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Six Nine Construction business summit ends on high note

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Six Nine Construction business summit ends on high note

Branton Matondo

Mutare business meeting dubbed “An initiative to see businesses become brands” that was organized by Six Nine Construction for Mutare business community where they engaged for cross pollination of ideas on how to maximize brands amid an ever rising competitive market ended on a high note.
The event attracted members from various business ventures in Mutare and beyond.
Six Nine Construction Managing Director Cosmas Mudekwa told the gathering how his organization managed to fit in the ever changing competitive construction industry and said a number of strategies were periodically applied to compliment what already exists.
“We came up with different strategies that are meant to complement what other construction companies are doing, that is in terms of pricing, efficiency, and technological advancements. This is how we have approached the market. We discovered that we could not re-invent a wheel because it’s already there but what we can do is change the design to make it more suitable to our consumers.”
Award Winning Communication firm Esteem Communications Founder and Director Takemore Mazuruse said maximizing brands speaks to a house for all mantra pushed by government, a feat that has been adopted by the private sector.
“The idea speaks towards, housing for all mantra by government and private players as well. So what Six Nine Construction is doing is they are positioning themselves for more opportunities and the presence of tailor made services approaches to all Zimbabwean customers.”
Mazuruse added that business gatherings are a good platform for business to share ideas and they have proved to be pivotal amid a competitive market where you have to re-invent yourself.
“This allows for experience sharing and ideas exchange. Remember we all have different experiences in business, some are starting up, some are midway, and some have actually achieved. Coming together allows cross pollinating of ideas and we get to learn and inspire each to continue doing more. There are challenges along the way but as you learn from others you get the strength to continue going,” he said
Maximizing brands headlined the day’s proceedings. Life coach and award winning motivational speaker Rudo Nyamoto also graced the event and gave a presentation on” The Power of a Confident Brand”.
Discourse on brand positioning was presented by Tinashe Zinyemba while Rimbidzai Kuipa, an experienced caterer detailed the important part employees play in building a brand.

Mentally challenged man kills mother

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Mentally challenged man kills mother

Perpetua Murungweni

A mentally challenged Mwenezi man from Neshuro village, under Chief Neshuro in Mwenezi is on the run after he killed his mom over a simple misunderstanding involving a cellphone and R60.

The incident happened on June 28, 2023 after the deceased Taurai Musungwini asked him about her missing Hisense cellphone and R60.

Masvingo Provincial Deputy Police Spokesperson Assistant Inspector Lorine Ndlovu Chanakira confirmed the incident and urged people to value the sanctity of life and appealed to members of the public with information that may help in apprehending the suspect to visit the nearest police station.

“We received a case from Mwenezi where the suspect who is still on the run struck his mother with a stone after she asked him about her phone and some money that was missing,”

“We urge members of the public to value the sanctity of life and involve a third party when solving disputes. We also urge persons with mentally challenged relatives to make sure that they always take their medication,”

We appealing to anyone with information that may lead to the arrest of the suspect to approach any nearest police station,” said Chanakira

Sources said in the morning of June 28, 2023 Andrew Mazariri, (29) who is mentally challenged came home from Sarahuru shopping center where he had spent the night drinking. The now deceased asked him about her Hisense phone and some money that was missing.

Andrew did not answer his mother but instead took a stone and struck her mother on the back of the head and she fell and died on the spot.

The incident happened in the eyes of 19 year old Susan Mazariri who is the deceased’s daughter who shouted for help from Bernard Musingwini (41), of the same village.

Andrew fled and disappeared into a nearby mountain, Bernard reported the matter to Sarauro police base and the police attended the scene and took the deceased’s body Neshuro district hospital.

