By A Correspondent- Marry Mubaiwa, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s estranged wife collapsed when she arrived at the Harare Magistrates Court on Monday.

The former model is on trial for using forged documents in a bid to upgrade her marriage with Chiwenga.

Chiwenga last year gave his testimony against Mubaiwa in a closed court.

The state is left with two more witnesses before it closes it’s case.

On Monday prosecutors Tendai Shonhayi, Tafara Chirambira and Michael Reza intended to tender a statement by a deceased witness Michael Louzidis but Mtetwa challenged that.

Harare magistrate Lazini Ncube will deliver his ruling this afternoon.

By A Correspondent- A 23 year old man on Monday appeared before Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda facing murder charges and one count of attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed his father, who is a Diplomat to death.

Daniel Niyata Fissum is also said to have stabbed his mother several times.

He was remanded in custody to January 31 for trial.

Dzuda denied him bail saying he has no alternative place to stay.

If given bail, Fissum might flee the country and may interfere with witnesses, who include the maid and gardener, the State said.

It is alleged that on January 15, 2022 at around 0940 hours, the accused had an altercation with his parents who are diplomats.

During the altercation, the accused allegedly stabbed his father, Daniel Fussum with a kitchen knife twice on the chest and once on the stomach, and he died instantly.

The accused then allegedly stabbed his mother Jordanos Zerom (a Netherlands national).  Zerom sustained 13 stab wounds on the back, three stab wounds on the chest and another stab wound on the stomach, the court heard.

Zerom said to be in critical condition and has been hospitalised at the Trauma Centre in Borrowdale, Harare.

Ruvimbo Matyatya prosecuted for the State.

By A Correspondent- Some village heads in Goromonzi reportedly sold a piece of land valued at US$45K for just US$15K to a local businessman attracting the wrath of local residents who have vowed to block the move.

Masimba Manyanya, coordinator of Simukai Residents Trust said the land was allocated to the community in the 1980s. Manyanya said:Three villages namely Yafela, Gwaze and Muchatota were allocated a piece of land by the government.

It was to be administered by the Village Development Committee (VIDECO).

So for over 40 years this land was all grass.

However, because of encroaching urbanization the place has become a possible commercial centre because of its proximity to the road.

Recently some village heads sold the land to a local businessman triggering a huge stand-off with the community.

This past month, our village headmen and their proxies allegedly sold the land which has a commercial value of US$45 000 to a local businessman who is reported to have acquired it for a paltry US$15 000.

The businessman wants to put a supermarket at the place from the information we gathered.

The SRT Coordinator revealed that there was a physical confrontation at the site with residents vowing to stop construction.

He said he personally chased some of the workers at the site with sticks.

Manyanya added that the local councillor has intervened to calm the situation but the tensions are high warning that violence can break out any time.

While the matter is said to have been reported to the anti-corruption body, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Corruption (ZACC) the commission’s spokesperson John Makamure said he is yet to receive the report.-open council

By A Correspondent- Four Zimbabwean prisoners being transported to a South African court escaped after armed men ambushed a police van and sprung them free on Friday.

Augustine Nqobani Moyo, Nkululeko Nkomo, Mbongiseni Mkandla, Thulani Dube and South African national Robert Hlatshwayo were due to appear in court on charges of armed robbery, attempted murder and possession of an unlicenced firearm.

South African police said Hlatshwayo and Nkomo were re-arrested on Friday night, and the search continued for the three other escapees.

The prisoners were being transported to Vosloorus Magistrate’s Court on Friday morning, when a silver Audi allegedly cut off the police van at the corner of Barry Marais Road and Rondebult Road in Brakpan.

Three armed suspects exited the Audi and allegedly released the awaiting trial prisoners before fleeing the scene.

The police were outnumbered. It was two vehicles that were involved in this incident. One blocked the police vehicle from the front and a number of armed suspects, with rifles, then indicated to the police officers that they must stop the vehicle,” Muridili said.

The men were arrested in connection with a robbery at a business in Dawn Park, police spokesperson Brigadier Brenda Muridili said.

Gauteng police commissioner Lieutenant-General Elias Mawela commended the swift apprehension of the two fugitives.

“We thank the public for all the tip-offs that the police have been receiving on the whereabouts of the fugitives. The public is our eyes and ears in the communities and plays a vital role in the fight against crime,” said Mawela.

He added the tip-offs were all assessed and followed up to ensure the police “do not leave any stone unturned in the quest to bring all the escapees back to prison”.

By A Correspondent- ZEC chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba on Monday shed light on the expected confusion when the nomination court sits on January 26. She told ZimLive: 

ZEC does not adjudicate who has the right to the name of a political party because there is no legal framework that mandates the commission to regulate, deregulate and register political parties.

On January 26 the nomination court will operate on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. ZEC will not respond to letters for clout from political parties over party names.

If politicians want to stop a political party from using a party name or symbol, they must approach the electoral court which determines political parties.

MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere on Monday maintained that their party would remain MDC Alliance, at least for now, as pressure mounts from supporters for Chamisa to rebrand. she told ZimLive:

We remain MDC Alliance until otherwise advised. We have safeguards in place to ensure there is no confusion come election day. The people know who their leaders are.

Chigumba said politicians were in the habit of blaming ZEC over political name disputes when the commission does not register political parties but only recognises them as prescribed by the electoral law.

Elections will take place in 28 parliamentary races and 105 municipal seats on March 26.

Most of the seats fell vacant when the MDC-T recalled elected MDC Alliance officials, armed with a March 2020 Supreme Court ruling which nullified Chamisa’s elevation to lead the MDC-T following the death of Morgan Tsvangirai a year earlier.

By- A 23-year-old Eritrean man at the weekend in Harare ran amok, stabbing his parents and killing his father on the spot.

