, we have asked you NOT to go to work, NOT to see your families, and to keep your distance from each other. This is the very opposite of the Zimbabwean way which is characterised by warmth and closeness. The vast majority of Zimbabweans have acted selflessly, and with great responsibility.

Like a country in wartime, you put your nation first and put aside individual needs and rights.
You understood that the battle against this deadly virus which has taken hundreds of thousands of lives around the world, is an existential threat; one which is of the proportion of a conventional war.

My fellow Zimbabweans, you came together. You stood strong and united. The resolve you continue to demonstrate is admirable, and for this, I thank you most sincerely. You protected your loved ones, you protected the people of Zimbabwe. Your actions to date have saved many lives.

As we continue returning to work, we must once again refocus, recalibrate and revamp. Let us recall that Zimbabwe was in the midst of deep and broad reforms. We were reforming distortions which have bedevilled our economy for decades. We were reforming the old, creating the new, and building stronger foundations for a more prosperous Zimbabwe.

We began to reform our economic landscape as well as our political space and media space; by removing antiquated laws and opening up new channels for dialogue and debate.

Unfortunately, just as Zimbabwe was opening up both internally and externally, we were forced, like much of the world, to close. To close our societies, to close our markets, to close our borders.

Ladies and Gentlemen, brothers and sisters, fellow Zimbabweans.

Zimbabwe must once again be open. The freedoms we promised at the outset of the new dispensation must once again be felt across the whole of our society.
Freedom of assembly.
Freedoms of speech and religion.
Freedom to vote in free and open elections.
Freedom to flourish.

Likewise, the creation of jobs, the commitment to new opportunities for our talented youth, must once again be driven to the top of our agenda.
We cannot and will not allow the period of COVID-19 to appear in our history books as anything more than a mere hurdle which we jumped over along the path to prosperity.

As your President, I commit that we will work twice as hard, work with promise and purpose, to improve your lives, and to give your children a better future. It is time to accelerate our development. From the pains of the pandemic, we must now find new impetus in rebuilding. The liberalisation of our economy must continue in earnest. This includes the privatisation of bloated state industries which must now be expedited. Investment commitments must now be turned into tangible jobs. Our creative people must be allowed to grow and prosper.

Reforms, stuck in the wheels of bureaucracy, must be unleashed, catalysed and implemented. The time for action is now. However, as the workforce is slowly released from a painful lockdown, let us remember that we are not returning to the old normal, but to a very NEW normal which must cause each and every one of us to rethink our lives. How we communicate, how we do business, how we meet and greet, and how we protect the health of our neighbours, our family, and indeed ourselves.

In this new normal, we must be vigilant. We must not rest. The virus is still with us. It has neither disappeared nor been destroyed. It has neither vanished nor been vanquished; it lives amongst us. So please act with caution. Wear a mask at all times when you are outside your homes.

Don’t cough into your hands and maintain social distance wherever possible. Do not spend time in enclosed spaces with strangers, and ensure that windows are open in workspaces. Wash or sanitize your hands regularly and thoroughly.

This may seem rudimentary, but these small acts may just save the life of your grandmother or grandfather, brother or sister, mother or father, friend or co-worker; even your own life.

This will not last forever. We will – someday – return to the warm ways of Zimbabwe once again. However, the status-quo and the immediate future demand our active diligence.

Let us influence and educate each other, and our friends and family on how to minimise the risks of infection. The virus must be kept in check. Only with strict discipline can we fully get back on course towards building a functioning, modern and prosperous economy.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank my Executive team which continues to steer this economic ship through the roughest waters Zimbabwe has ever seen in the recent past.
Droughts, cyclones, a global economic downturn, in addition to a pandemic which the world had not witnessed in a century. These are hardly the conditions in which to implement tough spending cuts and deep structural economic reforms. But we have no choice. If we do not reform now, we will continue to drown in debt or peddle along in mediocrity. Zimbabweans deserve better. Zimbabwe deserves better.

