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Mapeza Speaks On Warriors Loss To Ghana
Norman Mapeza has refused to blame goalkeeper Talbert Shumba for his mistake that cost the team in the 1-0 loss to Ghana on Tuesday.
Shumba misjudged Thomas Partey’s first half freekick and didn’t do enough to stop it as the ball sailed over him to hit the back of the net.
The goalkeeper also made another howler on the stroke of half time but Terrence Dzvukamanja’s timely off-the-line clearance prevented the Black Stars from extending their lead.
Speaking after the match, Mapeza said:“I was a footballer before.
“I used to make mistakes as well but my coach never dropped me out of the team.
“He needs to be encouraged, so, if I am going to drop him because of that mistake, I would be like Judas Iscariot.
“This is football, mistakes are bound to happen, it wasn’t his day, he made that mistake but I am proud of what he did, he never looked down.’’
The result dumped the Warriors out of the qualifiers with two games left in Group G stage. They’re at the bottom of the pool with one point, nine behind leaders South Africa.
Ghana is second with nine points while third-placed Ethiopia are also out of the qualifiers.
The winner in the group will advance to the final round of the qualifying campaign.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Latest On DJ Fantan Jail Sentence
By A Correspondent- Arnold Kamudyariwa (DJ Fantan), Tafadzwa Kadzimwe (DJ Levelz), and Damma, born Simbarashe Chanachimwe, had their appeal against their sentence upheld by High Court Judges Justice Pirirayi Kwenda and Benjamin Chikowero.
The judges reduced the sentence to 3 months with an option to pay a ZWL$2 000 fine.
Fantan Levels, and Damma of Chillspot Records, were arrested in January for organising an illegal New Year’s eve music gig held in Mbare, Harare.
Harare provincial magistrate Vongai Guwuriro jailed the trio for an effective six months for violating COVID-19 national lockdown regulations.
Guwuriro had initially jailed the trio to 12 months behind bars but set aside six months of the jail term on condition they do not commit a similar offence within that period.
In passing sentence, Guwuriro said fining or committing the trio to perform unpaid work would trivialise the offence.
The popular entertainment promoters were, however, freed in late January on ZWL$10 000 bail after a High Court judge acceded to their bail appeal.
The trio’s lawyer, Tafadzwa Hungwe, said at the time, “our clients have been granted $10,000 bail each.” Added Hungwe:
Justice Foroma ruled that they have prospects of success on appeal on grounds that they have proved that they are remorseful for what they did.
The three managed to convince the court that they are ready to reform after they admitted to doing wrong.
As part of their bail conditions, the music promoters were ordered to report to the police fortnightly and reside at their given addresses until the matter is finalised. – Agencies
High Court Holds Chilonga Judgement
By A Correspondent- The High Court has reserved judgment on an application by Chilonga villagers who were challenging provisions of the Communal Lands Act, arguing that it did not respect African traditional values with regards to land ownership.
The application was heard by Harare High Court judges, Justices Joseph Mafusire, Never Katiyo and Chipo Mungwari.
In a statement, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), said the villagers had approached the High Court seeking an order to set aside sections 4 and 6(1)(b) of the Communal Lands Act.
In March, the villagers challenged government’s plans to evict more than 12 000 of them from Chilonga to pave way for a commercial irrigation venture. Initial reports were that the villagers were being evicted to pave way for a lucerne project by Dendairy.
“The Chilonga villagers want the High Court to set aside sections 4 and 6(1)(b) of the Communal Lands Act arguing that the two sections are unconstitutional and offend some provisions of the Constitution,” ZLHR said.
“The Chilonga villagers who are farmers grow sorghum, maize and millet and they argue that the Communal Lands Act denies them the right to self-determination of Africans in Zimbabwe and has no room in post-independent Zimbabwe.”
The lawyers also said Chilonga villagers argued that the Communal Lands Act was a racist and colonial creature, which regarded Africans as uncivilised.
“The villagers queried why an African can own a house in Harare’s plush suburb of Borrowdale, but he cannot own his ancestral home in Chiredzi, Mwenezi, Dotito, Chendambuya, Nyaki or Tsholotsho.”
-NewsDay
Nkomo’s Zapu In Deep Divisions
By A Correspondent-The late Vice President Joshua Nkomo’s Zapu is headed for a split following the movement’s provincial congresses.
Zapu is currently holding its provincial congresses ahead of the party’s elective congress, which will be held from the October 29 and 30 at the Bulawayo Amphitheatre.
Sibangilizwe Nkomo, the son of the party’s late founding leader Joshua Nkomo, is the leading contender for the party’s presidency after having been controversially nominated by nine provinces.
On Saturday, Bulawayo province nominated Nkomo to contest the party’s top post amid allegations of vote buying and manipulation of the party’s constitution.
According to party sources, disgruntled delegates from Bulawayo South boycotted the Bulawayo congress citing irregularities in the manner the elections were being conducted.
“The elections where Nkomo is purported to have been nominated in Bulawayo was a circus.
How can we have known Zanu PF supporters in their full regalia voting at a Zapu congress. The culture of voting manipulation and vote buying is alien to Zapu,” one of the party’s top post contenders who refused to be named said.
The source said the congress preparations were in shambolic and it will be almost impossible to meet the congress deadline.
New Zimbabwe.com was also told that the party’s Harare provincial executive Sunday boycotted the provincial congress due to similar reasons.
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Harare Man Throws Himself Into A Moving Train
By A Correspondent-An unidentified man has thrown himself in front of a moving train near Cold Comfort in Harare.
Eyewitnesses alleged that the man tried to drag two school children who were close-by but failed.
When Pindula News attended the scene, the police had not yet arrived.
An NRZ official who refused to be named in this report as he doesn’t have authority to speak to the press said police from Kuwadzana said the incident did not take place in their area. He added:
We saw him [the victim] when we were about 100 metres away. He was walking very close to the railway and was unfazed when we rang the bell both for him and the vehicles.
Asked why they applied brakes when the man was not on the rails, the official said:
It’s protocol, we should try to avoid accidents. This man was very close to the rails and anything could happen. We were also approaching a junction.
The incident happened around 4 PM a few metres from a road and railway junction near Herentals college in Cold Comfort.
A local cattle herder said he had seen the deceased man in recent days walking along the rail holding a popular local beverage (cascade).
He was very normal. Nothing suggested he had issues.
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Masvingo Attacks Expose Zanu PF
A Correspondent- The Monday Masvingo attacks on the MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, by Zanu PF supporters have exposed the Emmerson Mnangagwa led political party’s violent behaviour.
Chamisa and his team were attacked again yesterday by ruling party supporters, who barricaded roads to deny his convoy access to a local village.
It is alleged that the ruling party supporters, who were chanting slogans, were accompanied by the police.
Addressing a Press conference in Harare, Zanu PF acting commissar Patrick Chinamasa said Chamisa, who is currently undertaking community interface meetings around the country as he mobilises support ahead of the 2023 elections, was entirely to blame.
“What I heard happened in Masvingo was that the opposition leader wanted to force himself on an audience which did not want to listen to him,” Chinamasa said.
“He had no right to force people to listen to him. He had a right to address people but only those who were willing to be addressed by him.”
A group of about 200 Zanu PF supporters brandishing placards denouncing Chamisa for the sanctions imposed by the West on the country pounced on the opposition leaders, damaging cars and injuring five opposition supporters.
Zanu PF initially claimed the protest was stage-managed.
But Chinamasa yesterday said the villagers were angered because a “madman” wanted to address them.
“In this case, my information is that the villagers did not want to be addressed by him for obvious reasons. If you listen to a madman, you become part of his cast, you will be portrayed as part of his cast, he will then go ahead and say, I have lots of support, which he does not have.
“So our Zanu PF people have a right to say, we don’t want you to address us, we don’t want to, it’s my right, but if you force me to listen to you, I have reason to be angry.”
Chinamasa did not, however, explain why the police teargassed Chamisa at a private residence, how the villagers acquiredZanu PF violence: politburo descends on Manicaland
Chinamasa Stammers On Barbaric Chamisa Attacks
A Correspondent- Zanu PF has laboured to exonerate its members from Masvingo’s Monday attacks on MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa.
Chamisa and his team were attacked again yesterday by ruling party supporters, who barricaded roads to deny his convoy access to a local village.
It is alleged that the ruling party supporters, who were chanting slogans, were accompanied by the police.
Addressing a Press conference in Harare, Zanu PF acting commissar Patrick Chinamasa said Chamisa, who is currently undertaking community interface meetings around the country as he mobilises support ahead of the 2023 elections, was entirely to blame.
“What I heard happened in Masvingo was that the opposition leader wanted to force himself on an audience which did not want to listen to him,” Chinamasa said.
“He had no right to force people to listen to him. He had a right to address people but only those who were willing to be addressed by him.”
A group of about 200 Zanu PF supporters brandishing placards denouncing Chamisa for the sanctions imposed by the West on the country pounced on the opposition leaders, damaging cars and injuring five opposition supporters.
Zanu PF initially claimed the protest was stage-managed.
But Chinamasa yesterday said the villagers were angered because a “madman” wanted to address them.
“In this case, my information is that the villagers did not want to be addressed by him for obvious reasons. If you listen to a madman, you become part of his cast, you will be portrayed as part of his cast, he will then go ahead and say, I have lots of support, which he does not have.
“So our Zanu PF people have a right to say, we don’t want you to address us, we don’t want to, it’s my right, but if you force me to listen to you, I have reason to be angry.”
Zanu PF In Mutare Violence Witch-Hunt
By A Correspondent-Zanu PF has sent a delegation to Mutare to inquire into the violence that erupted at the party’s Manicaland provincial political meeting last Sunday.
The violence erupted after angry party members had demonstrated against provincial chairperson Mike Madiro for imposing candidates.
The fact-finding team also includes the secretary for security Lovemore Matuke and youth leader Tendai Chirau.
The team held a closed-door meeting with the warring factions at Marymount Teachers’ College in Mutare.
Zanu PF Manicaland spokesperson Oliver Mandipaka refused to comment on the outcome of the meeting, accusing NewsDay of poking its nose into the ruling party’s internal affairs.
“This has nothing to do with you, I think you are going too far with our internal processes,” Mandipaka said.
The meeting was also attended by Mutare district coordinating committee secretary for youth affairs Danmore Mambondiyani.
-NewsDay
LIVE: Supreme Court Rules Walter Magaya Prosecution Can Go Ahead.
By Court Reporter | In a historic case, the Supreme Court Of Zimbabwe has ruled over the abuse of women involving the late Nigerian preacher, TB Joshua, that the investigation on his mentee, Walter Magaya must go ahead.
TB Joshua was in 2016 recorded while trying to subvert the court of justice on one of the Magaya victims in the verified-case of Zimbabwean woman, Angela Charakupa, and in Nigeria he himself had up to the time of his death, piles of children and older women who are complainants against him.
A long list of other women are complainants in cases reported on ZimEye since the unexplained sudden death of one of Magaya’s girlfriends in 2014, Chipo Chakanyuka. Following the latest three cases, Walter Magaya had taken the Gender Commission Of Zimbabwe to the Supreme Court.
On the 23rd August 2019, the Commission issued General Notice 1444 of 2019 on Walter Magaya which it published in the Government Gazette. The General Notice authorized the respondent to conduct an investigation into complaints of sexual abuse generally made against the appellant.
In response, on 3 September 2019, Magaya filed an application with the High Court for a review of the decision by the respondent to launch the investigation pursuant to the General Notice. He followed this up with an urgent chamber application in which he sought by way of interim relief an interdict against the conduct of the investigation by the respondent.
On 22 October 2019, the High Court dismissed the urgent chamber application with costs.
Magaya then appealed to the Supreme Court against that judgment.
He contended that he had good prospects of succeeding on the review and that his rights from the review process would be rendered nugatory if the investigations were not halted pending the review. His stance was that neither the Constitution nor the Act afforded the Commission the authority to conduct the contemplated investigation. To that extent, any investigation by the Commission constituted an illegality. He contended further that what the Commission intended from the published notice was outside its statutory mandate and as a result, Magaya was entitled to the protection of the law which he was seeking from the court.
But ruling against him, Supreme Court justices, Gowora, Patel and Uchena stated as follows:
I have read the lead judgment of my learned sister Gowora JA and consider it necessary to briefly analyse and address the nature of the relief sought by the appellant in the proceedings a quo.
As regards this aspect, Gowora JA quite correctly observes that in the review application the principal relief sought is that the decision of the Commission in issuing the General Notice be set aside. Again, the provisional order sought in the urgent chamber application simply prays for the intended investigation of the appellant by the Commission in terms of the General Notice to be stayed. It is only in the final order sought that the appellant prays that the General Notice be declared null and void and of no force or effect. Consequently, my learned sister concludes that the appellant cannot seek to police lawful conduct through an interdict, given that the validity of the General Notice, which is presumed to be valid until it is set aside, has yet to be determined. In keeping with the case authorities cited and relied upon by Gowora JA, I fully agree that an interdict cannot ordinarily be granted against conduct that is prima facie lawful.
Regrettably for the appellant, he has tactically miscalculated the nature of the relief that he sought in the urgent chamber application before the court a quo. He has also failed to correlate and align the draft order in the chamber application with the relief sought in the application for review pending before the High Court.
In the final analysis, the applicant has failed to take into account the formidable hurdle presented by the rule that an interdict cannot in principle be granted against conduct that is prima facie lawful and carried out in terms of an extant statutory instrument that is presumed to be valid until it is duly set aside by a competent court that is properly seized with the question of its validity. In any case, as a matter of procedural correctness, the validity of the impugned General Notice could not properly have been an issue before the court a quo until the return day had arrived. By the same token, it cannot be properly ventilated before and determined by this Court on appeal against the judgment a quo. For these essentially technical reasons, I would agree with Gowora JA that the present appeal should not be allowed.
Mnangagwa Agents In Panic Mode As President Chamisa Takes Citizens Agenda To Rural Masvingo
Tinashe Sambiri|State security agents assigned by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa attempted to assassinate MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa as he travelled to Chiredzi on Tuesday.
Zanu PF hooligans also stoned President Chamisa’s security details in Chiredzi.
In a statement, the MDC Alliance said:
President @nelsonchamisa was warmly received by citizens in Chiredzi who repeatedly chanted “Ngaapinde Hake Mukomana.”
We are advised that ZANU PF hooligans reacted angrily, chasing the President’s convoy ‘movie style’ in the town.
The President has been encircled by hooligans at a place he’s temporarily taken refuge. The Provincial Leadership is currently mobilising youths to rescue him.
The four cars followed the convoy to Chiredzi Town where two full trucks of hooligans waited to attack the president. The security team had to quickly move the President to a safer place.
A silver Nissan Caravan AFG 9047 and three Nissan NP 200s without plates were used to chase the President from Triangle via the sugar plantation to Chiredzi. The Nissan Caravan attempted to side swipe the President’s car before the driver sped off.
President @nelsonchamisa is safe. He left the scene of the attack unharmed. We thank all our provincial members for standing ready to defend the President and the party. No amount of intimidation or abuse will stop the tour from continuing.
MDC Alliance also reported that its provincial youth member, Admire Chifamba, was stoned by ZANU PF hooligans but the police sided with ZANU PF hooligans and arrested the victim, Admire…
Mnangagwa Attempts To Assassinate President Chamisa
Tinashe Sambiri|State security agents assigned by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa attempted to assassinate MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa as he travelled to Chiredzi on Tuesday.
Zanu PF hooligans also stoned President Chamisa’s security details in Chiredzi.
In a statement, the MDC Alliance said:
President @nelsonchamisa was warmly received by citizens in Chiredzi who repeatedly chanted “Ngaapinde Hake Mukomana.”
We are advised that ZANU PF hooligans reacted angrily, chasing the President’s convoy ‘movie style’ in the town.
The President has been encircled by hooligans at a place he’s temporarily taken refuge. The Provincial Leadership is currently mobilising youths to rescue him.
The four cars followed the convoy to Chiredzi Town where two full trucks of hooligans waited to attack the president. The security team had to quickly move the President to a safer place.
A silver Nissan Caravan AFG 9047 and three Nissan NP 200s without plates were used to chase the President from Triangle via the sugar plantation to Chiredzi. The Nissan Caravan attempted to side swipe the President’s car before the driver sped off.
President @nelsonchamisa is safe. He left the scene of the attack unharmed. We thank all our provincial members for standing ready to defend the President and the party. No amount of intimidation or abuse will stop the tour from continuing.
MDC Alliance also reported that its provincial youth member, Admire Chifamba, was stoned by ZANU PF hooligans but the police sided with ZANU PF hooligans and arrested the victim, Admire…
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MDC Alliance Denounces Zanu PF Barbarism
ZanuPF-Sanctioned Torture and Violence on Social Democrats Are Crimes Against Humanity, Mdc Alliance Namibia Demands Constitutionalism And The Rule Of Law!
12 October 2021
Mdc Alliance Namibia totally condemns the incessant violence and torture exposed to change seekers in Masvingo who were on their to a consultative meeting in Charumbira area where the dynamic President Advocate Nelson Chamisa wanted to breakdown the Citizens Convergence for Change concept as our 2023 election campaign theme. The corrupt Ezra Chadzamira is the devil behind the hired satanic Zanupf thugocrats who attacked our visionary President’s convoy yesterday and injured dozens of our supporters.
Social democrats in Namibia have learned with great fury the evil role played by the desperate and politically-inept Ezra Chadzamira who was recently arrested by ZAAC for expropriating plots,but was released after the archbishop of corruption intervened and commanded Matandamoyo to set him free in a catch and release fashion. Further research unraveled that the Youth Chairperson for Masvingo and Chivi, RDC chair, Godfrey Huruva Mukungunugwa is believed to have organised and sponsored by the clueless Zanupf party to pay empty-headed Masvingo youths with unsliced bread, opaque beer(masese) and 10kg silo mealie meal at Matewe garage to assassinate the people’s democratic leader. It is supposed that Chadzamira intended to use terrorism to appease his master Mr Mnangagwa.
