The Aston Villa Twitter page was awash with messages of fans calling for coach Dean Smith’s sacking following Aston Villa’s 3-0 mauling by ten-men Watford.
The Birmingham-based outfit had lost four games in a row in the Premier League but their slender 1-0 victory over Norwich had taken pressure off the under-fire Smith.
Smith ochestrated Villa’s return to the English top division but has overseen only five wins in 19 games.
Saturday’s loss, their 12th in the league this campaing, sees then drop into the relegation zone again.Soccer 24
By A Correspondent- Former politburo member Professor Jonathan Moyo has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa who last Monday visited and bought eats from vendors.
Moyo accused Mnangagwa of looking down on the masses through his gesture when he interacted with the vendors.
The development follows Mnangagwa’s visit in Kwekwe where he got off from his motorcade and headed straight towards the marketplace and bought groundnuts, snot apples (matohwe) and maize cobs.
Commuters, kombi crews and vendors jostled to catch a glimpse of Mnangagwa where he also took time to listen to concerns raised by vendors.
He was accompanied by State Security Minister Owen Ncube.
Patricia Moyo a vendor, who sold groundnuts to President Mnangagwa, said he paid using local currency and asked her about the challenges she was facing.
“We heard his motorcade and suddenly he appeared. I was elated when he headed straight to my market where he asked how much I was charging. After I told him, he took money out his pocket and paid. I even gave him change,” she said.
She was happy to have told her problems to the highest office in the land.
“I am hoping that he is going to address the challenges that we face as vendors. I, for one, told him the problems we are facing and he promised to look into them,” said an elated Moyo.
Professor Moyo however slammed President Mnangagwa for “looking down on the masses.”
“Kubata musana while talking to people, especially pamusika, is rude behavior which is tantamount to looking down on the masses!” Moyo tweeted.
Kubata musana while talking to people, especially pamusika, is rude behavior which is tantamount to looking down on the masses! pic.twitter.com/xXH2TtraLP
Friends & foes, on 31 December 2019, I'll do a 24-tweet thread after which I'll do no such thread ever again. I'll share my 2020 vision statement about myself, ZanuPF, party politics, the 2018 presidential poll, @ZECzim & Zimbabwe. Enough is enough! pic.twitter.com/l2MOiY2TtK
Partson Jaure has returned to Dynamos after his contract with Manica Diamonds has expired.
The defender rejoins the Glamour Boys on a one-year contract. He becomes the side’s first signing of the pre-season.
Jaure, 29, left Dynamos in 2014 to join University of Pretoria in South Africa. He returned to Zimbabwe two years later and played for Ngezi Platinum Stars before a short spell in Zambia with BuildCon in 2018.
The centre back was one of the most outstanding players for the Gem Boys in the 2019 season.
Meanwhile, Manica Diamonds might lose more players who are being linked with other clubs.
These include Last Jesi, Carlton Munzabwa, Roderick Mufudza, Lawrence Masibera and goalkeeper Tafadzwa Dube.
It’s alleged that the players have not had a good working relationship with the technical team even when Johanisi Nhumwa took over the reins from Luke Masomere.- Soccer 24
By A Correspondent- The anti-corruption drive has moved a gear up towards prosecution of individuals fingered in graft, with fresh revelations the Attorney-General’s Office is now being ropped in to team up with the National Prosecution Authority (NPA) in fast-tracking cases to court.
According to the state media, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is currently working on over 600 dockets for prosecution of people accused of corruption including judges, ministers, Members of Parliament and company executives.
In a wide-ranging interview, Zacc chairperson Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo said the anti-graft body was not happy with the slow pace by the NPA in pushing prosecutions.
She said of the over 600 dockets they had opened, at least 100 have been fully investigated, with 74 involving high-profile figures.
“Zacc investigates and then sends the papers to the NPA, but the Attorney-General is being brought on board to help fight corruption. We are bringing on board as many people as possible,” she said.
“There are high-profile cases which include ministers, MPs, judges, CEOs (chief executive officers) and MDs (managing directors); we are targeting everyone involved in corruption and we will investigate everyone. We urge all those with evidence which may lead to convictions to come forward.
“There should be convictions in court, but we need prosecution (NPA) to up their game. Once we start seeing convictions in court, it gives public confidence that we are not just doing a catch and release game.”
The Zacc boss said to boost the anti-corruption fight, the commission would soon employ 60 investigators drawn from various fields such as forensic auditing, financial intelligence, accountants and engineers.
Treasury had already approved the recruitment drive.
Justice Matanda-Moyo said corruption was a sophisticated phenomenon requiring highly trained investigators.
She said police officers who were seconded to the anti-graft body had already received further training to strengthen investigating skills.
Justice Matanda-Moyo said as part of the corruption fight, several top-of-the-range vehicles, luxury homes and bank accounts had been forfeited to the State as owners were failing to account for their wealth.
One of the cases of seized properties involved that of former Tourism Minister Dr Walter Mzembi, who lost a house in Borrowdale after he skipped the border to evade arrest on corruption charges.
The Zacc chair urged the NPA to expedite the cases of seized cars and houses to ensure the State and the public benefited from the auction of ill-gotten wealth.
Justice Matanda-Moyo said: “The corrupt will lose properties; cars, houses will be taken. In 2020, we want to see all the law arms fight corruption.”
Another area of concern, Justice Matanda-Moyo noted, was tax evasion and she appealed to the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to up its game.
To plug financial leakages, the Zacc chair said, there was need to deal with cartels fuelling the smuggling of goods, gold and diamonds, thereby bleeding the economy.
“Immigration authorities should also screen criminals entering the country who are responsible for illegally exporting minerals.
“People entering Zimbabwe must be scrutinised because we can’t import corruption,” said Justice Matanda-Moyo.
Furthermore, there was need to strengthen the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) so that it properly monitors the activities of banks.
Said Justice Matanda Moyo of members of the judiciary: “As for the judges, there should be proper salaries so that they don’t accept bribes. We don’t want corrupt people acquitted because those in the judiciary have been bribed.
“However, we are pleased that matters will be dealt with swiftly because we have anti-corruption courts at the magistrates’ and High Courts.”
Justice Matanda-Moyo also noted that a National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) was being finalised and would be complete this week.
Views contained in the NACS were drawn from the public, civil society, academia, Government and business.
President Mnangagwa earlier this year appointed a new commission led by Justice Matanda-Moyo and other commissioners, namely Gabriel Chaibva, Jessie Fungai Majome, John Makamure, Thandiwe Thando Mlobane, Kuziva Phineas Murapa, Frank Muchengwa, Retired Major Michael Dennis Santu andMabel Ndakaripa Hungwe
.Since coming into office, Zacc has shown some teeth. High-profile people swooped in its path include former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko on allegations of criminal abuse of office and former Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Prisca Mupfumira.
Zacc also arrested former Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Prisca Mupfumira on corruption allegations involving US$95 million.
Another arrest that confirmed Zacc’s seriousness in the fight against corruption was that of Marry Mubaiwa, the estranged wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, for externalising US$1 033 000.
She was also charged with money laundering involving US$990 000 and fraud.
Joram Gumbo, the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs (Monitoring and Implementation of Government Programmes), was also arrested for criminal abuse of office last month.
Former principal director of State Residences in the Office of the President and Cabinet Douglas Tapfuma was hauled before the courts on criminal abuse of office charges after he allegedly facilitated the importation of several vehicles duty-free.
By A Correspondent- Hundreds of people thronged the Glen Forest Memorial Park in Harare yesterday to give a befitting send-off to United Family International Church (UFIC) Manicaland overseer Pastor Jacob Tembo, who died on Thursday in Mutare.
Pastor Tembo died after a short illness. He was 52.
UFIC spokesperson Pastor Prime Kufa described the late as a charismatic preacher and a hero of God’s kingdom.
“He was a general in the works of God and we learnt a lot from him. Today (yesterday) we celebrate his life because we know he has gone to a better place,” he said.
“In flesh, we have lost a man who was mightily used by God, but in spirit, we know Heaven has gained.”
The multitudes of mourners at the cemetery celebrated Pastor Tembo’s life through music and dance.
Friends and relatives also expressed gratitude to Pastor Tembo’s service in the church.
UFIC leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa and his wife Prophetess Ruth paid their condolences to the Tembo family in Mutare.
Prophet Makandiwa described the late man of God as a “Five-Star General” in God’s kingdom.
Prophetess Ruth attended the burial.
Pastor Tembo is survived by his wife Lily and five children.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has begun preparatory consultations to draw boundaries that will be used for the next harmonised elections.
While the delimitation exercise is usually conducted after the national population census — of which the next one is expected in 2022, a year before the elections — Government has already decided to amend the Constitution to delink the two key exercises.
It would, however, mean that constituency boundaries would be mapped using registered voters.
The delimitation exercise involves coming up with a minimum threshold of registered voters to make the country’s 210 National Assembly constituencies.
ZEC’s chief elections officer Mr Utoile Silaigwana recently told The Sunday Mail that the elections management body was engaging key stakeholders to help shape the process.
“You are aware that delimitation is a constitutional item in terms of Section 161 (1), which states that delimitation shall be done after every 10 years as soon as possible after a census exercise,” he said.
“So, if you look at the next census exercise, which is in 2022, and the next election is in 2023, already that shows a coincidence in the two major exercises.
“But the amendment of the Constitution is not within the purview of ZEC; it is with the Legislature.
“But ZEC has not sat back because of that; as part of preparations, we have already started discussions and consultations with some institutions and stakeholders, particularly ZimStat, the Ministry of Local Government (and Public Works) and the Registrar-General.”-State media
By A Correspondent- Three people died on spot in a fatal head-on collision when a Toyota D4D rammed into a Delta beverages haulage truck at the Redcliff fly-over along the Gweru-Kwekwe highway.
The accident left one person in a critical situation after the driver of the Toyota D4D twin cab who was headed towards Kwekwe, attempted to overtake at a continuous line hit the on-coming Delta haulage truck.
Midlands police spokesperson, Inspector, Joel Goko confirmed the accident.
“The driver and two other occupants of the Toyota D4D died on the spot while another passenger was rushed to Kwekwe General Hospital,” said Insp Goko.
He said there was also pile up due to the limited navigation space at the flyover.
“A Kombi which the D4D truck was trying to overtake leading to the accident was also involved in a pile-up. There were no serious injuries in the Kombi but we still need to make a follow up at the hospital,” he said.
By A Correspondent- President Mnangagwa has distributed 15 tonnes of rice donated by the People’s Republic of China to rural communities, with all rural constituencies benefiting.
The donation supplements the grain that is distributed to rural communities on a monthly basis to fight starvation.
In a statement recently, Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Professor Paul Mavima said the donation was part of Government’s obligation to provide social protection to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities in Zimbabwe.
“The Government of Zimbabwe, through the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, has an obligation to provide social protection services to vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in Zimbabwe through social transfer programmes. This includes, among other interventions, the provision of food relief to vulnerable households during times of drought and emergencies,” he said.
Prof Mavima said there were a number of social protection programmes and strategies being implemented by Government to ensure that all vulnerable groups in society were reached and supported.
“The Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare guarantees that the donated rice will be distributed during the festive season. In addition, distribution of grain will also continue to ensure that no one starves in Zimbabwe during the festive season and beyond,” he said.
Three people including the driver died on the spot while one person was critically injured when a Toyota D4D they were travelling was involved in a head on collision with a Delta beverages haulage truck at the Redcliff fly-over along the Gweru-Kwekwe highway this morning.
Midlands police spokesperson, Inspector, Joel Goko who was at the scene said the accident occured around 8 am.
He said the driver of the Toyota D4D twin cab, who was driving towards Kwekwe, attempted to overtake at a continuos line when the vehicle was then involved in a head-on collision with the on-coming Delta haulage truck.
“The driver and two other occupants of the Toyota D4D died on the spot while another passenger was rushed to Kwekwe General Hospital,” said Insp Goko.
He said there was also pile up due to the limited navigation space at the fly over.
“A Kombi which the D4D truck was trying to overtake leading to the accident was also in the pile up.
“There were no serious injuries in the Kombi but we still need to make a follow up at the hospital,” he said.State media
By A Correspondent- More subsidised roller meal will be in the shops once all millers start receiving the special maize allocations from the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) from Monday after a fruitful meeting between the Government and millers recently.
Shortages have been severe since only eight of the 61 millers had been receiving the special maize allocations for milling into roller meal but from next week all millers will be receiving the required special allocations from the Grain Marketing Board.
Millers met representatives from the Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Finance and Economic Development, the GMB and the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra).
The meeting came after some millers expressed concern that they were excluded from the subsidised roller meal programme as they had not been registered.
After the meeting, both parties confirmed they had a fruitful discussion and expected things to start improving next week with the subsidised roller meal being made available in shops.
Secretary for Industry and Commerce Dr Mavis Sibanda said Government was working with millers to eliminate all problems preventing the availability of subsidised roller meal on the market.
“We are working together with millers. We are in the process of ensuring all millers are functional,” said Dr Sibanda. We had a cordial meeting with the millers. It was an important meeting to understand each other. Millers wanted to understand the subsidy process and we updated each other on the processes.
“As the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, we want all millers to survive.”
On the registration concerns, Dr Sibanda said all millers were registered with the GMB.
Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) national chairman, Mr Tafadzwa Musarara, said there had been some changes to the subsidy programme, resulting in some millers experiencing challenges.
He said only eight millers had so far been registered for the subsidised roller meal programme.
By A Correspondent- Zimbabwe has been told to clean its diamonds or totally lose its diamond market share to synthetic diamonds if environmental and human rights issues are not addressed.
This was said by Zimbabwe Environmental Lawyers Association (ZELA) official Shamiso Mtisi who said;
Due to the emergency of synthetic diamonds, natural diamonds are slowly losing market share as they are associated with wars, child labour, environmental harm, and human rights violations.
This means countries like Zimbabwe may lose out if we don’t clean up our diamonds and adopt responsible sourcing measures like carrying out human rights related impact assessment and environmental reservation principles which resonate with the consumer of this day.
America banned Zimbabwe diamonds on American markets this year due to alleged unethical practices at diamond mine.
Three people including the driver died on the spot while one person was critically injured when a Toyota D4D they were travelling was involved in a head on collision with a Delta beverages haulage truck at the Redcliff fly-over along the Gweru-Kwekwe highway this morning.
Midlands police spokesperson, Inspector, Joel Goko who was at the scene said the accident occured around 8 am.
He said the driver of the Toyota D4D twin cab, who was driving towards Kwekwe, attempted to overtake at a continuos line when the vehicle was then involved in a head-on collision with the on-coming Delta haulage truck.
“The driver and two other occupants of the Toyota D4D died on the spot while another passenger was rushed to Kwekwe General Hospital,” said Insp Goko.
He said there was also pile up due to the limited navigation space at the fly over.
“A Kombi which the D4D truck was trying to overtake leading to the accident was also in the pile up.
“There were no serious injuries in the Kombi but we still need to make a follow up at the hospital,” he said.
By A Correspondent- Referring to 3 Industries setting shop in Houghton Park, the Industry and Commerce acting permanent secretary Never Katiyo said there were indications that industry was growing.
Said Mr Chitiyo:
Industry is certainly growing just in Houghton Park, Harare, alone we have had three industries coming up and that’s a posi- tive direction. Yes, we have some stressed industries; we have those industries which are in need of financing in order to be resuscitated in order for them to grow.
Some are just above floating, but government has set aside some funds to make sure that these in- dustries don’t die and that they continue to grow.
Mr Chitiyo’s remarks were despite the fact that CZI is saying capacity utilisation has shrunk to below 40% in 2019 and some businesses recorded the lowest sales in 2019 since 6 years ago.
By A Correspondent- The health sector manpower situation may be a thing of the past in the new year if reports by the Health Services Board that doctors are trickling back to work are true.
According to the HSB, 194 out of 476 heeded the government’s call and came back to work, the Daily News reports. HSB CEO Ruth Kaseke said this to the publication:
Initially a total of 578 doctors were supposed to appear before the disciplinary committee but the number went down to 476 after considering some issues. The total number of doctors that have gone back to work by mid-December is now 194.
Doctors have been on strike since 3 September 2019.
THE anti-corruption drive has moved a gear up towards prosecution of individuals fingered in graft, with fresh revelations that the Attorney General’s Office is now being ropped in to team up with the National Prosecution Authority (NPA) in fast-tracking cases to court.
