By A Correspondent- Fearless MDC Alliance youth leader Makomborero Haruzivishe has denounced President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration from his Harare Remand Prison Cell.
He wrote a letter and was seen by Pindula online news publication, Haruzivishe, who said Zimbabweans should push for democracy.
The MDC-Alliance youth leader is detained on allegations of “inciting public violence and resisting a peace officer” after protesting over the deteriorating democratic space.
Here is Haruzivishe’s letter:
Dear Comrades and friends,
In case you’re wondering, I’m enduring prison quite well. I’ve been prosecuted countless times over the past decade that I made a gentlemen’s agreement with pain. Having been arrested an average of three times a year, tortured numerous times since 2011, I have come to appreciate that pain has its place and I don’t mock its power.
But it is a power that doesn’t touch my soul.
This solidifies in me the art of endurance. Yes, ENDURANCE is the word. I knew the word but never had the opportunity to really “feel” it, “touch” it, but was forced by circumstances imposed on me by Emmerson Mnangagwa’s dictatorship to live it. Indeed I’m living it, and I’m not so blind to military state capture to believe that it will end any time soon, as the subsequent capture of the justice system can prolong the seven months I have endured to seven years through more unjust convictions, but to me it doesn’t matter anymore. I will endure it to the very end.
You know, we have to face the facts; things aren’t getting any better. They are getting worse. All we are asking for is a Zimbabwe where every child gets a fair chance of quality education and every adult gets a fair chance of a decent earning, but all we are getting is corruption and abuse — yet in 2017, many believed things have changed, but they changed for the worse.
Just another dictator, ED, with an even worse agenda; the perpetuation of military state capture, a worse type of governance with an increasingly ruthless, ever widening network to act it out.
Who knew before 2017 that there is a terror network of state agents called the “FERRET” squad who would be deployed against unsuspecting citizens with specific order to abduct, torture and harass them?
Who knew before 2017 that there was a car rental company called IMPALA that is contracted by the government to ferry terror squads to our homes and move citizens to torture bases.
Because of such terror networks that are sponsored with our taxes; thoughts of real death, not the remediable conceit now of imprisonment as a unique death, becomes an insistent, strident companion to such an extent that when gunshots were fired during my arrest: I was ready.
Despite all this, we must never waver from the fact that justice is the first condition of humanity, and we deserve pure, undiluted justice.
We must tattoo it in our hearts that “I have the power, you have the power, and together we can make the change because people’s power is stronger than the individuals in power”.
With this tattoo we must action our power through exercising our constitutional rights of freedom of assembly, association, demonstrate and petition in the streets, freedom of expression on social media, for now is the right time to stop agonising and intensify organising. After all, we are the ones we have been waiting for.
More importantly comrades and friends, we must register to vote because after all is said and done, all popular democratic revolutions end in the ballot box.
Worry more about yourselves, the future of our beloved Zimbabwe, the next generation — and worry less about me, for I definitely will come out, sooner or later, dead or alive.
After all, as I was enduring my birthday on 23 April, yeah, ENDURE, because birthday in prison is unlike birthday anywhere else. In prison, one doesn’t exactly celebrate their birthday, one ENDURES it. As I turned 29 years old, I reminded myself that some say life begins at 40, so I’ve got 11 years to 40. But since the life expectancy for Zimbabwean men is around 30 years, I cherished the realisation that I have already lived a full life, so either way I am in charge!
I REMAIN IN CHARGE
Makomborero Haruzivishe
-Pindula
By Wilbert Mukori | “Angela Merkel, leader of Germany for the past 16 years, is stepping down,” wrote Ngomakurira in The Zimbabwean.
“Much is being written about her legacy to Germany and the world but one comment, by Matt Qvortrup of Coventry University, is eye-catching: ‘She has turned German politics into a discussion about policy rather than politics.’
“Policy is about what we should be doing here and now to respond to the needs of the people for whom we are responsible. Politics is about what we should be doing to get the votes of those who support us. The others, for whom we are also responsible, can be ignored.
“Policy is focused on the common good and builds community. Politics is about responding to sectional interests and is divisive.”
Germany was in ruins at the end of the Second World War and yet, like Phoenix rising from the ashes, bounced right back to be one of prosperous nations on earth. Ask any student of history to name some of the qualities behind Germany’s success; hard work and meticulous attention to detail, they will answer.
It would be her meticulous attention to detail that would have forced Chancellor Merkel to value policy over politics. The spineless politician would go for the politics and the votes; she stayed the course, and pursued policy and the common good.
It must be said, she was luck to have to have in the German electorate a people with a discerning mind who valued Chancellor Merkel’s rational, calm, pragmatic and solution orientated approach to the rumble rousing empty rhetoric of other political leaders.
When Zimbabwe gained her independence in 1980, the country had a robust economy, had a very productive agricultural sector which was the engine driving the economy, had mineral wealth, flora and fauna and, unlike most other Africa countries, a well educated population. The country was “the jewel of Africa, look after it” as the late Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania, told Robert Mugabe at the time.
Zimbabwe had the potential to become the South Korea of Africa; dynamic, prosperous and above all free and justice. Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies were after absolute power and moved swiftly to establish a de facto one party dictatorship modelled on the likes of North Korea. The ordinary Zimbabweans were never given a meaningful vote to pick on the Zimbabwe they wanted.
Ever since 1945, Germany has had a healthy and functioning democracy and the nation has had the democratic space to allow quality debate and democratic competition to weed out the mediocre leaders to allow quality leaders, creme de la creme, to be elected into office.
I would say in 1980 Zimbabwe was a glass-full of wholesome milk to which was added a few drops of cholera infected sewage in the form of Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies. The glass-full of milk was transformed into a glass full deadly sewage! And from the pond of sewage scum, not cream, has risen to the top.
Zimbabwe, even after 41 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule, is not in the sorry economic state Germany was in 1945 and can easily rise from the gutter, dust herself off, and still be a proud, prosperous nation at peace with itself. The one thing stopping the national revival is the thick scum of corrupt and incompetent leaders who now believe they have the divine right to rig elections and stay in power.
The thick scum has bloated out the light and fresh air making the ordinary people weak and powerless to asset they basic freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country and even the right to life. There is no doubt that some day the people will break Zanu PF’s strangle hold on the nation but the chances are it will be to replace the corrupt and tyrannical regime with one mediocre regime after another.
Zimbabwe has the great misfortune to have corrupt and incompetent thugs like Robert Mugabe as leaders at the nation’s formative years, the rot has been woven into the fabric of the nation, it is near impossible to pick out and remove very one of the rotten fibres. Zimbabwe is like a broken clay pot, even if it can be put together again; a scratching finger nail will reveal the tell-tale hair line cracks.-SOURCE: zimbabwelight.blogspot.com
PRESS STATEMENT.
03 October 2021
“The Hard Talk with Paddington Japa Japa!!!!”
ZIMBABWEANS DEMAND FOR IMMEDIATE HOLDING OF OVERDUE BY ELECTIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONSTITUTION OF ZIMBABWE AMENDMENT (No 20) ACT 2013, ZCEO PRESIDENT P. JAPA JAPA SAYS!!!!
The President of one of Zimbabwe,s Largest Civic Society Organisation, Zimbabwe Centre For Equal Opportunies (ZCEO) Mr Paddington Japa Japa has called on Mnangagwa’s unrepentant Zanu Pf Government and ZEC to respect the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No 20) Act 2013,including the Electoral Laws which makes it legally mandatory to hold Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Authority Elections after every 5 years.Required by law is also holding by elections within a Period of 90 days after declaration of a vacancy.We as a Civic Society Organisation representing millions of oppressed and marginalised Zimbabweans, do hereby demand for immediate holding of all the overdue and outstanding by elections, for the vacant Parliamentary and Council Seats that have been created by MDCT Mwonzora,s illegal recalls and deaths of some MPS and Councillors, around the Country,s ten provines.Chapter 7 Part 1 of Section 155 of the Zimbabwean Constitution under the Caption,PRINCIPLES OF ELECTORAL SYSTEM;(1) reads, the Government must hold regular elections and referendums which must be (a) peaceful,free and fair.
(b) conducted by secret ballot.
(c) based on universal suffrage and equality of votes and,
(d) free from violence and other electoral malpractices.
(2) The State must take all appropriate measures,including legislative measures,to ensure that effect is given to the principles set out in subsection (1) and in particular must (a) ensure that all eligible citizens,that is to say the citizens qualified under the electoral law are registered as voters.
Section 158, TIMING OF ELECTIONS,(1) A general election must be held so that polling takes place not more than (a) thirty days before the expiry of the five year period specified in section 143; (b) where Parliament has passed resolutions to dissolve in terms of section 143 (2 ),ninety days after the passing of the last such resolution,or
(c) where Parliament is dissolved in terms of section 109 (4) or (5) following a vote of no confidence,ninety days after the dissolution.
(2) General elections for local authorities must take place concurrently with Presidential and Parliamentary general elections.
(3) Polling in by- elections to Parliament and local authorities must take place within ninety days after the vacancies occurred unless the vacancies occur within nine months before a general election is due to be held,in which event the vacancies may remain unfilled until the general election.
The Zimbabwean Law is very clear there that after every five years from the appointed date and whenever there is a vacant seat created either by an MP or a Councillor dying,incapacitated by sickness, recalled, resigns, sentenced to jail, the vacant seat must be filled as soon as the law allows.
Under the Zimbabwean situation, it is almost a year and half now since most MDCA MPS and Councillors were illegally recalled by the Con Court created Mwonzora’s MDCT.ZEC has not bothered to hold the by- elections in accordance with the Electoral Act and as provided for in the Constitution.Zanu Pf Mnangagwa lead Government has taken advantage of the various prolonged Covid 19 emergency lockdown measures to avoid holding of overdue outstanding by elections. Despite the fact that Zimbabwe has got the least number of Covid 19 related deaths and cases, according to Ministry of Health and Childcare latest statistics.Surprisingly Zanu Pf has been holding its uninterrupted countrywide rallies,Cell,Brach,DCC,Provincial,Politburo and Central Committee restructuring excercises throughout the Country’s ten Provinces during Covid 19 pick periods.Many African and European Countries eg Malawi,Zambia,Morocco, USA,Germany,UK, have successfully held there elections during the Covid 19 peak periods.Surprisingly Zimbabwe with its lowest Covid 19 infection cases and death rate, is avoiding holding by- elections were the opposition MDCA will participate.
The Reason why Mnangagwa,s Government is avoiding holding by-elections is not because it cares so much about the welfare of its Citizens, no, not at all, it is because the Regime is afraid of loosing the by-elections to Chamisa, s MDCA.
Zanu Pf leadership knows very well that they have fraudulently stayed in power ever since 2008,surving by the skin of their teeth.They have been rigging the Presidential and Parliamentary elections for the past 13 years. Zimbabweans voted massively for Tsvangirayi,s MDC Party in 2008, in a election that was marred by serious pre and post election violence and bloodshed,more than 300 MDC followers were killed in cold blooded style.Zanu Pf Government thrives on vote rigging, violence, intimidating political opponents, crafting draconic laws that disadvantage the opposition, continous changing of electoral goal posts, to suit there wicked ways of Governance. The regime leadership intend to remain in Power forever, they know very well that they have committed serious crimes against humanity, that warrant death sentences if investigated and brought up for trial before competent courts.Zanu Pf leadership is full of corrupt individuals who are plundering the country’s wealth, externalising and siphoning millions of United States dollars into Foreign Nostro Accounts, for future use in case they are removed from office.
Everyone at Zanu Pf is corrupt including those in the Presidium not even one of them is professional, the entire rogue cabal deserves to be removed from power in the next general election.Outstanding Electoral laws must be aligned with the Constitution, there are a lot of reforms which need to be implemented before the 2023 election.
We Zimbabweans from the Opposition Demand for Holding of outstanding overdue Parliamentary and Local Authority by- elections.ZEC must do their work professionally, not the hide and seek tactics they are undertaking.Only a day before yesterday ZEC organised a private meeting with a few little known Pro- Zanu Pf opposition bunch of individuals, including its con-court created surrogate side kick MDCT, lead by Bishop Muzorewa incarnate Douglas Mwonzora,a sell out,who sold Democracy in Zimbabwe in exchange for 4 x 4 twin Cabs, and thousands of United States Dollars.Internatioal Community Organisations like UN,EU,AU and SADC must intervene to rescue genuine opposition political parties who are under siege in Zimbabwe.Genuine Opposition Democratic forces must join hands to refuse further oppression and election rigging by Zanu Pf come 2023.
THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE PADDINGTON JAPA JAPA IS A SEASONED POLITICIAN,SOCCER ADMINISTRATOR,CIVIC SOCIETY LEADER ,EVANGELIST AND TEACHER OF GOD’S WORD,HOLDER OF BSC HONOURS PSYCHOLOGY DEGREE!!!!??????????????????
Bulawayo High Court Judge Justice Nokuthula Moyo has dismissed with costs the application by a nine-year-old pupil from Gwanda, who was suing teachers’ unions and Government.
Amuhelang Ulukile Dube, a pupil at Mafuko Primary School in Gwanda district, Matabeleland South, had sought an order barring teachers in public schools from striking over poor salaries and working conditions.
The minor, who is being represented by her grandmother, Ms Senzeni Nyathi, through her lawyers Ndove and Associates, had filed an urgent chamber application at the Bulawayo High Court.
In papers before the court, the Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association (Zimta), Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions,
Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ), the chairperson of the Public Service Commission, Dr Vincent Hungwe, (former) Primary and Secondary Education Minister Cain Mathema, Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Professor Paul Mavima and Minister of Finance and Economic Development Professor Mthuli Ncube, were cited as respondents.
The application followed recent threats by teachers not to resume work until their demands for better salaries are met.
Teachers are demanding to be paid US$550 or its equivalent in local currency a month.
In her founding affidavit, Ms Nyathi said actions of the cited teachers’ unions and their members to refuse to take up classes over salary grievances and improved working conditions coupled with the non-intervention of the Government constitutes a violation of the children’s right to education as enshrined in sections 75 and 81 of the country’s Constitution.
She wanted the teachers’ unions together with their members interdicted from boycotting classes with all teachers being directed to report for duty within 48 hours of the granting of the order.
“I further seek ancillary relief to the effect that the Government be ordered and mandated to provide teaching staff to ensure that there would be no interruption of teaching services or classes at all public primary and secondary schools in Zimbabwe so that the rights of the children are not violated,” said Ms Nyathi.
The applicant said in the event that the teachers refuse to comply, Government should be directed to take all measures to ensure that there is no interruption of classes.
In dismissing the application, Justice Moyo ruled that Ms Nyathi failed to establish a locus standi in the matter by suing in her capacity despite the fact that she was not the minor’s guardian.
“The applicant has not established locus standi in this matter and should have used the legal guardian, who is the father of this child, to sue in this matter,” she said.
Justice Moyo said the applicant’s relief sought was also incompetent because it wanted the suspension of one right for the performance of another right on an interim basis.
“Of course, the relief sought in the interim is clearly incompetent as the court cannot suspend one right in favour of another on an interim basis where clear rights have not been proven,” she said.
“In any event, how does one right get favoured against another in the interim?” Justice Moyo said the application was not well thought out, badly crafted and rushed through.
“Applicant should have withdrawn it, tendered wastes costs and be set on a properly founded and well-drawn application,” she said.
“It is in such matters that respondents are unfairly and unnecessarily put out of pocket. It is for these reasons that I will award costs on a higher scale. I accordingly dismiss the application with costs at a higher scale.”
In their responses, the respondents through their lawyers, the Civil Division in the Attorney-General’s Office, Matsikidze Attorneys and the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, submitted that the application was fatally defective and hurried through without much thought being applied to many issues, including the proper citation of respondents.
The respondents also argued that a constitutional application can only be brought as a court application in terms of Rule 107 of the High Court Rules 2021. -Chronicle
Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa says his government will not send citizens to jail for political reasons.
Prison is for real criminals and corrupt individuals, according to President Chamisa.
He also denounced the persecution of political activists by the Zanu PF regime.
“Under OUR GOVERNMENT nobody would be beaten,abducted,
attacked or maimed for demonstrating,no one will be arrested for politics.
Jail will be strictly for criminals,the corrupt & thieving. We’ll encourage free expression &difference of opinion. #FreeMako #imagineadifferentZimbabwe,” President Chamisa posted on Twitter.
Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa says his government will not send citizens to jail for political reasons.
Prison is for real criminals and corrupt individuals, according to President Chamisa.
He also denounced the persecution of political activists by the Zanu PF regime.
“Under OUR GOVERNMENT nobody would be beaten,abducted,
attacked or maimed for demonstrating,no one will be arrested for politics.
Jail will be strictly for criminals,the corrupt & thieving. We’ll encourage free expression &difference of opinion. #FreeMako #imagineadifferentZimbabwe,” President Chamisa posted on Twitter.
South Africa’s Public Health Department’s Directorate has started rejecting applications by health workers from Zimbabwe on grounds that its neighbour is currently facing a staff crisis due to migration.
This was revealed in a letter to some Zimbabwean applicants last week, which was signed by the South Africa public health director of workplace management, Sindile Sodladla.
“The government of South Africa is obliged to adhere to all the relevant protocols between member States of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc), the African Union (AU) as well as World Health Organisation as it pertains to recruitment of health professionals from developing countries,” Sodladla wrote.
“These agreements, protocols and recruitment codes were designed to prevent the uncontrolled recruitment of health professionals from countries where the public health system is faced with huge staff shortages, particularly with regard to health professional occupations.”
Sodladla said all public health sector employment authorities subscribed to relevant agreements, protocols and recruitment codes.
“In view of the above, the department regrets to inform you that your application for endorsement towards registration and employment in South Africa was not successful. Your country, Zimbabwe, is not listed in the category of countries the RSA department of Health should recruit from,” Sodladla said.
He indicated that the copy of the letter would be submitted to the South Africa Immigration authorities, Department of Home Affairs as well as the South Africa Nursing Council.
“You are in your interest, advised to familiarise yourself with the relevant immigration legislation and not to depart to South Africa to promote your application for support. The department will not be in a position to reconsider your application, once you have arrived in the country,” Sodladla further stated.
Migrant Workers’ Association-South Africa (MWA-SA) chairman Butholezwe Nyathi confirmed that some of the health professionals from Zimbabwe received such letters after they applied to be registered in that country.
“We are further appalled by the re-introduction of this regulation that was adopted by the apartheid regime. This seeks to limit the international freedom of movement by the people. We wonder whether the leadership of the South African government and Sadc is pleased with the movement of the healthcare staff to the Western countries whereas they could be remaining in Africa to serve African people,” Nyathi said.
He said MWA-SA would continue engaging labour federations like the South African Federation of Trade Unions, and Congress of South African Trade Unions, among many others within the Sadc region, to create migrants’ desks in their affiliates.
Nyathi said this would ensure that they facilitate the organisation of migrants, including their movements within the Sadc region for better socio-economic activities.
Zimbabwe Nurses Association president Enoch Dongo professed ignorance over the new development in South Africa.
He said if true, then it was against the Sadc and AU protocols on free movement and employment of Africans across the region.
“If it is true, I think it will be an issue of a department taking matters into its own hands, because we do not have any agreement to that effect in the Sadc and AU,” Dongo said.
“That is not in line with the protocol that we know (Sadc Protocol on Employment and Labour). We expect a protocol that allows people to move around and get jobs around the region. This has to be explained.”
Health deputy minister John Mangwiro said he was unable to immediately comment on the issue as he was locked in a meeting.
