Malawians on Thursday, May 7, 2020 took a dig at First lady Gertrude Mutharika for poor dressing code during his husband Peter Mutharika’s presentation of nomination papers for July 2, 2020′ fresh presidential elections at mount Soche in Blantyre.
First Lady who dressed in blue and yellow gown dress which looked like a maternity dress for an expecting woman (pregnant woman) did not please viewers on live TV broadcast.
Malawians were comparing Malawi Vice President Saulo Chilima’s wife Marry Chilima who dresses smart and presentable in public and private functions.
Mary Chilima on the left-hand side and Gertrude Mutharika on the right-hand side
“Pliz Mayi wafuko aphunzire kuvala sure (Please The First lady must learn to dress properly),” rebukes Feli Chiwaula.
Zaman chips in; “Chaka choyipa Mulumu olo akazi ako amatha kukuonetsa chitsiru ku gulu povala gown mmalo mwa dress (When God wants to shame you, even your wife make you fool to the public by dressing a gown instead of proper dress”.
Confidence adds, “Koma designer wa aunt Getu sakaona kumwamba, (Honestly, First lady Gertrude’s designer will not enter into heaven)”.
“Koma mwati a First lady amalakwa chani kuti mpaka alandire chilango cha dress imeneyi (What crime has the first lady committed to be punished for this type of dress)”, Chigo worried.
They have also insulted Mrs Mutharika’s dress designers who most of the time attract public anger and insults on types of dresses that the first lady puts on.
The famous television whistleblower of the 2008 election rigging, Shepherd Yuda speaks concerning a leak he reports he’s received from military sources on alleged plans by ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa.
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LEAKED – YUDA SPILLS THE BEANS ON MNANGAGWA'S ALLEGED MILITARY PLOT IN MOZAMBIQUE https://t.co/FG98hMkICP
If Mnangagwa created Fake Terrorist Gwesela and killed 22,000 people saying army's hunting for him (for a whole 4yrs 1983-87), and then created Fake Polling stations for Filipe Nyusi in Masvingo (in 2019), what stops him from creating Fake Terrorists in Mozambique for pleasure?
Mozambican opposition says it’s the government soldiers killing civilians,
By Simba Chikanza| ANALYSIS | There are digital footprints from within as well as from outside Mozambique that suggest there are some other terrorists currently operating in that country who were created by Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa so he can unleash military rule over the Beira corridor: it’s all about money and getting it by blood. He’s been doing this since 1983. He created Richard Gwesela (who was later killed by a newspaper article, literally), and up to as late as 2018 when we finally witnessed the Terrorist game played before our eyes on LIVE video. It’s a well known game by the politicians and innocent people die.
In recent weeks, we have been told of Christians being killed by so-called Islamic militants in Mozambique. Are they real terrorists and not mere political agents on a special assignment? Let’s hear from the Mozambicans themselves what they are both seeing and saying.
Of the 59 tweets published by ‘the Mozambican Islamic militant group,’ on a Twitter handle, 90% of them are attacking Zimbabwe; their very first one on the 29th April 2020, is a direct message to Emmerson Mnangagwa, and the last one, late Monday evening 9pm, refers to Zimbabwe. Why are these “terrorists” so obsessed with Zimbabwe beginning with their very first tweet?
Of the pictures published of the terrorists lately and on their Twitter account, FranceAlRasa, one is unmasked as a 2015 photo, and the second (used by a South African publication, Daily Maverick, which claims they got it via Telegram from the group last year, has its first citing way back in June 2018 over in Europe, Turkey, nowhere near Africa.
the pictures analysed by their digital Origins.
the collage of pictures from the so-called terrorist group
The Twitter account FranceAlRasa, was created on the 29th April 2020, well in advance of Mnangagwa’s visit there (just a day before).
The correlation of timing as well as the desperation to rebuild the economy using military metal all point to one thing – a brute politician’s methods repeated for over 37 years since the 4th of May 1983.
One possibility – mere malicious intent
One possibility suggests that the Twitter account was created by a merely malicious person who is seeking to agitate war against Emmerson Mnangagwa. This is a very strong likely, and many citizens are known for doing these things in the past as they vent their anger against the government. If this is the case however how did the individual (s) know that Mnangagwa would fly over to Mozambique at the end of the week? The person who did this could thus only be an insider, or at least one possessing insider state-knowledge.
Furthermore if that is true, on Sunday, the nation witnessed ZANU PF’s most prolific pressure group, screaming on social networks that the Zimbabwe National Army must be deployed to Mozambique with immediate effect, today. They said they must do this in order to crush ISIS. They are confident that they will win this war. Very soon ZANU PF will throw a party telling the whole world that Emmerson Mnangagwa is the only politician who can crush ISIS. He has done it in Mozambique! Perfect. We will all believe them, because we did not care to investigate.
And why is ZANU PF suddenly agitated for war?
Does Mozambique have Islamic militants? Who is funding them?
Since Mnangagwa created fake polling stations in Masvingo for Phillip Nyusi 7 months ago, and someone printed fake IDs for scores of Zimbabweans who have never set foot in Mozambique to vote for Nyusi, what is his next move? The current Chairman of the SADC Politics, Defence And Security, is well known for creating terrorists who work for him and his story is documented for a long 37 year period. It brings up the question of what SADC is all about when it appoints someone who has killed more blacks than apartheid South Africa to head its defence and security, but well this is a very very long discussion for another day. A very long one.
Local agencies in Mozambique quote the opposition in that country complaining that the state is murdering civilians.
Mozambique’s interior minister, Amade Miquidade, last month attacked what he described as dis-information spread by independent journalists who are calling into question the credibility of Mozambique’s security forces.
He also blasted Jose Manteigas, a spokesman for Renamo, the main opposition party, who has accused the country’s security forces of “murdering” civilians.
Miquidade said the security forces “will not tolerate these acts of subversion.”
Zitimar news agency, quotes Manteigas alleging that Mozambique’s security forces killed 12 civilians — including two Renamo members — when they attacked boats at jetties on Ibo island in mid-April.
In another report, the interior minister has claimed that security forces have since put the situation in Cabo Delgado under control.
“The situation in Cabo Delgado, at this moment, is under control. What does that mean? We have identified where the enemy is, what are their bases, what are their camps and their movements; while, the defence and security forces are strategically preparing for yet another offensive,” said Miquidade.
Seeing that Mnangagwa is officially assisting Nyusi with political direction, what kind of mentorship is Emmerson Mnangagwa giving the Mozambican leader, a professional one? How is the story unfolding?
So far, the report begins on the 4th May 1983, when Mnangagwa created fake terrorists having abducted and killed 6 western tourists. The victims were: Brett Baldwin, 23, of Walnut Creek, Calif., and Kevin Ellis, 24, of Bellevue, Wash.; Britons James Greenwell and Martyn Hodgeson; and Australians Tony Bajzeli and William Butler.
The Gwesela sequel.
ZIFA’s spokesperson, Xolisani Gwesela has in recent days responded to allegations by some quarters in Matebeleland who attack him saying that he is the son of the notorious so called dissident, Ranson or Richard Gwesela, a terrorist Mnangagwa created in the 1980s.
Gwesela is the infamous “immortal” character who the Zimbabwean military claimed they were after between 1983 and 1987 when they continued to kill civilians until more than 22,000 people were massacred. He was immortal for a whole 4 years and only “killed” when ZANU PF now wanted to sign a unity accord with Joshua Nkomo’s ZAPU party in 1987.
Thousands of people sensationally flocked to a police station in Gweru on the 18th November 1987 for a glimpse of the bullet-riddled corpse of Zimbabwe’s most wanted “fugitive.”
Zimbabwe Republic Police say Richard Gwesela, a former guerrilla fighter, was a gang leader who terrorized the people of two provinces for four years.
Gwesela was alleged to have murdered 20 people in the Midlands and neighbouring Matabeleland provinces. He also was said to have raped women and robbed villagers.
In silence, onlookers walked past his body sprawled beneath a wanted poster offering $30,000 for him, dead or alive.
The state media said Gwesela was the country’s most wanted man, and was killed in a gunbattle with Zimbabwean security forces near Gweru “on Sunday,” earlier.
His death was reported for the first time three days later, on the Wednesday. There were no independent investigations to confirm the state media report.
His mother and an uncle identified the corpse as Gwesela, and police fingerprints confirmed the identity, according to the state media report.
″Gwesela had killed more than 20 people since he started operating in the area,″ Enos Nkala, home affairs minister in charge of police, told reporters. ″Now he is going to join them, whether in heaven or hell, we don’t know,” he said.
NEW TWIST.
33 years later, some Mthwakazi activists have begun claiming ZIFA’s Gwesela was rewarded the sports job for a sterling role the supposed father played as an insider who staged for Emmerson Mnangagwa during Gukurahundi in order to kill civilians, pursuing Emmerson Mnangagwa’s terror operation to kill people under the guise of flushing out dissidents.
One activist makes the above chilling allegations (pic).
Responding however, ZIFA’s Mr Xolisani Gwesa told ZimEye, the so called Gwesela was not even a real Gwesela.
He said: “This writer is waffling. I am shocked by these ghastly falsehoods.
“I am the son of the late Chief Gwesela whose real name was Cornelius Nobody Gwesela Ndebele who died in 1996.He was never a dissident. The so called “dissident Gwesela” was never a Gwesela and his real name was Zedious Mangena.
“I am holder of a Masters Degree in Media and Society studies, Post grad Diploma in Media , Bsc Honours degree , Diploma in Management and Diploma in Sport Management.
“I have over 15 years experience in media management and sport management and events coordination. I joined Zifa purely on merit.
“The Gweselas are also from Zhombe and not Lower Gweru. The Gweselas are also from Zhombe and not Lower Gweru.”
ZIMBABWE, THE WORLD’S FASTEST GROWING CROP ECONOMY SUDDENLY CRASHED FOLLOWING MNANGAGWA’S PRONOUNCEMENTS
Rhodesia, was once the worst hit African economy by both United Nations sanctions and a debilitating 14 year running civil war from within, and yet by 1976, it had been hailed as the world’s fastest growing crop economy. So what really went wrong? Soon after 1980, it was handed over to Robert Mugabe and his state security minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, who less than 3 years later launched a military crackdown against civilians who he personally described as cockroaches who must be wiped out using DDT. That operation destroyed the economy in ways exactly similar to the recent 1 Aug 2018 military crackdown (which the Finance Ministry has told The Motlanthe Commission has cost the nation USD16 billion.) Zimbabwe’s economy began crumbling following Mnangagwa’s words on the 4th April 1983:
“Blessed are they who will follow the path of the Government laws, for their days on earth will be increased. But woe unto those who will choose the path of collaboration with dissidents for we will certainly shorten their stay on earth.”
As Minister of State Security, Mnangagwa was in charge of the brutal massacre of more than 22 000 Ndebele. He labeled dissidents ‘cockroaches’ and the killers of the Fifth Brigade army unit as ‘DDT,’ an insecticide.
Economy data shows how the country’s GDP crashed down following the operation, and effects were immediately felt from 1983 all the way to 1985.
Fast forward to the period 2004 – 2018 more evidence shows the correlation between economic performance and the rule of law, specifically human rights adherence.
MNANGAGWA’S METHOD.
But Mnangagwa’s method is different. He operates on the belief that an economy is only built by killing people, and his appetite for shedding blood is evident for 40 years to date during which he has killed more blacks than apartheid South Africa. On the 2nd January, 2020, he told residents of Kuwadzana, Harare that he will send the army after them once he suspects them to have stopped the rain. This came barely 2 years after he deployed the military to change election results and citizens for the first time witnessed soldiers opening fire against shoppers going about the day-to-day business.
What kind of mentorship is Emmerson Mnangagwa giving the Mozambican leader, a professional one?
There is no doubt that Mnangagwa will deny all this evidence even to the Mozambicans. But his file is now full and fat, a whole 37 years full.
If Mnangagwa created Fake Terrorist Gwesela and killed 22,000 people saying army's hunting for him (for a whole 4yrs 1983-87), and then created Fake Polling stations for Filipe Nyusi in Masvingo (in 2019), what stops him from creating Fake Terrorists in Mozambique for pleasure?
Tech Zim|Most people were surprised by the Zimbabwe central bank moves to instruct EcoCash to freeze the accounts of all agents that process transactions above ZW$100,000 (about USD2,000 or USD4,000 when you use the generous official exchange rate) per month.
$100k is a crime
The problem with this directive is that it is just a blanket punishment. Effectively, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is saying that if you are not a listed company, a bank, an international organisation or the government, then you are not allowed to transact above this arbitrary figure of $100k.
Even if there is just one legitimate business in this class, common sense tells you that it is not right nor fair to cut the service for that one business just to ‘catch’ the rest. It’s even worse. The central bank could have applied more targeted sanctions without punishing businesses for having high transactions. They had information on which accounts to target.
The RBZ didn’t follow up on suspicious transactions
A letter that was attached to the papers submitted to the High Court seeking reversal of the RBZ directive reveals that the central bank has not been acting on flagged accounts. The letter written to the Financial Intelligence Unit by EcoCash CEO, Natalie Jabangwe on the 24th of April 2020 says:
We note that, as shown in Table 2 below, since implementation of the new limits we submitted 17 STRs* and only five have been responded to with requests for additional information, the rest (12) we have not heard anything from you with some getting to a month old since submission. Prior to implementation of the new limits, since beginning of the year we submitted 68 STRs and got 22 responses with 1 case being referred to the police. In 2019 we submitted 100 and got 50 responses. Whilst we are fully aware of our obligation to detect and report and we will continue to do so, the low response rate can be disheartening and cause for concern to us especially when you then keep accusing us of not detecting and reporting cases of abuse of the platform.
*STR: Suspicious Transaction Report
Here’s an example of one of the reports ignored by the Financial Intelligence Unit:
All the example transactions that Jabangwe cites in her letter appear suspicious indeed. It’s surprising that the majority of them did not get as much as a follow up from the authorities. Of the 85 transactions flagged by EcoCash from January 1 up to the time of sending the letter, 32% had some sort of follow up and only one was reported to the police.
Is it that there are some untouchable individuals and businesses that can only be ‘accidentally’ caught up in a blanket drag net but not individually investigated without political or other consequence? I wonder what we will uncover if we thoroughly trace the final beneficiaries of some of these companies.
Even the police was surprised
In the same letter, the EcoCash boss wrote:
On 15th September last year, we were invited for a meeting at Criminal Investigations Department Headquarters (CID HQ) to discuss ways of ensuring that channel partners who were abusing the EcoCash platform were brought to book. We advised them the process that we follow in terms of reporting STRs to your office and we gave them statistics of STRs that we had submitted to your offices. They were impressed with the number of STRs we had submitted but expressed shock at the small number of Compliance Orders that they had received from your office.
The other major challenge they mentioned was the requirement of serving Compliance Orders as notices to offenders before any criminal proceedings could be done. The notice periods were 7 and 14 days depending with the offence. These requirements were affecting the effectiveness of the AML/CFT measures. We thus call on the relevant institutions to play their respective roles to ensure that there is combined effective collaboration in implementing the AML/CFT measures.
It’s curious that holders of very suspicious accounts were given up to 14 days notice to comply yet the RBZ issues an ‘with immediate effect’ directive that affects any business that has high transaction volumes.
When inconsistencies like these surface we are left to conclude that the RBZ lacks much moral authority to direct the freezing of accounts more so in a blanket manner as they have done.
Own Correspondent|African Union in a statement has rejected John Magufuli’s claims that the testing kits for testing Coronavirus were faulty.The union also criticized the country’s president in the way it’s handling COVID-19 crisis in his country.
This comes just after President Magufuli’s, on Sunday said in a statement that the COVID-19 testing kits were faulty after showing positive results on the tests done on a goat and a pawpaw fruit.
Dr. John Ngengasong, who is the Director of African Centres for Disease Control said the tests kits all African nations are using were supplied by it in a collaboration with the Jack Ma foundation. He added that the kits had been tested and complied with the international standards.
“No country in Africa is an island when it comes to dealing with the virus. What is needed is a coherent message right from the leadership of the continent down to the local level,” The director noted.
Tanzania has been on watch by the rest of the world due to its poor response to the disease. The country is still allowing flouting the rules of social distancing among the citizens and churches and mosques are still open.
As of last week, Tanzania had recorded 480 cases of Coronavirus.
Paul Nyathi|The Ministry of Health and Child Care on Saturday reported one more COVID-19 positive case to take the number of confirmed cases to 35.
The latest case comes after the country had gone an unprecedented eight days without recording any new cases.
In its coronavirus (COVID-19) update for 8 May 2020 released on Saturday morning, the Ministry of Health said more details on the latest confirmed case will be given in next update. The latest update reads in part:
To date, more than 3.5 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 250 000 deaths have been reported from 210 countries and territories globally.
The Ministry would like to report that today, 624 rapid screening tests and 460 PCR tests were done in the public sector. Additionally, 140 PCR tests were done in the private sector giving a total of 600 PCR tests done today.
One of the PCR tests done in Harare today was positive for COVID-19, whilst the National TB Reference Lab in Bulawayo is expected to resume PCR testing on the 9th May 2020. More details on the latest confirmed case to be given in tomorrow’s update.
Therefore, to date, Zimbabwe now has thirty-five confirmed cases, including nine recoveries and four deaths.
Cumulatively, a total of 10 218 rapid screening tests and 8 741 PCR diagnostic tests have been done to date…
The Ministry continues to be on HIGH alert to the COVID-19 pandemic and would like to remind the nation the most effective ways to protect yourself and others against COVID-19 are to practise good personal hygiene, always wear a face mask in public places and exercise social distancing.
Paul Nyathi |Former MDC parliamentarian for Zaka West claims that the umbrella political party, the MDC Alliance, did not field any candidate in the 2018 general election but instead candidates were seconded to contest by their respective parties.
Festus Dumbu, who contested and lost the 2018 elections in the constituency, said he contested in that election representing the MDC but under the MDC Alliance pact.
His arguments follow this week’s shock expulsion of four MDC Alliance MPs from Parliament after reinstated MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora wrote to Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda claiming the legislators were no longer his party members.
Dumbu was MP for Zaka constituency between 2005 and 2013 before he lost to a Zanu PF candidate in 2013.
Dumbu wrote as follows on his social media platforms:
“CLEARING THE DUST.
The MDC Alliance did not field even a single candidate in the 2018 Harmonised Elections. Attached below is the Application Form which I, and each MDC member filled for consideration to be included on the panel to represent the MDC during the 2018 Parliamentary Elections. I contested in Zaka West clearly representing the MDC, under the MDC Alliance Electoral Pact. Even our Declaration of Loyalty Forms were MDC Forms not Alliance forms. PDP had its own systems, Ncube had his own systems but we converged on the Alliance Front.
It’s surprising to see lawyers of repute choosing to lie and mislead the Nation on issues which are straightforward. The MDC must take responsibility of their mistakes and regularise every omission, for good of the People’s Democratic Revolution. Lies have short legs but the truth remains durable. God bless Zimbabwe.
ZANU PF Political Commissar, Victor Matemadanda has said that the ruling party enjoys having the opposition MDC as the opposition but does not wish to see the party go extinct.
He said that reason must prevail within the MDC so that they resolve their issues amicably without pointing fingers at the ruling party which “is not the source of the MDC’s problems.”
Matemadanda was speaking after MDC and Zengeza West legislator, Job Sikhala on Thursday vowed to “deal with President Mnangagwa for interfering with MDC’s internal affairs.”
GOVERNMENT yesterday confirmed that it is working with social partners including business and labour on a new salary structure for workers following the erosion of wages and salaries by inflation.
Government has repeatedly said it is alive to the fact that workers’ wages and salaries including that of civil servants which were last reviewed early this year, have been eroded by inflation.
The wages and salaries are as a result lagging far behind the prices of even basic commodities hence workers are finding it difficult to fend for their families.
The process of aligning wages and prices has been affected by currency instability and the three-tier pricing system used by some businesses.
Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Professor Paul Mavima said in an interview on Thursday that there are on-going salary and wages negotiations in a bid to come up with a more stable salary structure to cushion workers against rising inflation.
“We would really want to see a macro-economic stability whereby salary negotiations are done once a year or even after two years. At the moment we have to constantly review salaries and wages to keep up with rising inflation. If we don’t do that we will be shooting ourselves in the foot as salaries and wages will be eroded by inflation,” he said.
Prof Mavima said Government and other members of the Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) were working together to address the issue of wages and salaries.
