Farai Dziva|MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has urged Zimbabweans to remain vigilant as the struggle for real change reaches the twilight zone.

Said Chamisa:

“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 and evil ones.Cease your weeping..

Dare mighty things and be legendary!Stand up, Man up!!We shall soon overcome and celebrate.

By God’s Grace, we will get there.We are getting there! Mark my words! Be strong and be blessed this day”

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imposed by Mnangagwa, declared by Chief Justice Malaba, recalled by Speaker Mudenda or Senate President Chinomona, or withdrawn by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|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.

VIDEO LOADING BELOW….

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

— ZimEye (@ZimEye) May 8, 2020

– ORIGINAL ARTICLE –

Terrorists in Mozambique Investigated.

• Fake Pictures.
• Fake Mission.
• Strong Obsession On Zimbabwe, beginning to end
• Fake President.
• Fake SADC,
• 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 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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

John P Mangudya Governor 8 May 2020

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.”

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.

The matter was remanded to June 4.

MDC A wins court case as High Court orders govt to pay MDC Alliance within 7 days. The High court has provisionally ordered Justice Minister Ziyambi 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

– Banking Institutions

– Bureaux de change

– Listed Companies (Zimbabwe Stock Exchange Listed Companies)

– International Organisations

– Microfinance Institutions

– Government and Quasi-government Institutions

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

Cassava Smartech

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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|MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has urged Zimbabweans to remain vigilant as the struggle for real change reaches the twilight zone.

Said Chamisa:

“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 and evil ones.Cease your weeping..

Dare mighty things and be legendary!Stand up, Man up!!We shall soon overcome and celebrate.

By God’s Grace, we will get there.We are getting there! Mark my words! Be strong and be blessed this day”

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|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.

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, 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 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 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.”

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.

-State Media

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

By A Correspondent- A taxi driver from Victoria Falls who fled to Botswana after being sentenced to one year imprisonment for draining fuel from two vehicles to refuel his taxi, was arrested soon after release from a local quarantine centre.

Prosper Dziwanyika (32) of 4460 Chinotimba was arrested on Saturday soon after his release from Mosi-oa-Tunya High School quarantine centre where he had been isolated for 21 days following his deportation with other returning citizens.

Dziwanyika fled to Botswana in February this year after being sentenced to 12 months for a case of malicious damage to property and another of theft on January 24. The court suspended three months from the total sentence on condition he did not commit similar offences within five years.

A further seven months was suspended on condition that he performed 245 hours of community service at ZRP Victoria Falls Canine Section which he started on January 27.

The other two months had been suspended on condition that Dziwanyika restituted nearly $2 000 to the complainant Mr Lovemore Ndlovu.

The restitution was the cost of two petrol pipes he cut from two vehicles and was to be paid before January 31. Dziwanyika fled to Botswana before completing the community service or paying the restitution.

He was one of the Zimbabweans who were deported from Botswana early last month and quarantined in Victoria Falls.

Dziwanyika appeared before Victoria Falls magistrate Ms Lindiwe Maphosa for default inquiry. The magistrate brought into effect the whole sentence of 12 months after the court established that he had willfully defaulted both community service and restitution. The court was told that Dziwanyika last performed community service on February 4.

“I went to Botswana in April after asking for time to go and bury my grandmother,” said Dziwanyika when asked why he defaulted.

Prosecuting, Mr Jacob Kuzipa said Dziwanyika cut fuel pipes from Mr Ndlovu’s two vehicles and drained 40 litres of petrol on January 14. The vehicles were parked in front of Mr Ndlovu’s house.

“The complainant discovered the offence next day and reported the matter to the police. Investigations led to the arrest of the Dziwanyika and recovery of 20 litres which was in the taxi he was driving,” said the source.-statemedia

By A Correspondent- Advocate Thabani Mpofu has unpacked the various misconceptions and analysis regarding the Supreme Court ruling which nullified the presidency of opposition leader Nelson Chamisa.

We publish below the full text by Advocate Mpofu:

Various dishonest, insincere not to mention incompetent opinions have been bandied about in the aftermath of the Supreme Court judgment handed down during the lockdown. The matter has been approached with more haste than wisdom.

It is important that I deal, in part, with the anti Chamisa drivel, packaged as legal opinions, to which the public has been exposed. I will for purposes of this piece take those opinions at their highest and will show why they cannot possibly be correct. In many other respects, I will keep my powder dry for bigger game.