His father, an Eritrean diplomat, died instantly while his mother is now battling for her life at Trauma Centre in Borrowdale.

Daniel Niyata Fussum, a student at a university in the Netherlands, was not asked to plead when he appeared before Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda, who remanded him in custody to January 27.

He is facing murder and attempted murder charges.

Allegations are that on Saturday, Fussum was involved in a row with his parents.

He is alleged to have stabbed his father, Daniel Fussum, with a kitchen knife twice on the chest, once on the stomach and once on his left hand.
The diplomat died instantly.

He also allegedly stabbed his mother, Jordanian Zerom, who is from the Netherlands, 13 times on the chest, and once on the stomach, resulting in her suffering some serious injuries.

Zerom is currently admitted at Trauma Centre in Borrowdale.

Ruvimbo Matyatya appeared for the State.

-State media

By A Correspondent – Zanu PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa has fired another party director over internal party election rigging.

Mnangagwa fired the head of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Mr Munyaradzi Katsande; a few days he did so to the suspended party’s director for administration Dickson Dzora.

Katsande was fired for tampering with registers for the voters in the recently held provincial elections.

Zanu PF Secretary for Information and Publicity, Christopher Mutsvangwa, confirmed the development at a press conference held at the party headquarters in Harare yesterday afternoon, saying that there was a major shake-up at the party headquarters.

“We have our director general Cde Dickson Dzora, he is on suspension. He was suspended on the instruction and directive of President ED Mnangagwa. He has been unhappy about many wayward activities, which have been going on at the party. But the last straw was the gross incompetence and perhaps they were connived by Dickson Dzora and his team to run the last elections and just generate chaos all over the 10 provinces. That was really enough for the President,” said Mutsvangwa.
During the just-ended provincial elections, there were reports of delays in the disbursement of ballot papers at most voting centres across the country
“There was also an investigation which was carried out by the party’s security department on the abuse of tender procedures to favour ghost companies, which may have been related to him. So he has gone. He is under suspension. It has been confirmed this morning (yesterday) by Cde Obert Mpofu who is the Secretary General of the party,” said Mutsvangwa.
On the expulsion of Cde Katsande, Ambassador Mutsvangwa said he was found tempering with the provincial registers for voters.

“President Mnangagwa himself fired another official in the ICT department, Cde Katsande. He was fired because he was found tampering with registers for the voters for the past provincial elections in the party”.
Mutsvangwa said, Mnangagwa was determined to run a clean show at the party headquarters so that the membership can be confident on the administration of all the affairs of the party including the all-important elections.
“You can now all see that we take our elections seriously. We want them to be clean as can be. It doesn’t matter that you are a big fish, if you fall foul, President Mnangagwa will move against you. He is not the only one. It has happened at the Government level. Somebody else has just left his job in the Cabinet. So the signal is out there,” said Mutsvangwa.

By A Correspondent- Norton member of parliament (independent) Temba Mlisawa said he was planning to meet with the MDC-Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa.

Mliswa said this to NewDay when the private daily asked him why he was with the former Zanu PF political commissar Savior Kasukuwere.

Mliswa’s pictures with Kasukuwere and expelled former Zanu PF MP for Chivi South, Killer Zivhu went viral on social media at the weekend.

Mliswa said there was nothing wrong with his meeting with Kasukuwere and Zivhu. He said:

People are coming up with all sorts of conspiracies just because we were together.

I was expelled from Zanu PF by a faction involving Kasukuwere — and if anything, I should not be with him, but there is more to life than politics.

We were not plotting anything, and I will continue meeting whoever I need to. Soon I will post pictures with Chamisa too; he is my sekuru (uncle) just like Kasukuwere or Jonathan Moyo (former Higher Education minister).

The intricate web of totems links us. Now, should I shun that because of politics? No.

Mliswa and Zivhu are both Zanu PF critics but claim they are fully behind Mnangagwa’s “vision”. Added Mliswa:

As for Zanu PF, as a party, it’s clear that it has lost itself and in its current state, it is a rogue entity that is going against the principles of the liberation struggle.

It has been hijacked by a lot of mafikizolos who have no DNA of the party. The Zanu PF I belonged to stuck to the founding principles of the struggle.

Thus on the basis of those principles I have never been out of Zanu PF. The current power holders in the party have kicked out people with the real DNA of Zanu PF.

By A Correspondent- Fire former Zanu PF MP for Chivi South, Killer Zivhu has likened Zanu PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa to a public toilet and a bus terminus.

Zivhu was responding to a press statement issued by Mutsvangwa after his (Zivhu) meeting with former Zanu Pf political commissar Savior Kasukuwere and Norton MP Temba Mliswa in South Africa.

The images of the trio meeting went viral on social media and shook Zanu PF resulting in Mutsvangwa issuing a two-page lengthy and verbose press statement attacking the three.

Zivhu, Mliswa and Kasukuwere were are all expelled Zanu PF cadres.

Responding to Mutsvangwa’s statement, Zivhu had no kind words for former Zimbabwe’s envoy to China.

“Chris Mutsvangwa tinyarewo hauna kana munhu anokuda iwe, you can’t win an election saka dzungu ndereyi, you are more dangerous to ED than Kasukuwere , hautengeseki kuvanhu se nyama yechidembo , just shut up, Chirungu haasi mavhotsi vanhu vanokusema iwe kunge toilet mu Norton,” said Zivhu.

By- Chitungwiza Municipality has started demolishing what it called illegal vending stalls across the town.

The municipality said they are doing this to clean up Harare Metropolitan province.

The local authority is accusing MDC-led councils, whose officials have over the years, for what it said was turning a blind eye on the mess.