“You know the National Joint Negotiating Council reached an agreement in February this year. There was a compromise where they said Minister go ahead and set what can be considered a minimum wage and I think we have just gazetted a minimum wage for people in the unclassified sectors including domestic workers. So, we have to continuously review. The Government is really alive to the fact that there is ongoing erosion of wages and salaries and we need to continue to review,” he said.
State Media|AN estimated 4 000 Zimbabweans in South Africa have registered with the embassy for food aid as many have become desperate due to that country’s prolonged lockdown.
The lockdown has resulted in loss of incomes, particularly to those who are on temporary employment.
The Zimbabweans registered for food assistance through a web-link opened by the Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa, with some of them expressing their willingness to return home.
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Busi Moyo yesterday told The Herald that the Department of Social Welfare was working with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to assist the distressed citizens.
“We are currently engaged in negotiation regarding our nationals in South Africa who wish to return home. Our diplomatic mission there has opened a web-link for all distressed nationals who wish to return home to register.
“As at May 1, 2020, we were expecting to repatriate around 3 000 from South Africa,” said Dr Moyo.
In addition to those arriving from South Africa, over 700 citizens have arrived in the country from Botswana.
The first batch of 20 Zimbabwean nationals from Namibia arrived through the Victoria Falls border last week.
The returnees from Namibia are currently quarantined at Mosi-oa-Tunya High School in the resort town.
“Repatriation from our neighbouring countries continues and efforts are underway to improve the communication and coordination channels with authorities in Botswana to ensure that at least we organise the return of our citizens.”
Dr Moyo said some distress calls have come from as far as China where about 300 nationals have registered for repatriation.
Other nationals needing assistance, Dr Moyo said, are in the United Arab Emirates and in India where some Zimbabweans had gone for medical treatment and business.
India’s nationwide coronavirus lockdown, which started at midnight on March 25, was scheduled to end on May 3 but was extended by another two weeks.
“We also have a lot of Zimbabweans who are working on ships and are stranded. We received distress calls from our nationals who are currently at sea working for various international cruise liners and are seeking to return home. One such ship from the US is currently heading to Cape Town and we have about 30 or so Zimbabweans aboard,” said Dr Moyo.
He said a second ship was on its way to Cape Town, but he was still determining the total number of Zimbabweans aboard.
The United Kingdom also has a large number of Zimbabwean citizens seeking to return home, but the challenge has been the lack of airlines due to travel bans worldwide.
Given the challenge of airlines, governments have had to act on reciprocal basis by allowing repatriation of foreign citizens in the country.
KHAMA Billiat is heading for arguably his worst season in the Absa Premiership and apart from injuries hampering his form, there have been questions about the player’s mentality.
While Samir Nurkovic has been consistently hitting the back of the net for Kaizer Chiefs; Billiat scoring just once in the entire 2019/20 campaign led the Amakhosi fans to question the reason for the Zimbabwean’s poor form, suggesting that the player might not suit Ernst Middendorp’s current system.
Billiat has made just 16 appearances in all competitions for Chiefs this season, missing the entire month of January’s fixtures due to a hamstring injury.
Speaking to the Siya crew this week, former Kaizer Chiefs striker, Mark Williams was of the opinion that maybe Billiat and Head coach Middendorp may not be seeing eye-to-eye and the player’s mentality may be affecting his form.
“If I am the CEO and the boss of Kaizer Chiefs and I pay almost a billion for somebody and he is not playing, I am going to be a bit frustrated and would ask the coach, why is it that one of my most expensive players that I am paying R800 000 to a R1 million a month, is not playing?
“So meaning that the investment that the club is doing is not good because the coach and the player don’t see eye-to-eye. Is it because of Billiat’s mentality?
Because we all know, at the end of the day, Billiat is a good player if he is fit and his mind is right,” he added.
By Jane Mlambo| Following the resignation of Walter Mzembi and his deputy Godfrey Gandawa from the newly formed People’s Party, the movement has been plunged into serious infighting over leadership with Secretary General Lloyd Msipa and Agrippa Bopela Masiyakurima engaging in counter dismissals.
In their resignation statement, Mzembi and Gandawa said they had left the party in the hands of Msipa who suspended Masiyakurima, the Treasurer General.
Masiyakurima has since issued an open letter to Msipa claiming that he is now in control of the movement while also suspending him from the movement.
Mzembi and Gandawa after failing to solve internal party disputes amid reports that Msipa was a Zanu PF mole send to spy on the party.
Msipa was also accused of refusing to heed a decision by the party to dissociate and unfollow a twitter account linked the Mozambique terrorists activities.
THE absence of Bulawayo artistes on the radar at a time the world is embracing virtual shows has become a serious cause for concern for many who would love to see artistes, especially musicians from the country’s arts hub come to the party.
Ever since the hosting of shows was banned in most countries as part of measures to contain the spread of Covid-19, artistes started hosting virtual shows (online) to keep their fans entertained while also seeking to remain relevant.
Locally, Zimdancehall artistes through various music promoters in Harare, have been hosting these online shows on Facebook and Instagram almost daily.
This has seen up-and-coming artistes such as Van Choga rising to fame because of his antics at the shows. This has kept the Zimdancehall genre alive.
Other artistes such as Tammy Moyo, Janet Manyowa and Ammara Brown have also staged individual shows on their social media pages.
After watching Zimdancehall artistes shine at the recently held Gara Mumba Iwe show on Facebook where Winky D stole the show, fans could not help but ask why other genres were not included. Conspicuous by their absence were Bulawayo artistes.
It would have been great to see artistes from different genres but the show organiser, Passion Java who has a bias towards Zimdancehall, simply said they invite those who would have been suggested by people to their shows.
The big question is: Why are Bulawayo musicians not hosting virtual shows?
Is it an issue of the high costs of data, lack of sponsorship/ funding, lack of knowledge on the hosting of the shows, general lack of confidence or what?
Saturday Leisure this week had a chat with some of the city’s artistes to hear their side of the story.
Many said they had no resources to host such shows. Aeiou hit-maker Novuyo Seagirl, who seemed to be coming up very well on the national scene after making a mark at the Zimbabwe Music Awards earlier this year, said most artistes cannot afford data for the live streams.
“For one to be online, they need data and data is expensive these days. Some artistes depend on music for a living and with this whole situation (lockdown), it’s likely to be a hassle to even afford data enough to power a whole concert online.
“Also, my assumption is that even the artistes who had side businesses have been affected somehow as most businesses were closed as a result of the lockdown,” said Seagirl.
The award-winning house sensation said the little money that artistes are getting is now going towards putting food on the table as they have families to fend for.
“The little we have is being spent on food and other basics. We know fans are looking up to us for entertainment but we also have families to look after,” said Seagirl.
Arts guru, Raisedon Baya who is one of the Intwasa Festival and Bulawayo Arts Awards organisers, said the online presence of artistes in Bulawayo is almost zero because most are living from hand to mouth.
“I think it (absence of artistes online) basically speaks to our poverty. Online presence itself for Bulawayo artistes is almost zero. This is because most have no access to equipment and the Internet.
“I think expecting them to just suddenly switch to online shows is expecting too much,” said Baya.
He said the artistes should be empowered so that their presence online during the lockdown is felt.
Mzoe 7 who recently released an awareness song on the pandemic said most online shows have sponsors, a privilege Bulawayo artistes are not enjoying.
“If we look at what’s happening worldwide and locally, most of the online shows are being organised by the corporate world, for example the dancehall ones which are being hosted by Nash Events (with support from Nash Paints).
“The biggest problem we’re having is that we cannot afford to hold such shows.”
Umkhathi Theatre Works director Matesu Dube said as much as they would love to stream live skits online, they are incapacitated because they have no resources.
“We have no resources to work on something at the moment and remember, every product we do needs resources. It’s difficult to work on something to put online without getting any income.
“Streaming also needs resources and at the end of the day, the artistes don’t benefit,” said Dube.
Bolamba Culture Birds director Mthabisi Dube said they have not been able to put out their dances to the public through online platforms as they are failing to secure sponsors for the shows.
“As artistes, we’re affected and we don’t have funds to do such activities as we’re having a challenge of sponsorship and funding.
“The issue is different compared to Harare as the artistes are getting sponsorship deals to host the online shows.”
Musician and actor Madlela Skhobokhobo said he has tried to post some of his skits on Facebook but is unable to stream live.
“I share my skits every time on my Facebook pages although I am failing to stream them live.
“What we need as artistes is the corporate world’s support and those with willing hearts and pockets to help us do that,” said Madlela.
Inkululeko Yabatsha School of Arts director Nkululeko Dube said all hope was not lost as creativity will eventually come to the party.
“The creativity and content in the city is abundant and the new audiences are there. I trust that local creatives will catch up and it’s not as if nothing is happening totally,” said Dube.
Veteran musician, Jeys Marabini who performed at the Switch On Zimbabwe virtual concert last week said he is working on something.
A show being organised by Common Roots today will also feature the city’s artistes, Seagirl and Qeqe Mntambo.
After all is said and done, artistes from the region have expressed willingness to come to the party but are incapacitated. Nkululeko Nkala, who has been working closely with artistes for years, challenged the region’s business community to support artistes.
Artistes in Beitbridge are also crying for sponsorship.
WORK to rehabilitate the Harare-Beitbridge highway is progressing well as most contractors are on course to meet their targets, Government has said.
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Joel Biggie Matiza said this in an interview yesterday.
“The rehabilitation and dualisation works are going on very well and two of the contractors have since completed about 20km each and we have already given them extensions of 20km each,” he said.
“Overall they are all on target. On Monday I will be visiting three areas — two in Masvingo province and one in Matabeleland South province to assess progress,” Minister Matiza said.
Minister Matiza said roads were the arteries through which the economy pulses.
He said Government, under the leadership of President Mnangagwa, valued development of roads as they linked producers to markets, workers to jobs, students to schools and the sick to hospitals.
The Cabinet minister added that the Harare-Beitbridge highway dualisation project was part of a US$2,7 billion Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu venture covering 971km divided into three sections.
The sections are Beitbridge-Harare with 570km of road and eight toll plazas, Harare-Chirundu section consisting of 342km road and six toll plazas and the Harare ring road covering 59km with three toll plazas.
Road works for the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu highway consist of phased dualisation, rehabilitation and widening of the existing road from the current seven metres width to Southern Africa Transport and Communications Commission (SATTC) standard of 12,5 metres width, and adding climbing lanes where necessary.
It is estimated that the project will be complete by 2022.
Government is upgrading roads across the country as they are key enablers of economic development as Zimbabwe angles for upper middle income economy status by 2030.
The number of police officers infected with Covid-19 has more than doubled in just eight days.
Last Thursday, 103 police officers had tested positive for the virus.
On Friday, Police Minister Bheki Cele said 253 were infected with “this invisible enemy that is attacking our members”.
He was addressing a joint meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Police and the Select Committee on Security and Justice.
“It is going to be much darker before it is bright. We hope our members will survive this time, we hope our members are going to be there to be part of the frontline to defend the rest of South Africa,” Cele said.
He added police officers were highly mobile, often moving between provinces, but this might need to change as it could harm their health.
“Things will never be the same after Covid-19. Indeed, life has changed. Never thought criminals would transport drugs and alcohol in the coffins,” Cele said.
Earlier on Friday, he told the committees the police have arrested a lot of people for smuggling cigarettes and alcohol, saying he had seen cases where people said they were crossing provincial borders to attend funerals, but then the police find alcohol and drugs in the coffins.
On Friday, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced 19 000 inmates convicted of petty crimes would be released on parole to combat the spread of Covid-19 in prisons.
National police commissioner Lieutenant-General Khehla Sitole said the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure (NatJoints) had proposed a “multi-disciplinary approach” to monitor the parolees.
“From the South African Police Service side, we have established some avenues to monitor these particular prisoners, how they progress, in particular some intelligence,” Sitole added.
They have also proposed a community-based reintegration programme “so that these people don’t find themselves rejected and go back”, he said.
By Jane Mlambo| After over a week without recording new infections, Zimbabwe has recorded one more COVID-19 case taking the total number to 35.
From the 624 rapid screening tests done yesterday, one test in Harare tested positive though the ministry of health and child care is yet to give more details on the case.
“The Ministry would like to report that today, 624 rapid screening tests and 460 PCR tests were done in the public sector. Additionally, 140 PCR tests were done in the private sector giving a total of 600 PCR tests done today.
“One of the PCR tests done in Harare today was positive for COVID-19, whilst the National TB Reference Lab in Bulawayo is expected to resume PCR testing on the 9th May 2020,” reads the statement from the ministry of health.
As the opposition MDC saga rages on, chairman of the Dr Thokozani Khupe led grouping has castigated MDC Alliance deputy presidents Tendai Biti and Professor Welshman Ncube saying they joined the Alliance for personal gains.
In an exclusive interview with 263Chat, MDC Senator for Midlands Morgan Komichi said Biti joined the Alliance for his personal convenience and gains.
This follows Biti’s remarks in which he criticized the recalling of four members of the MDC Alliance from parliament at the instigation.
“It is his own choice, he is free to say what he wants legal or illegal, wrong or right. He is doing it for his personal convenience he knows what he wants to achieve. He knows MDC Alliance is not a party. He did not dissolve PDP which still exists under Lucia Matibenga,” said Komichi.
He said it was only Welshman Ncube who dissolved his MDC party to join the main MDC-T but is trying to run away and is unprepared to engage.
“Actually it is Ncube who wrote a letter to dissolve his MDC party to join the MDC (T). He did not join the MDC alliance but he joined main MDC-T that is there on record. He is trying to run away, he is not prepared to engage because he has his own personal ambitions. Ncube knows MDC Alliance is not a party.
“He (Ncube) is trying to run away from the truth by telling lies. When people benefit from an illegal process they benefit something tangible in their lives. Unfortunately the Supreme Court and High Court judgments have nullified the benefits. Definitely they will appear unreasonable but when they are in their bedrooms and with friends they will be telling the truth that they have been thrown under the bus,” said Komichi
Komichi also dismissed allegations that he was being sponsored by Zanu PF to destroy the MDC saying he was a victim of the regime as he was jailed for declaring Chamisa the winner of 2018 elections.
By Jane Mlambo| Following the resignation of Walter Mzembi and his deputy Godfrey Gandawa from the newly formed People’s Party, the movement has been plunged into serious infighting over leadership with Secretary General Lloyd Msipa and Agrippa Bopela Masiyakurima engaging in counter dismissals.
In their resignation statement, Mzembi and Gandawa said they had left the party in the hands of Msipa who suspended Masiyakurima, the Treasurer General.
Masiyakurima has since issued an open letter to Msipa claiming that he is now in control of the movement while also suspending him from the movement.
Mzembi and Gandawa after failing to solve internal party disputes amid reports that Msipa was a Zanu PF mole send to spy on the party.
Msipa was also accused of refusing to heed a decision by the party to dissociate and unfollow a twitter account linked the Mozambique terrorists activities.
Ecocash, a subsidiary of ZSE-listed Cassava Smartech, is engaging in shadow banking and is a Ponzi scheme that is creating fictitious money and balances in the system, FinX can report.
According to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, Ecocash has agents who have an overdraft on their Ecocash accounts in excess of ZW$39 million, funds the central bank believes are then used to buy foreign currency and inflate the exchange rate.
In its notice of opposition in respect of the urgent application for a final interdict made by Ecocash, the RBZ governor John Mangudya said that the effect of the rapidly devaluing exchange rate on the Ecocash Platform is what is not only destroying the livelihood of the Ecocash users but also the economy of Zimbabwe.
RBZ is being represented by Kantor and Immerman while the case is is filed under HC30007 of 2020.
Ecocash wanted the High Court to stop the RBZ from suspending mobile money agents from conducting financial transactions and restore full functionality to those affected. RBZ froze all agents accounts that transacted for more than $100 000 per month with the exceptions of select categories. However the payment platform argued that this had crippled its business and said that the measures were not the solutions to the problems that the country was trying to solve.
The Financial Intelligence Unit had also directed that Ecocash undertakes the re-licencing and KYC enhancement exercise as it had shown it did not have in its custody all the required KYC documentation and information for all its agents. In a statement released today, Ecocash said it was not consulted on this directive which will impact its 11 million customers as well as to affect the services the platform offers.
According to the opposition affidavit, it has been discovered that unlike other electronic e-money platforms, Ecocash does not engage in immediate settlement of payments. This means that, on the Ecocash Platform, payments can remain outstanding for periods of between three to seven days, which Mangudya said unduly prejudices the same population that the platform purports to protect.
“What the general public does not know is what happens in the interim. The funds that have not been credited to the vendor or the recipient are then available for trading on the Ecocash Platform in the foreign currency market. In effect, the delays allow a certain person, who was the subject matter of an investigation, to buy and sell foreign currency in the intervening period.”
Mangudya said investigations have established that there are some Ecocash agents who have an overdraft on their Ecocash accounts in excess of $39 million. This begs the question: “How can an entity or individual have an overdraft on an electronic payment platform such as Ecocash?”
A schedule attached by the RBZ confirms that the agents are over drawn in excess of $39 million dollars. “Applicant has failed to proffer an explanation and is challenged to do so under oath.”
Mangudya said on this basis, Ecocash had breached the law thereby negating any rights that it has. “The applicant can only operate the payment systems in a lawful way. Operating the payment systems unlawfully through a Ponzi Scheme and shadow banking amounts to a violation of the law and does not give rise to any rights that the applicant can seek to enforce in the manner sought.
The governor said that the threshold of $100,000-00 set by FIU eliminates the risk or the claim for irreparable harm that Ecocash is referring to. “It is telling that the applicant has not been candid with this Honourable Court by setting out in detail the so-called affected agents, their identity and their KYC documentation. This is because the applicant has not been complying with the law and is unable to produce this information. Without the information the applicant has not made out a case for an interdict.”
He added that Econet had also failed to disclose to the court the ratio of the top 100 agents in volume and monetary terms, to show that the concern of the Financial Intelligence Unit in respect of illicit money flow is well-founded. “The Applicant, through this application shows that it is abdicating its responsibility of ensuring that its system and its identified agents operate in terms of the law. This is a blatant display of arrogance, defiance and impunity.
Ecocash was set up in 2011 premised on the condition that it observes proper risk management practises and internal controls on an ongoing basis.
Registrar-General Clement Masango yesterday denied any wrongdoing during his bail application before Harare regional magistrate Mrs Bianca Makwande.
Mrs Makwende granted Masango $10 000 bail plus a surety of his Borrowdale home title deeds.
Masango is facing two counts of criminal abuse of office as a public officer after he allegedly instructed CMED to buy a double cab and six single cab pick-ups without Cabinet approval and using the vehicles at his farm.
Masango, who was represented by Nembo Attorneys, said the process of buying the cars started long before he assumed duty as Registrar-General and that payments were made within 10 days of him assuming duty on September 24, 2018.
He said he found no reason to seek authority from accounting officers as CMED is mandated to procure vehicles on behalf of the Government.
Masango also denied misusing Government vehicles at his farm saying he only acquired the land in December last year.
He was not asked to plead.
Prosecutors Francisca Mukumbiri, Netsai Mushayabasa and Sheilla Mupindu argued that Masango exhibited propensity to interfere with State witnesses, as he had already threatened their key witness, the chief accountant at the Registry Office, Mr Peter Bwanya.
The State alleges that Masango instructed Bwanya not to assist Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) with documents.
“After he learnt of the investigations he called a meeting in his office where he accused Bwanya of leaking information to ZACC.
“He also instructed that no duplicate copies should be given to ZACC officials. Accused went on to confiscate a firearm from Bwanya and kept it although it is not the accused’s duty to keep the firearm,” said Mrs Mukumbiri.
She told the court that Masango failed to explore all the available options which he could have pursued for him to acquire the vehicles and that he was a flight risk.
“He had an option of seeking authority from Permanent Secretary in Home Affairs specifying reasons and justifications why he needed the cars.
“He could have written to the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Transport to seek permission on his behalf from Cabinet.
“Cabinet would then approve or turn it down.
“He had another option of going through the CMED tender procedure,” she said.
The State also said ZACC officers had to use force to apprehend Masango after he instructed an office orderly to block them from entering his office.
“If he had the audacity to do that, what more if he is granted bail?” she asked.
However, Masango said he harboured no intentions to evade trial.
He said he would have fled when he came to know of the allegations on March 3 this year if he wished to flee.
“The document which ZACC are using is a copy of a letter I wrote responding to the Permanent Secretary (of Home Affairs) after he instructed me to answer the allegations. If I wanted to escape I would have done that before lockdown,” he said.
He also denied ever threatening Bwanya telling the court that the meeting was part of their daily work routines.