Mdc Alliance Namibia remains categorically clear that torture, violence and forced disappearances of opposition activists constitute crimes against humanity. These are actions that ,in creating violent intimidation for political effect induce a well profound sense of unpredictability and hopelessness to the optimistic alternative. Dictators usually deter those who are excluded from power from challenging them hence it is very open that Mr Mnangagwa, ZanuPF Central Committee and Politburo are responsible for the attempted assassination on the People’s President. Since the insatiable appetite to stay in political power was made clear by his predecessor the Robert Mugabe, Mdc Alliance Namibia still holds the conviction that dictators want to stay in ill-gotten power.
In addition to that, without doubt, entrenched authoritarian regimes are popularly known for centralising illegitimate power and resources in a manner that limits meaningful social and political inclusion,instrumentalises key State institutions, reduces democratic space and often allows a specific individual to retain power in any way well beyond typical constitutional confines. The gigantic brutality imposed and exercised by the desperate stomach politicians in Masvingo should be resisted with equal measure. In reality, most torture committed by the sadist state seeks to send a message to the wider audience. It’s quite pathetic that Zanupf has panicked 2 years before 2023 harmonised elections. They know that on 31 July 2018, President Advocate Nelson Chamisa amassed 2.6 million voters and currently, it is mobilising 6 million voters for the impending elections in 2023.
Constitutional democrats in the diaspora have the comprehension that the instrumentalisation of the victims in Masvingo shall never scare or deter the broader audience of a legion of Mdc Alliance supporters across the globe. We have seen and experienced repression from the corrupt and heartless regime in various forms since the formation of the people’s party including censorship of press, limits or muzzling of citizens’ civil and political rights, and coercion. The revolutionary spirit in the Mdc Alliance shall never be broken through arbitrary detention, kidnapping,torture ,forced exile and disappearances. Learnmore Judah Jongwe was killed in the cells in 2002, Susan Tsvangirai was eliminated, Tonderai Ndira, Rebecca Mafikeni, Talent Mabika, Joshua Bakacheza and right now Cde Makomborero Haruzivishe,our ardent youth commander is rotting in jail just because he believes in the Citizens Convergence for Change. We also don’t forget that our leaders Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere languished in the hell-hole custody of Chikurubi for 10 donkey years only to be acquitted a few months ago. The objective is to instil fear but it will not work simple!
Victims of Zanupf violence in Masvingo are still recuperating in hospital but our resolve to win Zimbabwe for complete change will never die under the impressive leadership of the people’s choice Advocate Nelson Chamisa Wamba Dia Wamba. It is very clear for everyone to see that the serial Zanupf election losers have pressed the panic button. Every Zimbabwean must wake up and smell the coffee. The extrajudicial violence in the Harare regime is obviously shaped by its evil goals and institutional configurations. Through state-sponsored violence, the state hopes to secure citizens’ submission to maladministration manifesting in stinking corruption and graft in the Zanupf morons.
In a nutshell, Mdc Alliance Namibia concluded that Zanupf is a replica of state terrorism which we defined as the intentional use or threat of violence by state agents or their proxies against social democrats who are victimised for the sole purpose of intimidating or frightening a broader audience of innocent citizens willing to converge for complete change. The attempt by Zanupf and their surrogates to link our political generator President Advocate Nelson Chamisa to targeted sanctions shall be continually demystified till Zimbabweans come together against Zanupf satanism. Mdc Alliance doesn’t believe in violence as a way of solving political differences. We believe in constitutional democracy where one man vote is prioritised.
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High Forex Rates Choke Civil Servants
By A Correspondent- The government has expressed concern over the increase in prices of goods and services which is eroding civil servants’ salaries due to the use of black-market forex rates by businesses.
Some businesses are using rates as high as $200 for US$1, while the official rate is at $90.07 for US$1, which only a few are buying from a selected bureau de changes.
In an interview with State media on Tuesday, Public Service and Social Welfare Minister Paul Mavima said the Government is very sincere about the welfare of its employees.
He said the government has increased civil servants’ salaries twice amounting to a combined 75 per cent increment, but the gains have been eroded by the ever-increasing prices of basic commodities.
Said Mavima:
As soon as the Government increases their salaries, the salaries are eroded by increasing prices. There is therefore a need for a concerted effort at stabilising prices.
He implored civil servants to be patient with the Government, saying the National Joint Negotiation Council (NJNC) is due to meet soon for the next round of negotiations on salaries.
Apex Council deputy secretary-general Gibson Mushangu urged the government to urgently cushion civil servants salaries, saying they are now earning “peanuts” due to unbridled price increases. He said:
We have asked the Government to convene a meeting to map a way forward. We need to address the salary challenges we are facing as civil servants.
We need our salaries cushioned. We are in dire need of Government’s timeous intervention and that is why we are calling for a meeting because things are getting out of hand.
Yes from April to July civil servants got a salary increase of 25 per cent and in July they got a 50 per cent salary increase, but that is now peanuts because of the surge in prices of goods and commodities.
-statemedia
Thieves Target People Returning From The Diaspora
Dear Editor
Good day to you all
I would like to warn each and every Zimbabwean citizen. My elder brother’s son who was coming from Ireland in the company of his wife on Sunday was intercepted at the airport just after they arrived by someone who escorted them until they had cleared themselves and left the airport.
This person gave them forms on the pretext that they wanted to conduct contact tracing of covid 19 hence they had to reveal their address.
On Monday evening, thieves broke into this couple’s home in Norton and stole mobile phones, money and clothes. These thieves knew they had recently arrived from the diaspora.
Let us be very careful. These thieves are now using every trick in the book to follow their victims.
The robbers also took a car registration number AFI 6461 to carry their loot.
My children are now nursing wounds sustained during the attack.
I am warning other Zimbabweans to be wary of revealing their addresses especially to strangers or thieves posing as bogus health authorities at the airport.
Concerned Zimbabwean
President Chamisa Comes Face To Face With Plight Of Suffering Citizens
Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa came face to face with the plight of suffering citizens in Masvingo Province.
President Chamisa is in Masvingo this week for stakeholder meetings and consultations.
See statement below:
I’M so energized by the solid support here as I continue this Communities & Citizens Interface, a tour of rural parts of Zimbabwe…
I had meetings in Chivi,Ngundu,Mwenezi,Chingwizi & Rutenga.Zpf tried disrupting but failed.
I saw how the majority of Zimbabweans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Kungwavhangwavha. Life is really hard. Poverty in communities is real.
The message is resoundingly #NgaapindeHakeMukomana. Thank you Zimbabwe! #Godisinit
Thieves Target Diaspora Returnees
Dear Editor
Good day to you all
I would like to warn each and every Zimbabwean citizen. My elder brother’s son who was coming from Ireland in the company of his wife on Sunday was intercepted at the airport just after they arrived by someone who escorted them until they had cleared themselves and left the airport.
This person gave them forms on the pretext that they wanted to conduct contact tracing of covid 19 hence they had to reveal their address.
On Monday evening, thieves broke into this couple’s home in Norton and stole mobile phones, money and clothes. These thieves knew they had recently arrived from the diaspora.
Let us be very careful. These thieves are now using every trick in the book to follow their victims.
The robbers also took a car registration number AFI 6461 to carry their loot.
My children are now nursing wounds sustained during the attack.
I am warning other Zimbabweans to be wary of revealing their addresses especially to strangers or thieves posing as bogus health authorities at the airport.
Concerned Zimbabwean
Jah Signal Clears Air On Free Shows
By A Correspondent- Zimdancehall artistes Jah Signal, born Nicodemus Mutize, has denied allegations from fellow artistes flooding on social media that he holds performances free of charge.
Stunner, born Desmond Chideme, posted on his Facebook page saying Jah Signal should desist from holding free of charge performances as it affects them.
In response, Jah Signal denounced allegations of performing free of charge shows unless it is for charitable causes.
Below is Jah Signal’s statement posted on his Facebook page:
We would like to address comments which were quoted and circulated over social media over the weekend by one artist we hold in high regard.
We respect him as an industry player and a pioneer whose music popularised the Zimbabwean urban music genres across all demographics of Zimbabwe and the diaspora.
With all due respect, we would like to refute all claims that Jah Signal offered his artistic services for free to an unknown promoter.
Whoever informed my fellow brother of this philanthropy exercise I am accused to have offered should be ashamed of themselves.
We pride ourselves a high-end music and entertainment brand and we feel that such rumours are circulated whispered by parties who want to see the value and the net worth and the asking price of the brand dwindle and fall.
We are a very professional outfit and we do not offer any FREE performances on the plate that easily unless they are for charitable causes close to our hearts.
We would like you to refer back to the single titled “Hamukirwe” which featured the late Soul Jah Love. Decypher the lyrics” Mukwasha Hamukwire Musina Kubhadhara kubhadara,Chibaba Hachimbouya Musina Kubhadhara” and that’s is the mantra we operate with as a business.
We would like to urge all in the media and arts space to do their due diligence, reach out to us before they run with a lie like a horse whose tail is on fire.
Industry Raises The Flag On Costly Forex Inconsistencies
By A Correspondent- The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) has called on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to ensure that the Dutch foreign currency auction rules are observed, which is not the case at the moment.
In a report published on Monday titled “The Currency Situation and Recommendations for Change”, CZI said the high demand for forex at the forex auction is a result of the inefficiencies or non-adherence to strict Dutch auction rules. It noted a number of red flags which are:
These are showing up in the delays in settlement, price increases and increasing inflation, which would unsettle the stability that had characterised the year 2021.
The predictability of the auction rate has seen participants becoming more cunning, knowing full well that if they bid at the previous minimum acceptable rate, they will still access foreign currency.
The risk of losing out, which was the basis for getting the correct price from the auction, has now been minimised by the RBZ preference to auction foreign currency that they do not have.
The extended backlog discourages players that have a genuine need for foreign currency and cannot afford to wait for six weeks while those that are importing simply due to the existence of cheap foreign currency do not mind waiting to get their bids honoured, even though they have resources tied down during the waiting period.
Thus, the foreign currency auction is now attracting foreign currency demand that would normally not have been there, simply due to the perception that the foreign currency is cheap.
It is now profitable to import products rather than producing and sourcing locally due to the exchange rate distortions that have emerged from the auction market.
The same phenomenon is being observed at the bureaus de change with artificial demand for foreign currency both for local use (the US$50s) as well as for travel allowances (US$500) now being the norm.
Citizens Are Surviving On Kungwavha Ngwavha – President Chamisa On Economic Crisis
Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa came face to face with the plight of suffering citizens in Masvingo Province.
President Chamisa is in Masvingo this week for stakeholder meetings and consultations.
See statement below:
I’M so energized by the solid support here as I continue this Communities & Citizens Interface, a tour of rural parts of Zimbabwe…
I had meetings in Chivi,Ngundu,Mwenezi,Chingwizi & Rutenga.Zpf tried disrupting but failed.
I saw how the majority of Zimbabweans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Kungwavhangwavha. Life is really hard. Poverty in communities is real.
The message is resoundingly #NgaapindeHakeMukomana. Thank you Zimbabwe! #Godisinit
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Boy On The Run After Stabbing In-law For Beating Up Own Sister
By A Correspondent- A 17 year old boy from Beatrice is on the run after he allegedly stabbed his brother-in-law to death with a spear for divorcing his sister.
Police sources told The Mirror that the juvenile fled after stabbing Steven Mandizvidza (35) of New stands Glen Norah. Mandizvidza had an altercation with his ex-wife who is the juvenile’s sister.
Mash East assistant Police spokesperson, Misheck Denhere confirmed the incident to The Mirror.
On September 29, 2021, Mandizvidza together with his friend visited his former wife to see his daughter. Upon arrival, the two had a heated argument over their divorce process and this degenerated into a fight.
The boy tried in vain to refrain Mandizvidza from beating his sister. But deceased charged at the young brother and a fistfight ensued. The boy then ran into the house and came back with a spear which he used to stab his brother-in-law in the neck.
Mandizvidza who bled profusely was taken to Marondera General Hospital by a neighbour where he was pronounced dead upon arrival. The matter was reported at ZRP Beatrice.
– Mirror
UK Based Lawyer’s Advice To President Nelson Chamisa
By A Correspondent | The MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa must invite ZANU PF hardliners into a power sharing convergence, otherwise his movement will fall flat, UK based lawyer, Lloyd Msipa has said.
Msipa, who is a founding member of former minister Nkosana Moyo’s APPA party, said Chamisa must create a model that has a power sharing with former ZANU PF cadres.
As Zimbabwe readies for the 2023 polls, Msipa’s comments come after other G40 members called for the same. Said Msipa, ” in the absence of a big tent approach that incorporates key former ZANU PF cadres ahead of 2023, the Citizen Convergence model will fall flat on its face.
“Penetrating rural electorate requires unity of purpose across political divide.
“It shouldn’t be so, but that is our reality!”
Zanu Pf Celebrates Masvingo Violence Against MDC Alliance
By A Correspondent- Zanu Pf has given thumbs up to the violence against opposition MDC Alliance by its own party stalwarts in Masvingo adding that the people who stoned President Nelson Chamisa’s convoy and injured several MDC Alliance stalwarts did so within the confines of the law.
Said Zanu Pf in a tweet:
Well done Masvingo villagers
The villagers who demonstrated against @nelsonchamisa in Masvingo did so within the confines of law. Chamisa represents a violent organization which called for sanctions. Villagers were not violent. Chamisa is not immune from demos.
ZIMSEC Publishes 2021 Grade 7 Exams Timetable
By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) has published the timetable for the 2021 Grade 7 examinations.
The exams will start on 29 November, with students sitting for the English Paper 1 examination.
The final examination will be written on Friday 10 December 2021 when students sit for Social Science Paper 2.
Below is the Grade 7 timetable.
| EXAMINATION DATE | MORNING SESSION | SUBJECT/PAPER | AFTERNOON SESSION | SUBJECT/PAPER |
| MONDAY 29 NOVEMBER | 9.00 a.m. 10.30 a.m. (1hr 30mins) | 7010/1 English 1 | ||
| TUESDAY 30 NOVEMBER | 9.00 a.m. 11.00 a.m. (2hrs) | 7020/1 Mathematics 1 | ||
| WEDNESDAY 01 DECEMBER | 9.00 a.m. 10.30 a.m. (1hr 30mins) | 7040/1 Shona 1 7060/1 Ndebele 1 7080/1 Nambya 1 7100/1 Xichangana 1 7070/1 Tonga 1 7120/1 Sesotho 1 7110/1 Kalanga 1 7090/1 Tshivenda 1 A | 2.00pm-4.00pm (2hrs) | 7130/1 Physical Education & Arts 1 |
| THURSDAY 2 DECEMBER | 9.00 a.m. 10.45 a.m. (1hr 45mins) | 7050/1 Social Science 1 | ||
| FRIDAY 03 DECEMBER | 9.00 a.m. – 11.45 a.m. (1hr 45 mins) | 7030/1 Agriculture Science & Technology 1 | ||
| MONDAY 06 DECEMBER | 9.00 a.m. 10.30 a.m. (1hr 30mins) | 7030/2 Agriculture Science & Technology 2 | ||
| TUESDAY 07 DECEMBER | 9.00 a.m. 10.45 a.m. (1hr 45mins) | 7040/2 Shona 2 7060/2 Ndebele 2 7070/2 Tonga 2 7120/2 Sesotho 2 7080/2 Nambya 2 7110/2 Kalanga 2 7100/2 Xichangana 2 7090/2 Tshivenda 2 | ||
| WEDNESDAY 08 DECEMBER | 9.00 a.m. 11.00 a.m. (2hrs) | 7020/2 Mathematics 2 | ||
| THURSDAY 09 DECEMBER | 9.00 a.m. – 10.45 a.m. (1hr 45mins) | 7010/2 English 2 | ||
| FRIDAY 10 DECEMBER | 9.00 a.m. 10.30 a.m. (1hr 30mins) | 7050/2 Social Science 2 |
Where Is Jamwanda?
By A Correspondent| Deputy Chief Secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet George Charamba is a noisy man on microblogging site Twitter.
Using his moniker name @Jamwanda2, Charamba has developed a niche for commenting on any attacks targeted at the ruling Zanu PF and government while mocking and demeaning those he differs with.
Every morning, Charamba would start the day by commenting on stories published in private media and in some cases issuing threats against reporters whose by-lines appear on the reports.
He recently attracted the ire of Zambia’s youth leader Joseph Kalimbwe after he labelled the country’s new President Hakainde Hichilema, a sell out.
The feud almost stocked diplomatic tiff between the two countries commonly referred as the Siamese twins.
But since 3 October when he announced the passing on of his ex-wife, a death that came barely 12 days after he buried his brother, Charamba has disappeared from the Twitter streets.
His brother’s loss did not take him days to recover and be back on the streets that have become a part of him.
Today he clocked 10 days since his last post announcing the death of his ex-wife.
Where is the noisy Jamwanda?
Kaseke: Prof Madhuku Has More Students In Classroom Than Party Members
The Human Rights activist Fanuel Kaseke has alleged that Prof Lovemore Madhuku has more people in his classroom that members in his party.
Writing on Tuesday, Kaseke jokingly said
Madhuku has more students in his class than members in his party.
IS THIS TRUE?
Commenting in a recent interview, the professor told this news network that despite is party having low numbers he is challenging the main opposition, and he said, ‘come 2023 we shall beat Nelson Chamisa’s party.’
ZIMRA Fines Tuku’s Company $35k
By A Correspondent- Oliver Mtukudzi’s company, Tuku Music and Promotions, has reportedly been fined $35 000 for failing to submit tax returns to the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra).
The late music icon’s company is alleged to have failed to pay income tax returns and value-added tax to Zimbabwe Revenue Authority.
Tuku Music Promotions which is represented by Oliver Mtukudzi’s daughter Samantha Mtukudzi appeared in court recently.
According to reports reaching iHarare, the company is alleged to have failed to submit tax returns from July 2019 to December 2020.
However, fans of the late icon are not so pleased with the fact that Zimra is going after Oliver Mtukudzi’s estate. They called on Zimra to let Oliver Mtukudzi rest in peace.
Here are some of the reactions;stylishdapper
Zimra ndoimwe yakungotsvagawo mari nepasipo. Let the man restchristopher.zw
Shame vanodarirei nhereramashazhusharon
Kuba kuri pachena tax invasion yechii vakadii kizviita arimupenyu nxaa mbavha idzi
Meanwhile, on another note, Samantha recently approached the courts to revise the terms of her elongated divorce wrangle with her retired footballer estranged husband, Tinashe Nengomasha.