Although our lockdown remains at Level 2, let us begin to further open up, remembering that we all have a role to play. Government, hand in hand with an empowered private sector, will do all in its power to open up the economy, to provide the jobs and the opportunities the people of Zimbabwe so richly deserve.

Under this review, we recognise that the current spike in the number of positive cases, requires that we take a more cautious approach in relaxing the lockdown restrictions.

As such, the following adjustments to the lockdown are made:
1–All our people in the informal sector, who have not formally registered themselves or their enterprises, are directed to do so forthwith. Once they can prove that such registration has been made, they can resume their operations. Upon resuming their work, they are compelled to adhere to the laid down COVID-19 prevention requirements, such as the wearing of masks, washing or sanitization of hands and social distancing;
2–Gathering for purposes of worship must remain at a maximum of fifty and in full compliance with all the COVID-19 prevention measures;
3–People are urged to travel when it is absolutely necessary; And
4–The moratorium on rent payment, made during the early phases of the lockdown is hereby lifted. Rent arrears can be settled in instalments spread over a period of six months.

Meanwhile, Zimbabwe is grateful for the support we continue to receive in our fight against the pandemic, from both internal institutions and organisations, as well as from external governments, institutions and other development partners. I am happy to announce that we have once again received a considerable consignment of PPEs and other materials from the People’s Republic of China. We remain grateful to His Excellency President Xi Jinping, and the Government and People of China for their solidarity and support.

I would like to applaud and congratulate the African Union, through the AU Bureau, for the innovative tech-driven strategies that have been developed to ensure equitable and affordable access to all materials related to the prevention and fight against the COVID-19. We further commend the continued calls by the African Union member states for the lifting of sanctions against our country.

Finally, I exhort all the people of Zimbabwe to adapt to the new normal with a new, positive attitude. We are a determined, hardworking people. A people who know how to work closely and cooperatively. United in peace and harmony, we shall overcome.

God bless you all.
God bless Zimbabwe.
I thank you.

By A Correspondent- The public was treated to a dramatic incident last week on Saturday when a skimpily dressed woman bolted out of a car clutching her handbag after she was caught cuddling a married man.

The dramatic “movie” which entertained onlookers for more than 10 minutes occurred at around 7pm in the vicinity of corner 6th Avenue and Herbert Chitepo Street.

The fuming woman who was only identified as MaNgwe shouted that she caught “a hooker” Natasha Ncube kissing her husband Thembani Ngwenya.

In a fit of rage, the angry woman turned her husband, who was visibly drunk, into a punching bag and left him rolling and wailing for help on the ground.

As he yelled in agony, onlookers cheered and urged her to mete out more punishment.

“This will force you to stop bragging that you are a ladies man. Today you got the taste of your own medicine and this is will make you correct your stinking ways. Now you are bleeding awuyangeki (are you not ashamed),” a woman shouted with a high-pitched voice.

In between sobs MaNgwe told this publication that one of her friends who also sells wares in the vicinity informed her that her husband was having a nice time with Natasha.

“A friend of mine who sells soft drinks here told me that my husband was taking alcohol with Natasha and with a lady known as Ntando. I had to rush here to confront her because I feared that she would wreck my marriage. I was shocked when I found them (Thembani and Natasha) kissing and fondling each other,” said the heart-broken MaNgwe.

She added:

“Quite often I have stumbled on sexually suggestive WhatsApp messages which Natasha exchanged with my husband. In one of the messages the pair were negotiating for a sex session. When I confronted my husband about it he said Natasha was in the habit of following him.”

Thembani refused to talk to the news crew as he got into his car and drove away.

-StateMedia

The Zimbabwean government has dismissed claims by the United Nations that authorities were the perpetrators of human rights violations in the country.

UN human rights experts including the special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman treatment or punishment, Nils Melzer and special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression Clement Nyaletsossi Voule, who visited Zimbabwe in September last year, accused the government of targeting activists.