“I gave him Bwanya instructions to fully comply with ZACC officers and call me whenever they require my assistance,” he said.
In her ruling magistrate Makwande said the State failed to give enough evidence to support their reasons to deny Masango bail.
Magistrate Makwande ordered Masango to deposit $10 000 bail plus the title deeds of his property in Borrowdale, Harare.
He was also ordered not to travel 40km outside Harare and barred from visiting his workplace.
Rev Themba Siwela is no more, that soft spoken, jovial and harding working ZCC Cadre and Local Ecumenical Fellowship (LEF) leader is gone. He passed on last night in Masvingo after a very short illness.
I am still shocked. His friends in the ZCC LEF leadership are still shocked too. Yet, this is the new but sad reality that we now have to live with. Below, I try to summarise my very personal (not necessarily that of ZCC) long interaction with Rev Siwela. I cannot do it perfectly well because the man was complicated but also very simple as far as I am concerned.
The LEFs are a basic organizing and mobilizing unit of ZCC member churches operating at local, sub-national and national levels. They essentially represent the manner in which ZCC member churches are mobilized and organized to execute ecumenical initiatives and programmatic work. This is the most important structure of ZCC which implements the aspirations of the ZCC Advisory Board, The Supervisory Council and the General Assembly. Thus, ZCC authority, credibility and visibility are hinged on the shoulders of the LEFs. The LEFs are made up of the women, the youths, the men and the Ministers of Religion in the Church. These are dotted across the country at very local, district and provincial levels. Indeed, here lies the engine of ZCC. Rev Siwela was in the driving seat of one of the Provincial LEF structures in Masvingo. He drove the structure with distinction.
What a complicated man? He was the ZCC LEF leader in various capacities: as the Local Peace Council Chairperson, a Researcher and a key ZCC representative in many platforms. He represented the Church in the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) as the Provincial Vice Chairperson. Rev Siwela was also the ZCC representative in the Zimbabwe Elections Support Network (ZESN) Provincial Taskforce and indeed, the ZCC election technical partner has lost a hard working member. He was also very active in all Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) work and the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) National Coordinator, Mukoma Paul Muchena has expressed shock at this loss.
Rev Siwela was well networked such that executing ZCC work in Masvingo was as smooth as eating sadza with derere because of his networking, organizing and mobilizing skills. He could link you up with anyone at any level of society: from politicians, government departments, media, civic organizations, traditional leaders, academia, war veterans, farmers and vendors to Church leaders. Yet, he remained very simple in his conduct. It was extremely dangerous to judge the capabilities of Rev Siwela based on his physical stature. If you attempted to do so, you would be embarrassed by the outcome. He was not what he manifested physically. He was more, morally, socially, in terms of ability and the results he would produce for you.
I personally enjoyed working with Rev Siwela. I joined the ZCC in 2003, together with my sekuru friend, Owen Murozvi. Owen called last night expressing his disbelief of this sad but new reality. We worked with Rev Siwela until I briefly left the Council in 2010, only to come back in 2017 ( kuitapengaudzokekumushachaiko ). From 2017 to date, I worked with Rev Siwela to “rebuild the walls of Jerusalem”, the Council needed our collective effort to ensure that it reoccupies its rightful position in the social, political and economic life of the country. Rev Siwela was my point man in Masvingo. If it was not Rev Siwela, it would be Rev Edgar Ziramba in Mashonaland Central, Lt Yeukai Mudzamba in Matebeleland North, Pastor Nobert Nyoni in Matebeland South, Rev KT Mpofu in Bulawayo, Rev Clement Matulanga in Mashonaland East, Captain Emmanuel Moyo in Mashonaland West, Rev Canon Abel Waziweyi from the East (Manicaland), Rev Lizvelonke Nyoni and Pastor Tawanda Sibanda from the Midlands and a couple of Ministers of Religion in Harare. This was the team that I set down with to revive the machine. Together, we reviewed how we conducted business as the Council at local level. Rev Siwela and Captain Moyo decide to give me a special name that I had to run with to this day-they called me “ Commissar or OrganisingSecreatry ” (of course depending on which house you come from, either of the names applied). The team activated the ZCC local urgency in nation building. Today we advocate for a broad based and comprehensive national dialogue in Zimbabwe out of the sweat of cadres like Rev Siwela. By the way, I called my men and women on the ground, ZCC Cadres -indeed, with or without financial support from the Secretariat, the LEF leaders worked for the country. They were more than just supporters of the Church work but they were Cadres.
Rev Siwela, with his Masvingo team made up of his friend Rev ( Mudhara )Misheck Mastara and my own vibrant brother, Rev Kurauone Mutimwi, raised the name of the Council to greater heights. ZCC work in Gutu, Zaka, Bikita, Chiredzi (where another vibrant Cadre leads-Rev Francis Mariki), Mwenezi and Chivi was hinged on the shoulders of Mukoma Themba, as I sometimes called him kanatakafarisahedu . Annual and ongoing ZCC processes such as the Alternative Mining Indaba, the Household Care Burden Survey, National Budget Consultations and other stakeholder engagements, were all led by Rev Siwela, making him a versatile man. The ZCC’s IPrayIVoteCampaign was a huge success in Masvingo because of a combination of skills of Rev Siwela as the mobiliser and organizer, charismatic Rev (and Mrs) Mutimwi, Rev Mastara as the chief strategist among many more Masvingo Cadres. Rev Siwela and team rocked the HevoiFM with the peace campaign sermons every day of July 2018. The man is gone, but we continue to pray and encourage the leadership of Rev Kidson Maponga and Rev Kennedy Gora to push forward the work of the Church.
Rev Siwela, a United Methodist Church Pastor, leaves behind a wife, Mrs Dorcas Sewela and two children (boys).He holds a Masters Degree and as far as I know, he always discussed with me possibilities for enrolling for a PhD process. He was Pastor at various circuits: Kwekwe West, Mutoko West, Kadoma, Highfields, Masvingo Inner City, Runyararo, Chiredzi and Gutu Mpandawanda between 1995 and 2020 after leaving the United Theological College in 1995.
The ZCC has lost a cadre! The ZCC networks have lost a reliable stakeholder! While we cannot question God’s plans, this particular development has forced us to still ask the questions: Why? Why at this trying moment of COVID-19-induced lock down? Multitudes of Rev Siwela’s friends would have loved to be there, to be there when his sacred body is being laid to rest. Anyway, we say, Go Well Commissioner! Go Well my Cadre! Go Well Mukoma Themba! Till we meet again!
TinasheGumbo (“The Commissar/Organising Secrvetary”) is ZCC Program Officer responsible for ZCC structures. Contained here are my personal views which are not held by ZCC in its official capacity.
JOHANNESBURG. — Khama Billiat is heading for arguably his worst season in the South African Absa Premiership football and apart from injuries hampering his form, there have been questions about the player’s mentality.
While Samir Nurkovic has been consistently hitting the back of the net for Kaizer Chiefs; Billiat scoring just once in the entire 2019/20 campaign led the Amakhosi fans to question the reason for the Zimbabwean’s poor form, suggesting that the player might not suit Ernst Middendorp’s current system.
Billiat has made just 16 appearances in all competitions for Chiefs this season, missing the entire month of January’s fixtures due to a hamstring injury.
Speaking to the Siya crew this week, former Kaizer Chiefs striker, Mark Williams was of the opinion that maybe Billiat and Head Coach Middendorp may not be seeing eye-to-eye and the player’s mentality may be affecting his form.
“If I am the CEO and the boss of Kaizer Chiefs and I pay almost a billion for somebody and he is not playing, I am going to be a bit frustrated and would ask the coach, why isn’t that one of my most expensive players that I am paying R800 thousand to a R1 million a month, is not playing? “So meaning that the investment that the club is doing is not good because the coach and the player don’t see eye-to-eye. Is it because of Billiat’s mentality?
Because we all know, at the end of the day, Billiat is a good player if he is fit and his mind is right,” he added. — Soccer Laduma.
The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has provisional plans to delay June examinations by four weeks pending the announcement of schools opening dates by Government, an official has said.
Zimsec has encouraged candidates to continue preparing for the examinations.
This comes after Primary and Secondary Education Minister Cain Mathema said the setting of the dates for the second term will be done by the President when the conditions are safe for learners and teachers to prevent exposure to Covid-19.
On May 8, Zimsec director Dr Lazarus Nembaware sent out a circular to heads of examination centres, candidates, parents and stakeholders that the timetable had been moved by four weeks as a precautionary measure, but “revised examination dates will be issued out as soon as confirmation of the reopening of schools is announced”, reads the circular.
According to the circular, the table of numbers and entry listings for all June 2020 candidates were dispatched to all examination centres during the course of the week in preparation for the examinations.
It further reads that heads of examination centres should advise all registered candidates to continue preparing for the writing of the examinations.-State media
Mnangagwa deployed ZUPCO buses to carry 500 fake voters for Mozambique's Nyusi, but CANNOT send 4 buses to go rescue Zimbabweans stranded in South Africa | WHAT'S THE LESSON HERE? pic.twitter.com/vv6FObboAT
Clearly the only option the MDC Alliance has to precipitate the kind of crisis that will send the most powerful message ABOUT THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE SITUATION is for its members to resign from Parliament now, says @NoahManyikapic.twitter.com/LCmFQyVTwk
Farai Dziva|Former Zanu PF spindoctor Jonathan has warned Emmerson Mnangagwa that a major revolution is looming in Zimbabwe.
The former Information Minister accused the Zanu PF leader of using disgruntled elements in the MDC to destroy the popular movement.
” Four Zanu PF Boomerangs- History shall shine a spotlight on the sad fact that these are the four faces that Mnangagwa used to try to undo the electoral choices of the people for their representatives in Parliament but ended up throwing four boomerangs that hit Zanu PF!”
“Leaders and representatives are chosen by the people; not imposed by Mnangagwa, declared by Chief Justice Malaba, recalled by Speaker Mudenda or Senate President Chinomona, or withdrawn by @DMwonzora @DrThoko_Khupe The people decide and this time it is a revolution! ZanupfMustGo,” Moyo posted on Twitter.
Farai Dziva|Respected analyst Dr Pedzisai Ruhanya has pointed out that Emmerson Mnangagwa is using the current lockdown to close democratic space in country, gaining political ground in the process.
According to Ruhanya, Mnangagwa is using the lockdown to outfox his political rivals.
“They are using a disease, a world pandemic to lockdown democracy in Zimbabwe.
They think it’s a political strategy but it’s the uncivilized misrule that exposes Mnangagwa’s regime as authoritarian and allergic to reform.
Lies about new dispensation are unraveling,” argued Ruhanya.
Farai Dziva|Respected analyst Dr Pedzisai Ruhanya has pointed out that Emmerson Mnangagwa is using the current lockdown to close democratic space in country, gaining political ground in the process.
According to Ruhanya, Mnangagwa is using the lockdown to outfox his political rivals.
“They are using a disease, a world pandemic to lockdown democracy in Zimbabwe.
They think it’s a political strategy but it’s the uncivilized misrule that exposes Mnangagwa’s regime as authoritarian and allergic to reform.
Lies about new dispensation are unraveling,” argued Ruhanya.
By Simba Chikanza | The following is a summary of what ZANU PF leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa has said in public between 1983 and 2020, and it is all about unleashing terror against civilians and then blaming opposition political parties for it.
What do you think he is advising other countries like Mozambique, especially Philip Nyusi who Mnangagwa assisted in vote rigging in 2019?
The following is a summary of everything Mnangagwa has done between 1983 and 2020, and it all about sending terrorists to kill people, and then blame opposition members.
Today as SADC Chair For Defence and Security, what do you think he is advising other countries like Mozambique, especially Philip Nyusi who Mnangagwa assisted in vote rigging in 2019?
The video below contains live footage from a polling station in Masvingo where over 500 Zimbabweans who’ve never stepped a foot in Mozambique, were bused on Zim government ZUPCO buses to vote for Nyusi.
A Zimbabwean national holding his ID at the ChiefsHall, in Masvingo.
So far Mozambique’s interior minister, Amade Miquidade, has attacked independent journalists who are calling into question the credibility of Mozambique’s security forces.
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He accused them for alleged “dis-information.”
He also blasted Jose Manteigas, a spokesman for Renamo, the main opposition party, who has accused the country’s security forces of “murdering” civilians.
Miquidade said the security forces “will not tolerate these acts of subversion.”
In other news, the Zitimar news agency, quotes Manteigas alleging that Mozambique’s security forces killed 12 civilians — including two Renamo members — when they attacked boats at jetties on Ibo island in mid-April.
The interior minister last month claimed that security forces have put the situation in Cabo Delgado under control.
“The situation in Cabo Delgado, at this moment, is under control. What does that mean? We have identified where the enemy is, what are their bases, what are their camps and their movements; while, the defence and security forces are strategically preparing for yet another offensive,” said Miquidade.
Form No. 29C/Provisional Order/Rule 246 0277250 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ZIMBABWE CASE NO: HC 2199/20
HELD AT HARARE In the matter between:- MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE ALLIANCE (MDC ALLIANCE) APPLICANT And
MINISTER OF JUSTICE LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS RESPONDENT MINISTER OF FINANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 2nd RESPONDENT RESPONDENT PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE 3rd RESPONDENT PROVISIONAL ORDER
TO: THE RESPONDENTS TAKE NOTE that, on the 7th day of May 2020 the Honourable Mrs Justice Munangati-Manongwa sitting at Harare issued a provisional order.
The annexed Chamber application, affidavit/s and documents were issued in support of the application for this provisional order.
If you intend to oppose the confirmation of this provisional order, you will have to file a notice of Opposition in Form No. 29B, together with one or more opposing affidavit’s, with the Registrar, of the High Court at Harare within ten (10) days after the date of which this provisional order was served upon you.
You will also have to serve a copy of the Notice of Opposition and affidavits on the applicant at the address for service specified in the application.
If you do not file an opposing affidavit within the period specified above, this matter will be set down for hearing in the High Court at Harare without further notice to you and will be dealt with as an unopposed application for confirmation of the provisional order.
If you wish to have the provisional order changes or set aside sooner than the rules of Court normally allow and can show good cause for this, you should approach the applicant/applicant’s legal practitioner to agree, in consultation with the Registrar, on a suitable hearing date. If this cannot be agreed or there is a great urgency, you make a Chamber application, on notice to the applicant, for directions from a judge as to when the matter can be argued.
TERMS OF FINAL ORDER SOUGHT That you show cause to this Honourable Court why a final order should not be made in the following terms:- 1. It is ordered that:-
i. Within 7 days from the date of service of this order, the It respondent, shall pay into the applicant’s account number 1036938297 held A Steward Bank, All amounts due to the applicant in terms of the Political Parties Finance Act Chapter 2:11 in the sum of $7 492 500.00.
ii. 3rd and 2nd respondents shall pay cost of suit.
TERMS OF INTERIM RELIEF
The respondents be and are hereby interdicted, stopped and barred from disbursing the sum of $7 492 500.00 due to the applicant in terms of the Political Party Finance Act or any other amount thereof, to any party other than the MDC Alliance.
SERVICE OF THE ORDER That the applicant’s legal practitioners are given authority to serve the order by way of delivery to the respondent’s legal practitioners. BY THE JUDGE
Farai Dziva|Outspoken Masvingo based preacher, Isaac Makomichi insists dialogue will happen between rivals Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance president Advocate Nelson Chamisa despite the political turmoil in the country.
Last week Makomichi claimed he was ready to facilitate dialogue between the two leaders. Makomichi is the leader of Calvary Prayer Group and the president of Vulnerable Youth Support Network Trust.
Commenting on the political turmoil in the country Makomichi said:
The problem is that you are looking at it(political situation) from a natural viewpoint – yet I am seeing it from a spiritual perspective.
I have read about the battles in the opposition party, MDC and as I have always said, national unity is unavoidable.
Don’t worry about the storm in a cup of tea.
The two men, President Mnangagwa and Mr Nelson Chamisa and will find each other very soon.
You will be surprised because very soon things will start happening,” said Makomichi.
He added:”I have been praying for national unity and very soon I will invite President Mnangagwa and Mr Chamisa to my house for key discussions.Once that happens national unity shall be attained.”
Makomichi also claimed former Zanu PF Political Commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere would be part of vital nation building processes.
However, an MDC official ruled out possible dialogue with Zanu PF:
“Given the current political tension, I don’t see that happening.As things stand we will not interact with Zanu PF at any level or platform. The space for dialogue is not available at the moment.”
Farai Dziva|Outspoken Masvingo based preacher, Isaac Makomichi insists dialogue will happen between rivals Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance president Advocate Nelson Chamisa despite the political turmoil in the country.
Last week Makomichi claimed he was ready to facilitate dialogue between the two leaders. Makomichi is the leader of Calvary Prayer Group and the president of Vulnerable Youth Support Network Trust.
Commenting on the political turmoil in the country Makomichi said:
The problem is that you are looking at it(political situation) from a natural viewpoint – yet I am seeing it from a spiritual perspective.
I have read about the battles in the opposition party, MDC and as I have always said, national unity is unavoidable.
Don’t worry about the storm in a cup of tea.
The two men, President Mnangagwa and Mr Nelson Chamisa and will find each other very soon.
You will be surprised because very soon things will start happening,” said Makomichi.
He added:”I have been praying for national unity and very soon I will invite President Mnangagwa and Mr Chamisa to my house for key discussions.Once that happens national unity shall be attained.”
Makomichi also claimed former Zanu PF Political Commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere would be part of vital nation building processes.
However, an MDC official ruled out possible dialogue with Zanu PF:
“Given the current political tension, I don’t see that happening.As things stand we will not interact with Zanu PF at any level or platform. The space for dialogue is not available at the moment.”
The succession row pitting the sons of ageing African Apostolic Church leader, Archbishop Paul Mwazha, popularly known as Mudzidzisi, has deepened with the matter being reported to police, setting the stage for it ending in court.
Archbishop Mwazha turns 102 this year and he has reportedly indicated his intention to step down and let one of his sons succeed him.
Alfred Kushamisa Mwazha and Tawanda Mwazha are at the centre of the succession wrangle.
On Monday, things turned nasty when Alfred, his other brothers and sympathisers visited Archbishop Mwazha’s residence in Hatfield, Harare, to initiate a succession ceremony.
They were however, stopped by other family members, Nyasha and Malcom Chapfunga, who argued that the Archbishop preferred his youngest son, Tawanda, to succeed him.
Tawanda is reportedly holed up in South Africa due to the Covid-19 lockdown. The Monday clashes occurred in full view of the African Apostolic Church leader.
Irked by Alfred’s actions, Tawanda’s nephew, Nyasha, took the matter to Hatfield Police Station where it was reported under RRB4382864.
Nyasha said Alfred violated their peace and destroyed property at the clergyman’s house after they forced entry into the premises.
Nyasha reportedly told the police that Alfred and his brothers broke the gate’s lock to gain entry into the yard, violating Covid-19 national lockdown rules that restrict movement of people, gatherings and observance of social distancing. Police yesterday could neither confirm nor deny the development.
However, sources close to the goings-on said Tawanda had since instructed his legal team to file a suit against Alfred, his other brothers and sympathisers.
“Lawyers have been instructed to prepare a suit against Alfred and his followers.
Indications are that Tawanda wants to file for a peace order against Alfred and his team.
“They want to bar Alfred from hurriedly claiming the reigns and speeding the process, especially when people’s movements are restricted because of coronavirus.
“Their question is on why he is rushing to claim power and failing to wait until when all the people are in place?” he said.-State media
EcoCash wants the High Court to stop the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) from suspending mobile money agents from conducting financial transactions and restore full functionality to those affected.
EcoCash is the leading mobile payment platform, and while direct payments and bill payments have not been affected, the suspension of a large number of agents has hit transactions involving cash-in and out.
The lawsuit follows the central bank’s move on Monday to freeze transactions of an unspecified number of mobile money agent lines from EcoCash and suspected to have been behind fuelling recent exchange rate volatility by using their agent status to buy and sell foreign currency.
The RBZ directive issued on Monday suspended and froze EcoCash accounts and NetOne One Money accounts of agents with a monthly transactional threshold of $100 000 after transactions totalling $75 million were recorded.
The suspension of the mobile money agent lines and accounts across all networks was to facilitate investigations into potential illegal foreign currency activities.
In an urgent chamber application filed at the High Court on Wednesday, EcoCash, represented by Mtetwa and Nyambirai law firm, wants an interdict prohibiting the enforcement of the RBZ’s directive issued on Monday.
