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

Amid the ongoing unsubstantiated allegations of a potential assassination of President Mugabe by members of his own party and cabinet, President Robert Mugabe has moved a step further and beefed up his personal security.
Mnangagwa has been asked to take over Mugabe’s security. In allegations that have bemused Zimbabweans and beggared belief, Mugabe has claimed that vice president Joice Mujuru and her allies were trying to assassinate him if plans to force him out of office at this week’s Zanu PF congress failed.
And developments over the last four days indicate that Mugabe and those around him have been paying particular attention to his security. The 90-year-old leader is already one of the best protected leaders in the world, travelling with a cavalcade of anything up to 40 vehicles but the security measures have clearly been ramped up following the assassination claims with the phalanx of bodyguards travelling with him much bigger. At Zanu PF’s last politburo meeting on Tuesday, Mugabe did not allow members of the committee, many of them cabinet ministers, to attend with their mobile phones.”We were told to leave our mobile phones at the reception,” said a politburo member. The following day Mugabe addressed the ruling party’s central committee members where the same security measures were enforced.
Before the veteran leader arrived at the party headquarters where the meeting was held, the complex was subjected to a thorough search by security details with sniffer dogs. And, a few minutes before Mugabe entered, Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa carried out a final security check of the entire conference centre. Mugabe was accompanied by more than 15 close personal security details into the venue. Members of the gun-totting presidential guard, who are normally left outside buildings, were this time allowed both inside and outside the venue.
Meanwhile, during the official opening of the Zanu PF congress Thursday, a huge security detail littered the whole conference venue. Central Intelligence (CIO) boss Happyton Bonyongwe was the first to conduct a thorough sweep of the high table with delegates already packing the hall. A few minutes later, Mnangagwa repeated the security check.”Mnangagwa has taken over the security of Mugabe,” said a government official.

A slip of the tongue or is it not rather an eternal slip of the mind?  – there was shock on Saturday when President Robert Mugabe denounced his own party ZANU PF saying Pasi Ne ZANU PF. The utterances were confirmed by Herald Editor Caesar Zvayi  who defended saying, it is  “a slip of the tongue, very normal.”
“But he actually stood up and (deliberately) fired the slogan,” one Zimbo told ZimEye.
Mugabe who is just a few years from reaching 100 years of age, was addressing his party’s congress on Saturday when both his tongue and mind warped before the whole world in the speech which was largely to do with Joice Mujuru’s alleged insurrection coupled with nostalgic attacks on long gone Rhodesia.

The development comes as a London prophet predicted that Mugabe’s life is ending in a few months’ time, READ MORE – LIVE VIDEO: Meet the Prophet Who Says Mugabe Is Dying and Opposition Party Is Now Set to Rule Zimbabwe .
People listening to the President’s address via Jonathan Moyo’s broadcaster ZBC complained they heard Mr Mugabe clearly sloganearing “Pasi neZANU PF.’ Journalists were however at odds attempting to defend the President with some saying the transmission was not audible enough to confirm he did say that. The majority of journalists however concurred that the 2018 President candidate committed the mortal exhibition of his fast waning interllect during his Congress speech on Saturday afternoon.
 

President Robert Mugabe has wished the ill Zanu PF Secretary for Administration, Didymus Mutasa a speedy recovery, but has insisted that he did wrong in siding with the embattled Vice President Joice Mujuru, who wanted to topple him as president.
Speaking at the Zanu PF National People’s Congress today, Mugabe revealed that Mutasa, who skipped the congress, is hospitalised in South Africa, wondering whether the illness was due to shock after the coup plot was exposed.
He also revealed that Mutasa’s wife is also ill, but said he wished the family well.
“I spoke to Mutasa over the phone this morning and he said he is better, but his wife requires more medical attention. They indicated that they might go to India for further treatment,” said Mugabe.
The President said it was unfortunate that Mutasa was part of the VP Mujuru faction that sought to unseat him.
He said the faction even consulted n’angas and prophets to seek 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.
Mugabe called on party cadres to be principled and remain united for the ruling party to lead in the revival of the country’s economy and shame western detractors who have imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe

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News readers are invited to join in the video interview of the London based preacher, Prophet Austin Moses who says Mugabe’s sudden exit is imminent and now time-bound.
Moses is the first preacher to indicate an exit date for the entire Mugabe Dynasty which development will usher in a new era in the former British colony, according to him.
In June Moses foretold of Zimbabwe declaring that “a big tree is falling with its branches.”
He is credited for several accurate predictions including one on the Ukrainian crisis where he has since been given a VIP invitation in recognition of his utterances.
Moses will be interviewed via video on Saturday afternoon (5.00PM Zim time). Readers are invited to fire their questions to the Prophet. Questions may be sent from the comments area, through the Twitter account@ZimEye and or to the Whatsapp number +447426863301

17:41 Now its time for the announcement of Youth central committee members. Among them is Kudzai Chipanga, Tongai Kasukuwere, Mpehlabayo Malinga and Annastacia Ndlovu. S.K. Moyo requests Chipanga to lead the youths to shake hands with President Mugabe.

17:39 He tells new central committee members to shake hands with President Mugabe.

17:35 S.K Moyo now announcing Women Central Committee Members and among them is Eunice Sandi Moyo, Chinamona Mahofa

17:15 Dr Mugabe pays tribute to the Youth League. She ends her address with ‘Pasi NeGamatox’ slogan and adds, STOP IT! She takes the MIC to join the POLICE BAND as delegates chant YES, YES, YES.

17:08 First Lady turns to her prepared speech and pays tribute to Muchinguri and describes her as a true REVOLUTIONARY. She thanks the people for backing her nomination and commits to working for the people. She outlines her plans to support women and to fight factionalism.

17:03 Dr Mugabe accused VP Mujuru of being the architect of Bhora Musango in 2008. ‘I liken those who were part of BHORA MUSANGO to zvituta. Mai Mujuru started a fight with me by telling people to embarrass me. We knew her shenanigans from way back thus we were exposing her but there is worseto expose.’

16:58 She tells delegates that Amai Sally Mugabe was also once a Secretary for Women’s League but when she (Dr Mugabe) was nominated, VP Mujuru went berserk. She said, Pembe yapihwa benzi meaning that she regarded me as a fool. I blew the whistle on her. I warned her but she did not take heed. War credentials on their own do not allow to divide the party and be so corrupt. – Dr Mugabe.

16:52 President asks First Lady to stand and he endorses her as Secretary for Women’s League. First Ladies prepares to make her maiden speech.

16:49 S.K Moyo tell delegates that his powers have been dissolved and is only now only doing a special caretaker chairman. He asks President to endorse to the First Lady.

16:46 President ends his address and informs delegates to prepare for Central Committee announcement.

16:40 President dissolves the Central Committee. ‘All those who had powers in the central no longer have any powers. Those who will be selected should be deserving.

16:36 Obama has been a failure in terms of what Africa expects. America wants to teach us democracy but there are more blacks in their jails than in their Universities. As for Britain, we taught them democracy but the want to keep me and my wife on sanctions.

16:33 People here are a calculating people. They joined us in the struggle to defeat the enemy. The number of people who died is thousands. Ian Smith would send his bombs. In Chimoio alone we had two camps that were bombed. Innocent people died.

16:27 Mujuru should have come for elections. Mujuru was free to come for the congress. We never blocked her. She is at her home as we speak. Let us be peaceful people. – President Mugabe.

16:20 President Mugabe has told delegates that Muchinguri is one of the women who approached him and called for the elevation of VP Mujuru. However, Mujuru became too hungry for power and would consult n’angas seeking to land the top post. She became too close to erstwhile enermies who colonised us, he said.

16:13 Dr Joshua Nkomo said unity begins with me, with you and with all of us. Let us practice this. We must love each other. Hatidi huipi. We people act contrary to rules of the party in order to assume power, we say NO. We fought Ian Smith and even exhumations continue till today. George Rutanhire took Joice to war when she was a young woman. Joice met Mujuru. Mujuru aiva nevakasikana vakawanda. Joice would complain about this. Zvevakadzi izvi ndizvo zvaive zvake. – President Mugabe.

16:09 Listen to the people when they sing and say their choice. I want to say thank you, thank you, thank you. I know I am not greater than people. As a leader, I am your servant. I can only lead the struggle. ZimAsset will give you better lives but you should be educated. – President Mugabe.

16:02 We must treasure and take care of Zimbabwe. We must give a fortress against our enemy. We treasure this home because yesterday they came from Britain and made us subjects. The British taught us religion. Together we have to protect this land so that it does not become a colony again. – President Mugabe.

15:56 We all come from the people. It is the people of Zimbabwe that must guide us as leaders. We should know what their likes are and what we can do as their leaders to raise their standards of living. Zimbabwe is just one, bound together by the fact of being Zimbabwean. – President Mugabe.

15:53 President Mugabe takes to the podium and thanks the people for voting for him. The crowd shouts we love you and The President reciprocates.

15:50 S.K. Moyo asks President to dissolve the Central Committee

15:48 The positions held by individuals in Zanu PF belong to the people. All the positions are now open. Whatever position you held, if you did not perfom well, do some introspection and if you did well, you will enter the kingdom, says S.K. Moyo.

15:44 Tumultous atmosphere as President Mugabe is emphatically endorsed as President and First Secretary of Zanu PF. S.K. Moyo calls eccentric delegates to order saying he has an important announcement before announcing that the endorsement is revolutionary.

13:52: Obert mpofu booed while presenting on committee on transport, addressing on the state of the country’s roads
13:10: Jacob Mudenda annonces the endorsement of president mugabe the 2018 presidential candidate. His wife, Grace was also confirmed as leader of the Womens League.
Mudenda spoke of an alleged Mujuru plot to remove Robert Mugabe from power. He said, “sadly, however, towards the end of this review period, particularly in the year leading to this 6th national people’s congress, the party unearthed and thwarted a plot which had external underpinnings, to remove the President and first secretary of the party unconstitutionally, before or during the congress,” Mudenda said.
“This plot involved some among us, under the leadership of then Vice-President Joice Teurai Ropa Mujuru and her cabal of senior politburo members, who had been enticed by the Americans and some Europeans with promises that they would pour billions of dollars into Zimbabwe once they succeeded in allying with the opposition formations to oust Zanu PF and its iconic President and first secretary from power.”
Mudenda added saying that the same people mentioned in the whistleblower website Wikileaks as working with with the “enemy” were the same people who were plotting dubious means of ousting Mugabe.
“They instead deepened their plotting, captured party and State structures through imposition, vote-buying, patronage, corruption and all sorts of treacherous intrigue to appoint where they felt sufficiently ready to oust the President, even threatening to assassinate him,” he alleged.
“They orchestrated sham primary elections ahead of the 2013 harmonised polls resulting in their domination of both the House of Assembly and the Senate and consequently, Cabinet,” Mudenda said.
“Thanks to the revelations made by the First Lady Amai Doctor Grace Mugabe, a whirlwind was unleashed which swept away the conspirators. The challenge that the party faces now, going forward from this congress, is to orient all its organs, members and functionaries in government back to its ideology and policies.”
“The failure of the party to fund its programmes sufficiently from the centre talks very strongly of the need for the party to urgently address this problem,” he said.
“Quite commonly during this review period, the funding of all commissariat programmes was left to the whims and caprices of community leaders and opinion makers who were moneyed.
“Those who repent and are remorseful must not be persecuted, but we must embrace and gently mentor them back into rectitude.”
13:06 : The program starts.
13:03: President Mugabe arrives
12:59: He says there were lots of consultations going
12:55: Simon Khaya Moyo appologises for the delays in starting the programme.
12:11: The party’s thematic committee has endorsed Robert Mugabe to be the presidential candidate for 2018 elections this morning.
 