It has been suggested that the judgment of the Supreme Court affects President Chamisa’s position as leader of the MDC-Alliance in that it affects what are said to be processes of the MDC-T. This is utter rubbish!!

Ridiculousness unlocked

Let me enlist the aid of an example showing how ridiculous the proposition is. Suppose Mr Zorewa is employed by Fisheries (Private) Limited. Let us suppose further that a dispute erupts between him and his employer; his rejected position being that he is entitled to a promotion.

Let us also suppose that the dispute spills into courts; the matter is argued and judgment reserved. Let us finally suppose that during the intervening period Mr Zorewa dies, though the judgment comes out a few weeks after his death and is in his favour.

The judgment says Mr Zorewa “is” entitled to his promotion and given that the court is not dealing with the intervening circumstances of his death, simply orders that Fisheries (Private) Limited must elevate Zorewa, prepare fresh office space for him consistent with the new car he will drive and change his pay grade.

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. Neither can the company promote Mr Zorewa’s wife in his stead. There is no longer a concrete controversy to be arrested by the judgment in its operation. There is nothing on which it can take effect.

The Congress processes

Now when the High Court ordered the holding of an Extra-Ordinary Congress, the quintennial MDC congress had already become due. The judgment of the High Court was appealed, its effect suspended and Congress resultantly held. As it was entitled to do, the MDC passed certain resolutions by which it:

1 Formally adopted the position that Khupe and company had left the party in the first instance by reason of their dismissal therefrom, which dismissal has still not been challenged and also by reason of them having formed a rival political outfit.

Whilst noting the judgment of the High Court which was on appeal, ratified all decisions taken by Dr Morgan Tsvangirai in the appointment of additional Vice Presidents. At law, Congress could ratify even an unlawful decision.

Ratified the election of President Chamisa, by the highest decision making organ outside parliament as well as ratifying the decisions made by him as the leader of the party.

I must state in this regard that the processes by which President Chamisa was elected leader of the party were not chaired by him but by the National Chairman, Komichi.

President Chamisa was validly elected by the highest decision making organ outside congress and the finding to the contrary in the judgment of the High Court was queried by the Supreme Court and necessarily vacated.

Ratified the process by which Congress was convened. This was done for good measure. It is important to point out that Congress was not convened by President Chamisa.

Dispensed with the need for an Extra-Ordinary Congress having noted that its demands and more, had been satisfied by the Gweru Congress. In addition, its demands had been satisfied by time, the quintennial congress having already become due.

The point must be made that voluntary associations are subject to the rule of the majority. The majority has the power to even condone a breach of the constitution or to ratify any action taken outside the law.

It does not matter when this power is exercised by the majority so long as such majority is gathered at a properly convened congress.

What is key is that in this case, the power was exercised by unanimous assent. President Chamisa was elected and the legitimacy question properly buried.

All the decisions set out in paragraphs above were lawfully made and have not been challenged before any court of law.

By A Correspondent- A 70-year-old grandpa has appeared in a Beitbridge court for allegedly fatally stabbing his suspected lover who was married to his friend and neighbour.

Juta Makoni of Chabeta village under headman Siyoka is said to have ripped open the abdomen of his victim Salfina Ndou who died as a result of the attack.

He is also alleged to have stabbed his victim on the hand and later turned the weapon on himself in an unsuccessful suicide attempt.

It is alleged that on May 3, in violation of the COVID-19 lockdown, Makoni and his friend Tambulo Moyo, Ndou’s husband, engaged in a drinking binge.

Makoni later escorted Moyo and after seeing him safely home and indoors, he left for his own homestead.

He returned that night to see Ndou after which an argument ensued resulting in the fatal assault.

Moyo, who is believed to have been dead drunk, did not hear anything, but woke up next to his dead wife who had fallen on their bed after the attack.

But Ndou and Moyo’s child Meritha, awoken by the melee in her parents’ hut, witnessed the unfolding drama through a window, the State claims.

Meritha alerted other villagers who apprehended Makoni, who after realising that he had committed murder, slipped into the night and tried to commit suicide.

Makoni appeared in a court which sat in the male ward of Beitbridge District Hospital and was presided over by magistrate Annia Chimweta, who did not ask for a plea.

Makoni was remanded in custody for two weeks to allow for further investigations and confirmation of his statement in line with procedure.