The chief executive officer of EcoCash’s parent, Cassava Smartech, Mr Eddie Chibi, argued in his affadavit that EcoCash has 11 million subscribers and benefits people from all parts of the country.
The RBZ action had the effect of limiting Ecocash customers from accessing its services through its agents as most of them have been suspended.
“Because of the legality of the suspension is challenged, a delay in dealing with the matter will result in prejudice not only to the applicant but also ordinary members of the public,” said Mr Chibi.-State media
By A Correspondent| Former Zanu PF Youth League boss, Godfrey Tsenengamu has warned opposition MDC officials against dining with the ruling party which he equated to a hyena.
His remarks come when some allege that the reinstated MDC leadership (Thokozanu Khupe, Douglas Mwonzora, Morgen Komichi, Elias Mudzuri and others) is working hand-in-glove with the ruling party to dislodge Nelson Chamisa from power.
Tsenengamu who was recently expelled from ZANU PF for ‘violating party code of conduct,’ said:
The goat that embarks on a journey to the mountains in the company of a hyena must leave a WILL before departure.
Mwonzora & Co Beware
The power wrangle in the MDC has spilt into the courts which (Supreme Court) ordered the party to convene an extraordinary congress to choose a successor to the late party founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
The famous whistleblower of the 2008 election rigging, Shepherd Yuda speaks concerning a leak he reports he’s received from military sources on alleged plans by ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa.
VIDEO LOADING BELOW….
LEAKED – YUDA SPILLS THE BEANS ON MNANGAGWA'S ALLEGED MILITARY PLOT IN MOZAMBIQUE https://t.co/FG98hMkICP
If Mnangagwa created Fake Terrorist Gwesela and killed 22,000 people saying army's hunting for him (for a whole 4yrs 1983-87), and then created Fake Polling stations for Filipe Nyusi in Masvingo (in 2019), what stops him from creating Fake Terrorists in Mozambique for pleasure?
Mozambican opposition says it’s the government soldiers killing civilians,
| ANALYSIS | There are some digital footprints from within as well as from outside Mozambique that suggest that the terrorists currently operating in that country were created by Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa so he can unleash military rule over the Beira corridor: it’s all about money and getting it by blood. He’s been doing this since 1983. He created Richard Gwesela (who was later killed by a newspaper article, literally), and up to as late as 2018 when we finally witnessed the Terrorist game played before our eyes on LIVE video. It’s a well known game by the politicians and innocent people die.
In recent weeks, we have been told of Christians being killed by so-called Islamic militants in Mozambique. Are they real terrorists and not mere political agents on a special assignment? Let’s hear from the Mozambicans themselves what they are both seeing and saying.
Of the 59 tweets published by ‘the Mozambican Islamic militant group,’ on a Twitter handle, 90% of them are attacking Zimbabwe; their very first one on the 29th April 2020, is a direct message to Emmerson Mnangagwa, and the last one, late Monday evening 9pm, refers to Zimbabwe. Why are these “terrorists” so obsessed with Zimbabwe beginning with their very first tweet?
Of the pictures published of the terrorists lately and on their Twitter account, FranceAlRasa, one is unmasked as a 2015 photo, and the second (used by a South African publication, Daily Maverick, which claims they got it via Telegram from the group last year, has its first citing way back in June 2018 over in Europe, Turkey, nowhere near Africa.
the pictures analysed by their digital Origins.
the collage of pictures from the so-called terrorist group
The Twitter account FranceAlRasa, was created on the 29th April 2020, well in advance of Mnangagwa’s visit there (just a day before).
The correlation of timing as well as the desperation to rebuild the economy using military metal all point to one thing – a brute politician’s methods repeated for over 37 years since the 4th of May 1983.
One possibility – mere malicious intent
One possibility suggests that the Twitter account was created by a merely malicious person who is seeking to agitate war against Emmerson Mnangagwa. This is a very strong likely, and many citizens are known for doing these things in the past as they vent their anger against the government. If this is the case however how did the individual (s) know that Mnangagwa would fly over to Mozambique at the end of the week? The person who did this could thus only be an insider, or at least one possessing insider state-knowledge.
Furthermore if that is true, on Sunday, the nation witnessed ZANU PF’s most prolific pressure group, screaming on social networks that the Zimbabwe National Army must be deployed to Mozambique with immediate effect, today. They said they must do this in order to crush ISIS. They are confident that they will win this war. Very soon ZANU PF will throw a party telling the whole world that Emmerson Mnangagwa is the only politician who can crush ISIS. He has done it in Mozambique! Perfect. We will all believe them, because we did not care to investigate.
And why is ZANU PF suddenly agitated for war?
Does Mozambique have Islamic militants? Who is funding them?
Since Mnangagwa created fake polling stations in Masvingo for Phillip Nyusi 7 months ago, and someone printed fake IDs for scores of Zimbabweans who have never set foot in Mozambique to vote for Nyusi, what is his next move? The current Chairman of the SADC Politics, Defence And Security, is well known for creating terrorists who work for him and his story is documented for a long 37 year period. It brings up the question of what SADC is all about when it appoints someone who has killed more blacks than apartheid South Africa to head its defence and security, but well this is a very very long discussion for another day. A very long one.
Local agencies in Mozambique quote the opposition in that country complaining that the state is murdering civilians.
Mozambique’s interior minister, Amade Miquidade, last month attacked what he described as dis-information spread by independent journalists who are calling into question the credibility of Mozambique’s security forces.
He also blasted Jose Manteigas, a spokesman for Renamo, the main opposition party, who has accused the country’s security forces of “murdering” civilians.
Miquidade said the security forces “will not tolerate these acts of subversion.”
Zitimar news agency, quotes Manteigas alleging that Mozambique’s security forces killed 12 civilians — including two Renamo members — when they attacked boats at jetties on Ibo island in mid-April.
In another report, the interior minister has claimed that security forces have since put the situation in Cabo Delgado under control.
“The situation in Cabo Delgado, at this moment, is under control. What does that mean? We have identified where the enemy is, what are their bases, what are their camps and their movements; while, the defence and security forces are strategically preparing for yet another offensive,” said Miquidade.
Seeing that Mnangagwa is officially assisting Nyusi with political direction, what kind of mentorship is Emmerson Mnangagwa giving the Mozambican leader, a professional one? How is the story unfolding?
So far, the report begins on the 4th May 1983, when Mnangagwa created fake terrorists having abducted and killed 6 western tourists. The victims were: Brett Baldwin, 23, of Walnut Creek, Calif., and Kevin Ellis, 24, of Bellevue, Wash.; Britons James Greenwell and Martyn Hodgeson; and Australians Tony Bajzeli and William Butler.
The Gwesela sequel.
ZIFA’s spokesperson, Xolisani Gwesela has in recent days responded to allegations by some quarters in Matebeleland who attack him saying that he is the son of the notorious so called dissident, Ranson or Richard Gwesela, a terrorist Mnangagwa created in the 1980s.
Gwesela is the infamous “immortal” character who the Zimbabwean military claimed they were after between 1983 and 1987 when they continued to kill civilians until more than 22,000 people were massacred. He was immortal for a whole 4 years and only “killed” when ZANU PF now wanted to sign a unity accord with Joshua Nkomo’s ZAPU party in 1987.
Thousands of people sensationally flocked to a police station in Gweru on the 18th November 1987 for a glimpse of the bullet-riddled corpse of Zimbabwe’s most wanted “fugitive.”
Zimbabwe Republic Police say Richard Gwesela, a former guerrilla fighter, was a gang leader who terrorized the people of two provinces for four years.
Gwesela was alleged to have murdered 20 people in the Midlands and neighbouring Matabeleland provinces. He also was said to have raped women and robbed villagers.
In silence, onlookers walked past his body sprawled beneath a wanted poster offering $30,000 for him, dead or alive.
The state media said Gwesela was the country’s most wanted man, and was killed in a gunbattle with Zimbabwean security forces near Gweru “on Sunday,” earlier.
His death was reported for the first time three days later, on the Wednesday. There were no independent investigations to confirm the state media report.
His mother and an uncle identified the corpse as Gwesela, and police fingerprints confirmed the identity, according to the state media report.
″Gwesela had killed more than 20 people since he started operating in the area,″ Enos Nkala, home affairs minister in charge of police, told reporters. ″Now he is going to join them, whether in heaven or hell, we don’t know,” he said.
NEW TWIST.
33 years later, some Mthwakazi activists have begun claiming ZIFA’s Gwesela was rewarded the sports job for a sterling role the supposed father played as an insider who staged for Emmerson Mnangagwa during Gukurahundi in order to kill civilians, pursuing Emmerson Mnangagwa’s terror operation to kill people under the guise of flushing out dissidents.
One activist makes the above chilling allegations (pic).
Responding however, ZIFA’s Mr Xolisani Gwesa told ZimEye, the so called Gwesela was not even a real Gwesela.
He said: “This writer is waffling. I am shocked by these ghastly falsehoods.
“I am the son of the late Chief Gwesela whose real name was Cornelius Nobody Gwesela Ndebele who died in 1996.He was never a dissident. The so called “dissident Gwesela” was never a Gwesela and his real name was Zedious Mangena.
“I am holder of a Masters Degree in Media and Society studies, Post grad Diploma in Media , Bsc Honours degree , Diploma in Management and Diploma in Sport Management.
“I have over 15 years experience in media management and sport management and events coordination. I joined Zifa purely on merit.
“The Gweselas are also from Zhombe and not Lower Gweru. The Gweselas are also from Zhombe and not Lower Gweru.”
ZIMBABWE, THE WORLD’S FASTEST GROWING CROP ECONOMY SUDDENLY CRASHED FOLLOWING MNANGAGWA’S PRONOUNCEMENTS
Rhodesia, was once the worst hit African economy by both United Nations sanctions and a debilitating 14 year running civil war from within, and yet by 1976, it had been hailed as the world’s fastest growing crop economy. So what really went wrong? Soon after 1980, it was handed over to Robert Mugabe and his state security minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, who less than 3 years later launched a military crackdown against civilians who he personally described as cockroaches who must be wiped out using DDT. That operation destroyed the economy in ways exactly similar to the recent 1 Aug 2018 military crackdown (which the Finance Ministry has told The Motlanthe Commission has cost the nation USD16 billion.) Zimbabwe’s economy began crumbling following Mnangagwa’s words on the 4th April 1983:
“Blessed are they who will follow the path of the Government laws, for their days on earth will be increased. But woe unto those who will choose the path of collaboration with dissidents for we will certainly shorten their stay on earth.”
As Minister of State Security, Mnangagwa was in charge of the brutal massacre of more than 22 000 Ndebele. He labeled dissidents ‘cockroaches’ and the killers of the Fifth Brigade army unit as ‘DDT,’ an insecticide.
Economy data shows how the country’s GDP crashed down following the operation, and effects were immediately felt from 1983 all the way to 1985.
Fast forward to the period 2004 – 2018 more evidence shows the correlation between economic performance and the rule of law, specifically human rights adherence.
MNANGAGWA’S METHOD.
But Mnangagwa’s method is different. He operates on the belief that an economy is only built by killing people, and his appetite for shedding blood is evident for 40 years to date during which he has killed more blacks than apartheid South Africa. On the 2nd January, 2020, he told residents of Kuwadzana, Harare that he will send the army after them once he suspects them to have stopped the rain. This came barely 2 years after he deployed the military to change election results and citizens for the first time witnessed soldiers opening fire against shoppers going about the day-to-day business.
What kind of mentorship is Emmerson Mnangagwa giving the Mozambican leader, a professional one?
There is no doubt that Mnangagwa will deny all this evidence even to the Mozambicans. But his file is now full and fat, a whole 37 years full.
If Mnangagwa created Fake Terrorist Gwesela and killed 22,000 people saying army's hunting for him (for a whole 4yrs 1983-87), and then created Fake Polling stations for Filipe Nyusi in Masvingo (in 2019), what stops him from creating Fake Terrorists in Mozambique for pleasure?
The famous whistleblower of the 2008 election rigging, Shepherd Yuda speaks concerning a leak he reports he has received from military sources on alleged plans by ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa.
VIDEO LOADING BELOW….
LEAKED – YUDA SPILLS THE BEANS ON MNANGAGWA'S ALLEGED MILITARY PLOT IN MOZAMBIQUE https://t.co/FG98hMkICP
If Mnangagwa created Fake Terrorist Gwesela and killed 22,000 people saying army's hunting for him (for a whole 4yrs 1983-87), and then created Fake Polling stations for Filipe Nyusi in Masvingo (in 2019), what stops him from creating Fake Terrorists in Mozambique for pleasure?
Mozambican opposition says it’s the government soldiers killing civilians,
| ANALYSIS | There are some digital footprints from within as well as from outside Mozambique that suggest that the terrorists currently operating in that country were created by Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa so he can unleash military rule over the Beira corridor: it’s all about money and getting it by blood. He’s been doing this since 1983. He created Richard Gwesela (who was later killed by a newspaper article, literally), and up to as late as 2018 when we finally witnessed the Terrorist game played before our eyes on LIVE video. It’s a well known game by the politicians and innocent people die.
In recent weeks, we have been told of Christians being killed by so-called Islamic militants in Mozambique. Are they real terrorists and not mere political agents on a special assignment? Let’s hear from the Mozambicans themselves what they are both seeing and saying.
Of the 59 tweets published by ‘the Mozambican Islamic militant group,’ on a Twitter handle, 90% of them are attacking Zimbabwe; their very first one on the 29th April 2020, is a direct message to Emmerson Mnangagwa, and the last one, late Monday evening 9pm, refers to Zimbabwe. Why are these “terrorists” so obsessed with Zimbabwe beginning with their very first tweet?
Of the pictures published of the terrorists lately and on their Twitter account, FranceAlRasa, one is unmasked as a 2015 photo, and the second (used by a South African publication, Daily Maverick, which claims they got it via Telegram from the group last year, has its first citing way back in June 2018 over in Europe, Turkey, nowhere near Africa.
the pictures analysed by their digital Origins.
the collage of pictures from the so-called terrorist group
The Twitter account FranceAlRasa, was created on the 29th April 2020, well in advance of Mnangagwa’s visit there (just a day before).
The correlation of timing as well as the desperation to rebuild the economy using military metal all point to one thing – a brute politician’s methods repeated for over 37 years since the 4th of May 1983.
One possibility – mere malicious intent
One possibility suggests that the Twitter account was created by a merely malicious person who is seeking to agitate war against Emmerson Mnangagwa. This is a very strong likely, and many citizens are known for doing these things in the past as they vent their anger against the government. If this is the case however how did the individual (s) know that Mnangagwa would fly over to Mozambique at the end of the week? The person who did this could thus only be an insider, or at least one possessing insider state-knowledge.
Furthermore if that is true, on Sunday, the nation witnessed ZANU PF’s most prolific pressure group, screaming on social networks that the Zimbabwe National Army must be deployed to Mozambique with immediate effect, today. They said they must do this in order to crush ISIS. They are confident that they will win this war. Very soon ZANU PF will throw a party telling the whole world that Emmerson Mnangagwa is the only politician who can crush ISIS. He has done it in Mozambique! Perfect. We will all believe them, because we did not care to investigate.
And why is ZANU PF suddenly agitated for war?
Does Mozambique have Islamic militants? Who is funding them?
Since Mnangagwa created fake polling stations in Masvingo for Phillip Nyusi 7 months ago, and someone printed fake IDs for scores of Zimbabweans who have never set foot in Mozambique to vote for Nyusi, what is his next move? The current Chairman of the SADC Politics, Defence And Security, is well known for creating terrorists who work for him and his story is documented for a long 37 year period. It brings up the question of what SADC is all about when it appoints someone who has killed more blacks than apartheid South Africa to head its defence and security, but well this is a very very long discussion for another day. A very long one.
Local agencies in Mozambique quote the opposition in that country complaining that the state is murdering civilians.
Mozambique’s interior minister, Amade Miquidade, last month attacked what he described as dis-information spread by independent journalists who are calling into question the credibility of Mozambique’s security forces.
He also blasted Jose Manteigas, a spokesman for Renamo, the main opposition party, who has accused the country’s security forces of “murdering” civilians.
Miquidade said the security forces “will not tolerate these acts of subversion.”
Zitimar news agency, quotes Manteigas alleging that Mozambique’s security forces killed 12 civilians — including two Renamo members — when they attacked boats at jetties on Ibo island in mid-April.
In another report, the interior minister has claimed that security forces have since put the situation in Cabo Delgado under control.
“The situation in Cabo Delgado, at this moment, is under control. What does that mean? We have identified where the enemy is, what are their bases, what are their camps and their movements; while, the defence and security forces are strategically preparing for yet another offensive,” said Miquidade.
Seeing that Mnangagwa is officially assisting Nyusi with political direction, what kind of mentorship is Emmerson Mnangagwa giving the Mozambican leader, a professional one? How is the story unfolding?
So far, the report begins on the 4th May 1983, when Mnangagwa created fake terrorists having abducted and killed 6 western tourists. The victims were: Brett Baldwin, 23, of Walnut Creek, Calif., and Kevin Ellis, 24, of Bellevue, Wash.; Britons James Greenwell and Martyn Hodgeson; and Australians Tony Bajzeli and William Butler.
The Gwesela sequel.
ZIFA’s spokesperson, Xolisani Gwesela has in recent days responded to allegations by some quarters in Matebeleland who attack him saying that he is the son of the notorious so called dissident, Ranson or Richard Gwesela, a terrorist Mnangagwa created in the 1980s.
Gwesela is the infamous “immortal” character who the Zimbabwean military claimed they were after between 1983 and 1987 when they continued to kill civilians until more than 22,000 people were massacred. He was immortal for a whole 4 years and only “killed” when ZANU PF now wanted to sign a unity accord with Joshua Nkomo’s ZAPU party in 1987.
Thousands of people sensationally flocked to a police station in Gweru on the 18th November 1987 for a glimpse of the bullet-riddled corpse of Zimbabwe’s most wanted “fugitive.”
Zimbabwe Republic Police say Richard Gwesela, a former guerrilla fighter, was a gang leader who terrorized the people of two provinces for four years.
Gwesela was alleged to have murdered 20 people in the Midlands and neighbouring Matabeleland provinces. He also was said to have raped women and robbed villagers.
In silence, onlookers walked past his body sprawled beneath a wanted poster offering $30,000 for him, dead or alive.
The state media said Gwesela was the country’s most wanted man, and was killed in a gunbattle with Zimbabwean security forces near Gweru “on Sunday,” earlier.
His death was reported for the first time three days later, on the Wednesday. There were no independent investigations to confirm the state media report.
His mother and an uncle identified the corpse as Gwesela, and police fingerprints confirmed the identity, according to the state media report.
″Gwesela had killed more than 20 people since he started operating in the area,″ Enos Nkala, home affairs minister in charge of police, told reporters. ″Now he is going to join them, whether in heaven or hell, we don’t know,” he said.
NEW TWIST.
33 years later, some Mthwakazi activists have begun claiming ZIFA’s Gwesela was rewarded the sports job for a sterling role the supposed father played as an insider who staged for Emmerson Mnangagwa during Gukurahundi in order to kill civilians, pursuing Emmerson Mnangagwa’s terror operation to kill people under the guise of flushing out dissidents.
One activist makes the above chilling allegations (pic).
Responding however, ZIFA’s Mr Xolisani Gwesa told ZimEye, the so called Gwesela was not even a real Gwesela.
He said: “This writer is waffling. I am shocked by these ghastly falsehoods.
“I am the son of the late Chief Gwesela whose real name was Cornelius Nobody Gwesela Ndebele who died in 1996.He was never a dissident. The so called “dissident Gwesela” was never a Gwesela and his real name was Zedious Mangena.
“I am holder of a Masters Degree in Media and Society studies, Post grad Diploma in Media , Bsc Honours degree , Diploma in Management and Diploma in Sport Management.
“I have over 15 years experience in media management and sport management and events coordination. I joined Zifa purely on merit.
“The Gweselas are also from Zhombe and not Lower Gweru. The Gweselas are also from Zhombe and not Lower Gweru.”
ZIMBABWE, THE WORLD’S FASTEST GROWING CROP ECONOMY SUDDENLY CRASHED FOLLOWING MNANGAGWA’S PRONOUNCEMENTS
Rhodesia, was once the worst hit African economy by both United Nations sanctions and a debilitating 14 year running civil war from within, and yet by 1976, it had been hailed as the world’s fastest growing crop economy. So what really went wrong? Soon after 1980, it was handed over to Robert Mugabe and his state security minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, who less than 3 years later launched a military crackdown against civilians who he personally described as cockroaches who must be wiped out using DDT. That operation destroyed the economy in ways exactly similar to the recent 1 Aug 2018 military crackdown (which the Finance Ministry has told The Motlanthe Commission has cost the nation USD16 billion.) Zimbabwe’s economy began crumbling following Mnangagwa’s words on the 4th April 1983:
“Blessed are they who will follow the path of the Government laws, for their days on earth will be increased. But woe unto those who will choose the path of collaboration with dissidents for we will certainly shorten their stay on earth.”