The Sadc Protocol on Employment and Labour (2014) enjoins member States to co-operate in all areas necessary to foster regional development and integration on the basis of balance, equity and mutual benefit, including labour, with reference to among others, social and human development, and social welfare. -Newsday
Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF president Emmerson Mnangagwa and captured opposition leader, Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora are secretly planning to circumvent by-elections and the 2023 polls, ZimEye.com has learnt.
Impeccable source have revealed both men are afraid of polls- hence the plot to suspend voting processes.
MDC T national chairperson, Morgen Komichi, quoted by NewsDay, claimed elections without reforms were a waste of time as they would be disputed.
“People need reforms, and it will be foolhardy for people to just be programmed. Let’s move away from this programming and see what has made our elections disputable for these last years.
We must come to reality and say because we don’t have electoral reforms, the outcome is predetermined and can be manipulated, and it will be stupid for Zimbabweans to go for an election or a programme that they know the outcome is predetermined.
The time is now for the people of Zimbabwe to go to the drawing table to say what are the serious issues affecting us, and then we do a process to welcome whoever the winner is,” claimed Komichi.
He further claimed Zimbabwe was now poorer because of the country’s preoccupation with elections for the last two decades.
“For the last 20 years, people are not concentrating on the economy, and that is why the country is poorer and poorer. Soon after voting, there is a dispute, court challenges, Sadc is involved and people do not benefit from
that.
People want national dialogue, a process that guarantees them better living and is predictable. With the experience of the 2008 dialogue, the 1987 unity dialogue among others, they are positive on the dialogue process to resolve conflict. We have a challenge as Zimbabweans right now that we are only two years before elections, but we have never sat down to dialogue over a thing like electoral reforms, and you know our elections have been disputed since time immemorial. To me, it will be very unreasonable for us as Zimbabweans to just assume things will be okay on their own without us taking action as far as the pushing for national dialogue is concerned,” he told the publication.
Komichi also said there were negative perceptions regarding the Political Actors Dialogue as a Mnangagwa baby.
“But let us come back and say it was an effort to create a dialogue platform. What can we do as Zimbabweans to make it more friendly and inclusive? Let’s move away from the politics of acrimony.
That will be the product of the dialogue, but what we need is something that will benefit the people of Zimbabwe. Whatever comes of the dialogue that will benefit the people of Zimbabwe will be welcome.”
At a time when Zimbabwe is suffering a brain drain that’s caused 6 million to desert the country of their birth, a minister has announced that the nation is excited to export teachers.
Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Professor Paul Mavima said Zimbabwe is excited to co-operate with Rwanda on exportation of teachers.
“I’m really glad that the Rwandan President has called on us to provide teachers. We are going to work as quickly as possible to come up with that bilateral arrangement, he said.
He continued saying:
“And this one would serve as a model that we can use in other areas.
“We have medical professionals who are going abroad, we have social welfare officials who are going abroad, we have engineers who have gone to many places,” said Prof Mavima.
“We need to have a formal programme that makes sure that our country is benefiting from human capital development. By the way, the development of human capital is a national responsibility. We put money into training teachers, nurses and engineers, and we should, as a country, also benefit when our people go abroad.”
He added saying countries such as China and Cuba, among other nations, benefit from exporting their skilled workers.
He said through a bilateral agreement, Zimbabwe could earn foreign currency through taxing professionals working in other countries.
“This would be the first of its kind so that next time when we export our human capital, we would already have a model which we can base on. It’s unlike in situations where people migrate individually and go to other countries.
This time it’s going to be a bilateral arrangement; we will know how many teachers we have sent there,” he said.
“We will also know what conditions of service they are going to work under, what kind of protection they have, what kind of taxation system, how do we have a system that part of their taxation in Rwanda benefits Zimbabwe in a formal manner.”
Prof Mavima said he was confident that Zimbabwean teachers will shine, as they have proved in other nations.
“This is why Rwanda is now saying give us your teachers because they are good. But Botswana is also running on Zimbabwean teachers, South Africa is running on Zimbabwean teachers, Namibia is running on Zimbabwean teachers. When you go to the United Kingdom, you find that when they do their annual competitions for teachers,
Zimbabwean teachers win there. I was surprised two to three years ago when I went to the UK, a Zimbabwean teacher had actually won £1 million for being the best teacher in that country,” said Prof Mavima.
He said while exporting skills was necessary, the country should also work towards retaining some skilled labour.
“We also need to take care of the motivation of teachers. We have to deal with the conditions of service of teachers as our economy grows. We need to make sure that our teachers are well remunerated so that we continue our human capital development,” he said. – state media/additional reporting
Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance Youth Assembly on Sunday took the voter registration campaign to Mbire Constituency, Mashonaland Central Province.
Mashonaland Central Province is regarded as a no go area for perceived Zanu PF opponents.
Read full statement below:
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly Invades Rural Mbire
03-10-2021
The MDC Alliance Youth Assembly today took its rural mobilization campaign program to Mbire constituency in Mashonaland Central Province.
Running under the One million Campaign, the Assembly organised #NgaapindeHakeMukomana Soccer Tourney where more than 10 teams participated.
The main goal of the program is to converge rural youths through sport to win Zimbabwe for Change. As MDC- Alliance Youth assembly, we aim to build a rural youth that is conscious of political rights.
Our goal is to play a leading role in making sure young people register to vote as we target the 6 million vote for the People’s President Advocate Nelson Chamisa.
The Assembly leadership led by Commander Cecillia Chimbiri, Spokesperson Stephen Chuma, Secretary for Policy and Research Joanah Mamombe and Acting Organizer Lovejoy Chitengu today attended this recruitment and mobilization Soccer Tournament.
Mashonaland Central National Executive Committee member, Gilbert Kagodora, Mashonaland Central Youth Chair, Willard Jemedze and Women Assembly Treasurer General, Bacillia Majaya also attended the event.
Stephen Sarkozy Chuma
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Spokesperson
Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners launched the first ever global strategy to defeat meningitis – a debilitating disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year.
By 2030, the goals are to eliminate epidemics of bacterial meningitis – the most deadly form of the disease – and to reduce deaths by 70% and halve the number of cases. The organizations estimate that in total, the strategy could save more than 200,000 lives annually and significantly reduce disability caused by the disease.
This strategy, the Global Roadmap to Defeat Meningitis by 2030, was launched by a broad coalition of partners involved in meningitis prevention and control at a virtual event, hosted by WHO in Geneva. Its focus is on preventing infections and improving care and diagnosis for those affected.
“Wherever it occurs, meningitis can be deadly and debilitating; it strikes quickly, has serious health, economic and social consequences, and causes devastating outbreaks,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “It is time to tackle meningitis globally once and for all –by urgently expanding access to existing tools like vaccines, spearheading new research and innovation to prevent, detecting and treating the various causes of the disease, and improving rehabilitation for those affected.”
Meningitis is a dangerous inflammation of the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord, predominantly caused by infection with bacteria and viruses.
Meningitis that is caused by bacterial infection tends to be the most serious – leading to around 250,000 deaths a year – and can cause fast-spreading epidemics. It kills 1 in 10 of those infected – mostly children and young people – and leaves 1 in 5 with long-lasting disability, such as seizures, hearing and vision loss, neurological damage, and cognitive impairment.
Over the last ten years, meningitis epidemics have occurred in all regions of the world, though most commonly in the ‘Meningitis Belt,’ which spans 26 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa. These epidemics are unpredictable, can severely disrupt health systems, and create poverty – generating catastrophic expenditures for households and communities.
“More than half a billion Africans are at risk of seasonal meningitis outbreaks but the disease has been off the radar for too long,” said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa.
“This shift away from firefighting outbreaks to strategic response can’t come soon enough. This roadmap will help protect the health and lives of hundreds of thousands of families who every year fear this disease.”
Several vaccines protect against meningitis, including meningococcal, Haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal vaccines. However, not all communities have access to these lifesaving vaccines, and many countries are yet to introduce them into their national programmes.
While research is underway to develop vaccines for other causes of meningitis, such as Group B Strep bacteria, there remains an urgent need for innovation, funding and research to develop more meningitis-preventive vaccines. Efforts are also needed to strengthen early diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation for all those who need it after contracting the disease.
“This roadmap is the embodiment of the ambition of people and families affected around the world who have called for its creation.
It’s their experience and passion that has driven a whole community of interest to get this far,” said Vinny Smith, Chief Executive Officer of the Meningitis Research Foundation and the Confederation of Meningitis Organisations (CoMO), an international membership organization of patient advocacy groups for meningitis. “We celebrate together the common goal of defeating meningitis and will be led by their inspiration to make it happen.”
The new Roadmap details the following priorities for meningitis response and prevention:
Achievement of high immunization coverage, development of new affordable vaccines, and improved prevention strategies and outbreak response;
Speedy diagnosis and optimal treatment for patients;
Good data to guide prevention and control efforts;
Care and support for those affected, focusing on early recognition and improved access to care and support for after-effects, and
Advocacy and engagement, to ensure high awareness of meningitis, accountability for national plans, and affirmation of the right to prevention, care and after-care services.
WHO and partners are providing support to countries to implement the Roadmap, including through the development of regional and national frameworks that will help countries achieve its ambitious goals.
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“The Global Roadmap to Defeat Meningitis demonstrates what can be accomplished when a global need is met with global action,” said Nikolaj Gilbert, President and CEO of PATH. “Progress against meningitis has lagged for too long; by working together, we can overcome the disease that has cost so many lives in countries around the world. PATH is proud to have been a part of the roadmap’s development and is committed to advancing affordable and equitable vaccine solutions to defeat meningitis.”
“We must be united in our efforts to end all preventable childhood diseases, including bacterial meningitis,” said Dr. Aboubacar Kampo, Director of Health Programmes at UNICEF. “UNICEF has been supporting governments for decades, facilitating the delivery of life-saving meningitis vaccines. Still, far too many children are succumbing to this and other preventable diseases – and the situation is only worsening as a result of the pandemic.
We need to act decisively to strengthen primary health care and get routine immunization back on track, before more children face adverse health outcomes – or loss of life – inflicted by meningitis and other preventable infectious diseases.”
“Although the main burden of meningitis is in poor countries, acute bacterial meningitis is a global problem with no country being spared its devastating impact,” said Professor Sir Brian Greenwood, Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and co-chair of the Task Force supporting the implementation of the roadmap. “Thus, containing this serious group of infections needs a global response. This is what the roadmap sets out to achieve, bringing together – under the umbrella of WHO – health professionals from across the world to bring this condition under control by 2030.”
“The Meningitis Roadmap provides a clear blueprint for defeating this devastating disease,” said Professor Robert Heyderman, Head of the Research Department of Infection at University College London. “Crucially it identifies the gaps in our knowledge and the tools required. To achieve the Road Map’s ambitious goals, a team approach will bring together countries, global policymakers, civil society, funders, researchers, public health specialists, healthcare workers and industry to generate and implement innovative new strategies.
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Own Correspondent|There was chaos at the Braille Under 16 Tournament as the organizers failed to reward participants as per their promise.
The organizers are Shonhiwa and one Eddie from the Presidential Guard barracks in Dzivarasekwa.
“N C Sports Academy qualified for the Braille Under16 Tournament vs Mountain Academy.
Surprisingly the tournament organizers did not have prizes for the tournament …
The so-called organizer Shonhiwa and one coach Eddie are from army PG Barracks in DZ Harare ,what a shame to the development of Junior Football.
People must not fraudulently take money from parents and teams in the form of tournaments.. .
Junior players must be motivated ,it was a dark day in Kuwadzana yesterday .
Football authorities must take action with against bogus agents. Tournament rules and regulations must be followed ,tough luck to future young warriors of Zimbabwe@ Zimeye Sports,” a sourced wrote to ZimEye.com
By A Correspondent- The opposition MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora and MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa have agreed to field one candidate to contest council elections in Matabeleland South Province.
Over 80 council by-elections are pending across the country, and more than 40 parliamentary seats are vacant after the MDC-T recalled legislators and councillors affiliated with the MDC Alliance.
However, by-elections were suspended by the government due to COVID-19 regulations.
MDC-T’s Matabeleland South provincial executive has said it is opposed to recalls and wants unity talks with other opposition parties to ensure victory against Zanu PF.
The party’s chairperson in the province, Ekem Moyo, who is former Gwanda South legislator, said:
We are planning on having one single candidate from the MDC Alliance or MDC-T so that we push the Matabeleland South agenda. The electorate is clear that it wants a united MDC.
On Friday, the provincial executive led by Moyo, provincial secretary-general Younger Moyo and organising secretary Bekezela Maplanka met a number of MDC Alliance councillors in Gwanda to strike a unity pact.
He added that they were working with councillors from the MDC Alliance adding that they were elected and should not be sacrificed or fired as that might be against the interests of the electorate.
In terms of section 129(1)(k) of the Constitution, legislators and councillors can be recalled at the instigation of the party that got them elected into Parliament.
Electoral watchdogs like the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) have, however, expressed concern over the slow pace in implementing electoral reforms ahead of the by-elections and general elections in 2023.
More: NewsDay
By A Correspondent- Zanu PF Director for Information and Publicity, Tafadzwa Mugwadi, has insulted the MDC-Alliance President over his filthy picture circulating on social media.
A dirty picture of Mugwadi in a University of Zimbabwe hostel went viral on social media Sunday.
The picture set social media ablaze with his critics saying he was not rational as he was defending the Zanu-PF government, which made his life miserable.
Responding to a parody account under the username Nelson Chamisa, Mugwadi insulted the MDC-Alliance leader
Below is Mugwadi’s rants:
Dear embattled @nelsochamisa I read your comment where you insinuate that a photo that was taken in our study room in Manfred Hostel reflects my bedroom.
Let me say this comes as no surprise because having came to UZ via via poly thru mature entry, you hv no knowledge of college settings. Interesting revelations are that after getting academic amnesty at the law xul, u had poor students writing assignments for you, one of whom you appointed into the @mdczimbabwe youth league as a reward. To the contrary, I read & take responsibility as a student alone.
you are an illegimate legal practitioner. Worse still was your obsession with bedrooms. You are supposed to be called a pastor in some respects bt you have a dangerous obsession with bedrooms? What a shame mfanha? I am not surprised when they say Just as a reminder, I don’t leave a fancy life bt an ordinary one becoz I work for a Party tht believes in servant leadership. Your obsession with fancy life styles is the reason why millions hv disappeared at @mdczimbabwe coupled with tith wars at AFM to which u are a benefiary.
To subject my family to ridicule becoz of a college hostel room makes a mockery to your late mother who endured wasted 9 months only to die in a pauperial situation because the son was building a mansion out of stolen MDC funds. I live within my means & so are your supporters in the surbabs. They must feel embarrassed, ridiculed & offended by your drama-queen skits. This is why a sane person can’t spot your difference from Prophet Madungwe. You are a laughing and sick man of politics. Bapu rakawandisa mamuri @nelsonchamisa enda unotsitswa hana
A purported student at the University of Zimbabwe said the image was not taken in the institution’s hostel as claimed by Mugwadi and threatened to take legal action against him. Said one Souru Hwingwiri @faraihwingwiri:
On behalf of UZ ., we distance ourself from that torn bed. Will engage our lawyers to punish and sue mugwadi if he dsnt withdraw ths with 30mins time frm ths time.
Commenting on the picture below, MDC Alliance said the picture reflects the lifestyles of the majority of Zanu-PF supporters adding that a change in leadership will also help them live normal lives.
-Pindula/Additional
By A Correspondent- Former deputy finance minister and Zanu PF Harare East legislator Terence Mukupe hauled insults and obscenities to Community Water Alliance leader Hardlife Mudzingwa over his involvement in a bid to stop construction on Cleveland Wetland.
The controversial legislator who fronts a local property developer, Nakiso Holdings which is constructing a stadium close to the Cleveland Wetland lost his cool after learning that a group of civic society leaders including CWA national coordinator Hardlife Mudzingwa had visited the site.
The former deputy finance minister called Mudzingwa threatening him not to pursue halting the development on the wetland area or else he was going to sue him.
“Saka ndakukuudza this is my final warning to you, itai zvaurikuita kwauri kuita.Saka zvako zvekufunga kuti you I think I can be coward.
“Urikuita zvekubhadharwa, Don’t call me Honourable, I am not your friend.
“Ndirikutoshamisika kuti why Mafume (Jacob Mafume) has not written to you for those defamatory statements you issued,” charged Mukupe in a recorded phone call heard by this reporter.
The call also revealed that Mukupe is livid because he thinks he is being targeted because of his Zanu PF roots because at the same site there is a stand belonging to Harare East MP, MDC A vice president Tendai Biti.
“Property iri next door ndeyaTendai Biti.Handisikunzwa uchita noise about Tendai Biti.Sei musirikutaura nezvaTendai Biti,” added Mukupe.
The former deputy minister insulted Mudzingwa with unprintable words and threatened to shoot him if he is to set his foot again on the construction site.
In 2018 , the former deputy minister Terence Mukupe assaulted NewsDay journalist, Blessed Mhlanga who lost his phone during the fracas at a local radio station where they had gone for a radio interview.
Despite the threats, the Community Water Alliance leader Hardlife Mudzingwa has vowed to ensure due process was followed in awarding Nakiso Holdings the permission to construct.
“I will remain focused on wetlands preservation and will not stop to ensure that the construction is within the legal framework,” vowed Mudzingwa.
There has been an outcry by civic society organisations under the banner of Harare Wetlands Trust on the continued wetlands invasion which has worsened the water crisis currently bedeviling the city. The organisations believe that they should be a robust wetlands management which will help in water recharge and cut costs on water treatment.
By A Correspondent- Zanu PF government’s secretary for Information, Nick Mangwana, has celebrated the temporary collapse of social media platforms.
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger stopped working shortly before 6 PM, Monday.
Facebook has nearly three billion accounts, Instagram with more than 1.3 billion and WhatsApp has over two billion active accounts.
The social media platforms have since apologised to the whole world through their Twitter accounts, saying they were working tirelessly to restore the Apps.
Celebrating the crashing of these social media platforms on his Twitter page, Mangwana mocked the public, saying, “you must be suffering”.
“So these guys have crashed. And you are suffering big time right now. That’s a sign that you need therapy,” he posted.
Zimbabweans resort to social media to speak the truth to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s maladministration.
The government has a history of arresting citizens who would have challenged the status quo through social media.
By A Correspondent- Facebook has responded to the server outage that has affected the entire world.
Facebook users worldwide are currently experiencing connection loss since 6PM.
The same is happening to other social media platforms, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.
The apps stopped working shortly before 6 PM, Monday.
Facebook has nearly three billion accounts, Instagram with more than 1.3 billion and WhatsApp has over two billion active accounts.
Apologising to its clients using its Twitter account soon after the network signal loss, Facebook said it was working tirelessly to restore the App.
“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience,” said Facebook.
By A Correspondent- WhatsApp has apologised for the server outage that has affected most parts of the world.
Zimbabwe, South Africa, and many other countries today lost access to social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger.
The apps stopped working shortly before 6 PM, Monday.
WhatsApp has over two billion active accounts.
Apologising to its clients using its Twitter account soon after the network signal loss, WhatsApp said it was working tirelessly to restore the App.
“We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience,” WhatsApp said.
By A Correspondent- Police in Beitbridge border post has arrested 37 suspects for attempting to smuggle 76 cardboard crates of export quality Remmington Gold cigarettes out of the country into South Africa.
The accused persons have since appeared before Beitbridge Resident Magistrate Mr Takudzwa Gwazemba .
