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Decision-making processes and youth apathy: Possible solutions

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Decision-making processes and youth apathy: Possible solutions

 

Constitutional Amendment Bill II consultative meeting, Chivi growth point, June 17, 2020


Moses
Ziyambi

Masvingo City Council
began implementing the mid-year 2020 budget review consultations at the
beginning of September and most of the wards have already been covered but with
a noticeable low participation of young people.

The consultations
should have been held by June but they had to be deferred as the country was
still at a more severe level of the Covid-19 national lockdown.

When the lockdown
became way softer August, conditions became more permitting for the
consultations to begin, but those interested in youth participation in
decision-making and governance processes are disappointed by the underwhelming
involvement of young people.

At the first
consultative meeting held at Civic Centre in Ward 8 on September 07, a total of
57 participants attended, excluding council officials, and that is according to
data on signed registers. Although the registers did not require people to
provide their age details, participants who seemed to be 35 years and below
were seven.

At another consultative
meeting held at Rujeko Hall in Ward 7 on September 12, at total of 26 residents
participated and a mere three attendants including this writer seemed to be 35
years of age or below.

Prior to the Rujeko Hall
meeting, the writer had had a privilege of attending a similar gathering at
Mucheke Hall in Ward 1 on September 09 where about 32 people attended, with 11
of them being young people.

Tatenda Mutemachimwe
(28), a Rujeko resident who attended the Ward 7 meeting, told TellZim News that
the youth seemed to be disengaged from issues of national interest due to the
increasingly difficult economy.

“The youth have
traditionally been apathetic in issues of governance and decision-making but I
think it is getting worse as the economy becomes more difficult. The youth are
most interested in things that bring quick material benefits or issues that
bring entertainment to them. I can never have all the answers but I think those
issues partly explain why young people largely ignore platforms such as this,”
said Mutemachimwe.

When asked whether she
had attended any of the consultative meetings, another Rujeko resident Teclar
Mwoyo (27) said she did not even know that council had such a consultative programme.

Teclar Mwoyo


“I did not attend
because the communication did not reach me. I however guess the chances of me
attending would have been 50-50 even if I had been told about them earlier on.
As some of these meetings are held on work days, it is difficult to attend if
you are formally employed. On weekends, I also have to be with my family as a mother,”
said Mwoyo, who works for Empowerbank, a government-owned and youth-focused
micro lender.

Prosper Dendere (32),
who is a very active citizen in matters of civic engagement, said most young
people lacked understanding on the importance of consultative processes in
their lives.

“I have attended some
of the budget review meetings recently and it was very sad to notice that many
young people did not attend. At one of the gathering, there were only two young
people there including myself. The youths have to be educated that it’s not the
things that bring immediate material gain that matter the most,” said Dendere.

Prior to the mid-year
budget review meetings, there were many other consultative meetings in Masvingo
province.

The
divisive political influence

At a consultative
meeting for the controversial Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill held at
Mucheke Hall on July 06, and hosted by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on
Information and Communication Technology and Courier Services, there were many
youths present.

It was apparent,
however, that many of these youths were mobilised by their political parties so
that they could make partisan arguments for or against the bill.

Known ruling Zanu PF party
youth league members made contributions at the event, and they all supported
the bill in its fullness. They argued that once passed into law in its current
form, the bill would stem social media abuse which threatened to foment chaos
in the country.

MDC youths opposed the
bill on many basis including that it failed to protect whistleblowers and that
it sought to vest too much power in the government-controlled regulator PORTRAZ
by making it both a cyber-security centre and a data protection authority.

“We need more
non-political actors to mobilise the youth to take part in these important
activities because when political parties do so, they are not necessarily doing
it for the national interest but primarily to further their own political ends.

“I think civil society must
have some focus on youths in all their mobilisation activities so that they
have greater control in conscientizing the youth. Many bills that are debated are political in nurture and even if they are not, dialogue on them often deteriotrates to political arguments. We cannot afford to surrender
that mobilisation role to national politics.

“We want the youth to
make free contributions in decision-making processes rather than for them to be
shepherded to consultative platforms where they are made to push selfish
political agendas. That’s tantamount to abuse of the youths,” said MyAge Zimbabwe
director Onward Gibson, a youthful pastor who leads his own church.

