A ZVISHAVANE man walked in on his 60-year-old wife having sex with a 15-year-old boy on their matrimonial bed, leaving their marriage of 31 years on the rocks.
The incident which left villagers of Chimurenga-Chrome Dry in Neta tongue-tied happened on Saturday at around 9PM. Villagers said the lovebirds had been having sex behind the man’s back for “a long time.”
Sakhele Khumalo, 63, told the the state media he is sending his wife Elizabeth Khumalo packing. He said he never wanted to hear his wife’s name mentioned in his presence as she had exposed him to the ultimate humiliation by engaging in extra-marital sex with a boy young enough to be her grandson.
Elizabeth denied she was caught with the boy (name withheld because of age), and said she would only leave her husband if they shared their property.
“Elizabeth has done the worst thing imaginable. She has committed adultery with a boy the age of her grandson. I can’t take her back, she has to leave my home and the property she’s demanding will only be moved from my home over my dead body,” fumed Khumalo.
Villagers narrated how all hell broke loose on Saturday when Khumalo got a tip-off about the affair.
They said he was not on duty at his workplace but pretended to Elizabeth that he was going to work at night.
“He left home around 7PM, boarded a lift towards work before disembarking after some distance. He went to a relative’s homestead only to go home around 9PM. Upon arrival, he peeped through the window and was taken aback by Elizabeth who was screaming like a teenage girl with sexual excitement. An emotionally charged Khumalo then quietly locked the door from outside with steel wire before rushing to inform his relatives who had long known about Elizabeth’s mischief,” said a villager.
Khumalo and his relatives were treated to “pornography” as the two nude lovers were still caressing each on his bed, when the relatives smashed the door. “On realising that they had been caught, the two bolted out of the rooms naked while holding their clothes before disappearing into the darkness. Up to today, no-one knows where the boy is,” said the villager.
Elizabeth flatly denied the affair but confirmed that she had marital problems with her husband.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m a God-fearing woman who wouldn’t dare do such a degrading thing in society. While I can confirm that we’ve marital problems with my husband, what people are saying is a lie. We’ve problems like any other family and our issue is being handled by the police as Khumalo is refusing to release my property,” said Elizabeth.
A villager, who identified himself as Michael Ndlovu, told the state media the teen had been having an affair with the granny behind Khumalo’s back for a “long time.”
“The affair between Elizabeth and the boy had become the talk of the village. Khumalo used to regard the boy as his son who does piece jobs in the village. He never thought he could be a rival suitor,” said Ndlovu.

One of Zimbabwe’s renowned historians and educationist, Dr PhathisaNyathi, has vowed to write history that includes Gukurahundi as it is known, rather than distorting the truth out of fear.
He was addressing guests at a recent talk –show which was organised by Her Zimbabwe, an organisation headed by FungaiMachirori, who is daughter to one of Zimbabwe’s best female journalists and former Chronicle editor, Edna.
“History must not be distorted because of the writer who would want to be self-censored for fear. If one cannot write the truth about the Zimbabwean history, then he or she must just desist from doing so, because only the truth is needed for tomorrow’s generation,” said Nyathi. [continue reading…]

The former secondary school teacher and headmaster spoke hard on people who pretend to be historians, but behind writing half-baked information that will further misinform the next generation.
Several speakers who were at the Bulawayo club for the event, expressed fear on telling the truth about Gukurahundi which was the worst nightmare for the people of Matabeleland, because this is when thousands of Ndebeles were slaughtered  in the name of restoring order in Zimbabwe.
Former Minister of the defunct Ministry of National Healing, David Mzila-Ndlovu, was has been quoted in the media expressing that his mother was killed during the Gukurahundi era. He revealed that his mother was tied onto a vehicle and dragged leading to her murder by the fifth brigade in the mid-80s.
Nyathi also told the Matabeleland youths  present at the talk-show, to stand up for the truth, and also to be brave if they want to achieve their goals. “You must stand up and rise to the truth, don’t be self-censored, because you will compromise the truth,” added Nyathi.
Raisdan Baya, an artiste and novelist, also appealed to the youths to be united and also to be bold on everything they want to do in life. His sentiments were also echoed by Soneni Gwizi, a disabled broadcaster and activist, who strongly discouraged fear and lack of confidence among the new generation.

At a time when the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) is struggling to pay its own workers , the parastatal has splashed thousands on media-‘flowers’ splashed on First Lady Grace Mugabe, attracting criticism even from people such as ZANU PF prolific activist Fidelis Fengu.
 
ZESA paid for advertorial flowers in the public media congratulating First Lady Grace Mugabe for her appointment as Zanu PF secretary for Women’s League.
 
The move has caused outrage as analysts said Zesa was a public institution and it was not right for them to spend public money for partisan political party interests.
 
Following the appointment of Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and former Ambassador to South Africa Phelekezela Mphoko as first and second Vice-Presidents respectively, new 10 ministers and Grace as secretary for Women’s League by President Robert Mugabe, Zesa has placed several advertisements on the public media, congratulating them for their appointments.
 
Youth empowerment activist, who is also a Zanu PF member, Fidelis Fengu said he believed that ZESA is an institution meant to serve the wishes of the people and should not be spending money on politics.
 
“Zesa should not spend any money on the politics of the nation,” he said.
 
“They should stick to their core business.
“They have no business trying to please politicians.
“Yes, the First Lady was chosen by the people, but the same people expect ZESA to deliver on its mandate, even the First Lady wants the people to be happy, so if Zesa spends money on politics even the First Lady won’t be happy.”
Human rights and governance expert, Dewa Mavhinga said Zesa’s “sycophantic congratulations” to the Vice-Presidents and Grace showed just how partisan and politicised State institutions have become.
“In a properly functioning democracy, heads of state institutions like Zesa should not be boot-licking politicians to keep their posts, they should simply deliver professional services like reliable electricity to Zimbabweans,” he said.
“Unfortunately, in Zimbabwe, state institutions compete to align themselves with Zanu PF in order to survive — all professionalism is gone.”
Western region chairman of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions Reason Ngwenya described the adverts as an abuse of public funds.
“As a public institution it is no doubt that the money they use to place those advertisements in the media are from us,” he said.
Women of Zimbabwe Arise leader, Jennifer Williams also said the abuse of the public funds from Zesa started at the time when the ministers ordered the channelling of funds from the parastatal to fund the First Lady’s campaigns.
“It is grossly irresponsible for Zesa to channel funds to political activities,” she said.
“It is not corporate responsibility as this is happening at a time when there is rampant load shedding, some institutions like schools are not electrified yet Zesa priorities funding Zanu PF programmes.”
Zesa is already in the eye of a storm, as some within Zanu PF have claimed that money was taken from the parastatal to fund fired Vice President Joice Mujuru’s campaigns.
The parastatal’s congratulatory messages may be seen as a face-saver from the parastatal, as former Minister of Energy Dzikamai Mavhaire and his deputy Munacho Mutezo were fired for allegedly siphoning money from Zesa to fund Mujuru’s so called factional activities.
Efforts to get a comment from Zesa failed yesterday, as officials’ phones went unanswered. – Newsday/Additional Reporting

In a bizarre situation that may force Chief Njelele to call for another traditional Indaba to look into a witchcraft quagmire that has rocked his homeland of Gokwe, a man in his late 60s demanded the life of a snake which was killed by Nyaradza township residents in the agro-town last week.
The snake which was causing unrest for the residents of the mentioned suburb, was entering houses of the residents and eating their foodstuffs at night. According to Ms Sibongile Gwabe, “the snake would open basins and feed itself from our left over meals. I saw the reptile with my own eyes eating from our dish at midnight while sitting on its tail, and I was at a loss of words,” she said shaking her head.
The neighbours organised and set a trap for the troublesome reptile and surrounded it, after they sprayed paraffin on all possible ways out. The residents then hit the snake with logs before taking it outside for view by the anxious crowd, who have estimated it to be close to two metres long.
Gwabe alerted her neighbours who thronged the place in droves as they also had seen the reptile in their houses before. The fellow citizen then teamed up and killed it before burning the reptile in paraffin and plastic papers fire.
“The snake started rising in the flame, (somewhat) threatening to free itself, but we were prepared to deal with it severely, because we wanted to have peace,” said another resident who identified herself as Mai Rudo.
As if it was not enough, in the early hours of the morrow day, an old man of about 68 years visited all the neighbours who gathered to kill the reptile and threatened with death if they don’t bring life to the snake they killed the previous night.
Nyaradza Township is a middle suburb in Gokwe town, with a population of a little over 3000 people. They reported the man to their residents’ chairperson, who alerted the police. The Gokwe Police referred the issue to Chief Njelele, as they said it was was more to do with cultural repercussions, carrying no criminal element in it.
Asked to comment, Chief Misheck Njelele blamed all witchcraft issues in his area on gluttony and egocentricity. “I will have to meet with my colleagues this time to clear off all evil doers from Gokwe. We have been tarnished enough and we have had enough of these issues,” he said angrily.
Last time an owl picked a male matured dog in broad day light during a traditional meeting that was called by chief Njelele to deal with witchcraft issues, and he had to call for an urgent meeting concerning the issue.
Gokwe has in recent years been awash with witchcraft scandals that left property investors with numerous questions on whether to build or not.

ZANU PF’s expelled Secretary for Administration, Didymus Mutasa is consulting on options of getting political protection from India where he is domiciled at present.
ZimEye caught up with Mr Mutasa on Monday morning who spoke on his wife’s condition and replied back on the foreign protection issue. Mutasa who revealed he is seeking the assistance of foreign governments to deal with Mugabe, emotionally and abruptly fired back when further drilled in particular on his hopes of getting political asylum as speculated at the weekend. “I do not speak to the press (about that),” he said.
Mutasa however revealed his latest protest and attempt to get sympathy of foreign governments as he declared that Robert Mugabe is breaching the country’s laws. “The current Zanu-PF constitution which was adopted at the 6th congress swings all votes to the president alone and violates the supreme law of the country. It is therefore null and void,” he said.
The final outcome of Mutasa’s latest consultations were not clear at the time of writing as he refused to answer back any further.
Mutasa earlier in the year infamously earned the title “Gamatox” when he fired apparent threats to annihilate people considered a national nuisance by him. He was heavily criticised by First Lady Grace Mugabe in her whirlwind rallies as she taunted: “Pansi leGamatox!,” shortly before being sacked by the party for good.

ZANU PF politburo members at the weekend torched storm when they likened Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa to God. During a party hosted by Mnangagwa at his rural home in Zvishavane, Mnangagwa was showered with the praises as he was also referred to as “a crocodile that could have struck in 1980 but did not as it does not hunt but waits for its time.” [ALSO READ – Mnangagwa Says God Wears Gushungo Label Clothes]
News readers reacted in anger learning of the development with some crying blasphemy.” ZPF is inviting a serious judgment upon themselves. This is blasphemy of the highest order,” wrote one infuriated reader.
Report by The Standard| Choruses of praise-singing and idolising shifted from President Robert Mugabe and the First Lady to new first VP Emmerson Mnangagwa who yesterday hosted a huge party at his Zvishavane home to celebrate his elevation to the new position.
Dozens of politburo and central committee members and senior military officers attended the party during which officials lined up to sing praises to Mnangagwa who is odds on favourite to succeed President Mugabe.
Masvingo political supremo and Psychomotor minister Josiah Hungwe likened Mnangagwa to Jesus Christ, referring to him as the “Son of Man.”
Asked to introduce Mnangagwa, Hungwe went into overdrive, showering Mnangagwa with colourful adjectives and likening him to “The Holy Son of Man”. He said his rise was planned by God.