Prosecuting Mr Ronald Mugwagwa said the security men at Point 40 near Vhembe Game Park, received information that there were smuggling activities at an illegal crossing point near the same area.
They then reacted and intercepted the 37 accused persons who were crossing into South Africa carrying the cardboard crates boxes of Remington Gold cigarettes.
The boxes were neatly packed in sacks that had been improvised as satchels.
Mr Mugwagwa said the group was subsequently arrested and the contraband was taken to the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) for valuation.
The smuggling of cigarettes from Zimbabwe into South Africa through illegal crossing points along the Limpopo River relatively increased at the beginning of April last year prompting security from both countries to intensify anti-smuggling initiatives.
The market exists because of the high duties that South Africa charges, so it is possible to make a profit even buying cigarettes at retail prices in Zimbabwe.
It is understood that 30 percent of cigarettes in South Africa are from Zimbabwe with brands including Pacific, Remington gold, Mega, Dullahs, Branson, and Sevilles.
South Africa’s tax watchdog, Tax Justice SA (TJSA) has accused cigarettes manufacturers in the neighbouring country of paying lip service to tax laws following the surge in tobacco smuggling.
The organisation’s founder Mr Yusuf Abramjee said many shops in the neighbouring country were full of these illicit cigarettes, which rob South Africa of billions of rand in desperately needed taxes.
He said investigations by market researchers IPSOS revealed that 85 percent of GLTC-owned brands bought in the survey were sold below the minimum collectible tax rate of R21.60 per pack.
Mr Abramjee said it had also been established that every single pack of Remington Gold purchased in the survey was below the minimum and that some were sold for as little as R10.
“Most of these cigarettes are being brought in by foot, in commercial trucks, buses, and tankers, and the police, the army, and customs officials have been intercepting the smugglers at the border or various areas within the country,” he said.
“The smugglers are bribing officials to bring in their loads and this is bad for the local industry. We have been engaging SARS and we are happy that they are acting on plugging the loopholes, but still want to see them do more”.
Mr Abramjee also appealed to the South African government to carry out an inquiry into the smuggling and trade of illicit cigarettes.
“We need such an inquiry which will then inform the formulation of a long-term solution to this vice,” he added.
Investigations by the Herald reveal that the demand for Zimbabwe’s tobacco and related products by other countries has seen the establishment of well-orchestrated syndicates who facilitate the illegal trade.
While Zimbabwe exports tobacco to South Africa legally, not many manufacturerd cigarettes are exported because of the high duties. The smuggled cigarettes can easily undercut the South Africa prices if duty is not paid.
Statistics from the South African Revenue Services show that a total of 82 689 043kg of tobacco were imported from Zimbabwe between January 2010 until March 2015.
These include imports of Cigars, Cheroots, Cigarillos, and Cigarettes, of Tobacco or of Tobacco Substitutes.
Cigarettes imported from Zimbabwe pay duty at a rate of R6.21 per 10 cigarettes.
-State media
By A Correspondent- Social media platforms which include Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp have crashed.
The apps, which are all owned by Facebook, and run-on shared infrastructure, stopped working shortly before 6PM.
“We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience,” WhatsApp said in a statement on Twitter.
According to the Verge, just as Facebook’s Antigone Davis was live on CNBC defending the company’s policies and its handling of research data suggesting Instagram is harmful to teens, its network of services suddenly went offline. Instagram.com is flashing a 5xx Server Error message, while the Facebook site merely tells us that something went wrong.
A peek at Down Detector reveals the problems are widespread. There’s no word yet from Facebook about what may be causing the problem or when those sites, including Messenger and WhatsApp, will be operational again, but we will update with more information when it’s available.
Facebook has nearly three billion accounts, Instagram with more than 1.3 billion and WhatsApp has over two billion active accounts.
-State Media/Additional
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From prison to Standing Committee
Cdes and friends help me to congratulate Cde Leader Last Maengahama for his appointment to the MDC Alliance National Standing Committee as the Secretary for Policy and Research, this is a clear testimony of God’s work and great leadership being exhibited by President Adv Nelson Chamisa, a leader recognising and acknowledging a cde whom he worked with from the beginning, Leader Maengahama has been in the trenches since the inception of MDC, a founding member, he was very instrumental in the creation of not only Harare Province structures but other provinces too.
I say congratulations leader Maengahama from the bottom of my heart and wish you all the best, l am happy for you my brother, from Prison to the National Standing Committee, thank you President Adv Nelson Chamisa- Fortune Munyonga
By A Correspondent| The recently released Pandora Papers have provided answers to all the land problems Chisumbanje villagers have been facing since controversial businessman Billy Rautenbach established his ethanol production company on their door-step.
According to the Pandora Papers, Rautenbach’s Green Fuel business was constantly making losses due to the unviability of its operations which resulted in him pushing the Zimbabwe government to gazette mandatory blending which forced all locally sold fuel to be mixed with ethanol under the guise of reducing fuel import bill.
The report further revealed Billy’s insatiable appetite for land which has seen him demanding more land to feed into his business which since its inception has been falsely externalising its profits under the guise of paying back a loan to his offshore company.
As reported in the South Africa’s Daily Maverick, Green Fuel claimed to have been making losses with the bulk of its liabilities stemming from interest bearing loans which Rautenbach made to himself at very high interest rates.
The report further revealed that Rautenbach made a false donation of a company to his wife claiming that it was payment for her role in the while business empire but later revelations showed that he still retained control of his so called donated investment to his wife.
In 2016, the company’s auditors raised concern about its ability to continue as a going concern due to it suffering $12,8-million losses in that financial year and its current liabilities exceeding current assets by $229-million.
The bulk of the liabilities stemmed from interest-bearing loans which Rautenbach made to himself at interest rates of between 8% to 20% per annum.
In addition, an improvement in Green Fuel’s performance and likelihood of future profitability is also highly dependent on being able to expand its harvestable sugarcane so that the plant can operate at its installed 100-million litre capacity: in other words, getting access to more land.
From prison to Standing Committee
Cdes and friends help me to congratulate Cde Leader Last Maengahama for his appointment to the MDC Alliance National Standing Committee as the Secretary for Policy and Research, this is a clear testimony of God’s work and great leadership being exhibited by President Adv Nelson Chamisa, a leader recognising and acknowledging a cde whom he worked with from the beginning, Leader Maengahama has been in the trenches since the inception of MDC, a founding member, he was very instrumental in the creation of not only Harare Province structures but other provinces too.
I say congratulations leader Maengahama from the bottom of my heart and wish you all the best, l am happy for you my brother, from Prison to the National Standing Committee, thank you President Adv Nelson Chamisa- Fortune Munyonga
Warriors striker Knox Mutizwa has made history for DStv Premiership side Golden Arrows by becoming the club’s all time leading goalscorer.
The 27-year old former Highlanders man netted his 40th goal for the Durban-based side in their 3-1 victory over Marumo Gallants yesterday.
In so doing, the soft-spoken striker surpassed club legend Mabhuti Khanyeza, who previously held the record, with 39 goals for Abafana Bes’thende.
“Another milestone for Mutizwa Congratulations to Knox ‘The Hitman’ Mutizwa who became the all time top-scoring player for Lamontville Golden Arrows yesterday as he scored his 40th goal for the club. He surpasses Mabhuti Kenyeza who previously held the record of 39,” read a statement from Golden Arrows.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Warriors captain Knowledge Musona will be the first player to arrive in Ghana for the World Cup qualifier on Saturday.
The ‘Smiling Assassin’, fresh from scoring a brilliant goal for Al Tai in Saudi Arabia this past weekend, will be the first player to arrive in the West African country, when he touches down today.
Team Manager Wellington Mpandare said the technical team, as well as locally-based players in the squad, will leave depart Harare for South Africa tomorrow, then connect to Ghana.
“We are leaving tomorrow and arriving same day. We are linking up with South African-based players in including (Thabani) Kamusoko, in Johannesburg,” he said.
“Knowledge (Musona) is arriving in Ghana today. The rest will arrive tomorrow while Teanage will be the last to arrive, on the 6th,” added Mpandare.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa says his government will not send citizens to jail for political reasons.
Prison is for real criminals and corrupt individuals, according to President Chamisa.
He also denounced the persecution of political activists by the Zanu PF regime.
“Under OUR GOVERNMENT nobody would be beaten,abducted,
attacked or maimed for demonstrating,no one will be arrested for politics.
Jail will be strictly for criminals,the corrupt & thieving. We’ll encourage free expression &difference of opinion. #FreeMako #imagineadifferentZimbabwe,” President Chamisa posted on Twitter.
The United Kingdom-based Warriors stars will now only take part in only one of the World Cup qualifiers against Ghana, it has been confirmed.
Zimbabwe take on Ghana in a crucial Group G double-header, starting with an away clash in Cape Coast on Saturday, before the return-leg at the National Sports Stadium on Tuesday.
The participation of United Kingdom-based players in both games was dependent on negotiations between FIFA and clubs in that country, since Zimbabwe is on the Boris Johnson-led government’s Covid-19 ‘Red List’.
The UK government gave the green-light for fully-vaccinated players to attend games in countries on the Red List, an arrangement Aston Villa’s Marvelous Nakamba and AFC Bournemouth’s Jordan Zemura were set to benefit from and take part in the fixture in Harare.
However, there are certain conditions which should come with that arrangement; the players are supposed to return to the United Kingdom in a private jet and also quarantine upon arrival and also not interact with their families.
Team Manager Wellington Mpandare confirmed that the four UK-based players; Nakamba, Zemura, Brendan Galloway and Tendayi Darikwa, will only play in the away game in Ghana and return to their bases because unlike Zimbabwe, the West African country is not on that list.
“No joy on the UK-based players, they will only play the away game,” he said.
Whether or not that arrangement will also affect Ghana depends on if the Ghana Football Association can afford to hire a private jet to ferry their UK-based continent from Harare to the UK, after Tuesday’s game.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
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Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF president Emmerson Mnangagwa and captured opposition leader, Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora are secretly planning to circumvent by-elections and the 2023 polls, ZimEye.com has learnt.
Impeccable source have revealed both men are afraid of polls- hence the plot to suspend voting processes.
MDC T national chairperson, Morgen Komichi, quoted by NewsDay, claimed elections without reforms were a waste of time as they would be disputed.
“People need reforms, and it will be foolhardy for people to just be programmed. Let’s move away from this programming and see what has made our elections disputable for these last years.
We must come to reality and say because we don’t have electoral reforms, the outcome is predetermined and can be manipulated, and it will be stupid for Zimbabweans to go for an election or a programme that they know the outcome is predetermined.
The time is now for the people of Zimbabwe to go to the drawing table to say what are the serious issues affecting us, and then we do a process to welcome whoever the winner is,” claimed Komichi.
He further claimed Zimbabwe was now poorer because of the country’s preoccupation with elections for the last two decades.
“For the last 20 years, people are not concentrating on the economy, and that is why the country is poorer and poorer. Soon after voting, there is a dispute, court challenges, Sadc is involved and people do not benefit from
that.
People want national dialogue, a process that guarantees them better living and is predictable. With the experience of the 2008 dialogue, the 1987 unity dialogue among others, they are positive on the dialogue process to resolve conflict. We have a challenge as Zimbabweans right now that we are only two years before elections, but we have never sat down to dialogue over a thing like electoral reforms, and you know our elections have been disputed since time immemorial. To me, it will be very unreasonable for us as Zimbabweans to just assume things will be okay on their own without us taking action as far as the pushing for national dialogue is concerned,” he told the publication.
Komichi also said there were negative perceptions regarding the Political Actors Dialogue as a Mnangagwa baby.
“But let us come back and say it was an effort to create a dialogue platform. What can we do as Zimbabweans to make it more friendly and inclusive? Let’s move away from the politics of acrimony.
That will be the product of the dialogue, but what we need is something that will benefit the people of Zimbabwe. Whatever comes of the dialogue that will benefit the people of Zimbabwe will be welcome.”
I would like to apologise to all my fans if only if you really dissappointed about this pictures .. they were lot of beautiful pictures that a cameraman was gonna post , but he choose to post this to promote his brand but forgetting the damage he is doing to my soul ..
I know i am strong and all this will pass … Unfortunately I cannot change my inner part ..
i am like this and i am proud…. The only thing that you people are doing is to try to edit my pictures nikhonanisa mafhungo ..
yes i am strong but my family and friends they are not strong as i am .. seeing them crying about edited pictures really break me and affect me badly.
I would like to ask everyone who react with this picture and edited pictures that you are planting something that can affect me badly …
I humble my self politely to ask everyone to stop humiliating me ..
I dont have energy to block you
I love you all ..
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Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance Youth Assembly on Sunday took the voter registration campaign to Mbire Constituency, Mashonaland Central Province.
Mashonaland Central Province is regarded as a no go area for perceived Zanu PF opponents.
Read full statement below:
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly Invades Rural Mbire
03-10-2021
The MDC Alliance Youth Assembly today took its rural mobilization campaign program to Mbire constituency in Mashonaland Central Province.
Running under the One million Campaign, the Assembly organised #NgaapindeHakeMukomana Soccer Tourney where more than 10 teams participated.
The main goal of the program is to converge rural youths through sport to win Zimbabwe for Change. As MDC- Alliance Youth assembly, we aim to build a rural youth that is conscious of political rights.
Our goal is to play a leading role in making sure young people register to vote as we target the 6 million vote for the People’s President Advocate Nelson Chamisa.
The Assembly leadership led by Commander Cecillia Chimbiri, Spokesperson Stephen Chuma, Secretary for Policy and Research Joanah Mamombe and Acting Organizer Lovejoy Chitengu today attended this recruitment and mobilization Soccer Tournament.
Mashonaland Central National Executive Committee member, Gilbert Kagodora, Mashonaland Central Youth Chair, Willard Jemedze and Women Assembly Treasurer General, Bacillia Majaya also attended the event.
Stephen Sarkozy Chuma
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Spokesperson
MEMORANDUM TO OFFICERS IN CHARGE STATIONS MT DARWIN DISTRICT FROM OFFICER COMMANDING POLICE MT DARWIN DISTRICT
DATE 03/10/2021
Index 670/21
SUBJECT MISUSE OF SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS BY POLICE OFFICERS
Repeated hereunder is Deputy Commissioner General [Operations] memorandum dated 29 September 2021 and Propol Mash Central memorandum 2569/21 dated 01 October 2021 with the above subject.
Reference is made to Chief Staff officer [Operations] memorandum 110/20 dated 22/01/20 This Headquarters has noted with concern the proliferation of photos and videos on social media platforms where police officers are openly seen denigrating the Government, uttering political statements and improperly dressed with some female officers posting sexually seductive photos and videos in full Zimbabwe Republic Police uniform .
This conduct is tarnishing the Zimbabwe Republic Police’s image and is contrary to the dictates of the disciplinary code as espoused in the Police Act, Chapter 11:10. Commanders are implored to immediately identify such members and take decisive action which includes disciplinary trials and boards of inquiry (suitability).
The current trending video on the social media where two members are seen openly dressed in Police uniform, holding a swipe card, while displaying local currency notes and lip syncing to the lyrics of the song Munyu Hauchavavi (Salt) by Blessing Shumba, is a case in point.
Commanders are to acknowledge receipt of this important memorandum by 0800 hours today 04/10/21.
MT DARWIN DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS
Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa says his government will not send citizens to jail for political reasons.
Prison is for real criminals and corrupt individuals, according to President Chamisa.
He also denounced the persecution of political activists by the Zanu PF regime.
“Under OUR GOVERNMENT nobody would be beaten,abducted,
attacked or maimed for demonstrating,no one will be arrested for politics.
Jail will be strictly for criminals,the corrupt & thieving. We’ll encourage free expression &difference of opinion. #FreeMako #imagineadifferentZimbabwe,” President Chamisa posted on Twitter.
Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners launched the first ever global strategy to defeat meningitis – a debilitating disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year.
By 2030, the goals are to eliminate epidemics of bacterial meningitis – the most deadly form of the disease – and to reduce deaths by 70% and halve the number of cases. The organizations estimate that in total, the strategy could save more than 200,000 lives annually and significantly reduce disability caused by the disease.
This strategy, the Global Roadmap to Defeat Meningitis by 2030, was launched by a broad coalition of partners involved in meningitis prevention and control at a virtual event, hosted by WHO in Geneva. Its focus is on preventing infections and improving care and diagnosis for those affected.
“Wherever it occurs, meningitis can be deadly and debilitating; it strikes quickly, has serious health, economic and social consequences, and causes devastating outbreaks,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “It is time to tackle meningitis globally once and for all –by urgently expanding access to existing tools like vaccines, spearheading new research and innovation to prevent, detecting and treating the various causes of the disease, and improving rehabilitation for those affected.”
Meningitis is a dangerous inflammation of the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord, predominantly caused by infection with bacteria and viruses.
Meningitis that is caused by bacterial infection tends to be the most serious – leading to around 250,000 deaths a year – and can cause fast-spreading epidemics. It kills 1 in 10 of those infected – mostly children and young people – and leaves 1 in 5 with long-lasting disability, such as seizures, hearing and vision loss, neurological damage, and cognitive impairment.
Over the last ten years, meningitis epidemics have occurred in all regions of the world, though most commonly in the ‘Meningitis Belt,’ which spans 26 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa. These epidemics are unpredictable, can severely disrupt health systems, and create poverty – generating catastrophic expenditures for households and communities.
“More than half a billion Africans are at risk of seasonal meningitis outbreaks but the disease has been off the radar for too long,” said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa.
“This shift away from firefighting outbreaks to strategic response can’t come soon enough. This roadmap will help protect the health and lives of hundreds of thousands of families who every year fear this disease.”
Several vaccines protect against meningitis, including meningococcal, Haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal vaccines. However, not all communities have access to these lifesaving vaccines, and many countries are yet to introduce them into their national programmes.
While research is underway to develop vaccines for other causes of meningitis, such as Group B Strep bacteria, there remains an urgent need for innovation, funding and research to develop more meningitis-preventive vaccines. Efforts are also needed to strengthen early diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation for all those who need it after contracting the disease.
“This roadmap is the embodiment of the ambition of people and families affected around the world who have called for its creation.
It’s their experience and passion that has driven a whole community of interest to get this far,” said Vinny Smith, Chief Executive Officer of the Meningitis Research Foundation and the Confederation of Meningitis Organisations (CoMO), an international membership organization of patient advocacy groups for meningitis. “We celebrate together the common goal of defeating meningitis and will be led by their inspiration to make it happen.”
The new Roadmap details the following priorities for meningitis response and prevention:
Achievement of high immunization coverage, development of new affordable vaccines, and improved prevention strategies and outbreak response;
Speedy diagnosis and optimal treatment for patients;
Good data to guide prevention and control efforts;
Care and support for those affected, focusing on early recognition and improved access to care and support for after-effects, and
Advocacy and engagement, to ensure high awareness of meningitis, accountability for national plans, and affirmation of the right to prevention, care and after-care services.
WHO and partners are providing support to countries to implement the Roadmap, including through the development of regional and national frameworks that will help countries achieve its ambitious goals.
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“The Global Roadmap to Defeat Meningitis demonstrates what can be accomplished when a global need is met with global action,” said Nikolaj Gilbert, President and CEO of PATH. “Progress against meningitis has lagged for too long; by working together, we can overcome the disease that has cost so many lives in countries around the world. PATH is proud to have been a part of the roadmap’s development and is committed to advancing affordable and equitable vaccine solutions to defeat meningitis.”