As Minister of State Security, Mnangagwa was in charge of the brutal massacre of more than 22 000 Ndebele. He labeled dissidents ‘cockroaches’ and the killers of the Fifth Brigade army unit as ‘DDT,’ an insecticide.
Economy data shows how the country’s GDP crashed down following the operation, and effects were immediately felt from 1983 all the way to 1985.
Fast forward to the period 2004 – 2018 more evidence shows the correlation between economic performance and the rule of law, specifically human rights adherence.
MNANGAGWA’S METHOD.
But Mnangagwa’s method is different. He operates on the belief that an economy is only built by killing people, and his appetite for shedding blood is evident for 40 years to date during which he has killed more blacks than apartheid South Africa. On the 2nd January, 2020, he told residents of Kuwadzana, Harare that he will send the army after them once he suspects them to have stopped the rain. This came barely 2 years after he deployed the military to change election results and citizens for the first time witnessed soldiers opening fire against shoppers going about the day-to-day business.
What kind of mentorship is Emmerson Mnangagwa giving the Mozambican leader, a professional one?
There is no doubt that Mnangagwa will deny all this evidence even to the Mozambicans. But his file is now full and fat, a whole 37 years full.
If Mnangagwa created Fake Terrorist Gwesela and killed 22,000 people saying army's hunting for him (for a whole 4yrs 1983-87), and then created Fake Polling stations for Filipe Nyusi in Masvingo (in 2019), what stops him from creating Fake Terrorists in Mozambique for pleasure?
By A Correspondent- An artisanal gold-panner on Thursday packed his wife’s belongings and dumped her along with their baby at a Madzibaba’s house after discovering their illicit affair in Ngungunyana, Budiriro.
Tererai Mazani took advantage of the National Lockdown Level 2 to move from a mine outside Harare during the night and arrived home and greeted his wife Rachel Guvheya, 20, by going through her WhatsApp messages.
Tererai discovered through Rachel’s WhatsApp conversation with Madzibaba Evans Ndhlovu, 43, that the two had several sex escapades.
Madzibaba Evans’ wife was reported to have been rushed to a local clinic after her blood pressure shot upon learning of her husband’s shenanigans.
Rachel admitted bedding married Madzibaba Evans and Tererai packed her belongings and informed his close relatives who helped him to take her to Madzibaba Evans.
“My husband went through my mobile phone upon his arrival from a mine and discovered that I was having an affair with Madzibaba Evans and assaulted me,” said Rachel.
“He informed his relatives and they packed my belongings including our matrimonial bed saying it was defiled by Madzibaba that he could no longer sleep on it.
“Tererai phoned Madzibaba Evans in a way to discuss about the affair and Madzibaba refused to come since he is married.
“He indicated to him that he was taking me to his house and Madzibaba Evans disappeared from his house after learning that I was being taken to him along with my belongings.
“I am prepared to live with Madzibaba Evans as his second wife since he has wrecked my marriage ndichatongonomanikidzira mumba mavo imomo.
“His wife and children turned against her as well as residents but I have no other plans other than staying here until they accept the situation on the ground.
“I phoned Madzibaba Evans and he advised me to leave his house promising to look for alternative accommodation but I am not leaving this place until he returns from hiding,” said Rachel.
Tererai confirmed the story saying he was still in shock to respond.
“I have nothing to say at the moment because the issue is too emotional if you may excuse me for now,” said Tererai refusing to answer on measures he was to take about the child who was accompanying her alleged adulterous mother.
Efforts to get Madzibaba Evans’ comment were fruitless by the time of going to print as his mobile phone went unanswered.
However, Madzibaba Evans’ two children vowed not to accommodate Rachel accusing her of adultery.
A 22-year-old Madzibaba’s first born told H-Metro that they have no more rooms to accommodate Rachel and her child.
“That adulterous woman caused my mother’s sickness so I will not allow her to take her belongings in this house and daddy vangobuda and is no longer answering his phone,” she said.
By A Correspondent- A Centenary apostolic member died yesterday when a Mazda B1800 he was travelling in crashed with a kombi near St Alberts mission in Mashonaland Central province.
kombi crash
Chief Chiweshe confirmed the case.
“I can confirm that one person died after a head on collision near Chinyani area in St Aberts,” he said.
The accident occured around 7pm and details are still skechy.
Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundembe said he was yet to receive the case.
NPRC Commissioner Leslie Ncube Speaks to the two women.
CITE|The National Peace and Reconciliation (NPRC) has reached out to two women from Cowdray Park in Bulawayo who were allegedly abused by members of the police a fortnight ago.
CITE interviewed the two women, Nokuthula and Ntombizodwa Mpofu, who are sisters, and they narrated how they were handcuffed, assaulted, labelled ‘prostitutes’ and tribally insulted by police officers based at the Cowdray Park police base after they had gone to the shops to buy some foodstuffs.
The women said they were harassed and detained overnight without a charge laid against them.
Human rights groups condemned the heavy-handedness of the police and a local civil society consortium, Matabeleland Forum, petitioned the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) to investigate the matter.
On Thursday, a team from the NPRC led by Commissioner Leslie Ncube visited the two women, at their home in the high-density suburb.
In a sideline interview with CITE, Commissioner Ncube noted that the conduct of the police on the day in question violated the rights of the citizens whom they are supposed to protect.
“It is disheartening that male officers can beat women on their buttocks and bruise them in the manner they did. The victims have shown us pictures of the bruises they sustained and they have also shown us their medical records,” said Commissioner Ncube.
“It is appalling that law enforcers can use such inflammatory language which seeks to deform someone in terms of ethnicity. We also note that this incident occurred during lockdown-a time where the police were supposed to extensively engage with the citizens and tell them the dos and don’ts of the lockdown conditions.”
Commissioner Ncube reiterated that the matter further points to the issue of corruption within the police as the women explained that although they were fined ZWL$200 each, another ZAR100 was paid but never accounted for on any of the documents from the police.
He said the Commission will keep working on the matter until police officers responsible are brought to book.
Ntombizodwa, one of the victims, while reliving the moments of the fateful day, in between sobs complained that the police were not taking their case seriously to ensure that justice is served.
“We have been thrown back and forth from one police station to the other. They keep telling us that the officer handling our matter is not available and they ask us to come on a different day. To date there has not been any progress,” she sobbed.
“We last went to Luveve police station where we reported our case on Monday and the officer in charge promised to call us on Thursday (today). We still haven’t received any call.
“At one point they said they don’t know who the officers we were talking about were, how is that even possible when we had a docket opened against us and we paid a fine. They should be having the name of the arresting officer. They just don’t want to help us with our case.”
Harare – The Casualty Department at West-End, one of the biggest private hospitals in Zimbabwe has been closed for two weeks now with 25 nurses and six doctors on quarantine following the death of an elderly woman of Covid-19 in the service centre’s Intensive Care Unit ward.
Going by volumes served, West End is probably the biggest private hospital in Zimbabwe and it also serves the largest number of Government employees on Public Service Medical Aid (PSMAS).
The department is expected to open on May 18, 2020, according to a statement made to The Mirror by Premier Service Medical Investment (PSMI) spokesperson, Obey Nhakura.
The Mirror understands that the entire staff complement was tested at the time of the death of Mbuya Nguni, the mother of former Cabinet Minister Sylvester Nguni and they were all negative. The whole hospital was also disinfected.
A team of health practitioners is visiting them at their respective homes every day to monitor them for symptoms. The Mirror understands that none has developed any Covid -19 symptoms so far and they will go for final tests before they are allowed to go back to work.
“In keeping with the guidelines given by the Ministry of Health and Child Care, NSSA and WHO guidelines and protocols, West End Hospital continues to collaborate and co-operate in terms of infection control, conduct tracing and testing as well as isolation of affected members
“To that end, all West End Casualty employees and any of their colleagues that came into contact with them will be tested for Covid-19 and self isolate for the next 21 days, according to the guidelines,” read the statement.
Nhakura said that patients who normally use West End are currently being referred to medical facilities run by PSMI until the unit is reopened. For the wards, the hospital is admitting patients straight from the specialists’ rooms, said Nhakura.
Tanzania woke up to the sad news of the demise of the head of Geita district Mr. Hamim Buzohera Gwimaya. Hamim Buzohera passed away on Friday May 8th as 5am. It is alleged that he had contracted the corona virus disease and likely to have succumbed to it.
This comes at a time when there is public outcry over the manner in which president John Pombe Magufuli is handling the coronavirus pandemic in Tanzania. Opposition party leader Freeman Mbowe has accused the government of hiding the true nature of the coronavirus pandemic. This was after 3 members of parliament died in a span of 11 days in what was seen to be as a result of covid-19 disease.
Hamim Buzohera becomes the fourth leader in Tanzania to die in a span of 18 days and opposition leaders are calling upon the government to be transparent on corona virus deaths. The process of testing coronavirus disease in Tanzania was halted after president John Magufuli suspended the head of national laboratory and ordered an investigation into it.
Even since April 29th, Tanzania has not announced any further results of coronavirus disease defying the international guidelines of daily reporting of coronavirus cases. During the last announcement, the number of confirmed cases rose to 480 while deaths rose to 16.
Opposition leader Freeman Mbowe had called upon all opposition leaders to boycott parliament sittings, self-quarantine for 14 days then get tested. Mbowe was troubled over the rising cases of deaths of members of parliament noting coronavirus disease had made its way into the parliament. President John Magufuli has since endorsed the covid organic tea from Madagascar and ordered for its importation to help treat covid-19 patients in Tanzania.
South Africa will soon be forced to destroy over 400 million bottles of alcohol due to the banning of alcohol sales in South Africa.
At the current status of South African economy alcohol has been banned since the national lockdown .
Sales of alcohol in South Africa have a great impact in the economy of South Africa which gives tax returns a good profit margin.
SA Breweries (SAB) – owner of Castle Lager, Hansa, and Black Label – says it may be forced to destroy more than 130 million litres of beer if it is not allowed to transport the brew to its depots.
The transport of alcohol – apart from alcohol for export – is currently illegal under South Africa’s lockdown regulations. All sale of alcohol is also prohibited.
SAB has not been brewing since March 23rd, nor has it or transported beer since the start of the hard Covid-19 lockdown on March 27th.
The state of South African economy has fallen by 11,5% since the national lockdown.
Since the transportation of alcohol is not allowed South African breweries will be forced to destroy over 130 Million liters of alcohol.
In a presentation to government, SAB said that if it is not allowed to transport beer within the next day or so, it will be forced to discard this inventory, at a loss of an estimated R150 million.
GOVERNMENT has paid health workers on the Covid-19 frontline paltry allowances of just ZW$700 (US$28) for the work they did since the beginning of the pandemic in Zimbabwe about two months ago.
The frontline workers have been exposed to coronavirus infection as they came into contact with patients without adequate protective clothing in some cases. Nurses at Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital in Harare, where the country’s two out of the four Covid-19 fatalities have been recorded, were working with limited protective clothing, until donations made by development partners and private businesses and individuals were availed last week.
The health workers at the infectious diseases hospital downed stethoscopes for five days a fortnight ago. They resumed work after a meeting with City of Harare director of health Prosper Chonzi who promised them that allowances would be deposited into their bank accounts.
“We received the money two days later and we got ZW$700 plus our salary which was ZW$3 000,” one of the nurses told the Zimbabwe Independent this week. “We are living in fear and anxiety. We took care of the late patients and have come into contact with other positive patients.
“These times are really difficult, we have worked even during outbreaks of other diseases such cholera, but this time it is difficult because we are not receiving monetary support. Previously, we would get US$30 per day.”
During the strike, army medics replaced the nurses.The strike followed the resignation of nurses at the institution who were frustrated with the lack of resources and allowances, leaving the remaining staff overworked.
Before the strike, the nurses wrote to Chonzi, expressing disappointment over the working environment and lack of a monetary incentive.The Independent understands that several nurses at the infectious diseases hospital are eying better opportunities, especially at private Covid-19 facilities that are being established in the capital.
“We, the frontline Covid-19 team, are incapacitated. We are now unable to perform our duties because we are hungry and we cannot fend for our families. We have been working since January on the frontline of this pandemic, but up to today, the 20th of April, we have not received any salary increment and no allowance,” the Wilkins nurses said in one of the letters under the subject.
“Incapacitation of frontline workers. Our salaries range from ZW$1 000 to ZW$2 000. This has not been enough to sustain even coming to work, but we have been sacrificing to the extent of using our resources to come to work.
“However, we have exhausted all our resources. We are therefore appealing for your urgent attention to our plea for allowances whilst we are at home waiting for your response within 24 hours.”
They further said they wanted a written document stating that they would get payment of risk allowances as well as life insurance in United States dollars. “We have not been given anything since the outbreak started, yet we have been caring for positive patients at the hospital. We could have been exposed because of the inadequate PPE (personal protective equipment), but nothing has come our way and we understand that nurses at government institutions were given allowances, yet we are the ones on the frontline,” a health professional at the institution said
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has responded to reports by local news outlets which suggest that the country has been blacklisted by the European Union for funding terrorist groups.
We present the bank’s response in full below.
CLARIFICATION OF ARTICLE CARRIED IN THE NEWSDAYEDITION OF 6 MAY 2020 ON ALLEGED BLACKLISTING OF ZIMBABWE BY THE EUROPEAN UNION
The Newsdayedition of 6 May 2020 carried an article headlined ‘EU blacklists Zim over terrorist funding.‘ The headline sensationally suggests that Zimbabwe has been funding terrorists. Whilst the article generally gave the impression that the European Union had, or was about to blacklist the country for funding terrorism, in the body of the article there is no reference to terrorist funding, let alone how Zimbabwe allegedly funded terrorism.
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (the “Bank”) wishes to give clarity and the correct position as follows:
Zimbabwe is a member of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Global Community. The FATF is responsible for setting and continuously updating international standards on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism (AMUCFT). Through its network of regional bodies, the FATF periodically assesses countries’ AMUCFT systems to identify any gaps that need to be addressed.
Zimbabwe was assessed in 2015 and the resultant Mutual Evaluation Report was adopted and published In September 2016. The Report identified some gaps and, in line with the FATF procedures, the country was given five years (up to September 2021) to address all the identified gaps. Zimbabwe has since addressed almost all the legislative and institutional gaps, with the result that the country is now rated Fully Compliant or Largely Compliant In thirty-three out of the Forty FATF Recommendations, which is one of the best Technical Compliance ratings in the region. Zimbabwe’s key outstanding deficiencies relate to effectiveness in Implementing the AMUCFT laws and policies. In this regard the country Is working closely with the FATF and the regional AMUCFT body, the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group, and is making good progress.
It is the FATF’s practice to publish the list of countries that have been assessed and have AMUCFT gaps, and the list is updated three times a year after the FATF Plenary Meetings. It is also the practice of the European Union to adopt the FATF list and circulate it within its member countries. Zimbabwe Is on what is referred to as a “grey” list, i.e. of countries that are cooperating with the FATF and making progress. A grey list is not a blacklist. A blacklist is for high risk and uncooperative countries. Zimbabwe is not unique on this grey list as other countries from the region and beyond, that have so far undergone the FATF assessment, are or have been on the list, while others will be added as and when the results of their assessments come out.
The Bank wishes to stress that at no point has Zimbabwe ever been accused of funding terrorism, whether by the FATF, the EU or by any State or organisation.
The Zimbabwe human Rights NGO Forum has written to the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara), advising it not to penalise motorists whose vehicle licences expired during the COVID-19 lockdown period.
The human rights body said it was compelled to approach the vehicle licensing authority after one of its members and other motorists were forced to pay a penalty for late vehicle licensing despite not using their vehicles as a result of the lockdown.
In a letter dated May 5, 2020 addressed to Zinara chief executive officer, NGO Forum’s senior projects lawyer, Wilbert Mandinde said the move was illegal.
“On May 4, 2020, our client (Ngonidzashe Taruvinga) approached one of your licensing agencies where he was advised to pay a penalty of $150 for his failure to license his vehicle timeously,” Mandinde wrote. he said following the declaration of the lockdown by President emmerson Mnangagwa on March 27, 2020, Zinara consequently closed its entire vehicle licensing centres with effect from March 30.
“As a result, our client was unable to renew his vehicle licence which was to expire on March 31, 2020.
“While you placed an advert in the local media advising of a few places in Harare only where licensing of motor vehicles could happen, non-essential travel was prohibited and travelling for the purposes of licensing one’s vehicle could easily have qualified as such. In any case, so many affected people stay outside harare.”
Mandinde further said the President extended the lockdown by a further 14 days to May 3, 2020.
Again, their client could still not travel to license his vehicle, but on May 4, 2020, their client approached one of Zinara’s licensing agencies where he was advised to pay a penalty of $150 for failure to license his vehicle timeously.
“In other words, our client and all those in his current situation are being punished for the COVID-19-induced lockdown.
“Our client has noted that reprieve has been granted in other areas including the deferment of rentals for residential properties. he is of the considered opinion that you should not levy any penalties at all for all the people whose vehicle licences expired during the lockdown period,” he said.
“Kindly indicate what action you will take within the next 48 hours, failure of which we are instructed to approach the court on an urgent basis seeking an order to permanently stay the payment of the penalties as stated above.”
THE Zimbabwean government has placed its security forces on high alert amid threats of infiltration along the border with Mozambique where Islamist fighters and opposition Renamo militia have escalated insurgency, the Zimbabwe Independent can report.
As the security situation deteriorates, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has launched a diplomatic offensive to convince Southern African Development Community (Sadc) leaders to consider a joint military operation to assist the neighbouring country in its battle to contain the twin rebellions which have gathered momentum in the past three years.
We can also reveal that the Zimbabwean government has deployed elite troops to assist the Mozambican government with strategies on how to track down the insurgents. The soldiers will also conduct reconnaissance, which includes studying the terrain and assessing enemy strength.
Although Islamist insurgency has raged in northern Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province since 2017, the situation deteriorated in the past month as the jihadist groups continue with mass killings. So far, they have killed nearly 1 000 people and displaced tens of thousands. The Mozambican government recently claimed to have killed 129 militants.
The decision by Mnangagwa — who chairs Sadc’s organ on politics, defence and security — to place troops on high alert follows his meeting last week in Mozambique with President Filipe Nyusi over the rapidly deteriorating situation in that country.
Mnangagwa took the Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, General Phillip Valerio Sibanda, to the meeting. Jihadist violence is ravaging Mozambique’s oil-rich north, while an armed dissident faction of the opposition Renamo has been making sporadic attacks in the central and eastern regions of the country. Attacks by jihadists have escalated in several districts of Cabo Delgado province in the far north.
Press and security reports indicate that the country has relapsed into a virtual civil war, with Islamist fighters killing 52 civilians during a night raid in Xitaxi Village, Muidumbe district, on April 8.
Mozambican security forces, with the help of mercenaries under the command of former Zimbabwean army colonel Lionel Dyck, a Mnangagwa ally, repelled the militants in Muidumbe town, killing 39 of them.
Dyck’s private security company, Dyke Advisory Group, was hired by Mozambique to assist. Presidential spokesperson George Charamba, who accompanied Mnangagwa to Mozambique, confirmed the army was on high alert although he dismissed reports that special forces had been secretly deployed in Mozambique.
Charamba said government was mostly worried about the threat posed by the Renamo militia, which has carried out attacks on civilians in central and eastern Mozambique. The militants have disrupted freight on the Mutare-Beira trade corridor which gives Zimbabwe the shortest route to the sea.
Authoritative government and military sources said Nyusi formally requested urgent military back-up from Zimbabwe during the meeting, but Mnangagwa took a cautious approach saying, for now, he would rather help by sending a small band of skilled military trainers who have special skills in tackling insurgency.
Mnangagwa also told Nyusi that he would convene a meeting of the Sadc organ on politics, defence and security.
Official sources told the Independent the government had actually deployed elite troops to conduct reconnaissance along the expansive borderline two weeks ahead of Mnangagwa’s meeting with Nyusi.