Municipal police were at the weekend leading the demolitions while armed Zimbabwe Republic Police officers were on standby in case of violent clashes.
The demolished structures were in Makoni Shopping Centre, Zengeza 2 along Hombarume Road, Unit L and C-Junction.
While some had heeded a council ultimatum issued last Friday and removed their wares and illegal structures, others remained defiant and lost valuables.
At Makoni Shopping Centre, among the demolished structures was a container situated opposite Chicken Inn which had been divided into shops.
A few metres from the container, some traders whose structures were demolished, could be seen removing valuables such as metal sheets for reuse.
Chitungwiza acting town clerk Mrs Evangelista Machona at the weekend said the demolitions were targeting all illegal structures especially along road servitudes. Herald

By- A government worker in the ministry of sports in the Chikomba district office, Edgar Zidya (42), has been arrested on allegations that he stole seven bags of compound D fertilizer.

He was brought to court on a warrant of arrest yesterday after he failed to appear in court as scheduled last week. Magistrate Sam Chitumwa remanded Zidya out of custody to January 25, 2021.

Zidya is facing charges of contraverning section 113 2(d) of the Crimminal Law Codification and Form Act Chapter 9:23; theft of trust property after he allegedly put fertilizer belonging to Nyahoni Vocational Training Centre to his own.
It is the State case that on September 9, 2021 Eric Mashonganyika (56) who is the accountant at Nyahoni purchased 7 × 50kgs of compound D fertlizer, 3× 25 kgs of maize seed, two bottles of insecticide, 3 packets of garden seed from Farm and City Chivhu for Nyahoni.
The inputs were ferried to Nyahoni with the exception of 7 bags of fertilizer which were left at Zidya’s office for safe keeping.
On October 4, 2021, Nyahoni principal went to the accused’s office to collect the bags but there was nothing.
On enquiry, records kept by security guards showed that the fertlizer was collected by Zidya. The value of the stolen goods is RTGS$$23 100 and nothing was recovered.
The state is represented by Melody Marozhe.

-Masvingo Mirror

By- Self proclaimed Prophet, Samuel Guta of Power of Unity in Christ Church, who is on trial for rape, is believed to be on the run.

Judgment in the case was set to be handed down last week. However, the accused did not turn up for the court proceedings.
Guta had been remanded to appear in court on January 7, by the magistrate Gloria Takundwa.
But, he didn’t turn up, prompting her to issue a warrant of arrest.
Guta is accused of raping a 22-year-old congregant during a prayer and cleansing session.
The self-styled prophet denied the allegations.
He claimed she had been in the habit of luring him to bed and would complain that her husband was no longer satisfying her desires.
The State, led by Cecilia Mashingaidze, said on January 7, 2021, Guta allegedly called the woman for a cleansing ceremony at a certain mountain, between Riverside and Churu farms, near Harare.
It is alleged he told the woman to bring three lemons to the mountain so that he could also pray for her three-year-old child.
The court heard that the woman went to the mountain with her child.
Guta allegedly told her to return the child home since they were likely to delve into ‘sensitive matters’ with her.
It is alleged the woman complied and returned her baby. It later started raining and Guta invited the woman into a tent.
The woman is said to have initially refused but Guta threatened not to help her unless she got into the tent.
Guta allegedly took a lemon, prayed and gave the woman a piece to eat while he ate the other piece.
The court heard that Guta asked the woman to rub a piece of lemon under her feet and chest.
The woman is said to have suddenly lost consciousness only to wake up to find herself without her undergarments.
Guta allegedly told the woman that evil spirits had removed her clothes upon manifestation.
He allegedly prayed for the woman again and she fell unconscious, for the second time, after which she woke up to find him raping her.
The accused prayed for the complainant for the third time, and she again lost consciousness and woke up lying face down, without clothes.
She asked the accused what had happened and Guta told her that an evil spirit had come out of her.
He claimed she had removed her clothes while she was manifesting. The woman informed her aunt who reported the matter to the police.
-H Metro

Breaking News

MDC Alliance member Aleck Tabe and Nerupandai have been arrested by law and order police today.

MDC Alliance members persecution escalates as by elections draw near.

17 January 2021

Wezhira Munya

Masvingo Criminal Investigation Department police officers have arrested ward 4 member Mr Alec Tabe and ward 4 coordinator.

Alec Tabe is represented by Advocate Mafa and Nerupandai is represented by Advocate Martin Mureri.

Nerupandai and Tabe have arrested based on the allegations that , they convened a MDC Alliance meeting yesterday in Masvingo urban violating Covid regulations.

Current Tabe and Nerupandai are in Masvingo central police station.

Many MDC Alliance members have been arrested. However, Zanu PF and MDC T Mwonzora are holding meetings freely without police interference.

This shows that MDC Alliance under President Chamisa is being treated as Boko Haram organisation.

President Mnangagwa has declared that, 26th March 2022 is a day for by elections.

It boggles the mind , why MDC Alliance members are arrested when they are doing party programs.

By- A fire broke out at a paint manufacturing company along Lyton Road in Harare’s industrial area on Monday afternoon, sending columns of black smoke in the summer sky.

According to a local private commercial radio station, the fire broke out at Splash Paints and Plastics, but the cause was yet to be established.

By A Correspondent- Exiled former Zanu PF political commissar Savior Kasukuwere said he had no links with Zanu PF youth Sybeth Musengezi, who is challenging the legitimacy of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Musengezi has instituted legal proceedings against the ruling party over processes that led to Mnangagwa’s rise to power in 2017.

Speaking to NewsDay on Sunday, Kasukuwere dismissed the allegations as “childish ramblings and conspiracy theories”.

NewsDay was interviewing him on his meeting with 

 outspoken former Chivi South MP Killer Zivhu and Norton MP Temba Mliswa (Independent) met in South Africa last week.