MyAge is a youth
organization working for the rights of youths especially in areas of
reproductive health rights and livelihoods.

MyAge Zimbabwe director Onward Gibson


Meanwhile, TellZim also
observed that less youths in Masvingo and Manicaland provinces participated in
the Constitutional Amendment Bill II hearings that were spearheaded by the
Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs.

At one such hearing
held at Chivi growth point on June 17, it was encouraging that women, another
marginalised demographic group, dominated the gathering but it was again a bit
disappointing that fewer youths attended.

The
digital space as a forum of engagement

Cathrine Mashavira
(23), a runaway and editorial model who finished as finalist in the Miss Zimbabwe
Grand 2020, said there had to be some means to tap into the potential of the
digital space which she suggested was a friendlier platform of engagement for youths.

“As youths, we are more
active on the cyber space. Raising issues on networking platforms could be more
accommodative for us. For unemployed youths to attend a meeting in town, they
have to walk or engage in the hassles of public transport going to an event
where nicely-dressed older people come in big cars.

“That alone could dent
an average youth’s esteem and they will not be confident enough to express
themselves boldly especially if their opinions differ from sentiments of their
older counterparts who by virtue of their better material circumstances will
seem better informed,” said Mashavira.

She also said many
youths feared the severe polarisation of all discourse in the country, more
especially State-driven engagements where debate oftentimes degenerates into the
disparate Zanu PF-MDC binaries.

Melanin Black Queen

“That is where you get labeled
due to the nature of your contributions even if you made them in good faith and
from a non-partisan position. And we all know the implication of being given
political tags in a polarised community especially when you are a young person
who still have a non-political professional career to build,” she said.

There are many civic organizations
like the Youth Empowerment and Transformation Trust (YETT) that are working to
advance the greater involvement of youths, who constitute over half of the
country’s population, in the country’s governance systems but many challenges do remain.

 

 

Is Zim ready for football return?

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Is Zim ready for football return?


 

Clayton Shereni

With
pressure mounting for football action to resume, questions still remain as to
whether or not a wholesome reopening of the game will not renew coronavirus
infections at a time the country has recorded significant decline of active
cases.

It is a
public secret that the Zimbabwean economy has been on a life support system for
many years with investment in football suffering considerably as a result.

Now
with the pandemic seemingly far from over, many careers in the football
industry have suffered immense damage.

Sport
heals souls and keeps people occupied and their thoughts away from the
political and economic crisis engulfing the whole country, but of what good
will be sport when the players and fans are exposed to the lethal virus?

Football
leaders in the country have failed to raise the standards of the game even in
more conducive environments of the past. Rather, they have chosen to fatten
their pockets and play politics with the game.

Government
has also largely ignored calls for improve financial support for Zifa which has
struggled for many years but that is a topic for another day.

The country’s
stadia are below standard even for a Division One matches, and that is
according to Fifa standards.

The
ceremonial home of football, Rufaro Stadium is bad while the National Sports
and Barbourfields stadiums were condemned and deemed unfit to host
international matches.

Other
football arenas in the country are just standard grounds which need major
renovations for them to be used for official matches.

Our
stadia do not have good drainage systems and we might see the funniest games of
our lifetime with waterlogged and muddy pitches if full-fledged football is to
resume.

Not
only that, the pitches themselves will pose a very hazardous threat to players
due to the lack of drainage, meaning players will find it hard to adjust to a
slippery pitch.

For
example, one can imagine a D1 match in Mucheke Stadium which is infamously
known for waterlogging during the peak days of Una Una.

In that
stadium, grounds men would connive with Masvingo United to water the pitch and
the trick usually worked in their favour.

With
regards to player testing and keeping them away from the dangers of the
pandemic, it is like trying to climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in 30
minutes.

One PCR
test kit costs nothing less than US$60 and with a team of 18 players and at
least five members of the technical department, one could easily imagine how
many teams will struggle to regularly test their players on a weekly basis.

One of
the key questions to this issue is, how will PSL and Zifa enforce continuous
testing when they themselves are bankrupt? This is not to mention clubs which
survive on gate takings and for them to play in an empty stadium will be a
major blow which would lead to mayhem between players and management over
allowance and salaries.