In a wide ranging interview, Zacc chairperson Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo said the anti-graft body was not happy with the slow action by the NPA in pushing prosecutions.
She said of the over 600 dockets they had opened, at least 100 have been fully investigated, with 74 involving high profile figures.
“Zacc investigates and then sends the papers to the NPA, but the Attorney-General is being brought on board to help fight corruption. We are bringing on board as many people as possible,” she said.
“There are high profile cases which include ministers, MPs, judges, CEOs (chief executive officers) and MDs (managing directors); we are targeting everyone involved in corruption and we will investigate everyone. We urge all those with evidence which may lead to convictions to come forward.
“There should be convictions in court, but we need prosecution (NPA) to up their game. Once we start seeing convictions in court, it gives public confidence that we are not just doing a catch and release game.”
The Zacc boss said to boost the anti-corruption fight, the commission would soon employ 60 investigators drawn from various fields such as forensic auditing, financial intelligence, accountants and engineers.
Treasury has already approved the recruitment drive.State media
THE anti-corruption drive has moved a gear up towards prosecution of individuals fingered in graft, with fresh revelations that the Attorney General’s Office is now being ropped in to team up with the National Prosecution Authority (NPA) in fast-tracking cases to court.
In a wide ranging interview, Zacc chairperson Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo said the anti-graft body was not happy with the slow action by the NPA in pushing prosecutions.
She said of the over 600 dockets they had opened, at least 100 have been fully investigated, with 74 involving high profile figures.
“Zacc investigates and then sends the papers to the NPA, but the Attorney-General is being brought on board to help fight corruption. We are bringing on board as many people as possible,” she said.
“There are high profile cases which include ministers, MPs, judges, CEOs (chief executive officers) and MDs (managing directors); we are targeting everyone involved in corruption and we will investigate everyone. We urge all those with evidence which may lead to convictions to come forward.
“There should be convictions in court, but we need prosecution (NPA) to up their game. Once we start seeing convictions in court, it gives public confidence that we are not just doing a catch and release game.”
The Zacc boss said to boost the anti-corruption fight, the commission would soon employ 60 investigators drawn from various fields such as forensic auditing, financial intelligence, accountants and engineers.
Treasury has already approved the recruitment drive.State media
JUVENTUS star Cristiano Ronaldo charmed Cosafa president Philip Chiyangwa when he sent him his trademark Number 7 jersey with the world renowned player’s signature on the back.
Uefa president Aleksender Ceferin, who is also Fifa vice-president handed the jersey to Chiyangwa at the Victoria Falls International Airport soon after his arrival on Friday.
The Uefa boss said Ronaldo personally gave him the jersey to hand over to Chiyangwa.
Besides the signature which is right on the Number 7, the jersey is written “to Phillip.”
“I was given this for you. He gave me just before we left for airport as we set off to come here,” said Ceferin.
The Portugal forward and former Real Madrid, who turns 35 in February next year, appended his signature on the back on the jersey on the Number 7.
The former world player of the year is famous for his game and has won a record five Ballon d’Or awards and holds a record highest goals in the Uefa champions league.
Chiyangwa said he was charmed by the gesture.
“Remember I have been attending awards ceremonies so he personally sent this jersey with his signature,” said Chiyangwa.
He said there is much value to the jersey as Ronaldo is his best player.
The Uefa boss and wife Barbara are on a private holiday in Victoria Falls and was expected to discuss about local football last night with Chiyangwa.
He said his discussion with Chiyangwa will be around among other things, bringing down to Zimbabwe world footballers for sport tourism and exchange programmes for development of football.— State media
State Media|THE Civil Service Commission has given the nod to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to employ 5 000 teachers to ease pressure in the country’s schools while further proposing that teachers be proficient in local languages spoken in the district for infant modules.
The proposal to employ teachers proficient in local languages especially those that were previously marginalised is expected to put to rest concerns by communities especially in Matabeleland that their children were taught by people who are not well versed with the learner’s language.
Primary and Secondary Education Minister Cde Cain Mathema confirmed the development saying they were elated as it meant an improvement in service delivery in the country’s education sector and rescue the zero percent pass rate recorded in some schools.
He, however, lamented the lack of adequate resources for learning and teaching for the competency-based curriculum which was introduced a few years ago.
The minister said there was a need for action to be taken to fill in the gaps. Registration for the teachers started on 25 November.
“We were recently granted authority to hire 5 000 teachers for the 2020 financial year. We are grateful that President Emmerson Mnangagwa allowed us to employ the teachers during such economic times. “We have, as one ministry created 5 000 jobs which is impressive. We have a high unemployment rate and we are making efforts to reduce that by employing more of our professionals who were out of the system due to budgetary constraints. These 5 000 teachers will surely aid the sector in a huge way through an improved service delivery,” he said.
The education sector now has a deficit of 10 000 teachers from the previous 15 000.
Cde Mathema, however, said teaching and learning material for the competency-based curriculum was in short supply with books selling at prices like $1 000 each.
“Our current budget is grossly inadequate to meet the demand for teaching and learning materials for most of our schools especially in rural day schools and satellite schools,” he said.
Panic was growing from worried parents who felt their children would miss out on learning if there were no books availed for them.
“We are working to afford all children and schools in the country the necessary materials for learning as well as teaching material. They may be in short supply at the moment but we promise to deliver as soon as we can,” said Cde Mathema.
Some pupils who are crossing over in to Grade Six said they were told that there were no books under the new curriculum and that they would use books from the old curriculum.
Cde Mathema made a passionate call for the private sector and parents to chip in and assist in providing support.
“The private sector and the parents are called upon to assist in supplying textbooks so that learners have access to reading material. We need to produce enough books so that students can continue with their education undisturbed,” he added.
The minister also said it was not an overnight job to secure all the needed requirements for the new curriculum saying there was a need for a lot of financial investment and help from stakeholders.
He added that access to education and the necessary learning materials were a Constitutional right that all learners from both rural and urban schools deserved.
Cde Mathema said teaching and learning space in schools was inadequate as some schools were still using tobacco barns and grass-thatched classrooms.
He also spoke of the need for more resources to be availed for the construction of teacher’s cottages and further training of teachers in the competence-based curriculum.
The developments in the education sector are, according to a statement released on Friday, going to reduce the number of unqualified teachers as well as multi-grade teaching especially in resettlement areas.
Stakeholders have expressed disappointment over poor infrastructure in some schools and learner performance, particularly e-learning facilities which are affecting the new curriculum.
“E-learning facilities, are they available in those schools that we have people failing dismally? The education, infrastructure is it available or people are just asked to explain the teaching concept and curriculum in theory only? We want to know, it should be disaggregated to see whether there is any relationship between the poor infrastructure and the poor pass rate,” asked Umzingwane Member of Parliament Retired Brigadier-General Levi Mayihlome.
Operation Save Dumbo: Charity workers rescue two baby elephants from certain death in Zimbabwe… and just look at them now!
Lost, alone and having suffered life-threatening injuries in the drought-ravaged savannah, the future seemed bleak for these two orphaned baby elephants.
Kadiki had been attacked by a lion when only a day old, suffering deep claw wounds to her trunk and terrible damage to her tail. She was so young, she had not yet been fed by her mother.
In a separate incident in the searing heat of Zimbabwe, one-month-old Bumi had somehow got stuck among rocks and suffered severe sunburn. Usually, elephant calves are shaded by their mothers.
One-month-old Bumi had somehow got stuck among rocks and suffered severe sunburn before he was taken in by veteran animal rescuer Roxy Danckwerts, 53. Pictured: Bumi on board a rescue planeLabour of love: Ms Danckwerts tends stricken Kadiki. Kadiki had been attacked by a lion when only a day old, suffering deep claw wounds to her trunk and terrible damage to her tail
Luckily, rescuers found them and now their survival against the odds – chronicled in these charming images – can be trumpeted.
Kadiki and Bumi were taken in by veteran animal rescuer Roxy Danckwerts, 53, founder of the Wild Is Life charity and its Zimbabwe Elephant Nursery (ZEN), the country’s only baby elephant sanctuary.
Since the calves were airlifted to the International Fund for Animal Welfare-supported nursery near Harare, she and her team have stayed by their side.
On the mend: A helper holds the drip as Kadiki, whose name means ‘the little one’ in the local Shona language, takes a strollStaff at the nursery say Bumi is now ‘almost unrecognisable’ from his arrivalHe has developed a mischievous personality and loves playing with tyresMs Danckwerts (pictured with Kadiki), who has rescued more than 20 elephants in the past five years, said: ‘Elephants are highly intelligent, with physical and emotional needs unparalleled in other mammals’
Kadiki, whose name means ‘the little one’ in the local Shona language, has had surgery to amputate part of her tail and treatment to her trunk. Now around ten days old, she is well enough to walk about again despite being on a drip.
As for Bumi, staff at the nursery say he is now ‘almost unrecognisable’ from his arrival, has developed a mischievous personality and loves playing with tyres.
It is not known what happened to their mothers. As well as drought, calves can end up alone or injured due to poaching, falling into ditches, getting separated from herds or predator attacks, the IFAW says.
Ms Danckwerts, who has rescued more than 20 elephants in the past five years, said: ‘Elephants are highly intelligent, with physical and emotional needs unparalleled in other mammals.
‘Big picture conservation is terribly important. Working with IFAW we are making this happen and I’m happy we can together create a legacy of long-term protection.’
It is not known what happened to their mothers. As well as drought, calves can end up alone or injured due to poaching, falling into ditches, getting separated from herds or predator attacks, the IFAW says. Pictured: Kadiki (left) and Bumi (right)Since the calves were airlifted to the International Fund for Animal Welfare-supported nursery near Harare, Ms Danckwerts and her team have stayed by their side. Pictured: Bumi
She hopes that Moyo, the first orphan elephant she rescued, will be able to act as a mother to Kadiki and Bumi, who may be there for two years before being transported to Panda-Masuie, a forest reserve near Victoria Falls to prepare for integration into wild herds. Jimmiel Mandima of IFAW said: ‘The progress made by very traumatised and damaged elephants shows the incredible relationships between animals and humans and why it is important to give them a chance to thrive.
‘The location of the Panda-Masuie reserve opens up a safe corridor for both rescued elephants and wild herds. The presence of keepers and rangers disrupts traditional poaching routes, from Zambia down to Botswana, and further safeguards these and other animals.’
Own Correspondent|A boy was forced to change his T-shirt with a picture of a snake on it before boarding a plane, his family claims.
The 10-year-old Stevie Lucas had flown from Wellington, New Zealand, to Johannesburg in South Africa to visit his grandparents when the incident occurred.
At OR Tambo airport in Johannesburg, he was told that his black T-shirt, which had a large green snake printed on it, was not permissible clothing to be worn onboard on a flight.
Stevie’s parents Steve and Marga told the Daily Mail that security officers at Johannesburg airport alerted them to the rules about snake toys and clothing.
It’s believed that the snake T-shirt could cause anxiety to other passengers.
Ms Lucas reportedly told her son to turn the T-shirt inside out in order to be able to fly home.
Airport security footage shows the 10-year-old taking off his T-shirt and turning it inside out, reports the paper.
The Independent has contacted the Airports Company of South Africa for comment.
By Nomusa Garikai|”We cannot allow isolated voices, which have no platforms, speaking more than us (Polad) who are a collective. Collective voices should be heard more than isolated voices in the jungle,” said Mnangagwa.
“I am happy that we all accept that peace is critical … harmony is equally important. If we all preach peace, unity and harmony in the country, then we expose those who have brought suffering (in the country). If it is my party which has brought suffering or violence, it must be condemned and also any other party, whether in Polad or in the wilderness.”
“I see that with the spirit of Polad, we can sustain this conversation, this dialogue. But we need to be more vocal, to be heard, to pronounce ourselves on all issues, to show that we are alive, vibrant. We need to show that we are working on all issues that affect this country.”
Mnangagwa is just a village thug who is too clever by half! He thinks he can continue to claim the moral high ground of the peacemaker by hold high the olive branch and yet the dagga in his other hand is dripping with the blood of more of his wanton violence victims.
“If it is my party which has brought suffering or violence, it must be condemned!”
Anyone who is anyone condemned last year’s elections as a farce.
“The electoral commission lacked full independence and appeared to not always act in an impartial manner. The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability,” stated the EU Election Observer Mission final report.
“As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards.”
Zanu PF blatantly denied 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora a vote, for Pete’s sake! How are Zimbabweans supposed to judge you when you deny them a democratic voice!
As much as you, President Mnangagwa would like to claim that last year’s elections were free, fair and credible the truth is they were not.
As much as you want to claim the ZEC results were “the voice of the people, the voice of God!” the truth with with no verified voters’ roll no one could ever verified whether those people were real or fake!
Today Zimbabwe is facing a real and immediate existential threat, the economic meltdown is cause serious human suffering and unnecessary lose of lives. The country’s health care, for example, has all but completely collapsed and hundreds of people are dying of easily treatable ailments. The situation cannot be allowed to continue. The country needs a way out.
The only way out is for Zanu PF to accept that the party rigged last year’s elections, step down and allow the nation to reset its failed political system. Step down now, with each day this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical regime remains in power hundreds of innocent lives are lost and the nation is being dragged closer and close to the edge of the precipitous abyss.
After 39 years of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and tyrannical lawlessness; Zanu PF must go now. Enough is enough, Zimbabwe has had enough of these Zanu PF thugs!
Own Correspondent|MDC top official Fadzai Mahere has joined some social media users to urged other consumers to shun the cheaper Schweppes’ Mazoe Lime Crush saying it “hideous”, a “health hazard” and tasteless.
CITE has reported that a Bulawayo City Council Fire Tender was on Saturday morning involved in a head-on collision a Toyota Hilux leaving firefighters injured. The publication posted on Twitter saying:
According to the Acting Chief Fire Officer Jabulani Ndlovu, three of the fire fighters were rushed to the hospital while the driver of the Toyota Hilux escaped unhurt.#Asakhe
A BCC fire tinder tender was this morning involved in a head-on collision with a South African registered Toyota Hilux at the intersection of Matopos road and 16th Ave. The fire tender was responding to an emergency when the accident occurred.
According to the Acting Chief Fire Officer Jabulani Ndlovu, three of the firefighters were rushed to the hospital while the driver of the Toyota Hilux escaped unhurt.#Asakhe
AN enraged Bulawayo woman is suing her ex-boyfriend, who is a nurse at Mpilo Central Hospital, for $300 000 in damages for malicious prosecution following her arrest on trumped up charges of malicious damage to property.
Ms Judy Ndlovu (55) of Barbourfields suburb is accusing her former lover Mr Vushe Marime (45) of Tshabalala suburb of causing her arrest and subsequent prosecution on charges of malicious damage to property.
Ms Ndlovu was brought before the court on allegations of damaging window panes and burning curtains at Mr Marime’s house in July this year.
She was however, discharged at the close of the State case and acquitted by Western Commonage magistrate Ms Tancy Dube.
Ms Ndlovu alleges that her ex-boyfriend framed charges as a way of fixing her for terminating their affair.
Through her lawyers, Vundhla-Phulu and Partners, Ms Ndlovu filed summons at the Bulawayo High Court citing Mr Marime as a defendant. In papers before the court, Ms Ndlovu said her former lover reported her to the police for damaging property at his house.
“I was committed to a trial on the charge of malicious damage to property at Western Commonage magistrate’s court. I was acquitted at the end of the trial and by reporting me to the police, defendant set in motion a chain of events that led to my prosecution,” she said.
Ms Ndlovu said when Marime reported her to the police, he sought to punish her for terminating their relationship.
“The defendant acted without reasonable and probable cause when he reported me to the police. His intention was to harass and punish me for terminating our relationship,” she said.
Ms Ndlovu said as a result of her arrest and prosecution, she suffered damages in the sum of $300 000.
“Wherefore plaintiff prays for payment of the sum of $300 000 being damages suffered by the plaintiff as a result of malicious prosecution instituted at the instance of the defendant who acted without a just cause,” said Ms Ndlovu’s lawyers.
State Media|IMBIBERS especially those that consume cheap uncertified alcoholic beverages most of which is smuggled into the country from neighbouring countries are at risk of suffering from numerous ailments including loss of fertility, experts have said.