A Harare ZRP police officer who took a service pistol and last month allegedly went on a robbery spree, is in court for crime which he connived with two other accomplices.
Mr Kudakwashe Godini (28) hatched a plan with Nicholas Zvirevo (27) and Witness Chako (39) to rob Harare residents and were stopped during their first raid in the city, according to state papers for the charges currently on trial by Harare magistrate Mr Milton Serima.
Godini booked a pistol at Kuwadzana Police Station which he used to commit the offence.
The State, led by Mr Sebastian Mutizirwa, opposed bail on the basis that the trio was facing a Third Schedule offence. Mr Serima remanded them in custody to December 29 this year.
He advised them to apply for bail at the High Court.
It is the State’s case that on November 14, the three proceeded to Simon Mazorodze flyover armed with a pistol. Pursuant to their plan, they attempted to raid the complainant who was walking along the flyover where Godini pointed a gun at him.
The gang ordered him to lie down or risk being shot.
In a movie style raid, the complainant jumped from the flyover and landed on top of a vehicle, which was passing by under the footbridge, before they could rob him.
The complainant reported the matter to the police, leading to the arrest of Zvirevo, who then implicated the other two. – State Media

Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has torn into ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa who he calls an architect of ZANU-ZAPU unity from as early as 1972, as he said the latter should be the last person to seek to revive ZAPU.
Speaking at the weekend, VP Mphoko poured cold water on Dabengwa weakening  the latter’s efforts to recover properties seized by Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF during the infamous Gukurahundi massacres in which 22,000 Ndebeles were killed.
Mphoko’s statement comes as Dabengwa announced his party has managed to compile all assets seized by Mugabe and is finalising court procedures for their ultimate reclamation.   “We have come up with an inventory in order to reclaim our property…Our legal team is currently making consultations on the quickest possible methods of recovering the properties,” Dabengwa said last month.
But the VP, a ZIPRA war veteran who was Dabengwa’s junior, described Dabengwa’s work as futile and of void any legal standing. He said the Unity Accord (of 1987) signed between Robert Mugabe and the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo is fully in force 42 years after it was envisioned and 27 years after it was signed.
“It is surprising that Dabengwa claims to be reviving Zapu because he was a pivotal player in the unity between Zapu and Zanu as early as 1972,” he said.
He continued, “We were together in Mbeya and as chairman of the revolutionary council he was the one responsible for sending myself and Lookout Masuku to go and talk to the Zanu leadership about the need for unity. The unity which was later sanctified by the Unity Accord of 1987 has its roots during the struggle and Dabengwa is aware of that,” Mphoko added.

Harare – Former Zimbabwe presidential minister Didymus Mutasa has called on President Jacob Zuma to alert other southern African governments about the ruling Zanu-PF’s congress last week in which he said he and vice-president Joice Mujuru were sacked from their posts undemocratically.
“We refuse to be chucked out of Zanu-PF which some of us have been in for 57 years,” Mutasa said on Saturday from India, where his wife is having medical treatment.
“We fought for ‘one man, one vote’ majority rule, which is not provided for in the current Zanu-PF constitution adopted at the 6th congress,” Mutasa said. “It gives all votes to the president alone and violates the supreme law of the country. It is therefore null and void, all that transpired at the 6th congress.”
He added: “We call on Zanu-PF to work as it was before the 6th congress which was itself unlawful,” Mutasa said. He was referring to the fact that loyalists of President Robert Mugabe and opponents of Mujuru had unilaterally changed the procedures for electing top party officials just before the congress.
Where before the top officials had always been elected by delegates at the congress, this year the party’s constitution was changed to give Mugabe the sole power.
“We appeal to SADC to adopt our position,” Mutasa said on Saturday, referring to the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the southern African inter-governmental body of which both South Africa and Zimbabwe are members.
He also appealed “to Zimbabweans to remain peaceful as we strive for the democracy that we fought for”. South Africa, on behalf of SADC, mediated the regional efforts to resolve Zimbabwe’s political crisis which came to a head in the 2008 elections when the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and its leader Morgan Tsvangirai beat Zanu-PF and Mugabe but were never allowed to assume power.
Then President Thabo Mbeki mediated negotiations among Zanu-PF and the two MDC parties for a power-sharing government which ostensibly ran Zimbabwe from 2009 until elections last year, although Zanu-PF never really relinquished control.
Zuma took over from Mbeki and mediated negotiations among the three Zimbabwe parties to try to secure a level political playing field for the 2013 elections but never really succeeded as they were held under conditions highly favourable to Zanu-PF.
Mugabe and Zanu-PF won by a landslide.
Mutasa was in charge of the vast Central Intelligence Organisation and reported directly to Mugabe as its unaudited funds come from the presidential budget.
A columnist in a privately owned Harare newspaper on Friday described Mutasa, one of Mugabe’s most loyal insiders, as one of the main “grovellers” in the cabinet prior to his dismissal last Tuesday.
Mutasa , from the eastern Manicaland province, was often accused by human rights groups and local opposition supporters of organising violence against them since the MDC emerged late 1999.
Mutasa, who has grabbed several farms from white farmers near Rusape since 2000, has allowed one evicted white farmer to grow tobacco for him on the farm Coldstream.
A Zimbabwe columnist, known as Muckraker, had little sympathy for the plight of Mujuru and her supporters. “Why didn’t Mujuru stand firm (against) violence in the ruling party… and why wouldn’t she realise Zimbabweans wanted clean water, electricity and decent life while she was on the gravy train?” he asked on Friday.
Independent Foreign Service

Warning -Images are of a disturbing nature.IN PICTURES – MKD National Secretary Liberty Mukwakwami who police claim was killed by a crocodile last Saturday. FULL STORY –

IN PICTURES – MKD National Secretary Liberty Mukwakwami who police claim was killed by a crocodile last Saturday. FULL STORY

POLICE in Mwenezi are hunting for a 26-year-old man, the second in three months, who was caught red-handed engaging in sex with a neighbour’s donkey.
The incident happened midday on November 30 when Tasisine Musara of Village Two, Petronella Farm, Chief Chitanda, Mwenezi was caught red handed sexually abusing a heavily pregnant donkey.
Musara was found by Silos Mvuta, a fellow villager.
Noticing that he had been caught, Musara took to his heels and Mvuta went to report the case to the police.
Masvingo police spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Kudakwashe Dhewa said police are on the lookout for Musara after he disappeared from the area soon after being caught red-handed in the act of bestiality.
“We have launched a man hunt for the man, since the day he was caught engaging in sex with the female donkey he has never been seen in the area again.
Assistant Inspector Dhewa said provision of the Criminal Law Codification Act Section 9:74 make it an offence for anyone to engage in sex with an animal. . State Media

An A Level female teacher at Gwindingwi High in Bikita ran through the streets naked last week when she was allegedly caught red-handed making love to a married teacher in the same school.
Vimbai Sithole was allegedly caught making love to Admore Mhere by his wife. Sithole sneaked out of the house naked and ran through the streets with Mhere’s wife in hot pursuit.
Mhere is a senior teacher in the same school.
Mhere refused to comment and referred all the questions to the District Education Officer (DEO), Lawrence Jenjedza.
“Talk to the District Education Officer, I am not allowed to speak to the Press,” said Mhere.
Jenjedza confirmed the incident but said investigations were still going on.
“Yes, I received such a report but I can not divulge further information” said Jenjedza.
Sources said Mhere and Sithole who are both teachers at Gwindingwi High and are neighbours in Duma Residential Suburb at Nyika had a relationship and they used Mhere’s homestead in Chikwadzi Village under Chief Marozva as their love nest.
Mhere’s wife got a tip off and set up a trap before pouncing on them while they were having it on the matrimonial bed. Sithole managed to sneak out of the house and ran naked for about two kilometres.
The irate wife tried to chase her but was outpaced leaving her with no choice but to approach the district education offices, where she launched her complaint to Jenjedza. mirror

A report by the State Media which says that expelled ZANU PF members allegedly aligned to former Vice President Joice Mujuru, have turned on each other, is a desperate hoax by the Jonathan Moyo controlled broadsheet, analysts have revealed.
A report in the Sunday Mail claimed stating “Senior Government and Zanu-PF officials who were booted out of office in recent months for their parts in a plot to unseat President Mugabe have turned against each other, trading accusations on who is to blame for their demise.”
The report which speaks of the sacking of Mujuru, seven ministers and a deputy minister, is nothing more than base speculation, political analyst Gracian Ncube said of the news article which claims certain individuals are back-biting each other in a desperate effort to save their skins and prove that they succumbed to “peer pressure”.
But the Sunday Mail journalists do not quote anyone else apart from faceless sources only stating they “understand” that, former Energy and Power Development Minister Dzikamai Mavhaire and his Deputy Engineer Munacho Mutezo are no longer in good books, Mr Ncube said
He continued, “surely to think that a learned journalist sat down to write a 1000-word article based on mere “understanding,” which is clear speculation and without for once consulting the very source they allege did these things can only show a political journalist out to achieve an agenda ,” said Ncube.
“Within the whole report, you can see sophisticated mash-meshing of details bent on one thing, to create a factual precedent that will be grounds for pursuing what they started at the first, which is to prove that Joice Mujuru was planning to assassinate Mugabe,” he added.

Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said he will not seek to punish so called Joice Mujuru supporters and haters who “attempted to assassinate” him last Wednesday. He signaled he will neither revenge on his rival for the Presidency Joice Mujuru the state media alleges was trying to assassinate President Robert Mugabe.
Mnangagwa saying his escape from the Wednesday (last week) morning cyanide attack meant God still wanted him alive, repeatedly emphasised that he will pursue forgiveness and unity, in a speech analysts charge that it was just a borrowed sermon of Bishop Andrew Wutaunashe of the Family Of God church who is currently advising him.
“We dislodged the British who were oppressing us and this was achieved in 1980. Since then, we have been a sovereign state. We have been advocating unity. We want people to love and protect each other,” he told the State Media.
He continued, “the fact that I have received some threats on my life has nothing to do with our focus to unite our people, protect each citizen’s life.
“The sense of revenge is satanic. What happened does not affect bold people like us. The fact that I did not die means that it was not my time to die. When God’s time comes, no man born of a woman shall escape.”
On Tuesday night, intruders sneaked into Mnangagwa’s offices at Zanu-PF headquarters in Harare and sprinkled a poison on the floor and furniture.
His secretary,  Catherine Magaya, who was the first to enter the room on Wednesday morning, collapsed instantly upon inhaling the powder.

She is admitted at Harare’s West End Hospital.
Two other people – a driver,  Dzingai Mutasa, and a member of the President’s Office – were also admitted after inhaling the substance.
Magaya has said she has witnessed several bizarre occurrences in her boss’s office prior to Zanu-PF’s 6th National People’s Congress.
She recounted how a rock fell “from nowhere, landing on shef’s (chief’s) desk” and missed her head by just an inch.
Magaya also related another incident in which she twisted her neck while in what she described as a trance after opening VP Mnangagwa’s office door.
Police are investigating the poisoning case.
He was addressing State Media journalists at Queen of Peace Psychiatric and Rehabilitation Centre in Gweru.
 
 
Borrowed Speech   
Meanwhile analysts charged against Mnangagwa saying he is a very vengeful man who was merely reciting a speech of his spiritual advisor Bishop Andrew Wutaunashe.
“He is just reciting what he has been told by pastor Wutaunashe,” said the South Africa based Stanca Dhliwayo.
“I have attended Wutaunashe’s church services and anyone in the church will tell you those are the Prophet’s words,” he added.

Newly-appointed Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday escaped unharmed after his official Mercedes-Benz crashed into a truck on a section of Harare’s Enterprise Road.
The accident occurred after the driver of a T35 truck carrying wedding materials stopped abruptly in front of VP Mphoko’s motorcade.
A passenger in the truck was the only one hurt, sustaining injuries whose extent could not be immediately established.
National police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba last night said the VP was quickly whisked away from the accident scene.
“I can confirm that Vice-President Mphoko was today (yesterday) involved in an accident along Enterprise Road, in the area close to the Forestry Commission. He escaped unhurt but his vehicle was damaged.
“A T35 truck which was carrying wedding material made a sudden stop on the road. Two vehicles, which were part of the Vice-President’s convoy and which were travelling in front of the Vice-President’s vehicle, successfully managed to swerve to the other side to avoid the T35.
“However, the Vice-President’s driver was unable to avoid the truck and rammed into the back of the T35, resulting in both vehicles being damaged. The Vice-President left the scene of the accident unharmed. Only one passenger who was in the T35 truck sustained injuries.”
VP Mphoko was sworn in by President Mugabe in Harare on Friday, alongside VP Emmerson Mnanganwa and seven new ministers and one deputy minister.
The accident brings into question the safety of VIPs.
In October, VP Mnangagwa, who was solely Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister at the time, escaped death by a whisker after the Mercedes-Benz he was driving was involved in an accident with a vehicle owned by Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare.
Witnesses said he was driving due east along Herbert Chitepo Avenue when the a vehicle travelling in the opposite direction made a sudden turn and encroached into the right lane, colliding with VP Mnangagwa’s car.
Both right-side doors of his vehicle were extensively damaged while the other vehicle had minor frontal damage.