“We must be united in our efforts to end all preventable childhood diseases, including bacterial meningitis,” said Dr. Aboubacar Kampo, Director of Health Programmes at UNICEF. “UNICEF has been supporting governments for decades, facilitating the delivery of life-saving meningitis vaccines. Still, far too many children are succumbing to this and other preventable diseases – and the situation is only worsening as a result of the pandemic.
We need to act decisively to strengthen primary health care and get routine immunization back on track, before more children face adverse health outcomes – or loss of life – inflicted by meningitis and other preventable infectious diseases.”
“Although the main burden of meningitis is in poor countries, acute bacterial meningitis is a global problem with no country being spared its devastating impact,” said Professor Sir Brian Greenwood, Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and co-chair of the Task Force supporting the implementation of the roadmap. “Thus, containing this serious group of infections needs a global response. This is what the roadmap sets out to achieve, bringing together – under the umbrella of WHO – health professionals from across the world to bring this condition under control by 2030.”
“The Meningitis Roadmap provides a clear blueprint for defeating this devastating disease,” said Professor Robert Heyderman, Head of the Research Department of Infection at University College London. “Crucially it identifies the gaps in our knowledge and the tools required. To achieve the Road Map’s ambitious goals, a team approach will bring together countries, global policymakers, civil society, funders, researchers, public health specialists, healthcare workers and industry to generate and implement innovative new strategies.
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Tinashe Sambiri|The late national hero Wereki Sandinayi was totally neglected by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration…
This was said by MDC Alliance Secretary General Hon Charlton Hwende.
Sandinayi died without food and proper medication.
Hon Hwende wrote on Facebook:
“The sad part about National Hero Cde Wereki Sandinayi who died on 25 Sept at Mt Darwin Hospital was that he died with no food, money , medication or a decent shelter.
@edmnangagwa neglected him just like the way he is neglecting all War Veterans #NgaapindeHakeMukomana.”
From prison to Standing Committee
Cdes and friends help me to congratulate Cde Leader Last Maengahama for his appointment to the MDC Alliance National Standing Committee as the Secretary for Policy and Research, this is a clear testimony of God’s work and great leadership being exhibited by President Adv Nelson Chamisa, a leader recognising and acknowledging a cde whom he worked with from the beginning, Leader Maengahama has been in the trenches since the inception of MDC, a founding member, he was very instrumental in the creation of not only Harare Province structures but other provinces too.
I say congratulations leader Maengahama from the bottom of my heart and wish you all the best, l am happy for you my brother, from Prison to the National Standing Committee, thank you President Adv Nelson Chamisa- Fortune Munyonga
Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF president Emmerson Mnangagwa and captured opposition leader, Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora are secretly planning to circumvent by-elections and the 2023 polls, ZimEye.com has learnt.
Impeccable source have revealed both men are afraid of polls- hence the plot to suspend voting processes.
MDC T national chairperson, Morgen Komichi, quoted by NewsDay, claimed elections without reforms were a waste of time as they would be disputed.
“People need reforms, and it will be foolhardy for people to just be programmed. Let’s move away from this programming and see what has made our elections disputable for these last years.
We must come to reality and say because we don’t have electoral reforms, the outcome is predetermined and can be manipulated, and it will be stupid for Zimbabweans to go for an election or a programme that they know the outcome is predetermined.
The time is now for the people of Zimbabwe to go to the drawing table to say what are the serious issues affecting us, and then we do a process to welcome whoever the winner is,” claimed Komichi.
He further claimed Zimbabwe was now poorer because of the country’s preoccupation with elections for the last two decades.
“For the last 20 years, people are not concentrating on the economy, and that is why the country is poorer and poorer. Soon after voting, there is a dispute, court challenges, Sadc is involved and people do not benefit from
that.
People want national dialogue, a process that guarantees them better living and is predictable. With the experience of the 2008 dialogue, the 1987 unity dialogue among others, they are positive on the dialogue process to resolve conflict. We have a challenge as Zimbabweans right now that we are only two years before elections, but we have never sat down to dialogue over a thing like electoral reforms, and you know our elections have been disputed since time immemorial. To me, it will be very unreasonable for us as Zimbabweans to just assume things will be okay on their own without us taking action as far as the pushing for national dialogue is concerned,” he told the publication.
Komichi also said there were negative perceptions regarding the Political Actors Dialogue as a Mnangagwa baby.
“But let us come back and say it was an effort to create a dialogue platform. What can we do as Zimbabweans to make it more friendly and inclusive? Let’s move away from the politics of acrimony.
That will be the product of the dialogue, but what we need is something that will benefit the people of Zimbabwe. Whatever comes of the dialogue that will benefit the people of Zimbabwe will be welcome.”
Labour Economists and Afrikan Democrats (LEAD) is saddened about the Beitbridge incident involving a Mulaudzi bus.
Frankly speaking the transportation system in Zimbabwe is now like a circus and there is need to to restore order and protection of passengers.
Government’s introduction of Zupco buses and the banning of Commuter Omnibuses was a good move which unfortunately has failed to service all routes and provide reliable, efficient and timeous transportation of the commuting public.
ZUPCO reduced bus fare hikes and stabilized the bus fare at a reasonable rate which has saved commuters the abuse from local tauts and commuter omnibuses operators, however the move has brought another challenge of shortage of public transport.
The commuting public which include school children, workers and various commuters are now spending a lot of time stranded in town due to the unavailability of the Zupco at certain times.
Government has to consider that introduction of curfews due to covid 19, Hass added on to the pressure of the availability of Zupco buses since people now work the same time thus travelling time of almost everyone is at the same time to and from the CBD.
Wherever there is a gap like this opportunists tend to arise. This is normal even in developed countries moreover in our country it’s bound to happen.
The shortage of ZUPCO buses has led other bus operators not registered with ZUPCI to operate to help with the transport crisis. It is unfortunate that time and again we have witnessed non ZUPCO buses being tear gased and the ZRP made a commitment that no bus shall be tear gased with passengers on board.
Violence is never the solution. What happened in Beitbridge concerning Mulaudzi bus is totally unacceptable.
As a party that is concerned with the protection of all Zimbabweans, we demand a thorough investigation on what really transpired with the Mulaudzi bus incident.
The UN Special Rapporteur on coercive measures is coming to Zimbabwe on the 18th of October to assess the impact of sanctions on the enjoyment of human rights.
As has been thee norm some of our erstwhile Comrades in the opposition forces usually use normative leverage by creating dubious situations ahead of the UN rapporteurs visit. We are all aware that Zimbabwe Traffic police does not carry teargas.
They carry spikes. Teargas is only used by anti riot police when there are riots. In the Mulaudzi buss incident video there is no sign of a police officer throwing tear gas into the bus.
It is not the first time this has happened, last time there was teargas in the courtroom during the trial of Job Sikhala in Masvingo. Thirdly, there is no evidence that the teargas is from ZRP.
We are now accustomed to the theatrics being organized and staged ahead of the country visit by the UN envoy so that the narrative of human rights violations is sustained and sanctions are sustained, illegal as they are because they were never approved by the UN Security Council.
Let us be vigilant and guard against the unpatriotic who thrive on painting Zimbabwe black . Innocent children where affected by the teargas to achieve what? All political parties should stop sacrificing innocent people to make political statements.
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By A Correspondent| The Constitutional Court will tomorrow 5 October 2021 deliver its ruling on a dispute between Chegutu West legislator Dexter Nduna and Gift Konjana of the MDC Alliance.
In the 2018 parliamentary elections, Nduna was erroneously declared the winner of Chegutu West seat despite losing to Konjana.
The matter has dragged on with the electoral mother body saying they wrote to court and parliament confirming their mistake.
Konjana has also tried several avenues to have the mishap corrected to no avail and will bank on the Constitutional Court to bring finality to the issue.
Below is the Con Court letter to both parties announcing the date for the verdict.
The ruling Zanu PF party yesterday sought to wash its hands of the furore surrounding the refusal by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to include the opposition MDC Alliance party in stakeholder meetings on electoral developments.
Zec last week invited other political parties to provincial meetings to discuss, among other issues, the legal framework, the electoral cycle, voter registration, delimitation and the polling process in preparation for future elections, but excluded the MDC Alliance, citing a non-existent court challenge over the use of the name and also “absence of guidance from powers that be”.
The opposition party took the commission’s position to mean that Zanu PF and the military were meddling in its operations.
Zanu PF director for information Tafadzwa Mugwadi yesterday rubbished the claims that they influenced Zec’s position to bar the MDC Alliance from participating in the meetings.
“It is not shocking and surprising when the MDC Alliance says those things. For the entire duration of their existence, they have been chasing shadows,” Mugwadi told NewsDay.
“They see Zanu PF everywhere. It is not by mistake because we are the popular party. We are also popular among them, and that is why if they have differences, they quickly point fingers at Zanu PF.
“It is not unusual. We are used to that and they should brace themselves for a thundering defeat in 2023. As Zanu PF, we don’t believe that winning elections is on the basis of raising a cocktail and encyclopedia of complaints to Zec. That is not our approach to elections. Our approach is rooted in the people, and we are among the people. That is where our strategies exist, simple as that,” Mugwadi added.
Zec is under fire for its links with Zanu PF and the military, amid a public outcry that the electoral body also lacked independence.
Last week, Zec chief elections officer Utoile Silaigwana claimed no one had been left behind in the stakeholders meetings, but the commission’s deputy chairperson Joyce Kazembe had earlier confirmed to NewsDay that the MDC Alliance was not invited.
The MDC Alliance has, over the years, blamed Zec for electoral fraud, citing the 2008 elections. Zec delayed announcing the results claiming “meticulous verification” before declaring MDC-T candidate, the late Morgan Tsvangirai the winner, but without a 50% plus one vote win required for him to assumed the reins.
This then forced the country to go for a violent run-off election, and Tsvangirai pulled out after hundreds of his supporters were maimed or killed in a wave of terror unleashed by the late former President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party. The electoral commission was also accused of abetting President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s win in the 2018 elections which were disputed by the opposition.
Zec has also been accused by the opposition, civil society and other groupings, of working with Zanu PF to block the holding of by-elections necessitated by the recall of MDC Alliance MPs by the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T.
– Newsday
By A Correspondent- Former Bulawayo deputy mayor Alderman Amen Mpofu, who succumbed to a kidney ailment on Friday, will be buried tomorrow at the Lady Stanley Cemetery in Bulawayo.
Mpofu (67) died at Mpilo Central Hospital after battling the disease for some time.
Family spokesperson Alderman Phinias Ndlovu, who is also the chairman of Bulawayo Eldermen, described Mpofu’s death as a great loss to the Bulawayo community.
“It is a great loss to the Bulawayo community as he was a people’s person who loved gatherings, and his contributions in meetings always made a difference. He will be buried on Tuesday in a reserved grave next to his wife at Lady Stanley Cemetery. He is survived by four children, a girl and three boys,” Ndlovu said.
He said Mpofu’s funeral service would be held at the Amphitheatre on Tuesday.
Bulawayo deputy mayor Mlandu Ncube described Mpofu as a fearless man who was passionate about Bulawayo.
He said during his tenure as deputy mayor, Mpofu groomed young people for leadership positions.
“At one time during the mayor’s annual review meeting, Mpofu openly told the former Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo to stop interfering with Bulawayo issues,” Ncube said.
By A Correspondent| Former deputy finance minister and Zanu PF Harare East legislator Terence Mukupe hauled insults and obscenities to Community Water Alliance leader Hardlife Mudzingwa over his involvement in a bid to stop construction on Cleveland Wetland.
The controversial legislator who fronts a local property developer, Nakiso Holdings which is constructing a stadium close to the Cleveland Wetland lost his cool after learning that a group of civic society leaders including CWA national coordinator Hardlife Mudzingwa had visited the site.
The former deputy finance minister called Mudzingwa threatening him not to pursue halting the development on the wetland area or else he was going to sue him.
“Saka ndakukuudza this is my final warning to you, itai zvaurikuita kwauri kuita.Saka zvako zvekufunga kuti you I think I can be coward.
“Urikuita zvekubhadharwa, Don’t call me Honourable, I am not your friend.
“Ndirikutoshamisika kuti why Mafume (Jacob Mafume) has not written to you for those defamatory statements you issued,” charged Mukupe in a recorded phone call heard by this reporter.
The call also revealed that Mukupe is livid because he thinks he is being targeted because of his Zanu PF roots because at the same site there is a stand belonging to Harare East MP, MDC A vice president Tendai Biti.
“Property iri next door ndeyaTendai Biti.Handisikunzwa uchita noise about Tendai Biti.Sei musirikutaura nezvaTendai Biti,” added Mukupe.
The former deputy minister insulted Mudzingwa with unprintable words and threatened to shoot him if he is to set his foot again on the construction site.
In 2018 , the former deputy minister Terence Mukupe assaulted NewsDay journalist, Blessed Mhlanga who lost his phone during the fracas at a local radio station where they had gone for a radio interview.
Despite the threats, the Community Water Alliance leader Hardlife Mudzingwa has vowed to ensure due process was followed in awarding Nakiso Holdings the permission to construct.
“I will remain focused on wetlands preservation and will not stop to ensure that the construction is within the legal framework,” vowed Mudzingwa.
There has been an outcry by civic society organisations under the banner of Harare Wetlands Trust on the continued wetlands invasion which has worsened the water crisis currently bedeviling the city. The organisations believe that they should be a robust wetlands management which will help in water recharge and cut costs on water treatment.
By A Correspondent- Tuku Music Promotions, represented by the late music icon Oliver Mtukudzi’s daughter Samantha Mtukudzi, is today expected to appear in court on allegations of failing to pay income tax returns and value added tax to the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority.
Samantha, who is Tuku Music publicist, is also being jointly charged with the late music hero’s establishment.
They are alleged to have failed to submit tax returns from July 2019 to December 2020.
They are expected to appear before Harare magistrate Mrs Tafadzwa Miti.
Meanwhile, Samantha is claiming a Maltese dog called Alvin Jazz in a messy, elongated divorce wrangle with footballer Tinashe Nengomasha.
Samantha in December 2019 filed for the couple’s divorce which is yet to be finalised.
In a latest development, Samantha is now claiming R6 000 as maintenance for the two minor children born out of the marriage, 100 percent school fees and 100 percent medical aid.
According to the fresh summons, the couple has been living separately for a period now exceeding two years.
Nengomasha married Samantha on December 24th, 2011, in terms of the Marriage Act Chapter 5:11 and the marriage still subsists.
“The marriage relationship between the parties has broken down irretrievably to such an extent that the parties can no longer live together as husband and wife more particularly in that Samantha and Nengomasha have lost love and affection for each other.
“The parties have been living separately and have not shared the matrimonial bed for a continuous period exceeding 24 months.
“There are no reasonable prospects for the restoration of a normal relationship between the parties.
“It is just and proper that Samantha be awarded the maltese dog named Alvin Jazz acquired during the subsistence of their marriage,” reads the summons.
The claim added; “That, Nengomasha pays 100 percent of school fees, top up levies, core curriculum activities, school trips, school uniforms and casual clothing for the minor children until they become self-sufficient or until they reach university, which occurs first.
“That, by the way of monetary contribution, Nengomasha pays R6 000 or the equivalent thereof at the interbank rate per month for the children until they attain majority.
“That, Nengomasha pays 100 percent towards the children’s medical aid per month,” wrote Samantha in her claim.
She is also claiming that after the divorce is finalised, she be granted custody of the minor children with reasonable rights being preferred to Nengomasha.
“Upon this honourable court being convinced and granting a decree of divorce it is in the best interest of the minor children that custody be granted to Samantha with Nengomasha being granted reasonable rights of access.
“That, he shall have the children every alternate weekend during the term but in any event by prior notice to Samantha.
“That, he shall have the children for two weeks and two alternate weekends in each school holiday until the children turn 18 or become tacitly emancipated,” she said.
Samantha is also claiming property the two acquired including houses in Hillside and Johannesburg, two motor vehicles, saloon equipment and household property.
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By A Correspondent- The opposition MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora and MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa have agreed to field one candidate to contest council elections in Matabeleland South Provice.
Over 80 council by-elections are pending across the country, and more than 40 parliamentary seats are vacant after the MDC-T recalled legislators and councillors affiliated with the MDC Alliance.
However, by-elections were suspended by the government due to COVID-19 regulations.
MDC-T’s Matabeleland South provincial executive has said it is opposed to recalls and wants unity talks with other opposition parties to ensure victory against Zanu PF.
The party’s chairperson in the province, Ekem Moyo, who is former Gwanda South legislator, said:
We are planning on having one single candidate from the MDC Alliance or MDC-T so that we push the Matabeleland South agenda. The electorate is clear that it wants a united MDC.
On Friday, the provincial executive led by Moyo, provincial secretary-general Younger Moyo and organising secretary Bekezela Maplanka met a number of MDC Alliance councillors in Gwanda to strike a unity pact.
He added that they were working with councillors from the MDC Alliance adding that they were elected and should not be sacrificed or fired as that might be against the interests of the electorate.
In terms of section 129(1)(k) of the Constitution, legislators and councillors can be recalled at the instigation of the party that got them elected into Parliament.
Electoral watchdogs like the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) have, however, expressed concern over the slow pace in implementing electoral reforms ahead of the by-elections and general elections in 2023.-newsday
Some Norton residents are facing the prospect of evictions from Council houses after they failed to pay rentals for a whole year.
The non-payment has resulted in residents having bills ranging between ZWL$20 000 to ZWL$70 000.
Earlier this week Norton Town Council sent the workers final reminders over the outstanding charges.
“The final reminders they received were a result of non-payment of rentals to council.
“Some have not paid rentals for over a year hence the final reminders,” an official said.
However the residents have raised queries over the bills.
They allege that they have been over-charged.
Stacy Chabvaneyi* said her bill was shocking.
“I cannot be expected to pay $2750 fixed charge for rentals alone per month it’s too much.
“It is the reason why we have simply failed to pay the rentals, where do we get such money.”
Council has since admitted to the billing errors and made adjustments.
The authorities said they would divide the individual balances by two for all the households were the billing errors were made.
The residents had been given until 30 September to have paid the money.
Council has agreed on payment plans after an initial deposit of 50%.
However the residents have been agitating for a deposit of 25%.
The houses were given to council when the owning companies closed.
Residents staying in them have previously been given preference to purchase.
However, according to NTC spokesperson Mr Kachere, only a few have taken up the offer.
“In 2018 council resolved that those who were once sharing but who at that period were no longer sharing were given option to purchase the houses.
“Out of 40 houses that met this criterion only 8-9 houses have been purchased,” he said.
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By Leonard Koni| The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) must be apolitical and must not dance to the whims of the ruling Zanu-PF party.
Failing to recognise the opposition MDC Alliance party led by Nelson Chamisa, which has more than two million supporters, and invite it to the stakeholders meetings is just being mischievous.
The party represents a bigger constituency in Zimbabwe than those who attended the meeting.
Zec chairperson Priscilla Chigumba must be ashamed of herself.
Zec’s behaviour exposes its double standards in discharging its duties and it cannot be trusted by electoral players.
Its existence is a complete joke and a disaster.
It is evident that the institution has been captured by the ruling party, hence electoral and media reforms should be instituted before it is too late.
It’s unfortunate that the electoral body is now acting like a Zanu-PF cell, which always waits for instruction from those controlling the levers of political power.
Zec has officially become a referee and a player at the same time and has ceased executing its constitutional duty of supervising and running elections to the satisfaction of Zimbabweans.
The recruitment of Zec officers must be interrogated and scrutinised. It looks like the institution is wholly manned by State security operatives who appear to be enablers of the regime.