There has been an influx of cheap uncertified whiskeys, vodkas, spirits and brandies popularly known as “hot stuff” smuggled into the country mostly from Zambia and Mozambique over the past few years.
The price at which the uncertified and counterfeit alcoholic beverages are sold is very low compared to prices on the formal market.
Most of the illicit brews, which are bottled in 200 millilitre plastic containers have high alcohol content than the average prescribed and recommended by health authorities and are sold on the black market throughout the country as traders hide from authorities.
Leadership Standards Systems and Strategy expert Mr Sebastian Zuze said most of the alcohol beverages, which are smuggled into the country do not conform with certain specification standards deeming them hazardous to humans if consumed in excess.
“There are standard specifications, which products must conform to. When you look at how we arrive at these specifications, we would have looked at various impacts of such a product or service . . . coming to these whiskeys we are saying the products must be verified by agents at the borders. The agents must also be aware of these specifications and standards and make sure that measures have been put in place to guard against smuggling. Most of these smugglers know that these products don’t conform to the set standards, so what they do, is smuggle the goods . . . ,” he said.
Mr Zuze said before the production of a certified product wider consultation is undertaken to determine if its chemical content is not hazardous upon consumption.
“In the case of beer and many other alcoholic beverages they are certain chemicals, which are acceptable daily limits, depending on their impact on the human body. If you look at any product, it will actually indicate the right ADI (Accepted Daily Intake) where we are saying the human body can handle such an amount according to scientific investigations . . . if we actually see that beyond this intake or amount of chemical in the body, it becomes harmful. If you are into the manufacturing of alcoholic beverages these become standards for that specific product. There are specification bodies, which actually check these standards so as to protect consumers,” he said.
Mr Zuze said a majority of imbibers, especially youths, were compromising their health by consuming the cheap “hot stuff”.
“Whiskeys that don’t meet specification could be carrying excessive amounts opposed to the (required) daily intake. You will be having a chemical, which looks like the whiskey but which is beyond the specifics. This is where now you hear about beer poisoning, it means the ingredient has been excessive and it begins to damage internal organs, some of the effects are short-term, some of them long-term,” he said.
Mr Zuze also took a swipe at individuals involved in the illicit movement and selling of the cheap whiskeys stating that their actions defeat the spirit of ubuntu and are grossly unethical.
“As a country we need to protect the health and safety of our citizens. There is the issue of ethics, it is unethical to claim that a product is what it is than the actual truth and it doesn’t resonate with our spirit of ubuntu . . . we should not compromise each other because of money . . . ,” he said.
Mpilo Central Hospital Clinical Director Mr Solwayo Ngwenya said people should desist from excessive drinking as it was hazardous to one’s health with complications affecting the liver, brain and testicles.
“We urge people to avoid smuggled alcoholic beverages because if the content is more than the prescribed limits it will cause serious harm to the liver and the brain. Alcohol abuse causes the brain and vital organs to shrink. So, with time you will find that you will develop some liver pains and, in this country, we can’t do any liver failure transplant and you know you will die,” he said.
“Excessive consumption of alcohol can affect the testicles adversely. It can effectively change the structure of the testicles, leading to a fall in the Serum Testosterone level. Testosterone is the male reproductive hormone and a fall in the level of testosterone can cause male infertility.”
Mr Ngwenya said there has been a rise in deaths associated with alcohol abuse globally.
“There has been an increase especially in Western countries of young people with liver failure from alcohol abuse . . . we say don’t imbibe too much and you go ahead and imbibe something smuggled, unverified and unchecked. There are cases where people have actually died in hospitals from alcohol abuse,” he said.
Apart from compromising people’s health, the smuggled beer, which also includes counterfeits has a negative impact on the country’s economy and local beverages manufacturers.
Some of the fake brands include popular brands such as Johnnie Walker’s Red Label, Jameson, Grants, Best, Bols and Two Keys.
African Distillers (Afdis) managing director Mr Cecil Gombera said the company, which was the manufacturer of the original Two Keys brand has been hit hard by unfair competition being exerted by smuggled beverages.
“It is difficult to compete with prices offered by smuggled products as they are not subject to import duties and bypass excise duty levying. While our pricing remains very competitive, any bottle of our brands sold by a smuggler impacts on Afdis’ performance and therefore that’s not good for our operations. It is important to note that the best prices for our brands are available in the formal trade and not on the streets,” he said.
Mr Gombera said there was a need to tighten screws at the country’s port of entries so as to curb the rampant smuggling of goods.
“Controls at all border or entry points need to be tightened to limit and eliminate smuggling. Authorities need to ensure that all imported competing products are subjected to the same duties and taxes we face,” he said.
Latest accident in Kwekwe which claimed three lives.
AT least 35 people have died while over 100 others injured in road traffic accidents since the beginning of the festive season.
The death toll reached 24 with 59 injuries on Christmas Day before the number increased by six more deaths on Boxing Day where 35 were left injured.
Police statistics show that two people were killed while 66 road accidents were recorded on Friday while another road crash claimed three lives in Kwekwe yesterday morning.
In a separate incident, 40 people were injured yesterday when a Zupco bus they were travelling in veered off the road and overturned before landing on its side near Regina Mundi High School along Gweru-Kwekwe.
The injured were rushed to Gweru Provincial Hospital (GPH).
Midlands police spokesperson Inspector Joel Goko said three people died after a vehicle they were travelling in collided with a haulage truck yesterday morning.
He said the driver of a Toyota D4D double cab who was driving towards Kwekwe attempted to overtake on a continuous line resulting in a head-on collision with an oncoming Delta truck.
“The driver and two other passengers of the Toyota D4D died on the spot while another person was rushed to Kwekwe General Hospital,” said Insp Goko.
He said the accident resulted in a pile-up with a few injuries recorded.
“A commuter omnibus which the D4D truck was trying to overtake leading to the accident was also involved in a pile up. There were no serious injuries in the omnibus, but we still need to make a follow-up at the hospital,” he said.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi attributed most of the accidents to human error and urged drivers to be cautious on the roads.
In a statement, he said: “A total of 66 road traffic accidents were recorded on 27 December 2019. Of these two were fatal. The major cause of the accidents were speeding, reversing errors, following too close and inattention.
“A total of 128 touts were arrested, 141 motor vehicles were impounded and 672 tickets were issued for various offences.”
“We reiterate that motorists should be alert and travel within the stipulated speed limits on the road. Unnecessary loss of life should be avoided at all cost.s”
Own Correspondent|After beautifully decorating the alleged return of government hospitals doctors to work and dismissing other media indications that doctors have not resumed duties at the hospitals, the government run media has revealed that the doctors are not fully functionally at the hospitals.
State run Sunday Mail reports that some medical doctors are actually selling Government and patients a dummy claiming, under their respective unions, to have resumed duty when the situation in major referral hospital indicates otherwise.
According to the publication, despite announcements by the medical professionals that they were back at work, following nearly four months on strike, patients seeking a number of services in hospitals are still being turned away.
A snap survey by the paper last week showed that Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, the country’s largest referral healthcare institution, was largely deserted.
There were no admissions into wards and a few “lucky and connected” patients were only being admitted on condition they made private arrangements for their doctors to see them at the institution.
While there appeared to be doctors at Sally Mugabe Hospital (Harare Central Hospital), investigations showed that the institution was not admitting any patients.
However, the paediatric sections at both hospitals were open.
Doctors have been on strike since September citing poor wages and lack of drugs in hospitals and clinics.
Over 500 medical professionals were subsequently fired after the Labour Court ruled their industrial action illegal. But President Mnangagwa extended an olive branch to those wishing to return to work.
This was after Government and Econet-linked Higher Life Foundation agreed on a $100 million fellowship deal which would see doctors’ salaries being increased.
The deal spelt out that junior doctors, who qualified for the six-month fellowship, would be offered a $5 000 monthly package, as well as free transport services of up to three trips a day.
An additional $5 000 was offered to doctors who worked during this festive season.
According to Higher Life Foundation, 362 doctors have since applied for the fellowship.
The doctors themselves, through the Senior Hospital Doctors Association (SHDA) and Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) subsequently released statements indicating their intention to return to work.
But the situation on the ground, especially in Harare, shows otherwise.
Patients and relatives who spoke to The Sunday Mail at Parirenyatwa Hospital said they were pondering their next move as there were no services.
A Harare man, who had accompanied his mother-in-law, said they had been kept in a queue for over three hours.
“We have been here since morning, but we have not received any assistance and she is in pain,” he said.
“We have been told to join a queue, but we are not sure if there are any doctors around. With her condition, it is clear she has to be admitted, but they are not saying anything.”
Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals public relations officer Mr Linos Dhire said doctors were mostly responding to emergency cases.
“Doctors availability has generally been good during the festive season. Doctors availability has been more than 80 percent for all the emergencies which presented to the hospital during that period,” he said.
A student nurse who preferred anonymity for fear of victimisation said there was not much improvement since doctors claimed they had ended their strike.
“Few doctors have come forward, the few that are back are rarely attending to patients. We can only provide basic care,” said the student nurse.
Most patients in Harare are now turning to polyclinics and private medical centres.
However, most of the private institutions are demanding between US$250 and US$500 to admit patients for between three and five days.
State Media|The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has begun preparatory consultations to draw boundaries that will be used for the next harmonised elections.
While the delimitation exercise is usually conducted after the national population census — of which the next one is expected in 2022, a year before the elections — Government has already decided to amend the Constitution to delink the two key exercises.
It would, however, mean that constituency boundaries would be mapped using registered voters.
The delimitation exercise involves coming up with a minimum threshold of registered voters to make the country’s 210 National Assembly constituencies.
ZEC’s chief elections officer Mr Utoile Silaigwana recently told The Sunday Mail that the elections management body was engaging key stakeholders to help shape the process.
“You are aware that delimitation is a constitutional item in terms of Section 161 (1), which states that delimitation shall be done after every 10 years as soon as possible after a census exercise,” he said.
“So, if you look at the next census exercise, which is in 2022, and the next election is in 2023, already that shows a coincidence in the two major exercises.
“But the amendment of the Constitution is not within the purview of ZEC; it is with the Legislature.
“But ZEC has not sat back because of that; as part of preparations, we have already started discussions and consultations with some institutions and stakeholders, particularly ZimStat, the Ministry of Local Government (and Public Works) and the Registrar-General.”
Low registrations
ZEC says the number of people registering to vote is “disappointingly low”, especially after the July 30 elections last year, as only 2 000 had been captured.
It is, however, believed that this is a common trend outside the election cycle.
Voter registration is a continuous process in terms of the law.
“ZEC has remained open for continuous voter registration in the districts and provinces, but a few people have come to register.
“We have, through our efforts, been sensitising people about the need to register (to vote).
“But somehow, the uptake is low.”
Voter registration, said Mr Silaigwana, would naturally determine constituency boundaries.
The commission is considering engaging political parties to encourage people to register.
“I know that during the off-season, people do not place a lot of importance to that, but as an election management body, we are trying as much as we can to sensitise people; more so, in light of the forthcoming delimitation exercise,” said Mr Silaigwana.
“This is so because the delimitation is largely informed by the number of registered voters.
“The fewer the people registered in a district or a province, the fewer constituencies that province will get.”
The election management body has now resorted to door-stepping public gatherings in order to register voters.
Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) chairperson Mr Andrew Makoni said voters were likely to become apathetic if they did not get enough information.
“The low numbers of new registrants all come down to lack of civic voter education both by ZEC and civil society organisations.
“My plea is that in between elections voter education must not stop.
“If we stop providing the information, the result is the apathy that we are seeing,” said Mr Makoni.
The brave Mthwakazi youth in action against Mnangagwa.
Own Correspondent|President Emmerson Mnangagwa today returns to Bulawayo for the third annual National Thanksgiving and Dedication Service at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair Grounds.
The church service is being organised by the Faith for the Nation Campaign — an interdenominational grouping of local churches.
Faith for the Nation Campaign chairperson Reverend Andrew Wutawunashe said that the President was expected to outline his vision for the nation, so that the church prays for it.
“The National Thanksgiving and Dedication Service is an annual event which was inaugurated by the President in 2017, to be a time when we shall meet, on a platform of Faith for the Nation Campaign, so that we can have a thanksgiving for the nation as well as a prayer of dedication for God’s blessing for the following year,” said Reverend Wutawunashe.
“We do it as an interdenominational group where all churches are welcome and the leadership of various sectors of our society like business and commerce, politics, chiefs and the general citizens attend for prayer and dedication for the nation.”
In a similar event last year, ten Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) youth, protested at while President Emmerson Mnangagwa was attending the church service saying he was part of the Gukurahundi massacres of the 1980s.
The 10 youth were thoroughly beaten by soldiers and detained at Brady Barracks before they were dumped at Bulawayo Central Police Station.
The youth, claimed that Mnangagwa participated in the killing of more than 20,000 Zapu supporters in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces when then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe deployed the North-Korean trained Fifth Brigade to eliminate what he said were dissidents linked to Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo.
Own Correspondent|The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) says it is currently working on over 600 dockets for prosecution of people accused of corruption including judges, ministers, Members of Parliament and company executives.
Zacc chairperson Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo, however, said the anti-graft body was not happy with the slow pace by the NPA in pushing prosecutions.
She said of the over 600 dockets they had opened, at least 100 have been fully investigated, with 74 involving high-profile figures.
“Zacc investigates and then sends the papers to the NPA, but the Attorney-General is being brought on board to help fight corruption. We are bringing on board as many people as possible,” she said.
“There are high-profile cases which include ministers, MPs, judges, CEOs (chief executive officers) and MDs (managing directors); we are targeting everyone involved in corruption and we will investigate everyone. We urge all those with evidence which may lead to convictions to come forward.
“There should be convictions in court, but we need prosecution (NPA) to up their game. Once we start seeing convictions in court, it gives public confidence that we are not just doing a catch and release game.”
Own Correspondent|Three people including the driver died on the spot while one person was critically injured when a Toyota D4D they were travelling was involved in a head on collision with a Delta beverages haulage truck at the Redcliff fly-over along the Gweru-Kwekwe highway on Saturday morning.
Midlands police spokesperson, Inspector,Joel Goko who was at the scene said the accident occurred around 8 am.
He said the driver of the Toyota D4D twin cab who was driving towards Kwekwe, attempted to overtake at a continuous line when the vehicle was then involved in a head-on collision with the on-coming Delta haulage truck.
“The driver and two other occupants of the Toyota D4D died on the spot while another passenger was rushed to Kwekwe General Hospital,” said Insp Goko.
He said there was also pile up due to the limited navigation space at the fly over.
“A Kombi which the D4D truck was trying to overtake leading to the accident was also involved in a pile up. There were no serious injuries in the Kombi but we still need to make a follow up at the hospital,” he said.
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BREAKING: 4 people killed in horrific road accident (SEE PICS)
By Muza Mpofu- 23 November 2018
FOUR people believed to be members of the same family died on the spot following a head-on collision at the Redcliff flyover just outside Kwekwe yesterday Thursday evening, ZwNews reports.
Passengers in the Nissan X-trail lost their lives while those in the Jeep were taken to hospital with serious injuries.
The site has become a high accident zone.
A witness at the accident scene said that there are at least 2 fatalities at this 20 KM stretch along Gweru-Kwekwe road every month.
The witness who lives nearby pointed out that the area between Hunters Road flyover and Kwekwe Bridge flyover is fast becoming a black spot; and “drivers should reduce speed to avoid unnecessary loss of life.”
This unidentified woman with a baby strapped on her back fetches water from a storm water drain in Budiriro, Harare, yesterday. The City Health Department recently reported suspected cases of typhoid. — Picture: Edward Zvemisha
State Media|Typhoid is still endemic in Harare’s Glen View high-density suburb, with another 13 suspected new cases recorded in recent weeks by the City Health Department .
Residents have urged council to prioritise the provision of safe water and sanitary conditions to residents to avoid such disease outbreaks.
Typhoid is not new to Glen View, where the last outbreak that hit the suburb at the beginning of this year claimed 49 lives, while over 10 000 people were treated and discharged.
City Health Director Dr Prosper Chonzi said the cases seem to have been contained.
“Yesterday (Thursday) we saw five cases, three suspected typhoid and two diarrhoea. All cases so far seem to have been contained. All typhoid cases are still suspected, none have so far been confirmed,” said Dr Chonzi.