CCC fields candidates in all Chiredzi District wards, constituencies

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CCC fields candidates in all Chiredzi District wards, constituencies

…mammoth task ahead in Zanu PF strongholds

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CHIREDZI-The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has broken record in Chiredzi District having managed to field candidates in all 40 local authority seats and Five parliamentary seats.
Chiredzi district, which was trending on social media in 2018 after a record win in one of its constituencies, Chiredzi North, after surpassing Zanu PF’s long time stronghold, Uzumba Marambapfungwe, has been one of Zanu PFs cake due to its location in resettlement areas.
This makes it difficult for opposition parties to penetrate, even under worse economic situations, but this time around CCC has however managed to field candidates in every ward and in all constituencies
For the newly created Chiredzi Central Constituency, Zanu PFs candidate, Francis Moyo will be facing CCC’s youthful candidate, Ropafadzo Makumire, who is ward 3 sitting councilor and Chiredzi Town Council Vice Chairperson.
Makumire will be fishing from the same pond with his current boss, Alderman Gibson Hwende who is contesting as independent after was disqualified by the CCC’s election directorate to represent the party.
Makumire and Moyo are currently clashing over the development of the 750ha meant for urban expansion, with the latter is being alleged to be working is close ties with Full Life Open Arms Africa Investments (FLOAAI) which is currently at loggerheads with the two local authorities for selling undeveloped land without their knowledge.
Moyo faces a stiffer challenge in his own camp, Zanu PF, where he is being accused of nepotism and corruption which is going to lower his chances of succeeding in the forthcoming elections.
Gibson Hwende, who is the Chairman of Chiredzi Town Council also need to work extra hard towards cleansing his name from the 750 ha scandal as well as being named a Zanu PF proxy, which makes his chances of going to Mt Hampden slimmer.
Makumire commandeers a large youth base from his Church, Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe and has been actively involved in anti-drug abuse campaigns targeting youths in the constituency.
In Chiredzi north, where Roy Bhila returned as Zanu PF representative, a development that has never happened in the history of the constituency, has high chances of whitewashing CCC’s Fungai Chamisa.
In 2018 harmonized elections, the opposition did not field any candidate in Chiredzi North with little-known Joseph Chiturumani who represented NFP getting a paltry of 1 291 votes against Bhila’s 35 839 and Faith Machira of ZIPP getting only 635 votes.
With the constituency having been stripped of its major voting wards during the delimitation exercise, Fungai Chamisa is likely to score a sizeable number of votes than any opposition candidate before.
Darlington Chiwa who once stood as an Independent candidate in Chiredzi West before the delimitation exercise and scored 2 361 votes in a race with 8 other candidates, mostly independent, will also represent Zanu PF in the delimited Chiredzi West constituency, which comprise part of old Chiredzi North and West.
Chiwa needs disgruntled Shingirayi Mubhoyi, his primary election contender’s, camps on his side to beat CCC’ young turk Nhamoinesu Machigiri. The candidates have equal opportunities of winning the seat depending on the strategies they are going to use to lure their electorate, with Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe employees being the major decisive group in their battle.
In Chiredzi South, Zanu PF is the most dominant party, whose candidate and businessman Joey Sithole is set to clash with CCCs Douglas Gumbo in a more disgruntled constituency which is blaming the government for imposing Dendairy, a Kwekwe based company linked with the President Emerson Mnangagwa to displace more than 3000 families to grow lucerne grass on a 12000-hectare piece of land owned by the indigenes.
Also the renaming of Chambuta Children’s home to Auxilia Mnangagwa Children’s Home is another worrisome element which might play against Sithole though they seem to be also having a balanced opportunities to score better than each other.
Chiredzi East will be a more interesting battleground for Zanu PFs candidate Siyaki Mundungehama who is from the other end of the constituency representing the Ndau people against CCCs Godfrey Maluleke, a descendant of the Former Governor’s Titus Maluleke’s clan who will be standing in for the Xhangni tribe on the other end of the constituency.
With the former Member of Parliament for the old constituency, Denford Masiya off the book, the Xhangani end will be left without an option than electing one of their own, Godfrey Maluleke while the other side is hoping to get a Ministerial post for their candidate, Mundungehama who is also the Chairperson of the District Coordinating Committee (DCC)
Mundungehama has better odds than Maluleke and is likely to drop from being a civil servant as he joined other successful candidates in Mt Hampden.
In Chiredzi urban local authority elections, Zanu PF needs to be geared in order to win the majority seats, with some of its councilors being labelled corrupt on their alleged involvement in the 750 ha scandal will be very much difficult for them.
Interestingly, all the 7 councilors, excluding Makumire from both Zanu PF and CCC are the current seating councilors which makes it difficult for the contestants to unseat them, except for ward 2, which was merged by former ward 1 where Zanu PF had no chances of winning that seat.