In response to the claims, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Nick Mangwana said:

“We are observing human rights and investigating any case of disappearances including staged ones. We have never stopped anyone from coming to observe anything in this country since the inception of the new dispensation. But I guess they have already arrived at their pre-emptive conclusions so they will have to overcome a lot of confirmation bias challenges.”

The UN’s comments come when the government is accused of using security agents to abduct, torture and sexually assault Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova, all MDC Alliance officials.

Government officials claim the alleged abduction was staged to taint the image of the government.

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Own Correspondent

Zimbabwe today recorded 11 new coronavirus cases as President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced new adjustments to the level 2 national lockdown.

All 11 cases were from residents returning from South Africa with seven being identified in Harare, two in Bulawayo and two in the Midlands.

Zimbabwe now has 343 cases with Harare accounting for 125 cases but 105 active as 18 people have recovered and two died.

The country has only recorded four deaths and has 288 active cases.

It has tested 57 598 people.

Adjustments to the lockdown were that:

All our people in the informal sector, who have not formally registered themselves or their enterprises, are directed to do so forthwith. Once they can prove that such registration has been made, they can resume their operations. Upon resuming their work, they are compelled to adhere to the laid down COVID-19 prevention requirements, such as the wearing of masks, washing or sanitization of hands and social distancing;

Gathering for purposes of worship must remain at a maximum of fifty and in full compliance with all the COVID-19 prevention measures;

People are urged to travel when it is absolutely necessary; And
The moratorium on rent payment, made during the early phases of the lockdown is hereby lifted. Rent arrears can be settled in instalments spread over a period of six months.

Own Correspondent

The three MDC Alliance youth leaders including legislator Joana Mamombe who made the headlines alleging being abducted after staging a demo in Harare’s Warren park suburb will spend the weekend behind bars pending bail ruling on Monday.

The trio was arrested on allegations of publishing false statements.

Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova were remanded in custody to the 15th of this month pending bail ruling when they appeared in court this Friday facing charges of Publishing or communicating allegedly false statements and an alternative charge of defeating or obstructing the course of justice.

The state is opposing bail in a case where the three allegedly staged an abduction and published false statements.

The state represented by Charles Muchemwa told the court that the trio are a flight risk and are facing a serious charge that attracted attention and statements were made regarding the alleged abduction to the whole world.

Representing the trio Jeremiah Bhamu queried the manner in which they were arrested arguing that the three should be granted bail.

On 13th of May the trio and other MDC-Alliance youths gathered in Warren Park where they staged a demonstration and on the same date the trio later communicated with their lawyers, family members and friends that they had been arrested by police and held at ZRP Harare Central.

Their legal practitioner reported to the CID law and order inquiring on the arrest of the three only to find out after verifications that the accused had not been arrested.

Two days later, their legal representative contacted the police informing them that the accused persons were found at Muchapondwa Business Centre in Bindura.
The police and the legal representatives went to the scene and collected the accused persons before taking them for medical examinations at a hospital in Waterfalls.

The trio were interviewed and made statements that they had been abducted by members of the police.

Nehanda Radio

Zanu PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu has thrown the ruling party National Political Commissar, Victor Matemadanda under the bus by supporting Douglas Mahiya’s launch of the War Veterans’ League without notifying the commissariat.

Recently, Matemadanda slammed Zanu PF secretary for war veterans, Mahiya for rushing to organise the meeting without consulting the party’s structures.

In a video seen by Nehanda Radio on Zanu PF’s Facebook page, Mpofu contradicted Matemadanda by welcoming, as a positive development, the launching of the war veterans’ league by Mahiya.

“I also want to acknowledge war veterans wing Cde Mahiya in conjunction with Mashonaland Central Politburo members, central committee members and honourable ministers from that province for the restructuring of the War Veterans Committee at the historic Atlanta Farm in Muzarabani of which (Richard) Chirongwe was appointed,” Mpofu said.

War veterans played a crucial role in the rise of President Emmerson Mnangagwa as they publicly supported the military intervention that removed the late former president Robert Mugabe from power in November 2017.