Mrs Portia Mufandaedza, a Glen View resident, said: “Nothing has really changed in relation to water provision, collection of garbage and sewer bursts. Water supplies are still erratic, forcing us to rely on either boreholes or unprotected wells. Refuse trucks are not collecting garbage, forcing people to dump garbage on open spaces. Sewer bursts are still common and council always takes its time to attend to them.”
Another resident, Mr Marcus Madondo, accused council of being reactionary.
“You will only see them providing water in bowsers, providing aqua tablets, clearing garbage and collecting refuse only when there are reports of an outbreak.
“They already know our challenges and each time there is an outbreak, they come here in their vehicles and promise to attend to the same issues but all the enthusiasm is gone as soon as they leave,” said Mr Madondo.
Residents said recent reports of typhoid unsettled them considering that the same water and sanitation challenges that caused previous outbreaks have not been addressed.
Dr Chonzi, however, said in all of the reported cases so far, the patients never received vaccination against typhoid or cholera.
He said of concern was the fact that some of the cases were traced back to the Tichagarika area, which has become a traditional epicentre for cholera or typhoid.
“We have already dispatched teams in the community who are visiting homes to identify and offer mitigatory measures to those who might be having signs and symptoms of typhoid. We do not want to wait until cases have gone out of hand, but our worry is that while a majority of the cases are coming from areas around Glen View Polyclinic, some are still being traced back to Tichagarika shops,” said Dr Chonzi.
Asked why Tichakagarika has become a hotspot for diarrhoeal diseases, in particular typhoid and cholera, Dr Chonzi said the general environment was unhygienic.
He however, said the local authority was trying to establish the safety of underground water and piped water.
“It is also of concern to us that this area keeps getting cases of diarrhoeal diseases. Although the water and sanitation situation has not improved much around this area, we are also trying to assess the community’s underground water, sewer lines and piped water to see if there could be any leaks somewhere, which keep bringing back these diseases,” said Dr Chonzi.
Council, he said, was compiling data on the effectiveness of the typhoid vaccination, which was administered to residents between the ages of six months and 45 years from nine selected high-density and typhoid-burdened suburbs in Harare, including Glen View.
Preliminary information showed that the intervention was worth it.
“The data we have analysed so far is encouraging because it shows that
the vaccine indeed protected people against typhoid. All cases we have seen so far were never vaccinated and we pray that we do not get any cholera case as we go into 2020.”
The Government rolled out an oral cholera vaccine to high-density suburbs, including Glen View.
Cholera and typhoid had almost become endemic diseases in south western Harare high-density suburbs with public health experts blaming poor water and sanitation provision in the affected areas.
In areas such as Glen View, water supply is erratic, forcing residents to resort to unprotected sources, garbage is rarely collected and sewer bursts are endless.
Council has been blamed for not responding quickly to sewer bursts giving sewage time to seep into the ground and contaminate underground water which residents rely on in the absence of tap water.
Glen View is one of the high density areas in Harare, which had a number of boreholes drilled by non-governmental organisations in response to water shortages while the residents themselves also dug shallow wells at their homes — all of which are sometimes contaminated by sewage through seepage.
The estranged husband of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga , Marry Chiwenga (nee Mubaiwa) faces a lengthy period in jail if convicted of charges of breaching Exchange Control regulations, fraud and money laundering, and murder allegations she is facing.
In opposing bail for Marry, prosecutor Albert Masamha told the court that the offence of fraud attracts up to 35 years, while Money Laundering provides for imprisonment for up to 25 years.
He said:
Releasing the applicant on bail is, therefore, likely to jeopardise and erode public confidence in the justice system.
… it is the respondent’s submission that the sentence for attempted murder is also severe in the event the applicant is convicted.
The offence of fraud provides for imprisonment not exceeding 35 years, whilst Section 8 (8) of the Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Act, Chapter 9:24 provides for imprisonment not exceeding 25 years.
Marry has been in remand prison ever since she first appeared in court nearly two weeks ago.
On Friday, the High Court postponed her bail application and appeal hearings to Tuesday next week.
She is being represented by Mtetwa & Nyambirai Legal Practitioners.- Daily News
Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has said his team must forget about catching up with leaders Liverpool and focus on overtaking second-placed Leicester City.
Guardiola stated this while addressing the media, following a 3-2 defeat at Wolves on Friday.
The champions blew a two-goal lead, after keeper Ederson was sent off in the 12th minute.
The result means City stay third behind second-placed Leicester and unbeaten league leaders Liverpool, who are 14 points ahead of them.
“It’s unrealistic when it’s 14 points to think about Liverpool.
“We think about Leicester, we have the chance to recover second position.
“Still we are third, I know the quality of the team but that’s the situation.
“In the last two previous seasons we are used to winning a lot of games and being at the top fighting.
“Now we are far away so we have to adjust mentally to the situation and prepare for the next games.
“We have to move on, we played the first season and it was quite similar to this but in the second and the third we were there all the time and winning all the time.
“Now this season in some situations and after some mistakes we are far away, we have to catch the second one and see where we are at the end,” Guardiola said.Ghana News
WFP Provides Cash Assistance in Zimbabwe’s Poorest Urban Area and Plans to Expand in 2020
Last week, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Zimbabwe completed its last cash distribution of 2019, which supported some 19,000 vulnerable residents in Harare’s suburban district of
Epworth .
Those deemed most food insecure have been receiving monthly cash transfers from WFP since June, as part of an urban pilot project funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), and the EU’s branch of European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO).
This year was the first time WFP provided assistance to an urban area in Zimbabwe. Next year, WFP will expand its urban assistance programme across eight districts, nationwide.
It will continue providing cash-based transfers on a monthly basis, to those who need it most.
As a result of this year’s severe drought, economic downturn and
Cyclone Idai , around 8 million people were pushed into severe hunger.
Of this total, 2.2 million people live in urban areas.
WFP’s revised emergency response plan hopes to provide mobile cash transfers to 200,000 of them.
Currently, funding for 100,000 has been secured. WFP is seeking funds to assist an additional 100,000 people.
The United Nations World Food Programme – saving lives in emergencies and changing lives for millions through sustainable development.
WFP works in more than 80 countries around the world, feeding people caught in conflict and disasters, and laying the foundations for a better future.
Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has said his team must forget about catching up with leaders Liverpool and focus on overtaking second-placed Leicester City.
Guardiola stated this while addressing the media, following a 3-2 defeat at Wolves on Friday.
The champions blew a two-goal lead, after keeper Ederson was sent off in the 12th minute.
The result means City stay third behind second-placed Leicester and unbeaten league leaders Liverpool, who are 14 points ahead of them.
“It’s unrealistic when it’s 14 points to think about Liverpool.
“We think about Leicester, we have the chance to recover second position.
“Still we are third, I know the quality of the team but that’s the situation.
“In the last two previous seasons we are used to winning a lot of games and being at the top fighting.
“Now we are far away so we have to adjust mentally to the situation and prepare for the next games.
“We have to move on, we played the first season and it was quite similar to this but in the second and the third we were there all the time and winning all the time.
“Now this season in some situations and after some mistakes we are far away, we have to catch the second one and see where we are at the end,” Guardiola said.Ghana News
Marry Chiwenga (nee Mubaiwa), the estranged husband of Vice President
Constantino Chiwenga , has rubbished the allegation that she attempted to kill her husband while he lay prone on a South African hospital bed.
In her bail application through her lawyers Mtetwa Nyambirai Legal Practitioners, Marry argued that the South Africans would have swiftly investigated the “incident” as it could have jeopardised relations between the two countries. She said:
This is impossible because such reports do not exist, for the simple reason that the incident did not occur as alleged or at all.
No doctor who respects his professional standing will be made to perjure himself.
Surely, a serious incident such as an attempt on the life of a sitting vice president with its potential to embarrass relations would have been reported in South Africa and investigated promptly.
Marry further contended that when Chiwenga was in China receiving treatment, he requested President Emmerson Mnangagwa to arrange for her to travel to see him.
She added that Chiwenga also sent US$30 000 for her personal upkeep and use.- Daily News
WFP Provides Cash Assistance in Zimbabwe’s Poorest Urban Area and Plans to Expand in 2020
Last week, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Zimbabwe completed its last cash distribution of 2019, which supported some 19,000 vulnerable residents in Harare’s suburban district of
Epworth .
Those deemed most food insecure have been receiving monthly cash transfers from WFP since June, as part of an urban pilot project funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), and the EU’s branch of European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO).
This year was the first time WFP provided assistance to an urban area in Zimbabwe. Next year, WFP will expand its urban assistance programme across eight districts, nationwide.
It will continue providing cash-based transfers on a monthly basis, to those who need it most.
As a result of this year’s severe drought, economic downturn and
Cyclone Idai , around 8 million people were pushed into severe hunger.
Of this total, 2.2 million people live in urban areas.
WFP’s revised emergency response plan hopes to provide mobile cash transfers to 200,000 of them.
Currently, funding for 100,000 has been secured. WFP is seeking funds to assist an additional 100,000 people.
The United Nations World Food Programme – saving lives in emergencies and changing lives for millions through sustainable development.
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Marry Chiwenga (nee Mubaiwa), the estranged husband of Vice President
Constantino Chiwenga , has rubbished the allegation that she attempted to kill her husband while he lay prone on a South African hospital bed.
In her bail application through her lawyers Mtetwa Nyambirai Legal Practitioners, Marry argued that the South Africans would have swiftly investigated the “incident” as it could have jeopardised relations between the two countries. She said:
This is impossible because such reports do not exist, for the simple reason that the incident did not occur as alleged or at all.
No doctor who respects his professional standing will be made to perjure himself.
Surely, a serious incident such as an attempt on the life of a sitting vice president with its potential to embarrass relations would have been reported in South Africa and investigated promptly.
Marry further contended that when Chiwenga was in China receiving treatment, he requested President Emmerson Mnangagwa to arrange for her to travel to see him.
She added that Chiwenga also sent US$30 000 for her personal upkeep and use.- Daily News
Farai Dziva|Norton MP Temba Mliswa says COSAFA boss Philip Chiyangwa is well connected such that ZIFA boss Felton Kamambo is too small to fight him.
Chiyangwa is also hosting the UEFA president, Aleksander Ceferin who arrived in the country for a ten-day private visit.
Mliswa posted on twitter:
“Phillip Chiyangwa hosting UEFA boss Ceferin is indeed a great occurrence and shows how Fidza is well connected.
Kamambo and Machana are indeed small boys who can’t do him anything. Well done Fidza for promoting tourism through football.
Kamambo and his pals should read the writing on the wall, Fidza is connected and dethroning him is a waste. He should now help us remove these guys. He has been given this task together with the SRC i don’t know why he has not started, investigations on them should start.”
Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has said his team must forget about catching up with leaders Liverpool and focus on overtaking second-placed Leicester City.
Guardiola stated this while addressing the media, following a 3-2 defeat at Wolves on Friday.
The champions blew a two-goal lead, after keeper Ederson was sent off in the 12th minute.
The result means City stay third behind second-placed Leicester and unbeaten league leaders Liverpool, who are 14 points ahead of them.
“It’s unrealistic when it’s 14 points to think about Liverpool.
“We think about Leicester, we have the chance to recover second position.
“Still we are third, I know the quality of the team but that’s the situation.
“In the last two previous seasons we are used to winning a lot of games and being at the top fighting.
“Now we are far away so we have to adjust mentally to the situation and prepare for the next games.
“We have to move on, we played the first season and it was quite similar to this but in the second and the third we were there all the time and winning all the time.
“Now this season in some situations and after some mistakes we are far away, we have to catch the second one and see where we are at the end,” Guardiola said.Ghana News
Farai Dziva|Norton MP Temba Mliswa says COSAFA boss Philip Chiyangwa is well connected such that ZIFA boss Felton Kamambo is too small to fight him.
Chiyangwa is also hosting the UEFA president, Aleksander Ceferin who arrived in the country for a ten-day private visit.
Mliswa posted on twitter:
“Phillip Chiyangwa hosting UEFA boss Ceferin is indeed a great occurrence and shows how Fidza is well connected.
Kamambo and Machana are indeed small boys who can’t do him anything. Well done Fidza for promoting tourism through football.
Kamambo and his pals should read the writing on the wall, Fidza is connected and dethroning him is a waste. He should now help us remove these guys. He has been given this task together with the SRC i don’t know why he has not started, investigations on them should start.”
Farai Dziva| Zanu PF has been criticized for attempting to push party propaganda into Winky D’s new album.
Respected Masvingo based analyst Jeffryson Chitando said the ruling should not abuse the popular musician’ s song in a bid to propagate its meaningless ideology.
ZANU PF Patriots wrote on Twitter:
We love Winky D’s new album
We have used his song here as background to clarify what we imported as it’s meaning in our situation.
Marry Chiwenga (nee Mubaiwa), the estranged husband of Vice President
Constantino Chiwenga , has rubbished the allegation that she attempted to kill her husband while he lay prone on a South African hospital bed.
In her bail application through her lawyers Mtetwa Nyambirai Legal Practitioners, Marry argued that the South Africans would have swiftly investigated the “incident” as it could have jeopardised relations between the two countries. She said:
This is impossible because such reports do not exist, for the simple reason that the incident did not occur as alleged or at all.
No doctor who respects his professional standing will be made to perjure himself.
Surely, a serious incident such as an attempt on the life of a sitting vice president with its potential to embarrass relations would have been reported in South Africa and investigated promptly.
Marry further contended that when Chiwenga was in China receiving treatment, he requested President Emmerson Mnangagwa to arrange for her to travel to see him.
She added that Chiwenga also sent US$30 000 for her personal upkeep and use.- Daily News
A leading journalist and socialite, Hopewell Chin’ono, says the ZANU PF-led government uses the power of s_x to trap opposition MDC leaders.
Writing on the microblogging site Twitter, Chin’ono opined that both male and female opposition leaders have been similarly rendered politically impotent by the power of s_x.
Below is a series of posts by Chin’ono:
A key reason why MDC has taken long to achieve its goals has been the use of S_X to trap its leaders.
Both its male and female leaders have been victims of honeytraps.
These women are brought by regime enablers within the MDC.
Some female MDC leaders are taken to bed by ZANU-PF elites.
The regime also uses female socialites toentrap its critics and opposition!
Opposition politicians are told to play the game or their s_xual behaviour will be exposed to their families via newspapers!
It is called being COMPROMISED.
They remain in the MDC but now as listening posts!
The regime also traps its critics outside the MDC with women.
If the critic is married, he is held hostage after a s_xual encounter and told to SHUTUP or else
If he is single, the girl feigns r_pe and uses that as a silencing tool or else.
Farai Dziva| Zanu PF has been criticized for attempting to push party propaganda into Winky D’s new album.
Respected Masvingo based analyst Jeffryson Chitando said the ruling should not abuse the popular musician’ s song in a bid to propagate its meaningless ideology.
ZANU PF Patriots wrote on Twitter:
We love Winky D’s new album
We have used his song here as background to clarify what we imported as it’s meaning in our situation.
Marry Mubaiwa, the estranged wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, will spend another weekend in custody after the High Court deferred her application for bail and appeal hearings to Tuesday next week.
Marry is in remand prison on charges of attempted murder, fraud, and currency externalisation. She is facing charges of attempting to murder VP Chiwenga, illegally externalising US$1033 000, laundering US$990 000 and fraudulently seeking to upgrade her customary union to a civil marriage without her husband’s consent.
She is facing six counts of exporting foreign currency in breach of the Exchange Control Act and five counts of concealing transactions involving proceeds of crime in violation of the Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Act.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is yet to reassign Engelbert Rugeje, the former ZANU PF Political Commissar to a new role.
This was revealed by Rugeje who told the Daily News that he remained at the mercy of the president. He said:
It is the president who makes the appointments so what I can tell you is that I am a committee member in the politburo. I cannot tell when I will be re assigned because it is not up to me. I am a full member of the politburo and that is it.
Mnangagwa had promised in June that he would reassign Rugeje to a new task but up to now, nothing has happened.
Rugeje who had taken over from Generation 40 (G40) leader, Saviour Kasukuwere as the ruling party political commissar was replaced by Victor Matemadanda who is also the Deputy Minister of Defence.