TellZim news editor Takafuma in 2023 Mandela Washington Fellowship

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TellZim news editor Takafuma in 2023 Mandela Washington Fellowship

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TellZim news editor Theresa Takafuma is among the 43 young Zimbabwean leaders participating in this year’s prestigious Mandela Washington Fellowship, after being selected among thousands of applicants from across the country.
Takafuma will spend six weeks at The University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, United States before heading off to Washington D.C for the Fellowship Summit, where she will interact with 700 other fellows selected from across Sub Saharan Africa.
Selected to take part in the Leadership in Civic Engagement Track, Takafuma will spend most of her time in the United States having academic sessions at the J.W Fanning Institute for Leadership Development at the UGA, as well as networking sessions and site visits.
She said she is elated to be participating in such a prestigious fellowship, saying that to her getting the opportunity to learn more about enhancing access to information in marginalised communities and the emancipation of young people and women means a lot to her.
“The work I have been doing over the years promoting access to credible information in marginalized communities has been good, but having the opportunity to learn how I can do it more effectively is invaluable to me,”
“I am excited about the time I am going to spend in the US learning how I can help young people and women in marginalized communities improve their lives through civic participation, information literacy, leadership skills and above all, basic education,” said Takafuma.
With nearly 10 years’ experience in the newsroom, Takafuma has participated in several leadership programmes, including the International Training Programme on Media Development in a Democratic Framework through which she worked with opinion leaders in media policy development and advocacy.
“I believe in information as a public good. Information is power, and access to information is empowerment, therefore I will take this opportunity to learn as much as I can on how I can assist communities in that regard,” Takafuma added.
The Mandela Washington Fellowship is the flagship program under the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), providing nearly 700 young African leaders leadership development and training in the United States each year.
Over 5,000 young leaders from every country in Sub-Saharan Africa have participated in the Fellowship since 2014.

Huge sent off for Sekuru Mkaratirwa

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Huge sent off for Sekuru Mkaratirwa

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There was a huge sent off for Sekuru Fambi Mkaratirwa as the Mukaratirwa family and friends bid farewell to the 88 year old who succumbed to heart failure on June 25, 2023, in Harare.
The late Sekuru Fambi is the father to Masvingo City Council Town Clerck Edward Mukaratirwa
Sekuru Fambi was described by many as a hard-working man who was father to a Pharmacist, an Engineer, two Teachers, an Agronomist, and a Tailor
He was buried at his rural home in Gutu, Mukaratirwa Village under Chief Mazuru and speaker after speaker at the funeral described him as a hard worker, loving, caring and above all a father figure to many.
The funeral was attended by people from all walks of life signifying that he was a man of the people.
The late did his primary education at Chinanga Primary School in Gutu and later learnt Cutting and Designing at Machinya Shop at Mpandawana Growth Point where he graduated as a tailor. He retired in 2000 having worked for major companies like Mornach, Express, and Justine Clothing.
He was a Village head under Chief Mazuru, Mukaratirwa village in Gutu. He is survived by his 79-year-old wife Musayemura, six children, three sons and three daughters, 23 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

46 Vendors loses wares in Chitima inferno

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46 Vendors loses wares in Chitima inferno