ALSO READ: Vice President Mphoko Lucky Escape from Car Accident  | State Media Version:
A disturbing rumour gripped social networks Saturday evening claiming that Zimbabwe’s new 2^nd Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has been involved in a car accident.
Details were sketchy at the time of writing with claims that the Vice President escaped the damaged vehicle unhurt. It is his wife who has had to be rushed to the hospital, the report claimed.
UPDATED: Vice President Mphoko Lucky Escape from Car Accident  | State Media Version:
 
Telephone calls to ZANU PF Information and Publicity Secretary Simon Khaya-Moyo were failing at the time of writing.
The rumour did not state the location of the accident.
The rumours were flamed up due to the usual nature of death through accidents of high profile politicians in the country. Several officials have died in mysterious circumstances in recent years the latest being that of former Deputy Minister of Mines,  Edward Chindori Chininga; and another being that of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa in October which some ZANU PF officials claim was meant to hurt the new VP.
The development comes shortly after Mphoko’s colleague Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa survived a cyanide poison attack on his offices which nearly slew three staff members.

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has called on the nations of African to stop recognizing the International Criminal Court in The Hague, citing a bias against the continent’s leaders.
According to Reuters, Museveni told a Kenyan audience, speaking in Swahili, “I will bring a motion to the African Union’s next session. I want all of us to get out of that court of the West. Let them [Westerners] stay with their court.”
The Ugandan leader was speaking in Kenya at a ceremony marking the 51st anniversary of the country’s independence from British rule, attended by the Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. In 2012, the ICC charged Kenyatta with five counts of crimes against humanity which he allegedly committed during 2008 post-election violence in Kenya. On December 5 the ICC announced the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence.
Reuters reports that Kenyatta declared at the ceremony, “I ask you all to join me in supporting my deputy and his co-accused, as they also await their overdue vindication.” Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto and another man, radio presenter Joshua Arap Sang, are still facing charges at The Hague. All three men were summoned to appear before the court in 2011, and charges followed in 2012.
The ICC in its statement complained of non-cooperation from the Kenyan government with the prosecution’s investigations into the case against Kenyatta, saying that “this failure has reached the threshold of non-compliance,” with the Rome Statute, the treaty upon which the ICC was established.
“Cunningly, they are putting Deputy President Ruto, someone who has been elected by Kenyans, in front of the court there in Europe,” said Museveni. “They have turned it into a vessel for oppressing Africa again so I’m done with that court. I won’t work with them again,” he declared.
The African Union is next set to meet in January in Addis Ababa for its 20th ordinary session. In October 2013 it held an extraordinary session with the framework “Africa’s relationship with the International Criminal Court.” The assembly requested the deferment of indictments against the Kenyan President and Vice President, and also the arrest warrant issued in 2009 for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for alleged war crimes perpetrated during the conflict in Darfur, which began in 2003.
The assembly also declared that no serving AU head of state should be required to appear before the ICC, and that the AU is in the process of expanding its Court of Justice and Human Rights to try international crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Africa. Sputnicnews/Reuters

Chinhoyi – A family of five escaped death through the needle-eye when their  house was burnt to near-ashes Saturday morning almost killing the 2 year old toddler who started it.

The accident happened in Brundish, Chinhoyi in a cabin house occupied by a woman and her four kids.
The fire was triggered when one of the children, a two year old, unattended, took hold of match sticks and set alight his doll’s feathers. He then threw the doll onto the bed instantly setting alight the blankets.
In a short time, the whole house was lit, and the family escaped death by a whisker. PICTURES:

MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has chosen ‘returnee’ Job Sikhala for his party’s National Executive.
Tsvangirai announced Sikhala alongside 14 other people seconded for the national executive.
The whole 15 lot have been listed as:
1. Mr Gideon Shoko
2. Hon Sibusisiwe Masara
3. Hon Sithembile Mhlotshwa
4. Hon Eddie Cross
5. Hon Sesil Zvidzai
6. Ms Memory Mbondia
7. Hon Murisi Zvizvai
8. Hon Nelson Chamisa
9. Hon Elias Mudzuri
10. Mr Clifford Hlatshwayo
11. Mr Jameson Timba
12. Mr Webba Chinyadza
13. Mr Job Sikhala
14. Ben Chiondengwa
15. Mr Denis Mudzingwa
The party also announced that ten of the party’s 12 provinces nominated three people each into the national executive and the following people were deployed by the provinces into the executive:
1. Manicaland Province
Mr Giles Mutsekwa, Mr Valentine Tinodyanawo Ziswa, Hon Fanny Chirisa
2. Harare Province
Mr Morgan Femai, Hon Costa Machingauta, Ms Revai Muguti
3. Chitungwiza Province
Senator James Makore, Mr F. G Mhashu
4. Masvingo Province
Mr Takanai Mureyi, Mr Misheck Marava, Mrs Muchirairwa Mugididho
5. Mashonaland East Province
Mr Masimba Ruzvidzo, Mr Tapfumaneyi Muzoda, Mrs Tracey Mutinhiri
6. Mashonaland West
Mr Silas Matamisa, Mr John Houghton, Hon C. Chinanzvavana
7. Midlands South
Hon Amos Chibaya, Hon Emma Muzondiwa, Hon Lilian Timveous
8. Bulawayo Province
Hon Agnes Mloyi, Mr Mpungwana, Hon Spiwe Banda
9. Matebeleland North Province
Mr Aggrippa Sithole, Hon Joel Gabhuza, Ms Sibongile Bhebhe
10. Matebeleland South
Mr Bheki Sibanda, Ms Sipho Dubvane
The following portfolio secretaries were also appointed by the President in line with the party Constitution:
1. Secretary for Economic Affairs – Webba Chinyadza
2. Secretary for National Security – Giles Mutsekwa
3. Secretary for Local Government – Eddie Cross
4. Secretary for Education Sports & Arts Culture – Fidelis Mhashu
5. Secretary for Labour and Social Security – Gideon Shoko
6. Secretary for Health and Child Welfare – Dr Henry Madzorera
7. Secretary for Agriculture Lands & Water Development – Valentine Ziswa
8. Secretary for Justice Legal & Constitutional & Parliamentary Affairs – Jessie Manjome
9. Secretary for ICT Science & Technology Development – Khaliphani Phugeni
10. Secretary for Elections – Murisi Zvizvai
11. Secretary for Industry Commerce & Trade – Jameson Timba
12. Secretary for International Cooperation – Elias Mudzuri
13. Secretary for National Healing, Reconciliation & Integration – Concilia Chinanzvavana
14. Secretary for Transport and Logistics – Beki Sibanda
15. Secretary for Domestic (Home) Affairs – Lillian Acropol
16. Secretary for Party Business Investment & Projects – Bernard Chiondegwa
17. Secretary for Tourism, National Resource and Environment – Sithembile Mhlotshwa
18. Secretary for Mines & Mineral Development – Joel Gabhuza
19. Secretary for People with Disabilities & Special Needs – Denis Mudzingwa
20. Secretary for Presidential Affairs – Sessel Zvidzai
21. Secretary for Policy Coordination – Nelson Chamisa
PARLIAMENTARY SPOKESPERSONS
1. National Security – Hon Gift Chimanikire
2. Economic Affairs – Hon. Tapiwa Mashakada
3. Health – Hon. Dr Ruth Labode
4. Elections – Hon. Murisi Zvizvai
5. Gender – Hon. Spiwe Muchenje – Banda
6. Legal Issues – Hon. Jessie Majome
7. Science and ICT – Hon. Nelson Chamisa
8. Youth – Hon. Costa Machingauta
9. Transport – Hon. Elias Mudzuri
10. Labour and Social Security – Hon. Pauline Mpariwa
The party’s organs are now fully constituted and the party is ready to execute its historical mandate to bring change and democracy in the country, the party statement further read.
It continued: “Council noted the crisis facing the people of Zimbabwe and reaffirmed that the crisis stems from the crisis of legitimacy arising from the stolen election of July, 2013. With a fractured party in government whose top priority is an unending circus of succession battles, the plight of the ordinary Zimbabwean will worsen with Zanu PF in the seat of government. There is no respite for ordinary Zimbabweans if the crisis of legitimacy, which is at the centre of the national challenges, is not immediately addressed.
Only a fresh election, council noted, will put in place a legitimate government able to transact the affairs of the State and to bring back lost confidence in the economy.
With a successful congress now behind us, the party is now concentrating on uniting the people, stabilizing the party and putting in place strategies to ensure that we win the next election.
We are definitely poised to win the next election, whenever they are going to be held.”

Meat galore in Chipinge as these boys catch some yellow frogs in water dams/ ponts after rains. This is very good meat for Chipinge locals.
The boy in the first picture with a red top is from Chibuwe growth point and attend Mutovhoti Primary School…

Expelled Vice President Joice Mujuru has denied that she is under house arrest.
Speaking from her residence in Chisipite, Harare, she said news wire reports that she had been placed under house arrest were “mere rumours”.
“I was at the farm now, who is peddling those rumours?” she asked the Daily News in a terse message yesterday.
Reports suggested that Mujuru, who was booted out of the presidium by President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday after being accused of attempting to remove her 90-year-old boss from power through unconstitutional means, had been placed under deadly surveillance.
She was sacked together with eight Cabinet ministers.
They were also accused of being corrupt and fanning factionalism within Zanu PF.
Mujuru staunchly denied the accusations.
She has since been replaced by ex-Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, who took oath of office yesterday.
Following her dismissal, she told Studio 7: “You know some people say politics is a dirty game, this time in Zanu PF it has become dirtier. I have no capacity of doing those things. There is no way, and nobody has ever even suggested to me that these things that you are trying to do VP are wrong.
“It’s politicking; these are some of the things that were started towards congress. We were some of us, especially I, not given a chance to explain even to discuss some of these things,”she said. – DailyNews

One of the Presidential secretaries who suffered a cyanide attack on Wednesday, has been discharged from hospital.
The secretary only known as “Fadzai” was Friday discharged from West Hospital where she was hospitalised following the spraying of the deadly posion in Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office shortly before he was sworn in as Robert Mugabe perceived “successor” and Deputy.
It was not possible to access medical records at the time of writing, but there was wide speculation that she was fit to go home at the time of her release. The sending home of the woman identified by the State Media as a member of the Central Intelligence Organisation, brings the number of discharges to two after a male driver of the Vice President, another casualty, was declared fit and well after treatment. Mr Mnangagwa’s own secretary Catherine Magaya remains at the institution.

Threats Are Normal.
Meanwhile Minister Mnangagwa has responded stating he is unfazed by the incident saying that death threats are a part of his life. “Threats to my life are normal. I have had these throughout my 52 years of political life; so it has become part of my life,” he told the US-based VOA Studio 7 radio station.