 

THE future of some of the services chiefs hangs in the balance, as their contracts have not yet been extended by President Robert Mugabe, it has emerged.
Most of the service chiefs had their contracts unilaterally extended for a two-year period in 2012 by Mugabe during the tenure of the unity government.
Sources said contracts of Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Constantine Chiwenga, Zimbabwe National Army commander Lieutenant General Philip Valerio Sibanda, Air Marshal Perrance Shiri and the Commissioner-General of Prisons Retired Major General Paradzai Zimondi, as well as Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri were about to expire.
The sources said Chihuri and Central Intelligence Officer boss Happyton Bonyongwe’s contracts were unlikely to be extended largely due to the current factional fights in Zanu PF.
The extension was not without controversy when the then Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his deputy Arthur Mutambara demanded that they be involved in extending Chihuri’s contract, as his stay was dividing the coalition government.
Contacted for comment, police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba professed ignorance about the extension.
“I don’t know about the contract or its extension,” she said.
“This is a personal contract which is private. However, I will ask him and come back to you.
“What is your interest in Commissioner-General Chihuri’s contract, as if he is the only service chief?”
Sources said decorated army chief of staff Lieutenant-General Trust Mugoba was tipped to take over from Chihuri.
The extension of the contracts for service chiefs was said to be dependent on factionalism playing out within Zanu PF.
First Lady Grace Mugabe may have let the cat out of the bag when she castigated the police for not taking action on Vice-President Joice Mujuru’s alleged corruption at one of her countrywide rallies.
Reports say Chihuri’s contract has been extended 14 times since he was first appointed as police boss in 1994.
His first contract expired in 1997.
Contacted for comment, Presidential spokesperson George Charamba was not sure if the service chief’s contracts had been extended.
But he said there was nothing to worry about, as any extension would be done in line with the laws of the country.
“If it has not been gazetted then it has not been extended,” he said.
“As we speak I’m not sure . . . you should not get worried, everything is under control.” – SouthernEye

A Zimbabwean five year old boy was yesterday morning stabbed to death at his home in Scotland in an incident that has seen the toddler’s mother arrested at the scene.
ZimEye.com can exclusively reveal the lad found in Clackmannanshire yesterday is a Zimbabwean boy killed in an incident that has seen his mother being the sole suspect in the case.
Police have said they are not looking for any other suspect other than the mother.
ZimEye.com is reliably told the woman whose surname is “Chiriseri” has been a member of Walter Masocha’s AGAPE church.
Several streets had to be cordoned off by police when law enforcement agents were called to the flat in Alva, Clackmannanshire on Friday. The full details of how the stabbing occurred were still being investigated by cops at the time of writing but ZimEye has been told they have now reached an advanced stage in their vital evidence gathering.
Chief Inspector Stephen Sneddon said: “On arrival, police officers found the child with a significant injury to his body and he was later pronounced dead at the scene by the Scottish Ambulance Service.
 
“Inquiries into the full circumstances surrounding this incident are ongoing and a woman is currently detained in connection with the investigation.
“We are not currently looking for anyone else and I want to reassure the local community that there is no risk to them.
 
“Police officers will be carrying out various inquiries in the area and I would ask the public to continue to give us the full support they have shown so far, to allow us to conclude these investigations as soon as possible and allow the area to return to normal.
 
“This is a quiet area and I would emphasise that this is a very unusual incident which poses no risk to others.”

Grace Mugabe’s anti Mujuru campaign reached a climax when yesterday she deployed a Ndebele speaking guru to pump up her message to Vice President Joice Mujuru that the latter must go, and “there is no point of return.”
Mrs Mugabe has before revealed already that she speaks in tongues when sending strong messages to people. “Whenever I speak to you, you may not understand me, because I speak in mighty tongues”.
The development comes after analysts revealed it will be difficult for Mugabe to remove Joice from office even though he has removed her from the party. The constitution restricts Mugabe, analysts claim. One guru said:
“(1) The Senate and the National Assembly, by a joint resolution passed by at least one-half of their total membership, may resolve that the question whether or not the President or a Vice-President should be removed from office for—
(a) serious misconduct;
(b) failure to obey, uphold or defend this Constitution;
(c) wilful violation of this Constitution; or
(d) inability to perform the functions of the office because of physical or mental incapacity;
should be investigated in terms of this section.
(2) Upon the passing of a resolution in terms of subsection (1), the Committee on Standing Rules and Orders must appoint a joint committee of the Senate and the National Assembly consisting of nine members reflecting the political composition of Parliament, to investigate the removal from office of the President or Vice-President, as the case may be.
(3) If—
(a) the joint committee appointed in terms of subsection (2) recommends the removal from office of the President or Vice-President; and
(b) the Senate and the National Assembly, by a joint resolution passed by at least two-thirds of their total membership, resolve that the President or Vice-President, as the case may be, should be removed from office;
the President or Vice-President thereupon ceases to hold office.”
Yesterday Grace Mugabe’s campaign team deployed the dreaded youth leader Absalom Sikhosana aside her century-old husband struggling to speak, to reinforce her message using a ancient Ndebele dialect at the ZANU PF Congress. (See video)
A linguist commented that what Grace is doing is utilising a multi-pronged cluster of threatening phrases and other vocalisations to disable Mujuru’s confidence among her followers countrywide.
VIDEO:

President Robert Mugabe nearly broke down in front of the congress crowd yesterday, Zimbabweans watching the head of state have voiced saying.
While addressing the delegation multitude, the President spoke with a jerky and staggering slurred speech inconsistent with his performance. Several words and phrases were crunched up as Mr Mugabe failed to construct audible and convincing statements in his delivery.
Mugabe’s performance has given rise to speculation that he is suffering from the effects of what may have been a stroke. According to medical experts, victims of stroke exhibit, the following signs,
Difficulty putting sentences together

• Getting speech sounds mixed up
• Problems understanding spoken words
• Problems with reading
• Difficulty writing and spelling
• You might have problems following a conversation
• Reading might be difficult to follow

These problems are called Dysphasia. Another problem can be caused by weak muscles in the face and throat. This might cause some of the following problems:

• Slurred or jerky speech
• Speech fading away
• Quiet or weak voice

The Zanu PF First Secretary and President, Cde Robert Mugabe, says political leaders are elected for the benefit of the nation and not to personally benefit from the country’s resources.
Addressing delegates at the 6th Zanu PF National People’s Congress today, President Mugabe said those in government are given positions to upgrade the livelihood of the country’s citizens.
He said once evidence has been fully gathered, all who have flouted the country’s laws regardless of their political position will be tried according to the provisions of Zimbabwe’s constitution.
He said whoever is fingered in corrupt activities whether they are a minister, deputy minister or a civil servant will lose their position.
Regarding Vice President Joice Mujuru, who did not attend the Congress’ official opening together with Cde Didymus Mutasa and Cde Nicholas Goche, Cde Mugabe said she was appointed as a figure to represent the empowerment of women.
He said he was however disappointed to learn that she was working against the progress of the country by being corrupt and planning to assassinate him.
President Mugabe also thanked Zanu PF members for weeding out retrogressive elements in the party.
Notice: ZBC Tv to broadcast the proceedings of the 6th Zanu PF Congress at 9PM tonight.

A mentally challenged Gutu woman reportedly ate “a man alive” as has beeen said after axing him to death before turning onto his wreathing corpse yesterday.
The occured yesterday morning when Esthar Katandawa (27) disarmed the man who had an axe on his shoulders, struck him on the head before eating his flesh, police confirmed.
Katandwa the official police statement said met the now-deceased Simon Muzenda (29) at around 9am in Mupandawana Village, in headman Gadzingo’s area.
Acting Masvingo provincial police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Kudakwashe Dhewa confirmed the incident, saying Katandawa has since been arrested and was in police custody.
“We have indeed heard about the incident and we can confirm that the accused, who is mentally challenged, has
since been arrested and is in custody,” he said.
He said Katandawa met the deceased in the same village in the morning and disarmed him of the axe, before chasing after him and turning the axe on him.
“The now-deceased was limping as his leg was aching,” Dhewa said.
“After the axe was taken away from him, he tried to flee, but could not go further as he could not run due to his leg that was troubling him.
“Unfortunately, he was struck with the axe and died on the spot.
“The accused then started eating his flesh.”
Other villagers who were passing by are said to have heard his cries, before they apprehended Katandawa and made a police report, leading to her arrest – SouthernEye

State Media updates

15:25 Foreign sister organisations have finished delivering their solidarity messages and delegates break for lunch. Local sister organisations will deliver their messages tomorrow, Zanu PF National Chairman has announced.
15:18 December 12 Movement Solidarity message: They congratulate the endorsement of the First Lady to lead the Women’s League and say they will always be with Zimbabwe as they have continued since 1972. They declare that Zimbabwe will never be a colony again and is a country for Zimbabweans.
15:01 Cuba Communist Party: The Cuban people convey solidarity message on the occasion of the congress adding that the two countries share the same challenges of sanctions imposed by the West and its allies.
14:57 Sudan says Zimbabwe will always prosper under the leadership of Presdient Mugabe.
14:53 South Sudan Liberation Movement solidarity message: The president congratulates Zanu PF for the 6th National People Congress. African liberation movements supported our leader and it is through this solidarity that South Sudan got independence in July 2011. We are truly grateful for that.
14:45 DPRD official from Democratic Republic of Congo solidarity message. The official says the DPRD appreciates the honour and privilege of being invited to the congress. This indication is a strong signal of the strong ties that exist between Zimbabwe and DPRD as well as Zanu PF and DPRD. We take this opportunity presented to us by the congress to congratulate the people of Zimbabwe and especially president Mugabe for unity. The ideological line of Zanu PF encourages nations to be masters of their own destiny. Thanks ZANU PF for the invitation.
14:35 Nangolo Mbumba, Swapo Secretary General conveys SWAPO solidarity message – “We are aware of deliberate and well orchestrated events meant to destabilise cohesion among revolutionary parties in the region. There is therefore need for sister parties to close ranks and thwart the obnoxious move. SWAPO salutes Zanu PF and wishes the party well and does not doubt that after the congress, the party will emerge stronger and forge ahead in pursuit of the implementation of ZimAsset. ‘Pamberi neZanu PF, Phambili leZanu PF,” as he wraps his message.
14:29 He tells delegates that the ANC shares deep links with Zanu PF and were together in the trenches fighting colonial masters. He adds that the ANC wishes ZANU PF wisdom to take the country forward and stimulate economic growth and success.
14:26 The National Chairman now invites Dr Zweli Mkhize, the treasurer general of ANC Africa to give his party’s solidarity message
14:20 National Chairman informs delegates that the venue, Harare Civic Grounds has been renamed Robert Mugabe Grounds and four roads have been renamed Dr Grace Mugabe, Dr Simon Vengesai Muzenda, Dr Joshua Muqabuko Nkomo and ZimAsset respectively. He also expressed gratitude for the food (rice, mealie-meal, beef and sausages donated by the first family to the congress.
14:07 Zanu PF delegates break into song and dance as they belt popular rendition, “Musaputse Sungano”. President Mugabe, Dr Grace Mugabe, Cde Edna Madzongwe and Professor Moyo are dancing as well.
14:04 Cde Mudenda calls upon the Chairman of Bulawayo Province to move the motion to take note of the Key Note Address and accept the report presented by President and First Secretary of Zanu PF. The Acting Chairman of Midlands Province seconds the motion.
13:58 He praises President Mugabe for teaching them good leadership that they should be honest and truthful leaders who have unity of purpose through self introspection. He assures the President that God will fight his battles and wishes the first family long life. “Long Live President Mugabe, Long Live Mother of the Nation, Dr Mugabe,” he says.
13:55 Congress delegates break into song and dance as President Mugabe leaves the podium to take up his seat. Cde Jacob Mudenda now addressing the gathering and chants ‘DOWN WITH REBELS.’
13:53 He hands over the Central Committee report to delegates before thanking attendees for coming. “Pamberi nekubatana, Phambili lokubambana, Phambana lokubamba,” he says raising his fist and firmly waving it to mark the end of his speech.
13:58 He praises President Mugabe for teaching them good leadership that they should be honest and truthful leaders who have unity of purpose through self introspection. He assures the President that God will fight his battles and wishes the first family long life. “Long Live President Mugabe, Long Live Mother of the Nation, Dr Mugabe,” he says.
13:55 Cde Jacob Mudenda takes to the podium and shouts – “ DOWN WITH REBELS!”
13:50 He said 2013 elections were people driven which is why no one among leadership should claim it. “It belongs to you, the people. Which is why you used your powers to clean up the party. Today we are here to look at ourselves and the policies that we should follow, ZimAsset kupedza hurombo, dams, irrigation and things like that. This congress is about celebrating victory.”
13:47 President Mugabe says some had lost hope that the party will rise and did not want to go for elections. Some had deserted the posts the party had assigned them. Some had formed alliances with MDC formations to topple the government with the help of western nations. He also castigated the dirty team that wantonly betrayed the ideals of Zanu-PF.
13:45 He thanks foreign delegates for coming to support Zanu-PF, a party that emerged victorious in the 2013 elections.
13:40 Zanu-PF had to endure the inclusive government because it had performed dismally in the 2008 elections – President Mugabe.
13:35 “Those who are corrupt will be prosecuted if the allegations are proven and all government officials involved in any corrupt dealings will have their employment terminated,” – President Mugabe.
13:30 He says, “Tinotenda kuti tiritose asi zvakanaka kuti vatadzi ava takavabata tisati tasvika patiri. Zvinhu izvi zvagara zvichiitika mumusangano asi tinozvitadza. Tinokutendai nekubatana kwamakaita, makarasa marara aya.”
13:25 President Mugabe thanks party leadership and supporters for unity of purpose and working together to flush out people who were bent on betraying the ideals of the struggle.
13:20 “This is how thieves behave,” President Mugabe on VP Mujuru and her cabal of thieves who boycotted Congress. He gives anecdote of a stranded couple which they accommodated overnight but stole his mother and sister’s clothing and left early morning in a huff.
13: 15 “Over the years we thought we were working together with her, but alas, behind our backs she was plotting my downfall. We carried investigations and noted it was a clique that involved provincial chairpersons and ministers. Information started trickling in from provinces that a plot to topple the President was on the cards,” – President Mugabe
13:07 “The party saw it fit in 2004 to include women within the top leadership, resulting in the appointment of VP Mujuru” – President Mugabe.
13:05 The past leadership failed to fulfill the aspirations of the people due to a myriad of problems which included a cabal within the leadership which wanted to remove me from power – President Mugabe
13:02 President Mugabe commends war veterans for uniting Zanu-PF and castigates those who wanted to change the party leadership and topple him from power
12:58 President Mugabe takes to the podium at the invitation of SK Moyo
12:53 ”A revolution does not succeed on the basis of the weakness of the opposition but the successful implementation of its programmes” – SK Moyo
12:50 Zanu-PF grew stronger during my chairmanship. Factionalism is a dangerous virus – SK Moyo
12:45 SK Moyo is delivering his welcome address.