…causes of fire yet to be established

Perpetua Murungweni

46 vendors were left devastated after they lost their wares at the Chitima Market Inferno that destroyed goods in the evening of June 24.
Of the 46, 39 are women and 7 are men.
The cause of fire is yet to be established but victims suspect that the fire could have been caused by ambers in a charcoal heater that might have been left on within the premises.
A number of vendors use charcoal heaters in the market to warm themselves as well as sealing plastic packs of kapenta fish, maputi and soya chunks.
They also suspect that someone could have thrown a glowing stub of cigarette that might have resulted into the fire that destroyed goods worth thousands of dollars.
Some of the victims are appealing to well-wishers and authorities to help them with something to help them get back on their feet and resume business as they solely depend on it for their families’ survival.
“We are appealing to well-wishers who can help us in cash or kind so that we get back on our feet. As vendors most of us depend on the small profits that we make here and as it stands were left with nothing,”
“I lost three 90 kg bags of mopane worms, five 90 kg bags of dried vegetables soya chunks and some groceries that I was selling which cost around US $600,” said Jenifer Matorore.
Lydia Charambira said she lost 500 packs of snacks, 100 x10kgs of mealie meal and four 50kg bags of Soya Chunks.
“I lost close to US $1200 altogether because I had 500 packs of zappy snacks which cost US $1.30 each and 100 by 10kg mealie meal which cost US $5 each. I lost everything and now I cannot even afford bus fare for my child to school,” said Charambira.
Another victim Wanisai Pamire said the incident was a huge loss because she depended entirely on buying and selling goods, pays all her bills and feed her kids from the business.
“I lost a lot of staff that include bales of second hand clothes, stationery and some food stuff. I survive on vending and I have invested a lot of money on my goods and now that I have lost everything I don’t know how I am going to take care of my family,” said Pamire.
It is a sad situation for one Gibson Tivakudze who said he had recently graduated from push carts to vending in Chitima and lost everything only after three months into the trade.
“I used to make a living from push carts in town and I saved some money from that, managed to start a small business from it, and within three months of establishing here, I now have nothing,” said Tivakudze.
Masvingo City Mayor Collen Maboke, his deputy Wellington Mahwende, and Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution Ezra Chadzamira visited the scene on Monday and Mahwende who is eyeing Masvingo Urban constituency in the August 23 elections under Zanu PF ticket promised to construct temporary stalls for the vendors.
Maboke is also eyeing the same seat as an independent candidate.