Kasukuwere, Zivhu and Mliswa were pictured together, raising speculation in Zanu PF that the trio could be plotting a comeback.

Kasukuwere, a former cabinet minister during the Robert Mugabe era, is in exile in South Africa along with other G40 members.

The Zimbabwe Republic Police has announced that they have arrested over 2 238 drivers of unregistered, plate-less and unlicensed vehicles during the ongoing nationwide operation.

The police said they arrested were meant to get rid of criminal elements and make all motorists comply with registration, insurance and licensing laws.

National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi announced the arrests.
“On January 16, 2022, 1 271 arrests were recorded on an operation targeting unlicensed, uninsured, unregistered motor vehicles. The cumulative number of arrests stands at 2238,” he said.

The arrests come after the Zimbabwe Republic Police recently warned motorists driving unregistered vehicles that they have embarked on an operation with effect from tomorrow targeting such cars.
The operation came after an increase in crime perpetrated by some motorists with unregistered cars.
According to police, there is no special exemption for anyone, including Government vehicles to move around without any registration number plates.
Police were also deeply concerned by the deliberate disregard of road traffic regulations by drivers of unregistered vehicles and those without number plates.

Unregistered and plate-less vehicles are also being used to commit crimes such as robberies, murder, kidnapping, rape and other heinous crimes.
All vehicles that do not display the standard number plates or Temporary Identification Cards (TIP) will be impounded and processed through referral to courts and payment of fines.
Meanwhile, the ZRP reports that on Sunday alone, a total of 2 653 people were arrested for various offences related to Covid-19.
Since March last year, a total of 1 447 510 have been arrested for Covid-19 violations countrywide.
A total of 534 people were also arrested on Operation’ No to Cross Border Crimes/ Fhasi Ngamilandu Yamukanoni Yamashango/Mhosva Pamiganhu Ngadzipere/Amacala Kawaphele Emingceleni Yelizwe’. The cumulative number of arrests stands at 96 054.

By-The Government says the erection of Gukurahundi memorial plaques at the Bhalangwe mass graves site, Matabeleland South province, was an unlawful act.

The plaque, that was erected recently by pressure group, Ibetshu Likazulu, was bombed last week by suspected state security agents.

Speaking in an interview with CITE, Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet (Presidential Communications), George Charamba, said:

I think a criminal act was committed when an act was done out of the policy and the state was indifferent.

You don’t just in a sovereign country with a competent government just go and erect a monument in a community without involving the state. Where is that done? We are not a lawless society.

You don’t cherry-pick chiefs of the like mind of the activists and say you have chiefs on your side. It doesn’t work like that and we are talking tough on that one.

Charamba said the Government has nothing to do with the destruction of the plaques and will not get involved in the matter. He said:

Let that be very clear, they should never (erect plaques). It’s unlawful. So if anything becomes of that unlawful deed, it can’t be a problem of the state to explain on what basis, it’s an unlawful deed.

You take a risk which is an unlawful step, you live with the consequences and deal with those whatever becomes of it, it’s their business isn’t they feel strongly about it outside state parameters.

We are working on fixing wounds from early independence and if you listened to the President’s statement on the Unity Accord commemorations, we said the negative forces trying to sort of reactivating the spotlight on the conflict must be kept at bay and we meant it.

You can’t expect the police to police illegality or to account for it when it gets demolished, on what basis?

From your little hovel, you stand up to say you are going to raise a monument, as who?

Why don’t you win elections and establish your own government where you can do that?

You put your squatter camp along Umguza River and it’s raised to the ground by your girlfriend or boyfriend, you expect the police to be on standby to protect you?

There has been concern over theft and vandalism of Gukurahundi memorial plaques.

The plaques were erected in memory of thousands of people killed by the North Korean trained Fifth Brigade in the Midlands and Matebeleland provinces between 1982 and 1987.

More: CITE

By A Correspondent- Fired former Zanu PF MP for Chivi South, Killer Zivhu has likened Zanu PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa to a disused bus terminus public toilet.

Zivhu was responding to a press statement issued by Mutsvangwa after his (Zivhu) meeting with former Zanu PF political commissar Savior Kasukuwere and Norton MP Temba Mliswa in South Africa at the weekend.

The images of the trio went viral on social media and shook Zanu PF resulting in Mutsvangwa issuing a two-page lengthy and verbose press statement attacking the three.

Zivhu, Mliswa and Kasukuwere are all expelled Zanu PF cadres.

Responding to Mutsvangwa’s statement, Zivhu had no kind words for former Zimbabwe’s envoy to China.

“Chris Mutsvangwa tinyarewo hauna kana munhu anokuda iwe, you can’t win an election saka dzungu ndereyi, you are more dangerous to ED than Kasukuwere , hautengeseki kuvanhu se nyama yechidembo , just shut up, Chirungu haasi mavhotsi vanhu vanokusema iwe kunge toilet mu Norton,” said Zivhu.

By- Fired CIO minister Owen “Mudha” Ncube’s has lost his self imposed Zanu PF Midlands provincial vice chairmanship.

Mudha lost his party’s top post barely a week after he was fired from the cabinet by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Ncube was, however, given a far less influential position of secretary for production and labour during a rescheduled provincial coordinating committee (PCC) held in Gweru at the weekend.

The PCC was rescheduled after violence unleashed by Ncube’s thugs the previous weekend ended the meeting prematurely.

A ZANU PF insider told NewZimbabwe.com that Ncube was given the position as a mere consolation. He said:

He was given the position of provincial secretary for production and labour as a mere consolation but politically he is finished.

At the previous meeting, Ncube had smuggled a controversial list that was supposed to make the provincial executive. It was however rejected by ZANU PF structures in Midlands.