State Media updates

 12:10 Zanu PF National Chairman has announced the beginning of the proceedings at officially convenes the sitting of the Congress in terms of Article 5, Section 22 of the Zanu PF Constitution. He has announced that in terms Article 9, Section 44 (1) of the constitution, he will chair the plenary.
11:50 Bishop Manhanga delivers the opening prayer.
11:20 President Mugabe has arrived at the venue but is yet to enter the marque. He is reported to be in a briefing party leadership. Vice President Joice Mujuru is has not arrived.
10:50: Zanu PF National Chairman, Cde S.K. Moyo making last minute arrangements to the high table in anticipation of the president’s imminent arrival. Chief of Dr Munyaradzi Kajese making last minute inspection of the higher table.

10:30: An army of local and foreign journalists present here at the Zanu PF National People’s Congress venue. This is testament to the massive interest the event has has garnered.

10:27: Cabinet Ministers and Politburo Members Dr Olivia Muchena, Dr David Parirenyatwa and Cde Sydney Sekeramai have arrived at the venue.
10:21: All Women’s League provincial chairpersons have been summoned outside the marque by out going secretary for women affairs, Cde Oppah Muchinguri for a quick briefing.
10:04: Security is tight in and around the venue with scores of police, military, intelligence officers and party youths maintaining order and keeping the peace.

The Congress Venue has been renamed Robert Mugabe Square
09:43: ZANU PF headquarters is a hive of activity with last minute preparations underway. Scores of Zanu PF supporters are camped outside the party headquarters as they wait for the mop up accreditation to commence. Among those try to beat the last minute accreditation is former Zimbabwean Ambassador to South Africa and Russia, Cde Phelekezela Mphoko.
 

DAY 3 – ZANU PF NATIONAL PEOPLE’S CONGRESS

13:40: President Mugabe has just entered the hall and the meeting is supposed kick off anytime from now
13:32: Cde Simbarashe Mbengegwi has just arrived.
13:28: Dr Timoth Stamps has arrived and proceeded into the hall.
13:24: ‪ Cde Patrick Chinamasa has also arrived. Delegates are just moving in and out of the hall and some are standing outside.
13:11: Professor Jonathan Moyo and Cde Savior Kasukuwere have just arrived. They went straight into the hall.
13:07: Cde SK Moyo and Cde Mnangagwa have just entered the hall. The environment is calm here and the meeting has not started. President Mugabe is still in the main building.
13:01: Cde Cephas Msipa, Cde Jacob Mudenda and Cde Goodwills Masimirembwa have also arrived.
12:25: Dr David Parirenyatwa, Cde Olivia Muchena and Cde Christopher Mutsvangwa have arrived at Zanu PF Headquarters for the Central Committee meeting.
12:15: Central Committee members are now entering the hall to take their positions but Cde Mnangagwa has moved out of the hall and proceeded into the main building. Cde Ignatius Chombo has also arrived. The meeting has not started and some members of the Central Committee are still arriving.

12:07: Cde Sydney Sekeramai has just arrived here at Zanu PF Headquarters. Cde Mnangagwa too has just arrived and went straight inside the hall where the meeting is taking place
11:45: Zanu PF delegates are now standing outside the hall to welcome the President who just arrived but went through the basement.
11:44 The vehicle, Zim1 has just arrived the President, Cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe has arrived at Zanu PF Headquarters for the Central Committee meeting.

DAY 2 ZANU PF NATIONAL PEOPLE’S CONGRESS

1702: The First Lady’s meeting ends, she refuses to be interviewed
1628: The First Lady is still in the closed door meeting
1628: Harare provincial affairs minister Miriam Chikukwa sneaks out using another entyrance avoiding youths who have been denouncing her through a song . . . “Chikukwa chera mwena nguva yakwana”
1605: Scores of Zanu PF youths are outside singing songs denouncing the kingpins of the plot to topple President Mugabe namely VP Mujuru, Cdes Webster Shamu and Didymus Mutasa.
1546: The First Lady is done and currently in a closed door meeting with the party leadership as journalists wait outside hoping to get an interview with her.

1509: The First Lady has arrived at the congress venue and is now being taken around.
1423: Cdes Saviour Kasukuwere, Jonathan Moyo, Patrick Zhuwawo and Patrick Chinamasa have arrived.
1412: Also present is Zanu PF national chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo, national commissar Webster Shamu, deputy health minister Dr Paul Chimedza and NetOne general manager Reward Kangai.

1408: The team that accompanied her during her “Meet the people tour” are already here. These are Cdes Oppah Muchinguri, Shuvai Mahofa, Sarah Mahoka and Eunice Sandi Moyo.
1406: The First Lady Dr Grace Mugabe is expected to arrive at for her scheduled tour at the congress venue any minute from now.

Zanu -PF has remained committed to the economic empowerment of indigenous Zimbabweans
1255: Delegate accreditation is still on going at the Zanu PF Headquarters in Harare while the Politburo meeting is about to start.

Kwekwe Central MP Masango Matambanadzo (Blackman) who boasts of being a Grade 2 Drop-Out, is to be booted from both the party and Parliament over his violent public behaviour.
HON MP Matambanadzo in response to the reports has said he is only being persecuted because of his “sharp brains.” Mr Matambanadzo faces the axe after ZANU PF’s Midlands executive met to execute their resolve on him which is that he goes under the current purge of Mujuru supporters underway.
Senior Central Committee Douglas Tapfuma in a statement said the provincial executive has ruled to commence the process soon after congress which ends at the weekend.
“The province has been concerned by the behaviour of Hon Matambanadzo, who has been involved in various violent confrontations with senior members of the party and even the Mayor of Kwekwe (Matenda Madzoke). He has caused serious embarrassment to Zanu PF and we have just had enough,” Tapfuma said.
 
Matambanadzo faces charges of beating up fellow party legislator Owen Ncube (Gokwe-Kana MP) who is also the provincial secretary for security in Amaveni, the matter which is still pending at the courts.
Tapfuma also accused the controversial MP of boycotting party meetings and rallies held in the province.
“We don’t know if he is still a party member because he is not working with us, he has never visited the Kwekwe party office since he was elected and he is running a dubious $1 a day programme which as a party we have distanced ourselves from,” he said.
Tapfuma said soon after congress, the provincial executive will urgently submit its recommendations to the party’s national disciplinary committee to have Matambanadzo expelled from the party.
“We do not have the power to expel him from the party, but we can only recommend that he should be expelled and once that happens he will be recalled,” he said.
Matambanadzo on record says that he is being persecuted because of his “sharp brains”. “I might be a Grade 2 dropout, but I have sharp brains which have seen me helping people and that is the reason why some people from my own party hate me and are doing everything to pull me down,” he recently told flea market vendors in Kwekwe.

President Robert Mugabe’s attacks on Vice President Joice Mujuru boiled up on Wednesday with him viciously attacking his inlaws’ country Ghana.
Mugabe said Ghana is still the same undeveloped state it was when he met his wife Sally in the 1960s.
“I have been to Ghana 1958 to 1960 and when you look at them now and compare their present situation to that that existed in the 1960s, no change.
“There might be more people yes, there may be one road from the airport which has been well done yekungoti vanhu vanosvika munyika imomo vafunge kuti nyika yakwirira,” he said.
Mugabe took a swiped at Ebola ravaged West and North Africa where the countries were predominantly colonised by France showed that Europe did not have Africa’s interests at heart.
“That’s about all, no change. There are still areas were not all children go to school, nyika dzakakura. Woti why? Because they have remained under the control of countries like France, European countries like that,” he said.
He said most French colonies had remained dependent on their former colonisers due to the agreements they signed when they attained independence and had no control over their natural resources.
“So those countries are not free. What is now very important but an absolutely discouraging development is that the leaders we get now are not of the same calibre as vana (Kwame) Nkrumah, vana Seko Toure, vana Modibo Keita, vana (Abdel) Nasser, no. They are all yes leaders because they expect help, money from European countries,” he said.

ZANU PF’s suspended chairman Rugare Gumbo has been given the boot by the ZANU PF Congress currently underway in Harare.
The decision will mean Gumbo’s earlier 5 year suspension is now superseded by the expulsion.
Sitting in the Central Committee, members voiced they were collectively excommunicating Mr Gumbo forever. A source told this reporter following the decision, “We will deal in this way (navo vose) with all who work to destroy the party. Hakuna kwavanosvika vese ava vana Jabu navana Joram – They will not get anywhere,” he said. It was confirmed by spokesman Simon Khaya Moyo who said, “suspended spokesperson, Cde Rugare Gumbo has been expelled from the party by the central committee.”