Beware of traffic accidents

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Beware of traffic accidents

Ladies and gentlemen, I used to think kuti if Mukomana becomes president we will be saved a lot of time calling him with these long names like the commander in chief what what, zvino I heard the citizens calling him Change Champion in Chief (CCC) kkkk, imagine how long it is before he becomes president, kuzoti avapo, hamenowo tichanzwirira, so the vice president will be the Vice Change Champion in Chief? Yack!!!!, that’s terrible, ndopaya pandinozoti CCC is just a Zanu Lite kkkk apa imi muchifunga kuti MDC is the Zanu Lite.
But I don’t know how we as a nation allowed Togarasei to do what he wants with us as a nation. Why was Mwonzora allowed to fool Zimbabweans claiming that his party has people when he has none? Anyone care to remember that he said during elections it will be him and Trabablas, hanzi, vanosvika pakuneta kudeedzera kuti Mwonzora vongoti Ra RaRaRa kkkk, mashura chaiwo. Now he failed to field candidates, only one MP in the province. So he is the president, Senator, Women’s quota, MP, Provincial Council, youth quota, councilor kkk. Fanana fanana naTyson. I heard hakunawo maCllr kana maMPs, it’s just iye and Mzembi, then of late Acie Luumba and Tsenengamu. If Mwonzora was Zanu so it means they failed to sponsor him to have some candidates? Kubva Zanu yacho haina moyo zvesure. If he is really a Zanu Proxy then I think this time he had a rude awakening, Zanu Chiwororo.
Its election time ladies and gentlemen, kune Mhepo yemaAccidents. Lets beware of accidents ladies and gentlemen. As I speak, i come to you with a heavy heart, I am mourning the founder of Independent Candidates for ED. He went the same way Tongogara, Cris Ushewokunze, Zororo Duri, Moven Mahachi, Boarder Gezi, Boarder Gezi, Chindori Chininga, Manyika and many others did. Chete we can’t liken his death to these because he was no longer a Zanu PF member since they declared that contesting as an independent warranted an automatic dismissal from the party. Again I am not saying anything, I am just saying he died in a car accident just like the above mentioned members nothing more, kana mukazoti hee maybe there is foul play zvava zvenyu, ini handipo. But it’s the season, lets beware kana tiri paMigwagwa.
I am saying so because I am lucky to be alive after an unknown fire who no one knows how it started just like how the accidents I mentioned above were not explained, engulfed Chitima market, which is my base. I am just lucky to be alive and I am beginning to suspect that maybe someone wanted to kill me. The challenge is I can’t pin point if the person is from the left or from the right because I have enemies and friends in both sides simply because I am a gentlemen handivanze. Vanondifarira they do because I speak the truth and my mind, those who hate me do so again for the same reason, saka maonaka nyaya yacho kuti ma1. Now my situation is worse, rotten banana and tomatoes are hard to come by now.
I am just happy to be alive but moyo wangu unorwadza for those who lost their goods in the inferno. I hope our police will do their job as usual and establish what happened. By their job I mean the prescribed one, the one they were recruited for not iri rechioko muhomwe ravari kunyanya kuita iri. But heads should roll in the engineering dept PaMasvingo City Council. I heard the fire fighters came nemota isina mvura, whats that? Wasting fuel with an empty tanker, kuita sei ikoko. Chete I am not sure because these days ndikangodya zvangu mabanana akaora ndonorara kuKennen Park uko so ndakazongoonawo smoke just like anyone else, I don’t know what really happened.
Ko ndonzwa kuti zvatosvorana Gonzo naChin’ai? I mean Zanu and Zec kkkk, ini hangu I don’t like anything that starts with a Z. ZRP, ZIMRA, ZINARA, should I continue? Of late I like Zesa, I can now see lights in town and that gives me hope. Imagine chando chemunaMucheke and the smell of sewer then woti rima, the combination is unbearable. However, I guess the power stability is not temporary. Right, I was talking about ZEC and Zanu PF. I hear Zanu through MR Bin, redu Chinamasasa, sorry Chinamasa is accusing ZEC of working in cahoots with CCC to allow those who were late on the nomination court to be on the final list kkk. Seka zvako Mapombi. Mukati haasi mashura imi? I now believe that Zanu PF is scared of the elections. They are busy doing all they can to disturb the elections. They are busy trying to block Tyson from contesting, now they are busy trying to block 15 CCC candidates from contesting again. They are panicking big time, rate riri kuvafemesa.
Before I go hangu kunotsvaka some rotten bananas murutsva igogu, can I take this time to tell the Minister of State and The mayor of Masvingo and the Town Clerk to do something here at Chitima, imagine if the situation continues like this and I die, who will tell people that this election Zanu PF will win more MPs than CCC? zvaPresident I will tell you when time comes but Just know its not Mwonzora, Linda, Tyson or anyone who want to get into Polad. Ndokuprera kwemashoko angu. The battle is between team sanction and team corruption kkkk. Hanzi when they are campaigning they don’t talk of sanctions but vangopinda ngoma ndiyi ndiyo. But on a serious note, nhai imi veZanu, all this you have failed to do because of sanctions and now promising to do after elections munozozviita sei, anenge abva here?
Speaking of sanctions, I hear the Chevrons angered the USA cricket team and we may be slapped with more sanctions kkk. Brace for more as we approach election time. We are proud of you boys, you have done well and wish you all the best. Ah I had forgotten to add Zifa on my list up there. I now like zvinhu zvinotanga naC. Chevrons, Citizens, should I add Chamisa? The only problem with this young man is people celebrated the birth of CCC, now he is allowing triple Candidates in one ward, haa ini zvangu ini.
Ko passenger 34 howfar, is the plane still in the air? When is he landing. Mukati ndege hain kuita accident imi. Lets pray ladies and gentlemen mwana asvike zvakanaka. Hanzi he should come and face the consequences of his earlier actions just like Tafadzwa Shamba and Thanks Makore. My heart bleeds on hearing these names. I wish all the best to Mr Makore on his quest to get in council. Mboko imboko.