She filed a second application for divorce from her husband
This comes after she initially approached the courts in December 2019 filing for divorce.
According to the amended summons filed before the courts, Samantha said her marriage to Nengomasha has irretrievably broken down to the extent that there are no prospects of restoration since both parties have lost love and affection for each other.
Marry Mubaiwa Risks Having An Arm Amputated
By A Correspondent- Marry Mubaiwa is at a serious risk of having at least one of her arms amputated after failing to get the medical care she needs to treat her lymphoedema, a court heard on Tuesday.
The Harare Magistrates Court was told this as the 40-year-old estranged wife of vice president Constantino Chiwenga asked for the postponement of her trial for allegedly forging a marriage certificate.
Her lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa said she was in no condition to stand trial, pointing to heavy medicines she is taking which she said were compromising her mental health.
She said Mubaiwa had been blocked from accessing specialist treatment in South Africa and because of that her condition had continued deteriorating.
“She may end up being amputated because none of the medication she is receiving is working well,” Mtetwa said.
Mtetwa said Mubaiwa – who is also facing a string of other charges including assault, fraud, money laundering and the attempted murder of Chiwenga – underwent a skin grafting procedure three weeks ago to repair tissue damage on her arms.
The trial was scheduled to start before Harare magistrate Lazini Ncube, but it was temporarily torpedoed by Mubaiwa’s application for a postponement.
Justice George Chiweshe of the Supreme Court was lined up to be the first state witness in the fraud and forgery case, but he was excused and told he would be summoned when a new trial date is set.
Mtetwa called a doctor who filed Mubaiwa’s medical report to the witness stand to explain her condition.
Dr Simukai Machawira, a cardiovascular surgeon at Parirenyatwa Hospital, said when the clinical director asked him to see Mubaiwa, she had “impaired lymphatic return which was causing her limbs to swell.”
Muchawira said the former model is currently on six mental variation medication.
She has painful upper limbs, migraine headaches, lower back ache for the past two years and collapses frequently. Mubaiwa also has stiffness on her left hand such that “the fingers no longer open.”
Machawira said the first type of medicine modifies the sensation in her numb hand.
Mtetwa said her research shows that the medicine is used together with other painkillers of a strong kind.
Mubaiwa, according to the doctor, also uses stop pain, migraine pain relievers which also work as antidepressants, sleeping tablets or sedatives, cleanser or detox, and pills that lower her blood pressure.
Her condition causes pain and has to be relieved by the medication.
Machawira said finger deformity is a consequence of capacity gaps in her treatment locally. Mubaiwa’s application to be treated in South Africa was refused by a court, and her legal team blames Chiwenga for interfering with the legal processes.
The doctor said injuries to the nerves were causing Mubaiwa’s limbs to be painful.
Mtetwa asked if the medication rendered her mentally unfit for trial.
“It may alter mental status… but someone who does mental examination may be able to make that determination,” the doctor said.
“A lot of patients are put on medication to control or assist them mentally to cope with pain or stress and as a result they are able to carry their normal day-to-day activities… but I’m not qualified to comment on mental examinations.”
Machawira said when he was talking to her she responded well. He said some patients develop tolerance. He however insisted he could not comment on her mental health, adding: “It’s beyond my expertise to comment on that.”
Prosecutor Michael Reza is challenging the application to delay the trial. Reza said it was “strange” that Mubaiwa, the daughter of former Dynamos chairman Kenny Mubaiwa, was only raising issues of mental health problems now.
“This is a classic case of an afterthought,” Reza said.
Machawira said it was possible she overlooked that and concentrated on her physical injuries.
Reza insisted that Mubaiwa, who is going through an acrimonious divorce from Chiwenga, should have told the doctor about her mental state in the first place.
The prosecutor also said Mubaiwa takes the medication at night which means that when she wakes up she is stable and normal.
Mtetwa, giving her closing submissions, said that one has to be mentally fit in order to stand trial. She said Dr Muchawira’s report did not seek to ascertain her mental state to stand trial, but it does not mean that she is well.
“We pray that you postpone the matter so that she is examined by an expert who will look at her mental health, drugs, dosages she is taking and therefore be able to place before the court whether or not she is in a fit mental state to stand trial,” she pleaded.
Mtetwa said that Chiwenga was the complainant “should not play a role in the cases she is facing”, adding: “Justice must prevail, the trial must commence when she is able to stand it. That is all she is asking for. Fairness.”
The magistrate will make a ruling on Friday.
Mubaiwa is accused of approaching then Judge President George Chiweshe and misrepresenting that she and Chiwenga had agreed to wed under the Marriage Act at a ceremony on July 2, 2019, at their home at 614 Nick Price Drive, Borrowdale Brooke, Harare.
She allegedly submitted copies of national identity documents of both of them to Justice Chiweshe, who then contacted Acting Chief Magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi to look for a magistrate to solemnise the marriage.
Mutevedzi, being the highest ranking marriage officer in the judiciary, took up the task personally.
He noticed that the couple had not submitted passport size photos and their addresses, before contacting JSC Acting Secretary Walter Chikwana, who in turn contacted Mubaiwa, who submitted all the missing documents.
Mutevedzi then prepared registration forms and the marriage certificate before the ceremony, but when he went to the Borrowdale Brooke address to solemnise the marriage, he was denied access.
Investigations revealed that an order for two diamond rings had already been placed with a jewellery shop at Newlands, Harare, in preparation for the wedding.
Prosecutors allege that Mubaiwa was trying to force through a marriage without Chiwenga’s consent. Chiwenga was reportedly ill at the time.-ZimLive
#BREAKING- President Nelson Chamisa Outsmarts Zanu PF’s Rented Crowds
By A Correspondent- A handful of Zanu PF’s rented crowds was this morning outsmarted and left singing and chanting at the wrong venue in Zaka.
The few Zanu Pf supporters were chanting and holding placards at a Zaka residence in anticipation of the arrival of MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa.
However, Chamisa was in no show and was already addressing somewhere.
This was revealed by the Masvingo MDC A Youth Assembly.
Said the MDC Alliance:
WE REMAIN IN CHARGE A handful of rented crowd outnumbered @ Senator Marava’s residence in Zaka. @PoliceZimbabwe and @ZANUPF_Official sings at the wrong venue, the Ppls president @nelsonchamisa is already addressing somewhere. #DECOY ~POLITICAL PRAXIS 101 @mdczimbabwe @daddyhope
In a related development, the MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba scoffed at the rented crowds and said vaneta meaning they are tired.
Yesterday, a convoy leading President Chamisa’s motorcade was attacked by Zanu Pf stalwarts and left severely damaged while several MDC Alliance were also stoned and left nursing injuries.
Addressing a Press conference in Harare, Zanu PF acting commissar Patrick Chinamasa said Chamisa, who is currently undertaking community interface meetings around the country as he mobilises support ahead of the 2023 elections, was entirely to blame.
Zanu PF accused opposition MDC Alliance leader Chamisa of provoking its supporters to attack him and his team by “trying to impose his views and trying to address disinterested Zanu PF supporters”.
It is alleged that the ruling party supporters, who were chanting slogans, were accompanied by the police.
“What I heard happened in Masvingo was that the opposition leader wanted to force himself on an audience which did not want to listen to him,” Chinamasa said.
“He had no right to force people to listen to him. He had a right to address people but only those who were willing to be addressed by him.”
A group of about 200 Zanu PF supporters brandishing placards denouncing Chamisa for the sanctions imposed by the West on the country pounced on the opposition leaders, damaging cars and injuring five opposition supporters.
Zanu PF initially claimed the protest was stage-managed.
But Chinamasa yesterday said the villagers were angered because a “madman” wanted to address them.
“In this case, my information is that the villagers did not want to be addressed by him for obvious reasons. If you listen to a madman, you become part of his cast, you will be portrayed as part of his cast, he will then go ahead and say, I have lots of support, which he does not have.
“So our Zanu PF people have a right to say, we don’t want you to address us, we don’t want to, it’s my right, but if you force me to listen to you, I have reason to be angry.”
Chinamasa did not, however, explain why the police teargassed Chamisa at a private residence, how the villagers acquired the neatly printed placards or what they were doing, uninvited, at MDC Alliance gatherings.
He also claimed that Chamisa and his entourage fired guns into the air to try and scare away Zanu PF supporters.
“I hear the opposition leader and his bodyguards fired shots in the air,” Chinamasa said.
“You know the last time we heard shots in the air was during the liberation struggle, now if there is anything that can agitate people and make them angry, is trying to demonstrate your power through firing a gun.
“You must expect the consequences; you are basically asking people to defend themselves.”
Chinamasa also claimed some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) were receiving funding from the West to topple the government and the party will soon be issuing a directive to party supporters to shun them.
“So, we will be writing a directive mentioning the NGOs that are proxies of countries wanting to topple the Zanu PF government,” Chinamasa said.
“We will tell our supporters, don’t have anything to do with those people, don’t associate with those people, they are no good, they are going to bring misery to you.”
Information Ministry secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana and Zanu PF director of information Tafadzwa Mugwadi thanked the people of Masvingo for attacking and blocking Chamisa’s convoy.
They accused the MDC Alliance of stage-managing the attacks in order to draw the attention of the United Nations Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan who is scheduled to visit Zimbabwe to assess the impact of sanctions on the country from October 18 to 28.
“We are in the event of #COP26 and the special rapporteurs’ engagement is about to happen. Do you know what else has started? The Dramas,” Mangwana tweeted. “We are tired of the @mdczimbabwe provocations aimed at setting the agenda and stage for the coming UN Rapporteur on sanctions…,” Mugwadi also tweeted.
Yesterday, the MDC Alliance tweeted:
“Excessive roadblocks have been mounted in Masvingo following the arrival of president Chamisa. Police Zimbabwe are conducting illegal stop and search operations. They say they are looking for weapons.”
In a statement, MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere said the arrival of Chamisa in Masvingo province saw ruling party supporters turn the area into a warzone.
“This political violence is unconstitutional; it violates our political rights enshrined in section 67 of the Constitution, and causes extreme concern,” Mahere said. -Newsday
Zanu Pf yesterday applauded own party stalwarts for the violence against opposition MDC Alliance in Masvingo adding that the people who stoned President Chamisa’s convoy and injured several MDC Alliance stalwarts did so within the confines of the law.
Said Zanu Pf in a tweet:
Well done Masvingo villagers
The villagers who demonstrated against @nelsonchamisa in Masvingo did so within the confines of law. Chamisa represents a violent organization which called for sanctions. Villagers were not violent. Chamisa is not immune from demos.
More details follow ……
MDC Alliance MP Awarded 6 Cattle Over Funeral Fracas
By A Correspondent- Makoni Central constituency legislator, David Tekeshe (MDC Alliance), was awarded six cattle by a traditional leader as compensation after opposition political activists barred him from addressing mourners at a funeral.
Teddy Chipere (44) and Talent Hare (38), both of Vengere, and four other MDC-A activists were recently fined a beast and a goat each by Chief Makoni for chasing away MrTekeshe from the same funeral.
Chief Makoni ruled that it was taboo for strangers to chase away mourners as it was tantamount to accusing Tekeshe of causing the deceased’s death.
Tekeshe was awarded the six beasts, while the six goats were meant for the chief’s court.
The activists have since appealed against the chief’s ruling at the Rusape Civil Court, and the matter is yet to be heard.
Meanwhile, Tekeshe filed a police report against Chipere and Hare for allegedly blocking him from giving graveyard eulogies at a party member’s funeral despite being accorded the opportunity to do so by the deceased’s family members.
The duo appeared before Rusape magistrate Annie Ndiraya last week on Tuesday facing allegations of promoting public violence.
They entered a plea of not guilty and were expected back in court on 12 October for trial.
Public prosecutor, Innocent Mwoyondizvo, told the court that Chipere and Hare denied Tekeshe a chance to address mourners, saying they did not recognise him as a Member of the National Assembly since he was not from their party.
Said Mwonyondizvo:
On January 13, 2021, at Silverbow Cemetery, Chipere and Hare were among other mourners who were burying a fellow party member.
The Member of National Assembly for Makoni Central, Mr David Tekeshe, was given the floor to make a speech and the two accused persons barred him from proceeding.
They argued that they did not recognise him as their representative.
They started chanting a song: “Taramba kupihwa order nemasaskum”, [we won’t be given orders by imbeciles] denigrating him. Other mourners joined them, thereby breaching the peace.
D-Day For Sticky Fingered Senior Cop
By A Correspondent- Judgement is expected to be delivered on Friday in a matter in which a senior police officer, Inspector Elias Mawomba (47), is accused of conniving with a subordinate to divert for personal benefit, two vehicles carrying smuggled goods.
Insp Mawomba was assigned to escort two vehicles that had been impounded carrying smuggled goods but he allegedly connived with a subordinate and the drivers to offload part of the smuggled goods in a bushy area near the Zinwa water treatment pump.
Insp Mawomba and his subordinate, Assistant Inspector Dickson Siakwimbi, were deployed to Beitbridge to conduct security and anti-smuggling duties at the country’s border with South Africa under operation “No to Cross-border Crimes’’.
They denied the charges of criminal abuse of office and theft when the trial opened before Beitbridge regional magistrate Mr Innocent Bepura.
Judgment is expected on October 15.
Prosecuting, Mr Cloudios Karinga, said on July 18, security forces attached to the same operation with Insp Mawomba intercepted two vehicles that were carrying an assortment of smuggled goods.
The goods included 250 boxes of MAQ washing powder and 57 boxes (of 12 by 400ml) Nivea body lotion creams at Panda Mine security checkpoint some 60km east of Beitbridge town.
The vehicles, a silver Toyota Hiace (AFH 6568) was being driven by Christopher Mashura while the other one, a green Toyota Hiace (ACU 4824) panel van was being driven by Last Muvimi.
Mr Karinga said the vehicles were taken to Beitbridge Police Station.
He said the following day, Insp Mawomba and Asst Insp Siakwimbi were assigned by their commanders to escort the two vehicles to offload the goods at Beitbridge Border Post for evaluation and further customs management.
The court heard that along the way, the two police officers connived with the drivers of the two vehicles to offload part of the smuggled goods in a bushy area near the Zinwa water treatment pump.
They ran out of luck when some members of the public who spotted them informed border security officials. A security team that reacted swiftly found the accused persons and their accomplices still offloading boxes of washing powder and body lotion.
The team discovered that 175 boxes of washing powder and 53 boxes of body lotion had been offloaded from the two cars, which they in turn recovered.
Insp Mawomba was immediately arrested while Siakwimbi disappeared from the scene but was later arrested.-statemedia
Bail For Killer Security Guard
By A Correspondent- A security guard who allegedly shot dead a Zimbabwe Passengers Company (ZUPCO) bus conductor late last month has been granted bail by the High Court.
Campion Marowa (35) who was represented by Kingstone Mukanganwi was granted $20 000 bail by High Court judge Justice Webster Chinamhora.
As part of his bail conditions, Marowa was asked to report three times a week at the Harare Central Police station.
Marowa is also facing theft and violation of firearms act charges.
Prosecutors told the court that on 13 September this year, at around 8.45 PM, the accused boarded a ZUPCO bus fleet number 350 where the now deceased was a conductor.
It is alleged the accused was armed with a 38 Astra Revolver loaded with three rounds of ammunition.
The State alleges that when the bus reached its destination, the accused was amongst the last passengers to disembark while the now deceased was completing her log sheets.
The accused person then pulled a loaded revolver from his waist, pulled the trigger, hit the complainant on the head and disappeared into the darkness.
It is alleged after committing the offence, the accused removed the cartridge and hid it along Samora Machel Avenue, stashing it by Harare Polytechnic precast wall.
Marowa later proceeded to number 9 Rudland Avenue, Belvedere, Harare where he had been deployed to perform guard duties the previous day.
He then hid the revolver which was now loaded with two rounds of ammunition in a changing room without notifying the guard who was on duty.
The accused later advised his supervisor Munyaradzi Musekiwa via a text message on 14 September at about 3.43 AM where he hid the revolver.
It is alleged that the evidence linking the accused to the offence is the recovery of the cartridges which remained after the shooting.
The accused person also voluntarily made indications.
Marowa is also accused of stealing 25 litres of diesel from Eagle Liner Bus Company.
He is also being charged with violation of the Firearms act after he discharged a firearm to deter the Eagle liner employee from manhandling him after he stole the diesel.-Newsday
“Chamisa Is Not Immune To Demos”: Zanu PF Celebrates Masvingo Violence Against MDC Alliance
By A Correspondent- Zanu Pf has given thumbs up to the violence against opposition MDC Alliance by its own party stalwarts in Masvingo adding that the people who stoned President Nelson Chamisa’s convoy and injured several MDC Alliance stalwarts did so within the confines of the law.
Said Zanu Pf in a tweet:
Well done Masvingo villagers
The villagers who demonstrated against @nelsonchamisa in Masvingo did so within the confines of law. Chamisa represents a violent organization which called for sanctions. Villagers were not violent. Chamisa is not immune from demos.
Duo Nabbed For Kidnapping, Robbing Passengers
By A Correspondent- Two people have been arrested for kidnapping and robbing passengers along Bulawayo Road.
Christopher Nukarume, 38, and Raymond Dirwai, 43, are reported to have demanded groceries and cellphones from passengers they picked in Kuwadzana.
They also refused to drop them at their respective destinations.
Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the arrest urging people to use buses and commuter omnibuses registered under Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO).
“The Zimbabwe Republic Police confirms the arrest of two suspects in connection with cases of kidnapping and robbery which occurred along Harare-Bulawayo Road near Whitehouse on Friday,” said Ass Comm Nyathi.
“The two suspects who were travelling in a Mazda Bongo vehicle, AET 9775 offered transport to seven complainants in Kuwadzana who were going Granary, Riddleridge Park and Whitecliff.
“Along the way the suspects demanded cash and valuables from the complainants while refusing to drop off the complainants at their respective destinations.
“One of the complainants surrendered a cellphone while the other complainant grabbed the handbrake and the vehicle stopped leading to the arrest of the suspects.
“Police continues to warn people engaging in criminal activities that the law will always catch up with them.
“We are urging people to shun all illegal transport vehicles and rely with transport registered under ZUPCO to avoid loss of lives and robberies associated with these mushikashika,” said Ass Comm Nyathi.