Mr Gumbo was expelled following his recent criticism of President Robert Mugabe in which he announced that ZANU PF is facing a leadership crisis, making reference to his boss Mugabe.
“We have a serious leadership crisis and the whole world is aware of that. We have a leadership that is disjointed, a leadership that has no focus on how to resolve major issues. We have a leadership that is power-hungry and will do anything to subvert the will of the people,” Gumbo said.
“They want to remain leaders forever at the expense of the suffering majority. It is an unfocused leadership that is concerned with its own interests, not addressing the concerns of the people.”
Gumbo, a prominent veteran of the liberation struggle, said Mugabe (almost 91) has virtually lost control of the party as he has allowed power-hungry opportunists to push for illegal party constitutional amendments and purges to accommodate themselves.
“Mugabe has lost direction and he is being used by power hungry people. He has practically lost control of the party. He should not have allowed the First Lady to attack long-time comrades like that; and that on its own shows he is no longer in control. He has no vision. You cannot bulldoze amendments to the constitution so that it fits into what opportunists want.
“He has to respect the constitution. How can a leader who is in charge allow illegal purges of elected provincial executives like that. It means he is detached from the people. He is not the one controlling those provinces anymore and this should ring a bell that it’s time for change of leadership.”
Before his suspension Gumbo demanded that congress must resolve the succession issue
 

As Vice President Joice Mujuru was found missing at the central committee meeting Wednesday afternoon , President Robert Mugabe opened the meeting announcing that Mujuru has been traveling to prophets seeking supernatural assistance to remove him from power.
During the central committee meeting, Mugabe claimed Mujuru and her clique “went to prophets and n’angas seeking to oust him.”
Because our journalists were barred from taking in their phone devices, it was not possible to print his full speech in good time at the time of writing.
Delegates to ZANU PFs National Congress were still being accredited at the time of writing.
Meanwhile Mrs Mujuru’s whereabouts were not known at the time of writing with reports that she is suffering from depression at her home.
UPDATED AT 5.30pm

Violence broke lose at a Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition meeting at the Election Resource centre in Harare over power struggles with youths bussed in causing havoc pushing and boxing delegates. Police covering the ZANU PF Congress had to be called in to stop the violence.
The hired youths from former student and current leaders clashed at an on going meeting chaired by Mfundo Mlilo the disputed Crisis Coalition spokesperson. The youths said Mlilo should leave the conference room.
There are currently power struggles at the organisation. The NGO is led by Macdonald Lewanika who is being charged at by sympathisers of the former Chair Dewa Mavhinga.
Mavhinga was last month forced to retire by Mlilo and Lewanika.
The meeting was forced to end by journalists who own the Quill Club and who then called in the police manning ZANU PF delegates at the ambassador hotel.
The police ended up ejecting the violent youths.

The situation was tense Wednesday afternoon as delegates congregated at the desolate empty space outside the Rotten Row Magistrates courts whose heavily dusty airspace has had a strip road hurriedly named after Grace Mugabe.
As ZimEye covers the Zanu Pf Congress, our journalists were within the last 90minutes barred from entering the Central Committee meeting with their cellphones at 4pm. This was after professor Jonathan Moyo reacting to a UK warning on the congress told security to bar journalists from entering with devices that connect to the internet.
(READ – President Robert Mugabe opened the meeting announcing… – See more )
ZANU PF youths in green bomber uniform were seen roaming the makeshift conference area lurking for intruders from the Mujuru faction.
More to follow…

Sleepless nights as a bird is directed to collect debt.
Bulawayo – A Robert Sinyoka woman is having sleepless nights after a grey bird was reportedly sent from Tamandayi in Chipinge “to collect a debt” she failed to pay as per stipulated time and agreed period, a development that has roped in renowned local pastors to assist her.
Theresa Mguni 38, a cross border trader and operator of more than five flea market bays in and around Bulawayo travelled to South Africa three months ago to buy stock for her business, and this was the beginning of the troubles which has sent shivers in her spine countless times.
When she was from SA to buy goods, she deliberately took some bags which were stuffed with material for sale from across the border and sold the order before a dream came to her ordering her to return what she stole.
According to Ms Mguni, the dream kept coming until she sought divine intervention from prophets who warned her to look for the owner of the goods she had stolen previous months.
“I went back to Beitbridge and tried to look for the owners but that was to take me another journey into the deep jungle in search of the owners of the goods I took. I am regretting the day I picked up that did not belong to me,” said Mguni.
She also told ZimEye that she went to a village where she was directed by prophets and came across an old man in his 70s. She told her that he was waiting for her arrival three weeks to come and return the stolen goods.
“What can I do sekuru, because at the moment I do not have the goods, I sold them and I promise if you give me time I will pay you the loss, ” she said.
She was ordered to enter into a mutual agreement of paying the said amount which was calculated to $800 and she agreed. According to Mguni, sekuru gave her a small root that she said ‘I must take to SA and do another order and that the order will double the charge he demanded’. The goods that Mguni took were also valued at $400 and she was to repay her victims money and also another $400 to sekuru.
Mguni went to SA and did what she was told to do and the deal went well, that she managed to acquire $1600, which she squandered and delayed to return to sekuru with the payment for both her victims and the old man, she has admitted.
A few days after she squandered the cash, in the morning when she was taking a bath, a bird arrived from nowhere and greeted her in the bathroom and it introduced itself as sekuru Nyandima.
“I nearly fainted but I remembered that I had breached the agreement with the old man, so I am in a stressful situation as I only have $300 with me and I am failing to raise the cash on demand, ’ said Mguni who looked dejected and in shock.
Asked to shed more light about the bird, she told ZimEye that the bird is still coming every time she is at her lodgings and she is now asking for well-wishers to come to her rescue to pay off the old man.
Pastor Solomon Ncube of Christ for All Ministries told ZimEye that they also tried to assist Theresa but she does not commit herself to God and opts to go to fake prophets who tell her confusing and conflicting advices that haunt her.
Currently, Theresa is asking for anyone who can come to her rescue and she told ZimEye that she is prepared to give a collateral security for the $800 needed to pay off the debt.

PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE yesterday for the first time since his wife went on a cyclonic anti-Mujuru rant, publicly knifed Vice President Joice Mujuru following the so called ‘secret Mujuru tapes’ handed him months earlier.
The tapes in Mugabe’s possession, replay a voice said to be that of Mujuru insulting and stating in chikorekore dialect that Mugabe has overstayed his welcome and he must leave. Click Here Read more – EXCLUSIVE – Mugabe’s Secret Spy Tapes of Mujuru ‘Saying Bob Resting on Own Faeces.’
Until yesterday analysts had speculated that Grace Mugabe was acting of her own volition in her countrywide crusade against Mujuru.
But Mugabe brought clarity to shore when he tore into Mujuru saying she is too simplistic to lead anyone.
“We are experiencing it (problems) for the first time in Zanu PF,” Mugabe told a group of senior ZANU PF politicians last night.
 
He continued,
“And for that matter it’s a woman who says she wants to lead.
“She doesn’t even ask whether she’s able to handle the country, the pressures.”
Mugabe linked up Mujuru with the MDC parties.
“We know the infiltration that has been going on, we know the discussions that have been going on that they will link up with the MDC and America and Britain will pour lots of money,” he said to applause from the delegates.
“That simplistic thinking, I don’t trust a white man at all.”
He added alleging that Mujuru was working with the MDC and this is evidenced in that she did not want the country to have elections last year.
“Mujuru didn’t want elections, why?,” he asked.
Mugabe said Western countries influenced a number of African countries and leaders to discourage Zimbabwe from conducting a run-off election after the inconclusive March 29, 2008 harmonised elections where MDC-T leader, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai led in the first round by securing just more than 47 percent while President Mugabe had 43 percent though Zanu-PF beat MDC-T in both houses of parliament amassing 45.94 percent of the vote to MDC-T’s 43.56 in the Senate; and 45.94 percent to 42.88 in the House of Assembly suffrage.
Yet the Constitution stated that for a Presidential candidate to be declared a winner, they were supposed to garner 50 plus one percent.
“Even Thabo Mbeki was saying no what use is there, the Europeans will not recognise you if you go for another election and win? Ah do I care for European recognition?
“The Inclusive Government was a humiliating thing but infact even in politics you must have also a strategy that ah now this is what needs to be done. And Jabulani (Sibanda) was saying ah matengesa kuti muve in association naTsvangirai. Even my child Bellarmine was saying ah mabva mukubata Tsvangirai handidi. Dad I won’t shake you. So you can see how humiliated I was. When you are rejected by your own son,” President Mugabe said.
He spoke of the alleged conspiracy by Mujuru,
“But I knew of course that well we would get them. Fine we worked together, I gave Tsvangirai tea. He thought I had put poison in the tea so I drank the tea and gave him. But later on he was asking for more like Oliver Twist. In the meantime we were building our party. Ivo vakanakirwa nawo saying no we should not have elections…
“Even our side, our people didn’t want elections. Vana Mai Mujuru didn’t want elections. Why? There you are. So we had those elections our own way and we emerged 31st July with that resounding victory,” said President Mugabe.
He said it was important for party cadres to remain steadfast on principles than sacrifice them for expediency or money.
He said some people including Americans and former Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe Xin Shunkang thought Zanu-PF would lose the elections.
Mugabe thanked the war veterans for throwing their weight behind his sole candidacy at the Zanu-PF 6th National People’s Congress.
He said he would continue as President as long as God wished him to remain there.
Mugabe urged the war veterans to remain united and principled so that Government can recognise them even through creation of a specific ministry for them.
He said Government would endeavour to empower war veterans through various interventions.

The Zanu PF Politburo has dismissed last minute petitions seeking the ouster of the party’s National Chairman and Spokesperson, Simon Khaya Moyo and Matabeleland South Minister of State, Abednico Ncube.
Sources attending the ruling party’s Politburo meeting say the last minute petitions have been dismissed and described as mischievous.
The petitions, triggered by a group of war veterans in Matabeleland South Province yesterday and endorsed by the Provincial Executive Committee, are said to have come too late and raised frivolous issues.
The provincial executive had sought the endorsement of the Politburo to have the vote of no confidence take effect.
Some of the issues raised against Khaya Moyo are said to be too old and too naïve to be raised on the 11th hour under such crucial issues taking place.
ZBC

The UK government has fired an emergency warning on ZANU PF’s National Congress and raised its risk rating on the meeting believed to be escalating into a bloody conflict.
The government in the last 24 hours has cautioned travelers and tourists to Zimbabwe urging them to be ready to be air-lifted at short notice if security deteriorates in the country as the ZANU PF congress roles out.
Following a purge on senior party members ahead of the congress by President Mugabe and threats by war vets aligned to Grace Mugabe to attack Joice Mujuru supporters if they set foot at the congress venue, expert indications show events are taking a bloody turn.
UK citizens have been told to avoid crowds, make security arrangements and be ready to leave the country at short notice if need be.
“Zimbabwe’s ruling party will be holding their national Congress in Harare from 3 to 6 December 2014. You should avoid large gatherings and demonstrations, follow the advice of local authorities and monitor local media.
“If you’re living in Zimbabwe, keep your security arrangements under close review, make sure your travel documents are up to date and readily available and have a contingency plan in place in case you need to leave at short notice.”
 
But the warning stated however that there is low threat from terrorism albeit the state risk.
“There is a low threat from terrorism,” it further read.
It continued, “Dual British-Zimbabwean nationals who wish to travel to Zimbabwe and return to the United Kingdom must have a valid travel document to re-enter the United Kingdom. It’s not possible to re-enter the UK using a Zimbabwean passport or emergency travel document without a visa or entry clearance endorsed.
Holiday and business visas are available at the port of entry. Don’t violate the terms of your visa.
Although the economic outlook in Zimbabwe improved under the 2009 to 2013, under the Government of National Unity, the economic situation is increasingly fragile with smaller banks facing difficulty.”

Expelled war veterans Chairman Jabulani Sibanda came out walking in victory Tuesday afternoon crushing Robert Mugabe in the case he was accused of insulting the President through his bedroom coup complaint against Grace Mugabe.
 
Mr Sibanda now heads to the Constitutional Court after his bail application was granted. That was after the judges accepted that the State’s case against him was confined in the realm of Sibanda’s “constitutional rights as a citizen of Zimbabwe”.
 
ZimEye tracked Mr Sibanda as he walked out of court quiet but with a firm face consistent with his victory in the case which is set to create a precedent in all cases of so called “insults on the President”.
 
The State had sought to criminalise Sibanda’s complaint on Grace Mugabe’s attacks on Joice Mujuru as he repeatedly said: “Why does a national broadcaster give acres of space to Grace to attack the Vice President of the country?” He then said that Zimbabwe is not a monarchy, it is a Republic, also adding that war veterans will stand to defend their rights which are being infringed. State prosecutors however overzealously followed the layperson’s guidance of the vocal Buhera South legislator Joseph Chinotimba who insisted that Sibanda had insulted Mugabe and deserved to be punished for it.

As the ZANU PF Congress opened in Hararae Tuesday, a Zanu pf Nissan Hardbody was seen cruising  around  the central business district throwing flyers written on them “Vote Of No Confidence Mugabe. ” People scrambled for the fliers which were bearing   ‘Vote of no confidence! Mugabe’. The identity of the driver could not be ascertained and neither the car’s registration number since it was continuously speeding off and not stopping at any corner. IN THE PICTURES – One of the flyers thrown off the vehicle….

The Vote of No Confidence term has become synonymous with ZANU (PF) since the entrance of President Robert Mugabe’s wife Grace into the main stream media as many from the Mujuru faction were unceremoniously kicked out.