It must stop being partisan and deliver its mandate without fear or favour.
It is critical that Zec be proactive and ensure that there is a level playing field for all contesting political parties.
Zec must be an exemplary leader in electoral democracy and supervising elections from time to time.
In 2008, Zec deliberately delayed to announce the presidential election results pitting the two late rivals, Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC) and Robert Mugabe (Zanu-PF).
On March 29, 2008, unofficial preliminary results indicated a favourable result for Tsvangirai.
Results were not officially released until May 2, when it was announced that Tsvangirai had garnered more votes (47,9%) than Mugabe (43,2%).
-Newsday
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has claimed that Zimbabweans have no plan that could remove the ruling Zanu-PF party at elections.
The former MDC Alliance secretary-general accused some opposition parties of only being active on social media, but without strategies to replace the ruling party in 2023.
Critics accuse Mwonzora of working with Zanu-PF to destroy the larger rival faction led by Nelson Chamisa ahead of the 2023 elections.
Mwonzora has so far recalled more than 40 MPs and 80 councillors that were elected on the MDC Alliance ticket, and is also trying to take over the party’s name.
Last week, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission did not invite the MDC Alliance to a Harare provincial stakeholder engagement meeting, alleging that its party name was under contention.
“We need to understand the values of democracy and plurality in our society. Zimbabweans are free to choose their political leaders. In other words, we should know exactly what we want to replace Zanu-PF with,” Mwonzora told NewsDay.
“The objective is to take over power peacefully and democratically and govern differently, thereby changing the lives of the people for the better. In other words, the main objective should not be power for the sake of power. It should be power to change the lives of our people.”
Mwonzora accused other opposition parties of losing focus.
“We have seen political parties whose main objective is to spread hate and propaganda on social media against other political parties,” he said.
Political analysts in Zimbabwe have in the past urged opposition parties to gang up against Zanu-PF in the 2023 elections.
But National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) president Lovemore Madhuku told NewsDay that it was imperative to evaluate what could replace the Zanu-PF government before pushing the coalition agenda.
“As the NCA party, we are not forming a coalition with anyone. Zanu-PF is currently not in office as it is a government that is not functional. I also do not believe that everyone in government is Zanu-PF,” Madhuku said.
“We have a government that is not performing and it must be replaced. It is not a question of just removing a government, but the issue is who must replace it. Zanu-PF must be replaced with a competent team with appropriate qualities that meet the people’s needs.”
-Newsday
Self exiled former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo has accused Information Secretary Nick Mangwana of setting the agenda and writing stories for the state owned Herald newspaper.
This follows an article published in The Herald headlined, ‘Calls for President to get 5 more years’ which Moyo says is developed from a hashtag created by Mangwana himself.
Posting on Twitter, Moyo said;
“CALLS FOR MNANGAGWA TO GET FIVE MORE YEARS” @HeraldZimbabwe 4/10/21 1. Calls made by @nickmangwana, a civil servant 2. Hashtag: #FiveMoreYears started by same civil servant 3. Story planted by same civil servant He’s violating s200 of the Constitution!
Twitter has of late become a hotly contested terrain with pro-opposition MDC Alliance users pushing the #NgapindeHakeMukomana while those from Zanu PF came up with a counter #EDTheGameChanger.
By Charles Dzimwasha| Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri last week said the Robert Mugabe administration had failed the country in the 40 years that it was in power, saying the Emmerson Mnangagwa dispensation had done much better in the three years they have been in power.
Muchinguri-Kashiri, who was giving a vote of thanks after President Emmerson Mnangagwa commissioned a Dairy Production and Milk Value Addition Centre of Excellence at the Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) farm last week, said she was recently left tongue-tied when she was asked tough questions on the performance of government in the past 40 years.
She, however, said the country had realised meaningful development in the past three years that Mnangagwa has been in power.
“President, I was being asked what we were doing in the last 40 years because there was no development. The only meaningful development being witnessed only started three years ago…where were you Cde Muchinguri, I was asked,” said Muchinguri-Kashiri.
“I had no answer to that, President, but I later said, maybe God wanted things to be done in the second republic. I am sure that was a good answer I gave.”
Both Muchinguri-Kashiri and Mnangagwa were key members of Mugabe’s government since 1980. The same government was accused of running down the economy, gross human rights violations among other challenges.
Mugabe’s rule started with him as Prime Minister in 1980 and ended in November 2017 after a military coup spearheaded by Mnangagwa working with the military then under the command of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who was the commander defence forces.
Observers said it was folly for the Mnangagwa administration to accuse Mugabe of failure when they were vital cogs in his Cabinet since 1980.
During Mugabe’s rule, Muchinguri-Kashiri was a known bootlicker of the then President. She would stop at nothing to praise the former strongman.
Muchinguri-Kashiri, however, said Mugabe, who is known for building a strong education foundation for the country, had done nothing over the years he was in power.
Despite accusing Mugabe of gross failure, Mnangagwa’s government has also been found wanting with the economy being his biggest failure as inflation, cash shortages and corruption are the order of the day.
On the political front, observers also accuse Mnangagwa of following in Mugabe’s footsteps by closing the democratic space.
Mnangagwa has, however, launched an ambitious road rehabilitation programme in the past two years, but has not been open on the source of funds for the programme.
While commissioning the Milk Value Addition Centre of Excellence, Mnangagwa said universities should churn out graduates who are innovative and employment creators.
By Farai D Hove | An expelled ZANU PF former MP, Killer Zivhu has sworn to die while crushing on the party leader Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Zivhu is a former MP for Chico South and was recently kicked out of the murderous party after proposing talks between his then boss Mnangagwa’s wife, Auxillia and Nelson Chamisa’s wife. Soon after that, the property developer quickly sought the party to forgive him.
At a time he is still to hear from ZANU PF, Killer has said he will die while attached to Mnangagwa.
He announced in a video posted on Saturday saying:
We are moving with our President Mnangagwa’s Vision 2030. “Right now I am drilling a borehole to help our community.
“I will continue supporting our President’s program. I will die while crushing on Mnangagwa.
“On Mnangagwa is where I will stay, no matter how difficult things may get.”
The MDC Alliance Youth Assembly yesterday visited Mbire constituency in Mashonaland Central as part of its program to mobilize rural youths to vote for Nelson Chamisa in the 2023 elections.
According to MDC Alliance youth spokesperson, Stephen Chuma, under the One million Campaign, the party organised #NgaapindeHakeMukomana Soccer Tourney where more than 10 teams participated.
“The main goal of the program is to converge rural youths through sport to win Zimbabwe for Change. As MDC- Alliance Youth assembly, we aim to build a rural youth that is conscious of political rights.
“Our goal is to play a leading role in making sure young people register to vote as we target the 6 million vote for the People’s President Advocate Nelson Chamisa,” Chuma said.
By A Correspondent- Bizzare incidents are playing out in the late former President Robert Mugabe’s rural Zvimba area after an 18-year-old high school pupil committed suicide by hanging near his newly buried father’s grave.
The incident took place Saturday night, just hours after his father had been buried.
A number of mourners were still to disperse.
Sources told a local publication the lifeless body of Tapiwa Dzepasi was found Sunday morning hanging from a tree as relatives proceeded to the graveyard to perform rituals at his late father’s grave.
The suspected suicide came just hours after the interment of Tapiwa’s father, Friday Dzepasi’s remains at the Mabvure village cemetery.
The elder Dzepasi died in Zambia early last week before repatriation of his remains for burial at the ancestral village.
“Tapiwa was an upper sixth student and was now orphaned following his father’s death. His mother passed on years ago and he was under the care of his paternal grandmother,” a relative said.
“He was reclusive and rarely talked. During his dad’s funeral he wept uncontrollably and was refusing to eat, and also showed signs of heavy distress. Tapiwa could have been uncertain of his future without a parent.”
The matter was reported at Kutama police station.
The incident comes barely hours after Mugabe’s family claimed his vengeful spirit was hovering around the area, killing and tormenting people who were trying to force the exhumation of his remains for burial at the National Heroes Acre in Harare.
Mugabe’s body was buried at his rural home in Kutama, Zvimba, following weeks of a protracted wrangling with government which had intended to lay him to rest at the national heroes’ acre in Harare against his wish.
Ever since, a messy battle has been raging for his exhumation, with the family he left behind adamant he should not be reburied.
The matter is currently in court.
One of the traditional leaders behind the fiasco, Chief Beperere, born Alfred Tome, succumbed to Covid-19 last month.
The family now claims he was a victim of Mugabe’s vengeful spirit.
His son Edward, who was spokesperson for the Zvimba chiefs when they met President Emmerson Mnangagwa in September last year to demand the re- burial of Mugabe, is now reportedly afflicted by an unusual ailment.
One of Edward’s sons is also said to be sick and Chiefs Zvimba and Chidziva are also said to be now bed-ridden.
Three artisanal miners died recently after breathing carbon monoxide generated by a
petrol engine they took underground to run a water pump in Shurugwi.
The incident occurred last Thursday, barely a week after three other miners died at Bonsa
mine, again in Shurugwi, after a ladder they were using collapsed.
Police in Shurugwi said the three who died in the disaster were pumping water
underground at J and C Mine and died in succession.
As the first passed out the second went down and when he was hit the third went down.
Area legislator, Cde Rabson Nyathi, who also confirmed the tragedy said the three had
taken a petrol engine pump into a 20-metre-deep shaft.
“They started the engine while underground and then went out leaving it running. One of
them then later got underground to check the levels of water, but due to carbon monoxide
he died.
“The second one went down to check why the first partner did not return and he was also
chocked and died, the same happened to the third guy, and they all died tragically in
succession while trying to check on each other,” he said.
Police identified the deceased as Moses Mzila (18), Gilbert Makusha (24) and Vusa
Mabutho (24), all of Dombojena in Shurugwi.
Carbon monoxide is generated within petrol engines and kills in fairly low concentrations
by replacing the oxygen in the bloodstream.
-State Media
By A Correspondent- The MDC-T has stepped up efforts to get the 2023 polls postponed, saying they were a waste of time and should only be held after electoral reforms have been implemented.
MDC-T national chairman Morgen Komichi yesterday told NewsDay that the party believed that dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa was the way to go.
The opposition party led by Douglas Mwonzora is currently engaged in meetings, deliberating on Mnangagwa’s response to its plea to postpone by-elections and also the 2023 elections.
On June 11, Mnangagwa and Mwonzora held a closed-door meeting at State House in Harare at a closed meeting, and it was reported that the MDC-T leader had asked the President to scrap the pending by-elections for more than 40 parliamentary seats and more than 80 council seats triggered by his party’s recall of MPs and councillors belonging to the MDC Alliance.
This was followed by a proposal in July by MDC-T senators during a sitting of the Parliamentary Thematic Committee on Peace and Security for the postponement of elections citing COVID-19 regulations.
On Saturday, the opposition party met with provincial executives to discuss Mnangagwa’s response to its proposals.
Komichi yesterday told NewsDay that elections without reforms were a waste of time as they would be disputed.
“People need reforms, and it will be foolhardy for people to just be programmed. Let’s move away from this programming and see what has made our elections disputable for these last years,” he said.
“We must come to reality and say because we don’t have electoral reforms, the outcome is predetermined and can be manipulated, and it will be stupid for Zimbabweans to go for an election or a programme that they know the outcome is predetermined.
“The time is now for the people of Zimbabwe to go to the drawing table to say what are the serious issues affecting us, and then we do a process to welcome whoever the winner is.”
He said Zimbabwe was now poorer because of the country’s preoccupation with elections for the last two decades.
“For the last 20 years, people are not concentrating on the economy, and that is why the country is poorer and poorer. Soon after voting, there is a dispute, court challenges, Sadc is involved and people do not benefit from
that.
“People want national dialogue, a process that guarantees them better living and is predictable. With the experience of the 2008 dialogue, the 1987 unity dialogue among others, they are positive on the dialogue process to resolve conflict. We have a challenge as Zimbabweans right now that we are only two years before elections, but we have never sat down to dialogue over a thing like electoral reforms, and you know our elections have been disputed since time immemorial. To me, it will be very unreasonable for us as Zimbabweans to just assume things will be okay on their own without us taking action as far as the pushing for national dialogue is concerned.”
Komichi also said there were negative perceptions regarding the Political Actors Dialogue as a Mnangagwa thing.
“But let us come back and say it was an effort to create a dialogue platform. What can we do as Zimbabweans to make it more friendly and inclusive? Let’s move away from the politics of acrimony,” he said.
On a possible coalition government with Zanu-PF, Komichi added: “That will be the product of the dialogue, but what we need is something that will benefit the people of Zimbabwe. Whatever comes of the dialogue that will benefit the people of Zimbabwe will be welcome.”
The MDC-T has been accused of working with Zanu-PF to block the 2023 elections and also decimate the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance.
Mwonzora’s spokesperson Lloyd Damba yesterday confirmed the on-going meetings by the party, saying they were triggered by Mnangagwa’s response to the party’s request.
Mnangagwa is said to have responded by saying there should be dialogue between the two parties.
“As I said before that the response by President Mnangagwa triggered meetings of various organs of the party, starting with that of the national standing committee, which was then followed by the national executive committee in pursuance to ratifying the dialogue process which many Zimbabweans are eager to see kick start,” Damba said.
“Yesterday’s meeting was a consultative meeting in line with our core value as a party that seeks the mandate of the organs and the membership of the party to make decisions for the good of the people of Zimbabwe such as the very important decision to resolve Zimbabwe’s political, social and economic woes through dialogue with Zanu-PF and other State players.”
Damba said the MDC-T national council would make a final decision on the dialogue process.
By Jane Mlambo| Cotton bales worthy thousands of United States dollars have been gutted by fire at a Parrogate depot in Checheche, Chipinge.
According to Claris Madhuku who is based in Chipinge, the cause of the fire is not yet known but the fire is believed to have started early morning today around 3am.
More to follow….
By Showbiz Reporter | Contrary to claims that she flew to the US to see a boyfriend, the controversial ZANU PF activist, Mai Titi has said she actually travelled to look for work.
She was speaking on video following accusations that she has been dumped by her boyfriend.
Mai Titi announced on Facebook live that she is too busy looking for paid work.
She said in brief: “They are saying America fits you Amai Titi, oh thank you….
“Though I really miss home, I am already missing my kids. We came to do work here. We came to look for bag(money). So let us look for bag, all other things are meaningless.
“So leave me to look for work.”
By A Correspondent- The Medicine Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has said 96 people experienced mild or severe reactions to Covid-19 vaccines.
According to an update by the Ministry of Health and Child Care released on 2 October, over 5 million people had received COVID-19 vaccines and 96 of them had experenced side effects.
Meanwhile, authorities are investigating two deaths that have been linked to adverse reactions to the vaccines, while two other suspected cases of deaths following vaccination have been deemed coincidental.
Experts found no evidence to conclude that the deaths were caused by vaccines.
According to MCAZ, the most common cases of Adverse Events Following Immunisation (AEFI) included headaches, dizziness and fatigue among other non-serious episodes of discomfort.
Health experts define an adverse effect as serious when it results in hospitalisation, extended stay in hospital, a significant reduction in functional capacity, or death.
Responding to questions from The Sunday Mail, MCAZ projects and public relations officer, Mr Shingai Gwatidzo, said the majority of those with suspected AEFIs have recovered.
Out of a cumulative total of 3,06 million first dose and 2,30 million second dose of Covid-19 vaccines, the authority received a total of 96 suspected cases AEFIs.
The majority of the AEFIs were non-serious and were consistent with the safety profile of the vaccines as was determined from the clinical studies conducted by the vaccine developers, that is headache, dizziness, fatigue, general body weakness, itchy skin, itch rash, chills, sore throat, runny nose, blocked nose, sneezing, nausea, injection site pain, numbness of the injected arm and chests pains.
The authority received four suspected AEFIs resulting in death following vaccination.
A few serious illnesses were also reported and these included seizures, strokes, angioedema and deep vein thrombosis.
Mr Gwatidzo said 70 cases were recorded from those who had received the Sinopharm vaccine, while 25 had been administered the Sinovac vaccine and the other one was not specified.
-statemedia
THE MDC-T has stepped up efforts to get the 2023 polls postponed, saying they were a waste of time and should only be held after electoral reforms have been implemented.
MDC-T national chairman Morgen Komichi yesterday told NewsDay that the party believed that dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa was the way to go.
The opposition party led by Douglas Mwonzora is currently engaged in meetings, deliberating on Mnangagwa’s response to its plea to postpone by-elections and also the 2023 elections.
On June 11, Mnangagwa and Mwonzora held a closed-door meeting at State House in Harare at a closed meeting, and it was reported that the MDC-T leader had asked the President to scrap the pending by-elections for more than 40 parliamentary seats and more than 80 council seats triggered by his party’s recall of MPs and councillors belonging to the MDC Alliance.
This was followed by a proposal in July by MDC-T senators during a sitting of the Parliamentary Thematic Committee on Peace and Security for the postponement of elections citing COVID-19 regulations.
On Saturday, the opposition party met with provincial executives to discuss Mnangagwa’s response to its proposals.
Komichi yesterday told NewsDay that elections without reforms were a waste of time as they would be disputed.
“People need reforms, and it will be foolhardy for people to just be programmed. Let’s move away from this programming and see what has made our elections disputable for these last years,” he said.
“We must come to reality and say because we don’t have electoral reforms, the outcome is predetermined and can be manipulated, and it will be stupid for Zimbabweans to go for an election or a programme that they know the outcome is predetermined.
“The time is now for the people of Zimbabwe to go to the drawing table to say what are the serious issues affecting us, and then we do a process to welcome whoever the winner is.”
He said Zimbabwe was now poorer because of the country’s preoccupation with elections for the last two decades.
“For the last 20 years, people are not concentrating on the economy, and that is why the country is poorer and poorer. Soon after voting, there is a dispute, court challenges, Sadc is involved and people do not benefit from
that.
“People want national dialogue, a process that guarantees them better living and is predictable. With the experience of the 2008 dialogue, the 1987 unity dialogue among others, they are positive on the dialogue process to resolve conflict. We have a challenge as Zimbabweans right now that we are only two years before elections, but we have never sat down to dialogue over a thing like electoral reforms, and you know our elections have been disputed since time immemorial. To me, it will be very unreasonable for us as Zimbabweans to just assume things will be okay on their own without us taking action as far as the pushing for national dialogue is concerned.”
Komichi also said there were negative perceptions regarding the Political Actors Dialogue as a Mnangagwa thing.
“But let us come back and say it was an effort to create a dialogue platform. What can we do as Zimbabweans to make it more friendly and inclusive? Let’s move away from the politics of acrimony,” he said.
On a possible coalition government with Zanu-PF, Komichi added: “That will be the product of the dialogue, but what we need is something that will benefit the people of Zimbabwe. Whatever comes of the dialogue that will benefit the people of Zimbabwe will be welcome.”
The MDC-T has been accused of working with Zanu-PF to block the 2023 elections and also decimate the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance.
Mwonzora’s spokesperson Lloyd Damba yesterday confirmed the on-going meetings by the party, saying they were triggered by Mnangagwa’s response to the party’s request.
Mnangagwa is said to have responded by saying there should be dialogue between the two parties.
“As I said before that the response by President Mnangagwa triggered meetings of various organs of the party, starting with that of the national standing committee, which was then followed by the national executive committee in pursuance to ratifying the dialogue process which many Zimbabweans are eager to see kick start,” Damba said.