Although
authorities are mulling a bio bubble, the pertinent question is, will it be
affordable and sustainable? 

According
to terms of the proposal, teams will have to camp at an isolated area but this remains
a dream which might be difficult to wake up from.

Who
will cater for the food, allowances and accommodation costs incurred during the
camping since other PSL clubs don’t have the capacity to camp?

Transport
issues will also affect the resumption efforts since most of players in the PSL
and D1 league use public transport which further risks them and their families
and only a few players have personal cars.

Assuming
action has been resumed and tragedy strikes, who will be held accountable since
both the government, PSL and Zifa are known for pointing fingers at each other?

Zifa has
sent a proposal for activities to resume but the government also wrote back a
proposal and this clearly shows that there are some anomalies which need to be
addressed first before the high contact sport begins.

Since
all leagues had not commenced, it will be for the good to declare the 2020
season null and void, to allow team’s coffers to gain and also to give amble
time for them to source and secure funding and avoid chaos and confrontations
with players like the Nhamo Tutisani and Caps United players saga.

Rather,
the authorities should consider with caution pleas from teams like FC Platinum
who are supposed to compete in the Caf Champions League in November.

The
government has been relaxing lockdown restrictions due to the increased number
of recoveries from the disease which is a great positive move but for the
recommencement of football it might be quite a rushed decision.

Other
countries like South Africa, Zambia and Tanzania have continued with their
leagues after a careful approach was made with great cooperation from their
governments, football associations, league authorities and the clubs
themselves.

Heal the world, confront societal ills

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Heal the world, confront societal ills

 

Melanin Black Queen

No one would ever write down a
plan to be broke, weak, less courageous, to be segregated, be a failure or any
other negative things. We all have dreams, set goals, and ambitions because we
want what is best for us.

However, because we are humans
and we don’t have the power to control everything that life presents to us,
some things don’t go as we plan and hope for, regardless of how much we try to
make the best out of our lives.

Sometimes when life does not turn
out to be what we expected, we feel defeated, feel like failures, we become
sad, heartbroken, depressed, we cry, curse and some commit suicide because we
feel totally drained. All hopes are shattered as there seem to be no way out
from whatever situation we are in. It is during these times that we need
someone to hold out hands because we will be too weak to stand by ourselves, a
time when we need to be told that it is possible to pick up ourselves up and
start moving even if it means crawling but surely one day we shall be walking
and eventually run again.

Pull her down!

We are humans, we come from
different backgrounds, we have different beliefs and so we respond to difficult
situations differently. Some of us are self-motivated so much that when we fall
we can pick ourselves up without crying out for help or we are privileged to
have people who are always there to protect us, to catch us before we hit the
ground so that we don’t feel the pain of falling and spare us the embarrassment
too.

But then again, there are some of
us who have no one to lean on and we tend to cry out for help through certain
behaviours which our societies are quick to judge. The same society that is
corrupt, too judgemental, too selective of who to help out, too keen to please
those we consider to be in our circles or at least “worthy” to be.
Needless to say our society is envious, which has to a pull him/her down
syndrome.

Negativity and effects on esteem

The world is full of negative
things that we should protect each other from as society. Love, unity,
contention and care bring peace amongst us because they are richer than the
happiness that we think money can give us. There is abuse, hunger, sexual
exploitation, poor health, peer pressure, poverty, depression, death; it never
rains but pours for us and we only let ourselves cry out loud and express our
pain and fears.

Unfortunately, the society we try
to seek help from is quick to point fingers, call us names, to create memes and
find something to laugh about, to be sarcastic about. Have we ever thought that
maybe “kapfambi” is a victim of child sexual abuse and she needs our
help as society. An egg is fragile with its thin shell locking its precious
contents inside, but as we boil it becomes stronger and even hard to break.

Let us be transformed by the
renewal of our minds and seek to help heal our societies.

Be the candle that burns for others

Everyone of us has a space that
we can fill so let us be kind and generous as we remember that lighting
someone’s candle does not switch off your own light.