Meanwhile, police have announced names of the three victims of a fatal road traffic accident which occurred at the 8km peg along Roy Buffalo Range on Saturday in which four people died while ten others were injured.
The victims were positively identified as Wilbert Mutusva, 43, of Tsvovani in Chiredzi, Ester Chiromo, 59, of Village 1 in Chiredzi and Revai Machengete, 39, of Gumbo village in Zaka.
Ass Comm Nyathi said police are appealing to the public with missing relatives to visit Masvingo General Hospital mortuary to assist in the identification of one of the male victims.-H-Metro
“Invite G40 Into Power Sharing Convergence”: UK Based Lawyer Lloyd Msipa Tells Chamisa
By A Correspondent | The MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa must invite ZANU PF hardliners into a power sharing convergence, otherwise his movement will fall flat, UK based lawyer, Lloyd Msipa has said.
Msipa, who is a founding member of former minister Nkosana Moyo’s APPA party, said Chamisa must create a model that has a power sharing with former ZANU PF cadres.
As Zimbabwe readies for the 2023 polls, Msipa’s comments come after other G40 members called for the same.
Said Msipa, ” in the absence of a big tent approach that incorporates key former ZANU PF cadres ahead of 2023, the Citizen Convergence model will fall flat on its face.
“Penetrating rural electorate requires unity of purpose across political divide.
“It shouldn’t be so, but that is our reality!”
Police Invades MDC Alliance Masvingo Provincial Chairperson’s Residence Ahead Of Chamisa Visit
By A Correspondent| MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa’s tour of Masvingo province has never been short of drama with the state and Zanu PF engaging in desperate counter strategies including barricading roads and throwing teargas on his entourage.
Today, Chamisa is in Zaka and Deputy Spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba has reported that heavily armed police officers have already invaded Masvingo Provincial Chairman Senator Misheck Marava’s residence ahead of the youthful politician leader’s visit.
“Zaka District officer in charge Mavhenyengwa and a team of police officers currently at our Provincial Chairman Senator Misheck Marava’s residence. They’re currently interrogating him and are threatening to search his house without a written permission to do so,” said Siziba.
In Masvingo, Chamisa’s vehicle was damaged by Zanu PF thugs who were trying to block him from visiting Charumbira area.
Chamisa has already warned citizens that 2023 elections will likely be bloody due to violence already rearing its ugly head early into the season.
Sick Marry Chiwenga To Be Dragged For Trial
A Harare court is on Friday expected to rule on whether Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga’s estranged wife, Marry Mubaiwa is fit to stand trial on allegations of fraudulently acquiring an ungraded marriage certificate when her husband was bedridden.
The State and a doctor assigned to examine her gave the greenlight for the trial to start.
The couple had been married for eight years under Zimbabwe’s customary law.
Supreme Court judge Justice George Chiweshe, who is a retired soldier, and former chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi who is now a High Court judge, are witnesses in the matter.
The doctor, Simukai Machawira told the court that he was a vascular specialist and was asked by his clinical director to write a medical report for Mubaiwa. He said he only did a physical examination of Mubaiwa and concluded that she was fit to stand trial.
Mubaiwa’s lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa asked Machawira if he contacted Mubaiwa’s doctor who is treating her to be apprised of her condition. Machawira said he did not consult her doctor, but was only working on her physical fitness.
Mtetwa then asked Machawira if his observations were a true reflection of Mubaiwa’s condition when he did not check with her doctor or check on her clinical records to which he responded that he was not an expert in checking her mental strength for the trial.
Machawira said he only relied on the information provided by Mubaiwa.
Mtetwa said all the medication Mubaiwa was taking was for pain and relief of trauma.
Machawira admitted in court that the fact that Mubaiwa was taking six different drugs could affect her mental state, but said when he assessed her, she seemed ready to stand trial despite being under medication.
The State, represented by Michael Reza, Tafara Chirambira and Tendai Shonhai, said Mubaiwa did not mention her mental problem when she was being examined.
Mtetwa then interjected saying she did not say Mubaiwa is mentally ill and was a candidate of Ingutsheni Psychiatric Hospital, but her mental strength to concentrate in court after taking medication.
Reza then apologised.
But Mtetwa asked the court to allow Mubaiwa to be examined for mental preparedness for trial. But Reza opposed, saying it was a classic act of afterthought.
Mtetwa said the trial could not resume when Mubaiwa was visibly sick.
Magistrate Lazini Ncube, however, postponed the matter to Friday for ruling. Mtetwa has been accusing Chiwenga of intimidating doctors who prepared Mubaiwa’s medical report.
-Newsday
Brace For More Violence As 2023 Draws Closer
Opposition MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa yesterday urged Zimbabweans to brace for violence that he boldly claims will be propelled by the regime ahead of the 2023 elections.
Addressing journalists at a press discussion organised by TellZim News, Chamisa accused the ruling party of exhibiting violent behaviour ahead of every poll.
He said Zanu PF was tarnishing the name of the country and predicted that the shenanigans that were allegedly exhibited recently were going to persist ahead of the 2023 polls.
“What they did yesterday was primitive things. This is a modern day and what they did tarnishes the name of the country. For us it is almost like an assassination attempt because there could have been loss of lives.
“This shows you that even in the run up to the election, the leopard has not changed its spots. Zanu PF likes to do what they do best, their DNA which is violence especially when they know that they are not winning the election. It does not matter what they do, the writing is on the wall. The people are going to win and they have won,” said Chamisa.
The opposition leader also said all the violence which is being done by alleged Zanu PF youths will not deter their efforts and will not disturb their focus.
“You saw what happened yesterday in terms of the violence, which is an indication that our colleagues in Zanu PF are panicking and desperate. They cannot manage or hold us; this is why they are doing what they are doing. We are not shaken, we are not in any way disturbed but we are determined to go forward and do what has to be done,” said Chamisa.
Contacted for comment, Zanu PF Masvingo Youth League chairperson Godfrey Mukungunugwa scoffed at the accusation saying Chamisa is always in the habit of pointing fingers to his rivals and crying foul.
“That is what he has been doing since 2018 when he lost the election and claimed to have been rigged. Now they are busy circulating a file picture of me handing over food to the elderly and claim that I was bribing youths to attack him. That is what he knows best and we are not moved,” said Mukungunugwa.
This comes in the background of alleged sponsored violence by Zanu PF in Charumbira area where Chamisa’s convoy was attacked and vehicles were damaged by rowdy youths.
Chamisa is on a tour to meet grassroots and community leaders across Masvingo province where he says he will be hearing the citizens’ views and bring communities together.
-Masvingo Mirror
Bhebhe Loses Brother In Accident
By Jane Mlambo| Opposition politician Abednico Bhebhe’s brother Shadreck Bhebhe has reportedly succumbed to injuries he suffered after he was involved in an accident yesterday.
The former MDC-T Organising Secretary was involved in an accident at a steep sharp curve about 20 kilometres from Bulawayo along the Beitbridge road.
Posting on Facebook, former MDC Green member Discent Bajila said Shadreck failed to make it from the accident.
“Unfortunately, Shadreck Bhebhe, the brother to Abednico Bhebhe did not make it from the accident they were involved in. I have known the two for many years but I never knew they were brothers until today,” said Bajila.
He was with his brother Shadreck and another relative.
According to Bhebhe, the car rolled several times before it landed on a ditch.
“The car fell off the cliff after a vehicle encroached into my lane while I was trying to avoid a head on collision. I am still trying to struggle how we survived the accident,” said Bhebhe.
Mat South Parents Protest Deployment Of Shona Speaking Teachers
By A Correspondent- Parents of pupils at Mbembesi Primary School in Insiza, Matabeleland South province, on Saturday demonstrated against the deployment of teachers who do not speak local languages.
The area is dominated by Ndebele, Xhosa, Kalanga, Tonga and Venda speakers.
Villagers, who spoke to NewsDay yesterday, said they had been complaining about the deployment of teachers who were non-conversant with local languages, particularly Ndebele.
Parents said no action had been taken although their children barely understood what they were being taught by teachers who were not competent in local languages.
“Our kids complain that they do not understand anything that is being taught as language has become a barrier,” a villager, Silomuzi Nyoni, said.
“The majority of teachers who work in Mbembesi don’t understand and speak Ndebele. This has created misunderstanding between teachers and parents. Some students do not understand Ndebele or English because they speak languages such as Xhosa, Kalanga, Tonga and Venda,” he added.
Another villager said parents gathered in Sonji village in Insiza district where they sang in protest, telling teachers that they were not happy about their work.
“They also said language barriers were contributing to the decline in Grade 7 and Ordinary Level pass rates in Matabeleland,” a villager said.
Primary and Secondary Education ministry spokesperson Taungana Ndoro said his ministry was yet to receive a report on the demonstrations.
“As for the demonstrations, we haven’t received a report yet, but what we normally recommend is that students at junior level should not have any problems with whether the teacher speaks local languages or not.
“We only make sure that students from Early Childhood Development up to Grade 3 are the ones who should have a teacher who is from the local area and is able to speak their language. Any student from Grade 3 up to secondary level has to adjust to the situation,” Ndoro said.
In 2020, Matabeleland pressure groups complained that the region continued to experience 0% pass rates at schools, and called for government intervention to ensure that all schools across the country’s 10 provinces are equally and adequately resourced.
WATCH- Killer Kwekwe Businessman Narrates How He Killed 6 People
By A Correspondent- Prominent Kwekwe businessman Thubelihle Kheshow who stabbed 6 people to death during a murderous rage has spoken out following his arrest.
Kheshow, who is the owner of Kheshow Investments in Redcliff, Kwekwe, blamed evil spirits after he killed 6 people and left 4 other people in hospital fighting for their lives.
According to the 26-year-old businessman, he was possessed by some evil spirits when he went on the murderous rampage.
watch the video below….
Chipinge Women’s Letter To Lands And Agriculture Secretary Dr John Bhasera
Introduction
The community declaration was conceived when, we the Rural Women of Chipinge in Zimbabwe with support from Platform for Youth and Community Development (PYCD) and Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies ([PLAAS) met in Checheche on 05 October 2021. This declaration makes demands to the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement to promote women’s access to use, control, own, inherit and transfer their land and natural resources.
Background
‘We, the rural women of Chipinge, present these demands on land rights developed through a consultative process involving representatives of communities and supported by PYCD and PLAAS. All demands presented below were endorsed by participants.’
We demand:
- An immediate stop on forced removals of locals living on customary land especially women and children by the Chipinge Rural District Council.
- An immediate stop on forced removals of locals living on customary land especially women and children for sugar plantations by Green Fuel.
- That discovery of gold and diamond minerals must not lead to arbitrary eviction of land rights holders by ALROSA mining companies.
- That land allocation must prioritise locals especially women rather than foreigners from overseas.
- That men and women must enjoy the same land rights.
- That women must have a clear right to say yes or no to developments on their land.
- An immediate stop in the use of force and violence by investors which includes slashing down crops, confiscating livestock and beating up residents.
- An end to corruption bribe and undue influence during investor consultation of local leaders like traditional leaders.
- A review of investment policies that promote ‘land grabbing’ at the expense of the needs of local farmers.
- Reduction of high rising land prices.
- Fair compensation that includes alternative productive land and adequate time for relocation in the case of us saying yes to the state/investors taking land for other uses.
- That compensation must include women and children and not prioritise just men.
- Fulfilment of promises by the investors like employment of locals.
- Adequate information on all investments earmarked for our Chipinge district.
- 50-50 participation of women in traditional leaders’ committees that govern our land.
- Inclusion of women as traditional leaders.
- That investors must respect traditional leaders who preside over customary land.
- Laws that promote joint and equal ownership of land between husband and wife or wives.
- Clarity on the land rights that are associated with the joint ownership for all family members including the girl child and single ladies with or without children.
- Secure land rights for all women including single ladies with or without children that are not undermined by other laws such as marital, family, succession and inheritance laws.
- Support for existing social practises that strengthen poor women’s easy and cheap access to customary land.
- Banning of social practices that are biased against equal rights for women to inherit, access, own, use and transfer land.
- Legal recognition of individuals especially women, families and local communities who have been using the land for at least five years.
- Residential and cropping fields to be held by the family, where beneficiaries are clearly identified , gender inclusive and the list updated all the time.
- Accountable governance structures of customary lands that consult citizens especially women.
- Social service delivery like maternal clinics, water, dip tanks for all including women, youth and people living with disabilities.
- State grants and accessible loans that can empower women who are financially poor to participate in self-help agricultural developmental projects.
- Restoration of degraded land and soil, including land affected by drought spells and floods caused by recurrent cyclones like Idai.
- Communal land rights must belong to the citizens and not to the President or Minister.
Tanzania Cartoonist Arrested For Insulting President
| Tanzania cartoonist arrested for insulting president Tanzanian authorities have arrested a cartoonist over a cartoon that insinuated that President Samia Suluhu Hassan was being handheld by Jakaya Kikwete, a former president of that country. Optatus Fwema was arrested on 24 September 2021 and is still in detention, a worrying sign that media freedoms remain restricted under President Hassan as they were under her predecessor, the late John Magufuli. The cartoon, which was published on social media, shows President Hassan as a girl playing with a basin of water. Behind her, Kikwete, who is regarded as her mentor, is seen reassuring the population. The cartoon illustrated Kikwete’s current influential role in Tanzanian politics, Reporters without Borders (RSF) reported. As of October 11, Fwema, who is held at Oysterbay police station in Dar es Salaam, had not been charged for more than two weeks, although he is now expected to be brought before the courts. Under Tanzanian laws, anyone who is arrested is supposed to be brought to court within 48 hours. MISA Tanzania raised the alarm that Fwema had been detained for long without appearing in court saying the cartoonist’s rights had been infringed. “By being held under police custody for more than 48 hours, his human rights have been violated,” MISA Tanzania said. “The whole situation since the arrest at his home and detention by the police raises concern in the way it was handled. We are worried if he will get a free trial.” |
BREAKING: TB JOSHUA BEDROOM ABUSE OF KIDS, WOMEN- Supreme Court Rules Magaya Investigation Must Go Ahead.
By Court Reporter | In a historic case, the Supreme Court Of Zimbabwe has ruled over the abuse of women involving the late Nigerian preacher, TB Joshua, that the investigation on his mentee, Walter Magaya must go ahead.
TB Joshua was in 2016 recorded while trying to subvert the court of justice on one of the Magaya victims in the verified-case of Zimbabwean woman, Angela Charakupa, and in Nigeria he himself had up to the time of his death, piles of children and older women who are complainants against him.
A long list of other women are complainants in cases reported on ZimEye since the unexplained sudden death of one of Magaya’s girlfriends in 2014, Chipo Chakanyuka. Following the latest three cases, Walter Magaya had taken the Gender Commission Of Zimbabwe to the Supreme Court.
On the 23rd August 2019, the Commission issued General Notice 1444 of 2019 on Walter Magaya which it published in the Government Gazette. The General Notice authorized the respondent to conduct an investigation into complaints of sexual abuse generally made against the appellant.
In response, on 3 September 2019, Magaya filed an application with the High Court for a review of the decision by the respondent to launch the investigation pursuant to the General Notice. He followed this up with an urgent chamber application in which he sought by way of interim relief an interdict against the conduct of the investigation by the respondent.
On 22 October 2019, the High Court dismissed the urgent chamber application with costs.
Magaya then appealed to the Supreme Court against that judgment.
He contended that he had good prospects of succeeding on the review and that his rights from the review process would be rendered nugatory if the investigations were not halted pending the review. His stance was that neither the Constitution nor the Act afforded the Commission the authority to conduct the contemplated investigation. To that extent, any investigation by the Commission constituted an illegality. He contended further that what the Commission intended from the published notice was outside its statutory mandate and as a result, Magaya was entitled to the protection of the law which he was seeking from the court.
But ruling against him, Supreme Court justices, Gowora, Patel and Uchena stated as follows:
I have read the lead judgment of my learned sister Gowora JA and consider it necessary to briefly analyse and address the nature of the relief sought by the appellant in the proceedings a quo.
As regards this aspect, Gowora JA quite correctly observes that in the review application the principal relief sought is that the decision of the Commission in issuing the General Notice be set aside. Again, the provisional order sought in the urgent chamber application simply prays for the intended investigation of the appellant by the Commission in terms of the General Notice to be stayed. It is only in the final order sought that the appellant prays that the General Notice be declared null and void and of no force or effect. Consequently, my learned sister concludes that the appellant cannot seek to police lawful conduct through an interdict, given that the validity of the General Notice, which is presumed to be valid until it is set aside, has yet to be determined. In keeping with the case authorities cited and relied upon by Gowora JA, I fully agree that an interdict cannot ordinarily be granted against conduct that is prima facie lawful.
Regrettably for the appellant, he has tactically miscalculated the nature of the relief that he sought in the urgent chamber application before the court a quo. He has also failed to correlate and align the draft order in the chamber application with the relief sought in the application for review pending before the High Court.
In the final analysis, the applicant has failed to take into account the formidable hurdle presented by the rule that an interdict cannot in principle be granted against conduct that is prima facie lawful and carried out in terms of an extant statutory instrument that is presumed to be valid until it is duly set aside by a competent court that is properly seized with the question of its validity. In any case, as a matter of procedural correctness, the validity of the impugned General Notice could not properly have been an issue before the court a quo until the return day had arrived. By the same token, it cannot be properly ventilated before and determined by this Court on appeal against the judgment a quo. For these essentially technical reasons, I would agree with Gowora JA that the present appeal should not be allowed.
Crisis Coalition Concerned Over Unholy Alliance Between Zanu PF, Police
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition notes with concern and unreservedly condemns the political violence which took place in Masvingo Province on October 11, 2021.
About 200 Zanu PF placard-waving supporters from Masvingo violently confronted opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa on his way to a meeting. His aides were injured and treated at a local hospital.
Later on, Chamisa and his team were teargased by riot police while they were holding a private meeting in Masvingo town.
These sad events symbolize high levels of intolerance on the part of the ruling party, Zanu PF which has a history of using violence to crush dissenting voices.
In May 2021, the ruling party ignored our calls to reprimand its supporters who had vowed to unleash violence against Chamisa (during the unveiling of the Mbuya Nehanda statue in Harare)
We note with concern the fact that Zanu PF continues to use violence and coercion as means to cling to power. Events currently unfolding expose the determination by Zanu PF to decimate the opposition through unorthodox means while creating an uneven playing ground ahead of the 2023 elections.