The clash between the two Zanu PF top leaders is a manifestation of serious squabbles in the ruling party.

The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) provincial chairpersons had earlier slammed Mahiya for launching the league without consulting the party’s constitution.

“We are extremely surprised to note that Mahiya decides to rush to launch the league even before the party constitution has been amended to accommodate that. From the start, decisions or the establishment of the league were done without consulting veterans of the liberation struggle.

“The league formation was just rushed through the Politburo, central committee and (2019 Zanu PF) conference (in Goromonzi) without consulting stakeholders,” read the statement by ZNLWVA.

These squabbles in the ruling Zanu PF also come at a point when Mnangagwa’s under-fire government recently, issued a chilling threat against exiled former minister Saviour Kasukuwere and outspoken MDC Alliance Vice Chairman and MP Job Sikhala for allegedly peddling what they called “false” claims of an imminent coup in the country. 

By A Correspondent- The Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda has called on legislators to ensure the accountability of funds mobilised to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

He made the remarks while officially opening the Liaison and Coordination Committee retreat this Friday in Bulawayo.

Mudenda said:

Parliament business was affected by the Covid-19 pandemic while the pandemic has also affected economies globally.

Parliament still has a role to play in coming up with mitigatory measures of the devastating pandemic. You are also expected to call for accountability for the mobilised finances and resource materials for the Covid-19 pandemic.

His remarks come when there are reports suggesting that some government officials and departments abused funds meant for fighting the pandemic.

Some government officials were reportedly demanding COVID-19 allowances while some authorised illogical deals which saw the country losing millions of dollars.

George Guvamatanga, the permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development and the Health Minister, Dr Obadiah Moyo are some of the government officials implicated in shoddy transactions that reportedly fleeced the country of the COVID-19 funds.

-StateMedia

The MDC Alliance trio of Cecilia Chimbiri, Joana Mamombe and Netsai Marova accused of faking their own abduction, torture and sexual assault will spend weekend in remand prison to Monday.

More to follow…

PRESS RELEASE

The City of Bulawayo has received complaints on suspected contamination of drinking water from residents. When complaints are received by the Municipality, the water quality teams which include the Water Quality laboratory and Environmental Health officers are dispatched to take samples, test and recommend correctional measures.

In the instance of Luveve and all other areas where reports have been received, the teams were dispatched to test for quality. Duc to water-shedding, samples were taken from the containers (buckets) in the households which were being used for potable use. The results of these were unsatisfactory indicating bacterial presence. The teams were dispatched to these areas to conduct awareness and education campaigns on water storage and safety.

Samples were collected from Municipal sampling points in the same areas and the water quality was satisfactory. There was notable inconsistency between the two sources (Household and Municipal Water) hence the encouragement by the City of Bulawayo for residents to boil their drinking water especially during the period of intermittent water supply.

Rectal swabs were also taken and sent to the Laboratory and nothing was detected in terms of notifiable diseases such as Cholera and Typhoid. The City is yet to receive a report from the other laboratories and health facilities as specified in the Public Health Act on notifiable diseases.

We have teams on the ground that are currently investigating the source of the diarrhoea! outbreak and we are also liaising with various medical institutions in the City.

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The City of Bulawayo continues to monitor water quality, ensure corrective measures as per norm where there are irregularities and also advises residents to take precautionary measures by using safe sources of water for potable use.

Residents are encouraged to use appropriate containers in storing water, store water safely, practise good hygiene especially in handling water and boil water for drinking.

What containers should be used to store water,

• Water should be collected and stored in thoroughly sanitized food-grade plastic or glass containers.

• First, wash the inside and outside of each container with soap and hot water.

• Finally, rinse thoroughly with plain clean water.

• Avoid using milk containers because they can be hard to clean. Bacteria can grow quickly in a milk container contaminating the water stored in it.

CHRISTOPHER DUBE TOWN CLERK 12 June 2020