Edith Wharton says there are two
ways we can spread light; either by being the candle or the mirror that
reflects it. We all need someone to be there for us in life so we all should
learn to accept each other’s faults and choose to celebrate our differences to
create a healthy environment for everyone to live in within our societies.

Let us not judge anyone because
we never know what they have been going through in their lives and what they
keep up with just to see each day pass through. Let us not normalise what is
not right. Sometimes we do not realise the impact that our negative comments
and how they degrade a person’s self-esteem and more. Let us be helpers, let us
change the world for the better as we remember that doing good will definitely
make us feel good too.

Cathrine ‘Melanin Black Queen’ Mashavira is a runway and editorial
model and a finalist contestant for Miss Zimbabwe Grand 2020. She is also
Development Studies graduate with the Midlands State University (MSU).Email: kithoe96@gmail.com

The views expressed here are her own.

Residents want Masvingo to transfer ownership of ‘midhadhadha’

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Residents want Masvingo to transfer ownership of ‘midhadhadha’

 

Mucheke hostels

Triader Chipunza

MASVINGO –
Tenants of some very old hostels in Mucheke have called upon council to
transfer ownership to them, arguing that they have lived there for several
years and that the local authority was failing to fully improve them.

Residents who attended
a 2020 half year budget review meeting at Mucheke Hall recently said they
wished to be granted a chance to apply for the possession of the dilapidated hostels
that are commonly known as midhadhadha.

“It has been long since
we started renting these flats. Our great grandparents stayed in these premises
and here we are now with our families as tenants still. We wish council could give
us a chance to apply for ownership,” said one resident.

They also lamented the
deterioration of the hostels which they said were now cracked and leaky.

“It is very bad in there.
The overcrowding and the noise are suffocating. 
The hostels have developed cracks and some of the walls are peeling off.
During the rainy season, we find it difficult because the roofs are leaky.

“Council must put more
money towards maintenance of these flats and finally grant us ownership so we
can be safe here,” said another resident.

In response, Masvingo
City Council Mayor Collen Maboke said the local authority was in the processes
of renovating the hostels. He said it was wise for tenants to wait for
completion of the project before they could make their proposals.

“In partnership with a
donor organisation called Dialogue on Shelter, we are already in the process of
renovating the hostels. The work was interrupted by the national Covid-19
lockdown,” said Maboke.

He said residents’ queries
on ownership will be taken into consideration.

 

 

Wild fruit dinner for old, blind Copota couple

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Wild fruit dinner for old, blind Copota couple

Julius and Oripa Chiwanza

 

Colleen Chitsa

ZIMUTO – An old and blind couple staying at Copota School for the Blind with their five grandchildren have on many occasions had matohwe and masekesa for supper as there is hardly any decent food them.

Julius Chiwanza (60) who is both asthmatic and sugar diabetic, and his wife Oripa Chiwanza (62) look after their grandchildren at the mission compound where they do not receive any social support.

Chiwanza used to work in the school workshop making furniture but he retired in 2018, meaning he has overstayed in the compound as he was supposed leave when he retired.

“The mission has been gracious to me because they have allowed my family to continue using their accommodation. They, however, cannot afford to support my other needs because they too are in dire straits as they mainly rely on scarce donations.

“Life is very difficult for us and I do not remember the last time we had a decent meal. It’s almost like a lifestyle for us to sleep on empty stomachs and it’s bad especially for the children,” said Julius Chiwanza.

He said they used to beg door to door for food around the community but it was becoming harder for other people too.

“People used to help us with food and other small items and sometimes we would move around the community begging but we do not get enough because everyone is also struggling. Sometimes we do not get anything. On many occasions, the children venture into the bush and bring with them matohwe and masekesa that we eat together before we sleep,” he said.

Julius also said he would be glad to leave the compound for his own place he is trying to build on a piece of land allocated to him close by.

“We have run out of the means to complete the rural home that I have started building. We feel like an unwanted person here because my time is up. I must leave whether they still allow me to stay or not but we don’t have anywhere to go,” he said.

On her part, Oripa said it was heartbreaking to fail to provide for the grandchildren most of whom were simply dumped into their care by their barely responsible daughters.