Reports suggest that ZANU PF is marred by factionalism and Mnangagwa would want to surround himself with his trusted lieutenants.
Jane Mlambo| Budiriro ward 43 MDC Councillor Norman Makondo has been arrested by the Police after he confronted them against harassing vendors at a local shopping centre.
According to MDC Youth Assembly member Denford Ngadziore, Makondo was charged with inciting public violence and is currently detained at Budiriro Police Station.
“About 50 Zimbabwe Republic were arresting and harassing vendors at Budiriro 5 OK shops and the local Councillor confronted the Police. He was arrested immediately now charged with inciting Public Violence at Budiriro Police Station,” said Ngadziore.
By Wilbert Mukori| If you want the reader to take you seriously then you must respect him/her by treating historic facts with respect.
“Former South Africa President Mr Thabo Mbeki’s record of pulling off political settlements against the odds is well known. As Sadc-appointed mediator to dialogue in our country, he delivered the Global Political Agreement (GPA) on 15 September 2008 between Zanu-PF, MDC and MDC-T, ushering in the inclusive government,” you said in your editorial.
“The talks were necessary to move the country forward as elections that had been done five months earlier had yielded a hung parliament.”
Everyone including SADC and AU, who have turned a blind eye to Zanu PF rigging elections in the past, rejected Zanu PF’s claim that it won the 2008 elections because the whole election process was marred by blatant cheating in the March 2008 vote followed by the wanton violence during the run-off. As a way out of the political impasse, SADC proposed the formation of the Government of National Unity (GNU).
To therefore, claim the GNU was formed because the 2008 elections had “yielded a hung parliament” is a blatant lie! The GNU was formed because the elections had failed to produce a legitimate result.
Mugabe and Zanu PF were forced to sign the GPA agreeing to the implementation of the raft of democratic reforms designed to stop the cheating and wanton violence. Sadly, not even one meaningful democratic reform was implemented in five years hence the reason we had yet another blatantly rigged elections last year.
You failed to mention the failure to implement any reforms and hence the continued curse of rigged elections; a serious error of omission.
“He (Nelson Chamisa) does not deserve the preferential treatment he is demanding because he constitutes a minority against others in POLAD. MDC Alliance might be the biggest opposition party in the country but in the broader scheme of things, the party is just a minnow. They only hold 88 seats in the legislature and contribute a far smaller proportion at local government level. On the other hand, Zanu-PF holds 179 seats in Parliament and a larger majority at local government level. President Mnangagwa won the presidential poll by more than 300 000 votes,” continued the Editorial.
The error of omission is explained.
What is the point of Mnangagwa saying he won “by more than 300 000 votes” and yet no one can verify that result because the regime failed to produce something as basic to free, fair and credible elections as a verified voters’ roll.
Mnangagwa’s 300 000 become meaningless when viewed in the context of the 3 million Zimbabwean in the diaspora he denied the vote!
Zimbabwe is in this economic mess with the economy in total meltdown because the country is a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs who have rigged elections to stay in power. By blatantly rigging last year’s elections Mnangagwa confirmed that Zimbabwe was still a pariah state contrary to his post November 2017 coup claims of a “new democratic dispensation”.
Zimbabwe is stuck in this hell-on-earth of our own making. The way out is for the country to implement the raft of democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA. And since Zanu PF and MDC will not implement the reforms, nothing stop them getting this done during the GNU and beyond except the lack of political will and vision, the nation should appoint other people who will.
Zanu PF must step down, the regime has no political mandate to rule since last year’s elections were flawed and illegal and could not possibly produce a legitimate result. The rigging of the elections, the formation of POLAD, the invitation of former SA President Thabo Mbeki and, worst of all, the use of brute force to silence all dissent; these are all political machinations by Mnangagwa to legitimise his illegitimate government and extend his stay in power. Zanu PF is holding the nation to ransom; no nation on earth can ever permit that!
No doubt you, Chronicle Editor and your staff, know you have been helping Zanu PF in these treasonous pursuits of rigging elections, etc. act with your lies, omissions and brainwashing of the people. And to think that it is none other than the people who pay your thirty pieces of silver!
Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa (independent) has said that he has never abused his relationship with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to win favours. We present below his twitter thread.
I have never made it a secret that @edmnangagwa is my cousin from the paternal side, Didymus Mutasa is my uncle from maternal side but politically they have never done anything to propel me. That’s the reason my politics is in Mash West where they don’t have influence
I come from Shurugwi& in my political journey have never represented the people from where I lived. I never came from Hurungwe West, my farm was in Hurungwe Central; currently I live in Borrowdale&yet represent Norton. These are areas where these relatives have no influence.
Thus politically I have made my own paths and not benefitted from any nepotism. In fact I have suffered because they feel that if they do anything for me people will think there is nepotism.
All the same don’t expect or require of me to insult them over political issues or differences becauseone, they are my relatives and secondly my elders. I simply critique objectively where I feel there is need. After politics there is life and we meet in other arenas.
When I meet @edmnangagwa mostly all I do is push for people who I feel have genuine concerns, where corruption is happening, where injustices have been perpetrated and the affected are being blocked from reaching him. I don’t compromise myself.
Being related to @edmnangagwa has never been a medium for corrupt shortcuts to getting anything or unfair advantage over anyone. I’m my own politician and yet still retain human values to respect him both as national leader and an elder.
Own Correspondent| A commercial se_x worker pleaded guilty to charges of ganging up with her colleagues to assault a man who had sought her services and failed to pay at a Bulawayo hotel.
Ropafadzo Mutananga (23) flew into a rage after David Munkuli (35) told her that he does not have anything on his EcoCash wallet to pay for services rendered.
An argument erupted between the two with David trying to charm the lady of the night to no avail.
Ropafadzo grabbed David and slapped him on the face with open hands and her friends joined in the fight and bashed David.
Fortunately for him, he was rescued by police officers who were on patrol.
The two were taken to the police and dragged to court afterwards on charges of assault.
Ropafadzo pleaded guilty to the charge.
Ropafadzo was remanded out of custody and she awaits sentencing next week.
A BULAWAYO woman is suing Matabeleland North provincial development coordinator Ms Latiso Dlamini for $500 000 in damages for allegedly engaging in an adulterous relationship with her husband of 21 years.
The aggrieved woman, Mrs Siboniso Lesley Maseko (nee Gumede) is accusing her rival Ms Dlamini of Khumalo suburb in Bulawayo, of having a love affair with her husband Brigadier-General Simo Maseko.
Mrs Maseko said their marriage was solemnised in terms of Chapter 5:11 of the Marriages Act on December 20 in 1998.
Mrs Maseko, through her lawyer Mr Godfrey Nyoni of Moyo and Nyoni Law Firm, filed summons at the Bulawayo High Court citing Ms Dlamini as a defendant.
In papers before the court, Mrs Maseko said she discovered that Ms Dlamini and Brig-Gen Maseko have been seeing each other since 2017.
She said the two suspected lovers would meet at the defendant’s house among other secluded places.
“On diverse occasions and at various places including but not limited to Ms Dlamini’s place of residence, the defendant committed and still continues to commit adultery with my husband, Simo Maseko,” said Mrs Maseko.
She said despite Ms Dlamini being aware of their marriage, she remains defiant.
“I have further demanded that the defendant desists from continuing with her adulterous affair with my husband. Despite such demands, the defendant has continued with her actions,” said Mrs Maseko.
Mr Nyoni said as a result of Ms Dlamini’s actions, his client has suffered damages amounting to $500 000.
“As a result of the defendant’s actions, plaintiff has suffered damages for contumelia in the sum of $300 000. My client has furthermore suffered damages for loss of comfort, society, companionship and services of her husband in the sum of $200 000,” he said.
Mr Nyoni said Mrs Maseko wants the $500 000 to be paid with an interest of five percent calculated from the date of issue of summons to the date of full payment.
She also wants the court to order Ms Dlamini to pay the legal costs she incurred.
SOME unscrupulous Bulawayo residents are hoarding Government subsidised roller meal and selling it at exorbitant prices.
Earlier this month, Government introduced a roller meal subsidy to cushion citizens from the increasing cost of mealie-meal.
This led to prices of roller mealie-meal which was selling for $100 or more for a 10kg bag, dropping by 50 percent.
The subsidised roller mealie meal has been in short supply on the market amid revelations that it is being channelled to the black market.
A snap survey by the Chronicle revealed the roller meal which is supposed to be sold for $50 for a 10 kg bag, is now being sold for up to $80 by vendors at what is now referred to as the people’s shops.
Investigations by The Chronicle revealed that these vendors are working in cahoots with employees at some retail shops who are now supplying them with the mealie- meal.
“Through our contacts at the shops we now know when the roller meal will be delivered and it’s not surprising that we always get it. We are able to buy many bags because the workers at the retail outlets are also benefiting. We are selling a 10 kg bag for $70 or $80 depending on the demand,” said a vendor who declined to be named.
A vendor operating from Nkulumane’s Sekusile shops said each time mealie-meal is delivered, she gets some.
“I’m a vendor here, when it’s delivered, I will be right here so I just call my children to join the queue and we buy three or four bags which we later sell for a profit,” said the vendor.
Bulawayo Provincial Affairs Minister Cde Judith Ncube said she has also learnt of the problem.
“I’ve received this communication from concerned citizens who spoke about this strongly. One person called me I think just an hour ago. She raised concerns that there were some people who were now hoarding the subsidised roller meal and selling it on the black market, she was appealing to Government to take action,” said Cde Ncube.
She said she would get in touch with relevant Government departments to investigate the allegations.
Cde Ncube said it was unfair for individuals to profiteer from subsidised roller meal meant to cushion especially the vulnerable.
“Greed and corruption will not take us anywhere as a people. Those involved in this should stop forthwith. They should allow other residents to benefit from Government’s programmes. We are in a drought period. Checking on the weather conditions, we might be headed for another drought,” said Cde Ncube.
I will give a comprehensive analysis and analogue on the banality of the the concept and discussion on what happened after the Gesthmane experience. If you remember very well following the events closely Jesus’s trial had a lot of legalities and the issues had complex phenomenon. There were so many short cuts which the high priests made in order to ensure that his ministry was cut short and he would be eliminated. What lessons do we learn or drew from this experience :
1. Politics exists even in the church.
2. Never focus on the enemy but on progressive factor
3. Pray for your enemies
4. You must always have a clean heart before God
5. Tread cautiously so that when your enemies will find it difficult to nail you
6. In everything that happens on you, Glory to God
7. Never fight back.
Then Simon Peter , who had a sword, drew it and struck the highpriest’s servant, cutting off his ear. His name was Malchus. Malchus in the hebrew version is translated as melek means king. According to scholars, impeccable sources clearly indicates that he participated in the arrest of Jesus in the garden of Gethsmane .
The narrative and the context depicts the natural discourse of the imperical evidence of what exactly transpired.
The bottom line is Jesus was arrested foe trumped up charges which were baseless with a false narrative and deceptive agenda to crumble and cut his ministry short.
Coming closer home, there are people who love you, and they are those who hurt you. Some have caused scars and some have graves on them, some have finger prints and foot prints on each and every evil prevailing in our lives. Our progress has been derailed because of our own, some have mocked us, and some of our own best friends, close relatives, inner circle members, kinsfolks have participated in our crucibles. We have so many life crucibles which have denoted our christian values and separation of christian values and life circumstances is detrimental.
Some have lost household goods, residential stands, houses, employement contracts, their beloved ones, spouses, partners, some have poisoned others, dirty politics and many other evil treacherous things but the bottom line is God loves you and pray for them. LEARN TO SAY BY GONES ARE BY GONES, PAST IS PAST, LET’S MOVE ON. Pray for them and demonstrate the love of Christ by putting the ear back despite that he or she is your enemy. Think of those who have hurt you, wake up and pray for them. Some have transmitted the deadly virus on you, some have done the worst, children outside the wedlock, so many other things we can talk of, it is time to move on and bury our difference.
Let’s be sincere and genuine to those who love and those who don’t love you. Jesus could have called ten thousand legion of angels to protect him, but he died alone on the cross to set us free and accomplish the mission. Let me say this way a struggle which he won. The battle was accomplished on the cross.
The battle is not yours, but God’s. Never fight battles that you will never win.
– Wake up @3 am and pray for your enemies and those who love you and move on.
– When you give don’t look at what that person or individual will do for you.
– Do good always.
– In Shona they say ” Ukaita zvakanaka vazviitira”.
Thrive for Excellence
Think Brilliant
Think positively
Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo writes in his personal capacity as a scholar and he can be contacted at [email protected]
Three people including the driver died on the spot while one person was critically injured when a Toyota D4D they were travelling was involved in a head on collision with a Delta beverages haulage truck at the Redcliff fly-over along the Gweru-Kwekwe highway this morning.
Midlands police spokesperson, Inspector,Joel Goko who was at the scene said the accident occurred around 8 am.
He said the driver of the Toyota D4D twin cab who was driving towards Kwekwe, attempted to overtake at a continuous line when the vehicle was then involved in a head-on collision with the on-coming Delta haulage truck.
“The driver and two other occupants of the Toyota D4D died on the spot while another passenger was rushed to Kwekwe General Hospital,” said Insp Goko.
He said there was also pile up due to the limited navigation space at the fly over.
“A Kombi which the D4D truck was trying to overtake leading to the accident was also involved in a pile up. There were no serious injuries in the Kombi but we still need to make a follow up at the hospital,” he said.
Jane Mlambo| Budiriro ward 43 MDC Councillor Norman Makondo has been arrested by the Police after he confronted them against harassing vendors at a local shopping centre.
According to MDC Youth Assembly member Denford Ngadziore, Makondo was charged with inciting public violence and is currently detained at Budiriro Police Station.
“About 50 Zimbabwe Republic were arresting and harassing vendors at Budiriro 5 OK shops and the local Councillor confronted the Police. He was arrested immediately now charged with inciting Public Violence at Budiriro Police Station,” said Ngadziore.
A Soldier from Bulawayo was arrested for allegedly stealing guns worth $6 000 from his father’s workplace with the intention of robbing a woman.
File picture of Zimbabwe Soldiers
Moketsi Ndlovu (27) who is on internship at 2 Mechanised Battalion, Inkomo barracks in Harare but a resident in Bulawayo’s Nketa suburb, was with Ngqabutho Tshuma (42) of Paddonhurst suburb, Talent Dube (34) and Bukhosi Moyo (26) both of Nkulumane suburb when they allegedly conspired to rob Ms Dorah Zivengwa of Nkulumane suburb.
Ndlovu allegedly stole the guns from Perazim Security Company located at 9 Elons Court, 3rd Avenue between Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Street and Fort Street in the central business district
Ndlovu and his accomplices were not asked to plead to conspiracy to commit robbery when they appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Ms Nomasiko Ndlovu.
Paul Nyathi|President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly made a personal donation of more than 3 000 tonnes of rice to all rural constituencies throughout the country. Each constituency expected to get 15 tonnes of the commodity.
Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Deputy Minister Lovemore Matuke confirmed that they have received the rice and they were already on the ground where their officers were distributing it to the villagers.
“We have received more than 3 000 tonnes of rice from President Mnangagwa. The instruction is for us to give out the rice to all rural constituencies in the country before Christmas and we are working right now to ensure that it is distributed to the intended beneficiaries,” said Matuke.
“The President sourced the rice with the rural people in mind. We are thrilled that they have been cushioned. The prices of such niceties as rice is now beyond the reach of many rural dwellers. We have families that do not have anyone in town and they are not looking forward to anything other than what they have, so, the gesture by the President goes a long way to cushion them,” said Matuke.
“This rice is for everyone. The idea of politicising food aid given by the President should not be tolerated. The President is everyone’s despite political affiliation. No one is equal than the other and no one is going to get first preference because they belong to a certain political party,” he said.
In May this year, China donated more than 10,000 tonnes of rice to assist people who were affected by Cyclone Idai as well as vulnerable households facing hunger due to drought.
Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Qian Keming handed over the consignment of 10,165 tonnes of rice to the Zimbabwean government that was represented by Public Service, Labor and Social Welfare Minister Sekesai Nzenza.
The Zimbabwean government clashed heavily with the Chinese government after Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube failed to disclose the rice food aid during his budget presentation.