Mudzi – ZANU PF’s 60 Year Old Youth Leader was nearly given a bashing as farmers countrywide since Thursday went into a rage against the ruling party ZANU PF “for defrauding them of of their hard earned cash which they paid for the Goverment Inputs Loan Scheme, which the farmers are yet to receive.
There was chaos all over the country yesterday as ZANU PF officials were caught between the eyes failing to explain the causes of the ‘despicable’ chaos and as distraught farmers demanded answers.
The scheme, which was a joint venture between Lasch Enterprises and the ZANU PF Youth League, has manifested an outcry in for instance the Mudzi district. Details obtained from Chimukoko village reveals that $2 was paid to AREX, $36 administration fee and $30 insurance fee, which guarantees a 25kg of maize seed, 8x50kgs of Compound D and 6x50kgs of top dressing fertiliser, which accumulates to $68. Chimukoko alone, which has three wards, paid $6000 which was deposited into a CBZ Bank account.
There are over twenty wards in Mudzi district which culculates to about $40,000 that was swindled from ordinary people in Mudzi. “The rains have fallen in most parts of the country, and yet we are still hoping for the inputs to come. Right now I don’t have any grain to plant, and I wish I would have kept my money and buy the little inputs with that money. Rains have come, and I need to plant but the government is cross legged.” said an irate Chimukoko villager.
In Harare, Central Committee member Absolom Sikhosana was on Thursday detained overnight by angry farmers, while national director for youth affairs Tapiwa Zengeya was force-marched from the Willowvale industrial area to the party’s headquarters as farmers demonstrated against a company jointly-owned by Zanu-PF youth wing and Lasch Investment for failing to deliver inputs.
Over 15 000 farmers might have been duped of varying amounts of money they contributed to the company with the promise that they would get farming inputs this season. Sikhosana confirmed spending the whole night on Thursday detained by farmers at Cold Storage Company, before Zengeya was detained after coming to rescue his colleague.
Said Sikhosana: “I was detained by farmers on Thursday night after I had gone to explain the situation. Farmers said I was supposed to spend the night under harsh conditions so that I could understand their plight. When I tried to drive away, the farmers mobbed my car and blocked me until 4am,” he said.
“We cannot pay back farmers their money. The project relies on membership subscriptions and have since been exhausted. All along the management was trying to get support but it has not materialised. The scheme is unable to provide inputs because it has run out of money,” he said.
Police Spokesperson Charity Charamba yesterday confirmed that the farmers reported a fraud case, while Sikhosana reported a kidnapping case.

A BULAWAYO WOMAN DIED on the spot while 13 other people including two juveniles were injured when a Toyota Granvia driven by an unlicensed driver burst a tyre and rolled several times.
Survivors said the driver, Reason Moyo, was speeding while fleeing police and Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) roadblocks.
A police source confirmed the incident which occurred near Marula Business Centre along the Bulawayo-Plumtree Highway around 6PM on Thursday. Ellen Ndlovu, 41, of Cowdray Park suburb, sustained severe head and body injuries which resulted in her death.

Sacked Joice Mujuru should now concentrate on farming rather than joining other political forces, the Buhera South MP and war veteran Joseph Chinotimba has said.
“We know that Cde Mujuru is a serious farmer and she should concentrate on farming. She should not make the mistake of joining forces with oppositional forces as this will be her political downfall,” he said.
“But if she decides to be big-headed, she will fall in the same pit with some leaders we know who are wallowing in the political wilderness Allegations being levelled against Mujuru and her colleagues are very embarrassing and they should not waste their time trying to lie to the world that they are being set-up by their political enemies. If they are innocent they should prove themselves,” said Chinotimba.
Mujuru has said she is staying within the ruling party. The Zimbabwean

A ZANU PF Councillor’s close nephew has become the latest fatality after being struck by a notorious crocodile in Chinhoyi.
Councillor Makhaki Muriravanhu’s kin was yesterday attacked by the crocodile believed to be the same which struck an MKD leader at the weekend, and he was killed on the spot, according to witnesses.
The incident occured at Biri Dam on the out skirts of Chinhoyi.
Details of how the incident occured were sketchy at the time of writing and the man’s full name was yet to be released by police.
Reports however indicate that the man was fishing at the dam-side when the fateful incident occured.
The development follows the killing of Mavambo Kusile Dawn National Secreteray for Mobilisation Liberty Mukwakwami who was slain last Saturday while going for prayers as claimed by witnesses (CLICK HERE TO READ MORE)

Plans by Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC party to impeach Robert Mugabe for his firing of Joice Mujuru and replacing with Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko are utter nonsense, Constitutional Law expert Lovemore Madhuku has said.
“There is no chance for impeachment. The impeachment thing is nonsense… it doesen’t make sense,” said Madhuku.
He continued, “an impeachment is just a question of numbers in parliament. The MDC-T party don’t even have the minimum number required to have the matter discussed,” he added.
 
The MDC-T party’s spokesman, Obert Gutu, told a local daily that Mugabe has through the Mujuru expulsion violated the Constitution and because of that he can and should be impeached. He cannot violate the supreme law of the land.
“By firing Mujuru the way he did, Mugabe has violated the Constitution, as a president and his deputy can only be fired in accordance with the Constitution.
“Those are good grounds for impeaching the president. So we dismiss the purported dismissal of Mujuru as a non-event,” Gutu said.
Although analysts said yesterday that the prospects were slim for the MDC to successfully impeach Mugabe, as the party had minority seats in Parliament, the main opposition still believes that it could succeed in its mission, particularly taking into account the current disquiet in the ruling party — caused by the ongoing brutal purges of members perceived to be loyal to Mujuru.
Legal experts also say Mugabe can be impeached if the MDC can prove that he has wilfully violated the Constitution or is incapable of holding office due to physical or other incapacity.
But in order to have the necessary two-thirds vote needed to achieve such a move, the MDC would need the support of disaffected Zanu PF MPs.

ZimEye herewith exclusively reveals that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s secretaries were indeed attacked at the government presidential offices as reported Wednesday despite the Government’s bungling with investigations and reports on the incident(READ MORE- Cyanide Poison Attack on Mnangagwa, By Robert Mugabe) resulting in only the President knowing about the accident way before any journalist (including State journos) had. In the first picture is the first secretary who works in the President’s office only identified as “Fadzai” who was still hospitalised at the time of writing as prayers were being called upon for her speedy recovery. Fadzai is a traditional member of Ezekiel Guti’s ZAOGA church. The second is Mnangagwa’s usual secretary, Catherine Magaya who is also at West End Hospital. ZimEye.com will keep our valued readers informed as events unravel. PICTURES:

FORMER Vice-President Joice Mujuru, despite being sacked from government on Monday evening, will continue living off taxpayers as the Constitution says she will draw a pension equivalent to her monthly salary as long as she lives.
This is the first time Zimbabwe has had a living former vice-president as the others — Joshua and John Nkomo, Simon Muzenda and Joseph Msika — all died in office.
Section 102 of the Constitution on remuneration of president and vice-presidents states: “A person who has ceased to be president or vice-president is entitled to receive — (a) a pension equivalent to the salary of a sitting president or vice-president, as the case may be; and (b) such allowances and other benefits as may be prescribed under an Act of Parliament”.
However, according to Section 103, a former president or vice-president cannot “directly or indirectly hold any other public office or be employed by anyone else while he or she is in office or is receiving a pension from the State as former president or vice-president, as the case may be”.
Analysts yesterday said although Mujuru may remain with some of her trimmings, her sacking meant the taxpayer would have to fork more for public officials, as President Robert Mugabe is now expected to appoint his deputies.
United Kingdom-based social scientist Admore Tshuma said Mujuru’s dismissal meant more misery for taxpayers.
“This is because taxpayers will unknowingly foot the bill of maintaining Mujuru’s private and civilian life, according to the Constitution,” he said.
Tshuma said the country was finding it increasingly difficult to foot the bill of public officials, considering that 80% of the budget was for consumption not productive purposes.
Political analyst Godwin Phiri said the money she would get could not compensate for the loss of power and influence.
“She really doesn’t need the money, she has plenty of it. It is the vice-presidency and a chance to become president that she needs the most.” – SouthernEye

A Gokwe man in his 60s, and from Mbumbusi area, boasts of transporting mbanje to several towns for sell using a sophisticated method of stuffing it in goats’ intestines.
The old man who identified himself to ZimEye.com as Fanasi Ncube, boasted of having educated his children from trading in the illegal weed, and that he has been forced to improvise his own way of evading police by poverty.
Asked how he managed to avoid police road blocks, the old man said, “I did not really avoid road blocks. I would pass through the police officers, with my weeds inside goat’s intestines and then pack them on arrival to town,” said Ncube.
This reporter asked Ncube to enlighten them on how he evaded arrest, and he said, “I would lock about 10 goats in the small house and starve them for a few days, giving them only water. The idea was to clear their intestines before I start feeding them with my special weed young man. Do you know the special weed I am talking about here? It’s mbanje. I would then see to it that the goats’ stomachs are now empty. I then start feeding them with the weed and in a few minutes load the goats into the car which I will be ferrying the small beasts to town for my serious business.
On arrival to town, I usually favoured Bulawayo since the place is close to Botswana, where mbanje is on demand. I would then gather all the waste produced by goats while travelling. This waste is the best grade of the weed and we would then pack them in small 2 kg papers before transporting them to neighbouring countries for business.
For the goats, we would sell them after 10 days and after making sure that all our mbanje is out of their intestines. We would also slaughter them for celebrating our police breakthrough young man, ” narrated Ncube.
The old man further mocked this journalist for “too much of following the law”, which he said will lead many to die in poverty.
Asked to comment on the old man’s bragging, Gokwe Police told ZimEye.com that they do not comment on hearsay. “We don’t comment on speculative issues, we are a professional organisation.”
However, sources close to the police who cannot be named for reprisals, confirmed that they have at one time intercepted near-similar mbanje trade activities after a tipoff, but cases of Ncube’s trickery appear too high for cops at present.

PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE yesterday added scorn to his name by appointing uneducated former ZANU PF Women’s League leader Oppah Muchinguri to head the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development.
Oppah Muchinguri last month caused embarrassment for the First Family when she confidently and elaborately vocalised that Robert Mugabe marked his wife’s PhD thesis in what academics charge is further reflective of her limited intellect and shocking ignorance of academic procedures. Sources say her shocking intellectual poverty shows she is “a Grade7 Drop-Out” who has only built a reputation using ‘cheap’ political muscle. A sitting University of Zimbabwe lecturer has revealed that the institution regularly artificially graduates “important people” like Muchinguri and Grace Mugabe.
Besides releasing a long list of new ministers(listed below) , Mugabe has revealed his appointment of Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko as Vice Presidents of the Republic of Zimbabwe
This portfolio was held by the late Vice President and national hero John Landa Nkomo.
In terms of Section 104 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, Amendment Number 20 of 2013, that deals with the appointment of ministers and deputy ministers, Dr Sibanda said President Mugabe also appointed the following eight Ministers and two Deputies.
The newly-appointed Zanu-PF national spokesperson and former Senior Minister of State in the Office of the President and Cabinet, Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo, was appointed to the new portfolio of Minister of Economic Planning.
The Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Services is now under Prisca Mupfumira, who replaced Nicholas Goche who was sacked for his involvement in the plot to assassinate the President and replace him with ousted VP Mujuru.
Oppah Muchinguri; who was Minister of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development; has been assigned to the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development, taking over from Dr Olivia Muchena who was fired for performance below the expected standard.
She was also part of the Mujuru cabal.
An appointment for the Ministry of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development will be made later.
Former Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Samuel Udenge was appointed Minister of Energy and Power Development, replacing Dzikamai Mavhaire, who is also linked to the sacked VP Mujuru’s cabal.
Udenge will be deputised by Tsitsi Muzenda.
Manicaland Minister of State Christopher Mushohwe was moved to the Ministry of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment, replacing Francis Nhema, who is also linked to the former VP Mujuru’s faction.
Mandi Chimene — Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association spokesperson — takes over from Mushohwe as the Minister of State for Manicaland Province, while former Deputy Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Joel Biggie Matiza is now the new Minister of State for Mashonaland East Province, replacing the ousted Simbaneuta Mudarikwa.
Former Deputy Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Supa Mandiwanzira was promoted to head the Ministry of Information Communication Technology and Courier Services that was under the fired Webster Shamu.
Monica Mutsvangwa, replaces Mandiwanzira as Deputy Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa was promoted to lead the newly-created Ministry of Welfare Services for the War Veterans, War Collaborators, Former Political Detainees and Restrictees.
Said Dr Sibanda: “Please note that the newly appointed Vice Presidents, together with the following Ministers and Deputy Ministers are invited to the State House for the swearing in ceremony on Friday (today), 12th December 2014 at 1000 hours.”
They are; Mupfumira, Udenge, Mushohwe, Mandiwanzira, Chimene, Matiza, Muzenda, and Christopher and Monica Mutsvangwa.
The President fired the following ministers and a deputy for their conduct and performance which failed to meet expected standards: VP Mujuru, Minister of Presidential Affairs Dydimus Mutasa, Shamu, Nhema, Muchena, Mavhaire, Goche, Mudarikwa and Deputy Minister of Energy and Power Development Munacho Mutezo.
 