Oswell Arufandi prosecuted.-Newsday

By A Correspondent- 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.-Newsday

By A Correspondent- South African immigration officials at Beitbridge Border Post were yesterday reportedly imposing five-year bans on returning Zimbabweans without explanation.

This was revealed yesterday when 141 returnees arrived aboard three buses from Johannesburg.

Immigration officials at Beitbridge were not immediately available for comment.

Beitbridge east legislator Albert Nguluvhe said imposing bans on returnees might have been an overreaction considering that some of the returnees were shoppers caught up when the lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus commenced.

“I am not sure if this is the international arrangement, but I think South African immigration officials at Beitbridge are overreacting,” Nguluvhe said.

Sharon Sibanda (27) of Filabusi said all those aboard the bus she was on had a five-year ban imposed.

“They did not explain, but just banned us. They seemed cheeky,” she said.

Of the 141 who arrived, 51 were from Cape Town, who arrived earlier in the morning while the remainder arrived after midday. They were screened by health officials and profiled by Social Welfare Department officials who immediately separated them according to their destinations.

At least four Zupco buses were on standby to ferry them to their various provinces while some will be quarantined in Gwanda, Masvingo, harare, Gweru, Bulawayo and Mutare

SOUTH African immigration officials at Beitbridge Border Post were yesterday reportedly imposing five-year bans on returning Zimbabweans without explanation.

This was revealed yesterday when 141 returnees arrived aboard three buses from Johannesburg.

Immigration officials at Beitbridge were not immediately available for comment.

Beitbridge east legislator Albert Nguluvhe said imposing bans on returnees might have been an overreaction considering that some of the returnees were shoppers caught up when the lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus commenced.

“I am not sure if this is the international arrangement, but I think South African immigration officials at Beitbridge are overreacting,” Nguluvhe said.

Sharon Sibanda (27) of Filabusi said all those aboard the bus she was on had a five-year ban imposed.

“They did not explain, but just banned us. They seemed cheeky,” she said.

Of the 141 who arrived, 51 were from Cape Town, who arrived earlier in the morning while the remainder arrived after midday. They were screened by health officials and profiled by Social Welfare Department officials who immediately separated them according to their destinations.

At least four Zupco buses were on standby to ferry them to their various provinces while some will be quarantined in Gwanda, Masvingo, harare, Gweru, Bulawayo and Mutare.

Former Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai, Vice President Engineer Elias Mudzuri, has laughed off claims by the MDC-Alliance that he has been expelled from the party.

In a communiqué, the party said: “The MDC Alliance has noted that Morgen Komichi, Douglas Mwonzora and Elias Mudzuri have decided to cooperate with ZANU-PF and the state.

“They therefore have expelled themselves from the MDC Alliance and are forthwith relieved of their positions and membership in the party. They are further withdrawn from all positions to which they had been deployed by the party. Replacements have been made and shall be announced in due course.”

In response, Mudzuri, whose vice-presidency in the party was also ruled illegal, tweeted:

“How can I be fired from Parliament by a non – existent political party?

“Ncube (Welshman) 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 Mudzuri in his Twitter page.

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.”

MDC Deputy National Chairman Job Sikhala has taken former party colleague Douglas Mwonzora for the deaths of three members of the Morgan Tsvangirai family.

Emotionally writing on Twitter, Sikhala called Mwonzora an undercover agent who has information about the death of the 3 Tsvangirai family members.

Sikhala tweeted:

Undercover @DMwonzoraknows & has info on Mai Susan Tsvangirai’s accident which led to her death .

Dogg knows bout M. R. Tsvangirai cause of cancer which led to M.T’s death

Dogg knows &has info on what caused the accident which led 2the death of Tsvangirai’s daughter Vimbai.

Susan Tsvangirai died in a car accident in 2009, Morgan Tsvangirai succumbed to cancer on 14 February 2018 while Vimbai Tsvangirai passed on in hospital on 10 June 2019, a few weeks after being involved in an accident.

Source: Twitter 

Advocate Thabani Mpofu who is the lawyer of opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has claimed that the recalling of four MDC legislators from Parliament was illegal.

Below is Mpofu’s submission.

The illegal recall

Purporting to give effect to the Supreme Court judgment by recalling MDC-Alliance MPs from Parliament is unlawful for many reasons. I give a few:

Douglas Mwonzora is no longer the Secretary-General of the political party whether it be called MDC-T or MDC-Alliance.