The controversial list, which was packed with Ncube’s loyalists, included former Mbizo Legislator Vongai Mupereri as secretary for administration, Shurugwi South MP, Edmund Mkaratigwa as finance Secretary, among others.

Instead, former ZANU PF youth league deputy secretary Edward Chakanyuka Chiherenge will deputise provincial chairperson Larry Mavima, who was imposed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Mkaratigwa is now the secretary for administration, Chirumhanzu MP Barbara Rwodzi becomes secretary for finance, Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Paul Mavima is the new secretary for legal affairs.

In his address to the new executive, Mavima called for unity and implored party officials to stop denigrating each other. He said:

My plea to you comrades as your chairman is that we unite and or at the least attempt to unite.

In retrospect, our differences are very minor as we all claim to be 100% behind HE E D Mnangagwa our current and future President in 2023 and one united Zanu PF party led by our current praesidium who have all clearly stated their support for Cde Dr E D Mnangagwa as the sole candidate for the 2023 General. elections.

Let us now put our personal differences aside and rally to win the Bye Elections and the 2023 General Elections. I as your chairman.

More: NewZimbabwe.com

 By- Villagers in Inyathi’s Village 5 claim a mysterious snake is “raping” women, inflicting weak erections on men and stealing their money.

 B-Metro reports that the villagers said that they believe the snake belonged to a fellow villager who was using it to make money. 

Said one of the villagers:

Our husbands work tirelessly to feed the families, but we don’t see the outcomes as whatever money they earn just disappears into air thin without being used and this seems to be happening in many homes because everyone is complaining of the same that is why we suspect that this is someone’s snake.

The snake was reportedly first seen in a sack on a mountain by a hunter who alerted the village head.

However, when the village head and villagers went to the mountain to see the snake, there was nothing in the sack except used pampers.

Self-styled exorcists, the Tsikamutandas, were invited by some villagers to cleanse the whole village and find the snake and its owner.

It is alleged that a whirlwind rose and moved about until it stopped at the homestead of a woman suspected to be the owner of the snake.

The woman, however, told B-Metro that other villagers were jealous of her family’s success and have attributed their prosperous lives to a non-existent snake. She said:

I also heard that there is a snake terrorising people but the allegations held against me that I am its owner are all lies, I don’t know anything about that and I have not seen any snake.

She said her neighbours are now afraid of her and wherever she goes, people point fingers at her and her children are being shunned and humiliated at school.

Villagers now want the Tsikamutandas to go door by door to cleanse and protect every homestead from the snake.

The Village Headman, Frank Hlalakuhle, ruled out the move saying it is not only expensive to hire the Tsikamutandas as every household would be required to contribute financially, but also illegal. Said the headman:

The villagers have been complaining about this snake for quite some time now.

The law does now allow us to search people’s homesteads even if we suspect that they own the snake.

However, the chief said whoever has fallen prey to this snake should hire tsikamutandas to cleanse their homes.

It is not within my powers to let the tsikamutandas go door by door.

More: B-Metro

By A Correspondent- Norton member of parliament (independent) Temba Mlisawa said he was planning to meet with the MDC-Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa.

Mliswa said this to NewDay when the private daily asked him why he was with the former Zanu PF political commissar Savior Kasukuwere.

Mliswa’s pictures with Kasukuwere and expelled former Zanu PF MP for Chivi South, Killer Zivhu went viral on social media at the weekend.

Mliswa said there was nothing wrong with his meeting with Kasukuwere and Zivhu. He said:

People are coming up with all sorts of conspiracies just because we were together.

I was expelled from Zanu PF by a faction involving Kasukuwere — and if anything, I should not be with him, but there is more to life than politics.

We were not plotting anything, and I will continue meeting whoever I need to. Soon I will post pictures with Chamisa too; he is my sekuru (uncle) just like Kasukuwere or Jonathan Moyo (former Higher Education minister).

The intricate web of totems links us. Now, should I shun that because of politics? No.

Mliswa and Zivhu are both Zanu PF critics but claim they are fully behind Mnangagwa’s “vision”. Added Mliswa:

As for Zanu PF, as a party, it’s clear that it has lost itself and in its current state, it is a rogue entity that is going against the principles of the liberation struggle.

It has been hijacked by a lot of mafikizolos who have no DNA of the party. The Zanu PF I belonged to stuck to the founding principles of the struggle.

Thus on the basis of those principles I have never been out of Zanu PF. The current power holders in the party have kicked out people with the real DNA of Zanu PF.

Tinashe Sambiri|The Warriors’ woeful performance at the AFCON Tournament in Cameroon emanates from Zanu PF bungling, MDC Alliance vice president Hon Tendai Biti has said.

The Warriors lost 0- 1 to Senegal and fell 1- 2 against the Flames Malawi.

Hon Biti said coach Norman Mapeza and his technical should not be blamed for the Warriors catastrophe- rather the Zanu PF regime led by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa dented the team’s overall performance due to corruption and looting of resources.

Hon Biti said:

Norman Mapeza & his team need to be congratulated for effort . But truth is they stood no chance.Thanks to #ZANU bungling there has been no football for 2 years despite science & bubbles allowing sport to be played safely in COVID conditions.

Truth is regime does not care about sport or anything else.That stadia had been allowed to collapse & that Zim had no stadium allowed to hold an international match is an indictment .In
@KirstyCoventry
Zim has a clueless minister mesmerized by #ZANU fatigue..
@online_zifa

The dismissal of the
@online_zifa
Board without due process & in breach of
@FIFAcom
statutes ,weeks before tournament to allow a son in law to take over running of football was another disasterZim football like the country itself requires a new disruptive beginning .What a shame.

By Court Correspondent | ZimEye | Marry Mubaiwa is back in court after collapsing in the morning.