“Yesterday’s meeting was a consultative meeting in line with our core value as a party that seeks the mandate of the organs and the membership of the party to make decisions for the good of the people of Zimbabwe such as the very important decision to resolve Zimbabwe’s political, social and economic woes through dialogue with Zanu-PF and other State players.”
Damba said the MDC-T national council would make a final decision on the dialogue process.
-Newsday
By Nomazulu Thata | I have always thought bootlicking is done by people with little or no education. To see a professor who has served in the highest international institutions such as London School of Economic and the African Development Bank, it’s sad and defeating to those of us who value the power of education.
Mthuli Ncube utters the confusion without considering the poverty, hunger, and destitution we experience in this country under the second dispensation: It is insensitive to those who perished: murdered cold-blood, public lynching, raped women, the bayonetted to death pregnant women, shallow graves, graves in disused mineshafts. Mnangagwa is the mastermind of these atrocities. Is Mthuli Ncube saying LSE boss was not good, Africa Bank boss was not good; but Mnangagwa is the best? This statement comes from a professor of mathematics, banking, and finance. I give up!
This is from G'n'P Mine run by Mudha using his nephew Energy Dha Ncube. Such callous things happening& when sanctions are put people complain. They are addicted to gold. I challenge the ZRP to investigate& arrest these people. We must be able to protect the innocent. pic.twitter.com/jnoqgTA2Cd
— Sabhuku Temba P. Mliswa (@TembaMliswa) October 1, 2021
Please send this video to Mthuli Ncube with greetings from the second republic!
Just yesterday we saw a man on social media who was severely beaten by the ZRP police. The UN is sending a delegation to Zimbabwe on a fact-finding mission about the atrocities this Mnangagwa government is committing daily. Professor Mthuli Ncube does not know that or has not seen this picture of a criminally beaten man on social media today? Has Mthuli Ncube considered the poverty and hunger ravaging citizens in all rural areas. A woman crushed from the tree collecting wild fruits to eat because of poverty at home; it is also another incident that passes by an educated professor Ncube without much recognition whatsoever, a wholly insensitive man no less.
What about thousands of girl-children eking out a living in the red lights? Does professor Mthuli Ncube know this fact, or Mthuli Ncube does not care if his own children are safe and sound in the comforts of Swiss towns and cities: served with bacon and Swiss cheese every day. In two and half years in office as Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has been living large at the best hotels one can think of. he has gobbled USD 220,000, almost a quarter of a million United States dollars. The government is embarrassed about this revelation, for this reason the journalist who wrote about it could face punishment like the fate of Hopewell Chinono.
It is not the first time a civil servant has abused the taxpayer’s money staying lavishly in top range hotels using the money the government does not have. Mpoko, during his time as Vice President he lived large in Hotel Sheraton using the money we do not have. This is just how reckless and inconsiderate our civil servants are to its citizens. It would appear those in the government serve themselves first before they can serve the nation. The journalist who got the story factually has been forced to apologise for fear of abduction, Zanu PF knows how to eliminate dissenting voices and citizens know their limitations about the truth. When you live in Zimbabwe, do not tell the truth otherwise you will be abducted and disappear forever.
The journalist feared what could happen to him; we know what happened to Hopewell Chinono when he told the truth about money laundering in Mnangagwa’s yard. When he exposed the new dispensation, he was incarcerated for 40 days and 40 nights. To be forced to apologise is just another thing: the truth remains, our government is busy serving itself it is sending billions of dollars to foreign banks and does not give a f*ck about us citizens.
It is becoming difficult to appreciate the academic and professional advantages of Mthuli Ncube as finance minister, supposedly well-educated in one of the best universities in the world. He is known for ruthlessly going for remittances from Western Union and other money service companies to boost his treasury. Mthuli Ncube is aware of the 95% unemployment in the country but will go for 2% from the unemployed painfully supported by relatives working in squalid conditions wherever, world-wide. Mthuli Ncube, just like Giedion Gono do not even possess a jot of conscience.
This mantra “Zimbabwe is open for business” is a void, a zero sum never meant to benefit the indigenous but the citizens of Chinese origin. How many villagers face eviction from their ancestral lands by the Chinese as we speak today? What is the “best boss” Mnangagwa doing about it tangibly? We have not heard a word from the educated professor condemning or slenderly commenting about the actions contrary to Zimbabwean values and traditions. Does he care about clandestine business deals with the Chinese to benefit the pockets of the few up there? Mthuli Ncube knows too well that there is no money entering the treasury from the flimsy deals’ the ministers and prominent businessmen are doing at the glare and with the knowledge of their president.
The likes of professor Mthuli Ncube are termed in German: “FACH IDIOTEN” for many reasons: If you execute your public job without any conscience and empathy for the people you purport to serve, you must be a qualified idiot. There is nothing on the ground so far since the so-called second dispensation; since the “coup but not a coup” took over, that shows economic progress: Mthuli Ncube is force-feeding us to say there is progress done. Where does this overly praise-singing of Mnangagwa come from, educated professor?
It is painful still to hear a whole MAN coming from the region of Matabeleland to overlook atrocities perpetrated by his “best boss”: is he saying it is his stomach and those of his next kith and kin first before any historical considerations could be made? How does Ncube feel to be a servant of a known murderer of thousands of his ethnic group: Mnangagwa? Can he tell us he can sleep peacefully without questions about the man he calls his” best boss”? How does his family come to terms with a husband and father, openly in admiration of a perpetrator of 20th century genocide? Mnangagwa continued killing maiming even those from the region of Mashonaland. Where is our son Itai Dzamara? Tell us where he is buried?
The very Finance Minister is giving qualifies teachers’ paltry salaries that do not provide households a decent living. Mthuli Ncube cannot live on the salaries he pays to decent men and women who dedicate their lives for the service of the general populace, teachers, nurses, doctors, civil servants in public offices even police and the army. There are crimes committed by those security sector because the salaries they take home do not add up. It will be one day those weapons they are collecting and hiding them for criminal purposes will be a game changer. Does Mthuli realize the danger of starving soldiers; they are so thin; I should be excused if I say they suffer chronic malnutrition: but Mthuli Ncube manages to squander a quarter of a million US dollars in posh hotels, denies it loosely, forces whoever said it must apologise. I fear Chikurubi too.
Mthuli Ncube is blinded by the little power he has under Mnangagwa, curiously does not realize that the winds of change are blowing across southern Africa. He says: “Riding on improved ease of doing business and enhanced fiscal and monetary support measures, the Second Republic is registering an increasing momentum in key productive sector output. The engagement and re-engagement drive is also paying dividend in terms of economic diplomacy gains as more foreign investors are warming up to Zimbabwe’s opportunities.”
Well said jargon; but we do not see these changes on the ground Mthuli Ncube is talking about. Zimbabwean government is serving the few and not the general populace. I can tell you one thing dear Finance Minister, kuchaita hondo yerusununguko muno mu Nyika yeku Zimbabwe. Mark my word Ncube; you will not be spared from the hot anger of those children languishing in the streets of towns and cities; they are as poor as church mice. Nothing to eat, nowhere to sleep. You are busy praising Mnangagwa for failing the valuable niche, the street children of this great country. Life cannot go on like this. Enough is enough.
I say kudos to our Bulawayo citizens who are vigilant when it comes to Matabeleland: insults coming from Ndebele people of the moulds of Mthuli Ncube: they disregard the murderers: are supping with the genocide perpetrators as if they killed cockroaches’ mice or ants. You were quick to denounce Mthuli Ncube for uttering an abomination: thank you. Can he be so blind as to disregard multiple lives lost for decades under such excruciation circumstances because you want to please your boss? One day, you will be discarded and demoted like Cain Mathema who has been thrust down silently following the footsteps of Kembo Mohadi. There should never be any respect given for the likes of Mthuli Ncube, Cain Mathema and Kembo Mohadi.
By A Correspondent- Police have arrested a Bulawayo couple for terminating a preg_nancy with the assistance of a medical doctor.
On their twitter page, police said the pair visited a private doctor, who is still at large, on September 30 and were given some pills which the woman took to terminate her preg_nancy.
“The ZRP is investigating a case of unlawful termination of preg_nancy in which a Bulawayo woman (20) conspired with her boyfriend (27) to terminate a preg_nancy. The two visited a private doctor, who is still at large, and were given some pills on 30 September 2021.
“After taking the pills the woman’s condition deteriorated resulting in her discharging a foetus in a plastic bucket. Police has since arrested the two suspects,” said the police.
By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Republic Police, ZRP has warned female officers against “tarnishing the image of the force” by posting “sexually seductive” images of themselves on social media.
The warning was made in a memorandum dated 29 September 2021 by Deputy Commissioner General [Operations] who directed the holding of disciplinary trials and suitability boards held for offending cops.
The memo has been cascaded to police provincial, district right down to police stations where individual police officers have been informed.
In a copy of the memo relayed to Officers in Charge of police stations in Mount Darwin district Sunday by Officer Commanding Police Mount Darwin District, police were warned against “misuse of social media”.
Read the memo, “This Headquarters has noted with concern the proliferation of photos and videos on social media platforms where police officers are openly seen denigrating the Government, uttering political statements and improperly dressed with some female officers posting sexually seductive photos and videos in full Zimbabwe Republic Police uniform.
“This conduct is tarnishing the Zimbabwe Republic Police’s image and is contrary to the dictates of the disciplinary code as espoused in the Police Act, Chapter 11:10.
“Commanders are implored to immediately identify such members and take decisive action which includes disciplinary trials and boards of inquiry (suitability).
“The current trending video on the social media where two members are seen openly dressed in Police uniform, holding a swipe card, while displaying local currency notes and lip syncing to the lyrics of the song Munyu Hauchavavi (Salt) by Blessing Shumba, is a case in point.”
..Let’s move away from this programming and see what has made our elections disputable for these last years…
The Douglas Mwonzora MDC T party has confirmed its leader’s hint that it has negotiated for a canceling of the 2023 elections. Mwonzora appeared on ZimEye last week and held a 2 hour public engagement during which he appeared to contradict himself by saying, “there is no such thing as a postponement of elections.” (AUDIO)
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This time the MDC-T has stepped up efforts to get the 2023 polls postponed, saying they were a waste of time and should only be held after electoral reforms have been implemented, the local Newsday reports. FULL TEXT
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MDC-T national chairman Morgen Komichi yesterday told NewsDay that the party believed that dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa was the way to go.
The opposition party led by Douglas Mwonzora is currently engaged in meetings, deliberating on Mnangagwa’s response to its plea to postpone by-elections and also the 2023 elections.
On June 11, Mnangagwa and Mwonzora held a closed-door meeting at State House in Harare at a closed meeting, and it was reported that the MDC-T leader had asked the President to scrap the pending by-elections for more than 40 parliamentary seats and more than 80 council seats triggered by his party’s recall of MPs and councillors belonging to the MDC Alliance.
This was followed by a proposal in July by MDC-T senators during a sitting of the Parliamentary Thematic Committee on Peace and Security for the postponement of elections citing COVID-19 regulations.
On Saturday, the opposition party met with provincial executives to discuss Mnangagwa’s response to its proposals.
Komichi yesterday told NewsDay that elections without reforms were a waste of time as they would be disputed.
“People need reforms, and it will be foolhardy for people to just be programmed. Let’s move away from this programming and see what has made our elections disputable for these last years,” he said.
“We must come to reality and say because we don’t have electoral reforms, the outcome is predetermined and can be manipulated, and it will be stupid for Zimbabweans to go for an election or a programme that they know the outcome is predetermined.
“The time is now for the people of Zimbabwe to go to the drawing table to say what are the serious issues affecting us, and then we do a process to welcome whoever the winner is.”
He said Zimbabwe was now poorer because of the country’s preoccupation with elections for the last two decades.
“For the last 20 years, people are not concentrating on the economy, and that is why the country is poorer and poorer. Soon after voting, there is a dispute, court challenges, Sadc is involved and people do not benefit from
that.
“People want national dialogue, a process that guarantees them better living and is predictable. With the experience of the 2008 dialogue, the 1987 unity dialogue among others, they are positive on the dialogue process to resolve conflict. We have a challenge as Zimbabweans right now that we are only two years before elections, but we have never sat down to dialogue over a thing like electoral reforms, and you know our elections have been disputed since time immemorial. To me, it will be very unreasonable for us as Zimbabweans to just assume things will be okay on their own without us taking action as far as the pushing for national dialogue is concerned.”
Komichi also said there were negative perceptions regarding the Political Actors Dialogue as a Mnangagwa thing.
“But let us come back and say it was an effort to create a dialogue platform. What can we do as Zimbabweans to make it more friendly and inclusive? Let’s move away from the politics of acrimony,” he said.
On a possible coalition government with Zanu PF, Komichi added: “That will be the product of the dialogue, but what we need is something that will benefit the people of Zimbabwe. Whatever comes of the dialogue that will benefit the people of Zimbabwe will be welcome.”
The MDC-T has been accused of working with Zanu PF to block the 2023 elections and also decimate the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance.
Mwonzora’s spokesperson Lloyd Damba yesterday confirmed the on-going meetings by the party, saying they were triggered by Mnangagwa’s response to the party’s request.
Mnangagwa is said to have responded by saying there should be dialogue between the two parties.
“As I said before that the response by President Mnangagwa triggered meetings of various organs of the party, starting with that of the national standing committee, which was then followed by the national executive committee in pursuance to ratifying the dialogue process which many Zimbabweans are eager to see kick start,” Damba said.
“Yesterday’s meeting was a consultative meeting in line with our core value as a party that seeks the mandate of the organs and the membership of the party to make decisions for the good of the people of Zimbabwe such as the very important decision to resolve Zimbabwe’s political, social and economic woes through dialogue with Zanu PF and other State players. – Newsday/Additional
By A Correspondent| The government of Zimbabwe has reportedly dismissed as Unprocedural and grossly irregular, the move by City of Harare to transfer Warren Hills Golf Club to Sunshine Development Private Limited a joint venture company between Harare and controversial businessman Kenneth Raydon Sharpe.
According to High Court papers filed by Warren Hills Golf Club in opposition to a scandalous plan to convert Warren Hills Golf Club, a recreational facility into a residential area, the club said the disposal of the recreational facility was grossly irregular and done without ministerial consent as well as full council approval.
“Investigations by the Ministry of Local Government still in progress have to date established unprocedural and grossly irregular disposal of reserved land to plaintiff without informing the sitting lessee change of use, full council approval and ministerial consent
“By reason of investigations aforesaid, the national agency investigating corruption (ZACC) was and is seized with the matter and is currently unravelling the corrupt and unprocedural activities that created the title deed relied on by plaintiff with a view to regularity in the matter,” said Warren Hills Golf Club.
The club also dismissed Sunshine Development private limited as the lawful and legitimate owners of the 80 hectare land at the centre of the dispute.
“In the premises plaintiff is not lawful and legitimate owner of the land occupied and used by defendant and has no legal right to demand rent from defendant or its removal from the premises,” added Warren Hills Golf Club.
Sunshine Development which is 70 percent owned by Sharpe is attempting to evict Warren Hills Golf Club which recently renewed its lease with City of Harare by a further 20 years.
The Sharpe owned company is insisting that the 80 hectares where the golf course is sitting on was transferred from City of Harare as part of the joint venture agreement that culminated in Sunshine Development Private Limited.
City of Harare is a minority shareholder in Sunshine Development with 30 percent shares.
The municipality has since availed its own commitment of land while according Shadreck Tondori in another litigation case against Sharpe, Minister of Local Government and Public Works, the controversial businessman has not shown what it contributed to justify a 70% shareholding.
By A Corespondent- The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has given the opposition MDC Alliance the greenlight to attend its provincial meetings.
The Nelson Chamisa-led outfit had been barred from attending the provincial consultative meetings.
The decision to allow it comes after a week of drama where a letter from within ZEC seeking clarification on how to deal with MDC Alliance was leaked and two activists arrested for protesting the exclusion.
Speaking at a Change Radio function in Harare, Saturday, party vice president Lynette Karenyi-Kore confirmed this.
“We would like to applaud the efforts of Denford Ngadziore and the entire Youth Assembly who fought hard against this injustice,” said Karenyi-Kore.
“ZEC has finally communicated and allowed us to attend provincial consultative meetings.”
Ngadziore was arrested, Thursday, alongside activist Chrispen Bvirwa while attempting to forcibly attend the second consecutive consultative meeting in protest.
ZEC has since its inception been accused of being under Zanu PF control.
..Let’s move away from this programming and see what has made our elections disputable for these last years…
The Douglas Mwonzora MDC T party has confirmed its leader’s hint that it has negotiated for a canceling of the 2023 elections. Mwonzora appeared on ZimEye last week and held a 2 hour public engagement during which he appeared to contradict himself by saying, “there is no such thing as a postponement of elections.” (AUDIO)
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This time the MDC-T has stepped up efforts to get the 2023 polls postponed, saying they were a waste of time and should only be held after electoral reforms have been implemented, the local Newsday reports. FULL TEXT
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MDC-T national chairman Morgen Komichi yesterday told NewsDay that the party believed that dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa was the way to go.
The opposition party led by Douglas Mwonzora is currently engaged in meetings, deliberating on Mnangagwa’s response to its plea to postpone by-elections and also the 2023 elections.
On June 11, Mnangagwa and Mwonzora held a closed-door meeting at State House in Harare at a closed meeting, and it was reported that the MDC-T leader had asked the President to scrap the pending by-elections for more than 40 parliamentary seats and more than 80 council seats triggered by his party’s recall of MPs and councillors belonging to the MDC Alliance.
This was followed by a proposal in July by MDC-T senators during a sitting of the Parliamentary Thematic Committee on Peace and Security for the postponement of elections citing COVID-19 regulations.
On Saturday, the opposition party met with provincial executives to discuss Mnangagwa’s response to its proposals.
Komichi yesterday told NewsDay that elections without reforms were a waste of time as they would be disputed.
“People need reforms, and it will be foolhardy for people to just be programmed. Let’s move away from this programming and see what has made our elections disputable for these last years,” he said.
“We must come to reality and say because we don’t have electoral reforms, the outcome is predetermined and can be manipulated, and it will be stupid for Zimbabweans to go for an election or a programme that they know the outcome is predetermined.
“The time is now for the people of Zimbabwe to go to the drawing table to say what are the serious issues affecting us, and then we do a process to welcome whoever the winner is.”
He said Zimbabwe was now poorer because of the country’s preoccupation with elections for the last two decades.
“For the last 20 years, people are not concentrating on the economy, and that is why the country is poorer and poorer. Soon after voting, there is a dispute, court challenges, Sadc is involved and people do not benefit from
that.
“People want national dialogue, a process that guarantees them better living and is predictable. With the experience of the 2008 dialogue, the 1987 unity dialogue among others, they are positive on the dialogue process to resolve conflict. We have a challenge as Zimbabweans right now that we are only two years before elections, but we have never sat down to dialogue over a thing like electoral reforms, and you know our elections have been disputed since time immemorial. To me, it will be very unreasonable for us as Zimbabweans to just assume things will be okay on their own without us taking action as far as the pushing for national dialogue is concerned.”
Komichi also said there were negative perceptions regarding the Political Actors Dialogue as a Mnangagwa thing.
“But let us come back and say it was an effort to create a dialogue platform. What can we do as Zimbabweans to make it more friendly and inclusive? Let’s move away from the politics of acrimony,” he said.
On a possible coalition government with Zanu PF, Komichi added: “That will be the product of the dialogue, but what we need is something that will benefit the people of Zimbabwe. Whatever comes of the dialogue that will benefit the people of Zimbabwe will be welcome.”