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube said that China had provided Zimbabwe with US$3.6m in “development support” ranking it below the United States and UK, who both provided US$50m. The EU has provided US$41m in support.
In the wake of the budget, China’s embassy in Harare disputed the figure, saying in a statement it was “very different from the situation on the ground.”
The embassy said its records show that bilateral financial support to Zimbabwe was far greater, at US$136.8m between the period of January and September.
“The embassy wishes that the relevant departments of the Zimbabwean government will make comprehensive assessments on the statistics of bilateral supports and accurately reflect its actual situation when formulating budget statement,” it said in a statement.
Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Qian Keming (R) and Zimbabwean Public Service, Labor and Social Welfare Minister Sekesai Nzenza (C) display an agreement during the rice handover ceremony in Harare, Zimbabwe, May 24, 2019
Correspondent|KARIBA Dam is left with only 1,23 metres or 8,50% of water usable for power generation known as live water before reaching the stipulated minimum threshold after it further dropped by 13 centimetres this week to 476,73 metres above sea level, according to official data obtained from the Zambezi River Authority which manages the dam.
This comes after inflows from the Zambezi River that feeds the Kariba Dam, which is one of the world’s largest reservoirs that used to provide reliable electricity to Zimbabwe and Zambia, further dwindled.
Kariba Hydroelectric Power Station is designed to operate between the water levels of 475,50 metres and 488,50 metres in order to generate power.
But, water levels have significantly dropped. The situation will likely exacerbate, experts warned Thursday.
A year ago, water levels at the dam was 482,59, which represented 51,50% of capacity.
The depletion of Kariba’s waters is very troubling because if water in the Kariba Dam depletes to below the stipulated minimum threshold of 475,50 metres, it may only be used for recreation and fishing purposes because low water cause mechanical problems as it cannot turn turbines to generate electricity.
“The lake level continued receding, dropping by 13 cm during the week under review, before closing at 476,73 metres. Last year on the same date, the lake level was 482,59 metres,” ZRA said Thursday.
The rapidly declining water at Kariba Dam presents the real risk that electricity consumers could be subjected to deeper power cuts in the country. Currently, the power utility ZESA is unleashing daily power cuts lasting more than 18 hours daily, something which continues to hurt the economic revival efforts.
If the situation continues like this, the Kariba South Hydroelectric Power Plant, which is Zimbabwe’s largest electricity source with a capacity of 1 050 megawatts (MW), will be decommissioned soon. Continuing to drain water by generating power poses the risk of depleting the reservoir and jeopardizing chances of getting power from it next year as it may not be able to build sufficient stocks to support significant power output until April next year, when Zambezi River’s flow starts peaking strongly.
This is because 80% of water flows into Zambezi is from Angola, DRC and Zambia, among other catchments in the north of the flood plains. The remaining 20% is from Zimbabwe, which has only two rivers which supplies water into Kariba namely Sanyati and Gwaai rivers.
Water from the north passes through the barotse plains or wetlands, which suck huge amounts of water first and eventually release into the Zambezi River when saturated at the peak of the rainy season around February and March.
Usually, a strong flow of the mighty Zambezi River is noticed in Victoria Falls, which is about 120 kilometres upstream, in around March or April of each year, meaning that Kariba Dam receives its optimum inflows around May, with the dam’s water levels reaching optimum levels around June.
Kariba South Hydroelectric Power Plant is generating less than 200MW due to low water levels caused by a severe drought.
Zimbabwe, last year, commissioned an additional 300MW at Kariba, its biggest investment in electricity in more than 25 years.
Former President Robert Mugabe’s purported mausoleum at the National Heroes Acre has turned into a sore sight after it was dumped uncompleted by government.
Mugabe died on September 6 at the Gleneagles Hospital in Singapore.
Burial was to be delayed by up to a month to allow a team to erect the mausoleum. Amid family disputes, President Mugabe was eventually buried at his Zvimba rural home on September 28.
There are mixed views over the unfinished mausoleum where former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe had initially been set to be buried at the National Heroes Acre.
This led to the abrupt stop to the mausoleum construction and the workers just left their equipment there, including wheelbarrows.
The incomplete structure has brought an ugly sight to the otherwise majestic national shrine. It could not be immediately established what will happen to the structure as it is highly unlikely that it can be transferred to a hero in the future.
Chief Mutoko, real name Phillimon Nyachoto, said it is a taboo for a grave prepared for someone to be used for another person’s burial place.
“Patsika dzedu dzechivanhu zvinoera kuti guva kana bwiro rachererwa mufi rigozoradzikwa umwe asiri iye warwakachererwa,” said Chief Mtoko.
“Anyone found doing such practice can be fined by traditional chiefs,” he added.
However, New United Apostolic Faith church leader, Apostle Stephen Mangwanya said there is nothing sinister in burying someone in a grave prepared
for a specific person quoting Biblical Scriptures.
“Biblically there is nothing bad in laying to rest the body of a person not prepared for that grave like Jesus Christ who was buried in a grave bought by Joseph for another person,” said Apostle Mangwanya.“Biblical Joseph of Aramathia requested to take body of Jesus Christ and bury it in the grave he had bought for someone and was allowed to do it.
“In that passage of Holy Scriptures, we learnt that rich people or famous people can be used by God in preparing places of burial for humble and anointed people of authority.
“In the same vein, one of the richest people, Biblical David prepared wealth to build a temple of God but God did not allow him since he had caused the death of many people.
“God gave that grace to David’s son Solomon and in relation to the Mausoleum built for former president’s burial, I want to believe it must be finished and be prepared for another humble, anointed and man of authority.
“Let it be finished and remain protected awaiting someone who has not caused more blood to spill be buried there,” said Apostle Mangwanya. One of the church members who was following the late Josiah Magama Tongogara commemoration proceedings yesterday said the unfinished mausoleum is an eyesore.
“Look at that, the unfinished job has left the respected place defaced and I do not know the reason why they are leaving the scaffolds and building tools scattered at this historical place,” said the church member refusing to identify self.
Partson Jaure has returned to Dynamos after his contract with Manica Diamonds has expired.
The defender rejoins the Glamour Boys on a one-year contract. He becomes the side’s first signing of the pre-season.
Jaure, 29, left Dynamos in 2014 to join University of Pretoria in South Africa. He returned to Zimbabwe two years later and played for Ngezi Platinum Stars before a short spell in Zambia with BuildCon in 2018.
The centre back was one of the most outstanding players for the Gem Boys in the 2019 season.
Meanwhile, Manica Diamonds might lose more players who are being linked with other clubs.
These include Last Jesi, Carlton Munzabwa, Roderick Mufudza, Lawrence Masibera and goalkeeper Tafadzwa Dube.
It’s alleged that the players have not had a good working relationship with the technical team even when Johanisi Nhumwa took over the reins from Luke Masomere.
Own Correspondent|Aston Villa duo Anwar El Ghazi and Trezeguet came under a lot of criticism from the Villa Park fanbase despite Dean Smith’s side winning.
A number of Aston Villa fans have been commenting on Twitter about their 1-0 win over Norwich City on Boxing Day and Villans midfield duo Anwar El Ghazi and Trezeguet were both slammed by sections of the fanbase.
El Ghazi and Trezeguet were named either side of Jack Grealish, but while the Villa captain put in a superb display, his teammates on the wings both flattered to deceive, spurning numerous chances and not exactly tormenting the Canaries defence.
In the end, substitute Conor Hourihane popped up with a much-needed winner, which saw Dean Smith’s side finally end their losing run, but despite the victory, there were still question marks regarding the displays of several players, El Ghazi and Trezeguet amongst those who copped the most flak.
Trez and El Ghazi are half hearted too many times on and off.— RachyAVFC (@RachyAVFC) 26 December 2019
Wesley offers nothing, Trezeguet and el ghazi offer next to nothing need something else #avfc— tonksy (@dicktonksy) 26 December 2019
If only the following could be part exchanged or just swapped:
El Ghazi Trezeguet El Mohammady Wesley#avfc— Omar Ahmad (@OmarHolte) 26 December 2019
Not the half we needed. Problems for me are Trezeguet and El Ghazi, don’t offer an out ball and can’t beat a man. Jota and Kodjia on please #avfc#utv— Dan K (@NorthernVillan) 26 December 2019
We desperately need a couple new wingers in January. Trezeguet and El Ghazi have been worse than useless so far today. Missed chances, giving the ball away, slowing down play. #avfc#avfclive— Alex Middleton (@alexYYC) 26 December 2019
Trez and El Ghazi are just nowhere near prem standards. El Ghazi shows it in flashes but Trez just looks awful week in week out.— Adam Wheeler (@wheeler_avfc19) 26 December 2019
Defensively we have looked good so I wouldn’t make any changes their but Trez and El Ghazi have been awful I would say bring Jota on but his so slow.— The Religion – AVFC (@AVFC_Religion) 26 December 2019
We may as well get rid of the wingers. Trezeguet is pants and El Ghazi has 1 good game in 5. Play a 3-5-2 and use the wing backs as wingers and play more narrow. #AVFC— (@RHUTV170) 26 December 2019
Trezeguet & El Ghazi continue to be enigmatic, both have produced goals & assists for #avfc this season. Shown flashes of their quality but also their inconsistency. Neither consistently track their fullback but partly due to us not retaining the ball well enough. Hope for better— Lee Inman (@LeeInman4) 26 December 2019
Aston Villa remain in the Premier League’s bottom three, a point adrift of West Ham, who have a game in hand, and up next for the Villans is Saturday’s trip to another relegation-battling side in Watford.
A Delta beverages haulage truck and a Toyota D4D were early today involved in a head-on collision at the Redcliff fly-over along the Gweru-Kwekwe highway, leaving three people dead.
The driver and two passengers died on the spot while one person was critically injured.
The accident was confirmed by Midlands police spokesperson, Inspector Joel Goko who was at the scene who said that the accident occurred around 8 am.
Goko said that the driver of the Toyota D4D twin cab who was driving towards Kwekwe attempted to overtake Kombi which at continuous lane resulting in the head-on with the Delta vehicle.
He added that the kombi which the Toyota driver tried to overtake was also involved in a pile-up but passengers in the kombi did not sustain serious injuries.
The seriously injured passenger who was in the Toyota was rushed to Kwekwe General Hospital. – State Media/ The Herald
BY DR MASIMBA MAVAZA |Abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of “malfeasance in office” or “official misconduct”, is the commission of an unlawful act, done in an official capacity, which affects the performance of official duties. Malfeasance in office is often grounds for a for cause removal of an elected official by statute or recall election. Unfortunately our vice presidents are not elected officials and they become laws unto themselves.
Zimbabwean law says that a police officer can only arrest a person if they are wanted on a warrant or if they have “reasonable belief” that someone might have been involved in a criminal offence, or be about to commit an offence, and they therefore believe it is necessary to arrest them. From former Vice President Mphoko coming to Vice President Mohadi coming to Vice President Chiwenga the law has been broken willie nilly. The actions of all three amounts to abuse of power but since none of them is elected their actions are covered in a rob of normalcy.
Starting with Mphoko at a police station Mohadi in Beitbridge and Chiwenga and all his former wives, the hand of illegality is clearly seen.
In order to allege a wrongful arrest, the allegation would hinge on two main things:
1. Whether the officer should or shouldn’t have believed that the person may have been involved in a criminal offence or about to commit an offence
2. Whether or not it was necessary to conduct an arrest
The law demands a neccessary discretion and inquiries could have been continued without an arrest taking place, then a wrongful arrest may have occurred if it is proved as above.
The officer’s belief at the time of the arrest can also be questioned and come under scrutiny after the event, especially if it appears that it was unreasonable for them to suspect the individual of a crime or suspect that the individual can escape before the arrest.
Zimbabwe has set the social media alive with the arrest of Marry Chiwenga. the question borders on the legality of the arrest and whether the Vice president abused his office to order a hit on his wife in order to settle a domestic fight.
Because of the Human Rights laws which exist, whenever an arrest is made, the person arrested always has the right to be treated humanely and be treated with respect. Marry Chiwenga was nabbed while she was bathing dragged from the bathroom naked while her children looked. The kids screamed as the mother was being dragged to the car like a criminal condemned to death.
The arrest of the wife of the VP and a very powerful man in the country shows that the vice president was indeed aware of the arrest. seeing that the previous night there was a family meeting where Marry dressed down the VP. The meeting ended at a very bad ending. the contents of this meeting will be fully published on the near future.
However there are two points to ponder. 1. Was it necessary to arrest before the investigations are completed. ws it neccessary to arrest the wife of the vice president in a manner befitting the second lady of the country.
The arresting details took the oportunity to announce their arrest – although they may not be allowed to make the phone call themselves the news was all over the social media suggesting that the arresting details let the dogs out. Although she was allowed to Seek legal advice and consult with a solicitor in private her dignity was violated when man came to arrest her while she was in her bathroom .
But it is important that we check the Vice president’s history with women before we throw Mary Chiwenga under the bus.
Chiwenga has been married and divorced several times. His known first wife is in Mozambique and is a war veteran. He then married another ex-combated who now lives in Nuneaton in United Kingdom and have four children, all boys.
Soon after he cohabited with a Harare socialite and businesswoman only identified as Mwamuka.
Their relationship went sour after Mwamuka one lunchtime turned up at the officers’ mess at KG6 barracks and lashed out at Chiwenga. She scolded him that he was not man enough and barren. This was caused by Chiwenga’s alleged infidelity.
She told him of his poor bed performance in front of his colleagues.
Chiwenga was so embarrassed and the wife was later restrained. But Chiwenga swore to deal with her.
Chiwenga parted ways with Mwamuka soon after in a very barbaric way.
In 1998 he later married Jocelyn Jacobsen (née Mauchaza) who was a waiter at Jobs Nightspot in Harare and they divorced in 2012.
There were no children from his marriage to Jacobsen, but in June 2009, as the wife of Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) commander, grabbed the triplets of a poverty-stricken mother who appealed for help on national television.
Jocelyn Chiwenga is reported to have pulled up at the young mothers Unit F lodgings in a convoy of Mercs, accompanied by army bodyguards and said she was taking the three babies.
The whereabouts of those kids is unknown today. Their divorce ended so bitter and went all the way to Supreme Court exposing a vast amount of wealth.
Chiwenga also dragged his ex-wife to court over missing guns telling the courts Jocelyn used to beat him up with fists.
Chiwenga with his influence used the military to evict and bar her from his properties. Jocelyn was humiliated as she was manhandled by the soldiers when they stopped her from entering in the properties she had lived during their married life.
In 2011 he married Marry (Mary) Mubaiwa, a former model and wife of footballer Shingi Kawondera, while still married to Jacobsen.
Marry’s relationship to Chiwenga was through the late heroine Kiki Divaris whose Miss Zimbabwe project was a prostitution ring to recruit sex workers for chefs.
In 2012 Marry bore their first child, a son, and a year later she bore a girl. In 2019, suffering from an undisclosed ailment, Marry had Chiwenga checked into a South African hospital.
A fracas arose when his wife Marry visited him. She was later charged with attempted murder.
In December 2019 Chiwenga filed for divorce from Marry citing infidelity issues, forged marriage certificate and that she takes drugs.
He grabbed his children and handed over Marry’s kids with footballers to her mother.
Chiwenga is currently linked to other two women. Reports suggest that he plans to reunite with his UK based wife, a move ZAOGA leader Ezekiel Guti has engineered Chiwenga has a son who is a pastor in that church.
The other woman is Uncle Roland Muchegwa’s ex-wife, Michelle Kawome.
Reports say Michelle is very unlucky when it comes to love relationships.
After leaving an abusive relationship with South Africa based Zimbabwe tycoon Uncle Roland, she fell in love with a top married Harare lawyer who died behind wheels in December 2017.
Kawome recently announced she is engaged to a mysterious powerful man.
Who is it? Mystery surrounds the circumstances leading to the fatal accident that claimed the life of prominent Harare lawyer, Edmore Jori who left behind his wife and three children.
When most people think about the police committing false arrest, they think it refers to an arrest that was not supported by evidence. But this is not the standard for measuring whether the police have falsely arrested someone. To be guilty of false arrest, the police must act without authority, or beyond the scope of their powers.
For example, imagine someone whom the police arrest based on another person’s sworn statement. The evidence later shows the sworn statement was a lie. However, as long as a judge found the statement reasonable at the time and issued a warrant based on it, the police acted properly in making the arrest. In this situation there is no case of false arrest against the police because they have the authority to arrest those they reasonably suspect of having committed a crime.