Sweet news for CCC: Bad news for residents, Zanu PF

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Sweet news for CCC: Bad news for residents, Zanu PF

…As Rocky, Chirairo withdrew from race

Beverly Bizeki

MASVINGO – There is sweet news for Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in Masvingo after the party successfully negotiated for withdrawal of two of its members who had contested, one as independent and the other allegedly forged signatures to create a double candidates in Masvingo West’s ward 2.
The two are Frank Chirairo, who withdrew last week, and Rocky Kamuzonda who had remained defiant but later gave in to the calls for his withdrawal
Kamuzonda confirmed the development to TellZim News and said he realized contesting as an independent will bring confusion in the party.
“It is true that I have withdrawn my candidature at Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC). I have realized that I am still young and I still have more opportunities in the future,” said Kamuzonda.
He further said he also withdrew because of the respect he has for his party saying despite what happened he is still a CCC member and urged his supporters to rally behind Shantiel Chiwara.
“I am still 100 percent CCC and I urge all my supporters to vote for the CCC selected candidate,” said Kamuzonda.
Kamuzonda said his withdrawal was entirely his, sources within the party said it was Dzikamai Mavhaire who managed to convince him to step down.
“Rocky is Mavhaire faction and it’s actually him (Mavhaire) who convinced him to step down after he was given some money. The major reason why they both withdraw was that they want to stay in the party and make a comeback next election,” said the source.
Another source said the two were not sincere that they will support Shantiel saying they would rather make sure that Hwata wins because if they allow Shantiel to win, it will be difficult to remove her once she gets established.
“A similar incident happened in ward 1 in 2013, when Selina Maridza lost to Energy Bara, she promised to work with him but sabotaged him midway and the seat went to Zanu PF, that is how she made a comeback in 2018,” said the source.
A number of candidates were eyeing the seat, which was moved to Masvingo West from Masvingo Urban constituency after delimitation, on CCC ticket among them, Kamuzonda, who is ward 3 sitting councilor having been elected in last year’s by elections following recalls by the Douglas Mwonzora led MDC Alliance party.
After the chaotic candidate selection process in CCC, Chirairo who was the residents’ favorite as evidenced by him winning the last stage of the selection process where he got 214 votes but failed to represent the party went on to file his candidature on CCC ticket as well.
Kamuzonda came second with 204 while the only female candidate in the race Shantiel got 27.
Shantiel is daughter to former Masvingo City Deputy Mayor James Chiwara who reigned between from 2013-2018 before losing the 2018 primaries to Tarusenga Vhembo.
The Chiwaras are from Gutu district and they hail from the same area with CCC party leader Nelson Chamisa.
Initially when Kamuzonda filed as independent his argument was that the party should respect the people’s decision and was supposed to pick either him or Chirairo
On the other hand the party had made a police report against Chirairo who was accused of forging signatures but the matter was later withdrawn after Chirairo withdrew his candidature. However, it is remains unclear whether Chirairo had forged the signatures or one of the signatories has signed for him.
A few days later Chirairo renounced his membership from the party and said he was quitting active politics.
Since the withdrawal of the two, fears of vote split in favor of Zanu PF were cleared and could be a bitter pill for Zanu PF whose fingers were as the party was the major beneficiary of the impasse.
Rocky and Chirairo were likely to divide the CCC vote and that could have worked to Zanu PF’s advantage as the party is trying all tricks to win more seats in Masvingo urban, having won only three out of 10 in 2018, a slip from the 2013-2018 term where they had 4.
A number of residents especially in two ward 2 WhatsAppp groups, who are both Rocky and Chirairo supporters are threatening ‘Bhora Musango’ saying they will vote for Hwata and not Shantiel since she was allegedly imposed on them.
They are accusing both Rocky and Chirairo of having been bribed by party big wigs to withdraw at the expense of their suppoters.
Four candidates will battle for the seat namely Hwata, Chiwara, Charity Shoko from of and Anderson Paradza who will be representing MDC T.

 

Chief, 3 Police officers bashed at funeral

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Chief, 3 Police officers bashed at funeral