The Coalition is deeply concerned over the partisan nature of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), which, according to witnesses and video evidence, stood by and watched as Zanu PF supporters blocked Chamisa’s motorcade. The teargasing and disruption of a private meeting by the police speaks volumes on the partisan conduct of the police force.
The third issue is the abuse of state media. Attempts to downplay gross injustice and state-terror on civilians and other parties through the state media are a cause for concern. We insist that the media, as the Fourth Estate, ought to be non-partisan, fair and balanced.
Yesterdays’ events also go against President Mnangagwa’s claim of ‘a new dispensation’.
If anything, the current administration has a tainted human rights record which has been characterized by closure of the democratic space, arbitrary arrests through weaponization of the law, abductions, torture and murder and introduction of draconian laws that seek to entrench authoritarian rule among many other atrocities since 1980.
Following the November 2017 military coup that led to the ascendancy of President Mnangagwa to power, the country was plunged into a constitutional crisis and what followed was militarization of key state institutions.
We do hereby raise the flag, once again to the SADC and the AU, that present day Zimbabwe is in serious risk of conflict. This brutal closure of political space raises fears of violence and clampdown on the civic and opposition actors of the 2023 polls.
The most worrying indicator is that President Mnangagwa internationally plays the “growth, and reform” narrative whilst domestically pursuing a one-party state agenda. Various recommendations on upholding peace and democracy from the SADC, including former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe have been ignored.
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition reiterates its call for genuine dialogue facilitated by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) as a means to unlock the country’s multi faceted crisis.
Strive Masiyiwa Explains How He Started Helping Kids
By Business Reporter | Below is a transcript of Econet Wireless boss Strive Masiyiwa as he spoke on how he began the charity work of sending orphans to school.
To never apply for a job, but to do things quite differently when you did start to work and then dedicate so much of your time to helping others in a variety of ways that we’ve heard about today how did that thought process work?
Well, I was 26 and 58 now, so it’s kind of … I worked for a government telephone company and I just realised this didn’t work for me, it’s terrible inefficiency so I had an option so I leave the country and go abroad; or do I stay in try and do something in my country has just; I come from Zimbabwe and my country had just got its independence of a lot of excitement around and I thought well I why not be an entrepreneur so I went and started a small business. I really didn’t know much of what I was doing but I survived. And then a couple of years later probably about 4, 5 years, I ran a company with about 700 people, and I realised that something was going on cause a lot of young people that worked for me were dying of something that was then quite mysterious which was HIV AIDS. And it broke out into a major pandemic where we were burying sometimes 10-15 employees a week and … but the big challenge that my wife and I realised at the time was a lot of these young construction workers and engineers were leaving young families sometimes 5-years old some just starting school, so we came up with this idea that …. why don’t we just keep them in school? So we started going to the schools and they will pay for the school fees; we’ll pay for renting; so my wife took it on as a full-time job… she quit her job; and that kind of mushroomed and then you know, overtime and we came to a hundred of these kids that we’re looking after now, and I think we should start from stop doing it from your salary, the next thing then we got a thousand now, so we just kept supporting the kids and one time at the worst the height of the …support program we were supporting about 40,000 kids a year keeping them in school. We just sort of grew on from there, and as they get older… been some 20 odd years now 25 I think, as they got older they had other demands because we were like their parents; we kept them in school they come and they say no, I’ve got great grades and I think I should go to university.
We said sure, you know, so as we as a company got better, we never went looking for money outside our group, and as we gone better at it, we developed more programs, and became more engaged with education and we started sending some really smart kids around the world to top universities. So this year we have 350 in the United States, and, so wherever we are operate, we engage in education and that sort of became something that became a mission for us.
Chamisa Must Invite ZANU PF Hardliners into Power Sharing Convergence Otherwise Model Will Fall Flat- Msipa
By A Correspondent | The MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa must invite ZANU PF hardliners into a power sharing convergence, otherwise his movement will fall flat, UK based lawyer, Lloyd Msipa has said.
Msipa, who is a founding member of former minister Nkosana Moyo’s APPA party, said Chamisa must create a model that has a power sharing with former ZANU PF cadres.
As Zimbabwe readies for the 2023 polls, Msipa’s comments come after other G40 members called for the same. Said Msipa, ” in the absence of a big tent approach that incorporates key former ZANU PF cadres ahead of 2023, the Citizen Convergence model will fall flat on its face.
“Penetrating rural electorate requires unity of purpose across political divide.
“It shouldn’t be so, but that is our reality!”
Veld Fire Burns Woman To Death
A 59-YEAR-OLD Chiweshe based female farmer died yesterday after she was overwhelmed by a veld fire she had started in land clearing.
The woman who was identified by the police as Borna died on the spot after she was burnt and reduced to ashes.
Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundembe confirmed the case.
“I can confirm a sudden death case in Mubaira village, Chiweshe where Borna was burnt beyond recognition after the fire she started to clear her land overwhelmed her remains were discovered by her daughter-in-law hours later who filed a police report,” Mundembe said.
Police warned members of the public to avoid veld fires and urged farmers to make compost in a bid to get rid of crop residues.- Bulawayo24
Inferno Burns Farmer To Death
A 59-YEAR-OLD Chiweshe based female farmer died yesterday after she was overwhelmed by a veld fire she had started in land clearing.
The woman who was identified by the police as Borna died on the spot after she was burnt and reduced to ashes.
Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundembe confirmed the case.
“I can confirm a sudden death case in Mubaira village, Chiweshe where Borna was burnt beyond recognition after the fire she started to clear her land overwhelmed her remains were discovered by her daughter-in-law hours later who filed a police report,” Mundembe said.
Police warned members of the public to avoid veld fires and urged farmers to make compost in a bid to get rid of crop residues.- Bulawayo24
British Official Condemns Attack On President Chamisa Convoy
By A Correspondent- Co-Chairperson of the British All-Party Parliamentary Group for Zimbabwe Lord Oates has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to condemn the violence against political opponent MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa adding that political violence in all forms should not be tolerated.
His comment comes after Zanu Pf stalwarts are celebrating violence against president Chamisa’s convoy in Masvingo yesterday.
He said:
Deeply worrying to hear of the attack on opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa’s convoy. Important that @ZANUPF_Official & @edmnangagwa condemn such violence unreservedly & that @PoliceZimbabwe bring perpetrators to book. Political violence wherever it comes from should be condemned
Opposition MDC Alliance has said Masvingo has become a warzone after the aides of Nelson Chamisa, the party’s leader were viciously attacked by an alleged ZANU PF mob on Monday.
The party’s national spokesperson, advocate Fadzayi Mahere said the assailants were mobilised by ZANU PF provincial chair for Masvingo, Ezra Chadzamira in a bid to block Chamisa who has commenced his provincial tour. Said Mahere in a statement following attacks on party stalwarts in Masvingo, (Monday):
MASVINGO PROVINCE DESCENDS INTO WARZONE AS PRESIDENT CHAMISA COMMENCES PROVINCIAL TOUR
President Chamisa is currently embarking on a community citizens’ conversation interface in various provinces in line with our Agenda 2021. The tour commenced On Monday with engagements and interface meetings in Masvingo Province.
Following President Chamisa’s arrival in the province, the area has turned into a warzone. Yesterday, hundreds of ZANU PF thugs stoned cars, barricaded roads with burning logs & assaulted 5 members of our team who were badly injured, hospitalized and later discharged.
When approached by our members, drunken youths said that they had been sent by “Chadzamira”. Ezra Chadzamira of ZANU PF is currently the Provincial Minister of Masvingo. They held printed placards with ZANU PF slogans, hate speech against President Chamisa as well as “anti-sanctions” messages. Cars were seen ferrying the rented crowd and coordinating the attacks as violent thugs held up printed posters. The police watched and took no action even though they had earlier disrupted and shut down a private meeting of less than 20 people at the home of one of our provincial members. We condemn this selective application of the law.
This morning, Masvingo turned into a warzone with excessive, military-controlled roadblocks including in Chivi, Mwenezi and Urazvi manned by riot police and soldiers sprouting up on village access roads. Our members were subjected to illegal searches as riot police officers indicated that they were searching for “weapons”. Two trucks of riot police descended on Urazvi as President Chamisa arrived in the area.
The entrance to the homestead of one of our provincial members was blockaded by riot police. No explanation was given for the illegal and unusual police-controlled roadblock at the doorstep of a citizen. There have been threats of violence and killings against villagers throughout the province who have been warned not to attend meetings convened by the MDC Alliance. State agents are conducting unlawful surveillance and tracking of our members.
This political violence is unconstitutional (it violates our political rights enshrined in section 67) and cause for extreme concern. It is a clear act of desperation by a bankrupt, illegitimate regime that has failed to govern and now resorts to force and coercion against citizens.
We condemn the continued shrinking of the democratic space and the treatment of the MDC Alliance as a banned organization by the State.
What is beyond doubt is that ZANU PF is terrified of the unstoppable groundswell of citizen support for President Chamisa & the broad alliance forming in every village and every town to win Zimbabwe for change.
Despite the harassment and intimidation, President Chamisa and the MDC Alliance are continuing with the tour which will see the President engage citizens, civic leaders & special interest groups as we strengthen the broad alliance to win Zimbabwe for change. What is central for us is to champion the cause of the Zimbabwean people who face grave economic difficulties, depleted wages, a rising cost of living, a broken education system, dilapidated infrastructure, extreme poverty and a public health system that is on its knees.
Fadzayi Mahere National Spokesperson
Change That Delivers
Zanu PF Celebrates Violence Against President Chamisa
By A Correspondent- Zanu Pf has given thumbs up to the violence against opposition MDC Alliance by its own party stalwarts in Masvingo adding that the people who stoned President Nelson Chamisa’s convoy and injured several MDC Alliance stalwarts did so within the confines of the law.
Said Zanu Pf in a tweet:
Well done Masvingo villagers
The villagers who demonstrated against @nelsonchamisa in Masvingo did so within the confines of law. Chamisa represents a violent organization which called for sanctions. Villagers were not violent. Chamisa is not immune from demos.
Chinamasa Claims:” Villagers Did Not Want To Be Addressed By Chamisa”
ZANU PF has accused opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa of provoking its supporters to attack him and his team by “trying to impose his views and trying to address disinterested Zanu PF supporters” in Masvingo on Monday.
Chamisa and his team were attacked again yesterday by ruling party supporters, who barricaded roads to deny his convoy access to a local village.
It is alleged that the ruling party supporters, who were chanting slogans, were accompanied by the police.
Addressing a Press conference in Harare, Zanu PF acting commissar Patrick Chinamasa said Chamisa, who is currently undertaking community interface meetings around the country as he mobilises support ahead of the 2023 elections, was entirely to blame.
“What I heard happened in Masvingo was that the opposition leader wanted to force himself on an audience which did not want to listen to him,” Chinamasa said.
“He had no right to force people to listen to him. He had a right to address people but only those who were willing to be addressed by him.”
A group of about 200 Zanu PF supporters brandishing placards denouncing Chamisa for the sanctions imposed by the West on the country pounced on the opposition leaders, damaging cars and injuring five opposition supporters.
Zanu PF initially claimed the protest was stage-managed.
But Chinamasa yesterday said the villagers were angered because a “madman” wanted to address them.
“In this case, my information is that the villagers did not want to be addressed by him for obvious reasons. If you listen to a madman, you become part of his cast, you will be portrayed as part of his cast, he will then go ahead and say, I have lots of support, which he does not have.
“So our Zanu PF people have a right to say, we don’t want you to address us, we don’t want to, it’s my right, but if you force me to listen to you, I have reason to be angry.”
Chinamasa did not, however, explain why the police teargassed Chamisa at a private residence, how the villagers acquired the neatly printed placards or what they were doing, uninvited, at MDC Alliance gatherings.
He also claimed that Chamisa and his entourage fired guns into the air to try and scare away Zanu PF supporters.
“I hear the opposition leader and his bodyguards fired shots in the air,” Chinamasa said.
“You know the last time we heard shots in the air was during the liberation struggle, now if there is anything that can agitate people and make them angry, is trying to demonstrate your power through firing a gun.
“You must expect the consequences; you are basically asking people to defend themselves.”
Chinamasa also claimed some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) were receiving funding from the West to topple the government and the party will soon be issuing a directive to party supporters to shun them.
“So, we will be writing a directive mentioning the NGOs that are proxies of countries wanting to topple the Zanu PF government,” Chinamasa said.
“We will tell our supporters, don’t have anything to do with those people, don’t associate with those people, they are no good, they are going to bring misery to you.”
Before Chinamasa’s Press conference, Zanu PF supporters vented their anger through social media.
“The villagers who demonstrated against @nelsonchamisa in Masvingo did so within the confines of the law. Chamisa represents a violent organisation which called for sanctions. Villagers were not violent. Chamisa is not immune from demos,” wrote Zanu PF Patriots on Twitter.
Information Ministry secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana and Zanu PF director of information Tafadzwa Mugwadi thanked the people of Masvingo for attacking and blocking Chamisa’s convoy.
They accused the MDC Alliance of stage-managing the attacks in order to draw the attention of the United Nations Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan who is scheduled to visit Zimbabwe to assess the impact of sanctions on the country from October 18 to 28.
“We are in the event of #COP26 and the special rapporteurs’ engagement is about to happen. Do you know what else has started? The Dramas,” Mangwana tweeted. “We are tired of the @mdczimbabwe provocations aimed at setting the agenda and stage for the coming UN Rapporteur on sanctions…,” Mugwadi also tweeted.
Yesterday, the MDC Alliance tweeted: “Excessive roadblocks have been mounted in Masvingo following the arrival of president Chamisa. Police Zimbabwe are conducting illegal stop and search operations. They say they are looking for weapons.”
In a statement, MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere said the arrival of Chamisa in Masvingo province saw ruling party supporters turn the area into a warzone.
“This political violence is unconstitutional; it violates our political rights enshrined in section 67 of the Constitution, and causes extreme concern,” Mahere said. -Newsday
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Mnangagwa Appointed Lupane State University Students Executive Council President
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS
Students Executive Council Elections
Nominations for the Post of SEC President closed on Friday, 8 October 2021. Only one prospective candidate, Kudakwashe Mnangagwa L0180173E, a Part 4.1 student doing a Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management was nominated by at least ten registered conventional students, as required by the SEC constitution.
Kudakwashe Mnangagwa is therefore duly nominated. As he is the only candidate, he is declared the SEC President unopposed for the 2021-2022 academic year.
Dr H Ncube DEAN OF STUDENTS
President Chamisa Confronts Mnangagwa Over Violence
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has challenged Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa to denounce barbarism in his party…
President Chamisa’s convoy was attacked by Zanu PF hooligans in Charumbira area, Masvingo on Monday.
The MDC Alliance leader also challenged State security agents to desist from suppressing the alternative voice.
“BARBARIC & DESPERATE..Mr ED STOP this violence.
STOP this abuse of the police &the state to persecute & disrupt the opposition.
STOP dividing people and destroying this beautiful country.
STOP buying and paying some who pretend to be opposition.We & the CHANGE WAVE are unstoppable,” President Chamisa posted on Twitter.
Mnangagwa Barbarism Shocking
Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance Youth Assembly spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma has described the magnitude of barbarism in Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration as shocking.
Chuma also condemned what he called Mr Mnangagwa’s hyena tactics…
This bushy and barbaric politics of violence evidenced by today’s senseless attack on President @nelsonchamisa’s convoy can never be tolerated.
We can never allow this lawlessness and hyena tactics by @edmnangagwa. We will resist such misbehavior with equal equal force! (https://twitter.com/chumasteve/status/1447553741805309953?s=20)
MDC Alliance South Africa Youth Assembly Denounces Attack On President Chamisa Convoy
SAYA statement on the attack of President Chamisa’s convoy.
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly in South Africa (SAYA) castigates in the strongest terms the violent attack on our party leader — President Advocate Nelson Chamisa — by a motley crowd of rented ZANU PF thugs in Charumbira today.
We condemn the brazenness of the violence meted out to President Chamisa’s convoy, the same man whom they have routinely dismissed as a mere nobody. That violence is rearing its ugly head a few months before another election is itself a harbinger of what is to come.
The attack on our president comes fresh on the heels of yet another the disruption of a party meeting in Masvingo by the police under the guise of enforcing lockdown regulations or on account of some such silly reasons we have become accustomed to.
What is worse a senior civil servant and permanent secretary in the Ministry of Information Ndabaningi “Nick” Mangwana — in violation of the constitutional precepts of non partisanship required from a person in his position,— is dismissing the attack as a non-event without investigation whatsoever or a police report despite the presence probative video evidence.
It is no secret that ever since the rejection of their lackeys in the opposition and the inception of #NgapindeHakeMukomana refrain and its viral adoption by the long suffering Zimbabweans , the ruining party mandarins are running scared as 2023 fast approaches.
We are well aware that violence is part of ZANU PF ‘s DNA and the hoary party’s futile attempts over the years — since 1980 — to foist “violence” on our national political fabric as Zimbabwe’s 17th official language.
Mugabe once boasted of having ( academic) degrees in violence, his successor is no different, as soon as he started warming the presidential seat the language and symbolism of violence crept in his soporific speeches from the laughable varakashei to shamhu ine munyu or the breathtakingly daft kombai tirove .
Knowing that the party or its functionaries are hard of hearing we still urge them to stop their antediluvian leadership style which have no place in modern day statecraft or the abuse of the police to further their parochial political ends.
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Mum Loses Church To Son
The High Court has struck off the roll application by the widow of Christ Ministries Church founder Cuthbert Makoni seeking control of one of the first indigenous churches post-independence.
Reverend Leddie Makoni is entangled in an acrimonious wrangle with her son, Colin Zonda Makoni ,over control of the church she co-founded with he late husband.
She sued her son and the Registrar General of Marriages seeking an order declaring her appointment as the president of the CMC lawful and constitutional. But Justice Jacob Manzunzu struck the matter off the roll of urgent matters, finding that Leddie had no authority to bring such an application on behalf of the church, without consulting the executive committee and her position as the head of the church was under challenge in court.
“The second applicant (Leddie) failed to prove that she has been authorised by the first applicant (CMC) to institute these proceedings. Her position as president of the first applicant is under challenge and she cannot act as such until a determination is made by the court,” he said.