People were however reluctant to pick up the fliers fearing victimization.

The fliers are believed to be coming from the Vice President Joice Mujuru faction which is being purged by Grace Mugabe

“The problem in Zimbabwe is that  you never know who is who and if you take these things you might end up being followed even at home”, said a certain Mr Joseph. PICTURES:

Expelled former War Veterans chairman Jabulani SIbanda is to remain in prison on charges of “Insulting President Robert Mugabe”.
Sibanda who is credited for inventing the term “Bedroom Coup,” referring to Mugabe’s Wife’s meteoric rise to power in which she sought to unseat outgoing Vice President Joice Mujuru, was last week slapped behind bars for the so called “crime” said to have been committed on the 27^th October.
Even while in prison, Sibanda has continued in his request for a meeting with President Robert Mugabe to present his case that he did not insult the head of state but was only making a constitutional protest against the attacks on Vice President Joice Mujuru. He told ZimEye earlier,
“I know nothing about the attack of President Mugabe. I just started to hear about it on the 5th November from the newspapers…
“I know nothing about that.
“One thing I know is that I didn’t attend the (Grace Mugabe) rally because I was busy doing college work.
“I was not even compelled to attend the rally. If I wanted to attend the rally I would have attended but because that rally has developed some hatred and apparently people are fighting for power in the party I was not really interested. I couldn’t afford to substitute the work I was doing to unite in the party and join a group that uses power position and who are fighting for power.”
 
Appearing before magistrate Vakai Chikwekwe yesterday Sibanda was remanded in custody to Tuesday when his lawyer Sobusa Gula-Ndebele presents a bail application as well as pleas to have the trial relocated to his home town in Bulawayo.
 
Meanwhile State Prosecutor Jonathan Murombedzi alleged that on the 27^th October Sibanda conducted an ‘illegal’ meeting at Herbert Mine in Mutasa where he insulted President Robert Mugabe saying he was using a coup to remove Mujuru and announcing that Grace Mugabe was launching a bedroom coup by attacking Vice President Joice Mujuru. In his speech Sibanda, who was addressing the gathering of freedom fighters converged at Herbert Mine where remains of 82 freedom fighters were exhumed from a disused mine shaft, said the Zanu PF Politburo is now dominated by power hungry people and as war veterans they will not allow them to prevail.
According to the State outline Sibanda also alleged that war veterans are being blocked from meeting President Mugabe, threatening to organise a march to State House to meet their patron if this continues.

The real snipers who downed a Rhodesian helicopter previously credited to Vice President Joice Mujuru have come forward to present their evidence. VIDEO:

STATE MEDIA REPORT:
VICE President Joice Mujuru and her hangers-on misled the country when they claimed that she downed a helicopter at the height of the liberation struggle as she was nowhere near Murehwa when the incident happened.
War veteran and a member of the National Traditional Inheritance Kingdom, Cde Linda Mangwende, whose Chimurenga name was Sarudzai Nehanda, said VP Mujuru had been using her picture that was taken in 1978 to claim it was her after shooting down a helicopter.
War veteran and Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Christopher Mutsvangwa has already dismissed the VP’s claims saying it was propaganda being peddled by political commissar Cde Webster Shamu to prop up VP Mujuru’s bid to depose President Mugabe.
“VP Mujuru has been using my picture claiming it is her after shooting down a helicopter, but the truth of the matter is that that is my picture that was taken in 1978 when I was coming from Takawira Sector entering Tangwena Sector in Gaza province,” said Cde Mangwende in an interview with The Herald yesterday.
“I had left Cdes Kambanje (Tenzi Nehoreka) going to the sector where Cdes Aginyu Kambeu (the late General Amoth Chimombe), Freddy Matanga, Brigadier General Munemo, Grenjar Benhura, Tonderai Zimondi, Charles Munyoro and Tokwe were.
Play the video below:
“On the women side, it was myself, Lieutenant Colonel Mukurazhizha, Cde Muchaneta Plaxedes, the late Colonel Mlambo and Mabel Chinomona. We are the ones who used to carry materials.
“The people responsible for shooting down the helicopter are Cdes Dick Joboringo, Kambanje pa D-Level, Brian, Long Chase, Dangarembizi, Masweets, Gabarinocheka, Norest, Shungu and the late Bazvoka Chidemo.
“These are the people who brought down the helicopter not these lies about Joice Mujuru because at the time she was at Osibisa Nehanda.”
Cde Mangwende said she wanted VP Mujuru to pay her back all the money she gained for using her picture.
Cde Mangwende said the embattled VP must not claim to have downed the aircraft when she had not yet been trained.
Chief Nehoreka concurred with Cde Mangwende, saying VP Mujuru was nowhere near Murehwa when the helicopter was shot down.
“We don’t understand why she wants to lie because she was not there when we brought down that helicopter.
“The picture that she is claiming to be her is of Cde Mangwende when she had just left us. Mujuru was not part of the team that downed the helicopter,” he said.

Rugare Gumbo Interview With Zimbabwe Independent
SUSPENDED Zanu PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo (RG), who unwaveringly stood behind under-fire Vice-President Joice Mujuru as he demanded Zanu PF must resolve its succession conundrum at congress next week, has opened up on the tumultuous events rocking the faction-riddled party, and how he feels betrayed by party leader President Robert Mugabe.
In a wide-ranging interview with the Zimbabwe Independent political reporter Elias Mambo (EM) this week, Gumbo ominously said all progressive forces being purged ahead of congress will not watch forever as their party is destroyed from within by opportunists and infiltrators.
Below are excerpts:
EM: Where to now after your five-year suspension from the politburo?
RG: I have always been on the battlefront all my adult life and I remain resolute that the struggle has to be fought. I am not out. I will make sure the people of Zimbabwe get their freedom and my views of genuine freedom will never be compromised. I will never deviate from principle.
EM: How are you going to continue the fight since you have been booted out of Zanu PF?
RG: Revolutions are fought from different angles. I will continue fighting on behalf of the people to ensure freedom, economic recovery and development.
EM: Do you regret speaking out? Do you feel you owe the President an apology?
RG: Hahaha! I am not apologetic for whatever I have been saying. That has always been my stance and there is nothing to apologise for. Zimbabweans want real issues to be resolved and not for us to remain prisoners of fear.
The succession issue is wreaking havoc with the turnaround of this economy. It cannot be ignored. So why should I apologise? For what? Focused leadership should be aware that one day leadership will change and this calls for robust discussion and not to whip people into line and suppress debate on such a crucial issue.
EM: Take us through events of that fateful day when you were suspended. Were you aware of your impending fate?
RG: I was shocked. Not only me, but everyone else. I knew there were plans to deal with me maybe after congress but not on that day. I was not given a chance to defend myself on the allegations levelled against me and I was not happy that a very junior person (Edson Chakanyuka, Zanu PF Youth League deputy secretary) who has no clue of how this country came to being was used to move a motion to suspend me.
I am a veteran of the struggle and that is not questionable. Mugabe should have moved in to stop that madness considering my role in the liberation struggle and independent Zimbabwe. He should have considered that instead of allowing a representative of a faction that wants power to push me out. Obviously, it was pre-planned and Mugabe knew about it.
EM: And how did the others react, especially those who subscribe to your views of the need for a robust discussion on the succession taboo?
RG: Everyone was shell-shocked. They were taken by aback and no one thought it would come to this. They were scared and there was no dissenting voice to stop the motion. They all kept quiet. I felt that Mugabe should have engaged me before the politburo and not expose me to open attacks.
I was never elected into this position. He appointed me so he betrayed me in the sense that he used some people to help him boot me out. He appointed me so he was supposed to be the person who should have told me openly that he is dropping me, not some dubious character who is ignorant of the history of the struggle and is being used by those who are power hungry. As they say, the one who appoints can also disappoint.
EM: What was your reaction?
RG: I stood up and told Mugabe that I was leaving since I no longer had any role to play. Why would I have wasted my time when I had been chucked out?
EM: What did he say?
RG: He said he thought I should wait until the politburo was over.
EM: And what about the allegations that you wanted to topple or even assassinate Mugabe and replace him with Mujuru?
RG: Pure lies. Blatant lies being peddled by the faction that wants to take over power. It is not possible after having spent my life serving the party to think of overthrowing a sitting president.
I have done nothing wrong. Supporting Mujuru is not a crime. She is the number two in command and if anything happens to the president she is entitled by the constitution of this country to take over. She should be supported and we should not apologise for that.
The president himself said so in 2004. Are we selling out if we are supporting his deputy? No! She is not an enemy so she needs our support.
EM: Are you saying you support the Mujuru faction?
RG: I do not have a faction. I support Mujuru because naturally she was supposed to take over. Mugabe should also support her because he groomed her and that is not a crime.
EM: Do you think Mujuru will take over given how events are taking place in Zanu PF?
RG: Mujuru is going to survive. She is strong and she has a very strong support base. She is well-groomed and mature. There is nothing to stop her from taking over in future.
EM: But those who are supporting her are being purged just like you. How will she survive at congress?
RG: Those suspensions and removals are illegal. They are unwarranted, they are unfair, uncalled-for and they do not consider the contributions of those people to the struggle and development of this country.
EM: But the removed people will not take part at congress? So what will happen?
RG: If Mugabe is given the power to appoint, then it ceases to be an elective congress. In fact that congress is now a sham because illegal structures will be playing crucial roles. Those acting chairpersons are not elected individuals and the constitution does not allow that.
The whole congress is a non-event because the constitution has been manipulated and violated, so where is democracy. It is not a congress at all. It’s a charade.
EM: But it will go ahead as planned and you and others will be left out. What are you going to do?
RG: It is up to the people to react to that. All those sidelined democratic forces can raise their concerns.
EM: Are you saying those people may form their own party?
RG: I am saying people will not sit and accept injustice forever. They will not accept a leadership that is not focused and which they would not have voted for. It is not a people-chosen leadership.
EM: Lastly, are we seeing the end of Zanu PF?
RG: Zanu PF is above any individual. We will not allow our party to be destroyed from within. Those who have highjacked the party will soon realise that power belongs to the people and not them.

Bulawayo- Pastor Tapiwa Maponga, who is a founding Director of Educate a Child Foundation Trust, a Bulawayo based non-profit making organisation, has adopted ten from hundreds of homeless children who have been dumped by the City Council, in their effort to clean up the city centre for Youths games, which are starting this week.
The Bulawayo based and Masvingo born man of the cloth will pay for their school fees and their upkeep at their church base.
“I read about this sad story from your publication last week, and I made efforts to visit the mentioned places, and found out that there are kids with the ability to go to school. I also visited Sidojiwe flats where a good number of orphans are staying and also found heart breaking situations. I will fight to help them acquire birth certificates with relevant authorities and start paying their school fees from January next year,” said Pastor Maponga.
Last week ZimEye carried a story on the dumping of street children at Bulawayo’s biggest dumping site. Bulawayo Mayor Councillor Martin Moyo, vehemently denied ever carrying that exercise, but ZimEye visited the area and found hundreds of street children dumped in the area, with a number of vagrants, also dumped there in an effort to clean the city, in preparation for forthcoming youth games this week.
Pastor Maponga also attended one of the Sidojiwe Pre-School graduations during the weekend, a product of his sponsorship which he started early this year as a pilot project for the disadvantaged children.
The Pastor has since started paying school fees for the Sidojiwe orphans, who will be in grades one to seven respectively.

A 67 year old grandfather and former British South African Police Officer (BSAP) whose name is in ZimEye’s possession, has been caught having sex with multiple sex sessions forcing himself on his closest relatives.
The man who cannot not be named for security reasons, was reportedly “caught” by a spiritualist in what is said to be “a vision” and when confronted without delay confessed to sleeping with his relatives wives, sisters, daughters and villagers wives using mubobobo and juju, which he named as ‘Murima’ literally meaning in the middle of a dark night.
 
The situation came to light when a neighbour and close relative’s wife got seriously ill at the end of November, without hope for recovery from medical experts. The families of the victim decided to consult faith healers and prophets from spiritualist churches, leading to this revelation.
 