“The military has been monitoring the situation there and they got really worried when the Renamo military junta’s leader Mariano Nhongo claimed they were responsible for an attack on a Chinese-owned timber company which left one worker dead in Matarara camp in Manica province. That is when the reality of the threat hit home and, since then, Zimbabwe’s security forces have been on alert,” a source said.
“So when the President went to Maputo last week, President Nyusi requested military back-up, saying his country was literally under siege and was struggling to cope with the situation. However, the President (Mnangagwa) said he needed to first raise the issue at a meeting of Sadc’s organ on defence and security so that if there is any deployment that is going to take place, it will be under the auspices of the regional bloc.
“However, the military had already sent reconnaissance teams to the borderline about two weeks earlier. Their brief is to carefully study the terrain to identify possible areas where terrorists could infiltrate through and also alert those living in those areas so that they will be able to report any suspicious movements.”
Charamba confirmed that Mnangagwa was communicating with the heads of state of Lesotho and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with a view to setting a date for the Troika’s meeting.
“The security issue is not only limited to Mozambique and Zimbabwe. It has become a major regional security concern and, as such, the President was of the view that the best way to tackle it was to bring it to the attention of Sadc, bearing in mind that he chairs the organ on defence and security,” Charamba said.
He added that the government got gravely worried after receiving reports that Renamo gunmen were targeting the Beira corridor, which comprises a railway line, road and oil pipeline, making it highly strategic to Zimbabwe’s economy.
Charamba said some Zimbabwean haulage trucks have been attacked in recent weeks.
“It was important that we discussed two specific security issues. Firstly, there is the issue of Renamo dissidents operating in Manica province as well as in the central regions. The greatest traffic on that trade route is Zimbabwean and some of our trucks have been attacked there. So it is a very strategic trade route which links Zimbabwe to the rest of the world. They thus pose a direct threat to Zimbabwe,” Charamba said.
“The second aspect is the situation in the northern region of Mozambique where Islamic fundamentalists are attacking the state. This is worrisome for the whole of Sadc. Their intention is to redraw the geographical boundaries of the entire region without paying attention to traditional boundaries in the same way that the parent terrorist ISIS (Islamic State) organisation is trying to do in the Middle East.
“Their plans also affect Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi and DRC. So after a detailed briefing from President Nyusi, the President’s opinion is that it is a crisis we cannot be indifferent to, which is why he is talking to the heads of state of DRC and Lesotho. The troika meeting is set to take place soon.”
Asked whether or not Mnangagwa is ready to deploy soldiers to Mozambique, Charamba said: “Things haven’t gotten to that yet, but if you are going to use the precedents of other regions, no country is at peace now and this means action will have to be taken. Remember, in Zimbabwe, we have a number of our people who subscribe to that religion and we don’t want them to get radicalised as well. We are monitoring the situation and we have to be careful.”
Zimbabwe National Army spokesman Alphios Makotore declined to comment, saying: “Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (Nick Mangwana) has already spoken on that matter.”
Mangwana had earlier argued that President Mnangagwa has no plans to deploy troops to Mozambique anytime soon.
However, media reports this week suggested that at least 30 elite Zimbabwean troops are currently in Mozambique where they are helping with the training of the country’s military personnel on how to respond to the crisis.
Registrar General Clemence Masango was Friday granted a $10 000 bail and ordered to report twice at Waterfalls Police Station after he appeared before a Harare magistrate facing charges of flouting tender procedures and abuse of office.
He was arrested Wednesday by officials from the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) and appeared in court after spending two days in police cells.
The State is also alleging that he illegally took possession of seven other vehicles from the Registry Office and used them for personal use at his residence and farm.
Harare magistrate Bianca Makwande also restricted Masango from travel beyond the 40km radius of Harare, barred him from visiting the Registrar General’s office, ordered him to surrender title deeds for his Borrowdale property and passport.
MDC A wins court case as High Court orders govt to pay MDC Alliance within 7 days. The High court has provisionally ordered Justice MinisterZiyambi Ziyambi to pay the MDC Alliance led by Chamisa funds from the Political Party Finance Act within 7 days
Ziyambi has previously said parly will release the money to the Khupe led camp after the Supreme court judgement that declared Nelson Chamisa an illegitimate MDC leader.
263Chat|As the opposition MDC saga rages on, chairman of the Dr Thokozani Khupe led grouping has castigated MDC Alliance deputy presidents Tendai Biti and Professor Welshman Ncube saying they joined the Alliance for personal gains.
In an exclusive interview with 263Chat, MDC Senator for Midlands Morgan Komichi said Biti joined the Alliance for his personal convenience and gains.
This follows Biti’s remarks in which he criticized the recalling of four members of the MDC Alliance from parliament at the instigation.
“It is his own choice, he is free to say what he wants legal or illegal, wrong or right. He is doing it for his personal convenience he knows what he wants to achieve. He knows MDC Alliance is not a party. He did not dissolve PDP which still exists under Lucia Matibenga,” said Komichi.
He said it was only Welshman Ncube who dissolved his MDC party to join the main MDC-T but is trying to run away and is unprepared to engage.
“Actually it is Ncube who wrote a letter to dissolve his MDC party to join the MDC (T). He did not join the MDC alliance but he joined main MDC-T that is there on record. He is trying to run away, he is not prepared to engage because he has his own personal ambitions. Ncube knows MDC Alliance is not a party.
“He (Ncube) is trying to run away from the truth by telling lies. When people benefit from an illegal process they benefit something tangible in their lives. Unfortunately the Supreme Court and High Court judgments have nullified the benefits. Definitely they will appear unreasonable but when they are in their bedrooms and with friends they will be telling the truth that they have been thrown under the bus,” said Komichi
Komichi also dismissed allegations that he was being sponsored by Zanu PF to destroy the MDC saying he was a victim of the regime as he was jailed for declaring Chamisa the winner of 2018 elections.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the parole of selected categories of sentenced inmates as a measure to combat the spread of Covid-19 in prisons, which are considered high-risk areas for infection.
In a statement on Friday, the Presidency said the parole dispensation would apply to low-risk inmates who have already served their minimum sentence, or who would approach this period in the next five years.
Prisoners affected by this decision will not be pardoned or have their sentences remitted, instead, they will be placed on parole and will continue to serve their sentence under community corrections until they reach their respective sentence expiry dates.
“This dispensation excludes inmates sentenced to life imprisonment or serving terms for specified other serious crimes, including sexual offences, murder and attempted murder, gender-based violence and child abuse,” the statement reads.
The decision by the president could relieve correctional facilities of just under 19 000 inmates out of a population of 155 000, according to the Presidency.
The Presidency further explained that these parolees may be rearrested and ultimately reincarcerated if they violate their release conditions.
“The placement of qualifying sentenced offenders will take place over a 10-week period and will commence as soon as all Parole Board processes have been finalised and all relevant rehabilitation and pre-release programmes are attended.
“The President has taken this decision in terms of Section 82(1)(a) of the Correctional Services Act of 1998 which empowers the President to authorise at any time the placement on correctional supervision or parole of any sentenced prisoner, subject to conditions that may be recommended by the Correctional Supervision and Parole Board,” the statement reads.
Ramaphosa took this decision in response to a call by the United Nations to all countries to reduce prison populations so that social distancing and self-isolation conditions can be observed during this period.
“In South Africa, as in many other countries, correctional facilities have witnessed outbreaks of coronavirus infections among inmates and personnel.
“A number of countries across the world have already heeded the call by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and have released a number of offenders in detention.”
Justice Minister Ronald Lamola is expected to provide more details on the parole placement programme in a public briefing, the Presidency said.
As of 7 May, the Department of Correctional Services said there were 172 confirmed cases of Covid-19 at various prisons across the country.
Correctional centres in the Eastern Cape have been the worst affected, with 102 confirmed cases, most of which come from the East London prison where a number of officials and inmates tested positive for the virus.
In the midlands town of Corby in the United Kingdom stays a very happy family whose roots are from Zimbabwe.
They are a family of four boys oh including the father it’s five boys and one lady who is the mother. This is the Chiwuta family. This happy family which has meant to live for each other and survive for God is a Family with their culture deeply rooted in the Christian values. The mother is MRS Ruth Chiwuta commonly known as sister Ruth by her church family. Sister Ruth has always taken pride of being a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church family. She is a very active member of the church and has so much faith in the God of heavens. It is that God who has kept sister Ruth going.
Nothing on earth has prepared sister Ruth and her family of what was to come. Fate wraps surprises and the mystery covering the fate is indeed a mystery.
Life presents challenges and one wonders how do we move on to another day without faith. Faith is always tested not by food things happening to you but how you sail through the waves of the turmoil of life. Siter sister Ruth or VaChihera as she her brother calls her was jovial and hard working nurse. She had taken this virus seriously and took all precautions that were there to make sure she keeps this virus out of her family. Sister Ruth is naturally a smart person she has kept her home so neat that you would think she is always expecting a smartness inspection. One would think that CORONA will be ashamed to enter in such a home.
MR Chiwuta the father is in the frontline so as sister Ruth they have all taken precautions to make sure that they stay safe. But challenges are known to overlook all precautions you might be putting in place.
On the 27 the March 2020 the Chiwuta family was struck with very mild symptoms of the Corona Virus. So as an alert family already in the health sector and in the front line they quickly made haste to self quarantine. One of the boys Ra displayed symptoms without questioning the source a self quarantine was agreed. The Chiwuta family has always been a highly organised and disciplined family. So quarantine was reached on a family consensus. So Ra had reported feeling tightness of chest and temperature surges.
Everyone was fit and getting on at this point. As they got through the weekend, things gradually started to change. Each family member exhibited some flu like symptoms. Before the sail through to Monday sister Rue who is affectionately called by the husband as Mai Fari had started coughing. The cough became dry and painful. Mai Fari even though she is a nurse she does not like hospitals. But in this case she has to be referred to the local general hospital. Everybody puts his trust in the hands of the doctors. On arrival at the hospital She was examined by a certain doctor. The family had turned on a prayer mode. After some few examinations from a certain doctor she was sent back home. The doctor was being cautious and indeed he was alive to the fact that NHS must not be overburdened. A very heavy burden lay heavily on the Chiwuta family’s chests. Sister Ruth has not only been a carer of others but she was not a sickling. When she said she is sick she is indeed sick. So the doctor sent her home on the diligent assessment that if she remained in hospital she would contract the virus.
The family felt restless as the cough intensified through Thursday and Friday and by then she was running a feverish temperature. She also started losing oxygen saturation levels. On Sunday a terrifying thing happened her oxygen oxygen levels had dropped to the 60s. This prompted Mr Chiwuta to call 999. This time the family was gripped in fear and a sense of hopelessness took over. Mr Chiwuta dropped in a lump of a dejected father. Ruth has been his patner for a long time. They have been together through thick and thin. The possibility that Ruth might die drained all the power from the veins of Mr Chiuta. He saw no help at all he was hoping she would not meet the first doctor they met the last time she was kicked out of hospital.
He remembered one man who could help him. This man was Jesus Christ. Mr Chiwuta started praying. He knew that the boys were worried but as a father he did not want to break down He wanted to cry the situation was trrrifying. But Mr Chiwuta has never cried in front of his Children. He is a man who can say it will be well even if he doubts it. He mai rains the manly profile. He prayed as Mai Fari was being wheeled out of the house to the ambulance. Me Chiwuta remembers the harsh blue lights of the ambulance flashing on the road giving the edges of the street houses a blue colour. That became the lights of horror. No member of the family was allowed to escort the mother to hospital. There was to be no vista and anything was possible. To imagine that the scenario could be the last He saw my Fari made Mt Chiwuta sweat buckets. No relative is allowed to visit. The phone became the source of communication. and that’s how she ended up in hospital. Reports from hospital was coming through the phone call. Mr. Chiwuta and family has to rely on the phone calls from the hospital. It was strange how a mobile phone became very important in the Chiwuta family. Things just changed, gone were those days when the family crumbles around a TV to watch news. Now they gathered around a mobile phone to get daily progress reports from the hospital. The mobile phone became all of a sudden a very important gadget in the Chiwuta family. The first call came. The family was scared to answer it but it has to be answered. The nurse on the other side of the phone reported that they have found that she had developed pneumonia and was to be out under sedation and on oxygen therapy. That was to be her life for the next twenty eight days. We had to be given a a lot to call for feedback. The calls became inspirations and something which brings both hope and something to cling on to. Life was just something else it was had changes in a twinkling of an hour.
The church members called and offered prayers they had a live stream called zoom where The family could join the church in prayer for sister Ruth Mai Fari Chihera and other members who needed prayers. The prayers played wonders it gave Mr Chiuta hope. Hope to look forward to meet his wife again in a healthy stoop. While in the house the family will go for hours without food. Their thoughts were with Mai Fari. The sickness drew a lot of energy from the family.
Emotionally, it would appear the boys and Mr Chiwuta were driven by this macho thing where you don’t want to show your emotions that easily. Those stories we always tell our children. Man don’t cry but Mr Chiwuta cried in the heart but can not afford breaking down in front of the kids The biggest problem was the Chiwuta family are all in the health profession nurses and doctors within the family members. So they understood exactly that they can expect anything from this virus. It was a very scaring moment.
Every Chiwuta played a spy. Each one was watching the other for signs of breakdown so that they lift him. The Corby Seventh-day Adventist Church kept the family going. Elders and pastors kept the phone busy and prayers went up the heaven creating a ladder of Angels bringing the prayers up and blessings down covering both aspects covered with chains of miracles. It then turned out that everyone of us was secretly watching out for the next person on the pretext that they would crack under pressure.
There is also a sense of groundedness that each of the Chiwuta boys was driven by way they tend to look at situations in balance and are able to rationalise on the impact of possible outcomes. This boldness acted as some form of catharsis. This is why they were able to sustain themselves emotionally through out the predicament.
However, the prequel period just before the onset of recovery, there were two disclosures of how the the illness had become overbearing and the nascent worry of the possibility of mom being taken away from them.
Twenty eight days passed Mai Fari remained in hospital. One blessed day as usual the call came in. Mai Fari had opened her eyes for the first time. She opened her mouth too and expressed worry about her grand children. Such was Mai Fari. When everybody was worried about her health she was worrying about others. The enxiety of the situation healed the whole family which was in quarantine.
Through God’s Grace Mai Fari vaChihera has defied the odds. She was attacked by the Virus in her most vulnerable moment she surrendered her life in the hands of God. At the same time the family had nothing to offer they all knew very well that in a moment like this the best thing is to lift up one’s hands unto Jesus. The Chiuta experience has put the family closer to God. It has opened new lines of prayer. The Adventist’s caring and the the zoom worship way kept the faith alive.
On the 7th of May 2020 sister Ruth Chiwuta was discharged from hospital. People of all colour lined the street keeping the social distancing values as they clapped and sang in praise to God for the safe return of Sister Ruth Mai Far. VaChihera. The Corona virus is not a Joke. Many people in Mai Fari’s ward did not make it out. Mai Fari was not clever or wise in this situation. She was saved by the Grace of God. Mr Chiwuta said he was humbled by the amount of comfort he received. It was a hard time. You never see your loved one you do not feel like you are in the journey with her. She tugged alone surrounded by strangers in a time she needed her husband most. But in all this period God was there.
Government information officer Nick Mangwana Says that government is not going backwards on the banning of the sale of second hand clothing in the country.
This came after several informal sector organisation pleaded with government to reverse the ban.
Speaking in a Twitter post, Mangwana said government has always been against the sale of mabhero.
The law banning sale of second hand clothes will be strictly enforced to protect consumers from possible infections.
Daily News|POLICE last night stopped an attempt by a group of youths linked to an MDC faction aligned to Thokozani Khupe from taking over the party headquarters, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, in Harare, the Daily News can report.
This comes after Khupe’s faction enlisted the help of police to help her flush out violent gangs she claimed were encamped at the troubled opposition party headquarters.
Khupe is embroiled in a bitter battle to control the party with Nelson Chamisa, who leads another camp of the party following a Supreme Court ruling that dethroned the youthful leader as party president. The court adjudged that Chamisa had flouted the party constitution when he assumed leadership following the death of MDC founder Morgan Tsvangirai on February 14 2018.
Speaking to the Daily News last night, MDC Alliance secretary general Chalton Hwende said a group of youths came and attempted to enter the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, but the police had to intervene and calm the situation.
““A group of unruly youths came with the Supreme Court judgment court saying the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House now belongs to Douglas Mwonzora and his team, but before they try to do so the police arrived. I spoke with them, they said they came to see what was happening. The police boss was very understanding when I spoke to him. I told him anyone who wants to take over our headquarters must come with a court order. After we discussed the issue, they then left the place,” Hwende said.
ZBC|Confusion has rocked the MDC-led Victoria Falls Municipality after Councillors decided to elect a new Mayor despite the recent decision by the parent ministry to reinstate the former Mayor Somvelo Dlamini as ward 9 Councillor.
Barely a week after the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works informed the Victoria Falls Municipality of the reinstatement of former Mayor Somvelo Dlamini, the Victoria Falls Council on Thursday conducted elections which saw ward 5 Councilor Rich Mguni being voted the new Mayor of the resort town.
While acknowledging the decision by the parent Ministry to reinstate Dlamini, the Councillors say they had to conduct the elections on the basis that the former mayor sometime in March tendered a resignation letter.
The elections saw Mguni registering 6 votes while the other nominee Patricia Mwale secured 4 votes.
In his acceptance speech Councillor, Mguni pledged to contribute to the transformation of the resort town.
“I pledge to be at your service as we work together to develop smart Victoria Falls. I bring to you a leadership style that embraces equality and diversity, “he said
Meanwhile, Dlamini who did not attend the meeting has described the election as null and void. According to the recently reinstated Councillor, he has since resumed his duties as Mayor and dismissed suggestions that he had resigned. “As far as l am concerned l am still the Mayor of Victoria Falls and what l can tell you is what transpired today is a nullity and illegal move. I will carry on with my duties and pledge to serve the residents of this border town,” said Dlamini.
The MDC-T Secretary-General Douglas Mwonzora recently informed the parent ministry that the party had reversed Dlamini’s recall. The move prompted the Ministry to reverse the dismissal letter which was issued to Dlamini on the 25th of March. MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa had expelled Dlamini from the party and recalled him as Councilor for Ward 9. Following the court ruling which reinstated the MDC’s 2014 structures, the new leadership has taken a decision to reinstate all mayors who were fired by Chamisa.
THE Covid-19 pandemic has stalled progress regarding the extraterrestrial investigations into cases in which Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s estranged wife, Marry Mubaiwa, who is facing attempted murder and money laundering charges, the State has said.
In his application for further postponement of the two cases, prosecutor Progress Maringamoyo told the court that they wanted the matter to be set for July 31, 2020.
Harare magistrate regional court magistrate Mr Trainos Utahwashe postponed the matter to July 31 pending the investigations.
By Jane Mlambo| Former Zanu PF National Youth Commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu has warned opposition MDC rebels Douglas Mwonzora and Douglas Komichi against playing with the ruling party saying this could be their end.
Posting on Facebook, Tsenengamu wrote in riddles that;
“The goat that embarks on a journey to the mountains in the company of a hyena must leave a WILL before departure. Mwonzora & Co Beware,” said Tsenengamu.
Mwonzora and Midlands Senator Morgan Komichi recently joined hands with MDC-T leader Dr Thokozani Khupe to fight leadership battles from one corner against Nelson Chamisa and his group.
They recently won a Supreme Court appeal which ordered the MDC to go for an extra-ordinary congress to elect a new leader to replace the late Morgan Tsvangirai.
This was followed by a recall of four MDC Alliance legislators namely Charlton Hwende, Prosper Mutseyami, Lilian Timveos and Tabitha Khumalo.
Zimbabwe’s coronavirus frontline nurses have been paid a measly ZW$700 as allowances for working since the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic in the country two months ago.
The money is insignificant considering the risks the health caregivers are exposed to on a daily basis and also considering that the local currency is constantly losing value against other currencies.
The soaring inflation in the country is also worsening the plight of workers who say that their salaries are constantly being eroded. One of the nurses who spoke to The Zimbabwe Independent this week said:
We received the money two days later and we got ZW$700 plus our salary which was ZW$3 000. We are living in fear and anxiety. We took care of the late patients and have come into contact with other positive patients.
These times are really difficult, we have worked even during outbreaks of other diseases such as cholera, but this time it is difficult because we are not receiving monetary support.
Previously, we would get US$30 per day.
These paltry allowances are paid amid reports that nurses are resigning en masse from public health institutions over poor remuneration, extended working hours and potential exposure to coronavirus.-Zimbabwe Independent
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged Zimbabwe and the SADC region at large to be resolute and united in the wake of the deadly coronavirus saying that it shall pass.