By contrast, suppose a police officer arrests someone because that person insulted the officer or did something the officer didn’t like. Insulting an officer is not a crime, and unless that officer has another reason to make an arrest, he is acting illegally. It’s possible, though unlikely, that a prosecutor could charge the officer with false arrest.So of a senior officer feels insulted and instructs a government body to cause an arrest this is a clear abuse of power.
So the arrest of Marry Chiwenga even though there is prima facie evidence the instructions to arrest came from an interested party.
The vice president descended into the arena and got mixed up by the dust of the game.
The case of Marry Chiwenga is so tainted with victimisation such that the Vice President has to prove that he is not involved in a domestic case which threatens to turn the nation and government’s institutions a personal property to be used in family fights.
The arrest of Marry Chiwenga came hours after Marry refused to leave the Borrowdale house. was it a matter of if you can not leave You will be arrested.
Jocelyn was kicked out by the army that was clear abuse of the army. Marry was dragged out naked straight to jail. Would this be abuse.
Vice president Mphoko would go to a police station to release criminals and Vice president Chiwenga will call the whole institution of government to arrest his wife to settle a domestic problem. The qualities of our vice presidents God have mercy.
In Beitbridge Mohadi unleashed the police on his wife to settle a domestic issue.
What has gone wrong with our leaders. This does not reflect the ways of ZANU PF.
Norton independent legislator Temba Mliswa has opened up on his relationship with President Emmerson Mnangagwa saying though he is his cousin, he has never abused the relationship for corrupt dealings.
Posting on Twitter today, Mliswa said;
I have never made it a secret that @edmnangagwa is my cousin from the paternal side, Didymus Mutasa is my uncle from maternal side but politically they have never done anything to propel me. That’s the reason my politics is in Mash West where they don’t have influence
I come from Shurugwi& in my political journey have never represented the people from where I lived. I never came from Hurungwe West, my farm was in Hurungwe Central; currently I live in Borrowdale&yet represent Norton. These are areas where these relatives have no influence.
Thus politically I have made my own paths and not benefitted from any nepotism. In fact I have suffered because they feel that if they do anything for me people will think there is nepotism.
All the same don’t expect or require of me to insult them over political issues or differences because one, they are my relatives and secondly my elders. I simply critique objectively where I feel there is need. After politics there is life and we meet in other arenas.
When I meet @edmnangagwa mostly all I do is push for people who I feel have genuine concerns, where corruption is happening, where injustices have been perpetrated and the affected are being blocked from reaching him. I don’t compromise myself.
Being related to @edmnangagwa has never been a medium for corrupt shortcuts to getting anything or unfair advantage over anyone. I’m my own politician and yet still retain human values to respect him both as national leader and an elder.
Thabo Mbeki, the former President of South Africa, was recently in Zimbabwe to explore possibilities of institutionalising inter-party dialogue in order to improve political cooperation for reasons still to be fully unpacked. Mbeki’s conclusion is that currently there is a window of opportunity for talks but no space for a government of national unity as created in 2009. I hope when Mbeki completes his power analysis he will find the wisdom to include in his dialogue framework civil society and representatives of the commissioned commanders of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) who wield immense power behind the scenes.
During the exploratory phase, the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC A) was clear that it wants inter-party democratic dialogue to deal with transitional justice and national healing, political and economic reforms, international re-engagement and legitimacy deficit. On the other hand, the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) wants multi-party dialogue to deal with sanctions, international re-engagement, and economic crisis and legitimacy question. It sounds like there is congruence across some issues but the devil is in the detail and this is a subject for another article.
For now, I posit that despite the call for dialogue, democratic compromise will be difficult for many reasons. These include ZANU PF leaders’ sense of entitlement to rule due to their participation in the liberation war that led to Zimbabwe’s independence from British colonial rule in 1980. However, equally important but understated is that Zimbabwe is in a perpetual election mode. My reading is that the electoral mind-set dominates the governing mind-set in day-to-day politics. Consequently, the political leaders are not likely to see the need for meaningful compromise but calculations for 2023 general elections. Candidates in an election mode are more effective in rallying supporters by articulating hard line positions, casting opponents as ‘enemies’ and positioning themselves as the unwavering bastions of the national soul. However, campaigning is one thing and governing is another. The later requires compromise.To avoid compromise political leaders will seek to advance arguments based on ‘principle’ and seed perpetual mistrust of each other. Yet most of what politicians call principles are interests. For example, the ZANU PF ruling elite’s resolve to defend ill-gotten properties under the guise of defending national sovereignty is not principle but interest.
Mbeki will realise when the dialogue reaches the implementation stage that in Zimbabwe electoral campaigning does not end on the voting day. Rather it starts on the very same day. The polarised positions will remain rigid especially towards 2023 as the general election looms. The MDC A will have to listen to the ‘boots on the ground’ who want them to remain radical and rigid. These are the party foot soldiers that do the campaigning. On the other side, Mnangagwa will need to show a face of courage [even a fake one] to appease the commissioned commanders of the ZNA that sustain his party. Most party hardliners across the MDC A and ZANU PF will view leaders who compromise with mistrust in such a polarised polity. Not to compromise is seen as improving one’s political profile among die-hard members of the party. Contrary to this is that most of the general supporters who bear the day-to-day suffering of the ZANU PF misrule see democratic compromise as a source of strength not as a sign of surrendering and signifying end-of-life.
The major problem is that without democratic compromise what wins is the status quo. Yet compromise must not be for the sake of compromise. If it improves the status quo, it is an essential part of the democratic process. Let me not detour from my postulation, that within the framework of a pending general election, no effective dialogue is likely to take place in substance but in optics. Perhaps it is time to rethink innovative political solutions that are tailor made to Zimbabwe’s specific problem.
Farai Dziva| FC Platinum striker Mkhokheli Dube believes the newly-crowned Castle Lager Premier Soccer champions can put behind their opening two defeats in the CAF Champions League and stage an upset when they face the Egyptian giants Al Ahly today.
Lizwe Sweswe’s charges lost to Al Hilal and Etoile du Sahel, and also face what appers to be an uphill task when they face the former African champions in their own backyard but Dube is not reading much into that.
“We are happy that we won the domestic league but now we have since shifted focus to the African Champions League,” Dube told Kick Off Magazine.
“We are not reading much into the losses in our first two games we are going there to win,” he added.
Farai Dziva|Khama Billiat is the only foreign international who has made into the ABSA Premiership Team of the Decade.
The list was compiled by SuperSport TV.
Billiat first made a name for himself at Ajax Cape Town when he joined the side at the turn of the decade.
He moved to Mamelodi Sundowns three years later and became a core member of the star-studded squad that won the 2016 CAF Champions League.
The Zimbabwean also won a couple of individual honours including the 2016 ABSA Premiership Player of the year and finished second in the CAF Player of the Year – Based in Africa.
The 29-year old also won three league titles, a Nedbank Cup and Telkom Knockout trophy, all with Sundowns.
Meanwhile, other big names in the Best XI include goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune, Siphiwe Tshabalala, Teko Modise, Opa Manyisa and Orlando Pirates legend Lucky Lekgwathi.
Pep Guardiola’s title-chasing Manchester City surrendered a 2 goal lead to eventually go down 3-2 to impressive Wolverhampton Wanderers at the Molineux Stadium on Friday night.
The Citizens, who were looking to respond to fellow title-chasers Liverpool’s emphatic 4-0 victory over Leicester City on Thursday night, surged ahead in the 25th minute when Raheem Sterling scored from the rebound of a penalty, which had been saved twice by Rui Patricio owing to the intervension of the Video Assistant Refree (VAR).
Sterling doubled City’s advantage five minutes after the restart as Guardiola’s charges looked to have had the three points in the bag.
That was not be however, as Adama Traore pulled one back for Wolves, which marked the start of a remarkable come back for Nuno Espirito Santo’s men .
Raul Jinamez made it 2-2 in the 82nd minute to set up a mouth-watering finale.
Matt Doherty netted the winner with a minute of regulation time remaining to compound more missery for City, who are now 14 points behind Liverpool, with the Reds having played one game less.Soccer 24
At his peak, Johannes “Tshisa” Ngodzo was virtually unplayable and clearly destined to be one of the best local football players of his generation, but he never managed to reach that pinnacle, through no fault of his own.
What was supposed to be the dawn of a new era for Ngodzo rapidly descended into a nightmare as he suffered a debilitating injury during the Warriors’ historic Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) 2004 qualifying campaign.
Ngodzo had hoped to use the Afcon finals as a launch pad to strike a contract outside the country but fate had it otherwise.
The former Bosso midfielder suffered a horrific injury while playing for the Warriors against Eritrea in June 2003 at the National Sports Stadium in an Afcon qualifier.
Ngodzo failed to recover in time as the Warriors qualified for the first time for the finals that were held in Tunisia and had to briefly hang his boots while aged only 26 — a crucial moment when players of his age where on their peak.
Ngodzo is a victim of harsh realities of footballers and he surely ranks among those who never got lucky enough to enjoy a fulfilled and lucrative career, with endless prestige.
Throughout that historic Afcon qualification campaign, Ngodzo was a vital cog of Sunday Chidzambwa’s midfield alongside the likes of Lazarus Muhoni, Esrom Nyandoro and Tinashe Nengomasha.
During that moment it was never difficult to predict how far Ngodzo could have gone in his career but, fate had other ideas for him.
“I was devastated when I was injured, especially after being told that it was a bad injury. I love football — I would have played until I was 40 or so if I was good enough,” Ngodzo reveals to the Daily News on Sunday.
“My dream was always to play outside the country, especially in Europe. But that’s how life is. It doesn’t always work out the way we plan. I was enjoying my football with the national team until I suffered that injury.”
It’s heart-warming; at least, to Ngodzo knowing he gave the fans he played in front of plenty of memories with his trademark “signature” dribble.
Ngodzo was not an ordinary talent and his rise was meteoric and sensational.
It started for him in the modest surroundings of Highlanders’ Under-14 side, where he built up a reputation as one of the finest young talents at the club under the guidance of the legendary Ali Baba Dube.
Although there was already a wealth of talent available to Rahman Gumbo, who was coaching Bosso’s senior team then, Ngodzo’s talent would eventually see him make progress.
His tremendous attacking prospect helped him journey through the various Bosso youth ranks before finally breaking into the senior side while still at Mzilikazi High School.
During that era, Highlanders possessed some tremendous midfield talent with Ngodzo having to compete with such players like Blessing Gumiso, Thulani “Biya” Ncube, Siza Khoza, Charles Chilufya and Richard Choruma.
“It was an amazing feeling and I was very happy to be integrated into the senior team,” Ngodzo recalls.
“I had no problem settling because my brother (Zephaniah) was also playing for the team and he encouraged me a lot. I grew up watching them play and playing alongside them only motivated me to be like them.
“Playing for Highlanders was all I wanted when I was young and there was no way I would have wasted that opportunity.
Bosso was the team I grew up supporting and I knew what it meant wearing that black and white jersey.
“Also, the senior players were very supportive, they encouraged me a lot as well as my coaches so I wanted to repay the faith they showed in me.”
At the time, Gumbo hailed Ngodzo as one of the best emerging talents in the country backing him for success and his words were somewhat prophetic, with the attacking midfielder wasting no time in launching his Premier League career with impressive displays.
Ngodzo eventually became an integral part of the Highlanders team which saw the Bulawayo giants winning the league championship in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2006.
Ngodzo’s exploits for the Bulawayo giants would eventually attract national team coach Chidzambwa.
Having already represented the country as a 17-year-old in the Cosafa Cup, Ngodzo was reunited with some of his teammates like Nengomasha, Tapuwa Kapini in the history-making senior Warriors side.
“Pulling on the national team jersey was the pinnacle — I was lucky enough to play at every level, through to the senior side, and there is no bigger moment in your life,” Ngodzo recalls.
“Every player wants to play for the best team in the country and I played for Highlanders. Also every player wants to play for the national team and for me those were my best days wearing the national team jersey.
“I can’t forget that Afcon qualifier campaign where I had played all the matches except one because of that injury. It was one of the most difficult moments in my career but I thank God I overcame it.
“Even up to now with the form that was in even I had travelled to Afcon probably I would have been scouted and signed by foreign club. I, however, feel blessed for the opportunity God afforded me.”
Ngodzo is grateful for the support he got from his family and friends when he was battling against that injury which ensured he was not the same even when he recovered.
“My wife and my brothers stood by me during that time of need,” he added.
“There were there for me, encouraging me that everything was going to be fine. Even friends and the whole country, people encouraged me to stay strong. Unfortunately, I couldn’t fully recover and when I came back it was difficult and life was never the same.
“I came back after a long spell but it was difficult.
I featured for Highlanders but I could tell it was now difficult. I even joined Bantu Rovers at some point before eventually calling it quits aged 33.”
In his own words, Ndodzo views his playing time as a career filled with a mix of “massive highs and massive disappointments”.
“All along I have had massive highs and massive disappointments — maybe at times I didn’t always make the right choices, but I have no regrets at all about any of it. It’s part of being a professional athlete, that you get those highs and lows,” Ngodzo says.
“I have always been passionate about the game and that passion has never dipped — I love training, I love playing. But I am also very grateful to the game for giving me a job doing something I love and some unreal experiences. It’s done and I can move forward into the next chapter.”
The next chapter in Ngodzo’s career will now be of his exploits in the dugout trying to help young footballers make the great step into European football.
So far it is looking promising after he guided Bantu Rovers to the Southern Region Division One championship at the end of this season.
Depending on the outcome of the impasse between the Zimbabwe Football Association and the Premiers Soccer League regarding relegation and promotion, Tshintsha Guluva might be playing top flight football next year.
“I was coaching the Bantu juniors until I was promoted to the senior side and it’s something I really enjoy. I do it for the love of it, just like I played football for the love it,” Ngodzo says of his new career path.
Credit – dailynews, Bosso Live
Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has said his team must forget about catching up with leaders Liverpool and focus on overtaking second-placed Leicester City.
Guardiola stated this while addressing the media, following a 3-2 defeat at Wolves on Friday.
The champions blew a two-goal lead, after keeper Ederson was sent off in the 12th minute.
The result means City stay third behind second-placed Leicester and unbeaten league leaders Liverpool, who are 14 points ahead of them.
“It’s unrealistic when it’s 14 points to think about Liverpool.
“We think about Leicester, we have the chance to recover second position.
“Still we are third, I know the quality of the team but that’s the situation.
“In the last two previous seasons we are used to winning a lot of games and being at the top fighting.
“Now we are far away so we have to adjust mentally to the situation and prepare for the next games.
“We have to move on, we played the first season and it was quite similar to this but in the second and the third we were there all the time and winning all the time.
“Now this season in some situations and after some mistakes we are far away, we have to catch the second one and see where we are at the end,” Guardiola said.Ghana News
Marry Chiwenga (nee Mubaiwa), the estranged husband of Vice President
Constantino Chiwenga , has rubbished the allegation that she attempted to kill her husband while he lay prone on a South African hospital bed.
In her bail application through her lawyers Mtetwa Nyambirai Legal Practitioners, Marry argued that the South Africans would have swiftly investigated the “incident” as it could have jeopardised relations between the two countries. She said:
This is impossible because such reports do not exist, for the simple reason that the incident did not occur as alleged or at all.
No doctor who respects his professional standing will be made to perjure himself.
Surely, a serious incident such as an attempt on the life of a sitting vice president with its potential to embarrass relations would have been reported in South Africa and investigated promptly.
Marry further contended that when Chiwenga was in China receiving treatment, he requested President Emmerson Mnangagwa to arrange for her to travel to see him.
She added that Chiwenga also sent US$30 000 for her personal upkeep and use.- Daily News
The estranged husband of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga , Marry Chiwenga (nee Mubaiwa) faces a lengthy period in jail if convicted of charges of breaching Exchange Control regulations, fraud and money laundering, and murder allegations she is facing.
In opposing bail for Marry, prosecutor Albert Masamha told the court that the offence of fraud attracts up to 35 years, while Money Laundering provides for imprisonment for up to 25 years.
He said:
Releasing the applicant on bail is, therefore, likely to jeopardise and erode public confidence in the justice system.