The MDC-T has been accused of working with Zanu PF to block the 2023 elections and also decimate the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance.
Mwonzora’s spokesperson Lloyd Damba yesterday confirmed the on-going meetings by the party, saying they were triggered by Mnangagwa’s response to the party’s request.
Mnangagwa is said to have responded by saying there should be dialogue between the two parties.
“As I said before that the response by President Mnangagwa triggered meetings of various organs of the party, starting with that of the national standing committee, which was then followed by the national executive committee in pursuance to ratifying the dialogue process which many Zimbabweans are eager to see kick start,” Damba said.
“Yesterday’s meeting was a consultative meeting in line with our core value as a party that seeks the mandate of the organs and the membership of the party to make decisions for the good of the people of Zimbabwe such as the very important decision to resolve Zimbabwe’s political, social and economic woes through dialogue with Zanu PF and other State players. – Newsday/Additional
By A Correspondent-Police in Gwanda have recovered 16 cattle and seven donkeys after a weeklong operation against cattle rustlers in Gwanda District that have terrorised farmers and villagers over the last few months.
A suspect, Prince Dube alias Vusa Mutopini, was arrested for stock theft while 55 others were picked for offences that included public violence after they reportedly attacked livestock owners that were looking for their missing beasts.
The operation, codenamed, Lets Fight Stock Thieves/ Asilwiseni Amasela Ezifuyo, was undertaken by more than 100 police officers, some on horseback, from 26 September.
The 16 cattle recovered are worth US$4 800 while the seven donkeys are valued at $28 700. A car, a Ford Ranger, was left behind by one of the suspected stock thieves as he fled with police in hot pursuit.
In a statement, the Zimbabwe Republic Police confirmed developments regarding the operation.
“The ZRP has intensified an operation code named ‘Lets Fight Stock Thieves/ Asilwiseni Amasela Ezifuyo’. From 26-29/09/21, 16 stolen cattle valued at US$4 800 and seven donkeys valued at $28 700 were recovered at Guyu area, Gwanda. An unregistered Ford Ranger vehicle was also recovered and revenue valued at $12 000 was raised from other offences during the operation,” the statement read.
Acting Matabeleland South provincial police spokesperson Sergeant Stanford Mguni told Sunday News that 11 of the cattle had been recovered from suspected rustler Dube.
“Eleven of the cattle and two of the donkeys were freshly branded. All these were recovered from one source while the others were recovered elsewhere,” he said.
After the operation, the recovered cattle were put on parade at Shanyawugwe Shopping Centre for the owners to identify them. Sgt Mguni said so far, five cattle and five donkeys had been identified by their owners.
He said the other 55 people were arrested for attacking cattle owners that were going around searching for their livestock.
Shanyawugwe has earned a reputation as the stock theft “headquarters of the province”. In the past month, there has been sad news circulating on social media relating to massive stock theft incidents in Gwanda District.
In one story farmers from Kafusi in the south western end of Gwanda District, came together and organised a vehicle to transport them around the district in search of their missing cattle.
This was after they had been losing animals in droves. Their search took them to as far as the Makhado area towards Beitbridge where it is alleged that they recovered some of their stolen animals in a feedlot owned by an unnamed farmer.
They had to force entry into the farm as workers denied them entry. Last week, Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi ordered an official inquiry into livestock theft on his country’s border with Zimbabwe.
“The terms of reference for the commission of inquiry is to establish the problem of livestock rustling in the Bobirwa villages along the Botswana/Zimbabwe border and determine the extent of the problem,” a statement accompanying the appointment of the commission read.
By A Correspondent- Opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has weakened the vibrant and outspoken party’s Vice Chairman, Job Sikhala and appointed Sesel Zvidzai to the same position.
Zvidzai, a former Deputy Minister of Local Government and Urban Development, confirmed the appointment in a Facebook post on Friday. Read the post:
After two days pasting together the jigsaw puzzle for the change we all need. Change that will deliver for us all, the Zimbabwe family.
Happy to make my contribution in my newly appointed post of VC of the Party of excellence by President Chamisa
Chamisa also appointed pro-democracy human rights lawyer and legislator for Hwange Central Fortune Daniel Molokele as the new Deputy Treasurer-General. Molekele confirmed the appointment:
Confirmation of my Appointment …
I am so humbled to confirm that President Advocate Nelson Chamisa has appointed me as the new Deputy Treasurer General of the MDC Alliance with immediate effect. Thank you.
There have been mixed reactions to the appointments with some suggesting that the appointment of Zvidzai is a blow for Job’ Wiwa’ Sikhala who is the elected Vice-Chairperson.
Some said Chamisa was violating the party’s constitution as the holders of that office must the elected by the people.
By A Correspondent- Pictures of Zanu PF’s Director of Information and Publicity, Tafadzwa Mugwadi has set social media ablaze with some saying he is struggling in life yet wants to make the public believe his party can transform their lives.
One Cde Never Maswerasei posted on Twitter saying the former MDC official was disgusting. He said:
Dear Tafadzwa Mugwadi: Mfanha iwe ndakambokuudza kuti hauna kurongeka brain dzako zvino chiona manje. Takatadzeiko kutinyadzisa zvakadai? Chii ichi babamudiki? Murikutanda botso here? Munhu waDirector of Comms for an entire ruling party. Ndikauyako ndoda kukurova zvekuti heki. [I once told you that you’re not organised. What have we done to deserve this embarassment? What’s happening young brother? Are you being tormented by some spirits? A whole Director of Communication for an entire party. I will beat you thoroughly when I come there.]
The governing party posted the same picture wishing him “the best of studies.”
MDC Alliance NewZealand posted the picture and said:
Communications @TafadzwaMugwadi. He lives in such insalubrious conditions which could be his source of anger everytime he opens his mouth. The guy insults and defend the corrupt @ZANUPF_Officials who live in Mansions & drives the latest top range cars.
Some said the pictures portrayed the life led by most of the supporters of the governing ZANU PF part adding that they need help for them to see how ZANU PF is destroying their lives.
Some defended the former Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) leader, saying he was at least not living a fake life.
Living standards in Zimbabwe have been deteriorating for the past two decades and many attribute the sad state of affairs to maladministration by the ruling ZANU PF.
Speaking to ZimEye later, Mugwadi said he was not at all at home, insisting that the building is in fact Manfred Hall, at the University Of Zimbabwe.
Tinashe Sambiri| The Ngaapinde songwriter has dropped another bombshell…
While Zanu PF is battling to discredit # Ngaapinde Hake Mukomana, the tireless songwriter has produced yet another gem titled Famba Nero…
Tinashe Sambiri| The MDC Alliance Namibia has pointed out that ZEC is taking direct orders from Zanu PF.
In a statement released on Friday, MDC Alliance Namibia slammed both ZEC and Zanu PF for attempting to suffocate the people’s struggle.
According to MDC Alliance Namibia, electoral reforms are imminent.
Read statement below:
Zec is unqualified to administer free ,fair and credible democratic elections in Zimbabwe, Mdc Alliance Namibia echoes.
01 October 2021
Mdc Alliance Namibia is both perplexed and infuriated to learn that the captured Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has barred the alternative government Mdc Alliance from its provisional consultations in provinces meant to deliberate electoral developments claiming they don’t know who the Political Behemoth Mdc Alliance is. The futile attempt to annihilate the people’s democratic project will not suffice despite several efforts to replace the genuine revolutionaries with their surrogates.
As a district which subscribes to the People’s Party led the pragmatic and organic leadership of President Advocate Nelson Chamisa Wamba Dia Wamba, we absolutely condemn the arbitrary arrest of our vibrant councillor, Denford Ngadziore and journalists who were arrested for demanding Constitutional Democracy. We shall continue to advocate for the unconditional release of the incarcerated youthful leaders Cde Makomborero Haruzivishe and Councillor Denford Ngadziore.
It was quite pathetic and astounding to hear the remote-controlled Zec Spokesperson Commissioner Joyce Kazembe confirming that the Mdc Alliance was not invited. She said:” We didn’t extend our invitation to Mdc Alliance to be part of a stakeholder meeting because the matter regarding the name Mdc Alliance is still before the courts”.
This clearly unearthes how Zec takes instructions from the Shake-Shake building. Mdc Alliance Namibia concurs with the party Spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi Mahere who postulated that the development was an incontrovertible confirmation that Zec was partisan and deliberately serves the interests of the clueless Harare regime. We shall continue to believe that Mdc Alliance is the biggest political outfit in the country and we will remain convinced that there is no lawful excuse for barring it from stakeholder engagement being the only political formation that has managed to submit an alternative Electoral Bill in line with our reform agenda.
Furthermore, the Nelson Chamisa led Mdc Alliance is the sole party which has reignited the loud calls for comprehensive political and electoral reforms ahead of 2023 harmonised elections. It is the Mdc Alliance only that has incessantly drawn serious attention clamouring for non-partisan administration of electoral processes by the supposed independent institution.
As an external assembly, Mdc Alliance Namibia shall continue to pile political and diplomatic pressure on the desperate Zanupf regime exposing the inadquacies of the current Electoral Act as well as the dismal failures of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to implement all measures as are consistent with the independence of an electoral body. Given this background, it becomes imperative for all social democrats across the globe to unite against a compromised institution.There is need to amplify our revolutionary voices so that our projected 6 million votes in 2023 will come to fruition. #RegisterToVote.
Moreover, Zec has to put into cognisance that only the Mdc Alliance driven by President Advocate Nelson Chamisa had already issued, for ease reference 20 Principles for Reliable, Inclusive and Credible Elections in Zimbabwe( PRICE ).
As Constitutional Democrats, we urge all stakeholders to rejuvenate these as we think that addressing them will automatically put this beloved country on the road to legitimate electoral outcomes. Zec must be ashamed of itself! We demand an independent institution to run elections in Zimbabwe, we are tired of rigging, violence and intimidation. Right now Denford Ngadziore is in the hell hole cells, tortured for demanding a free, fair and credible Zec. We demand his immediate release.
In a nutshell, Mdc Alliance Namibia still believes that diaspora vote is one of the fundamental electoral demands which may enhance the country’s democracy and electoral processes. As the country’s mammoth contributors of foreign currency earnings, our right to vote should be non-negotiable. We comprehend that the world is run by those who show up through participatory democracy.
Elections belong to the people and it is part of independence therefore every eligible voter should exercise his/her right to vote by virtue of being a Zimbabwean regardless of one’s geographical location. Foreign nationals from Mozambique, South Africa, Namibia only to mention but a few resident in Zimbabwe participate in the electoral processes of their mother countries! What is so special about these SADC countries? Is our motherland an exception? Dangerous freedom is the only panacea to a free, fair and credible election in Zimbabwe.
Mdc Alliance Namibia
Rundu Branch Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya
Adíos Youth Assembly…
Revolutionary Greetings Comrades!
Fellow young people in Zimbabwe and abroad, I pen this message as a way of expressing my revolutionary and heartfelt gratitude and support that you showed me throughout my tenure as the Secretary General of our party’s Youth Assembly.
Much appreciation goes to the Youth Assembly structures across the country and the diaspora for their solid and unquestionable support and commitment that you showed me during my tenure.
I remain a dedicated servant of the people’s revolution for genuine democratic change under the able leadership of President, Advocate Nelson Chamisa.
Together we managed to influence change within and amongst the young people. We have scored victories, losses and survived challenges together but most importantly we remained focused on the task at hand in transforming the country for change.
Fellow comrades,the democratic trumpet summons us now to be resolute and duty calls as l take a new, challenging and important task. The Democratic Alternative is here to stay it is going nowhere.
Comradely,
Cde Ostallos Siziba
Tinashe Sambiri|Prominent human rights activist and former broadcaster Jestina Mukoko has condemned the harassment of Marry Chiwenga by the Zanu PF regime.
Marry is being denied access to treatment by individuals reportedly receiving orders from her former husband Constantino Chiwenga.
Mukoko described the harassment of Marry as heartbreaking.
“Heartbreaking. As a woman and mother I stand with Marry Chiwenga she deserves to access treatment where she chooses and she has a right to access her children. This is cruel inhuman treatment. What does this say about our leaders?@edmnangagwa,” Mukoko wrote on Twitter.
Women’s rights defender
Namatai Kwekweza also wrote:
“This is not okay! This is heartbreaking”
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has said Zimbabweans will never remove ZANU PF because they are clueless.
Mwonzora said Zimbabweans have no plan that could remove the ruling Zanu PF party at elections.
The former MDC Alliance secreta
ry-general accused some opposition parties of only being active on social media, but without strategies to replace the ruling party in 2023.
Critics accuse Mwonzora of working with Zanu PF to destroy the larger rival faction led by Nelson Chamisa ahead of the 2023 elections.
Mwonzora has so far recalled more than 40 MPs and 80 councillors that were elected on the MDC Alliance ticket, and is also trying to take over the party’s name.
Last week, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission did not invite the MDC Alliance to a Harare provincial stakeholder engagement meeting, alleging that its party name was under contention.
“We need to understand the values of democracy and plurality in our society. Zimbabweans are free to choose their political leaders. In other words, we should know exactly what we want to replace Zanu PF with,” Mwonzora told NewsDay.
“The objective is to take over power peacefully and democratically and govern differently, thereby changing the lives of the people for the better. In other words, the main objective should not be power for the sake of power. It should be power to change the lives of our people.”
Mwonzora accused other opposition parties of losing focus.
“We have seen political parties whose main objective is to spread hate and propaganda on social media against other political parties,” he said.
Political analysts in Zimbabwe have in the past urged opposition parties to gang up against Zanu PF in the 2023 elections.
But National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) president Lovemore Madhuku told NewsDay that it was imperative to evaluate what could replace the Zanu PF government before pushing the coalition agenda.
“As the NCA party, we are not forming a coalition with anyone. Zanu PF is currently not in office as it is a government that is not functional. I also do not believe that everyone in government is Zanu PF,” Madhuku said.
“We have a government that is not performing and it must be replaced. It is not a question of just removing a government, but the issue is who must replace it. Zanu PF must be replaced with a competent team with appropriate qualities that meet the people’s needs.” Newsday
The Matabeleland South branch of the MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora on Friday resolved to work with councillors affiliated to the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa in an electoral pact that will see them fielding one candidate to contest elections in the province.
More than 80 council by-elections are pending across the country, and more than 40 parliamentary seats are vacant after the MDC-T recalled legislators and councillors affiliated to the MDC Alliance.
However, by-elections were suspended by government due to COVID-19 regulations.
In Matabeleland South, Mwonzora’s MDC-T provincial executive has said it is opposed to recalls and wants unity talks with other opposition parties to ensure victory against Zanu PF.
“We are planning on having one single candidate from the MDC Alliance or MDC-T so that we push the Matabeleland South agenda. The electorate is clear that it wants a united MDC,” Matabeleland South provincial chairperson Ekem Moyo (MDC-T), who is former Gwanda South legislator, said.
On Friday, the provincial executive led by Moyo, provincial secretary-general Younger Moyo and organising secretary Bekezela Maplanka met a number of MDC Alliance councillors in Gwanda to strike a unity pact.
“We have to think of the electorate. At the end of the day, it is our feeling that constituents should not be sacrificed because of our differences as the leadership. We have to work for the good of the electorate which voted us into power. In our engagements with ordinary party supporters and the general citizenry, they are clear that they are not happy with all this infighting,” Moyo said.
“In Matabeleland South, we have a number of councillors from the MDC Alliance that we are working with because they were elected and should not be sacrificed or fired.”
In terms of section 129(1)(k) of the Constitution, legislators and councillors can be recalled at the instigation of the party that got them elected into Parliament.
Electoral watchdogs like the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) have, however, expressed concern over the slow pace in implementing electoral reforms ahead of the by-elections and general elections in 2023.
“Zesn calls upon the government to move with speed in the implementation of the electoral reforms, as most remain unattended to at a time when Zimbabwe is barely two years away from yet another set of harmonised elections in 2023,” Zesn said in a recent statement.
“If addressed early, the reforms would contribute to a more credible electoral process. Having to rush electoral law changes on the eve of elections, as has been the case in the past, is not in the best interest of democracy.” -Newsday
Own Correspondent|There was chaos at the Braille Under 16 Tournament as the organizers failed to reward participants as per their promise.
The organizers are Shonhiwa and one Eddie from the Presidential Guard barracks in Dzivarasekwa.
“N C Sports Academy qualified for the Braille Under16 Tournament vs Mountain Academy.
Surprisingly the tournament organizers did not have prizes for the tournament …
The so-called organizer Shonhiwa and one coach Eddie are from army PG Barracks in DZ Harare ,what a shame to the development of Junior Football.
People must not fraudulently take money from parents and teams in the form of tournaments.. .
Junior players must be motivated ,it was a dark day in Kuwadzana yesterday .
Football authorities must take action with against bogus agents. Tournament rules and regulations must be followed ,tough luck to future young warriors of Zimbabwe@ Zimeye Sports,” a sourced wrote to ZimEye.com
Own Correspondent|There was chaos at the Braille Under 16 Tournament as the organizers failed to reward participants as per their promise.
The organizers are Shonhiwa and one Eddie from the Presidential Guard barracks in Dzivarasekwa.
“N C Sports Academy qualified for the Braille Under16 Tournament vs Mountain Academy.
Surprisingly the tournament organizers did not have prizes for the tournament …
The so-called organizer Shonhiwa and one coach Eddie are from army PG Barracks in DZ Harare ,what a shame to the development of Junior Football.
People must not fraudulently take money from parents and teams in the form of tournaments.. .
Junior players must be motivated ,it was a dark day in Kuwadzana yesterday .
Football authorities must take action with against bogus agents. Tournament rules and regulations must be followed ,tough luck to future young warriors of Zimbabwe@ Zimeye Sports,” a sourced wrote to ZimEye.com
Zimbabwean preacher Apostle Talent Chiwenga has said the younger generation must have a say in the affairs of this country adding that ZANU PF’s ideas are too old for this generation.
In a video circulating on social media, Chiwenga said the future of this country belongs to those under the age of forty hence the need to allow them to participate in political and development discourses.
He said it was wrong to believe that the young generation is too young to determine the future they want considering that most of the war veterans went to war when they were mere teenagers.
His remarks come when Zimbabwe is preparing for the 2023 general elections with the opposition hoping to dislodge the governing ZANU PF from power for the first time in history.
ZANU PF has been in power since 1980 when the country got independence from Britain. The party claims it is poised for another landslide victory.- Pindula News
Former Bulawayo Deputy Mayor, Alderman Amen Mpofu Has Died
Former Bulawayo deputy mayor, Alderman Amen Mpofu has died after battling a kidney ailment for some time.
Mpofu died at Mpilo Central hospital on Friday.
MDC Alliance Bulawayo spokesperson, Swithern Chirowodza confirmed Mpofu’s death saying they have lost a hero who believed in serving the community. Chirowodza said:
His untimely death robs the citizenry and the party of a respected former local government representative. He was a pillar of the MDC Alliance party. He lived and breathed MDC-A and stood with the party through its most difficult times. He was a tremendous asset. His death is a loss not only to his Party but to the political arena of the country as a whole. I extend my deepest condolence.
Bulawayo deputy mayor Mlandu Ncube said Mpofu is the one who introduced him to local government politics. Said Ncube:
As I rose through the ranks I have always been a great admirer of this humble but very effective Alderman. In fact, he is the one who introduced me to local government politics way back in 2007. He believed in the young while spending his years in public life, serving society. Known for his sharp mind, his role in strengthening the party would always be remembered.