He made the remarks in his twitter post which appreciated South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa for chairing the meeting of regional leaders on SADC’s response to the virus.
He said:
I would like to thank HE President @CyrilRamaphosa for chairing this morning’s important meeting between heads of state regarding the ongoing response to COVID-19. I wish the people of Zimbabwe, & the entire region, a blessed & healthy weekend. We will get through this together!
He speaks when the virus has rapidly spread in many African countries especially South Africa where the officially confirmed coronavirus cases have now surpassed the 8232 mark while confirmed dearths are at 161 as of May 08, 2020, 14:24 GMT.
Meanwhile, Zimbabwe has thirty-four confirmed cases including four deaths and nine recoveries. The virus has also worsened the economic and humanitarian crisis in the region and Zimbabwe in particular where the crisis was prevalent before the emergence of the virus.
SADC, in a bid to curb the virus, made a number of resolutions including the suspension of some of its meetings.
The German football association (DFL) has announced that the Bundesliga will resume on May 16 after a two-month break due to coronavirus lockdown.
The restart will see six games played on the opening Saturday, with derby between Borussia Dortmund and Schalke among them.
Bayern Munich will be in action the following day, as they take in a trip to Union Berlin.
The round of fixtures wrap-up on Monday with a match between Werder Bremen and Bayer Leverkusen.
The DFL also confirmed that the final matchday of the 2019-20 campaign is scheduled for the weekend of June 27-28.
Match-day 26 Fixtures:
Saturday 16 May B. Dortmund vs Schalke RB Leipzig vs Freiburg Hoffenheim vs Hertha Berlin Fortuna vs Paderborn Augsburg vs Wolfsburg Eintracht vs Gladbach
Sunday 17 May Köln – Mainz Union Berlin vs Bayern Munich
Monday 18 May: Werder Bremen vs Bayer Leverkusen- Soccer 24
Orlando Pirates have confirmed that Ben Motshwari has tested positive for COVID-19 (coronavirus) and is currently in-home isolation for the next 14 days.
The midfielder becomes the first known player in the South African PSL to contract the virus.
In a statement, Pirates said: “Orlando Pirates Football Club can confirm that Ben Motshwari has tested positive for COVID-19.
“Ben was presented with flu like symptoms last week and after undergoing tests, his results have come back positive.
“The player is asymptomatic and is currently in-home isolation for the next 14 days. He will need to test negative before he is cleared.
“In accordance with relevant protocols, NHI has been notified of the case by the Club.”
The South AFrican top-flight is currently on hold due to the outbreak, and no date has been set for the restart of the campaign.-Soccer 24
By A Correspondent- The RBZ order instructs Ecocash to freeze the agent lines of all traders whose transactions exceed $100 000 ZWL per month until certain KYC activities are completed.
The full statement from Ecocash on the issue:
Notice to Customers & Agents
EcoCash wishes to advise that we received a directive from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and the Financial Intelligence Unit of Zimbabwe to the effect that all Agents with transaction limits of over ZWL$100.000 per month should have their accounts frozen with immediate effect, except for.
This directive will impact Agent business operations as Agents will not have access to their float funds as well as liquidations. EcoCash was not consulted on this directive. We, therefore, did not provide any input into it. The directive will not only impact the affected Agents but also the transactions they do with over 53,000 other EcoCash Agents and consequently our 11 million customers countrywide who rely on the Agent network.
Agent-reliant transactions to be affected are;
Cash-in,
Cash-out,
Airtime sales,
Customer registrations,
Prepaid electricity sales,
Kindly note that all other EcoCash transactions are not affected by this directive. We will provide you with an update on any further developments. EcoCash
Former Germany international striker Miroslav Klose is the new assistant coach at Bayern Munich.
The 2014 World Cup winner signed a one-year contract with the Bavarians and will start work on July 1 as coach Hansi Flick’s first deputy.
Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said: “We are very happy that Miro decided to take the step from Bayern youth to the professionals.
“He is the most successful German striker of the past 15 to 20 years. I am convinced that our strikers in particular will benefit from him as a coach. Miro was also Hansi Flick’s preferred candidate.”
The 41-year old Klose who is the World Cup’s all time leading scorer was coaching Bayern’s Under-17 squad before his appointment in the first team.-Soccer 24
By A Correspondent| The MDC Alliance has successfully blocked the renegade, Thokozani Khupe and her protégé, Douglas Mwonzora from taking away their $7 million disbursement.
This came following a High Court verdict passed yesterday. Part of the ruling reads:
“The 1st and 2nd respondents be and are hereby interdicted, stopped and barred from disbursing the sum of $7 492 500.00 due to the applicant in terms of the Political Party Finance Act or any other amount thereof, to any party other than the MDC Alliance.”
Farai Dziva|Former Warriors and CAPS United speedy winger Alois Bunjira has declared his intentions to usher in a new football dispensation should he be given the chance to lead the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA).
Bunjira outlined his aspirations to contest in the next election, which will be held in 2022 and has unpacked some key issues in the local game he wishes to change.
”The passion to see Zimbabwean football developing much faster and seeing it return to glory days is my passion,” he told South African publication Daily Sun.
“To show the football world that football in Zimbabwe can be run smoothly and with integrity, without corruption and benefiting all stakeholders makes me believe I’m a good candidate for ZIFA presidency,” he said.
It is normal to feel sad, stressed, confused, scared or angry during a crisis. Talking to people you trust can help. Contact your friends and family.
If you must stay at home, maintain a healthy lifestyle – including proper diet, sleep, exercise and social contacts with loved ones at home and by email and phone with other family and friends.
Don’t use smoking, alcohol or other drugs to deal with your emotions. If you feel overwhelmed, talk to a health worker or counsellor. Have a plan, where to go to and how to seek help for physical and mental health needs if required.
Get the facts. Gather information that will help you accurately determine your risk so that you can take reasonable precautions. Find a credible source you can trust such as WHO website or, a local or state public health agency.
Limit worry and agitation by lessening the time you and your family spend watching or listening to media coverage that you perceive as upsetting.
Draw on skills you have used in the past that have helped you to manage previous life’s adversities and use those skills to help you manage your emotions during the challenging time of this outbreak.
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It is normal to feel sad, stressed, confused, scared or angry during a crisis. Talking to people you trust can help. Contact your friends and family.
If you must stay at home, maintain a healthy lifestyle – including proper diet, sleep, exercise and social contacts with loved ones at home and by email and phone with other family and friends.
Don’t use smoking, alcohol or other drugs to deal with your emotions. If you feel overwhelmed, talk to a health worker or counsellor. Have a plan, where to go to and how to seek help for physical and mental health needs if required.
Get the facts.
Gather information that will help you accurately determine your risk so that you can take reasonable precautions. Find a credible source you can trust such as WHO website or, a local or state public health agency.
Limit worry and agitation by lessening the time you and your family spend watching or listening to media coverage that you perceive as upsetting.
Draw on skills you have used in the past that have helped you to manage previous life’s adversities and use those skills to help you manage your emotions during the challenging time of this outbreak.
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By A Correspondent- Zimbabwe’s coronavirus frontline nurses have been paid a measly ZW$700 as allowances for working since the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic in the country two months ago.
The money is insignificant considering the risks the health caregivers are exposed to on a daily basis and also considering that the local currency is constantly losing value against other currencies.
The soaring inflation in the country is also worsening the plight of workers who say that their salaries are constantly being eroded. One of the nurses who spoke to The Zimbabwe Independent this week said:
We received the money two days later and we got ZW$700 plus our salary which was ZW$3 000. We are living in fear and anxiety. We took care of the late patients and have come into contact with other positive patients. These times are really difficult, we have worked even during outbreaks of other diseases such as cholera, but this time it is difficult because we are not receiving monetary support. Previously, we would get US$30 per day.
These paltry allowances are paid amid reports that nurses are resigning en masse from public health institutions over poor remuneration, extended working hours and potential exposure to coronavirus.-Independent
Farai Dziva|Reverend Themba Siwela of the United Methodist Church was a humble and dedicated leader, a Christian organization has said.
In a statement Prayer Network Zimbabwe described the late clergyman as a man who spent his life working for the spiritual growth of Christians across the country.
Read full statement below :
It is with a heavy heart that I announce the departure of one of our key pillars in the entire region.
The entire PNZ family has lost a teacher, preacher and dear Father Rev Themba Siwela who has gone to be with the Lord.
As Prayer Network Zimbabwe we worked very well with Rev Siwela.
He was helpful in organising PNZ meetings and Prayer sessions in Masvingo Province.
His desire to see a better Zimbabwe was overwhelming.
Indeed he fought a good fight… Rest in power.
May the Holy Spirit comfort us all in these perilous moments.
Democracy is under attack from a greedy, careless and merciless dictator who is desperate to hold on to power by creating a one party state.
Your party needs you Zimbabwe!
Emmerson Mnangagwa’s arrows of destruction and plunder are now directly pointed towards your vehicle of democracy, Movement for Democratic Change Alliance.
The enemy now wants to seize a symbol of your very existence.
A symbol of resistance to dictatorship, formerly Harvest House and now Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House is facing illegal seizure by the enemy.
Our headquarters is part of our history and he who has no history is doomed!
From destruction of the People’s Democratic Movement, Emmerson Mnangagwa will move to decimate the Civil Society and Independent Media.
The frontal attacks on MDC is more than ordinary. It is more than a mere attack on a popular political movement. It is a direct attack on the lifeblood of your freedoms and liberties- political, economic and social!
Emmerson Mnangagwa and cabal have no private ownership rights of our right to freedom.
Take charge young people of our motherland!
Your country needs you! Your party needs you! Democracy needs you!
Arise Youths, Arise!
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Farai Dziva|Former Zanu PF spindoctor Jonathan has warned Emmerson Mnangagwa that a major revolution is looming in Zimbabwe.
The former Information Minister accused the Zanu PF leader of using disgruntled elements in the MDC to destroy the popular movement.
” Four Zanu PF Boomerangs- History shall shine a spotlight on the sad fact that these are the four faces that Mnangagwa used to try to undo the electoral choices of the people for their representatives in Parliament but ended up throwing four boomerangs that hit Zanu PF!”
“Leaders and representatives are chosen by the people; not imposed by Mnangagwa, declared by Chief Justice Malaba, recalled by Speaker Mudenda or Senate President Chinomona, or withdrawn by @DMwonzora @DrThoko_Khupe The people decide and this time it is a revolution! ZanupfMustGo,” Moyo posted on Twitter.
The MDC Alliance national Disability Council of the MDC Alliance is totally dismayed over the recent illegal recall of four of our prominent legislators that was announced by the Speaker of Parliament on Tuesday the 5th of May.
Indeed, what was done does not come as a surprise to us because we understand that starting from the bizarre Supreme Court ruling which sought to de-legitimise our President Advocate Nelson Chamisa and hand our party to the terrible loser, Thokozani Kuphe; Zanu PF is now dangerously using state institutions such as the Parliament to fulfil its agenda of decimating the MDC Alliance as the People’s party.
And so to perform this nefarious task, Douglas Mwonzora and his cabal have sold their souls to the devil to become very useful tools in the hands of our evil oppressors.
As persons with disabilities, we have not forgotten the role which the affected legislators have played so far both in Parliament and in the People’s party at large, to ensure that Zimbabwe becomes a disability inclusive society.
We therefore, wish to express our full solidarity with all the affected legislators.
We also wish to reaffirm our support to the People’s party, the MDC Alliance and our leader, President Advocate Nelson Chamisa.
We take this opportunity to also reaffirm the fact that the MDC Alliance, as the People’s movement, is simply the only credible political party that can truly deliver a peaceful, prosperous and inclusive Zimbabwe in which our rights as person with disabilities will be fully provided, protected and promoted.
Further, we are also fully supportive of the resolution that was made by the National Standing Committee of disengaging all our MDC Alliance legislators from Parliament pending further consultations with both the relevant party structures and the public at large.
Famba Nero Famba. Tshisa Mpama Tshisa.
For and on behalf of the National Disability Council,
Dennias Mudzingwa Secretary for Disability and Special Needs MDC Alliance
Farai Dziva|Respected analyst Dr Pedzisai Ruhanya has pointed out that Emmerson Mnangagwa is using the current lockdown to close democratic space in country, gaining political ground in the process.
According to Ruhanya, Mnangagwa is using the lockdown to outfox his political rivals.
“They are using a disease, a world pandemic to lockdown democracy in Zimbabwe.
They think it’s a political strategy but it’s the uncivilized misrule that exposes Mnangagwa’s regime as authoritarian and allergic to reform.
Lies about new dispensation are unraveling,” argued Ruhanya.
Form No. 29C/Provisional Order/Rule 246 0277250 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ZIMBABWE CASE NO: HC 2199/20
HELD AT HARARE In the matter between:- MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE ALLIANCE (MDC ALLIANCE) APPLICANT And
MINISTER OF JUSTICE LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS RESPONDENT MINISTER OF FINANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 2nd RESPONDENT RESPONDENT PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE 3rd RESPONDENT PROVISIONAL ORDER
TO: THE RESPONDENTS TAKE NOTE that, on the 7th day of May 2020 the Honourable Mrs Justice Munangati-Manongwa sitting at Harare issued a provisional order.
The annexed Chamber application, affidavit/s and documents were issued in support of the application for this provisional order.
If you intend to oppose the confirmation of this provisional order, you will have to file a notice of Opposition in Form No. 29B, together with one or more opposing affidavit’s, with the Registrar, of the High Court at Harare within ten (10) days after the date of which this provisional order was served upon you.
You will also have to serve a copy of the Notice of Opposition and affidavits on the applicant at the address for service specified in the application.
If you do not file an opposing affidavit within the period specified above, this matter will be set down for hearing in the High Court at Harare without further notice to you and will be dealt with as an unopposed application for confirmation of the provisional order.
If you wish to have the provisional order changes or set aside sooner than the rules of Court normally allow and can show good cause for this, you should approach the applicant/applicant’s legal practitioner to agree, in consultation with the Registrar, on a suitable hearing date. If this cannot be agreed or there is a great urgency, you make a Chamber application, on notice to the applicant, for directions from a judge as to when the matter can be argued.
TERMS OF FINAL ORDER SOUGHT That you show cause to this Honourable Court why a final order should not be made in the following terms:- 1. It is ordered that:-
i. Within 7 days from the date of service of this order, the It respondent, shall pay into the applicant’s account number 1036938297 held A Steward Bank, All amounts due to the applicant in terms of the Political Parties Finance Act Chapter 2:11 in the sum of $7 492 500.00.
ii. 3rd and 2nd respondents shall pay cost of suit.
TERMS OF INTERIM RELIEF
The respondents be and are hereby interdicted, stopped and barred from disbursing the sum of $7 492 500.00 due to the applicant in terms of the Political Party Finance Act or any other amount thereof, to any party other than the MDC Alliance.
SERVICE OF THE ORDER That the applicant’s legal practitioners are given authority to serve the order by way of delivery to the respondent’s legal practitioners. BY THE JUDGE
Farai Dziva|Outspoken Masvingo based preacher, Isaac Makomichi insists dialogue will happen between rivals Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance president Advocate Nelson Chamisa despite the political turmoil in the country.
Last week Makomichi claimed he was ready to facilitate dialogue between the two leaders. Makomichi is the leader of Calvary Prayer Group and the president of Vulnerable Youth Support Network Trust.
Commenting on the political turmoil in the country Makomichi said:
The problem is that you are looking at it(political situation) from a natural viewpoint – yet I am seeing it from a spiritual perspective.
I have read about the battles in the opposition party, MDC and as I have always said, national unity is unavoidable.
Don’t worry about the storm in a cup of tea.
The two men, President Mnangagwa and Mr Nelson Chamisa and will find each other very soon.
You will be surprised because very soon things will start happening,” said Makomichi.
He added:”I have been praying for national unity and very soon I will invite President Mnangagwa and Mr Chamisa to my house for key discussions.Once that happens national unity shall be attained.”
Makomichi also claimed former Zanu PF Political Commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere would be part of vital nation building processes.
However, an MDC official ruled out possible dialogue with Zanu PF:
“Given the current political tension, I don’t see that happening.As things stand we will not interact with Zanu PF at any level or platform. The space for dialogue is not available at the moment.”
By A Correspondent- A Bulawayo man suspected to be part of a syndicate that is fraudulently selling people’s houses was found with 32 national identity cards which he is suspected to have been using to illegally process property sales.
Thulani Ncube is being charged with 70 counts of being found in possession of articles used to commit crime. Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube in an interview yesterday, said Ncube was assisting police in the Commercial Crimes Division with investigations as he had over 70 pending High Court applications involving a number of properties in the city.
“A man purporting to be Thulani Ncube around 40 years of age was arrested by police when he was found in possession of over 32 national identity documents belonging to various people who are property owners. This man was making some applications for houses. He would either obtain illegal identity documents, forge signatures and particulars in respect of the houses that he would target for sale to unsuspecting home seekers,” said Inspector Ncube.
Thulani Ncube Ncube would allegedly approach the High Court for eviction orders so that he would make occupants vacate premises that he would have earmarked for sale. He targeted properties whose owners are in the diaspora, especially where tenants do not know the owner of the house and rental payments are made to relatives or put in bank accounts.
“He would make applications to the High Court and pay fees of up to $50 so that he gets the application to evict the occupants of the houses. He has since been arrested and is assisting police with investigations. We are calling upon members of the public to come to CID Commercial Crimes Division to check on those IDs and if ever you see one that is yours, we work on the issues,” Inspector Ncube said.
“This also goes to property owners as there are a number of properties that have been listed as having been sold by fictitious people who do not even exist. They use stolen IDs to process the transactions.”
Inspector Ncube said the Commercial Crimes Division was looking into how Ncube may have been acquiring the IDs after noticing that most of them looked new.
“We are still investing how he actually got those IDs because some look fairly new, indicating that he may be writing some affidavits or obtaining in his own name some of the IDs, and is targeting only those who own properties that he envies. Investigations are in progress,” said Inspector Ncube.
An online search showed the suspect uses the name Thulani Ncube on Facebook. There was only one picture and very few posts.-StateMedia
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa, on Friday, held a follow-up Virtual Summit of Select SADC countries, chaired by South Africa’s President Ramaphosa.
According to Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba the virtual Summit is meant to enable neighbouring or geographically contiguous States to share experiences in fighting Coronavirus global pandemic. Zimbabwe has recorded 34 cases and suffered 4 deaths since the outbreak and has gone for a full week without new cases, pointing to effective interventions.
“The President highlighted measures Zimbabwe has taken to contain the pandemic,” Charamba said.
“Further, the President urged his colleagues in the region to exhaust consular services offered by reciprocal diplomatic missions before resorting to expulsions or deportations of each other’s citizens. The President thanked the world community for calling for an end to illegal sanctions whose impact has been compounded by repeated droughts and a Cyclone.
“The President urged his peers to think beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic by focusing on sub-regional recovery. He suggested consultations at the level of ministers of Industries and Central Bank Governors.”
By A Correspondent- Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba says the decision by the main MDC faction led by Advocate Nelson Chamisa to withdraw its members from parliament was disenfranchising the voters who mandated the MPs to lead them.
Charamba said, “What is the effect on constituencies of an MP withdrawing from parliamentary processes? Doesn’t that disenfranchise the concerned constituency, thus breaking the explicit contract between a voter and his MP?”
MDC announced that its members will boycott any platform that makes them interact with ZANU PF. The statement was delivered on Thursday by Job Sikhala.
Read Charamba’s response below:
DECISION BY CHAMISA AND TEAM raises quite some interesting issues of party constitutionality and general propriety. Do you suspend involvement in parliamentary business and then consult?? And if you have that latitude – and legal basis of it has to be established – why not go the whole hog and then consult on a substantive decision, namely disengaging wholly?
Secondly and more fundamentally, is an MP’s availability for parliamentary business/role a matter for a political party and its members?? Or is he bound by wishes of all who reside in a constituency to whom he offers surrogate presence in Parliament, itself a National – not Party – Institution??
In other words, are MPs in Parliament for themselves and their parties, or for whole constituencies regardless of individual political membership of constitutive electorate?? What is the effect on constituencies of an MP withdrawing from parliamentary processes? Doesn’t that disenfranchise the concerned constituency, thus breaking the explicit contract between a voter and his MP?
If so, what recourse does a voter have, singly and in concert with fellow voters registered under, and residing in a constituency??
Does that not provide a sound legal basis for class action well before we even wait or parliamentary rules sanctioning such (mis)conduct?? Should such a case be brought before a competent court, what are its chances??