 “Our kitchen is now a bare playing ground because we have sold most of our household utensils to buy food. We would beg for people to take our old stuff in return for food. We are disabled and old but we have capacity to work if given the support to begin a project. We don’t want to be beggars,” she said

Zanu PF sets stage for DCC elections

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Zanu PF sets stage for DCC elections

Zanu PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda

 

…no joy for G40 linked members

Upenyu Chaota

The
ruling Zanu PF party has set the stage for its District Coordinating Committee
(DCC) elections in eight provinces with the national political commissar Victor
Matemadanda laying down the rules for the game which will shut out all members
with a tainted history and those with links to the vanquished G40 faction.

Harare and
Bulawayo provinces were the first do their DCC elections and Zanu PF hopes to
conduct the process in the remaining eight provinces on the same day.

A total
of 23 posts will be contested in the DCC elections.

In a
circular from Matemadanda to provincial chairpersons, a 5 year membership threshold
has been imposed on all prospecting candidates.

Provinces
have been instructed to hold inter-district meetings to facilitate the process
of receiving CVs from prospecting candidates.

“Provinces
are requested to hold inter-district meetings to organise and facilitate the
receiving of CVs from candidates intending to contest the DCC elections in
positions of their choice.

“Interested
candidates should have at least five year membership within the district
executive and should have no pending disciplinary issues with the party,” reads
the circular.

The circular
also puts it down that any member who holds a higher office and is interested
in contesting for the DCC positions, should resign first before contesting.

Positions
for secretary for women, secretary for youth and secretary for war veterans will
only be voted for by the women, youth and war veterans respectively.

The
DCCs were disbanded in 2012 to quell divisive factionalism which had ravaged
the party back then as bigwigs were fighting to control the grassroots
structures in the race to position themselves to succeed former president
Robert Mugabe.

Former Vice-President
Joice Mujuru and former Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa reportedly led
factions back then which were vying to succeed Mugabe.

The return
of DCCs, according to Zanu PF, will help the party coordinate programmes at the
grassroots level as they drum up support ahead of the 2023 elections.

Remand prison conditions suitable for animals, says Kurauone

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Remand prison conditions suitable for animals, says Kurauone

 

Moses Ziyambi

MDC Alliance national youth
organiser, Godfrey Kurauone has lamented conditions at Masvingo Remand Prison,
saying they were meant for animal and not as penitentiary for human beings.

Speaking in an interview with
TellZim News after his release from the correctional facility, Kurauone said
the experience has left on him an indelible imprint of grief.

“More often than not, there were
over 30 of us in one small cell at a time and there was never a time we were
less than 20. All those social distancing rules being encouraged are completely
impossible to adhere too because we were overcrowded.

“We were given lice –infested
blankets and horrible food usually sadza and spinach or badly-cooked beans. That
was our daily bread and as I look back, I cannot help but feel sorry for fellow
inmates whom I left behind, some of them wrongly-accused,” said Kurauone, who
spent 42 days in remand prison on accusations of obstructing the free movement
of traffic in relation to the abortive July 31 demonstrations.

Kurauone was acquitted on the
charge on September 10, with another charge of criminal nuisance having been
dropped earlier in the course of the trial.

In an example Kurauone said showed persecution through prosecution, he had been denied bail three times by the Magistrates’ and High courts before his acquittal.  

Kurauone said basic hygiene was
impossible to practice in remand prison, with dozens of inmates sharing a dilapidated toilet and
filthy bathroom.

“They did not allow me to receive
food and toiletries from home citing coronavirus so I had to manage without
such basics as tooth brush and toothpaste. I think the coronavirus excuse was
being abused to deny prisoners their right to dignity because prison warders
and other staff members still live in the usual communities. They commute to
and from work every day without any special arrangement for them. Their
interaction with inmates remains the same so I don’t see the logic of banning
loved ones from delivering food and toiletries to inmates,” said Kurauone.

He said due to the political
nature of his case, he was a sort of an outcast among others as most inmates avoided
being friendly to him for fear of victimisation.

“At one moment, an inmate gave me
his bed sheet to use and when the prison guards came for their routine
inspection and found me with the sheet, they went mad. I felt sorry for that
fellow because they made his life miserable. One prison guard confided in me that
they had received a call from their superiors in Harare questioning why an MDC
person was being given special treatment,” Kurauone said.