It was the court’s finding that the church’s constitution was clear, that apart from giving the president the right to make unilateral decisions in some instances, it did not expressly empower the president to unilaterally institute proceedings on behalf of the church without consulting the executive.
In her application, Leddie wanted the court to grant her declaratory order and interdict that endorsed her as the church’s president. It was her contention that she had been appointed in terms of the church’s amended 1992 constitution through her husband’s last will and testament hence claimed to be the authentic leader. Arguing the matter for Collin, Professor Lovemore Madhuku said Leddie had no authority over the control of the church given the fact that the dispute should be resolved in line with the church’s 1984 constitution.
He raised preliminary points which the court upheld to defeat the relief sought, without hearing the arguments on the merit.
Bishop Makoni died in December 2017 and his surviving spouse Leddie took over control of the church which also runs lucrative businesses including private schools, social welfare and medical services. -Herald
ZESA To Import Power From Zambia, Mozambique
Zimbabwe is negotiating for new power supply deals with Zambia and Mozambique, which could see the country importing additional 280 megawatts from the two countries, Energy and Power Development Minister Zhemu Soda has said.
Zimbabwe has in the past few months seen a drop in electricity output largely due to frequent breakdowns at Hwange Power Station, resulting in daily power cuts.
The southern African country is currently importing 50 MW from Mozambique and also has a firm supply agreement of 100 MW with Eskom of South Africa.
However, due to generation challenges at Eskom, the supplies have been intermittent.
“Zambia has indicated that they have a surplus of 100 MW from the Kafue Gorge, which they can sell to us and a delegation from ZESA went to Zambia on Monday for the negotiations,” said Minister Soda in an interview yesterday.
“Mozambique also told us that they have additional 180 MW over and above what we are currently importing and these new two deals will give us additional 280 MW. That should help us to reduce the deficit of between 200 and 300 MW.”
Zimbabwe is looking to achieve electricity self-sufficiency mid next year when unit seven of Hwange thermal power plant is expected to come on stream, the Minister said.
Zimbabwe is adding two units at the Hwange plant with capacity of 300 MW each with first unit expected to be commissioned in July and the second in September 2022.
Last week, Solgas, a private investor, started feeding 5MW from its solar plant in the Matabeleland North Province onto the national grid. ZZEE, a Chinese investor is also expected to start feeding 25 MW from its thermal power station in Hwange in the next few weeks while the Harava Solar Park in Seke is expected to be switched on before end of this year, with initial production capacity of 6MW.
“The coming on stream of the new small power projects will help us to stabilize internal power supplies in the near future but our major breakthrough would be in July next year when we commission the first unit at Hwange,” said Minister Soda.
Zimbabwe is targeting to add more than 2 000MW to the national grid mostly from renewable and cleaner sources including solar, wind and other sources by 2030.
The country is also offering significant incentives in a bid to woo investors and these include five-year tax breaks for IPP projects, duty free import of equipment and designation of large projects as key national projects.- Herald
Mental Health Facts
The World Health Organization’s new Mental Health Atlas paints a disappointing picture of a worldwide failure to provide people with the mental health services they need, at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting a growing need for mental health support.
The latest edition of the Atlas, which includes data from 171 countries, provides a clear indication that the increased attention given to mental health in recent years has yet to result in a scale-up of quality mental services that is aligned with needs.
Issued every three years, the Atlas is a compilation of data provided by countries around the world on mental health policies, legislation, financing, human resources, availability and utilization of services and data collection systems. It is also the mechanism for monitoring progress towards meeting the targets in WHO’s Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan.
“It is extremely concerning that, despite the evident and increasing need for mental health services, which has become even more acute during the COVID-19 pandemic, good intentions are not being met with investment,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization. “We must heed and act on this wake-up call and dramatically accelerate the scale-up of investment in mental health, because there is no health without mental health.”
Lack of progress in leadership, governance and financing
None of the targets for effective leadership and governance for mental health, provision of mental health services in community-based settings, mental health promotion and prevention, and strengthening of information systems, were close to being achieved.
In 2020, just 51% of WHO’s 194 Member States reported that their mental health policy or plan was in line with international and regional human rights instruments, way short of the 80% target. And only 52% of countries met the target relating to mental health promotion and prevention programmes, also well below the 80% target. The only 2020 target met was a reduction in the rate of suicide by 10%, but even then, only 35 countries said they had a stand-alone prevention strategy, policy or plan.
Steady progress was evident, however, in the adoption of mental health policies, plans and laws, as well as in improvements in capacity to report on a set of core mental health indicators. However, the percentage of government health budgets spent on mental health has scarcely changed during the last years, still hovering around 2%. Moreover, even when policies and plans included estimates of required human and financial resources, just 39% of responding countries indicated that the necessary human resources had been allocated and 34% that the required financial resources had been provided.
Transfer of care to the community is slow
While the systematic decentralization of mental health care to community settings has long been recommended by WHO, only 25% of responding countries met all the criteria for integration of mental health into primary care. While progress has been made in training and supervision in most countries, the supply of medicines for mental health conditions and psychosocial care in primary health-care services remains limited.
This is also reflected in the way that government funds to mental health are allocated, highlighting the urgent need for deinstitutionalization. More than 70% of total government expenditure on mental health was allocated to mental hospitals in middle-income countries, compared with 35% in high-income countries. This indicates that centralized mental hospitals and institutional inpatient care still receive more funds than services provided in general hospitals and primary health-care centres in many countries.
There was, however, an increase in the percentage of countries reporting that treatment of people with specific mental health conditions (psychosis, bipolar disorder and depression) is included in national health insurance or reimbursement schemes – from 73% in 2017 to 80% (or 55% of Member States) in 2020.
Global estimates of people receiving care for specific mental health conditions (used as a proxy for mental health care as a whole) remained less than 50%, with a global median of 40% of people with depression and just 29% of people with psychosis receiving care.
Increase in mental health promotion, but effectiveness questionable
More encouraging was the increase in countries reporting mental health promotion and prevention programmes, from 41% of Member States in 2014 to 52% in 2020. However, 31% of total reported programmes did not have dedicated human and financial resources, 27% did not have a defined plan, and 39% had no documented evidence of progress and/or impact.
Slight increase in the mental health workforce
The global median number of mental health workers per 100 000 population has increased slightly from nine workers in 2014 to 13 workers per 100 000 population in 2020. However, there was a very high variation between countries of different income levels, with the number of mental health workers in high-income countries more than 40 times higher than in low-income countries.
New targets for 2030
The global targets reported on in the Mental Health Atlas are from WHO’s Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan, which contained targets for 2020 endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2013. This Plan has now been extended to 2030 and includes new targets for the inclusion of mental health and psychosocial support in emergency preparedness plans, the integration of mental health into primary health care, and research on mental health.
“The new data from the Mental Health Atlas shows us that we still have a very long way to go in making sure that everyone, everywhere, has access to quality mental health care,” said Dévora Kestel, Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Use at WHO. “But I am encouraged by the renewed vigour that we saw from governments as the new targets for 2030 were discussed and agreed and am confident that together we can do what is necessary to move from baby steps to giant leaps forward in the next 10 years.”
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Ghana Coach Happy With Warm Reception
Ghana national team coach Milovan Rajevac has commended the reception given to them when they arrived in Zimbabwe for the Group G World Cup qualifier against the Warriors.
The Black Stars touched down at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe Airport on board a chartered flight on Sunday evening. They held their first training at the match venue, National Sports Stadium, on the following day.
Speaking to the press ahead of the match, Rajevac said he has been impressed by the experience and thanked the Zifa for their hospitality.
“I would like to thank Zimbabwe for their hospitality,” he said. “This is my first time in Harare, so we feel warmly welcomed, and I am very happy to be here.”
He added: “As we all know, this is a very important match for us and we expect a tough match.
“We respect the team we are playing against and we have a clear target, which is to qualify for the World Cup so we are going to do everything in our power to put good performance tomorrow and try to win.”
Ghana won the first leg played in Cape Coast on Saturday with a 3-1 scoreline.
The result put the West Africans in second place with six points, one behind leaders South Africa in Group G.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
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Jah Signal Responds To Stunner’s ‘Kuponda’ Threats Statement | FULL TEXT
By Jah Signal
We would like to address comments which were qouted and circulated over social media over the weekend by one artist we hold to high regard. We respect him as an industry player and a pioneer whose music popularised the Zimbabwean urban music genres across all demographics of Zimbabwe and the diaspora.
With all due respect, we would like to refute all claims that Jah Signal offered his artistic services for free to an unknown promoter. Whoever informed my fellow brother of this philanthropy exercise I am accused to have offered should be ashamed of themselves. We pride ourselves as high end music and entertainment brand and we feel that such rumours are circulated whispered by parties who want to see the value and the networth and the asking price of the brand dwindle and fall.
We are a very professional outfit and we do not offer any FREE performances on the plate that easily unless they are for charitable causes close to our heart. We would like you to refer back to the single titled “Hamukirwe” which featured the late Soul Jah Love. Decypher the lyrics” Mukwasha Hamukwire Musina Kubhadhara kubhadara,Chibaba Hachimbouya Musina Kubhadhara” and thats is the mantra we operate with as a business.
We would like to urge all in the media and arts space to do their due diligence, reach out to us before they run with a lie like a horse whose tail is on fire.
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Ghana Coach Happy With Reception
Ghana national team coach Milovan Rajevac has commended the reception given to them when they arrived in Zimbabwe for the Group G World Cup qualifier against the Warriors.
The Black Stars touched down at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe Airport on board a chartered flight on Sunday evening. They held their first training at the match venue, National Sports Stadium, on the following day.
Speaking to the press ahead of the match, Rajevac said he has been impressed by the experience and thanked the Zifa for their hospitality.
“I would like to thank Zimbabwe for their hospitality,” he said. “This is my first time in Harare, so we feel warmly welcomed, and I am very happy to be here.”
He added: “As we all know, this is a very important match for us and we expect a tough match.
“We respect the team we are playing against and we have a clear target, which is to qualify for the World Cup so we are going to do everything in our power to put good performance tomorrow and try to win.”
Ghana won the first leg played in Cape Coast on Saturday with a 3-1 scoreline.
The result put the West Africans in second place with six points, one behind leaders South Africa in Group G.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly Statement On International Youth Day
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly Commemorates International Day Of The Girl Child
11-10-2021
The MDC Alliance Youth Assembly today joins the rest of the world in commemorating the International Day Of The Girl Child. This year’s theme runs under, Digital Generation. Our Generation.
This year’s commemorations comes at a time when the girl child in our country is facing multifaceted challenges. It is also not mendacious that most of the problems faced by the girl child in this country are a direct result of a failed leadership that is insensitive to plight girls and young women.
While this year’s theme speaks of a Digital Generation, our girls in this country are being subjected to nervous conditions worse than those of the Stone Age Generation.
From being denied access to quality and affordable education and heath care to forced child marriages, the girl child is undersiege.
Only a few months ago in July, the country witnessed horrendous news of a 14 year old Memory Machaya who died whilst giving birth at a shrine. Memory was a victim of forced child marriages and is there are so many of such horrible child marriage stories that goes untold.
In this economic malaise authored by Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ZANU PF government, the girl child has not been spared either. The girl child suffers a double yoke where she grapples with economic hardships as well as the extra burden to access sanitary pads.
We have seen a mockery of the girl child particularly rural girls by the First Lady, Auxilia Mnangagwa who treats them like a charity case by donating a handful sanitary pads all for cameras. Under a caring and normal government, basics like these must be made easily accessible for free to every girl.
The government’s failure to resolve a labour dispute with teachers has also adversely affected the girl child. Having to spent the better part of the last two years out of classrooms, the country witnessed a surge in teen pregnancies.
The regime of Mnangagwa too is a chief culprit in abusing rights of the girl child. The country is still in shock following the gruesome sexual abuse of MDC Alliance Youth Assembly female leaders at the hands of state agents.
Up to now our females youth leaders have been inhumanely embarrassed by this regime and having to spend a better part of the last two years in courts for being victims of abduction and torture.
As commemorate this day, we call upon the regime of Emmerson Mnangagwa to throw away the fabricated case of Cecillia Chimbiri, Joana Mamombe and Netsai Marova. In the same vein, we also demand for the day in court of the perpetrators of those heinous acts against our girls. We demand adequate answers from responsible offices about what happened to our female youth leaders.
Girls have rights too!
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Mnangagwa Barbarism Shocking
Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance Youth Assembly spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma has described the magnitude of barbarism in Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration as shocking.
Chuma also condemned what he called Mr Mnangagwa’s hyena tactics…
This bushy and barbaric politics of violence evidenced by today’s senseless attack on President @nelsonchamisa’s convoy can never be tolerated.
We can never allow this lawlessness and hyena tactics by @edmnangagwa. We will resist such misbehavior with equal equal force! (https://twitter.com/chumasteve/status/1447553741805309953?s=20)
Attack On The People’s President An Act Of Terrorism
MDC ALLIANCE( AOW) STATEMENT
THE ATTACK ON THE PEOPLE’S PRESIDENT NELSON CHAMISA IS AN ACT OF TERRORISM
12-10-2021
We are shocked and dismayed by the unprovoked violent terroristic attack done on our President Adv. Nelson Chamisa and his entourage yesterday in Masvingo by hired Zanu pf thugs during his “meet the people tour”.
The attack by Zanu pf thugs on the premise that it is Nelson Chamisa who brought sanctions to Zimbabwe is a fallacy, nonsensical and must be rubbished by all paece loving people of Zimbabwe.
For starters, there are no U.N. sanctions in Zimbabwe that the illegitimate Harare Emmerson Munangagwa administration can talk of. The only sanctions we know of, in our country is the endemic corruption, looting of natural resources, oppression of our people by Zanu pf and of cause the violence like we witnessed yesterday in Masvingo.
We in the MDC Alliance Assembly of Women are very clear that Zimbabwe as a country has no sanctions but there are few individuals like those who hired these lunatics placed on targeted restrictions. These are individual people who are known bishops of violence and perpetrators of human rights violations in Zimbabwe.
The MDC Alliance, it’s leadership and the People of Zimbabwe have nothing to do with such social malcontents.This is why they voted Adv. Nelson Chamisa in 2018 giving him 2.6million votes defeating Zanu pf and its clueless Emmerson Munangagwa in the process.
Further, we know fully well that all these machinations are being done to try and frustrate, prevent and intimidate the People’s Party MDC Alliance from meeting the People of Zimbabwe nationwide at a time when both Zanu pf and its pupperts are failing due shunning by the People.
Women bear the brunt of the liberation struggle of this country and are ready to die in order to liberate ourselves from Zanu PF’s oppression, lies and tired rethoric of nationalism.
SADC, AU, EU and UN must take serious note that Zanu PF has let down the People of Zimbabwe for too long and must not blame anyone and we say enough is enough. We reiterate that, it is our right as both natural and juristic citizens of Zimbabwe which President Nelson Chamisa and MDC Alliance are, to freely move in Zimbabwe meeting the People and expressing our opinions.
No amount of violence, lawlessness and propaganda is going to stop us from engaging the people of Zimbabwe on the Citizen Convergence For Change (CCC) agenda to hear the community concerns working together to lawfully defeat zanu pf again in 2023.
We further deplore and strongly condemn the abuse of our daughters and sons in the uniformed forces by Zanu pf zealots to frustrate citizens rights. It indeed common knowledge that some of the members of thus uniformed forces long for the day President Nelson Chamisa and MDC Alliance shall set them free from abuse by Zanu pf.
The hiring of thugs to disrupt engagement process is an act of intolerance by the ruling party which is criminalizing the political activities in the country despite its political grandstanding that Zimbabwe is ready for re-engagement with the international community. Zanu PF itself has been holding its own district elections across the country without any disturbance.
The Assembly Of Women, therefore strongly condemns the barbaric and terrorist attempt on the life of our President by Zanu pf and some lumpent elements of the state hiding and amongst the hired gangs.
The citizens have suffered enough at the lies and hands of Zanu PF and blocking the political space of MDC Alliance, its leaders and attempting to assassinate our President Adv. Nelson Chamisa in the ensuing malee must make those countries dreaming for re -engagement with the so called second republic under the illegitimate Harare Emmerson Munangagwa administration think twice. There is no Zimbabwe that is open for business, but only terrorism.
Despite the terror acts, the MDC Alliance remains unfazed and we will hand over the struggle at the point of death but the country shall be saved and liberated by the blood and, us as matyrs.
The AOW remains solidly behind the People’s choice, Advocate President Nelson.
Chamisa.
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Stop Barbarism- President Challenges Mnangagwa
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has challenged Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa to denounce barbarism in his party…
President Chamisa’s convoy was attacked by Zanu PF hooligans in Charumbira area, Masvingo on Monday.
The MDC Alliance leader also challenged State security agents to desist from suppressing the alternative voice.
“BARBARIC & DESPERATE..Mr ED STOP this violence.
STOP this abuse of the police &the state to persecute & disrupt the opposition.
STOP dividing people and destroying this beautiful country.
STOP buying and paying some who pretend to be opposition.We & the CHANGE WAVE are unstoppable,” President Chamisa posted on Twitter.
Police Officer Loses Baby In House Fire
By A Correspondent- Sudden Hleketere, a Police officer at Chachacha Business Centre in Shurugwi lost his four months old baby girl Ruvimbo Hleketere yesterday morning when the bedroom in which she was sleeping caught fire.
It is suspected that the bedroom was set ablaze by the baby’s four-year-old sibling who was playing with a match stick and lit a candle. The curtain caught fire and it spread throughout the room.
The fire had engulfed the whole room by the time the four-year-old alerted the mother, Portia Mtambalika who was in the adjacent kitchen.
Midlands Police Spokesperson Emmanuel Mahoko said he was yet to receive the report.
Hleketere said he is devastated by the death of his daughter and wants to know how the fire broke out.
“I am at a loss of words. I do not know why my daughter had to die or how the fire began and destroyed everything,” said Hleketere.
He lost all property including a bed, wadrobe, clothes, television set, kitchen unity, table and blankets.
Ruvimbo was buried at Zvamabande River yesterday.
Crisis Coalition Concerned Over Unholy Alliance Between Zanu PF, Police
For Immediate Release
October 12, 2021
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition notes with concern and unreservedly condemns the political violence which took place in Masvingo Province on October 11, 2021.