Assuming there are good chances – and that’s my hunch – would an MP go by his/her party’s wishes, or submit to court decision? Will courts be (mis)construed as interfering with affairs of a voluntary organisation? Just a thought!!! Ndini hangu
By A Correspondent- Registrar General Clement Masango, who was arrested on Wednesday for criminal abuse of office, spent another night in custody as the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) was still recording statements.
Masango, according to ZACC, is accused of flouting tender procedures in procuring five Government vehicles.
He is also accused of taking seven other Government vehicles to his farm.
ZACC spokesperson Commissioner John Makamure said Masango was expected to appear in court today.
“He will appear in court tomorrow (today) in the morning. Today we needed to record statements from other witnesses,” Comm Makamure said.
Makamure said Masango was facing two counts of criminal abuse of office.
He said the Registrar-General is accused of procuring five vehicles without following laid down tender procedures and also faces another count of taking seven Government vehicles to his farm.
Last week, Masango clashed with the chief accountant in his office, Mr Peter Bwanya, who accused him of abuse of office.
IN THE HIGH COURT OF ZIMBABWE CASE NO: HC 2199/20 HELD AT HARARE
In the matter between:- MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE ALLIANCE (MDC ALLIANCE) APPLICANT And MINISTER OF JUSTICE LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS RESPONDENT MINISTER OF FINANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
2nd RESPONDENT RESPONDENT PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE
3rd RESPONDENT PROVISIONAL ORDER TO: THE RESPONDENTS TAKE NOTE that, on the 7th day of May 2020 the Honourable Mrs Justice Munangati-Manongwa sitting at Harare issued a provisional order.
The annexed Chamber application, affidavit/s and documents were issued in support of the application for this provisional order.
If you intend to oppose the confirmation of this provisional order, you will have to file a notice of Opposition in Form No. 29B, together with one or more opposing affidavit’s, with the Registrar, of the High Court at Harare within ten (10) days after the date of which this provisional order was served upon you.
You will also have to serve a copy of the Notice of Opposition and affidavits on the applicant at the address for service specified in the application. If you do not file an opposing affidavit within the period specified above, this matter will be set down for hearing in the High Court at Harare without further notice to you and will be dealt with as an unopposed application for confirmation of the provisional order.
If you wish to have the provisional order changes or set aside sooner than the rules of Court normally allow and can show good cause for this, you should approach the applicant/applicant’s legal practitioner to agree, in consultation with the Registrar, on a suitable hearing date. If this cannot be agreed or there is a great urgency, you make a Chamber application, on notice to the applicant, for directions from a judge as to when the matter can be argued.
TERMS OF FINAL ORDER SOUGHT
That you show cause to this Honourable Court why a final order should not be made in the following terms:- 1. It is ordered that:- i. Within 7 days from the date of service of this order, the It respondent, shall pay into the applicant’s account number 1036938297 held A Steward Bank, Al amounts due to the applicant in terms of the Political Parties Finance Act Chapter 2:11 in the sum of $7 492 500.00. ii. 3rd and 2nd respondents shall pay cost of suit.
TERMS OF INTERIM RELIEF
The and 2nd respondents be and are hereby interdicted, stopped and barred from disbursing the sum of $7 492 500.00 due to the applicant in terms of the Political Party Finance Act or any other amount thereof, to any party other than the MDC Alliance.
SERVICE OF THE ORDER
That the applicant’s legal practitioners are given authority to serve the order by way of delivery to the respondent’s legal practitioners.
BY THE JUDGE
The ministers of justice and finance have been barred by a court from disbursing Z$7.5 million due to the MDC Alliance under the Political Parties (Finances) Act as a battle for the party’s leadership intensifies.
Justice Munangati-Manongwa on Friday granted an interim order sought by the MDC Alliance blocking the disbursement of the money to a faction led by Thokozani Khupe, which has staked a claim for the leadership of the party.
“The 1st (justice minister) and 2nd (finance minister) respondents be and are hereby interdicted, stopped and barred from disbursing the sum of $7,492,500 due to the applicant in terms of the Political Parties (Finance) Act or any other amount thereof, to any party other than the MDC Alliance,” the order said.
The MDC Alliance – which is owed the money based on its share of the vote from the July 2018 elections – is seeking a final order compelling Justice Minister Ziyambo Ziyambi to pay the amount into its account.
Khupe stood in the last election representing the MDC-T party, polling just over 45,000 votes while Nelson Chamisa, who led the MDC Alliance, polled over 2.1 million votes, according to official election results.
The Supreme Court however ruled at the end of March this year that Nelson Chamisa’s assumption of the leadership of what was then known as the MDC-T party in February 2018, upon the death of founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai, was irregular.
Tsvangirai had broken the party constitution by elevating Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri to be his deputies in a triumvirate with Khupe, which positioned Chamisa within striking distance of the leadership upon the leader’s death, the court added.
The court ordered an extra-ordinary congress to be held within three months to elect a new leadership, while restoring the party leadership that was in position at the time of Tsvangirai’s death.
Khupe, whose party got two MPs, has now claimed leadership of the MDC Alliance which took part in the last election, despite entering the election as MDC-T leader herself.
MDC Alliance lawyers say the Supreme Court ruling was moot and therefore unenforceable.
Comparing the case to that of a man who seeks promotion at his workplace but dies before a court eventually rules in his favour, Chamisa’s lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu said:
“That judgment will not be worth the paper it is written on not because the authority of the court is being disdained, but because the court speaks to an impossibility. It speaks to the past as though it spoke to the present. The proverbial horse has bolted. The company no longer has anyone to promote even with all the will in the world.
By A Correspondent- Councils will continue demolishing illegal structures across towns and cities after they were given the green light to do so by the government.
This was after residents and some informal traders unions approached the court in a bid to stop the local government from demolishing illegal structures.
A circular seen by the state media addressed to all councils and town clerks read in part:
The court in its final determination ordered that the Circular Minute Number 3 of 2020 is legal and the clean-ups and renovations of Small and Medium Enterprises and informal traders’ workspaces by local authorities should proceed.
However, residents that took the local government to court raised a red flag against the circular and said:
The circular is misleading. The court order never said the circular was lawful. The lawfulness of the circular has not yet been decided. We got a consent order stopping the demolitions as they are un-procedural so as residents we stick to that
Councils were directed by the local government to take advantage of the lockdown and destroy all roadside vending stalls and illegal structures.
By Vivid Gwede| Debate on the recent Supreme Court Judgement and the aftermath has focused on what has been painted out as the internal power dynamics within a fractious MDC party, but there is a bigger historical frame in which the story unfolds.
The State therefore has been taking more than just a keen interest in the matter.
Flogging Dead Horse
The decisions by the Supreme Court and Parliament have been given a purely legal credence (itself a single, even contestable factor), overlooking the political absurdity of imposing a minority’s will.
Whatever temporal and out-dated leadership rights the courts thought had defaulted to Khupe in February 2018 (by accident of a death in the party) were clearly vetoed by the MDC membership, the ultimate arbiter in that institution, in the 2018 harmonised elections and the Gweru congress.
To countermand the MDC majority’s will and revive that temporal mandate for Khupe’s succour serves no present justice for the thousands of party faithful, except expired legal compliance and political imposition.
Given the obvious and foreseeable reality the case would be overtaken by events in light of the 2018 harmonised elections and the scheduled Gweru congress in October 2019, the case should have been heard urgently.
In fact, the aggrieved parties should have approached the courts as soon as they felt their rights were being violated with the appointment of the two vice-presidents, Mudzuri and Chamisa.
This would have ensured that a mass organisation was not held at ransom and inconvenienced in an attempt to secure the rights of the aggrieved individuals.
One Party State’s Ghost
The bigger frame is that the ruling Zanu-PF party has always been inconsolable about the fact that the one-party state it openly craved for post-independence has never materialised in the past 40 years.
Not only that, the trepidations that Zanu-PF always harboured about multi-party politics vis the emergence of a vibrant opposition party capable enough of up-staging it and eventually assuming power, may have been realized with the emergence of the MDC in September 1999.
In the early years of independence, Zanu-PF had worked hard to subdue PF Zapu and with the inking of the Unity Accord in December 1987, the dream “to establish one-party state in Zimbabwe” as point 6 of the Accord stated, appeared on the horizon.
But frustrated the dream was by the rise of radical student unionism, the transformation of the labour movement towards greater and critical independence, the pro-democracy skirmish of Edgar Tekere’s Zimbabwe Unity Movement (ZUM), and the global fall of the Berlin Wall/Cold War order in 1989.
But if a de jure one-party state could not be achieved, Zanu-PF has thereafter sought to establish a de facto one-party state, though with every other election the risk remains of the opposition calling its bluff as happened in March 2008.
The Same Mouth
MDC’s founding president Morgan Tsvangirai’s death in February 2018 had thus appeared to give Zanu-PF a new opportunity of revitalising its dream by dividing the opposition, thus destroying and removing the only biggest obstacle to its power for the foreseeable future.
Yet, perhaps sensing his own clock, Tsvangirai had already set out on a plan before his death to revitalise the MDC’s democracy project through the MDC Alliance.
In 2020, Zanu-PF therefore is not anywhere nearer to achieving its objective of a supine hegemony, which has always been its dream end-state to the nationalist project.
This is because in the year 2000’s general elections a new political fact was born – unmistakably characterised by competitive politics, though on an authoritarian canvas, but a new politics, nonetheless.
To highlight this, for the past 20 years, Zanu-PF has never been the governing party across Zimbabwe’s towns, thus being forced to maintain a tenuous existence as a rural party.
This was once again confirmed in the 2018 elections.
To quote Mark Ashurst and Gugulethu Moyo in The Day After Mugabe : “Zimbabwe’s ruling elite will remain a feature of the political landscape after Mugabe, but its near-monopoly of ideas and aspiration is irretrievably gone.”
Zanu-PF may not like the MDC, but as the saying goes, the tongue and the teeth may argue but will have to stay in the same mouth.
Inexorable march of history
History is a giant that marches on despite the feeble protest of its subjects. The present-day fighter for democracy in Zimbabwe may therefore tell his black oppressor, ironically just as liberation fighter Hebert Chitepo did to his white oppressor’s attempts to frustrate the independence movement, that, “None of these schemes and devices will turn back the clock.”
In that remarkable essay, The Passing of Tribal Man: A Rhodesian View , Chitepo proclaimed: “There is a new force at work, a new vision and a new imperative.
“The people see a new hope and a new society in front of them. “They have embraced it and they will inexorably follow the vision to its end.”
Back then, Chitepo saw Africans embracing a new sense of nationalism. Zimbabweans see today the new vision and imperative of the passing of the monolithic politics of the one-party state style in Africa toward the future of multi-party democracy.
That Zimbabwe is a multiparty state, in 2020, albeit a stuttering one, indeed is water under the bridge and there is no point in an “attempt, like Canute, to order back to the sea the advancing tide…,” like as now being attempted, again to quote Chitepo.
What Zimbabweans now see, of course with much resistance and difficulties, but probably inexorably, is the rather natural displacement of “the dictatorial man” as an uncontested feature of African politics, with the yet slow but sure tide of history.
Dictatorial man being those oppressive tendencies, which though temporarily impervious to reform, are slowly losing grip, expiring and receding out of fashion in the new African – indeed Zimbabwean – citizen’s political consciousness
By A Correspondent| The MDC Alliance has successfully blocked the renegade, Thokozani Khupe from, taking away their 7 million disbursement.
This came following a High Court verdict passed yesterday. Part of the ruling reads:
“The 1st and 2nd respondents be and are hereby interdicted, stopped and barred from disbursing the sum of $7 492 500.00 due to the applicant in terms of the Political Party Finance Act or any other amount thereof, to any party other than the MDC Alliance.”
By A Correspondent- The ministers of justice and finance have been barred by a court from disbursing Z$7.5 million due to the MDC Alliance under the Political Parties (Finances) Act as a battle for the party’s leadership intensifies.
Justice Munangati-Manongwa on Friday granted an interim order sought by the MDC Alliance blocking the disbursement of the money to a faction led by Thokozani Khupe, which has staked a claim for the leadership of the party.
“The 1st (justice minister) and 2nd (finance minister) respondents be and are hereby interdicted, stopped and barred from disbursing the sum of $7,492,500 due to the applicant in terms of the Political Parties (Finance) Act or any other amount thereof, to any party other than the MDC Alliance,” the order said.
The MDC Alliance – which is owed the money based on its share of the vote from the July 2018 elections – is seeking a final order compelling Justice Minister Ziyambo Ziyambi to pay the amount into its account.
Khupe stood in the last election representing the MDC-T party, polling just over 45,000 votes while Nelson Chamisa, who led the MDC Alliance, polled over 2.1 million votes, according to official election results.
The Supreme Court however ruled at the end of March this year that Nelson Chamisa’s assumption of the leadership of what was then known as the MDC-T party in February 2018, upon the death of founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai, was irregular.
Tsvangirai had broken the party constitution by elevating Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri to be his deputies in a triumvirate with Khupe, which positioned Chamisa within striking distance of the leadership upon the leader’s death, the court added.
The court ordered an extra-ordinary congress to be held within three months to elect a new leadership, while restoring the party leadership that was in position at the time of Tsvangirai’s death.
Khupe, whose party got two MPs, has now claimed leadership of the MDC Alliance which took part in the last election, despite entering the election as MDC-T leader herself.
MDC Alliance lawyers say the Supreme Court ruling was moot and therefore unenforceable.
Comparing the case to that of a man who seeks promotion at his workplace but dies before a court eventually rules in his favour, Chamisa’s lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu said:
“That judgment will not be worth the paper it is written on not because the authority of the court is being disdained, but because the court speaks to an impossibility. It speaks to the past as though it spoke to the present. The proverbial horse has bolted. The company no longer has anyone to promote even with all the will in the world.”
By A Correspondent- Losing candidate in the 2018 Presidential elections, ZESA employee Engineer Tendai Peter Munyanduri, has addressed recent media reports that he suffered a mental breakdown at his workplace in Chinhoyi and ended up flaunting his manhood to female workmates.
The ZESA employee campaigned in the 2018 elections by promising to give Zimbabweans bacon, eggs, milk and honey if they elected him President.
He was one of the 23 Presidential candidates which included President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Nelson Chamisa, Thokozani Khupe, Joice Mujuru, Nkosana Moyo, among others.
Reports say Munyanduri was admitted at Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital psychiatric unit after the incident at the ZESA depot in the same town, at which he allegedly revealed his manhood to shocked fellow members of staff.
“I want to set the record straight. I never did that. The reports are a mere fabrication by my political enemies. It is the work of people who want to destroy my political career.
“There are people who see me as a threat politically. They are trying all they can to bring me down,” Munyanduri told a local tabloid while at his home in Kadoma.
Engineer Munyanduri is reportedly in a spirited campaign for the 2023 elections already, and addresses people at supermarket and bank queues in small towns in Mashonaland West province, telling them he was a whizkid at school and will ensure they have milk, honey and bacon if they vote him into State House.
An engineer by training, Nyanduri says he was a brilliant school kid since Grade One.
“I was in first position in class all the way from Grade One up to Grade Seven. I had the highest pass at O-Level and the highest points at A-Level.
“I earned a scholarship from Harare Municipality and went on to shine at university,” Engineer Munyanduri tells people at the queues as he goes about his preparations for the 2023 elections.
He claims that when he started working for ZESA, Kadoma had only 7,000 households with electricity. He managed to quadruple that number, he says.
He also says he has worked for big banks and on big government contracts before eventually settling at the ZESA subsidiary, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), in Mashonaland West region.
In his election campaign message, he had also promised to appoint only two Government ministries, declared that former Vice President Joice Mujuru and MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa were incapable of running the nation.
Munyanduri who works at the Chinhoyi Megawatt offices, is alleged to have suffered a mental breakdown while at work early March this year.
Some male workers, the source said, quickly moved in to cover him and took him to Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital where he is admitted at the psychiatric ward
Parliament will invoke the Constitution and Standing Orders to deal decisively with MDC-Alliance legislators who fail to attend sittings without reasonable cause, a Cabinet minister has said.
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said Parliament would not deal with political parties, but individual legislators, should they fail to attend sittings and portfolio committee meetings.
At least four MPs were expelled from the chamber this week after MDC-T secretary-general, Mr Douglas Mwonzora wrote to Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda saying they were no longer representing the interests of the party.
The four were Mr Charlton Hwende (Kuwadzana East), Prosper Mutseyami (Chikanga-Dangamvura), Tabitha Khumalo (Proportionate Representative) and Midlands Senator Lilian Timveous.
Minister Ziyambi’s remarks followed an announcement yesterday by the MDC-Alliance directing its Members of Parliament to “disengage” from the House.
The directive has since set the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC-Alliance on a collision course with its legislators who are weighing their options on whether or not to heed the decision given that they risk forfeiting the financial benefits that go with the office.
“As Parliament, we do not deal with political parties, but individual MPs when it comes to attendance of sittings and portfolio committee meetings. If a Member of Parliament fails to attend Parliament sittings and portfolio committee meetings the due process will be instituted,” said Minister Ziyambi who is also Leader of Government Business of House.
He said their failure to attend Parliament would not disrupt Parliamentary business given that Zanu PF has a two thirds majority.
Addressing journalists yesterday, MDC-Alliance deputy national chairperson, Mr Job Sikhala said the party’s national standing committee had resolved not to participate in all activities of Parliament by its legislators pending further consultation with a view to withdraw from the august House.
He said the party will not countenance the wishes of individual MPs such as their financial benefits like vehicles and salary.
“This is in the interest of the people and not the interest of individuals,” said Mr Sikhala.
“All MDC-Alliance MPs will forthwith suspend all participation in Parliament and disengage from all platforms in which the party has to interact with Zanu PF pending consultations with the relevant constituencies of the party, that is the electorate and Zimbabweans at large on the decision for a total withdrawal from Parliament.”
Mr Sikhala said Messrs Elias Mudzuri, Morgan Komichi and Mwonzora had “expelled themselves” from the party for working with MDC-T leader Dr Thokozani Khupe who was recently declared legitimate leader of the opposition party by the Supreme Court.
However, Mr Mudzuri dismissed the purported expulsion saying he could not be fired from Parliament by a non-existent political party.
“Ncube fired Tsvangirai (2005), but the party remained; Biti (2014) did the same but left the party intact. Today (2020), Sikhala fires us, but still the party shall remain. Let’s go for the extraordinary congress,” said Mr Mudzuri on his Twitter handle @EngMudzuri.
Adv Mudenda said he could only comment if the MDC-Alliance had put their concerns in writing.
“They have not yet communicated that to me. In the absence of such communication I cannot comment,” said Adv Mudenda.
The decision to direct legislators from the MDC-Alliance has riled most of them as they risk losing sitting allowances, vehicle and other benefits all legislators are entitled.
Besides risking losing financial benefits, the legislators also face expulsion from Parliament should Mr Mwonzora further wield the axe on errant MPs.
By Jane Mlambo| Opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has told his supporters to bear the tough times his movement is going through with the hope that it will translate to tears of joy.
Posting on Twitter, Chamisa whose party lost four legislators early this week after they were recalled by a rival grouping led by Thokozani Khupe said a breakthrough is always preceded by the hardest point.
“Hello Zimbabwe..I’m prompted to remind you that the darkest hour is before dawn.A breakthrough is often preceded by the hardest point.Our tears of sorrow shall soon be tears of joy.Good people always defeat the bad &evil ones.Cease your weeping..Dare mighty things, be legendary!,” said Chamisa.
Soon after the recall of his four legislators namely Prosper Mutseyami, Tabitha Khumalo, Charlton Hwende and Lilian Timveos, Chamisa warned the regime that he was fed up with their machinations.
His party later announced that it had disengaged its legislators from any parliamentary business as a protest against the abuse of state institutions and privileges by the ruling Zanu PF.
By A Correspondent- Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane who is alleged to be involved in the 2017 murder of his estranged wife yesterday reportedly reiterated he would step down by the 31st of July or sooner on grounds of “old age”.
In announcing his decision Thabane said;
I wish to once again reaffirm my decision to retire as prime minister.
I have always been consistent that it is my wish to retire from office by the 31st of July, 2020, or earlier… if all the necessary conditions for my retirement are put in place.
The government and the political party that I lead will coordinate the process of my retirement
Thabane who said his resignation is voluntary, risk getting prosecuted for his alleged involvement in the murder that made the opposition and the ruling party put pressure on Thabane to step down as the murder case hovered over his presidency.-statemedia