He said he will not shy away from
fighting for human rights and a better life for all citizens despite the
attendant risks.

 

Victoria Ranch: A baby with no parents

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Victoria Ranch: A baby with no parents

City of Masvingo Mayor Collen Maboke

 

Clayton
Shereni

Some people have for long
blamed Masvingo City Council for failing to bring municipal services to the
sprawling high density suburb of Victoria Ranch but the local authority has now
said it currently bore no administrative responsibility in the area.

Victoria Ranch was built by
land barons on Masvingo Rural District Council (RDC) land but with proper
procedures not being followed.

Masvingo RDC Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) Martin Mubviro was recently quoted in a radio programme saying
the local authority did not have an obligation to service the area as it was
built by private individuals without council’s involvement.

This, therefore, means the
suburb is like an orphan with not parental care from any local authority.

Due to its urban nature and
closeness to Masvingo urban, residents tend to blame the city for erratic piped
water supplies, lack of refuse collection, lack of sewer infrastructure and a
barely maintained dusty road network.

The city has always
maintained that the land barons, most of whom have very close connections to
the ruling Zanu PF party, who grabbed huge chunks of land on the peripheries of
the city and sold residential stands should be held accountable and made to
provide optimum services.

The area has about 16 land
baron companies that refer to themselves as ‘land developers’ but that have
barely developed the area besides allowing people to build their houses even
directly below high voltage power lines and very close to a garbage dumping
ground.

Some of the land barons were
last year subjected to serious questioning during the Justice Tendai Uchena-led
Commission of Inquiry into the Sale of Land in and Around Urban Areas since
2005.

Before the government
appointed enquiry, the national government was conspicuous by its deliberate
failure to take action.

The land barons have made
millions of dollars dividing the State-owned land into residential stands which
are still being sold to desperate home-seekers to this very day.

Since 2005, the land barons
allowed the home-seekers to build their houses without first servicing the land
as is standard procedure in urban development processes.

Speaking during the first
mid-year 2020 budget review held at the Civic Centre on September 07, City of
Masvingo Acting Town Clerk Engineer Edward Mukaratirwa said the city did not
have administrative responsibilities in the area although the matter was of
great bother to everybody.

“Victoria Ranch is still
under the jurisdiction of Masvingo RDC (technically) although government gave
out land to different developers who then sold pieces of land to individuals.
We are having meetings where we discuss the interests of the city in the area.
Last Friday (September 04), we held a meeting in which we discussed that
issue,” said Mukaratirwa.

He expressed optimism that
the area will be incorporated into the city but only when a consensus is
reached with the ‘land developers’.

“We constantly monitor
progress in the area and also play an advisory role. That area will be
incorporated into the boundaries of the city and at one point, all
infrastructure will be handed over to council. It’s not like we are turning a
deaf ear because from time to time, we engage the developers,” said
Mukaratirwa.

However, impeccable sources
claim that land barons have on many occasions rejected City of Masvingo’s
generous terms to be included into the municipality’s commonage.

“They want to be
incorporated into the municipal commonage free of charge even though they made
millions of dollars selling State land. That’s impunity. The municipality
cannot afford to do that because it is failing to provide standard services in
its current commonage,” said a source.

The city has reportedly
demanded that the land barons who made enormous profits selling State-owned
land to private individuals pay a specified amount of money so that water and
sewer reticulation can be expanded into Victoria Ranch.

 

 

Mwonzora’s province vows to stand with Chamisa

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Mwonzora’s province vows to stand with Chamisa

 

MDC Alliance members in Manicaland


 Felix
Matasva

MUTARE— MDC
Alliance Manicaland province has vowed to support its leader Nelson Chamisa
despite the current turbulence which has left the biggest opposition movement
facing an identity crisis with structures and supporters alike caught in the
confusion.

 The MDC has been torn
between the Chamisa led Alliance and the Thokozani Khupe ‘T’ which has been
endorsed by the Supreme Court as the legitimate party.

Khupe has managed to get
support from former Chamisa allies among them Douglas Mwonzora, Morgan Komichi
and Elias Mudzuri.