The Alliance is a political party for purposes of the Electoral Act, was recognised as such by ZEC and contested the elections in its name and right. That counts for something. Various judgments of the court accept that including the 137 paged judgment in the presidential election petition. You would need to temporarily suspend honour and reality before you can take a position to the contrary.

Contrary to popular belief based on hysteria, the Alliance does not need a written constitution constituting it as a universitas personarum at law. A universitas personarum is created by contract. Such contract can be reflected in a constitution but does not have to be. It could be orally established. In certain instances, the contract may even be established by conduct. Surely that there is a political party known as the MDC-Alliance is known even by my dog.

The relationship between the MDC-T and MDC-Alliance has been completely if not dishonestly misunderstood. The Speaker of Parliament does not at law know anything other than the political parties represented in Parliament. He is not required to know how they came into existence much the same way he cannot take notice of the relationship between Zanu PF and organisations that support and have established synergies with it. He only knows that there is an MDC-Alliance which has members directly elected and yet others elected by proportional representation through a party list system. The party list system was utilised on an MDC-Alliance list. He cannot be blind to that reality “only for five minutes” during a national lockdown. Neither can he properly forget that there is a political party in his House called the MDC-T.

For my present purposes, I wish to make it abundantly clear that this is the position in law. In law, the processes of the MDC-Alliance cannot and have not been affected by anything. To the contrary, they have been insulated by the Gweru congress whose resolutions have legal effect.

The Supreme Court judgment came late in the day and has no effect for the reasons I have given. As regards Parliamentary business, the Speaker can only deal with the MDC-Alliance in matters that affect MDC-Alliance members. THIS IS THE LAW!

Advocate Thabani Mpofu is a lawyer for MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa

The Ministry would like to report that today, 1150 rapid screening tests and 333 PCR tests were done in the public sector. No PCR tests were done in Bulawayo today. All the PCR tests done in Harare today were negative for COVID-19. Therefore, to date, Zimbabwe has thirty-four confirmed cases. including nine recoveries and four deaths.

The latest recoveries include 4 cases from Harare. These were confirmed through two consecutive PCR negative tests from samples taken at least 24 hrs apart in line with the WHO guidance.

Cumulatively, a total of 9 594 rapid screening tests and 8 141 PCR diagnostic tests have been done to date.

Most of the screening tests were conducted on returning residents who were screened for COVID-19 at our ports of entry. As one of the mitigatory measures against COVID-19. all returning residents will undergo mandatory quarantine at designated centres. Additionally. diagnostic PCR testing will he done on all before discharge from the quarantine centre.

The Ministry continues to be on HIGH alert to the COVID-I9 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.

The Opposition Movement for Democratic Party (MDC) has dismissed allegations by the Deputy Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Energy Mutodi, that Nelson Chamisa faces arrest for misusing party coffers.

Mutodi had posted on Twitter reiterating the claims which were previously made on social media which suggested that Chamisa had directed into personal use the $2 million dollars which MDC was allocated under the Parties Act.

The MDC responded:

All councils have been given the green light to continue cleaning-up and renovating workspaces occupied by informal traders to improve their state ahead of resumption of business when the lockdown ends, according to a Government circular.

Some informal traders and residents’ associations had blocked the exercise after lodging an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking an order to stop the demolition of illegal structures countrywide.

The High Court recently ordered local authorities to stop the demolition of workspaces used by informal traders in Epworth and Chitungwiza saying the act was illegal.

Government’s latest directive is contained in a circular5 May 2020 written by Secretary for Local Government and Public Works Mr Zvinechimwe Churu.

It was directed to all town clerks, town secretaries and chief executive officers.

Reads the circular 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.” Chitungwiza Residents Trust (Chitrest), which is part of the group that approached the High Court to block the demolition of tuckshops and vending stalls, yesterday raised a red flag again.

“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,” said Chitrest director Alice Kuveya.

In the initial circular dated April 8, 2020, Mr Churu said Cabinet had directed all local authorities to take advantage of the national lockdown to clean-up and renovate workspaces occupied by informal traders and by small and medium enterprises “so that these areas will be more conducive to operate from when business reopens”.

The circular designated as essential the workers doing the renovations and clean-up.

In the consent order stopping the demolitions, residents and vendors organisations including Kushinga Epworth Residents’ Association were represented by Dr Tarisai Mutangi and Moses Nkomo of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights.

They said the widespread demolition, by local and central Government, of tuckshops, vending stalls and other property used by small and medium enterprises and informal traders was unlawful and should be stopped immediately.