Wedzerai Mapetere, who is a close relative of the perpetrator, gathered family members to solve his wife’s mysterious ill health problems. They discovered that his wife was a victim to this man. He told ZimEye how their big brother plays evil to the family. “He would follow our wives to the bush where they will be helping themselves, as you know that in rural areas, there are very few toilets. On this, he would propose love to relatives’ wives and if they refuse, he will make love to them at night using mubobobo,” said Wedzerai.
 
Another relative, Sharai Chibi told ZimEye that their elder brother would even enter their bedroom in the middle of the night, and have sex with them. “He would enter our place where we sleep and we will see that this guy is our brother. It will be more like a dream. He would then remove our pants and have sex with the three of us without having power to cry or shout for help. After having sex with us, he would not say anything but put back his privates and zip on, before walking out of our closed door,” narrated Sharai.
 
ZimEye managed to interview the faith healer and prophet, and he agreed after a thorough body search of recorders and cameras from this reporter. The witchcraft hunter refused to be photographed for fear of other witch hunters who he said mighty jeopardise his spiritual healing prowess.
 
The faith healer who preferred to be called murapi Podzai , told ZimEye that he trapped evil doers in their own backyard and with the accused, he videographed him in an impeccable vision which has precise details which he cannot deny. “I am a freeman who can help end evil situations at homes. I do not show off to anyone but I just do my work easily,” he boasted.
 
Efforts to get comment from Chief Marozva in whose jurisdiction the evil happenings occurred were fruitless by the time of going to press as he was said to be in Harare for the ZANU Pf congress.

At a time when many preachers are staying away from predicting dates and events in defined content, a UK based ‘prophet’ has declared the first time-specific prediction as he says when the Mugabe dynasty will exit the scene and be forgotten forever.
 
Prophet Austin Moses who in June predicted what he said was a big tree falling down with its branches, foretelling of the shocking Mujuru purges, fearlessly declared that Mugabe’s era will be over in a few months’ time.
 
Pharaoh’s era is ending, said Moses.
 
When questioned on the date, he did not waste a breath declaring almost instantly that it will be before the end of 2016 when the Mugabe dynasty will be forgotten forever.
 
“It will be between 2015 and 2017”, he said…
The London based pastor said Zimbabweans all over the world will soon be returning to their country as God is restoring Zimbabwe’s international status.
He said there would be great changes between now and 2017 and Zimbabweans must pray.
“According to what the lord revealed to me, I saw many people, Zimbabweans returning back home. God is in the middle of returning the country back to its origins. It shall never be a desolate country any more. I am not a Zimbabwean, but I say what God has asked me to say, ” he said.
He continued, “the rein of Pharaohs in the land of Zimbabwe is coming to an end. The Lord revealed to me that between 2015 and 2017 He is returning Zimbabwe, ” he said.
Prophet Austin Moses is based in North London and has to his credit several accurate predictions including that of the Ukrainian crisis where after noticing the strength of his predictions, the Ukrainians soon extended a VIP invitation for him to grace their country.
 
 
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• Raalt Nester Ebenesto I don think its time for this stuff here. We want solutions to our problems not predictions of wen pipo shld die. We knww dat mugabe shall die.

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  Dennis Mafagane Many profet has said that before , the biggist thing is to liberate the people of zim not to come with stupit prophecy

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  Adriano Shoniwa The only way to achieve change is to understand the change process!A struggle that is supposed to take 6months can take several years!A struggle requires gaining an insight of how a system is operating,where and how it derives its power!Revolutionary parties” appeal” more to rural populace while oppostion parties are well grounded in urban politics!Revolutionary parties just need to neutralise urban votes!As long as your focus is “Mugabe,Mugabe!” even if he is gone pf will remain a cancer to live with!If it were nt for rural votes.It is high time opposition parties in Africa are not seen as fronts of western countries so that they are received well in rural areas!Rural people are “wise”!You should be very convincing to change them,they are highly conservative!!Hee! Mugabe will go!Heee!shall die!Those are facts of life!He will go its true!But who will make go?The people who give him power!He relies on people!So go to people and win people’s hearts and prove selves as better alternatives!kkkkk!MaPastor amera ” chiMugabe” pamuromo!

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  Mthembo Petros Don’t forget Man United won ngempelasonto admin

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  Nathan Dewa Mugabe achafa next year ,Mugabe is seriously ill , Mugabe will lose election , Mugabe sudden exit from politics , Mugabe this……ah please give the man and us as break , panyo penyu vamu profita intact I don’t believe in all this Bullshit of prophets its FAKE kubira vanhu Mari dzavo mhata Mese maprofita and those who believe in them , dark evil forces

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  Munyaradzi Bhudhas Musekwa Zivai zvekunamatira siyanayi na mudhara wangu uyu

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  Willard Will Chizinga usatinyepere iwe vaporofita venhema mawandisa.Mwari havatambwe navo.

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  Stewart Vincent Karim Robin Van Perse scored a wonderful goal. united we stand

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  Denis Chikwanda Prophets of Doom

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  Tatenda Nzira He is no different frm muxular mula

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  Richard Maposa Bosso loose again kkkkk

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  Richard Kopje This is not news , fake prophets

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  Madzima Mupfeki Kuda kuonekwa here

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  Adriano Shoniwa Prophet of doom!Nhema dzoga!just whipping up people’s emotions and expectations!kurota hakurambidzwe asi marotero acho!Just the point yokuti “will be forgotten forever” is a lie!!

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  Liberty Chinyota nxaaaa

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  Buju Rusengah taneta nadzo mbwa idzo kuhukura hadzina mazino

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MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora, who was arrested on charges of fraud, has been released on US$500 bail. Mwonzora on Saturday appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Milton Serima, who granted him US$500 bail coupled with reporting conditions. Prosecutor Miss Sharon Mashavira alleges that Mwonzora misappropriated US$15 000 in trust funds.
Mwonzora yesterday said he was released after paying US$500 bail.
“It is the usual story about me where the enemies of democracy want to fight my career as a lawyer and politician by making spurious allegations. The good thing is I will always win because God and justice are on my side,” he said.
Meanwhile, the former Copac co-chair will today be in Rusape for trial together with some 31 MDC-T party followers from Nyanga North.
They are accused of assaulting Zanu-PF supporters.
According to the State, in February 2011, Mwonzora and MDC-T supporters held a meeting at Chatindo School, Nyamaropa, where Zanu-PF youths wanted to play social soccer.
The State alleged the group, at the instigation of Mwonzora, attacked Zanu-PF youths and forcibly ejected them from the school.
It is the State’s case that some of the youths were injured and rushed to the nearby Regina Coeli Hospital, where Mwonzora and his co-accused followed them and damaged some buildings. – Herald
Mwonzora allegedly vanished from the scene following the arrival of the police.

There will not be any at all compensation for victims of the Beitridge fire which gutted a warehouse at the border post destroying property worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
People who lost their belongings which were held by the customs department will have to forget it since the goods were not insured, a ZIMRA official told ZimEye.
While the cause of the fire to date is not yet known, forensic experts were yesterday Saturday still scraping for clues albeit with limited resources.
Nothing was left in shape in the Thursday fire after firefighting equipment had to be borrowed from across the border to stop the inferno which took more than five hours to put out.
Goods housed in the warehouse consist of those either routinely confiscated at Beitbridge whenever people fail to pay duty for them, or posted cargo in transit to or from South Africa.
PICTURES: From the second pic: the warehouse main entrances – rubble of burnt metal shelves, metal roof bars and remains of burnt goods.

Charges of treason against MDC founding member Job Sikhala flopped on Thursday resulting in Wiwa walking out “a hero” as described by some.
Sikhala stormed out of police cells after his brief incarceration the night before having been arrested in Beitbridge on charges of plotting to asssassinate President Robert Mugabe.
The cops produced a dodgy recording purporting to be his voice and were dressed down by his layer Alec Muchadehama.
Announcing his release, Sikhala said in full: “I am just waking up now after my release from the hands of Robert Mugabe’s evil securocrats who tormented me from yesterday in the morning to early hours of today trying to squeeze charges that I am plotting the tyrant’s overthrow.
“I told them that it is not only my desire to see Mugabe gone but it is the wish shared by million of Zimbabweans both locally and in the diaspora including the majority in his own party. I told them though it is the wish of us millions, I haven’t yet started plotting his downfall.
“Asking for evidence about the plot, they produced an inaudible voice recorder which makes the Ari Ben Menashe one the best recordings in the world. You can hardly hear anything. It must have been an attempt to create my voice from some stupid idiot from the street. Even Alic Muchadehama who led the entourage of lawyers who came to fight the battle laughed at them that they appeared stupid. There was nothing, nothing except the inaudible recording. They thought by endless interrogation I can incriminate myself not knowing I have gone through their stupid ways of interrogations even under their torture.
“Evil failed to prevail. When Muchadehama challenged them whether they have found a charge against his client, they only blinked their eyes, clearly frustrated. When he demanded for my immediate release they could not stop the inevitable. My dear brothers and sisters, when your conscience tells you that you are fighting for the good don’t be afraid of these evil men and women among ourselves used to subject us into servitude. Dying fighting for a noble cause for generations to come is an honour.
“We should never get frustrated by these incercerations but we must be embodied to fight for a just cause. There is no tomorrow in Mugabe and his crew. He has to go. The true people’s’ plot is coming. It’s truly coming and it will be people driven. The country is pregnant with anger. I am also angry. Let’s wait for the day.”

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The unification of the MDC led by Welshman Ncube and the MDC Renewal is going ahead contrary to claims in a local daily which alleged that the two groups are at loggerheads over the corporate name and party colours.
ZimEye is reliably told that the deal signing due tomorrow, a thorn in Morgan Tsvangirai’s ankle, is proceeding without fail.
The MDC Renewal Spokesman Jacob Mafume said there is “no truth at all,” in the claim that the two groups are split over identity and colours.
“The colour issue has been resolved amicably. The ceremony is going on” he said.
He continued, “it was never an issue. Green and orange go very well …the leaves are green and fruits are orange. A combination of which is easy on the eye who did that story.”
On the name for the merged party, Mafume replied saying  “for now the party is the United MDC…A name will be unveiled after an intensive rebranding exercise …,” he said.
He also revealed that the party will not be led by Tendai Biti as previously speculated in the state media.
“It has co presidents and a president will be selected at the combined congress together with other office bearers,”
 

The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation ZBC has suspended acting CEO Allan Chiweshe and the General Manager who is the Mugabe Tarzan Mandizvidza pending a board of inquiry on corruption involving over $7 million and abuse of office the four did from 2009 to 2013.
The company has appointed the acting Head Finance and Corporate Services Patrick Mavhura as the acting chief executive officer and head radio services Chris Chivinge as the general manager news and current affairs.
ZBC has set up a hearing tribunal chaired by retired judge justice James de Vitte to investigate and institute disciplinary hearing on Happison Muchechetere and his top executives.
In a statement, ZBC board chairman father Gibson Munyoro said,“this follows the finalisation of a forensic audit report by KPMG chartered accountants which revealed that Mr Muchechetere allegedly profited in excess of three comma five million dollars through abuse of office from January 1, 2009 until December 31, 2013. ’
“Mr Muchechetere was a collusive leader and partner in the fraud” said Munyoro who added saying all those found wanting will be brought to account.
Suspended General Manager, Eliot Kasu, Mr Mandizvidza, Mr Chieweshe and suspended Head of Finance Ralph Nyambudzi will also appear before the disciplinary committee.”

[lightbox link=”http://www.zimeye.com/wp-content/live_images//2014/11/MNANGAGWA.jpg” thumb=”http://www.zimeye.com/wp-content/live_images//2014/11/MNANGAGWA-412×203.jpg” width=”412″ align=”right” title=”MNANGAGWA” frame=”true” icon=”image” caption=””]Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa is in a few days time launching a surprise treat for soccer fans, what he calls The Gushungo Football Cup at the National Sports Stadium in honour of President Robert Mugabe, ZimEye can exclusively reveal.
The Cup is to attract a historic more than 60,000 people set to satiate Zimbabwe’s largest meeting space the National Sports Stadium on Sunday the 30th November.
This move comes well in timing with the upcoming ZANU PF congress that could turn Mnangagwa into Robert Mugabe’s successor. At the politburo he was identified as the only other Presidential contender apart from Vice President Joice Mujuru.
The value of the cup was not disclosed at the time of writing.
The man behind the organising of this treat, Mr Emmanuel Sunduza told ZimEye in an exclusive interview all plans are now set for the 30th.
“It is on and we will be in the National Sports of Stadium,” he said.
Meanwhile Mnangagwa’s rival Joice Mujuru has had a barrage of character attacks in the Mnangagwa controlled State Media, continued. Every day since last week, has seen article piled upon article as “every dot of ink” was used to bludgeon Mujuru’s public image before the upcoming congress slated for the first week of December, the last chance for any successor to position themselves for taking from Mugabe.