Khupe, through Mwonzora,
has declared war on all Chamisa allies with some being send to the guillotine
for refusing to recognize Khupe as the legitimate leader.

MDC Alliance Manicaland
provincial chairperson and former chief whip Prosper Mutseyami, who was recalled from Parliament by Khupe in May,
said that his province stands fully behind Chamisa and his executive is
implementing programmes to strengthen the party in the province.

“Manicaland is fully
behind president Chamisa. We will not waver on our resolve. We have been
betrayed but we will not look back. We are moving forward with the people’s
movement.

“We have been doing
programmes with our grass root structures and our people believe it is only
Chamisa who has the ability to move the country forward.

 “There are some people
who decided to be bought and betray the people’s struggle but we will not be
forced to work with them.

 “We are rallying our
people to get ready for 2023. We are very clear on our position. Chamisa is our
president and no court can ever impose a leader on us,” said Mutseyami.

He said Mwonzora will
not get any support from Manicaland even though it is his home province.

“Every leader should be
proud to be supported by people from his home but if you do not have that then
u are as good as lost. Mwonzora is from here but we will not support him
because he is lost. We do not follow a blind person.

“They may have recalled
us from Parliament for supporting our president but in the end the people’s voices
can never be silenced,” said Mutseyami.

There is a crisis in Zimbabwe Cde Ramaphosa

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There is a crisis in Zimbabwe Cde Ramaphosa

 

Dear
readers I hope I find you well and Covid-19 free. Life in Zimbabwe is full of
drama, ups and downs but ukazviteedzera unofa nebp. The only notable thing we
can be happy about is that Covid-19 has shown mercy on us. Kudenga kuna Mwari
and he will not let us walk alone. Imagine if Covid-19 had unleashed its full
wrath on us, taipera tese kuti tsvai. If Covid-19 hits a hungry person who is
being tormented by Zanu PF the end result will be catastrophic kkkkk. But we
have flattened the curve and it is time to remove the curfew and other
regulations which can be abused by Zanu PF for political expediency. People
should now be allowed to move freely and go about their businesses as usual but
knowing that if they are reckless they will pay the ultimate price. We do not
want to see the security forces on our roads on the pretext of enforcing
lockdown when in fact they are protecting one paranoid man who is afraid of his
own shadow. Mapombi can tell you that muchinda anonzi Dambudzo is very paranoid
which is why muchiona the people’s army yabva from barracks and being used on
issues best done by our police. The army will soon lose the respect we used to
give them. The army is the last line of defense and cheapening them by putting
them on our streets and tempting them to be corrupt on our roads will backfire
mirai henyu muone.

Remember
what happened to the police force under Chihuri. They lost all the credibility
and the police uniform was now synonymous to corruption. Regai ndinyarare hangu
ini Mapombi. They say ndiri mupengo but akuruma nzeve ndewako. Let what
happened in Chivhu be an awakening call. We do not want people to have beef
with our brothers and sisters in the military. Some may take the Chivhu
shooting on face value but is vana Mapombi we would like to know what really
happened. Those two guys who shot soldiers inside a police base were not mere
civilians. Ini Mapombi chero mukandipa pfuti I will never point it to a soldier
much less inside a police base, then take their guns and not run away.
Vaitembei vakomana vaya. If it was Mapombi who had in the wildest and
unimaginable of circumstance’s shot at soldiers, I would have walked all the
way across the Limpopo because ndinenge ndichiziva ndarova shumba nembama. The
police tell us their side of the story on how the incident happened but I
believe there is more to the story than they are making us believe. Maybe vanhu
vanga varohwa nemusombodyiya vakafunga kupinda nemwenje mudziva. But why target
the army boys only vachisiya mapurisa aivemo. It seems the shooters were on a
mission. But we will never know because they are not here to tell us why they
did it. They were killed by a joint operation of the army and police. Of course
we knew the military would come out full force and send a statement that their
people are off limits. Musajairira vana mukoma munokuvara kkkk. Chero mabhema
grade rerudzii just know soldiers and police are not punching bags. Munogona
kujairira henyu police but vana mukoma vanorova.