In April this year, CITE reported that Mpofu was seriously ill and was battling a kidney ailment that had damaged both organs and left him bedridden.
Back then, MDC Alliance posted on its Twitter account that Alderman Mpofu had refused medical assistance from the First Lady, Auxilia Mnangagwa.
But Alderman Mpofu refuted claims that the first lady had approached him with assistance. – NewsDay
A 14-YEAR-OLD Guruve form one student committed suicide by hanging on Friday.
Rodney Bernard’s body was found hanging on a tree in Guruve growth point after he was confronted by his parents over a missing US$5.
Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundembe confirmed the case.
A witness Farai Dumbura said the now deceased went missing for two days before being found hanging on a tree by a passerby.
“The deceased had a misunderstanding with his parents over a missing US$5 and decided to hang himself his body was discovered by a passerby two days later,” Dumbura said.
Police warned people to respect human life and avoid suicide.- Bulawayo24
A 48-year-old man, who allegedly axed his wife to death in Harare, has committed suicide in Beitbridge after failing to skip the border to South Africa.
It is reported that on September 27, Tinashe Ruzaya Paunosvisva of the Ushewekunze area in Harare killed his wife Ronah Masango with an axe while their two minor children watched in horror.
He then escaped to Beitbridge with the intention to cross over to South Africa, but later committed suicide at the Lutumba Business Centre, some 20km before Beitbridge town along the Masvingo road, after failing to jump the border.
The police officer commanding the Beitbridge district, Chief Superintendent Tichaona Nyongo confirmed the incident today.
“He was wanted in connection with a case of murder at Southlea Park in Harare. The man’s body was found lying by the roadside at Lutumba Business Centre by a passer-by who informed the police. A search was done leading to the discovery of a suicide note in his pocket,” he said.
The body has been taken to the Beitbridge district hospital mortuary for a post-mortem.
Paunosvisva wrote a suicide note, stating that had his wife listened to him, they could still be together.- Chronicle
By A Correspondent- Vice President and Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga has been dragged to court by a Kwekwe based teacher, Mercy Mjikwa, over new Covid-19 rules targeting unvaccinated citizens.
In an urgent chamber application, Mjikwa and Tolerance Nyamukapa are seeking to overturn the regulations, which bar unvaccinated people to sit-in in restaurants to be declared unlawful.
Mjikwa argues the rule could affect her ability to participate in public gatherings, enter public places, and she might lose her job.
On September 17, Chiwenga, who is also Zimbabwe Vice President, issued Statutory Instrument (SI) 228B, which ordered all restaurants and hotels offering restaurant services to serve customers on a sit-in basis only if they exhibit proof of having been fully vaccinated.
The SI also allows public gatherings for a maximum of 100 people subject to strict adherence with Covid-19 regulations such as wearing of face masks, temperature checks, sanitising of hands, and social distancing.
“I submit that the compulsory vaccine mandate contained in the Statutory Instrument above is inconsistent with the provisions of the Constitution and, therefore, invalid to that extent,” the High Court application reads.
“For the government to impose vaccination…is not only to invade my dignity but to also attack it irreparably.”
Mjikwa also cited Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe, Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, and Attorney-General Prince Machaya as the respondents.
She told the court the new mandate should be declared illegal as it disregards the public’s constitutional rights to choose and unofficially forces people to get vaccinated.
“I am now required to be vaccinated before I can be allowed to enter facilities such as health spas, theatres, gymnasiums, and public gatherings at the discretion of the convener of the gathering.
“In short, these regulations are unmistakably coercive and cannot reasonably be considered anything other than an unlawful mandate.
“If I refuse the inoculation, I am subjected to disciplinary proceedings including termination of my employment. The conduct referred above, therefore, flouts the Constitution and the declaration of my fundamental rights.”
Mjikwa is begging the courts to nullify the mandate and declare that SI 228B unconstitutional as it breaches sections 134, 51, 56, 58, 66, 68, and 71 of the Constitution.
The readmission of MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti and five other recalled People’s Democratic Party (PDP) MPs to Parliament has been blocked again after Benjamin Rukanda appealed the High Court judgment that reinstated the MPs at the Supreme Court.
Last week, High Court judge Justice Joseph Mafusire ordered that Biti and his five colleagues be readmitted as MPs.
Justice Mafusire said Rukanda had no basis to recall the MPs that include former Mbizo MP Settlement Chikwinya, Willias Madzimure (Kambuzuma), Kucaca Phulu (Nkulumane), Regai Tsunga (Mutasa South), and Sichelesile Mahlangu (Pumula).
Chikwinya Friday said they were only notified of the appeal by Rukanda after a decision had been made. He said:
Rukanda, Lucia Matibenga and other Zanu PF sponsored individuals who are working against the MDC Alliance and the elected people of Zimbabwe who were in Parliament did the obvious and appealed against the judgment of Judge Mafusire.
He said this was the third time that Rukanda and Matibenga had appealed against the ruling and under the circumstances, their return to Parliament remained on hold.
Over 40 MDC Alliance MPs have been recalled since last year after a Supreme Court judgment that nullified the appointment of Nelson Chamisa as MDC-T leader.
By A Correspondent- Prominent Bulawayo lawyer Tavengwa Hara has distanced himself from the shadowy Citizens for Convergence for Change (CCC) that listed him as its lawyer upon notifying the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) of its existence and intention to contest the 2023 elections.
The CCC has often been cited as an alternative party name to the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance owing to unending contestation for the name with the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC.
Mwonzora recently laid claim to the MDC Alliance name.
In a letter addressed to Zec dated 20 September, CCC secretary-general Farai Zhou named Varaidzo Musungo and Hara as presidential candidate and lawyer respectively.
“In the interests of better communication, we are sourcing offices in Harare and will advise once we have these. In the meantime, we ask that you contact us through our legal practitioners, Messrs T Hara and Partners, 2nd Floor, CIPF Centre, J. Moyo, 10th Street, Bulawayo,” the letter reads.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba and Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu also posted the same letter on Twitter, fuelling speculation that the CCC was a government-sponsored vehicle to undermine Chamisa.
In fact, Charamba posted the letter on Twitter while it was being typed and before it had reached Zec.
Hara told The NewsHawks he knows nothing about CCC or the people involved in the project, strengthening the suspicion that it is yet another ploy to destabilise the opposition.
“Besides the lawyer-client confidentiality issues, is that letter signed? It (letter) is not even signed. I don’t know anything about it (CCC). I cannot waste my time commenting on things I have no knowledge of things that are on social media,” Hara told The NewsHawks.
Zhou, in the Zec letter, put a Vuhera (Buhera) post box office address.
Bulawayo analyst Effie Ncube said the revelations by Hara confirmed opposition fears of state and Zanu-PF-sponsored manoeuvres to undermine and frustrate the democratic opposition from fighting for a better life for long-suffering Zimbabweans.
“Well, it was very clear from the beginning that this was a fraudulent exercise that is meant to undermine democratic opposition,” Ncube said.
“It is a state-sponsored exercise so that it keeps the opposition divided, so that it keeps the opposition unable to focus on the mis-governance and on corruption so that the opposition does not spotlight the poverty and unemployment and hunger but keeps fighting for its survival.
“The MDC should take advantage of the gaps and really protect the people’s logo or name, as it were, so that no one takes advantage of it going forward.”
Exiled minister Jonathan Moyo once urged the MDC Alliance to legally register the CCC.
In a recent interview in Bulawayo, Chamisa (Chamisa) all but confirmed that the opposition party was moving towards unveiling a citizen-led movement.
“We are in the process of building a citizen movement, a people’s movement, a citizen alliance across the board. We want an omnibus, a broad church that accommodates everyone, a broad organisation that accommodates everyone so that we are able to deliver change,” Chamisa said in the interview.
“Some are saying it is a new name, no, it’s a new direction. Some are saying are you going to give us a different name , yes, it’s a different force altogether that galvanises all the people of Zimbabwe. A lot is happening; there will be no confusion for the people when the time to decide to vote comes.”
A number of new opposition parties are being launched as the country heads towards the 2023 general elections.
The 2018 elections had a total of 23 presidential candidates
By A Correspondent- The minister of Defence, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, has surprised the nation by blaming the late former President Robert Mugabe for the failed country’s economy.
Muchinguri was giving a vote of thanks after President Emmerson Mnangagwa commissioned a Dairy Production and Milk Value Addition Centre of Excellence at the Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) farm last week when she said this.
She said she was recently left tongue-tied when she was asked tough questions on government performance in the past 40 years by the public.
She, however, said the country had realised meaningful development in the past three years that Mnangagwa has been in power.
“President, I was being asked what we were doing in the last 40 years because there was no development. The only meaningful development being witnessed only started three years ago…where were you Cde Muchinguri, I was asked,” said Muchinguri-Kashiri.
“I had no answer to that, President, but I later said, maybe God wanted things to be done in the second republic. I am sure that was a good answer I gave.”
Both Muchinguri-Kashiri and Mnangagwa were key members of Mugabe’s government since 1980. The same government was accused of running down the economy, gross human rights violations among other challenges.
-The Standard
By Jacob Kudzai Mutisi- In 2021 Zimbabwe’s mining sector is proving to be big business, with mineral exports possibly reaching 60% of the country’s export earnings and the mining sector contributing around 20% of national GDP. Zimbabwe now needs to take advantage of the constantly advancing national information and communication technology (ICT), with these impressive set of results by developing a national Mines and Geosciences Central Database System (CDS). This development falls straight into the recommendation of the World Bank. According to a new Zimbabwe Digital Economy Diagnostic report launched by the World Bank.
“Zimbabwe has made digital advancements”. Despite this advance, Zimbabwe is currently capturing only a fraction of its digital transformation growth potential, and the report also recommends strategic investments in digital skills and infrastructure, and that the creation of digital platforms and digital entrepreneurship and this will accelerate the country to create the foundations for the digital economy of the future.
Zimbabwe’s lack of effective regulatory mechanisms and the inability to effectively monitor key mining activities and rein in illegal mining wiping away Zimbabwe’s competitive advantage compared to its neighbouring states. Above that Zimbabwe’s mining sector has been riddled with legal disputes over mining claims over the years and has also seen a surge of physical attacks by two or more individuals claiming ownership of the same exploration or mining claim. To solve these disputes Zimbabwe needs to develop an ICT web and mobile based CDS database portal which should feature a web and mobile based interface that allows data transparency, search and filtering function, and access to all applications that includes mining application and exploration information. The portal should allow users access to information regarding the status of mining applications, requests for mineral analysis, mining tenements/permits issued, mineral resources data, mining technology related data, mineral industry reports, status of mining-related cases, research and technology data, mine environmental and safety data, and other mining-related data.
For Zimbabwe, the adoption and development of the CDS presents opportunities for mining sector because technology can reduce costs, increase the speed, processing of documents and maintain a centralized database for all mining-related information, to be publicly accessible, transparent, complete and comprehensive. To ensure that the data on the portal is timely and relevant, updates are scheduled as frequent as three days, weekly and quarterly, or semi-annually and annually, depending upon the approval or need for new updates.
Zimbabwe was once the world’s third-largest producer of gold, holds substantial endowments of close to 40 different minerals. The country is also known to have commercial deposits of oil and the country has one of the largest known coal-bed methane gas deposits in Africa. Zimbabwe continue to attract numerous investors from South Africa, China, Australia and various European nations. With the Government of Zimbabwe playing an active role in recognizing that mining and its industries will be key to the nation’s development.
With the projected economic growth anchored by the mining sector Zimbabwe needs to have a transparency and accountability system and this can only be achieved by having a national ICT web and mobile based Mines and Geosciences Central Database
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By A Correspondent- Expecting mothers at Manama Hospital in Matabeleland South survived by a whisker after the maternity ward they were in had its roof blown away by strong winds on Sunday Afternoon.
Heavy rains accompanied by strong winds pounded the area just after 4 pm leaving a trail of destruction at the hospital.
There were no injuries reported.
Sources at the hospital who spoke to CITE said they were caught surprise as there were no signs of rain prior to the incident.
“There were no signs of rain prior to the incident. The weather suddenly changed and strong winds started blowing and they destroyed the roof of the maternity ward,” said the source.
Meanwhile, the patients who were at the maternity ward were moved to another ward.
Contacted for a comment, Matabeleland South Provincial Medical Director, Dr Rudo Chikodzore said she is yet to get a full report.
“I just received a call now. The team is on the ground yet to send full details,” said Dr Chikodzore.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission must be apolitical and should not dance to the whims of the ruling party.
By Leonard Koni- By not allowing MDC-Alliance which has more than two million people to the stakeholders meeting and not recognizing the party is just a recipe of disaster. The party represents a big number of people than those who attended the meeting. Priscilla Chigumba must be ashamed of herself.
The last week’s behaviour leaves a lot to be desired and it really exposes it’s double standards of discharging it’s duties and cannot be trusted by electoral players in Zimbabwe.
Its existence in Zimbabwe is now a complete joke, nightmare and a disaster.
This is prima farcie evidence that the institution has been captured since time immemorial by the ruling party hence the call for electoral and media reforms should be instituted before it’s too late.
Its unfortunate that the electorak body is now acting like a Zanu PF cell which always wait for a command from those who have the levers of political power.
ZEC has officially come a referee a player at the same time and has ceased its constitutional duty of supervising and running elections to the satisfaction of Zimbabweans.
The recruitment of ZEC officers must also be questioned, interrogated and scrutinised. It looks like the institution is wholly manned by central intelligence officers who appear to be enablers of the regime. It must stop being partisan and deliver its mandate without fear or favour.
It is critical that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission must be proactive and ensure that there is a level playing field for all contesting political parties. ZEC must be an examplary leader in electoral democracy and supervising elections from time to time.
In 2008 ZEC deliberately delayed to announce the Presidential elections pitting the two late rivals Morgan Tsvangirayi of MDC and Robert Mugabe of Zanu PF. On March 29, 2008 unofficial preliminary results indicated a favourable result for Tsvangirayi.
Results were not officially released until May 2, when it was announced that Tsvangirai had garnered more votes (47.9 percent) than Mugabe (43.2 percent).
Gift Konjana who contested the 2018 parliamentary election under an MDC Alliance ticket, and a flawed counting process by (ZEC) saw the electoral body declaring Nduna of Zanu PF, the winner.
Soon after the count and declaration of Nduna as the winner, Konjana demanded a recount and he came out a winner. ZEC admitted to the anomaly but up to now the case is still being swept under the carpet.
This underlines the level of toxicity in the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission.
By A Correspondent- The MDC Alliance accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of “banning our movement” on Thursday after officials were blocked from attending a meeting of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) in Harare.
Police arrested three MDC Alliance officials outside the ZEC offices, apparently to foil a flash demonstration. In the rumpus, 10 journalists were also rounded up and held at a police station for two hours before being released without charge.
The MDC Alliance said one of its officials, Wilias Madzimure, had been barred from a stakeholder meeting called by ZEC to discuss “topical issues” ahead of elections in 2023.
Just days earlier, a memo from ZEC official Majefure Sunduza to the independent elections body’s acting CEO Jane Chigidi leaked. In it, Sunduza asked: “Now that we have started planning for stakeholder engagement, what is our position on MDC Alliance?
“We are aware that they have taken us to court and the courts do not recognise them. However, in the absence of a prompt response from the powers that be, we will not invite MDC Alliance to our provincial stakeholders meetings. As always, your timely assistance is appreciated.”
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti said: “The exclusion of the democratic movement from ZEC’s provincial consultations is another crude reminder of the barbarism and unrelenting quest by Emmerson Mnangagwa of totally banning our movement.”
Biti maintained that the MDC Alliance was “the biggest party in Zimbabwe”, adding: “No amount of chicanery will stop change in Zimbabwe.”
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere said ZEC’s admission that there were “powers that be” influencing the conduct of a constitutional body betrayed its lack of impartiality.
“It is manifestly unconstitutional for ZEC to prejudice the lawful interests of the MDC Alliance by excluding us from the engagement process. Regrettably, ZEC has betrayed its captured hand through this unprofessional conduct and exposed its bias against the people’s party,” Mahere said.
In a statement, ZEC chief elections officer Utoile Silaigwana did not specifically address the MDC Alliance allegations that Madzimure was barred. Instead, he said broadly: “Contrary to some press reports, no political party has been barred from attending these meetings which are currently in progress throughout the country.”
Silaigwana said ZEC would hold the meetings in each province once a month, adding: “The commission will ensure that all stakeholders get an opportunity to be invited at the roundtable whose purpose is to share information and discuss topical electoral issues. It is the commission’s mandate to interact with all stakeholders in an impartial manner.”
By A Correspondent- Prominent human rights activist and former broadcaster Jestina Mukoko has condemned the harassment of Marry Chiwenga by the Zanu PF regime.
Marry is being denied access to treatment by individuals reportedly receiving orders from her former husband Constantino Chiwenga.
Mukoko described the harassment of Marry as heartbreaking.
“Heartbreaking. As a woman and mother I stand with Marry Chiwenga she deserves to access treatment where she chooses and she has a right to access her children. This is cruel inhuman treatment. What does this say about our leaders?@edmnangagwa,” Mukoko wrote on Twitter.
Women’s rights defender
Namatai Kwekweza also wrote:
“This is not okay! This is heartbreaking”
Barcelona are no longer unbeaten in La Liga this season and will finish the weekend in ninth place thanks to a 2-0 loss to Atlético Madrid at the Wanda Metropolitano. Barça were second-best in every department for 90 minutes, and Ronald Koeman was once again destroyed by his opposing manager as Barça’s crisis gets worse.
FIRST HALF
Barça made a solid start to the game, with a narrow 4-2-3-1 formation with five midfielders that gave them the advantage in midfield and exploited some gaps in the Atlético defense. But Diego Simeone quickly spotted the problem and made a formation change just 12 minutes in, with Thomas Lemar leaving the attack and joining the midfield.
Atlético instantly changed the game in their favor, denying spaces centrally and forcing Barça to attack down the wings without any wingers. Naturally the Blaugrana struggled, and Atlético started to dominate and got two goals to show for it.
The first came in a complete breakdown of Barça’s individual marking, and Luis Suárez was all alone in the middle to pick up a perfect pass to find Thomas Lemar for the opener. And just before halftime, Memphis Depay lost a ball that launched an Atlético counter and Lemar returned the favor, giving Suárez the ball in acres of space and the Uruguayan found the back of the net against his former club.
At halftime, Barça were being thoroughly outcoached and outplayed by Simeone’s Atlético and things promised to get even worse in the second half.
SECOND HALF
The second half was a painful watch. Sergi Roberto came on at halftime and did absolutely nothing, and Barça passed the ball to death without creating any dangerous chances. Barça only looked somewhat good in attack for a brief period after the introduction of Ansu Fati, but Atlético quickly stopped the Prince’s momentum and simply cruised to end of the game without going through any trouble.
The final whistle came to end another depressing loss for a Barça team that looks lost and disorganized. But the man responsible for that is going to stick around, according to the president. So prepare, Barça fans. More of this is coming.
Atlético: Oblak; Savic, Giménez, Hermoso (Felipe 81’); Llorente, De Paul (Trippier 46’), Koke, Lemar, Carrasco (Lodi 81’); Suárez (Griezmann 72’), Félix (Correa 72’)
Goals: Lemar (23’), Suárez (44’)
Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Mingueza (L. De Jong 75’), Araujo, Piqué, Dest (Lenglet 86’); Nico (Roberto 46’), Busquets; De Jong, Coutinho (Fati 64’), Gavi (75’); Memphis
Goals: None
-Barcablaugranes.com