List of new VPs and Ministers
Name and Portfolio
E Mnangagwa: Vice President
P Mphoko: Vice President
P Mupfumira: Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Services
O Muchinguri: Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development
S Udenge: Minister of Energy and Power Development
C Mushohwe: Minister of Youth Development, Indegenisation and Economic Empowerment
S Mandiwanzira: Minister of Information, Communication Technology and Courier Services
C Mutsvangwa: Minister of Welfare Services for War Veterans, War Collaborators, Former Political Detainees and Restrictees
C Chimene: Minister of State for Manicaland Province
B Matiza: Minister of State for Mashonaland East Province
Tsitsi Muzenda: Deputy Minister of Energy and Power Development
M Mutsvangwa: Deputy Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services

President Robert Mugabe is trouble for breaching the constitution by his firing Joice Mujuru and appointing two Vice presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko.
Mugabe has been slapped with a lawsuit filed by Constitutional Law expert Lovemore Madhuku who is challenging the appointments of the installing of Mnangagwa and Mphoko. According to the law there should only be one Vice President under the current circumstances.
Madhuku told ZimEye.com Thursday evening, he is confident despite the late hour. “Its not late because he only announced them yesterday, we only knew that there are two Vice Presidents yesterday and there is no way you can have a hearing between now and tomorrow,” he said,
He continued, “the importance of the lawsuit is that even if he goes ahead with the installation of the Vice Presidents,…if the court rules that it was unlawful to make the appointments of two people instead of one, then they will nullify them. He will have to make a choice of which one he picks for the Vice Presidency,” he said.
“We will file tomorrow morning,” he added.
In the application Madhuku is suing Robert Mugabe as the first respondent, former justice minister Mnangagwa (second respondent), Mphoko (third respondent).
Madhuku argues that “The basis of the application is that the 1st Respondent is likely to infringe two fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution of Zimbabwe, 2013 namely (a) the right to equality before the law and equal protection and benefit of the law protected by section 56(1) and (b) the right to administrative justice protected by section 68.”
“Yesterday, the nation had three major political developments. The first was the dismissal of the former Vice-President, Honourable Joice Teurai Ropa Mujuru. She was dismissed by the 1st Respondent. The second was the appointment of the 2nd and 3rd Respondents as Vice-Presidents of Zanu(PF). The third was an announcement that the 1st Respondent intends to swear the 2nd and 3rd Respondents into office as Vice-Presidents of the country. The latter ceremony appears scheduled for tomorrow (12 December 2014),” reads his opposing affidavit.
He clarified, “the option of the President to appoint one or two Vice Presidents is only exercised soon after the President is sworn into office. Once the President has decided to appoint one vice President, he cannot change his mind and have two Vice Presidents during the same term of office. The President cannot replace Vice President Mujuru by two Vice Presidents. This is what paragraph 14, sub-paragraph 2 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution says. In specific terms, it says:
“Without delay the person elected as President in any election referred to in subparagraph(1) must appoint not more than two Vice-Presidents, who hold office at his or her pleasure”.

President Robert Mugabe told former Zambian leader Kenneth Kaunda that he was ruling Zimbabwe unwillingly.
This revelation comes amid mounting gaffes that the president, soon to turn 91, has been making.
A contact in Mugabe’s entourage told The Zimbabwean that he made the remark a month ago at the burial of former president Michael Sata in Zambia.
“KK (Kenneth Kaunda) approached him (Mugabe) and jokingly asked if he was still ruling in Zimbabwe. HE (his Excellency) joked back and said he was ruling under duress. Not many seemed to have noticed the joke but one or two heads of state whispered to each other immediately after the president said this,” said the highly-placed source.
“We have also been discussing his statement he made at Sata’s burial. It seems strange that, from nowhere, HE started talking of being forced to rule.
The questions is, by who? Maybe that is how he feels but is not telling anyone. Because of old age, some of these things sometimes get out without him knowing that is what he is saying,” he added.
Zambia has had four presidents since Kaunda was beaten in multiparty polls in 1991, while Mugabe, his contemporary still reigns in Zimbabwe.
Recent reports indicate that Mugabe is now living under the command of his wife, Grace, who reportedly forces him to make certain decisions on government and party business. Party insiders have also revealed that Grace is the one who has been ordering him to fire her political foes.
Over the years, Mugabe is said to have been held hostage by army generals and a powerful clique in his party who do not want him to retire as a way of safeguarding their ill-gotten gains.
Mugabe made another embarrassing gaffe at the recent congress when, addressing delegates towards the end, he denounced his own party inadvertently. He chanted, “Pasi neZanu (PF)—Down with Zanu (PF)!” which is a slogan normally used by political opponents.
The slip happened when Mugabe’s attention was disturbed by the intrusive Grace who had passed him a note urging him to wind up his rambling speech.
He made another embarrassing slip recently when he remarked that Morgan Tsvangirai had won the 2008 election against him by 73 percent. The army generals and war veterans he was addressing quickly corrected him.
In July, Mugabe claimed that results of last year’s general elections were announced on July 31 2013, which in fact was the date the polls were held. He was addressing party supporters at State House where Zanu (PF) was celebrating its controversial landslide victory.
The president also courted controversy during the congress when he accused Joice Mujuru, his former deputy, of trying to assassinate him using black magic, in a development many said showed his growing paranoia.
His personal spokesperson, George Charamba, could not be reached to comment on the gaffes. – The Zimbabwean

There was horror in Chinhoyi at the weekend when a top Mavambo Kusile Dawn (MKD) party official who is its respected National Secretary for Mobilisation, Liberty Mukwakwami, was attacked by a said ‘huge’ mystery crocodile at the Hunyani river while engaged in a Whatsapp chat on his way for early morning prayers.
Mukwakwami, who is a former Public Services Medical Aid Society worker and had started his own business, was with three other friends at the time of the accident, all heading for early morning prayers just before 7am.
The huge croc which is still at large and is known for notoriety, attacked the father of one while he was reading a Whatsapp message on his cellphone and while standing with his back against the river on Saturday morning, ZimEye.com has been told by eye witnesses.
“His Whatsapp shows that he was last logged in at 6:58am, MKD spokesman Evans Sagonda told ZimEye.com.

President Robert Mugabe has been caught in a storm over sex and gender bias constitutional violations, an abuse following his unilateral appointment of a male dominated presidium.
 
Yesterday Wednesday, Mugabe announced a “Crocodile dominated,” (as it has since been termed), all male presidium, which action violates strict stipulations of the New Constitution, rights’ experts have warned.
 
A day earlier President Mugabe had unprocedurally fired former Vice President Joice Mujuru replacing her with long time loyale Mr. Emmerson Mnangagwa and another man Phelekezela Mphoko. Besides the New Constitution, it has long been Mugabe’s moral stance that at least one person in the Presidium has to be female being also the reason why he in 2004 blocked Mnangagwa saying a woman, Mujuru should be given passage. Until yesterday it was speculated that Senate supremo Ednar Madzongwe would be one of the Vice Presidents which however never occurred.
Top lawyer and legislator for Harare West, Jessie Majome said due to Mugabe’s actions, section 17 of the Constitution has been jeopardised.
“Once a woman is removed it becomes unlikely that she’ll be replaced by another. The gender balance required by section 17 of the Constitution is in jeopardy from lack of political will,” she said.
Girl Child Network founder Betty Makoni weighed in saying the commotion of purgings seen in recent weeks was just an attempt to push out a woman.
“All that drama was trying to push out a powerful woman and put these plus 70 age groups of men. Their generation is not ashamed,” she said.
Meanwhile constitutional experts have voiced that Robert Mugabe violated the constitution by just writing a dismissal letter with uncorroborated allegations.
 
 
 

The trial against the Sunday Mail Editor Edmund Kudzayi and his brother Phillip being charged for being the faceless Baba Jukwa character, is set to last beyond a decade after a Harare magistrate refused to release the pair ruling that they have a potential case for prosecution.
The two appeared in court arguing that the investigating officer Crispen Makedenge could not have traveled to the United States as claimed by the prosecution as being the cause for the current delay to proceed to trial and to keep the two on remand. Investigations by ZimEye have revealed Makedenge did not at all travel to the United States (READ MORE-Baba Jukwa Case: Makedenge Denied US Visa).
Furthermore Magistrate Mr Milton Serima while dismissing the pair’s application for refusal of further remand, failed to prove that Makendege did travel to the US only stating that he believed he was part of a diplomatic delegation assigned to speak with US authorities. Mr Serima said he was convinced that a diplomatic delegation led by chief law officer Mr Tawanda Zvekare from the Prosecutor General’s office met with representatives from the department of justice in the United States of America. “I am convinced that the State is not just sitting on its laurels for it is clear that communication has taken place between the State and the justice department in the USA,” he said.
He continued saying, “while the defence had earlier argued that there was no proof that anyone went to the USA, a letter from the USA department of justice confirmed that State representatives were in that country.
“In the letter, a representative from the USA confirmed that they met with Mr Zvekare and several others and I believe Mr Makedenge was part of the delegation. This allays the applicants’ fears that the State had not been telling the truth,” he said.
Mr Serima also said that the pair’s rights were not being interfered with.
He added, “Also in that letter from USA, Mr Zvekare is indicated to have asked that the matter be dealt with urgently but the department of justice said the request required time and careful analysis.
“These developments buttress the State’s contention that this is a complex matter.
“In the circumstances, I don’t envisage a situation where it can be said that their rights are being interfered with.”
Therefore, the application was dismissed. On Monday this week, the pair, through its lawyer Mr Admire Rubaya made the application arguing that their right to trial within a reasonable time should not be trampled upon.
However, prosecutor Miss Sharon Mashavira opposed the application and urged the court to postpone the matter pending finalisation of extra-territorial investigations, saying the US department of justice and criminal division was yet to assist in the case.
It is the State’s case that sometime in April 2013, Edmund hatched a plan with Philip to overthrow the Government through unconstitutional means.
It is alleged he created a Gmail account, [email protected], using a mobile phone line registered in Philip’s name, but used by Edmund.
The two allegedly formed two separate groups called the Gunda Nleya Brigade and the Zimbabwe Revolutionary Army with the purposes of overthrowing the Government.
Edmund allegedly posted articles on the Baba Jukwa Facebook page, which encouraged rebellion against Government if the July 31 general election “were stolen”.
They are facing charges involving banditry, insurgency and demeaning the office of the President, allegations which they deny.
It is widely believed that the United States government will never collaborate with Zimbabwean law enforcement agencies as this inconsistent with that country’s foreign policy towards Zimbabwe which country remains declared a pariah state. “The only time when the US can collaborate with the Zim government is when there has been a change of regime or at the least the US alters its foreign policy stance against the ZANU PF controlled government and judging by the flow of events that can only be after a decade or even 12 years from now”, said law expert Jameson Nkala.

State Media|Newly-appointed Zanu-PF and the country’s Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa says he will further the ideals of the revolution while remaining loyal to the party and country.

Speaking in an interview after his appointment by President Mugabe at a Zanu-PF Central Committee meeting at Zanu-PF Headquarters yesterday, Mnangagwa said Zanu-PF had rid itself of elements who had become inconsistent.
“I feel humbled that I have been accorded this honour to serve our beloved country Zimbabwe in the capacity of Vice President,” said Mnangagwa. “I have assured the President and I would want to assure the party and its leadership that I will remain loyal and committed to uphold the correct line of the revolution which we have been in for the past 52 years.”
Asked if Zanu-PF had been weakened by the removal of former party second secretary, Joice Mujuru and her cabal who had plotted to remove President Mugabe through unprecedented means including assassination, Mnangagwa said the revolution goes through cycles.
“No the revolution has a way of strengthening itself. It goes into cycles. This is another cycle where it rids itself of elements that have now become inconsistent with the correct line.”