I heard
vamwe vachiti the shooters were shooting at a 45 degree angle but the soldiers
jumped in the way of bullets and got hit kkkk. Zvakamboitika rimwe gore
kuHarare and people died so maybe it’s what happened in Chivhu but again what
do we know zvedu isu vana Mapombi tinorarira maputi nemabanana akaora. In this
country it is difficult to tell between right or wrong and sometimes if you are
wrong you get a lot of praises and if you are right it is the exact opposite.
Vana Hopewell and Chin’ono can testify to this. They languished in remand for
speaking and exposing corruption. There is no freedom after expression but ini
Mapombi havandigoni kkkkk ndiri kutamba hangu. Varume vanotyisa ava. Ndinoswera
ndatsvairwa hangu. At least I am happy Kurauone has been released. 42 days in
remand is not a joke especially uchipomerwa mhosva isina mature ese. Enjoy your
freedom Cde Kurauone. Go back to your wife and kids. A lot of people have
strolled down this path before fighting Zanu PF but they are dead asi Zanu PF
ichingoripo inchingotonga ichingotonga isu tichingotongeka. Rest in peace
Mogiza. Chamatama fought hard against Zanu PF but he paid the ultimate price.
So sometimes it is better to be alive than to be a dead hero. Remember that
Zanu PF is not going anywhere. We may try to do all the gymnastics but as long
as they have the army behind them I am telling you here and now that standing
against them will bring misery and pain to yourself and loved ones. Zanu PF has
so much experience in winning, retaining and consolidating power. Power is so
much more important to Zanu PF than anything else and anyone or anything that
stands in the way between Zanu PF and power will pay the ultimate price.

I hear
a lot of people are hopping that things will change after the South African ANC
high powered delegation visit. Fellow Zimbabweans I am here to tell you that
chakachenjedza ndechakatanga. Rimwe gore kwakamboita yainzi Montlanthe
Commission chaired by the same South Africans but hapana chakabuda. They just
came and had tea with Zanu PF and slept in our hotels and came up with
recommendations which were never implemented. Saka musafarira henyu muchiti
pane zvichabuda. Makudo ndemamwe. To those who listened to the press conference
after the meeting with Zanu PF chefs I am sure you heard that Magashule guy
saying there is no crisis in Zimbabwe. What do you know iwe Magashule? How did
you arrive at that standpoint? You have a one sided meeting and you are already
jumping to conclusions. There is a crisis in Zimbabwe and that’s a fact. What
we are facing are not challenges but a crisis in every sense of the word. We
are in trouble and please go tell Ramaphosa that there is a deep crisis in the
country. Our people are in prison though we are at our homes. We are all under
house arrest. South Africa does not want to see a prosperous Zimbabwe because
that would mean we will no longer be dependent on them. We boost the South
African economy and that’s a fact. They just met with Zanu PF and left
promising to meet the other stakeholders when they come back for yet another
visit.

How
long can we wait for them to come back while we suffer? The ANC would rather
bury its head in the sand and watch Dambudzo destroy our lives. It is naivety
to think that he solution to our crisis will ever come from outside. We are our
own liberators and until we realize that we shall keep suffering. Ini Mapombi
ndakakuudzai kuti I don’t have the guts to stand up to Zanu PF because I am not
yet ready to leave this earth. The only solution to the current crisis is for
Chamisa and Mnangagwa to sit down and have a brother to brother conversation
which will take the country forward. We do not need ANC or anyone to come and
solve our crisis. We do not need Polad to end this crisis. We just have to put
Chamisa and Mnangagwa in one room and lock them in until they resolve their
differences. We need each other despite of our political differences. There is
a crisis in Zimbabwe and ANC cannot come and tell us that we have challenges.
Our crisis needs a home grown solution. Chamisa and Mnangagwa must stop
massaging their big egos and find one another. I have said enough regai hangu
ndinokanga hangu maputi angu for lunch but before I go I want to say good going
to our health minister Generari Chiwenga. No one should go abroad for
medication. Gadzirisai zvipatara zvedu murapwe muno. I hope imi Generari
hatikuoniyi moti tucha tucha makananga China. Mboko imboko.

 

 

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