About 200 Zanu PF placard-waving supporters from Masvingo violently confronted opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa on his way to a meeting. His aides were injured and treated at a local hospital.
Later on, Chamisa and his team were teargased by riot police while they were holding a private meeting in Masvingo town.
These sad events symbolize high levels of intolerance on the part of the ruling party, Zanu PF which has a history of using violence to crush dissenting voices.
In May 2021, the ruling party ignored our calls to reprimand its supporters who had vowed to unleash violence against Chamisa (during the unveiling of the Mbuya Nehanda statue in Harare)
We note with concern the fact that Zanu PF continues to use violence and coercion as means to cling to power. Events currently unfolding expose the determination by Zanu PF to decimate the opposition through unorthodox means while creating an uneven playing ground ahead of the 2023 elections.
The Coalition is deeply concerned over the partisan nature of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), which, according to witnesses and video evidence, stood by and watched as Zanu PF supporters blocked Chamisa’s motorcade. The teargasing and disruption of a private meeting by the police speaks volumes on the partisan conduct of the police force.
The third issue is the abuse of state media. Attempts to downplay gross injustice and state-terror on civilians and other parties through the state media are a cause for concern. We insist that the media, as the Fourth Estate, ought to be non-partisan, fair and balanced.
Yesterdays’ events also go against President Mnangagwa’s claim of ‘a new dispensation’.
If anything, the current administration has a tainted human rights record which has been characterized by closure of the democratic space, arbitrary arrests through weaponization of the law, abductions, torture and murder and introduction of draconian laws that seek to entrench authoritarian rule among many other atrocities since 1980.
Following the November 2017 military coup that led to the ascendancy of President Mnangagwa to power, the country was plunged into a constitutional crisis and what followed was militarization of key state institutions.
We do hereby raise the flag, once again to the SADC and the AU, that present day Zimbabwe is in serious risk of conflict. This brutal closure of political space raises fears of violence and clampdown on the civic and opposition actors of the 2023 polls.
The most worrying indicator is that President Mnangagwa internationally plays the “growth, and reform” narrative whilst domestically pursuing a one-party state agenda. Various recommendations on upholding peace and democracy from the SADC, including former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe have been ignored.
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition reiterates its call for genuine dialogue facilitated by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) as a means to unlock the country’s multi faceted crisis.
ZRP Investigates Byo Robbery
By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is investigating a robbery case in which a Bulawayo man was robbed of cash, a cellphone and gold.
In a statement, the police said the victim was lured by the suspect, who is still at large, to buy the gold from Shamva.
Said the police:
On 11/10/21 a Byo man (36) lost US$60, Huawei 27 cellphone and 65 grammes of gold through robbery in Chegutu.
The victim had been lured to Shamva by suspect, Anyway Munjeyi who is still at large to buy gold before he teamed up with two other accomplices to attack him in Chegutu on his way home to Byo. Investigations are underway.
Gold buyers and or sellers have been targets of armed robbers who either pounce on them at their bases or lure them to sell or buy the precious metal.
Robbers have also been using the same strategies to steal cattle, cars and other properties.
Kudakwashe Mnangagwa Declared Students Council President At Lupane
By A Correspondent- Lupane State University has reportedly declared Kudakwashe Mnangagwa as the Students’ Executive Council President after no contender was nominated.
A notice purported to have been issued by the university’s dean of students, Dr Ncube, noted that Mnangagwa was the only prospective candidate. Reads the notice:
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS
Students Executive Council Elections
Nominations for the Post of SEC President closed on Friday, 8 October 2021. Only one prospective candidate, Kudakwashe Mnangagwa L0180173E, a Part 4.1 student doing a Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management was nominated by at least ten registered conventional students, as required by the SEC constitution.
Kudakwashe Mnangagwa is therefore duly nominated. As he is the only candidate, he is declared the SEC President unopposed for the 2021-2022 academic year.
Dr H Ncube DEAN OF STUDENTS
Responding to the notice, exiled former Higher and Tertiary Education Minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo suggested that Mnangagwa was imposed.
He said:
What is this nonsense about at Lupane State University? Has the University imposed a Kudakwashe MNANGAGWA to be its SRC president? Is this the tyranny of a “presidential” SURNAME? Whatever it is; it’s offensive and requires an explanation from @lupane_state authorities!
Students politics is usually influenced by national politics. Main students’ unions in the country, ZINASU and ZICOSU, in that order, are aligned to opposition MDC and governing ZANU PF.
“Masvingo Now A Warzone”: MDC Alliance
By A Correspondent- Opposition MDC Alliance has said Masvingo has become a warzone after the aides of Nelson Chamisa, the party’s leader were viciously attacked by an alleged ZANU PF mob on Monday.
The party’s national spokesperson, advocate Fadzayi Mahere said the assailants were mobilised by ZANU PF provincial chair for Masvingo, Ezra Chadzamira in a bid to block Chamisa who has commenced his provincial tour. Pindula News presents Mahere’s statement that is in response to the Monday attack.
MASVINGO PROVINCE DESCENDS INTO WARZONE AS PRESIDENT CHAMISA COMMENCES PROVINCIAL TOUR
President Chamisa is currently embarking on a community citizens’ conversation interface in various provinces in line with our Agenda 2021. The tour commenced On Monday with engagements and interface meetings in Masvingo Province.
Following President Chamisa’s arrival in the province, the area has turned into a warzone. Yesterday, hundreds of ZANU PF thugs stoned cars, barricaded roads with burning logs & assaulted 5 members of our team who were badly injured, hospitalized and later discharged. When approached by our members, drunken youths said that they had been sent by “Chadzamira”. Ezra Chadzamira of ZANU PF is currently the Provincial Minister of Masvingo. They held printed placards with ZANU PF slogans, hate speech against President Chamisa as well as “anti-sanctions” messages. Cars were seen ferrying the rented crowd and coordinating the attacks as violent thugs held up printed posters. The police watched and took no action even though they had earlier disrupted and shut down a private meeting of less than 20 people at the home of one of our provincial members. We condemn this selective application of the law.
This morning, Masvingo turned into a warzone with excessive, military-controlled roadblocks including in Chivi, Mwenezi and Urazvi manned by riot police and soldiers sprouting up on village access roads. Our members were subjected to illegal searches as riot police officers indicated that they were searching for “weapons”. Two trucks of riot police descended on Urazvi as President Chamisa arrived in the area.
The entrance to the homestead of one of our provincial members was blockaded by riot police. No explanation was given for the illegal and unusual police-controlled roadblock at the doorstep of a citizen. There have been threats of violence and killings against villagers throughout the province who have been warned not to attend meetings convened by the MDC Alliance. State agents are conducting unlawful surveillance and tracking of our members. This political violence is unconstitutional (it violates our political rights enshrined in section 67) and cause for extreme concern. It is a clear act of desperation by a bankrupt, illegitimate regime that has failed to govern and now resorts to force and coercion against citizens. We condemn the continued shrinking of the democratic space and the treatment of the MDC Alliance as a banned organization by the State.
What is beyond doubt is that ZANU PF is terrified of the unstoppable groundswell of citizen support for President Chamisa & the broad alliance forming in every village and every town to win Zimbabwe for change.
Despite the harassment and intimidation, President Chamisa and the MDC Alliance are continuing with the tour which will see the President engage citizens, civic leaders & special interest groups as we strengthen the broad alliance to win Zimbabwe for change. What is central for us is to champion the cause of the Zimbabwean people who face grave economic difficulties, depleted wages, a rising cost of living, a broken education system, dilapidated infrastructure, extreme poverty and a public health system that is on its knees.
Fadzayi Mahere National Spokesperson
Change That Delivers
Masvingo Horror Accident Victims Named
By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) identified three of the four victims who died on the spot on Sunday during an accident that occurred at the 8km peg along the Roy – Buffalo Range road near Masvingo.
“ZRP managed to positively identify three out of the four who died during the accident, and the names are Wilbert Mutusva a male adult aged 43, Chiromo Ester a female adult aged 59, and Revai Machengete a female adult aged 39,” read a statement by ZRP national spokesperson Paul Nyathi.
He said police were appealing to the members of the public to visit Masvingo General Hospital mortuary to assist in the identification of one of the victims who is yet to be identified.
10 other people were injured during the accident.
“S_ex For Marks”: Student Hits Back At GZU Lecturer
The case of a Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) lecturer Tapiwa Mudyahoto who is being sued for $5 million after allegedly demanding se_x for marks from a female student will now be heard at the High Court in Masvingo.
The case was filed at Masvingo Magistrates Court in December 2020 but because of the huge amounts involved it had to be moved to the High Court.
The matter is under case number HC124/21.
Mudyahoto initially sued Nomsa Mwashita for $3m for causing him humiliation by reporting him to the University for alleged se_xual abuse. Mwashita in turn made the counter claim of $5 million for pain and suffering as a result of the se_xual harassment.
Mudyahoto says Mwashita, a Bachelor of Education (BED) student made a false report to authorities alleging that the former demanded se_x from her in exchange for marks. Mwashita went on to fail the module taught by Mudyahoto and she blamed the result on her refusal to give in to her lecturer’s demands.
Mudyahoto who says he has a PHD in Philosophy from Fort Hare University taught Introduction to sport module and in 2019 Mwashita was one of his 24 students under Part 1 Semester 2.
He says in his court application that the University cleared him of any wrongdoing after three independent lecturers remarked Mwashita’s examination papers and all three still gave her a fail.
Mwashita is however, denying the claim and court documents seen by The Mirror allege that Mwashita’s papers were remarked by three lecturers who gave her a pass mark after she complained to the authorities.
“The plaintiff went through untold pain and suffering as a result of the defendant’s actions and was psychologically tortured, humiliated, and harassed and continues to suffer as such.
“The plaintiff claims the payment of $5m for pain and suffering as a result of the se_xual harassment…, Interest at the prescribed rate of the sum $5m from the date of summons to the date of full and final settlement and costs of suit at an attorney and client scale,” reads part of the counterclaim,” reads part of Mwashita’s court documents.
Court Deals Huge Blow To Makoni Over Christ Ministries Wrangle
By A Correspondent- Leddie Makoni, widow of the late founder of Christ Ministries Church, Cuthbert Tafundikira Makoni, Monday suffered a huge setback in her bid to succeed her late husband as the church’s leader.
This came after the High Court Monday ruled that she has no legal right to mount a court application on behalf of the church.
Leddie last year approached the High Court seeking an order stopping her son Collin Zondai Makoni from creating confusion in the church and interfering with the church’s business.
Collin also wants the church’s presidency.
However, High Court judge Justice Jacob Manzunzu struck the matter off the roll, ruling that the matter was improperly before the court.
I have read it (the church’s constitution) and apart from giving the President the right to make unilateral decisions in some instances, nowhere does it expressly empower the President to unilaterally institute proceedings on behalf of the 1st applicant (Christ Ministries) without consulting the executive committee.
The second applicant (Leddie) has failed to prove that she has been authorized by the 1st applicant to institute these proceedings. Her position as President of the 1st applicant is under challenge and she cannot act as such until a determination is made by the court.
It is ordered that; the deponent of the affidavit has no authority to represent the applicant. The application is struck off the roll with costs.
Christ Ministries Church was cited as the first applicant in the court application while Leddie is the second applicant.
She complained her son had developed the habit of scandalising her in a bid to win favours from church members.
Collin, Moses Ruvetsa, and the Registrar of Marriages were cited as first, second and third respondents, respectively.
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President Nelson Chamisa Teargased. Is ED Genuine That Zanu PF Has Turned Over A New Leaf?
By A Correspondent- Riot police yesterday teargassed MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa at a private residence in Masvingo while suspected Zanu-PF youths attacked his convoy three times and injured several aides and his security team.
Chamisa was allegedly addressing a private meeting at the residence when the police pounced, and was on his way to a community interface meeting at Charumbira communal lands in Masvingo when the suspected Zanu-PF youths attacked.
Party spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere said the rowdy Zanu-PF youths were bussed in, adding that they barricaded roads with burning logs.
“Over 200 youths mobilised by Zanu-PF violently attacked President Chamisa’s convoy and advance team on their way to meet community leaders in Charumbira, Masvingo province. They stoned cars, barricaded roads with burning logs and assaulted members of our team who have now been hospitalised,” Mahere told NewsDay.
“President Chamisa is currently embarking on a community citizens’ conversation interface in various provinces in line with our Agenda 2021. The tour will see him engage citizens, civic leaders, and special interest groups as we strengthen the broad alliance to win Zimbabwe for change.”
Mahere said the attack on Chamisa was a sign that Zanu-PF was bent on instilling fear in its opponents ahead of the 2023 elections.
“This political violence is cause for extreme concern and a clear act of desperation by a bankrupt, illegitimate regime that has failed. They are terrified of the unstoppable groundswell of citizen support for president Chamisa and the broad alliance forming in every village and every town to win Zimbabwe for change,” she said.
The MDC Alliance said it was not yet ready to release the names of those who had been attacked as their next of kin were yet to be informed, as well as for their safety.
Before Chamisa’s advance convoy was attacked, riot police stormed and disrupted a meeting which the MDC Alliance leader was addressing at the residence of an MDC Alliance member.
They allegedly threw teargas canisters at the residence of Masvingo provincial member Wilstuff Sitemere in Target Kopje.
“No explanation was given as to why the police would disrupt a private meeting that in no way offends COVID-19 regulations or any law,” the MDC Alliance later tweeted.
MDC Alliance Masvingo provincial spokesperson Dereck Charamba said after the attack on Sitemere’s house, the riot police teamed up with the rowdy Zanu-PF youths.
“The second attack occurred as we were on our way to Charumbira area to pay condolences to one of our party members. It happened around 11am just after Gwengavi School. We were ambushed by Zanu-PF youths who barricaded roads, while riot police followed behind, but turned a blind eye on the violent Zanu-PF youths. Instead, they attacked us,” he said.
“The third ambush occurred just after Nemamwa Growth Point while we were on our way to Masvingo West constituency. The fourth attack occurred just after Great Zimbabwe Hotel near the Great Zimbabwe monuments. Four cars belonging to the president’s motorcade were stoned, while the police also smashed windscreens of some cars.”
Charamba said they were yet to ascertain the total number of people injured and the degree of their injuries.
“I am currently in hiding somewhere, and so I have not yet ascertained the degree of injuries incurred,” he said.
Chamisa told NewsDay that the violence was clearly the work of hired Zanu-PF youths.
“That is the work of Zanu-PF. So, am I now not allowed to travel to any part of the country?” Chamisa said.
In the afternoon, NewsDay saw a number of riot police officers moving around Masvingo town, while others were doing rounds in police vehicles.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said he was yet to receive the report on the violence in Masvingo.
Zanu-PF acting spokesperson Mike Bimha could neither deny nor confirm that his party youths were responsible for the violence.
“I am hearing this information for the first time. Let me engage our security department so that I can be apprised accordingly. I should be able to comment once this information comes to hand,” he said.
The MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora held its meetings in Masvingo over the weekend without any interruption.
A recent Zimbabwe Peace Project report adjudged Zanu-PF as the number one perpetrator of politically-motivated violence, the police coming in second.-Newsday
‘ZNA Soldier’ tells Chamisa To Get A Bullet Proof Vest
A self proclaimed ZNA soldier tells MDC President Nelson Chamisa to get a bullet proof vest following the violent events from yesterday saying this will be repeated everywhere he will travel.
Health Insurance Industry Reels From Covid-19
By A Correspondent- The health insurance industry has been overstretched by the COVID-19 pandemic, with statistics indicating that 69% of healthcare funders have experienced a surge in cases of respiratory illnesses attributed to the global pandemic.
This was revealed yesterday by Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ) chief executive officer Shylet Sanyanga. She told delegates at the 12th annual all-stakeholders’ conference of healthcare funders that since the onset of the pandemic in the country in March last year, total claims expenditure increased by 12%.
“The rise in respiratory claims adversely affected about 17% of healthcare funders who had to resort to drawing from their reserves to finance claims expenditure,” Sanyanga said.
“This has affected medical societies. Patients chose to defer treatment for fear of infection. Electoral procedures were deferred, while healthcare conditions considered minor were ignored. Some healthcare providers closed shop for some time for safety reasons, to assess the situation.”
She said those health service providers that did not close shop experienced confusion over how to charge for COVID-19-related illnesses.
“The need for use of personal protective equipment (PPE) added an extra layer of costs. This pushed up the costs of healthcare,” she said.
Statistics show that the numbers of patients seeking treatment initially decreased in the first quarter of 2020 by 21%, then increased in the second and third quarters by 23% and 22%, respectively.
During strict COVID-19-induced-lockdown periods, fewer people sought healthcare services, while there was an increase in those seeking healthcare services when lockdown restrictions were relaxed.
“As more information became available and the vaccination programme kicked off, more people presented again for treatment and the total value of claims paid collectively in 2020 was $1 724 161 406,28, while the total number of lives covered collectively by AHFoZ members for the same year was 1 672 620 lives.”
She said a larger chunk paid for claims went towards medicines (23%), and in-patient services and private hospital fees which accounted for 22%.
On the positive side, Sanyanga said COVID-19 caused the healthcare sector to utilise Telehealth.
“We still anticipate the establishment of appropriate protocols by the regulator, so that Telehealth improves health outcomes rather than diminishing or compromising them,” she said.
Sanyanga said Telemedicine should be utilised by the health sector without necessarily increasing costs and compromising the quality of services.
Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga, who officiated at the conference, said efforts were being made to revamp the health sector by improving healthcare services offered by public sector facilities and re-equipping hospitals, including ambulance fleets.
Chiwenga said government would put in place an appropriate framework for public private partnerships (PPPs).
“We are aware that the lack of robust PPP frameworks has been a deterrent in the past. As we rebuild, we want to see quality services in public sector facilities and good outcomes,” he said, adding that Zimbabwe should be a preferred destination for healthcare services and inbound medical tourism.-Newsday
Jacob Ngarivhume Court Application Hits Snag
By A Correspondent- A Harare magistrate yesterday dismissed Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume’s application for removal from remand in a case where he is accused of public incitement to violence.
Last week, Ngarivhume filed an application before magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guvuriro challenging the State to either give him a trial date or remove him from remand.