…70 year old woman in dock for assaulting Chief

Brighton Chiseva

Controversial Chief Murinye real name Ephias Munodawafa was recently dressed down, humiliated and assaulted at a funeral in one of his villages.
He was assaulted together with three Zimbabwe Republic Police officers who had accompanied him to the funeral where he intended to stop the burial of one Jairos Zindoga at a ‘sacred’ place as per the areas’ tradition.
Masvingo Police referred all questions to the national police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi who in turn could not be reached as he was not answering his cell. Murinye However confirmed the incident and said the matter was already at the police.
“I was assaulted after together with the police officers I had asked to escort me to the funeral. The deceased’s father is one of my village heads. So initially he had told me about the funeral, he later told me that his deceased son’s in-laws had suggested that they will bury him at his homestead contrary to our tradition. So after failing to stop them he then asked me to intervene that’s why I called the police to escort me there.
However, when we tried to solve the matter, they refused and chased me and the police from the homestead attacking us and I sustain some injuries.
The police later came back with reinforcements and arrested some of the perpetrators but some escaped, “said Murinye.
He said in his area it was against tradition to bury someone at home as there were cemeteries in the area. He said they intended to bury the deceased is sacred place called (Chirambakutemwa) in shona where traditional rites are done.
He said the incident could have been worsened by his sour relations with the neibouring Chief Mugabe whom he clashes with over boundaries.
Sources who were present at the funeral said Murinye and there police officers Sergeant Honest Nemadziwa, constables Tariro Moyo and Great Marecha arrived at the funeral around 6 am. They summoned mourners and adviced those to stop the burial process and use the common cemetery.
This did not go well with some of the relatives who started attacking the chief and the police.
“The deceased’s brother Austin openly told the chief that they were not going to obey his orders and were going to proceed with burial. Another relative, Muzenda Muzenda told the mourners that the chief was undermining them and needed a beating.
They then attacked the chief and the police with open hands, fists and sticks.
The chief sustained injuries including a swollen eye. The police watched helplessly as they were also attacked and they went away only to return around 2 pm with reinforcement and they managed to arrest 34people,” said the source
Another source said of the 4 arrested people, 3 were males while one was a 70 year old woman who was seen slapping the chief on the face in a video that is circulating on social media.

CCC’s Chirairo quits politics, renounce membership

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CCC’s Chirairo quits politics, renounce membership

Beverly Bizeki

MASVINGO – Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) member Frank Chirairo who was aspiring candidate for Masvingo West’s ward 2 has renounced his party membership saying he is quitting active politics.
His decision came a few days after withdrawing his candidature following a double candidate deadlock where he and another candidate, Shantiel Chiwara, successfully filed their nominations but the party declared Chiwara as the preferred candidate alleging that Chirairo had forged signatures.
He first made the announcement in Ward 2 WhatsApp platform and went on to confirm to TellZim News on June 24, 2023.
“Greetings citizens, Zimbabwe and ward 2 Masvingo West Constituency, we had a fantastic time, It was a good journey that we walked together where I interacted with citizens across all sectors of our community.
“I have decided to quit active politics and am hereby renouncing my membership in the party. I am no longer a CCC. Yours truly Frank Chirairo,” said Chirairo.
Initially Chirairo had been reported to the police on fraud charges with the party alleging that he forged signatures on his nomination forms and the party signatory denied having signed for him.
After some negotiations with other party structures, he went on to withdraw his nomination and the party withdrew fraud charges against him.
“I can confirm that on June 21 I filed for my nomination papers that had been brought to me by party officials and I then discovered that ward 2 Masvingo west constituency had also another candidate who had filed nomination papers. Investigations were made within the party and party officials communicated with other members and resolved and ensured that the party has only one candidate that will remain on the ballot paper on the election easy,” said Chirairo.
Jefferyson Chitando one of the party signatories confirmed reporting the fraud case to police as well as withdrawing charges.
The development was received with mixed feelings by people especially those in ward with some saying he made the right move as the party had failed to appreciate his contributions especially registering first time voters while some said he was supposed to continue as a party member and support the party to win the 2023 election
After his withdrawal the ward still faced vote split after Ward 3 Councillor Rocky Kamuzonda who was moved to ward 2 after delimitation also went on to stand as independent candidate but he later withdrew,
Recently, a statement released by CCC spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere gave fraudulent candidates a 24 hour ultimatum to withdraw their papers or be dragged to court.
Cases of signature forgery in CCC were rife during the nomination court day and, a Kariba man, Andrew Mutsau who is alleged to have forged signatures in a double candidature case is facing was also reported to the police it was realized the signatures were wrongfully attached on his nomination forms.
CCC is threatening to deal harshly with double candidature fraudsters claiming double candidate cases were meant to give an impression of confusion in the party.

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