Investors were said to be in fright Wednesday as the ruling party ZANU PF appointed the controversial businessman Obert Mpofu as its new National Secretary for Finance.

The new post might see Mpofu who has not paid his own workers for more than 3 months, becoming Minister of Finance.
Obert Mpofu has a history of controversies with money and rumours have been rife that he has acquired much of his wealth from bribes. When questioned in court recently Mpofu replied saying he is too rich for bribes, “I am too rich for bribes,” he told top lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa.
News readers rushed to the fore to complain on Mpofu’s appointment, “ihis mockery to the whole nation and mockery to the whole world,” one news reader commented Wednesday.
“He now has a chance to do what he wants with both party and national cash,” wrote a Glen View man only identified as Tafadzwa. Other surprise appointments were made on various posts.  (READ MORE)
 

Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa has been appointed Zimbabwe’s automatic Vice President during an extra-ordinary Central Committee meeting on Wednesday.
The Second Vice President is Phekezela Mphoko (READ PROFILE).
The Chairman position was left vacant with Mugabe saying it will be rotated.
The latest full list of appointments is as follows:
Party Spokesman – Simon Khaya Moyo
Presidium:
President – Robert Mugabe.
Emmerson Mnangagwa 1st Zanu PFVice President
Phelekezela Mphoko 2nd Vice President
 
New Zanu PF Secretary for Administration – Ignatius Chombo
Secretary for the Commissariat is Cde Saviour Kasukuwere,
Secretary for Finance is Obert Mpofu
External Affairs – Simbabrashe Mumbengegwi
National Security – Kembo Mohadi
Transport and Social Welfare – Oppah Muchinguri
Information and Publicity – SK Moyo
Legal Affairs – Patrick Chinamasa
Implementation Economic Empowerment Policy – Mike Bimha
Production and Labour – Josiah D. Hungwe
Health and Child welfare & the Elderly – Cleveria Chizema
Economic Affairs – Christopher Mushohwe
Women’s Affairs – Dr Grace Mugabe
Youth Affairs – Pupurai Togarepi
Education – Joram McDonald Gumbo
Gender and Culture – Thokozile Mathuthu
Disabled – Joshua Malinga
Land Reform and Resettlement – Cain Mathema
Science and Tech – Jonathan Moyo
Business Dev – Sithembiso Nyoni
Environment and Tourism – Prisca Mupfumira
War Veterans – Sydney Sekeramayi

UPDATED: 16:00Hrs – Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed Zimbabwe’s new Vice President. READ MORE
President Robert Mugabe rushed to hold an urgent Extra-Ordinary Central Committee meeting at the Shake-Shake building Wednesday morning as he began making announcements.
The meeting began at 10am and its end time is not known as Mr Mugabe blows open the lid on his chosen few, his vision for the party, country and the new presidium.
A senior ZANU PF source who cannot be named told this reporter: “vaMugabe will make known everything in this meeting, just wait outside and you will see once we have finished.”
According to the ZANU PF Constitution, Mugabe can only appoint his deputies during a Congress session. But since this meeting is not a Congress sitting, the Central Committee assumes the role of Congress.
It was not possible to obtain  the full list of Mugabe’s new personally handpicked Politburo, those he last week referred to as “The Loyal Ones.” Verified details reveal that his wife Grace last week blocked his choice Emmerson Mnangagwa (READ MORE -BREAKING NEWS:Grace Mugabe Deletes Mnangagwa from Presidential Roll). 
ZimEye is following closely and will inform our valued readers as events unravel.

A 48 year-old security guard at Gutu United Primary School, Constantine Chipira, has appeared at the Gutu Magistrates’ Court facing charges of raping an 8-year-old pupil who is doing grade 1 there.
It is the State’s case that sometime in September at Mpandawana Town, under Chief Gutu, the accused on several occasions raped the complainant whilst on her way from school.
Chipira followed the complainant on her way from school, dragged her into the bush and had sexual intercourse with her, the prosecutor said.. It is said that raping the complainant had become routine to the accused.
Allegations are that Chipira had had sex with the complainant three times on different occasions in September. The matter came to light when the complainant told her mother who then went on to report the case to the Police resulting in the arrest of the accused.
The case was heard by Magistrate Nyasha Vhitorini.

Zanu-PF’s Mashonaland East bigwgs, Sydney Sekeramayi and David Parirenyatw earlier accused of supporting Joice Mujuru were saved from expulsion Tuesday through Robert Mugabe’s mercy yesterday.
Robert Mugabe moved to allow the two to be re-elected into the Central Committee in fresh polls held in districts in the province.
Other provincial heavyweights Paddy Zhanda, Jerry Gotora, Newton Kachepa and Eric Navaya also emerged victors in their respective districts with Joel Biggie Matiza the only big shot who failed to make it.
Although the state media reported claiming that Zanu-PF ordered fresh elections in the province following concerns that the list submitted to the 6th National People’s Congress last week did not reflect the wishes of the people, close sources to the developments said Mugabe himself had intervened to restore “Sekeramayi’s dignity”.
One source who cannot be named because of his own accusations of being linked to the disgraced businessman Ray Kaukonde told this reporter, “if it was not for President Mugabe Sekeramayi would be on the street right now.” They added saying the reason was because Sekeramayi had apologised to Mugabe for his links with Kaukonde.
“But it was good for Comrade Sekeramayi to apologise,” the source said.
The recent development could see Sekeramayi retaining his ministerial post despite earlier threats to relinquish him of it.
In Goromonzi, Zhanda, Gorden Mujahwe and Felix Zhangazha won the elections while in Seke, Blanco Matsangura, Tabeth Murwira and Joseph Mubaiwa made it. In Murehwa, Parirenyatwa, Stanley Jakopo and Lilian Zemura made it into the Central Committee with Matiza losing out. The ZANU PF Central Committee members elected in Mutoko are Japhet Chinake, Annah Kadiki and Ordo Nyakudanga while Mudzi had Kachepa, Navaya and Christopher Musa.
Meanwhile Sekeramayi has thanked party officials for standing by him.
“The will of the people has prevailed. I thank you for heeding the call by President Mugabe that fresh elections be held and indeed they have been done in a peaceful environment. To those who lost, we are one and let us work together for the development of the province and the party at large.”
 

BOTSWANA police are investigating an incident in which 13 children without travel documents were found on a minibus in the country.
The children, aged three to 13, were believed to be Zimbabwean, said spokesperson Near Bagal on Tuesday.
The children were found on Monday morning during a police operation in Francistown and two men were held for questioning.
The minibus was travelling from Masunga village to Francistown.
Police and immigration officials had engaged with their Zimbabwean counterparts to identify the parents of the children, Bagal said.
 

Gokwe Nemangwe community have been left in a state of shock after news broke forth of a woman who was forced to make love to her dead husband (necrophilia) before burial as per the deceased’s demand, was found now pregnant.
This came to light at the weekend pending DNA tests, after the sisters of the late Nemangwe man announced to their close relatives on discovery of the unusual situation that has left villagers tongue tied. The woman identified as Sarah Simirayi, of Svisvi village under chief Nemangwe, left her husband for a heavy truck driver sometime two years ago, and returned when her boyfriend ditched her for another new lover.
Sarah who has been away for a couple of years, returned only to find her 68 year old husband stressed from her departure, and died a few weeks of her return.
The late husband Nunurayi Musamo, who was also a former soldier, in the Rhodesian army left a note that he wanted read at his funeral, and that letter contained a message that he died of missing his beloved wife and also that he would need to make love to her before burial.
The shocking message was delivered to Sarah who tried to resist, but later accepted the most difficult task.
This reporter managed to interview Sarah who preferred not to be pictured, and she said, “I went to a pharmacy at the town centre and bought some pregnancy test materials, which tested positive thereby confirming I am pregnant. I am yet to go for scanning so that I will be in a position to know if the baby is a boy or a girl.”
A source close to the family claims that the husband’s manhood was in full erection, after they opened the coffin and Sarah removed her underwear, before going on top of the corpse to insert the late husband’s manhood, in the view of the late husband’s two sisters, who were ululating, as a gesture of appeasing the spirit of the late Musamo.
Asked how she felt after the said “sexual encounter” with her dead husband on the fateful day, Simirayi told ZimEye, “I felt the sperms moving in my body as if my late husband did when he was still alive. I think I also need to consult prophets and traditional healers; I am now confused as to what will happen to this pregnancy,” she said.
A source who refused to be named added voice claiming to ZimEye that the dead man ejaculated, soon after the penetration, and the erection disappeared, leading to the body viewing and subsequent burial of the man.
This reporter visited the Svisvi village head and he admitted receiving that information, but opted to down play it. “This is a purely private issue that traditional leaders cannot dwell upon. People have their own cultures and values and that must be respected,” he said before ordering this journalist not to take any photos of him, if he wanted to come back for more stories next time.
When ZimEye visited the two families, Musamo and Simirayi, they were engaged in serious talks on the future of Sarah. They also promised to come back with a comment as soon as they finalise the required cultural ceremonies.
This reporter has made a strict request to the family so that DNA tests can be conducted as soon as the baby has been born in order to confirm the veracity of the pregnancy claim.

The High Court ruling on whether The Sunday Mail Editor Edmund Kudzayi and his brother Philip accused of being the main characters behind the shadowy Facebook blog Baba Jukwa should remain on remand or not, has been deferred again to today (Wednesday)
Reasons given were that the presiding magistrate was said to be attending to other business.
The brothers have submitted their application for refusal of further remand arguing that their right to trial within a reasonable time should not be trampled on citing several reasons one of them being the long delay in finalsing so called extra-territorial investigations amid revelations Investigating Officer Crispen Makedenge did not at all travel to the United States as before claimed, (Click here here to READ MORE-Baba Jukwa Case: Makedenge Denied US Visa)

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It is exactly 20hours before the exact moment Robert Mugabe should splash out his grand decision on who is going to be the second most powerful person in this former British colony.
Investors, local Zimbabweans and the international community are all waiting having strained their patience for more than 14 years to date on who is to take over the reins of power soon after Mugabe has breathed his last. This is vital to know now that Joice Mujuru has been kicked out.
Wednesday afternoon could have surprises although the bulk of commentators say the man who announces that he is “As Soft As Cotton Wool” , Emmerson Mnangagwa will be made First Vice President. If he does make it, it will be against First Lady Grace Mugabe’s latest wishes, unless she changes her mind to believe in Mnangagwa’s softness, (READ MORE).

If Mnangagwa does make it however, this will be Mugabe’s own experiment using the man he feared most. It will mean that Mugabe has agreed on Ngwena’s claims that Robert Mugabe is so popular between heaven and earth that God Almighty The Creator Himself also wears the Gushungo Regalia. (READ MORE)

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has fired his deputy Joice Mujuru, days after she lost her post in the ruling party, offficials said.
Mugabe sacked Mujuru on Tuesday and was expected to name a new cabinet, officials cited by the Reuters news agency said.
Eight other ministers are reported to have been given the sack along woth Mujuru according to the Jonathan Moyo controlled State Media.
They includeWebster Shamu (Minister of ICT, Postal and Courier
Services), Simbarashe Mudarikwa (Minister of State for
Mashonaland East Province), Francis Nhema (Minister
of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment), Olivia Muchena (Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology
Development), Nicholas Goche (Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare), Didymus Mutasa
(Minister of Presidential Affairs), Dzikamai Mavhaire (Minister of Energy and Power Development) and
Munacho Mutezo (Deputy Minister of Energy and Power
Development).
The sources, who declined to be named because they are not authorised to speak to the news media, said Mujuru had received her dismissal letter on Monday night after weeks of accusations that she had led a “treacherous cabal” to try to unseat Mugabe.
Al Jazeera Haru Mutasa, reporting from the capital Harare, said Mugabe “says he has evidence that Mujuru met with US officials, and in this meeting they plotted a plan to try and remove” him from office.
“Supporters of ZANU-PF are concerned that there could be a split [in the party]. They know that Mujuru has been a member of the party for many years – even before independence from British rule in 1980,” said our correspondent.
“She does have a following – a lot of women supporters thought that she would perhaps be the first woman president of Zimbabwe one day, should Mugabe step down.”
‘Smear campaign’
Mujuru on Tuesday blamed “a well-orchestrated smear campaign and gross abuse of state apparatus” that led to the loss of her ruling party post and shook Zimbabwean politics, the AFP news agency reported.
Mujuru, who once looked likely to succeed long-ruling Mugabe, has been accused of plotting to assassinate the 90-year-old and removed from the ruling ZANU-PF party’s central committee.
She said she was being victimised after exposing infiltrators conspiring to destroy the party, which has ruled the country since independence in 1980.
“I have become the fly in the web of lies whose final objective is the destruction of ZANU-PF and what it stands for and ultimately the present government,” Mujuru said in a statement.
“A vociferous attempt has been made to portray me as ‘a traitor’, ‘murderer’ and ‘sellout’, yet no iota of evidence has been produced to give credence to the allegations.”
ZANU-PF held an elective congress last week which endorsed Mugabe as president and his wife Grace as head of the women’s wing.
Source: ZimEye, Al Jazeera and agencies

President Robert much awaited cabinet reshuffle has begun with him hunting down two ministers (said to be Joice Mujuru allies) and seeking their  immediate arrest.
 