She is on trial for attempting to formalise her marriage with vice President Constantino Chiwenga.

The state was left with two witnesses to testify against her after the VP nailed her in December last year. Prosecutors today intended to submit a statement by a deceased witness Michael Louzidis but Mubaiwa’s lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa challenged that.

Magistrate Lazini Ncube is expected to hand down his ruling on the witnesses statement this afternoon. – ZimEye

Marry Mubaiwa is back in court after collapsing in the morning. She is on trial for attempting to formalise her marriage with vice President Constantino Chiwenga. The state was left with two witnesses to testify against her after the VPnailed her in December last year. Prosecutors today intended to submit a statement by a deceased witness Michael Louzidis but Mubaiwa’s lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa challenged that.

Magistrate Lazini Ncube is expected to hand down his ruling on the witnesses statement this afternoon.

Marry collapsed at the Harare magistrates court on Monday morning (pics-Newsday)

By A Correspondent | Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ambassador to China, Major Gen. Martin Chedondo, on Saturday honoured Nelson Chamisa’s MDC Alliance when he distributed an announcement for an official function held by the abducted Activist Netsai Marova and Chamisa’s Secretary for Policy Joana Mamombe.

The ambassador had forwarded the message to a group of Zimbabweans who want to be addressed by MDC Alliance MP Joana Mamombe and the MDC’s Secretary For Diaspora Affairs, Clifford Hlatshwayo.

The meeting was starting at 8pm on Sat and the ambassador only came back to distance himself after 10pm saying he had accidentally reposted the MDC Alliance Chamisa announcement.

The meeting had ended by that time, which was over 2 hours later.

Ambassador Chedondo said his post “was an accidental repost.”

He said he, “was scrolling the citizens posts when this happened.

“I will never be a messenger for the MDC. For the record I remain ZANU Pf and as Ambassador I serve all Zimbabweans.

“Once again I encourage all to desist using the platform as a vehicle for party political messages disguised as goodwill posts.”

But the ambassador can’t say I made a mistake…because if you’re forwarding something, you would know your contacts, that is the group you are directing it to, a source told ZimEye.

The meeting was an engagement for students in China.

By A Correspondent | Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ambassador to China, Major Gen. Martin Chedondo, on Saturday honoured Nelson Chamisa’s MDC Alliance when he distributed an announcement for an official function held by the abducted Activist Netsai Marova and Chamisa’s Secretary for Policy Joana Mamombe.

The ambassador had forwarded the message to a group of Zimbabweans who want to be addressed by MDC Alliance MP Joana Mamombe and the MDC’s Secretary For Diaspora Affairs, Clifford Hlatshwayo.

The meeting was starting at 8pm on Sat and the ambassador only came back to distance himself after 10pm saying he had accidentally reposted the MDC Alliance Chamisa announcement.

The meeting had ended by that time, which was over 2 hours later.

Ambassador Chedondo said his post “was an accidental repost.”

He said he, “was scrolling the citizens posts when this happened.

“I will never be a messenger for the MDC. For the record I remain ZANU Pf and as Ambassador I serve all Zimbabweans.

“Once again I encourage all to desist using the platform as a vehicle for party political messages disguised as goodwill posts.”

But the ambassador can’t say I made a mistake…because if you’re forwarding something, you would know your contacts, that is the group you are directing it to, a source told ZimEye.

The meeting was an engagement for students in China.

By A Correspondent- Police in Gokwe have banned the carrying of machetes and other dangerous weapons as a way of curbing the rise in cases of murder,  particularly those  involving crimes of passion, Southern Eye has established.

Officer commanding Gokwe district, chief superintendent Tsitsi Chikono said the ban would be effective for three months.

“Due to the rise in crimes of passion and use of weapons, the carrying whether openly or by concealment in a public place or public thoroughfare or public display of any of the following weapons; catapults, machetes, axes, knobkerries, swords, knives, spears (and) any traditional weapon whatsoever is looking likely to occasion public disorder or a breach of peace,” she said.

“I hereby issue an order prohibiting the carrying of such weapons in Gokwe district or part thereof for a period not exceeding three months that is from January 20 to April 20, 2022.”

Chikono said any member of the public seen carrying such weapons would be arrested.

The prohibition order comes at a time when Gokwe has been recording rising cases of domestic violence.

By A Correspondent- A 31 year old Rusape domestic worker, who was fully aware of her status, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after she sexually abused her employer’s grandson, aged between 9 and 11, on several occasions.

Precious Chitseko of Mhukayesango Village in Nyazura had no legal representation when she recently appeared before regional magistrate Francis Mapfumo.

Chitseko was convicted after overwhelming evidence was presented in court and the magistrate did not suspend any part of the sentence.

Prosecuting, Tawanda Munjanja told the court that the accused abused the juvenile when his grandmother had visited her daughter. Said Munjanja:

Chitseko and the juvenile are not related. On dates unknown to the prosecutor but during the period extending from 12 October 2020 to 09 November 2020, the juvenile was left in the custody of the accused person whilst his grandmother visited her daughter in Chegutu.

During that period, the accused person had sexual intercourse with the complainant without his consent on several occasions.

The matter only came to light when the complainant disclosed the matter to his grandmother on 26 February 2021.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly fired the ZANU PF director for administration, Dickson Dzora, for his alleged involvement in a ballot paper printing deal that partly contributed to chaotic internal elections held last month.

Dzora allegedly colluded with some party officials to corruptly engage a private company to print thousands of ballot papers for the party’s provincial polls held in December 2021.

Reports indicate that Dzora was sacked after the politburo meeting held on Saturday.

It is alleged that Dzora engaged a company called VGP Technologies, based at Engineering House along Rezende Street in Harare which in turn subcontracted Lightpress, to print the ballot papers.