… it is the respondent’s submission that the sentence for attempted murder is also severe in the event the applicant is convicted.
The offence of fraud provides for imprisonment not exceeding 35 years, whilst Section 8 (8) of the Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Act, Chapter 9:24 provides for imprisonment not exceeding 25 years.
Marry has been in remand prison ever since she first appeared in court nearly two weeks ago.
On Friday, the High Court postponed her bail application and appeal hearings to Tuesday next week.
She is being represented by Mtetwa & Nyambirai Legal Practitioners.- Daily News
Farai Dziva|Norton MP Temba Mliswa says COSAFA boss Philip Chiyangwa is well connected such that ZIFA boss Felton Kamambo is too small to fight him.
Chiyangwa is also hosting the UEFA president, Aleksander Ceferin who arrived in the country for a ten-day private visit.
Mliswa posted on twitter:
“Phillip Chiyangwa hosting UEFA boss Ceferin is indeed a great occurrence and shows how Fidza is well connected.
Kamambo and Machana are indeed small boys who can’t do him anything. Well done Fidza for promoting tourism through football.
Kamambo and his pals should read the writing on the wall, Fidza is connected and dethroning him is a waste. He should now help us remove these guys. He has been given this task together with the SRC i don’t know why he has not started, investigations on them should start.”
Farai Dziva|Norton MP Temba Mliswa says COSAFA boss Philip Chiyangwa is well connected such that ZIFA boss Felton Kamambo is too small to fight him.
Chiyangwa is also hosting the UEFA president, Aleksander Ceferin who arrived in the country for a ten-day private visit.
Mliswa posted on twitter:
“Phillip Chiyangwa hosting UEFA boss Ceferin is indeed a great occurrence and shows how Fidza is well connected.
Kamambo and Machana are indeed small boys who can’t do him anything. Well done Fidza for promoting tourism through football.
Kamambo and his pals should read the writing on the wall, Fidza is connected and dethroning him is a waste. He should now help us remove these guys. He has been given this task together with the SRC i don’t know why he has not started, investigations on them should start.”
Farai Dziva|Norton MP Temba Mliswa says COSAFA boss Philip Chiyangwa is well connected such that ZIFA boss Felton Kamambo is too small to fight him.
Chiyangwa is also hosting the UEFA president, Aleksander Ceferin who arrived in the country for a ten-day private visit.
Mliswa posted on twitter:
“Phillip Chiyangwa hosting UEFA boss Ceferin is indeed a great occurrence and shows how Fidza is well connected.
Kamambo and Machana are indeed small boys who can’t do him anything. Well done Fidza for promoting tourism through football.
Kamambo and his pals should read the writing on the wall, Fidza is connected and dethroning him is a waste. He should now help us remove these guys. He has been given this task together with the SRC i don’t know why he has not started, investigations on them should start.”
Farai Dziva| Zanu PF has been criticized for attempting to push party propaganda into Winky D’s new album.
Respected Masvingo based analyst Jeffryson Chitando said the ruling should not abuse the popular musician’ s song in a bid to propagate its meaningless ideology.
ZANU PF Patriots wrote on Twitter:
We love Winky D’s new album
We have used his song here as background to clarify what we imported as it’s meaning in our situation.
HERENTALS Football Club reportedly offered US$3 500 to the Bulawayo Chiefs camp in an effort to manipulate their last game of season and survive the dreaded chop.
According to well-placed sources, after hearing about the carrot was dangled by the Innocent Benza-led club, the powers that be at Amakhosi Amahle reportedly instructed that their players’ mobile phones be confiscated 24 hours before the match that was played on 14 December at Luveve Stadium.
The match ended 1-0 in favour of the students, but Chiefs managed to survive the chop.
Contacted for a comment Twitter Kings’ communications officer Thulani “Javas” Sibanda could not comment on an underhand issue that is being handled by the Premier Soccer League.
“We can’t comment on an allegation is being dealt with by PSL,” said Sibanda.
Chiefs reportedly notified the PSL about Herentals’ alleged underhand dealings, claiming that an official from the Students (name withheld) and another from a Bulawayo-based club (name withheld) first made overtures to “bribe” coach Thulani Sibanda before turning to the players after the Chiefs gaffer dismissed their approaches.
PSL chief executive officer Kennedy Ndebele confirmed to our sister paper The Chronicle that Chiefs raised dust on Herentals, who also have a pending case for allegedly “buying” the 3-0 win against Black Rhinos in October.
“As for the outcome of the Herentals disciplinary hearing for the alleged match manipulation against Black Rhinos, we are still waiting for the disciplinary committee to deliver its verdict.
It’s also true that investigations are ongoing after Bulawayo Chiefs raised match-fixing allegations against Herentals after the final match of the season. The league will release a statement soon after the holidays,” said Ndebele.
Herentals were charged alongside their official Oliver Chirenga, who allegedly “masterminded” the plan to manipulate the result against Rhinos in their quest to survive relegation.
PSL chief executive officer Kennedy Ndebele told Chronicle that a verdict will be passed after the holidays.
“As for the outcome of the Herentals disciplinary hearing for the alleged match manipulation against Black Rhinos, we are still waiting for the disciplinary committee to deliver its verdict,” said Ndebele.
“It’s also true that investigations are ongoing after Bulawayo Chiefs raised match-fixing allegations against Herentals after the final match of the season. The league will release a statement soon after the holidays,” added the PSL supremo.
If found guilty in any of the two cases, Herentals are likely to be docked points which will leave them in the relegation zone.Chronicle
IF you are a man who likes to have sex out of wedlock, be sure to always wear some armour on your crotch.
The advice came following an incident in which a Zvishavane man reportedly passed out after his enraged wife lunged at him and grabbed his testicles in a vice-like grip after finding out he had impregnated their maid.
It is reported that on Saturday last week, during a heated argument at their home, Emily Svondo flew into rage and gave her husband Amos Mangoma a real piece of her mind when she forcibly grabbed his genitals and repeatedly squeezed them until he fainted.
According to a source when Svondo from Makwasha suburb latched on to her husband’s balls, she screamed saying he will never have sex again.
Svondo, the source said, was angry that her husband had relegated her by making her share his magic stick with their maid who was later sent packing.
“Trouble started after the seemingly suspicious Svondo asked their pregnant maid the man who was responsible for her pregnancy.
When the maid revealed that it was her husband who had impregnated her, she (Svondo) repeatedly assaulted her with open hands before she bolted out of the house to confront her husband who was sitting at the verandah,” said the source who preferred anonymity.
The source further said the couple started quarrelling before the argument got physical as they exchanged blows.
“During that furious row the wife violently grabbed her husband’s genitals and squeezed them while shouting that he was not going to have sex again.
The man who possibly could not bear the pain was writhing in agony thereby attracting the attention of their quick-witted neighbours who rushed to the house and rescued him by rendering first aid,” said the source.
Mangoma, who was overcome
with giult for having wronged his wife, refused to report her to the police.
After the near tragic incident, Mangoma’s parents who apparently felt their son was no longer safe at the hands of his wife took him to their rural home in Mazvihwa.B-Metro
I will give a comprehensive analysis and analogue on the banality of the the concept and discussion on what happened after the Gesthmane experience. If you remember very well following the events closely Jesus’s trial had a lot of legalities and the issues had complex phenomenon. There were so many short cuts which the high priests made in order to ensure that his ministry was cut short and he would be eliminated. What lessons do we learn or drew from this experience :
1. Politics exists even in the church.
2. Never focus on the enemy but on progressive factor
3. Pray for your enemies
4. You must always have a clean heart before God
5. Tread cautiously so that when your enemies will find it difficult to nail you
6. In everything that happens on you, Glory to God
7. Never fight back.
Then Simon Peter , who had a sword, drew it and struck the highpriest’s servant, cutting off his ear. His name was Malchus. Malchus in the hebrew version is translated as melek means king. According to scholars, impeccable sources clearly indicates that he participated in the arrest of Jesus in the garden of Gethsmane .
The narrative and the context depicts the natural discourse of the imperical evidence of what exactly transpired.
The bottom line is Jesus was arrested foe trumped up charges which were baseless with a false narrative and deceptive agenda to crumble and cut his ministry short.
Coming closer home, there are people who love you, and they are those who hurt you. Some have caused scars and some have graves on them, some have finger prints and foot prints on each and every evil prevailing in our lives. Our progress has been derailed because of our own, some have mocked us, and some of our own best friends, close relatives, inner circle members, kinsfolks have participated in our crucibles. We have so many life crucibles which have denoted our christian values and separation of christian values and life circumstances is detrimental.
Some have lost household goods, residential stands, houses, employement contracts, their beloved ones, spouses, partners, some have poisoned others, dirty politics and many other evil treacherous things but the bottom line is God loves you and pray for them. LEARN TO SAY BY GONES ARE BY GONES, PAST IS PAST, LET’S MOVE ON. Pray for them and demonstrate the love of Christ by putting the ear back despite that he or she is your enemy. Think of those who have hurt you, wake up and pray for them. Some have transmitted the deadly virus on you, some have done the worst, children outside the wedlock, so many other things we can talk of, it is time to move on and bury our difference.
Let’s be sincere and genuine to those who love and those who don’t love you. Jesus could have called ten thousand legion of angels to protect him, but he died alone on the cross to set us free and accomplish the mission. Let me say this way a struggle which he won. The battle was accomplished on the cross.
The battle is not yours, but God’s. Never fight battles that you will never win.
– Wake up @3 am and pray for your enemies and those who love you and move on.
– When you give don’t look at what that person or individual will do for you.
– Do good always.
– In Shona they say ” Ukaita zvakanaka vazviitira”.
Thrive for Excellence
Think Brilliant
Think positively
Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo writes in his personal capacity as a scholar and he can be contacted at [email protected]
A FOUR-month pregnant married woman drank poison and her stomach exploded leading to her death, after she was caught having sex with another man from her village.
The incident happened last week on Monday at Mairosi Village, Chisina 3, Ward 25 in Gokwe South.
A family source who requested anonymity said: “Reuben Mutemarinda (42) came home from a beer binge and found his wife Ruth Kaurosi (34) having sex with Everisto Dzivarepasi. He tried to grab him, but he fled in boxer shorts and left his trousers and a shirt.”
A villager, Trynos Mataruka, said the deceased apologised before she killed herself.
“She apologised to her husband. But later on, she went to a nearby bush where she drank a cotton pesticide. She vomited and her stomach started to bulge. It burst while she was being ferried to Gokwe District Hospital where she died,” said Mataruka.
Mataruka added: “Initially her husband refused to collect the corpse, saying Ruth must be buried at Dzivarepasi’s place. Some family elders tried to reason with him, but he stood his ground.
They had to report the matter to Chief Chisina who intervened by ordering Mutemarinda to collect the corpse and bury it. The burial was done last week on Thursday at Mairosi Village after the body had spent four days at the mortuary.”
Contacted for a comment Chief Chisina confirmed the incident.
“I can confirm that a woman Ruth Kaurosi (34) from Mairosi Village drank poison and later died at a hospital.
Her stomach burst. But what worried us as community leadership is that Reuben Mutemarinda (42) was refusing to collect the remains of his wife from the mortuary. He was saying she must be buried at Dzivarepasi’s place as he feels she disrespected him by sleeping with someone on their matrimonial bed,” he said.
Chief Chisina added: “I had to order Mutemarinda and his family to bury the deceased and I told them that any issue will be discussed after the burial.”
Chief Chisina said as of now he cannot comment on how Dzivarepasi will be punished.
“As for now I cannot comment on Dzivarepasi, I will wait for a report from Mutemarinda, after that I will be in a position to comment,” he said.
Ward 25 councillor, Chisina 3, Shungu Maruza said: “This is a shocking incident and I would like to advise members of the public to seek counselling whenever they encounter problems in their marital lives or at home in general.”
Mutemarinda said he would consult his family before formally reporting the adultery matter to the chief.
“I have to consult elders and kraal head Mairosi, after that I will make an official report to the chief because what Dzivarepasi did has lowered my dignity in the society and it’s the reason behind my wife’s death,” he said.
Efforts to get a comment from Dzivarepasi were fruitless.B-Metro
A FOUR-month pregnant married woman drank poison and her stomach exploded leading to her death, after she was caught having sex with another man from her village.
The incident happened last week on Monday at Mairosi Village, Chisina 3, Ward 25 in Gokwe South.
A family source who requested anonymity said: “Reuben Mutemarinda (42) came home from a beer binge and found his wife Ruth Kaurosi (34) having sex with Everisto Dzivarepasi. He tried to grab him, but he fled in boxer shorts and left his trousers and a shirt.”
A villager, Trynos Mataruka, said the deceased apologised before she killed herself.
“She apologised to her husband. But later on, she went to a nearby bush where she drank a cotton pesticide. She vomited and her stomach started to bulge. It burst while she was being ferried to Gokwe District Hospital where she died,” said Mataruka.
Mataruka added: “Initially her husband refused to collect the corpse, saying Ruth must be buried at Dzivarepasi’s place. Some family elders tried to reason with him, but he stood his ground.
They had to report the matter to Chief Chisina who intervened by ordering Mutemarinda to collect the corpse and bury it. The burial was done last week on Thursday at Mairosi Village after the body had spent four days at the mortuary.”
Contacted for a comment Chief Chisina confirmed the incident.
“I can confirm that a woman Ruth Kaurosi (34) from Mairosi Village drank poison and later died at a hospital.
Her stomach burst. But what worried us as community leadership is that Reuben Mutemarinda (42) was refusing to collect the remains of his wife from the mortuary. He was saying she must be buried at Dzivarepasi’s place as he feels she disrespected him by sleeping with someone on their matrimonial bed,” he said.
Chief Chisina added: “I had to order Mutemarinda and his family to bury the deceased and I told them that any issue will be discussed after the burial.”
Chief Chisina said as of now he cannot comment on how Dzivarepasi will be punished.
“As for now I cannot comment on Dzivarepasi, I will wait for a report from Mutemarinda, after that I will be in a position to comment,” he said.
Ward 25 councillor, Chisina 3, Shungu Maruza said: “This is a shocking incident and I would like to advise members of the public to seek counselling whenever they encounter problems in their marital lives or at home in general.”
Mutemarinda said he would consult his family before formally reporting the adultery matter to the chief.
“I have to consult elders and kraal head Mairosi, after that I will make an official report to the chief because what Dzivarepasi did has lowered my dignity in the society and it’s the reason behind my wife’s death,” he said.
Efforts to get a comment from Dzivarepasi were fruitless.B-Metro
POLICE officer stationed at Madlambuzi Police Station in Plumtree, who pretended to be the husband to his fellow officer’s wife in order to have se_x with her, has been arrested and will appear in court soon for rap_e.
According to a source close to the couple, the accused knocked off from duty at around 10pm on 17 December and went to a bar.
He found the victim’s husband taking alcohol at the bar and dashed to his colleague’s house.He found the victim’s wife just having retired to bed. The accused sneaked into the bedroom.
“He went straight to the window and closed window curtains and got into the blankets. He slept behind her and started to rub his erect manhood against victim’s butt0cks while at the same time touching her all over her body,” said a source close to investigations.
The victim could not sense that the man was not her husband.
“She touched and kiss_ed him. She even turned to face him,” said the source.
The victim’s beard sold him out.
“During se_xual intercourse the woman felt the beard prickling her, after that she became suspicious and removed the blanket and noticed that the person who was poking her wasn’t her husband.
Soon after that the intruder who had seen that he was caught quickly apologised before he rushed outside the house to his place which is 40 metres away from the victim’s house,” said the source.
“She screamed to alert neighbours, but no one came.
She informed her neighbour Merby Moyo. Later on when her husband came from the bar she narrated the se_x ordeal to him. He advised her to make a police report,” said the source.The intruder vehemently denied the allegations.
“When our bosses (names supplied) questioned him he denied ever sneaking into his neighbour’s house and having se_x with his colleague’s wife.
He said he is a married person and respects his wife,” said a source.
BY DR MASIMBA MAVAZA |Abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of “malfeasance in office” or “official misconduct”, is the commission of an unlawful act, done in an official capacity, which affects the performance of official duties. Malfeasance in office is often grounds for a for cause removal of an elected official by statute or recall election. Unfortunately our vice presidents are not elected officials and they become laws unto themselves.