Energy Minister Dzikamai Mavhaire and his deputy Eng Munacho Mutezo were last night fired from office. They were served with their expulsion letters in an operation that had State House staff work overtime to ensure the two are sent home.
Following their ouster, the Jonathan Moyo controlled State Media announced that they should be arrested for abuse of office and corruption. While the charges were not independently verified, there was wide speculation that Mavhaire is being persecuted for criticising Billy Rautenbach’s ethanol project which was corruptly launched with the help of several ZANU PF gurus without due process, operational and environmental impact assessment.
 
Meanwhile Mavhaire who is known for being the first ZANU PF politician to boldly call for Mugabe’s retirement in the late 90s, was alleged to have been a key Mujuru ally seeking to elevate the latter to the Presidency. Analysts say it is Mr Mugabe himself who wants Mavhaire arrested. More to follow…

NINE people were seriously injured when a kombi they were travelling in veered off the road after being hit by a Toyota Ipsum on its left side along Old Esigodini Road adjacent to Ilanda suburb on Sunday.
The accident happened at around 6pm, with the injured passengers immediately being ferried to nearby United Bulawayo Hospitals.
The kombi was ferrying people from the city centre to Manningdale when the Toyota Ipsum that was exiting the Infectious Disease Hospital at United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) reportedly failed to give way.
The driver of the kombi fled the scene after realising that his passengers were badly hurt, an issue that made most eyewitnesses suspect that he was either under the influence of alcohol or unlicensed.
Efforts to get a comment from the police were fruitless as the Bulawayo spokesperson referred questions to Harare, while his counterparts in Harare referred questions back to Bulawayo.
Eye witnesses and a passenger told the Southern Eye that the kombi driver was speeding and the Ipsum driver failed to give way to the traffic coming from his right, leading to the accident.
“The Ipsum driver is lucky not to be hurt because he was wearing his seatbelt, he was wrong in not giving way and so was the kombi driver in speeding,” a local vendor known as MaNcube said.
“We hope no one dies from injuries sustained from this accident.”
A passenger, Themba Maphosa, said he was lucky not to be injured as he was sitting in the back seat.
The kombi was badly damaged. – SouthernEye

Presidential aspirant Emmerson Mnangagwa who is hoping to be appointed Vice President tomorrow, says that God Almighty wears a hat with the Gushungo(Robert Mugabe) label on it.
In an address to mourners at a funeral caught on motion video, Mnangagwa who is the murdered Josiah Tongogara’s brother in law, said that God Almighty was once spotted wearing a hat with the Gushungo label on it while talking to the Devil. VIDEO:

PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE HONOURABLE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE, AND MEMBER OF THE RULING PARTY, ZANU PF – HONOURABLE DR. JOICE TEURAI ROPA MUJURU, TO THE CITIZEN’S OF ZIMBABWE.
Dear Comrades, friends, fellow citizens and countrymen:
I am grateful to the Lord that I am able to address you once again, despite the ever present but still unlawful threats against my person. The State Media, has continued to publish malicious untruths about me in the run up to, and after the 6th Congress of the ruling Zanu PF party.
Having listened intently to the numerous unfounded allegations levelled against me, I feel compelled to correct these unsubstantiated statements, misconceptions, lies being communicated to His Excellency The President of the Republic of Zimbabwe Comrade R G Mugabe, and the general public.
Alleged Treasonous Conduct:
As a law abiding citizen of Zimbabwe, I abhor the very notion that an elected President or Government of the day can be removed from office through wrongful or unlawful means.
The allegations that I, alone, or (together with various distinguished Comrades) have sought to or attempted to remove His Excellency R G Mugabe from office are ridiculous.
Earlier this year, in Chinhoyi, I had occasion to state publicly that the Zanu PF Party had been infiltrated by a group of persons with nefarious intent, whose objective is to destroy the Party from within. As a result of my objections to this agenda, I have become the fly in a web of lies whose final objective is the destruction of Zanu PF and what it stands for and ultimately the present Government of H.E R G Mugabe.
A vociferous attempt has been made to portray me as “a traitor”, “murderer ” and “sell out”, yet not a single iota of evidence has been produced to give credence to the allegations.
Alleged practice of “witchcraft”:
Were it not that the allegations of the practice of “witch craft “have been made in relation to a very serious matter, I would not have been concerned. Suffice to say that I am and have always been a God-fearing person and would not and have not resorted to witchraft to advance my political career. Support comes from the people,  it cannot be divined under cover of darkness.
Association with the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe:
I was invited to be Patron of the ApostolicChristian Council of Zimbabwe, which represents at least 700 apostolic Christian churches in Zimbabwe, as long ago as January 2011. This was with the full consent and blessing of His Excellency. I have since then, with the full knowledge of the Head of State, attended numerous church gatherings, as Patron and also as Vice President. There has never been any clandestine or unlawful gatherings that I have been a part off.
Alleged incompetence and ineptitude
In my position of Vice President , I had numerous responsibilities including mid-last year, the duty to campaign (amongst others) for the Party in the national elections. I personally held and attended 43 campaign rallies all over Zimbabwe in a three week period, often at great personal expense, and happily losing 4kgs in that period! The result of the 2013 elections has been recorded in history, and I believe I played my part in the outcome.
Having been Vice President for the past 10 years, I am perplexed that allegations of ineptitude only arose a few weeks before Congress.
The position of women in Zimbabwean Society
I believe that I have advanced national causes as Vice President, and especially issues that affect the family, women, youth and children – successfully. We the women of Zimbabwe are legally, and constitutionally – equal citizens to men, we should not be derided or treated as second class citizens in our society which is supposed to be modern and progressive.
Threats against my life and person
Towards the 6th Zanu PF Congress, the forces at work in the Party realized that I was not and would not resign any of my public or party positions on flimsy or contrived grounds. Therefore, their strategy moved from being one of persistent denigration and defamation in the national state media and newspapers, to one of direct threats against my person and life.
My agents were wrongfully and unlawfully prevented from submitting my nomination papers for the Congress and subsequently the state media and newspapers advised me that my life and person was at risk if I attended the Congress. In the interests of public order, and given that this unprecedented “screening”of delegates was unchallenged by the Party Leadership, I decided to stay away from the inevitable public humiliation as was meted out to other unfortunate members of the Party . I made my fears known to the Party Leadership. It was important to maintain the dignity of the office of the Vice President even in the face of such unwarranted violence by a section the party membership.
Simplicity- thy name is Teurai
Fellow Zimbabweans, I regret that I must accept, one of the allegations. I am a simple village girl from Dotito. I went to join the liberation war at the age of 18 years and when I first became a cabinet minister in 1980 I could hardly speak, read or write English! Through encouragement from His Excellency, I went to night school and over the years have systematically and diligently improved myself academically (just as many of you have done over the years) culminating in the recent doctorate degree from the University of Zimbabwe.
There are a few practical truths that I must share, which I appreciate all the time.
Zimbabweans are crying out for solutions to the simple problems we have:

• how to put food on the table, how to obtain healthcare,
• sending our children to school
• providing transport for them and restoring the transport infrastructure,
• keeping our cities clean,
• and restoring electricity to all urban households together with clean running water.
• It is these simple problems that I have dedicated my life and career to and will continue to pursue.

Criminal Allegations
I maintain that I am, and remain, a law-abiding citizen who has not been involved in any criminal activity. The reported accusations of criminal conduct are based on the alleged actions of third parties who the state media has tenuously linked to me out of desperation. This approach can only be explained as a well-orchestrated smear campaign, and gross abuse of state apparatus and resources.
Alleged Abuse of Office
As I stated before, I have always utilized my office to faithfully assist His Excellency President R. G Mugabe in driving the social and economic programmes of his Government to successful fruition. At no point have I ever been motivated by self-interest when discharging my public duties.
Alleged Assassination of the President
The most repugnant allegation made recently has been that I sought to assassinate the President. My loyalty to His Excellency and my country Zimbabwe, is unquestionable. I would never be party to such an action or activity, alone or in a group.
Conclusion
In conclusion my fellow citizens, let it be known that I am loyal to the President and faithful to my Party, and its leader, devoted to its aims, obedient to its cause and resolute in my service to Zimbabwe. God bless you all.
DOCTOR JOICE TEURAI ROPA MUJURU

• Mugabe violates constitution to please Grace
• Mnangagwa pushed out at last minute
  
• Only women allowed to control presidium

Zimbabwe’s most powerful woman  Grace Mugabe,  has deleted the name of top presidential candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa in what will likely see the famous blue eyed boy ditched at the 11th hour and miss the door into State House.
Mugabe reportedly refused at the last minute to make presidium and politburo appointments at the congress in line with the stipulated protocol at a time when Mr Mugabe had yet already physically lined up his preferred successor as evidenced by Mnangagwa’s high table seat at the weekend. “Women will rule this country,” said Mrs Mugabe during the days running up to the congress.
Mnangagwa’s team had in the last few months labouriously toiled firing media missiles to disarm the only other rival Joice Mujuru as numerous fake files were compiled just to disgrace and discredit Mujuru. Mnangagwa even went to the point of launching an expensive Gushungo Football Cup which squandered more than $100,000 in Robert Mugabe’s honour hoping to gain the most coveted favour.  But all that work was in vain and Mnangagwa was actually toiling for others,  a top ZANU PF source told this reporter.
Reports at hand revealed on Monday show that if Mugabe goes ahead to appoint Mnangagwa against Grace’s wishes, their bedroom is not going to be a safe place. “Zvinobva zvatooma kana vakadaro,” one of the sources said.
ZimEye can reveal Grace Mugabe has handpicked Senate Supremo Ednar Madzongwe.
It is widely held that the prominent reason why Grace distrusts Mnangagwa is the latter’s bad reputation with women and so she feels she will not be able to control Mnangagwa once her husband dies.
Ednar Madzongwe (pictured) is from Mashonaland West and is said to be a relative of the Mugabe’s who has been close to the Gushungos.

A (US made) DRONE AIRCRAFT fitted with cameras and owned by a tour operator in Victoria Falls has raised the ire of residents and tour operators who fear it is a security risk as its operations are shrouded in mystery.
The drone, known as the quadcopter or quadrotor helicopter, is a multi-rotor craft that is lifted and propelled by four rotors and remote-controlled by a person on the ground.
Residents accuse the operator of spying on them and were no longer free to do their business fearing their images were being captured by the gadget.