Dzora was reportedly working with other senior party officials and employees, including one identified as Munyaradzi Katsande who was in the ICT department.

Katsande was reportedly fired after he allegedly misappropriated thousands of dollars from the party.

NewsDay reported sources as saying that ZANU PF secretary for security Lovemore Matuke detected the scam and engaged the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) to investigate why the party subcontracted the work which was usually done by its printing arm, Jongwe Printers.

Said a source:

Such printing business is usually done by Jongwe Printers and it had already printed the ballot papers before Dzora approached VGP Technologies for the same.

His company of choice did not have the capacity and it subcontracted another company based in Graniteside called Lightpress for the job.

Investigations revealed personal interests and connivance at the party headquarters for them to benefit.-newsday

By A Correspondent- Former State Security minister Owen “Mudha” Ncube’s political fortunes continue to diminish after he lost the ZANU PF Midlands provincial vice chairmanship, on which he had imposed himself, over the weekend.

Ncube was demoted to a far less influential position of secretary for production and labour during a rescheduled provincial coordinating committee (PCC) held in Gweru on Saturday.

The PCC was rescheduled after violence unleashed by Ncube’s thugs the previous weekend ended the meeting prematurely.

A ZANU PF insider told a local publication that Ncube was given the position as a mere consolation. He said:

He was given the position of provincial secretary for production and labour as a mere consolation but politically he is finished.

At the previous meeting, Ncube had smuggled a controversial list that was supposed to make the provincial executive. It was however rejected by ZANU PF structures in Midlands.

The controversial list, which was packed with Ncube’s loyalists, included former Mbizo Legislator Vongai Mupereri as secretary for administration, Shurugwi South MP, Edmund Mkaratigwa as finance Secretary, among others.

Instead, former ZANU PF youth league deputy secretary Edward Chakanyuka Chiherenge will deputise provincial chairperson Larry Mavima, who was imposed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Mkaratigwa is now the secretary for administration, Chirumhanzu MP Barbara Rwodzi becomes secretary for finance, Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Paul Mavima is the new secretary for legal affairs.

In his address to the new executive, Mavima called for unity and implored party officials to stop denigrating each other.

He said:

My plea to you comrades as your chairman is that we unite and or at the least attempt to unite.

In retrospect, our differences are very minor as we all claim to be 100% behind HE E D Mnangagwa our current and future President in 2023 and one united Zanu PF party led by our current praesidium who have all clearly stated their support for Cde Dr E D Mnangagwa as the sole candidate for the 2023 General. elections.

Let us now put our personal differences aside and rally to win the By Elections and the 2023 General Elections. I as your chairman

By-The High Court is this week expected to hear a case in which the government is seeking to recover more than US$32 million and forfeit numerous properties from former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri and his family.

Chihuri, who is believed to be in Malawi, is reported to have created a “criminal syndicated mafia” that siphoned funds for his personal, family and cronies’ benefit during the 25 years he was at the helm of the police force.
He fled the country following his removal from the post soon after the November 2017 resignation of the late former President Robert Mugabe.

Chihuri is alleged to have sold five properties between 2017 and 2018 that were part of a large property portfolio.
Buyers paid a total of US$620 000 for the five properties registered in the names of his family members and the State is still trying to find out how ownership changed in respect of two other assets previously owned by the Chihuri family.
Prosecutor-General Mr Kumbirai Hodzi, has filed a fresh application seeking explanation on the sale of the properties.
Justice Pisirayi Kwenda is on Wednesday expected to hear the matter in which Chihuri, through his legal counsel, will be expected to explain the sale of the properties.

In the latest High Court application counteracting Chihuri’s bid to set aside two orders issued against him, Mr Hodzi said a check with the Deeds Office showed the rushed disposal of assets by the Chihuri family.
Among the properties sold is a mansion in Gletwyn sitting on 30 acres of land valued at US$7 million.
On July 17, 2018, Isobel Halima Khan Chihuri sold stand 1421 Gletwyn Township which was walled, gated with a borehole, water tank, tank stand and wooden cabin to Brian Chijaka for US$130 000.
Her brother, Aitken Khan, had her power of attorney.
Stand Number 1411 Gletwyn was also sold by True Hope Trust again with Khan standing in for his sister, but the value of the property is yet to be established.
On March 21, 2018, Khan sold number 8 St Aubin’s Chisipite in Harare on behalf of owner Samantha Chihuri to Erinah Muchingami for US$365 000.

The property, measuring 9 094 square metres has a four-bedroomed house with borehole and is gated and walled.
On August 29, 2017, Khan sold another property in Strathaven, registered in the name of Nicole Tawonga Chihuri to Fairline Investments Pvt Ltd for US$125 000.
The Chihuri family is expected to disclose how they acquired Lot 3 of Plot 4 of Juliasdale, Nyanga, a property worth US$3 860 000 and registered in the names of Samantha Chihuri, Ethan Augustine Chihuri, Nicole Tawonga Chihuri and Anashe Melamine Chihuri under Deed of Transfer 2208/12.
The family should also explain how it acquired — 14453 Ibhalabhala Crescent, Selbourne in Bulawayo which was transferred from the ex-police boss’ name into the name of Tendai Madamombe on July 24, 2018. The buyer has since resold the property.
Chihuri, his wife Isobel and children — Ethan and Samantha — were listed as respondents together with five companies involved in the alleged siphoning of money from the Police Revolving Fund.
An order which the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) obtained at the High Court placed known family property in Zimbabwe under the management of the Asset Management Unit of the NPA.
This means the property and companies cannot be sold without permission of the courts. Chihuri is challenging earlier unexplained wealth orders.
He argues that the unexplained wealth order constituted a “gross irregularity and a fundamental breach of their legal rights” and wants the High Court to declare that certain provisions of the Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Act of 2019, infringe the Constitution.