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  Mujuru corruption report still confined to the State Media

As a cloud of suspense lay hanging over Harare Thursday, ZimEye was reliably told a story circulating that Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri has resigned is not true.
The rumour claimed that Chihuri resigned in protest after refusing to arrest Robert Mugabe’s powerful default successor Vice President Joice Mujuru.
Police spokesperson Charity Charamba who is albeit on study leave, said Mr Chihuri is carrying about his normal duties and there is no iota of truth that he resigned at any time.
“I spoke to him today, he is the office. You can even phone and talk to him”, she said.
She added that the people peddling the rumour must have an agenda behind them.
Analysts have however questioned that despite the pile of news articles alleging deep seated corruption by Mrs Mujuru, she is still to be interrogated. When asked why they haven’t arrested Mujuru,  Ass’ Commissioner Charamba she replied  “We are yet to get the report. ”
The whole capital Harare was tense in the security echelons of power Thursday. Sources say the whole army,  police are in a fix at the moment “to please or not to please” Grace Mugabe and her Mnangagwa camp who have called for Robert Mugabe’s powerful default successor the VP’s arrest and ouster from leadership.  One source said the whole army, police and the rest of the security hierarchy sympathise with Mujuru.

Meanwhile the Attorney General Johannes Tomana,  has on record said ordering the Police Commissioner-General to investigate VP Mujuru when a police report had not been made against her, would actually aide the VP’s defence in the event that she were to appear before the courts of law.
Urging those accusing the VP of corruption to make a formal police report, Mr Tomana said his office would only order an investigation when police fail to take appropriate action on the report.
 
“If we get a docket and there is evidence of a crime we will prosecute, but we cannot invoke the provision when a police report has not been made. That will actually arm the accused’s defence, as they will then argue that the system is prejudiced against them since due process would not have been followed. It will actually kill a case.
“The police service is a constitutional institution whose sole mandate is to carry out investigations without interference. The section that provides for giving that instruction envisages a scenario where the domestic mechanisms have failed.
“If a complaint is put through all the police structures, that will help us to see that that system has failed, especially if we see that there is actually a case. Because I’m now invoking a constitutional provision, it’s no longer supposed to be taken lightly because if he (Commissioner-General) does not respond, the President will have to do something. It’s got consequences and it’s not meant to be used in the understanding that transforms us into an alternative to reporting.

“Has anyone who knows anything about the VP case reported the matter to police? They need to do that as a condition precedent to us intervening,” Mr Tomana said.
Meanwhile, speaking on the sidelines, police director of legal services, Senior Assistant Commissioner Benjamin Mhiripiri said police would only investigate allegations against the VP after a formal report has been made.

Vice President Joice Mujuru attempting to fly out of the country, has been caught in a risk that would have caused her to be beaten up the way MDC cadre Nelson Chamisa was in 2007 today.

There was drama today when marauding ZANU PF youths aligned to Grace Mugabe camped at the Harare International Airport trying to block VP Mujuru from travelling to Dubai alleging she is running away.
However they soon dispersed after an unidentified man told them that it is President Robert Mugabe rather who is traveling.
ZimEye.com has received confirmation that Mrs Mujuru is truly meant to travel to an undisclosed international destination but her office is yet to confirm if the date is today.
An airport employee confirmed to ZimEye that by 4PM the youths had dispersed.
Journalists who had gone to the airport got confirmation that a group of youths had gathered at the airport but had to disperse after being informed that its President Mugabe who is meant to travel.
Mrs Mujuruw as yesterday told by First Lady Grace Mugabe that she must resign now “or else”. Attacking the VP, Grace also said she has secretly video recorded Mujuru having her private intimate time with her late husband, Solomon and during that time mocked the First Family. READ MORE
More to follow…

The Politburo meeting held on Thursday night resulted in the Joice Mujuru camp losing ground as party Spokesman Rugare Gumbo was kicked out of the politburo, and War Veterans Chairman Jabulani Sibanda expelled from the party.
Mr Gumbo, said to have been a Mujuru loyalist, will be on suspension for the next five years.
Other Mujuru loyalists Central Committee member, Enock Porusingazi.i together with Jabulani Sibanda were expelled from the party. Read Full Running Update
Andrew Langa has been removed from the Matabeleland South Provincial Executive Council and from the chairmanship of the province.
The vote of no confidence on Masvingo Provincial Chairperson,  Callisto Gwanetsa, Midlands Chairperson Jason Machaya,  Amos Midzi of Harare Province were all upheld.
Manicaland Provincial Chairperson,  John Shumba Mvundura was given a written reprimand.
In the Women’s League, the vote of no confidence against Masvingo Provincial Chair,  Shylet Uyoyo was upheld.
In the Youth League, Tongai Mangomana and Oliver Huruva, both from Masvingo, had their vote of no confidence upheld.
On Harare Youth League Provincial Chair, Godwin Gomwe, whose case is pending with the National Disciplinary Committee, the Politburo said they are still seized with the matter.
The announcements were made by the Zanu PF National Chairperson,  Simon Khaya Moyo, who has with immediate effect assumed the position of party spokesperson.
Khaya Moyo refused to take any questions after the announcements, but confirmed that the Politburo also discussed preparations for the 6th Zanu PF congress that will beheld from the 2nd to the 7th of December.
He said each of the 10 provinces gave preliminary reports on their preparations for the event, adding that the party is happy with progress and will receive final reports on the preparations next week.

An accident has just occured in Newlands, Harare this afternoon when a school bus full of kids was hit by a speeding Ford sedan.
The accident happened in Mtoko road just after Newlands roundabout at around 1PM, Thursday 13th November.

The driver of the red Ford tried to overtake the school bus which was full of kids. He however veered off the road.
There were no deaths, just minor injuries, ZimEye.com is reliably informed.

More to follow…
 
 

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 | The Movement for Democratic Change (T) held its 4th national congress in Harare Province at City Sports centre from 31 October to 1 November 2014. The congress was held under the theme ‘Towards National Convergence: A Solution to the National Crisis.’ Delegates to the Congress were drawn from the level of Branch upwards, from each of the Party’s 12 Provinces. Also in attendance were representatives of MDC T’s external branches. The Congress received solidarity messages from the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions

(ZCTU) and the Internal Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) represented by Wellington Chibhebhe. This overview provides internal resolutions, external resolutions and policy resolutions based on the congress’s adoption of the four thematic committees namely organizational transformation, constitutional review, policy review and the roadmap to elections.

Internal Resolutions

Institutional transformation
Congress noted that the institutional and structural design of the party has contributed to the ‘split’ of the party in the past and lack of party cohesion which is essential to realize the objectives of the party. The party also noted that the current institutional design might lead to destructive functions in the party and another split.

Structural changes
Congress resolved to amend the constitution to allow the President to be the custodian of the party name, custodian of all party assets, to supervise all in the leadership, to be the party’s chief fundraiser and to suspend National Standing Committee members through the National Council for breach of the party constitution. In this regard the Secretary General shall no longer be responsible ‘for all party affairs in the National Secretariat’ and shall report to the President.

Congress resolved to ratify the recommendation of national council to expand the members of the National Standing Committee to include the secretary for elections who shall be appointed by the President.

Congress resolved that the party sets up an Arbiter General’s office that cascades to all levels to speedily deal with the key issues of discipline in the party, cognisant of the fact that people are disciplined not for their views but for their constitutional conduct.

Congress resolved that deputies of officers of congress except the vice president and the vice chairperson shall not be elected from the next congress but will be appointed by the President from a pool of national executive members elected from the provinces.

Congress resolved that deputies of officers of congress except the vice president and the vice chairperson elected from this 4th party national congress will not sit in the standing committee.

Congress resolved that all national standing committee members shall work under the supervision and the authority of the President.

Congress resolved to reinstate the following external assemblies that is UK, South Africa and United States of America as party provinces.

Internal procedures
Congress resolved that internal elections of the party shall be run by an independent electoral body established and or appointed by the national council.

Congress therefore resolved to extend the voting rights in all primary elections to all party members and not limit them only to party structures that hold positions in the party. This means an expansion of the Electoral College, whereby all members of party members in a legitimate membership roll of its party in a particular district are eligible to vote in a primary election for their parliamentary candidate and all registered members in a particular ward are eligible to vote for a councilor.

Congress resolved to ensure gender parity in all organs of the party and respect the principle of 50/50 gender representation.

Congress resolved that local authorities should work with the party, report and be accountable to the party.

Internal program
Congress resolved to set up a Political Party Institute that will operate as a think-tank. The Congress also resolved to build structures and embark on a cadreship development program and leadership training programs and introducing an evaluation and performance management system for the leaders at all levels.

External resolutions

Position on rebels
Congress resolved to ratify the decision of the National Council to expel Tendai Biti, Elton Mangoma, Solomon Madzore and all the renegades who have transformed themselves into MDC Renewal. The MDC renewal must forthwith cease to use the party’s name and symbols as they did with party colors.

National elections
Congress noted the shortcomings and imperfections of the July 2013 general elections as acknowledged by SADC, the African Union and the international community, particularly the shambolic voters roll and failure to provide an electronic voters roll as required by the law.

Congress therefore ratified the National Council position not to participate in any election, including by-elections, and even the next elections whenever they are held, until and unless all agreed reforms are implemented to the letter and spirit, including the provision of a biometric voters roll in a way that protects the will of the people and return the country to legitimacy.

Peaceful demonstrations
Congress noted that the new constitution allows citizens to peacefully demonstrate and petition the State on any grievance. Congress therefore resolved that the party will embark on peaceful and constitutional demonstrations and other forms of expression around the issues to force the regime of Robert Mugabe to accept the need for reforms in the following but not limited to the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC), media, security sector, implementation of the Constitution in its letter and spirit.

Dialogue
Congress envisaged that the constitutional and peaceful demonstrations will force the government of Robert Mugabe to the negotiating table and build consensus on the need for a timetable towards a free and fair election and return to legitimacy.

Big Tent – Expansion of social base
Congress noted the need to expand its social and political base. Congress therefore resolved to welcome all members of other political parties and even former rebels to come and join the party in order to strengthen the base to fight for a new, democratic and prosperous Zimbabwe.

National convergence
Congress noted that the party needed to strengthen its organic links with other organizations, civic groups, labour, the informal sector, students, church, traditional leaders, progressive political parties, women organizations and the youth in order to entrench the grassroots support and reinvigorate the mass-based approach.

Congress therefore resolved to call for a national convergence conference from all groups and political parties to identify and agree on the national grievances and map the way forward for the country.

Policy Resolutions

Economy
Congress noted the deepening economic crisis bedeviling the country and its ramifications on the poor. Congress therefore resolved that there is need to create a stable, sustainable and rapidly expanding economy with opportunities for all.

Congress resolved that the MDC T stands for creating a social market economy, with a strong social bias towards the poor and marginalized, underpinned by expanded production in all key sectors of the economy.

The priority will be to create a balanced national budget biased in favor of socio-economic development, reduction in overall taxation to 25 per cent of GDP with progressive taxes on incomes and competitive tax rates on all private sector activity, maintain the use of the US dollar as the primary means of exchange and facilitate the full recovery of the Reserve Bank as the leader of last resort and the supervisory agency responsible for Bank and Financial supervision.

Land and agriculture
Congress noted the disorder in the land sector, rising food insecurity and the partisan nature of land redistribution.

Congress therefore resolved that the MDC T supports land redistribution to the people and not to ZANU PF chefs. The MDC T believes in undertaking a comprehensive national land audit of all land in Zimbabwe. In this regard, the MDC T supports the need to appoint a professional land commission that will look into issues of non-partisan access to land, compensation, land tenure and agricultural production.