But Muchuchuti-Guvuriro said she would give the State another chance to put its house in order, failing which she would then remove him from
remand.
The State, however, submitted that it would provide the trial date on the next remand date.
Ngarivhume’s lawyer Moses Nkomo then filed a notice to apply for exception on the next remand date, saying the charges did not disclose any offence. He would file his application on October 18, and the State would respond four days later, to allow the court to make a ruling on the application on October 27.
This means that if the application for exception is granted, there will be no trial, but if the application is dismissed, the trial will begin on October 27.
Ngarivhume was arrested along with freelance journalist Hopewell Chin’ono and MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala for allegedly calling for demonstrations on July 31, 2020.
Yesterday, we carried a story in which we mentioned that Delish Nguwaya is a convicted criminal. The error is regretted.
Video Of Mnangagwa Instructing Villagers To Assault Chamisa, Strangers
Farm and City Boss In Soup Over Forex Rate
By A Correspondent- The director of Consolidated Farming Investments, trading as Farm and City, Tanaka Hofisi, yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates Courts on allegations of selling products using an exchange rate above the official rate of $88,55.
Hofisi, who was represented by Advocate Lewis Uriri, was not asked to plead to the charges when he appeared before regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje charged with violating the Exchange Control Act.
He was remanded in custody to October 25.
The State led by Mr Lancelot Mutsokoti alleged that Hofisi connived with his co-directors, Chester Noel Muteve and Shingirai Norman Chibanguza, to sell their products using $185 as the exchange rate.
Muteve and Chibanguza are still at large, according to the State.
They are alleged to have pegged the price of a 5-litre multi-clean liquid at $613,60 or US$3,33, implying that their exchange rate was $185 against US$1, according to the State.
This was against the official exchange rate which was announced on October 5.
Mr Mutsokoti had it that Statutory Instrument 127 of 2021 prohibits selling, displaying and offering of goods or services for sale at an exchange rate above the ruling exchange rate in Zimbabwe.
On October 7, officials from the Financial Intelligence Unit, John Marshall Chinembiri and Tanaka Lincoln Sanyamahwe, went to Farm and City along Wynne Street in Harare and bought the 5-litre multi-clean liquid for $613,60 and US$3,33.
The two FIU officials were given point of sale receipts.
In a related matter, Bestzone Pharmacy and its director Isaac Chipako separately appeared before the same court facing similar allegations.
Chipako and his company, who were represented by lawyers Mr Admire Rubaya and Mr Malvern Mapako, were not asked to plead to the charges and were remanded to November 2 on $20 000 bail.
They were charged with violating the Exchange Control Act.
Mr Mutsokoti, appearing for the State, had it that on October 6, the police learnt through social media that Simbisa Brands was selling Russian sausage and chips for US$1 or $200, which was said to be against the official exchange rate.
The court heard that on the following day, RBZ deployed officials to make investigations in various shops.
Richard Mubata and Humphrey Takaza went to purchase cough syrup from Bestzone Pharmacy for $1 250 and US$7.
It is alleged that Bestzone was using the exchange rate of US$1: $180, which is against the official rate of US$1: $88,55 pegged on October 5.-statemedia
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“Zimbabwe Is Good At Blaming Others For Its Problems”
By Wilbert Mukori- “Africa’s future is being sold out even as we speak” by Kenneth Mufuka is a “must read” to all Zimbabweans out there.
There is no denying that Zimbabwe is in a serious political and economic mess. Mankind is a creature of reason and, per se, Zimbabweans should be asking ourselves why the country is in this mess. In the article, Professor Mufuka is asking these pertinent questions and offering so answers too; which is why the article is a “must read”!
The root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic and political mess is bad governance. If Zimbabweans had risen to the intellectual challenge making sure we had a robust political system capable of delivering competent leaders who remained democratically accountable to the people; Zimbabwe would not be in this mess.
41 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship have taken a heavy toll on this nation. Basic services such as education and health care have collapsed and 49% of the population now live in abject poverty. Zanu PF has murdered over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans and the regime is set to commit even more heinous crimes in its desperate effort to hang on to dictatorship at all costs.
The economic and political mess in Zimbabwe cannot be allowed to continue; the situation is unsustainable. The call for Zimbabweans to think and find a way out of this mess is more urgent now than ever!
“African leaders today pay no mind whatever to new research showing the intentions of our former colonisers and the approaching new colonialism of China. On the other hand, the new globalists, are ahead of us. They have adapted, speak new languages, and above all have assimilated blacks to speak on their behalf,” argued Professor Mufuka.
“Thus Katherine R. Gerbner, in her Harvard doctoral thesis (2013), wrote the following:
“Missionaries argued that slave conversion would solidify planter power, make slaves more obedient and hardworking, and make slavery into a viable Protestant institution. They also encouraged the development of a race-based justification for slavery and sought to pass legislation that confirmed the legality of enslaving black Christians.”
Ms Gerbner’s missionaries brainwashed the blacks to become “obedient and harding slaves” is wilfully inadequate on many fronts. Blacks are not the only people to be conquered and enslaved; so why is it that only blacks were so easily brainwashed one national group after another, one generation after another and century after century.
Even when slavery was finally abolished blacks have moved from one form of servitude to another; from slavery to West colonial oppression to black oppression and now Chinese colonial oppression.
“We are being enslaved in broad daylight,” Mufuka argued.
“The colonial Africans, the worst being our present leadership, are deeply embedded in colonialism to the extent that they are completely unable to think for themselves. They have respect for any other race, other than their own.
“The treatment of blacks by blacks in South Africa and perhaps in Zimbabwe is unspeakable.”
In blaming our own black leaders Mufuka was zooming in on the real cause why Zimbabwe is in a real mess. But even he failed to zoom in on the real cause – ourselves, especially the so called intelligentsia.
In June, Zanu PF Acting National Political Commissar, Patrick Chimanasa, announced that Zanu PF was denying the 3 million plus Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote, for example. The announcement was water off a duck’s back to Zimbabwe intelligentsia, both in the country and outside, proof it is not only the leaders but the people themselves who are incapable of thinking for themselves.
The root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic and political mess is the nation’s failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. The nation have been stuck with the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship, unable to remove it from office, because the party rigged elections. And by cherry picking who can and cannot vote in the coming elections; Zanu PF is blatantly rigging the 2023 elections already!
Free, fair and credible elections is not only a right; it is the very essence of good governance and democratic accountability; the very things Zimbabwe needs to get out of this mess.
“Poor blacks, as mentioned above earlier, the think tanks encourage religious zeal to mollify the poor,” concluded Professor Mufuka
“Lastly, here is another shocker. Black thinkers (yours included) have no room to exercise their calling in their homelands. Those at home are wise to keep their peace, or they will find themselves in some jailhouse, or disappear like Itai Dzamara.”
This does not make any sense at all! So Zimbabweans back in Zimbabwe must say nothing for fear of imprisonment or worse and those outside Zimbabwe cannot speak because by leaving the country they have lost their voice too!
None Zimbabweans in Zimbabwe and outside have denounced Zanu PF’s blatant human rights violations including the failure to hold free and fair elections. The foreigners have also condemned Zimbabwe’s opportunistic opposition politicians’ betrayal of the people by failing to to implement reforms and the insanity of participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy.
If foreigners have found a voice to express their concerns what more Zimbabweans ourselves whose interests in what is happening in Zimbabwe is much more than humanitarian concerns. Zimbabweans in the country and outside have elected to say nothing out of self censorship.
Peace! Zimbabwe is in a country in total economic meltdown the 49% of the population now living in abject poverty are as restless as rumbling volcano. By resisting all attempts to peaceful and orderly change through the holding of free, fair and credible elections, the nation has, per se, elected violent and disruptive change.
There is a limit to how much economic hardship and political repression the people can endure, in Zimbabwe, that limit was been exceeded a long time ago. The nation has been sitting on a ticketing time bomb, there will be violent social unrest as the only way to end the Zanu PF dictatorship; it is a matter of when and not if.
Zimbabweans have certainly become renowned for blaming others for all our problems, we are the helpless victims in everything.
Still, when Zimbabwe attained her independence on 18 th April 1980, Zimbabweans because masters of our destiny which meant we must take ownership of all that happened. The victim mentality is symptomatic of one who will not take responsibility preferring the comfort of the helpless victim.
Indeed, given Zimbabweans’ helpless victim mentality it no surprise the country’s sunk into the abyss must be one of the quickest in human history. The men and women, the so called intellectuals to whom the nation should have looked up to lead in thinking have instead been leading from the front in offering scapegoats and excuses for every failure.
Zanu Pf Stalwarts Nabbed Over Manicaland Intraparty Violence
By A Correspondent- Police yesterday arrested 20 Zanu-PF supporters in Manicaland province following intraparty violence.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said: “The Zimbabwe Republic Police arrested 20 suspects in Manicaland, and they are now appearing in court.”
Zanu-PF provincial spokesperson Oliver Mandipaka said the party would not tolerate an intra-party violence, adding that there was a manner and way in which grievances should be channelled.
The clashes started on Sunday at the party’s provincial co-ordinating committee (PCC) meeting in Mutare, after demonstrators, who were calling for the ouster of chairperson Mike Madiro, were teargassed by police.
The demonstrators were led by Mutare district co-ordinating committee (DCC) secretary for youth affairs Danmore Mambondiyani, who demanded that Madiro should address party members outside Marymount Teachers College.
Mambondiyani, who is vying for the provincial youth position, and is being challenged by Makoni DCC secretary for youth affairs, Stanley Sakupwanya, was manhandled and head-butted in the melee by supporters of a rival faction.
He was hospitalised at Victoria Chitepo Provincial Hospital under police guard, but Zanu-PF Mutare DCC chairperson Binali Yard said Mambondiyani was transferred to a private hospital.
Yesterday, Mambondiyani was among the 20 youths who appeared before Mutare magistrate Langton Mukwengi accused of participating in a gathering with the intent to promote public violence.
He was granted free bail from his hospital bed. The other youths were also granted free bail.
“I can now confirm that we have transferred Mambondiyani to a private hospital. He was granted bail on his hospital bed,” Yard said.
A Zanu-PF party activist yesterday told NewsDay that Madiro should swallow his pride and address the disgruntled supporters who accuse him of fanning factionalism.
“Madiro is the one who provoked the situation. He was supposed to hear the concerns of the people. As a chairman, he is supposed to listen to the complaints of the people. If he runs away from those complaints, Zanu-PF will fail to attain the much needed five million votes,” the activist said.
Another party member said Mnangagwa should step in to stop the intraparty violence in Manicaland province.
Madiro is being accused of imposing candidates in the just-ended district elections ahead of the provincial elections.
Yesterday, there were reports that Madiro’s vehicle was stoned along the road to Rusape soon after the Mutare meeting.
Sakupwanya told NewsDay that he was followed while on his way to Makoni on Sunday, and was assaulted by bouncers.
“They assaulted me before we sped off. They gave chase. Unfortunately, the tollgate was congested. They came behind my car and started smashing my car windows, but I sped off. That is how I survived,” he said.
“I hear that our chairman Madiro’s car windows were stoned at Shamhu along the Mutare-Harare Highway.”-newsday
Clear Video Footage Of People Who Blocked Chamisa
Nkomo Gets Nod For Party Presidency
By A Correspondent- Opposition Zapu’s 10 provinces have nominated the late party founder and Vice-President Joshua Mqabuko’s son, Sibangilizwe for the party presidency.
The nominations began a fortnight ago and Nkomo was the top contender in the nominations as he garnered the highest votes.
Zapu is set to hold its elective congress to replace its late former president Dumiso Dabengwa at the end of this month.
On Saturday, Nkomo was the top nominee after he got the highest number of votes in Bulawayo province.
The party’s mobilisation and organisation secretary Dereck Katsenga yesterday told Southern Eye that at the Harare conference held on Sunday Nkomo emerged the top nominee.
At the Harare conference, Nkomo garnered 79 votes, followed by Mark Mbaiwa who got two votes, Bernard Magugu with one vote, while Strike Mkandla and Sithembiso Mpofu got zero votes.
“This means people are now speaking through the vote. They are now choosing their leaders through the ballot. Yes, as for Nkomo, it means if he wins at the congress, he should consider talking to the losers and deploy them to serve Zapu,” Katsenga said.
“I know everything will end at congress where the final voting is going to take place. As Zapu national organising secretary, I respect the people’s choice. What is needed is a Zapu that is very strong to challenge Zanu PF and MDC Alliance in the 2023 elections. We want to win the election at all costs and it requires that Zapu deploys good leaders to the war front.”
Zapu is planning to hold its elective congress on October 29 and 30 in Bulawayo.-Newsday
“Stop This Violence”: President Nelson Chamisa Appeals To ED
Violence in Masvingo: Moral Permissibility
Dear Friends of the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance,
Re: Violence in Masvingo, Zimbabwe
Moral Permissibility
“Moral Permissibility” is a philosophy and can fall under an academic discipline called ethics. It allows us to examine what is morally allowable. While, in academia, there are several ways to define “moral permissibility,” the broader Zimbabwean population would agree that as part of the essence of Zimbabwean culture, that our moral system and it’s ethics, differentiates between behavior that is morally prohibited. Likewise, by the laws of Zimbabwe and it’s legal institutions, there is behavior that it legislatively prohibited by law.
In Zimbabwe, government institutions with the authority to investigate and prosecute crimes are faced with a moral responsibility. If the alleged incidents of violence that took place in Masvingo, Zimbabwe today are found to have involved state actors or influenced by state actors, then the intentional infliction of any, and all, types of harm that occurred, be it rough, ruthless, or harsh, or if it, in any way caused victims to become burdened or suffer, must be considered morally impermissible.
Most citizens of Zimbabwe would view it as immoral to intentionally cause harm or suffering to an innocent member of our communities or of our broader Zimbabwean society. A significant, somber, and urgent moral challenge has presented itself as evidenced by the violent attacks in Masvingo. All those who were in any way involved in the planning, execution, participation—pre-attack, during the attack, and post-attack—must be subject to be held to account—investigation, prosecution, and conviction of the crimes perpetrated in the Masvingo attacks.
Responsibility of the General Public
We, as the public, have a responsibility to expect and hold law enforcing institutions, and those who lead in them, to account. We ought to expect nothing short of excellence from them.
They must protect life.
They must protect property.
They must prevent crime.
They must actively limit and reduce the fear of crime within the civilian population.
They must provide a service with an attitude of compassion, not aggression.
They ought to understand that, as agents in law enforcing institutions in the country, they must perform their duties with integrity.
Their supervisors and leaders ought to know that they serve the people.
They have a duty to protect, in particular, they must protect human life.
At all times, members of the public must be treated with respect. They must be treated with dignity.
Perpetrators must be held to account. And the Government of Zimbabwe,
its legal institutions, and ultimately it’s leadership including, to the highest level, ought to be held to account for the appropriate actions in pursuit of the perpetrators.
Secretary for Home Affairs
North America Province
October 11, 2021
“Slave Wages Behind Mass Exodus Of Health Workers”: ED Told
By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwean Community in South Africa (ZCSA) has blamed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration for paying “slave wages”, thus causing local health workers’ migration to neighbouring countries.
This was said by ZCSA chairperson Ngqabutho Mabhena while addressing the South African media yesterday.
His utterances came barely a month after the South African public health director of workplace management, Sindile Sodladla, wrote to Zimbabwean health professionals who sought to work in that country’s health sector, saying their services were not required at the moment due to a standing Sadc protocol.
“What is needed is to try to balance the two. On the one hand, we have a Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) protocol that says member States should not recruit medical professionals from other countries where there is a shortage, and on the other hand, we have Zimbabwean health workers who are underpaid and live under poverty, and are looking for greener pastures,” Mabhena said.
“A domestic worker in South Africa earns more than what a medical professional earns in Zimbabwe.”
He said the Zimbabwean government should adequately remunerate its health workers and resolve its currency problems.
“We need to adopt the rand as a currency of reference so that a person who works in Zimbabwe earns almost similar to a person who works in South Africa. We think that this must be a first step in addressing the problem,” Mabhena said.
He lamented that whenever health workers protested in Zimbabwe, they were threatened or dismissed.
“We have a situation where the government of Zimbabwe cannot pay its workers. It is important that the Sadc protocol must be reviewed because we need to balance the interests of workers and that of Sadc,” he said.
Health deputy minister John Mangwiro yesterday said he could not respond to issues of organisations or individuals that were complaining about health workers being denied jobs in a neighbouring country.
“I only comment on policy issues,” Mangwiro said.-newsday
“Incentivise Teachers”: Mthuli Ncube Told
By A Correspondent- Participants in public hearings on the 2022 national budget yesterday called on Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to prioritise social services and incentivise teachers.
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget and Finance and the Thematic Committee on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are currently gathering public views on the 2022 national budget. The countrywide consultations will end on Friday.
The budget consultations in Harare were dominated by women and youths who demanded budgetary support for economic empowerment and employment creation.
They said between 16% and 20% of the 2022 national budget should go towards the education sector, with specific focus on remuneration for teachers.
The educators have spent the last two years demanding to be paid in United States dollars, or the equivalent in the local currency indexed to the bank rate.
“We want the budget to allocate 16% to 20% towards the education sector so that it can adequately cover for employment costs (teachers’ salaries) and also incentivise them,” Charity Chaturika, a representative from the Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe said.
Since 2020, teachers in the country have been demanding US$520 to US$550 salaries which they used to get before October 2018.
But government insists that it is unable to pay in US dollars as this would distabilise the economy.
Chaturika said Ncube should prioritise service delivery and allocate adequate funding towards water and sanitation.
“The water and sanitation situation in the country is severely affecting women since we are the primary care-givers,” she said.
Women participants said Ncube’s 2022 budget should create an enabling environment for women to venture into self-help projects through a meaningful allocation to the Women Affairs ministry.
Almost every year, the Women Affairs ministry gets a 1% budgetary allocation which it says is barely enough to support women empowerment programmes.
Chitungwiza Residents Trust representative Alice Kuvheya said the budget should allocate enough funds for social protection programmes in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Youth representative Appolonia Njengwe said: “There is nothing being offered at banks to support the youths. You (government) urge us to innovate, but whenever we go to Empower Bank, there is nothing for us. If employment is to be created, then there is need to increase the budget allocation to the Youth ministry.”-newsday