In challenging the constitutionality of these provisions in the High Court, Chihuri and his family rely on a constitutional provision that gives courts subordinate to the Constitutional Court the power to make constitutional declarations and to pronounce as invalid, offensive pieces of legislation, although any such finding is subject to confirmation by the Constitutional Court.
Chihuri argues that if for any reason, the High Court does not wish to consider the constitutional matter, then the constitutional questions he is raising should be referred to the Constitutional Court for determination.

By A Correspondent- Zanu PF’s has announced the dates for holding primary elections for members interested in representing the party in the March by-elections.

The party’s politburo sai at the weekend that the primary elections will be held on Thursday this week.

Addressing journalists at the party’s headquarters in Harare Saturday, Zanu PF political commissar Mike Bimha said the party had started preparations for primary elections.

“One of the issues (deliberated by the Politburo) had to do with the finalisation of provincial elections. Last time, the Politburo endorsed elections of three structures that were mainly chairpersons of the Main Wing, the Women’s League and the Youth League,” he said.
“In a province, we have a provincial structure of 120 members, so when the endorsement was done last time we were only talking of those three positions. We then sent Politburo members to go and oversee the equitable distribution of the remaining 117 members countrywide. Today we were presenting the names of the winners from each province. We now have 1 200 provincial members in the country. The structures have now been endorsed and approved.”
The party’s head office, he said, has started receiving and vetting curriculum vitae (CVs) of primary election candidates.
“Some of the activities had already started, with the meeting that was held by the organising committee and the call for submission of CVs.

“We are at the stage where the roadmap has commenced. We are now putting together a command centre at the head office to start the process which will culminate in the holding of the primary elections.”

By-Villagers in Kanengoni village under Chief Negomo in Chiweshe are distressed after illegal gold panners invaded a cemetery in the area in search of gold.

Kraal head, Garikayi Kanengoni, confirmed the development to H-Metro saying the illegal miners were expected to appear before Chief Negomo. He said:

I received information that there were some illegal miners operating at the village cemetery and I could not believe it.

As kraal head, I engaged Chief Negomo’s secretary and we visited the anthill where we lay to rest our relatives, and where our forefathers were laid to rest.

It is unbelievable that the miners failed to respect the dead and went on to expose some of the graves, in search of gold.

The matter has disturbed villagers and we agreed that this must stop.

Vamwe vana vacho ndevemumusha handizive kuti kana vavekufukunura makuva tochivigira kupi vafi uye isu tikafa tinovigwa kupi. 

Families have been clashing over this matter and it has been stopped and appropriate action has been taken.

The people involved are expected to appear before Chief Negomo this Saturday and I promise that this will surely be brought to a halt.

Authorities have turned a blind eye to the desecration of the cemetery as they are reportedly being given gold to allow the mining to continue.

More: H-Metro

By A Correspondent- The Nelson Chamisa led MDC said it would field recalled legislators and councillors in the upcoming by-elections without subjecting them to primary elections.

The party’s secretary for elections Ian Makone told   OpenParly that they have already notified these politicians:

In the case of recalled councillors and MPs, our principle of solidarity has informed the party decided to retain them as candidates.

Makone also revealed that in case of vacancies that arose as a result of death and recalls by Zanu PF, the MDC Alliance will field candidates seconded by the communities in which they reside. Said Makone:

We seek to field candidates who resonate with the community they will serve and apply the consensus approach. We are presently engaging stakeholders.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa proclaimed 26 March 2022 as the date for the by-election to fill the vacant 28 seats in Parliament.

Most of the vacancies arose after MDC Alliance MPs were recalled by MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora for pledging their loyalty to Nelson Chamisa.

By A Correspondent-The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) said 967 motorists had been arrested for driving unlicensed, plate-less or unregistered vehicles.

ZRP launched an operation targetting all vehicles with no registration plates or Temporary Identification Cards (TICs) throughout the country.
Below is ZRP’s statement:

” The operation targeting unlicensed, plate-less and unregistered vehicles has started off with a total of 967 arrests being made countrywide on the 1st day, 15/01/22. Seven hundred eighty-four vehicles were impounded, and 179 motorists were fined for various offences while four others were,” ZRP said.

Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa on Sunday morning released a message of hope to millions of suffering citizens.

President Chamisa, a devout Christian himself, declared that the nation would flourish by God’s grace.

Despite negative comments about his Christian principles, the People’s President has remained unmoved by naysayers’ views.

President Chamisa wrote on his official Facebook page:

WE WILL FLOURISH IN THE LAND…

Then they dug another well,but they quarreled over that one also;so he named it Sitnah.He moved on from there &dug another well, and no one quarreled over it.

He named it Rehoboth,saying,”Now the LORD has given us room and we will flourish in the land.”Genesis:26.20-22. We are ready to make and take our Rehoboth.

At Rehoboth every Zimbabwean shall flourish. Wishing you a Reheboth 2022. Blessed Sunday.

Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa on Sunday morning released a message of hope to millions of suffering citizens.

President Chamisa, a devout Christian himself, declared that the nation would flourish by God’s grace.

Despite negative comments about his Christian principles, the People’s President has remained unmoved by naysayers’ views.

President Chamisa wrote on his official Facebook page:

WE WILL FLOURISH IN THE LAND…

Then they dug another well,but they quarreled over that one also;so he named it Sitnah.He moved on from there &dug another well, and no one quarreled over it.

He named it Rehoboth,saying,”Now the LORD has given us room and we will flourish in the land.”Genesis:26.20-22. We are ready to make and take our Rehoboth.

At Rehoboth every Zimbabwean shall flourish. Wishing you a Reheboth 2022. Blessed Sunday.