People living with disabilities
Congress noted with concern the plight of people living with disabilities and resolved to set up a Disability board to advise the party on issues of disability.

Mining
Congress noted that there is no transparency in the remittance of mineral revenues to the treasury and support for local communities.

Congress therefore resolved to promote policies that will foster transparency in mineral revenues and the sustainable growth of the mining industry. The MDC T supports the distribution of a percentage of proceeds from the mining sector to the local communities for their development.

Tourism
Congress noted with concern the country’s isolation by other nations and its pariah state which negatively affects tourism. Congress therefore resolved that the MDC T supports the development and good management of a tourist industry that will provide a safe, world class infrastructure and make Zimbabwe a prime market destination for all tourists.

Industry and commerce
Congress noted with concern the dilapidation of industries and the failure to generate new jobs. Congress therefore resolved that the MDC T’s policy is to make sure that industry and commerce is revived through the provision of low cost, financial facilities for distressed key industries to jump start production and bring their output to world standards and create jobs.

Labour Policies
Congress noted with sadness the ZANU PF government’s moves towards labour market flexibility at the expense of the ordinary worker. Congress therefore resolved that the MDC T does not support labour flexibility. The party stands for fair remuneration and respect for workers’ rights. In this regard, minimum wages should be enforced for all sectors and he strengthening of the National Economic Consultative Forum.

Education
Congress noted the decline in education standards and the ever rising cost of education in Zimbabwe. Congress therefore resolved that the MDC T supports that every Zimbabwean should have free access to quality education. In this regard, primary education will be free, the Ministry of education will allocate a minimum of 20 per cent of the national budget to basic education and grants for disadvantaged children in tertiary institutions.

Congress also resolved that the MDC T government will restore the standards of university education and research to a level comparable with the best in Southern Africa. This will be anchored on supporting curriculum review, professional management of institutions, depoliticisation of institutions of learning and improvement of staff remuneration.

Health services
Congress noted that the new constitution provides for universal access to quality healthcare for all yet most ordinary Zimbabweans still fail to gain access to quality healthcare. Congress therefore resolved that all citizens must have access to quality healthcare, with emphasis on the social determinants of health, health promotion and diseases prevention.

Congress resolved that every citizen should live within 5 kilometers of a health institution and this will entail construction of hundreds of new clinics in the neglected resettlement areas and many rural areas.

For funding the MDC T will establish a National Health Insurance scheme financed through ear marked taxes. In this regard, the MDC T will support health workers and ensure that they are well remunerated, motivated and happy.

Energy and Water
Congress noted with concern the the lack of implementation of key water projects that would improve the lives of Zimbabweans and the shortage of power generation due to long years of neglect in energy investment by ZANU PF. Congress therefore resolved that there should be speedy implementation of the Matabeleland Zambezi water project (MZWP) and the Kunzwi dam and to invest in alternative sources of energy, ensure professional management of energy institutions and ensure energy is available for all, including in the rural areas and in indigent households.

Home Affairs
Congress noted the poor services offered by the Ministry of Home Affairs and the difficulties ordinary citizens have in gaining access to registry services. Congress therefore resolved to have a devolved system of essential personal registrations services.

Registration services should be made available at all district offices for a minimum fee and applications should be processed within 24 hours.

Congress resolved that all children should be given a passport number and national ID at birth. This should lead to automatic voter rights on the attainment of the age of 18 years.

Police and Defence services
Congress noted with deep concern the continued politicization of state security forces in Zimbabwe that priorities safeguarding power for ZANU PF rather than servicing the citizens. Congress therefore resolved the need for a police service that is efficient and responsive so that the majority of citizens feel secure and are able to trust the police.

Congress also resolved that the MDC will maintain an efficient, lean and effective national defence capable of defending Zimbabwe’s interests locally and abroad.

Informal sector
Congress noted the reconfiguration of the national economy leading to massive informalisation due to ZANU PF’s failure to govern.

Congress therefore resolved that informal traders, farmers, miners and business persons should enjoy the protection of the state and get assistance in growing their activities with the objective of entering the formal sector and improving their precarious livelihoods.

Diaspora
Congress noted with concern the continued exclusion of the diaspora in the affairs of the country by the ZANU PF government which is driven by exclusive nationalism.
Congress therefore resolved that the diaspora should be afforded an opportunity to contribute to the economic, political and social life of the country. In particular the diaspora must be given their constitutional right to vote in elections.

Local government
Congress noted with concern the continued ZANU PF centralization policy on local government which is ultra vires the new constitution and deprives citizens of their rights. Congress therefore resolved that there should be immediate implementation of devolution with an objective to attain a democratic-developmental local state.

Congress resolved that all local authorities should be given control of the services to residents in their areas of jurisdiction and the principles of devolution of power are respected and supported with central government resources.

Congress also resolved that local authorities and police should immediately halt demolitions of people’s houses and rather seek the regularization of such. In addition, all residents should be given security of title over the land or property that they occupy for accommodation purposes and the provision of family based accommodation should be a priority.

Congress also resolved that local authorities should establish local residents associations with an acceptable constitution and leadership elected annually at meetings of the association conducted in each ward.

War Veterans
Congress noted with concern the growing marginalization of war veterans marked by the decline in their social welfare and the politicization of the war veterans. Congress therefore resolved to support the constitutional rights of genuine war veterans as enshrined in the new constitution and to ensure that they get assistance for rehabilitation, education, health and pension rights among others.

Women’s rights
Congress noted with sadness the entrenched patriarchal nature of society which has perpetuated the marginalization of women and girl child under the government of ZANU PF. Congress therefore resolved to bring women in the mainstream of opportunities. All institutions are encouraged to achieve equity in all positions involving the development of policy as enshrined in the new constitution. The MDC T will support and cooperate with the Gender Commission and safeguard against its politicization.

Traditional leaders
Congress noted with concern the politicization of traditional leaders for purposes of attaining and retaining state power by ZANU PF. Congress therefore resolved that the conduct of traditional leaders should be regulated by the new constitution.

Congress resolved that the MDC T respect traditional leaders as custodians of our culture, language, and history.

International relations
Congress noted with concern Zimbabwe’s isolation by key strategic nations and its pariah status as a country. Congress resolved to establish normal relations with all countries and multinational organizations that are beneficial to Zimbabwe’s strategic interests. The MDC T will therefore work to have Zimbabwe readmitted into the family of nations.

National healing
Congress noted with concern the deep seated mistrust in communities, the tensions and pain induced as a result of political violence which is largely state sponsored by the ruling ZANU PF party. Congress

therefore resolved to support the establishment of a National Reconciliation, Justice and Peace commission to deal with violations of human rights since 1980. Every victim of human rights abuse since 1980 should be permitted access to the Commission in order to seek information about what happened, identify the perpetrators, seek a sense of justice and be considered for compensation by the State.

National debt
Congress noted with deep concern Zimbabwe’s balooing debt which is an albatross to meaningful economic development that can transform the ordinary people’s livelihoods.

Congress therefore resolved that the party commits to servicing of the national debt. An MDC T government will engage creditors to make a payment plan for the national debt. Where possible the party will approach creditors to secure either debt cancellation or rescheduling. This will make the country eligible for loan facilities from multilateral institutions and friendly countries.

The body of MDC-T leader Greenwich Ndanga who was killed in Nigerian Preacher

Zanu PF is set to hire the services of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission ZEC to preside over their watershed congress slated for December, according to proposals prepared for the politburo meeting this morning which if not taken “will result in bloodshed,” according to a senior politburo source.
This option, currently being debated, is likely to bring transparency in the elective congress mainly for the Vice Presidency position which is currently held by Joice Mujuru.
Mujuru’s post has been declared ‘vacant’ by the first lady Grace Mugabe.
Not only had Grace called for the ouster of Mujuru because ‘she wants to topple President Robert Mugabe from his position’, but also engineered for the expulsion of four party provincial chairpersons for ‘underperforming’.
The four dismissed provincial party chairpersons are Mashonaland West’s Temba Mliswa,  Masvingo’s Killian Gwanetsa ,Amos Midzi of Harare province and Midlands provincial chair Jason Machaya.
A highly placed source (Politburo member) within the ‘revolutionary’ party told Zimeye.com in an exclusive interview in Harare they are likely to engage ZEC at their congress for the sake of transparency.
“This is what we have proposed and put on the table because any other means would mean disaster for the elections .As a political party some have asked the logic behind the engagement of ZEC when over the years we had been doing it alone, but we have argued that if they are going to be held without the supervision of a credible election body there is a likelihood of massive vote rigging, “said the source.
The senior ZANU (PF) member said secret ballot was going to be used at the congress despite resistance by some over the method.
“Those who are on a spree of chopping down provincial party chairpersons are opposed to a secret ballot and they are pushing for a nomination vote.They want the VP position be voted via the lifting of hands at the congress hence the whipping into line everyone and the unlawful elimination of democratically elected provincial chairpersons who they think are aligned to VP Mujuru,”said the source adding that,“ blood is likely to spill’ over the voting method  which the party would adopt and not the secret ballot.
The Emmerson Munangagwa faction is opposed to the secret ballot because they know that they will be humiliated by Mujuru at the congress according to the source.

Minister of State Didymus Mutasa has dismissed reports that

ZimEye has just received a report from reliable sources that Vice President Joice Mujuru tendered her resignation to President Robert Mugabe today, Monday.
President Mugabe however turned it down saying that she “must take responsibility of what she started,” one of the sources said. (Also Read Mujuru Still Vice President – Mutasa)  At the time of writing, further details were not available together with the exact declared reasons for the ‘resignation’. (Also Read Mujuru Still Vice President – Mutasa) Attempts to obtain clarification on the latest incident however were slowed down after the President’s office hanged up on several telephone calls made Monday afternoon. Earlier last month ZimEye exclusively revealed that President Mugabe has pinned down Mrs Mujuru on so called secret tapes in which a voice said to be hers is heard audibly saying that Mugabe has overstayed his welcome and is resting on his faeces(literally translated) (READ MORE ….EXCLUSIVE – Mugabe’s Secret Spy Tapes of Mujuru ‘Saying Bob Resting on Own Faeces’ )
Earlier on in the day, the Jonathan Moyo controlled state media published a lengthy report accusing Mujuru of trying to topple President Robert Mugabe by courting the army’s favour (READ MORE Joice Mujuru In Latest Coup Attempt Using Army – ZANU PF).
More details as they follow….

Live updates from the Marondera final push to ouster businessman Ray Kaukonde. War vets from all provinces are converging in Marondera this morning to carry out the choreographed act.

14:23 People now quiet as riot police stand firm by prohibiting them entrance.
14:15 Youths now getting over the fence singing ngaabude Kaukonde.

14:05 Demonstrators break down the durawall and police tankers move in. Youths saying police have been sent by Kaukonde.
Thumps up to police for now they have contained the situation.
People now dancing at the gate
13:36 Police dog section riot officers arrive with dogs to quench the voiolent protestors wh are now singing kaukonde wototakura mukwende ubaye
12:45 Harare provincial youth chairman Godwin Gomwe is here
Demo on now
Youth singing zvikaramba toita zvenharo in reference to forcefully open the gates
Chaos at party offices as doors are locked demonstrators threatening to break out
Police water tankers inside th premises
Old people constitute part of the demonstrators saying kaukonde dzoka uyamwe
Demonstrators nw marching towards party office
1134 – Buses from all over converging at war veterans office in Marondera along first street
1140- Demonstrators trickling in singing anti kaukonde songs while at the war vets quarters women ar gyrating and dancing waiting for the arrival of others.
Women youths war vets are present as everyone is now called in for the march to begin
Heavy police presence at the war vets Marondera premises while riot police is milling around provincial headquarters
They say they could have done it last time but Sekeramayi blocked them.
War veterans and other demonstrators saying they are going to remove Kaukonde frm office by force

Three men were badly injured sustaining broken limbs and fractured ribs when several Kombi drivers chose to risk human life for fun in Harare’s Mufakose suburb. To add salt to injury, all this happened during a time of mourning- READ MORE BELOW..

The above Kombi accident was shot live on video as it happened in Mufakose on the 18th October, as drivers decided to dice with death while having fun during a time of mourning shortly after the death of a colleague.