To add to the mystery, residents said they had no idea what the videos taken over residential places were being used for.
Reports were that the gadget was also used to fly over the falls, risking accidents, as it could interfere with helicopters from Zimbabwe and Zambia flying over the water falls, a journey known as the Flight of the Angels.
Fears were that the gadget could be used for spying, as it flew over protected areas or poaching, as it could easily be used to spy on wildlife.
Victoria Falls residents’ association chairperson Morgan Gaza Dube said the drone should be stopped from operating until stakeholders agree on its operations.
“It’s really unacceptable for a person to operate such a gadget without telling us what it’s all about,” he said.
“We don’t know the purpose of the filming.
“We feel very insecure because no one has explained to us what it’s all about.
“It’s like walking into someone’s home and filming.”
Dube said authorities should introduce regulations on the use of unmanned aircraft.
“What value is that gadget adding to Victoria Falls?” he asked.
“We feel it should be stopped first and we meet as stakeholders so that we understand its purpose and agree, unlike the current situation where it’s just being flown without our knowledge.”
The owner of the drone could not be reached for comment yesterday. – SouthernEye

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As Zimbabweans were left guessing on who is going to be handed the powerful post of First Vice President in the next 72 Hours, details have emerged from ZANU PF’s inner circles that President Robert Mugabe is bone-scared that his own blue eyed boy Emmerson Mnangagwa will soon turn against his family following his death.
 
Senior sources in the just dissolved Politburo told this reporter the veteran leader could not go ahead to appoint politburo members and senior secretaries of the Presidium on Saturday due to the heavy crisis of decisions he has been caught up with.
 
“We all know Comrade Mnangagwa boasts of being his right hand man since the war but do you realise Mugabe has never raised Mnangagwa beyond the level of Minister since 1980? We shall see what he decides at the end but I have told what we all know hakurarwi vhiki rino (there will be no sleep this week”, said one of the sources.
“Why do you think vaMugabe in 2004 pushed Ngwena aside putting Mujuru into place?,” another source said.
 
Meanwhile there was wide speculation Monday amid wild rumours that Mugabe’s choice is going to end up being Ednar Madzongwe seconded by Simon Khaya Moyo with National Chairman as Jacob Mudenda, and Mnangagwa taking Didymus Mutasa’s job Secretary for Administration. The Secretary for Commissariat would be Oppah Muchinguri according to the fiery rumours.
Political Analyst and Journalist, Methuseli Moyo has voiced saying Mugabe Saturday left people guessing, although for him, the surprise would be if Mugabe did not pick Mnangagwa.
“I think he really needs more time to think seriously,” he said.
“Technically there are two vacancies after the removal of Joice Mujuru, it means that he can choose anyone at his own pleasure.
“The only surprise he can make is not to appoint Emmerson Mnangagwa as one of the vice-presidents.”
After getting the carte blanche to pick his deputies and party chairperson, Mugabe has three vacancies to fill, which could be an indicator on who his preferred successor is.
To add to speculation, at the high table, Mugabe sat with Moyo, House of Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda and his Senate counterpart Edna Madzongwe, raising conjecture that those could be his picks to fill in the vacant posts.
 
Political analyst Qhubani Moyo said he was not expecting any surprises when Mugabe chooses his lieutenants.
“I think there’s a clear indication that he wants to apply his mind in terms of who he’s going to appoint,” he said. “To me it’s not logical that a person who has just been elected immediately jumps to appoint his lieutenants without scrutinising them.”
However, at previous congresses, Mugabe has immediately announced the politburo line-ups, but Moyo advised patience.
“The wait is not long,” he said.
“It’s only four days and I think we need to be patient.”  SouthernEye/ZimEye

Delegates to the Zanu (PF) Sixth National People’s conference left today for their respective destinations but as has become the norm after huge party events, some activists were stranded as they failed to find transport.
When The Zimbabwean visited the venue of the congress, frustrated party activists could be seen milling around waiting in vain for transport to take them home.
One of the activists blamed lack of proper coordination as being behind the chaos that saw people waiting for long hours since the early hours of the morning.
“We were told that transport would come to pick us at six in the morning but up to now, we are still waiting and there has not been any communication as to how we are going to be transported from here,” said a Mutare delegate who identified himself as Samuel Garidzwa.
Other delegates said they were left behind as they had been told buses would come to pick them later in the day yet their fellow delegates were picked early morning.
“When we came to enquire on the transport arrangements, we were told that buses that were supposed to ferry us had already gone and we have been told that other buses are being arranged so we will just wait,” said another delegate from Kwekwe who identified herself as Hazel Chara.
Some of the delegates complained of hunger due to the fact that since people were leaving, efforts were being focused more on transport issues.
“Some of us last had a meal last night and the problem now is that issues of food are no longer being given attention to yet we need to eat,” said Givemore Muredzo from Mutoko.
At the congress venue, workers could be seen pulling down tents while security maintained a heavy presence. – TheZimbabwean

ZANU PF’s outgoing Secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa has recovered and exited a South African Hospital, and is now skating over and across the Indian oceans to Asia.
Mr Mutasa emphatically told ZimEye in an exclusive interview he is now well and is today Monday flying out of Africa to India.
“Ndikati zvakanaka,” he said.
Despite his healing, he added that he is flying his wife (who needs crucial attention) to India.
“Tirikuenda navo kuIndia mangwana(today),” he said.
Mr Mutasa was at the just ended ZANU PF Congress mocked by party leader Robert Mugabe who announcing his hospitalisation said he had before he fell ill, been consulting witch doctors to see Mugabe’s downfall. Mugabe claimed that Mutasa was part of people who consulted n’angas and prophets seeking assistance that would see them taking over the leadership of the party.
“They would ask, when will Mugabe die? so that they take over,” said President Mugabe.

Former Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial chair Ray Kaukonde has fled to South Africa after being linked to a plot to topple President Mugabe and replace him with Vice-President Joice Mujuru.President Mugabe yesterday revealed: “We hear Kaukonde is now in South Africa. That is why he is not here.”
Kaukonde is believed to be the main financier of the Mujuru faction. His centrality to the plot to unseat President Mugabe was first publicly revealed by First Lady and Zanu-PF Women’s League boss Grace Mugabe, who also accused him of prodding former Politburo member Dr Simba Makoni to rebel and form an opposition party.
He — together with VP Mujuru and former secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa — did not attend the 6th Zanu-PF Congress that ended in Harare.
Mugabe has refused to accept results of Mash East central committee elections saying it contained people linked to Kaukonde. Some Mashonaland East delegates were heard whispering that Sydney Sekeramayi and Simbaneuta Mudarikwa were among the “bad apples that spoiled the basket”.
A larger group went on to denounce those presented to the President. President Mugabe said: “You are the only province that has raised this concern. But these are the people you gave us. We now hear that tadzorera vanhu vaKaukonde.
“If you say they did not come from you, who then elected them? We will do as you wish by making sure new elections are held. We will send representatives to assist you in this matter.”
Mujuru had toyed with the idea of showing up at the National Heroes Acre where former ambassador, Kotsho Dube was buried. But in the end she chickened out. –  ZBC

One ex-church member has narrated the family’s ordeal saying : “this is very serious, can you believe this couple was happily married before they started going to Agape. It was the husband’s brother Joseph Chiriseri who introduced the couple to Pastor Walter Masocha and in no time the marriage collapsed”, one of my close sources told me yesterday. Tichakunda Chiriseri, under the guidance and instruction of Walter Masocha left his young wife Farai after he was told she was demon possessed and committed himself fully to Agape Church. It makes me sick and angry, because the exact same thing happened to me. Chiriseri was then arranged Attache Caroline Chiwara by Walter Masocha. He would drive to church conferences with Caroline Chiwara, leaving Farai at home alone with the children. This must have drove the poor mother to this drastic measures knowing her husband had been given another woman by Walter Masocha.”

Zimbabwe’s new Vice President taking over outgoing VP Joice Mujuru is being announced within the next 90 Hours as Robert Mugabe appoints a new Zanu-PF Politburo that will not feature several heavyweights who according to the ZANU PF media “have relegated themselves to political oblivion by seeking the First Secretary’s ouster.”
Mugabe yesterday(Saturday) said he is announcing his cream-choices by Wednesday. In the mean time, the cornered Joice Mujuru remains Vice President even though she is now out of the party’s top leadership.
STATE MEDIA REPORT:
The changes could be a precursor to a Cabinet shake-up that will reflect the fall-out from the attempt to push out – and possibly assassinate – the President just a year after he resoundingly won a national five-year mandate to lead the nation.
Major casualties in both the party and State executives are likely to be Vice-President Joice Mujuru, Presidential Affairs Minister Didymus Mutasa; his Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare counterpart Nicholas Goche; ICT Minister Webster Shamu and several others.
Ministers Francis Nhema, Olivia Muchena, Dzikamai Mavhaire, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, Flora Bhuka and Simbaneuta Mudarikwa, Tendai Savanhu too, face uncertain futures.
Senior Government officials, such as permanent secretaries and directors, who were implicated in the faction-related mess could also be put out to grass. The President – who was unanimously re-elected by zanu-PF’s 6th National People’s Congress yesterday — said he needed a little more time to weigh who in the new Central Committee was fit for the Politburo.
Newly-empowered by constitutional amendments that allow him to appoint all Politburo members so as to ensure there is only one centre of power in the ruling party, President Mugabe said he would unveil his core team this week.
Section 40 of Zanu-PF’s amended constitution empowers the First Secretary and President to — during the sitting of Congress — appoint Politburo members from the newly-elected Central Committee.
Outgoing secretary for legal affairs Cde Emerson Mnangagwa said President Mugabe was within his constitutional rights to make his appointments later this week.
He said Section 37 of Zanu-PF’s constitution (Powers and Functions of the Central Committee) allowed the President to announce a new Politburo when the Central Committee met as it is the highest organ of the party in between congresses and acts on behalf of congress when it is not in session.
“That is the provision we have used,” said Cde Mnangagwa. “In terms of the Unity Agreement, it gives the President the power to appoint the two Vice-Presidents. Only today did we have the election of the Central Committee this afternoon.
“It is from the Central Committee membership that the President must now select a team for the two Vice Presidents, national chairperson and heads of department who will constitute the Politburo. So, he needs time to go through the names and select a team for that purpose.
“He is doing so under the provision that when Congress is not sitting, the Central Committee takes that responsibility. So Central Committee will meet on Wednesday or Thursday next week. That is when he is going to announce to the Central Committee what he has not announced here because the constitution so provides.”
With the President understood to be keen to ensure his Politburo dovetails seamlessly with State functions, sources say any changes to the party team will reflect on the Cabinet.
The sources, however, were hesitant to say when the Cabinet reshuffle was likely.
The President yesterday said: “We will set up the Politburo (this) week.
“Hatingambozviiti mawuro ano. Mazita acho handisati ndamboona kuti province iyi yatipa vanhu vakadii, ndavanani vatingatore kuisa muPolitburo. So, I don’t want to rush it. So, be patient.
“But mid-next week, by Wednesday or Thursday, we will make an announcement. We will let you know because we cannot go far . . . We will have to choose the two Vice-Presidents, the chairman and secretary veSecretariat; basa ranga richiitwa naVaMutasa . . .
“But we will do a reshuffle. There will disappointment, but we will try to be as objective as possible and we will try to avoid zvemafactions and vamwe vakanga vachishanda mumafactions.”
Expectations were high yesterday that President Mugabe would name his two deputies and the party National Chair, but as indicated by The Sunday Mail last week, he chose to take his time and not succumb to populist pressures.
Senior officials linked with the top jobs after the Presidency are those of Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi, Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo, Ambassador Phelekezela Mphoko, National Assembly Speaker Cde Jacob Mudenda and Senate President Edna Madzongwe.
Some senior Zanu-PF members who had been frozen out due to factionalism — such as Cdes July Moyo (Midlands) and Mike Madiro (Manicaland) — bounced back into the Central Committee yesterday.
President Mugabe also appointed Cdes Supa Mandiwanzira, Pupurai Togarepi, Walter Mzembi, Aguy Georgias, Mudhomeni Chivere, Absolom Sikhosana, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, Josephine Gandiya, Sikhanyiso Ndlovu and Charles Tawenga into the Central Commitee under the quota of Presidential appointees. sunday mail

Walter Mzembi, the Zimbabwe Minister of Tourism was left with no option