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Craft Properties spreads its wings to Masvingo

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Craft Properties spreads its wings to Masvingo
Kudakwashe Tarubereka




TATENDA CHIZU

MASVINGO – Exciting times abound in the housing development industry of Masvingo with fast-growing construction company, Craft Properties (Pvt) Ltd opening a branch in the ancient city.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and founder of Craft Properties, Kudakwashe Taruberekera who is from Masvingo, promised to change the face of the construction industry in the town.
“These indeed are exciting times for us and the people of Masvingo as we are looking at changing the industry in the oldest urban area with products they have only been dreaming of.
“We are bringing world-class innovations and a work ethic. We will also use our contacts and world-wide networks to bring the best for our new clients in Masvingo,” said Taruberekera.
Craft Properties Zimbabwe, a subsidiary of Craft Properties Holding, is located at Number 18A Bradburn Street and opened its doors to the public on June 01 this year.
The company is prepared to partner individuals, organisations in and around Masvingo who have land that needs to be developed into residential and industrial stands where Craft Properties offers very flexible conditions.
The company, which is headquartered in Kadoma, has successfully implemented housing development projects in the City where it developed 1573 high density residential stands and an Agro-Residential Plots Project comprising 93 plots.
The land development and construction giant has dominated the construction industry in Kadoma for the past 12 years setting its sight on consolidating its dominance by spreading its wings across Zimbabwe this year.
Taruberekera said the company seeks to complement Government’s Vision 2030 by which President Emmerson Mnangagwa has set his sight at making Zimbabwe an upper-middle income economy.
“We believe the year 2020 is ours to take giant steps in dominating the industry so we would engage massive business and investment in and around the country. We intend to offer our excellent services in land development and construction to every town and city in Zimbabwe with an aim to improve housing developments for the communities and individuals.
“The company needs to ensure ready availability of decent and affordable shelter to the people of Zimbabwe in line with the Government’s initiatives of improving housing standards of the nation at large,” said Taruberekera.
Craft Properties (PVT) Ltd was established in 2008 as a small organization and has grown to become a reputable organization that has earned respect and recognition both locally and internationally. The company has expanded and now boasts of various entities registered locally and falling now under the holding company, Craft Properties Holdings.
The company has also established the Craft Properties USA LLC in the United States of America that principally deals in real estate business. Craft Properties USA LLC specializes in property sales and management, project management and land development, asset valuations and advisory services.
The company supplies building and construction materials, appraisal management, construction, risk management, auctioneering, property accounting services and tenant/buyer management. 
Craft Properties USA LLC also coordinates international business for the organization and mobilizes investors for Zimbabwe in various sectors of the economy.
“We have been on a growth trajectory in recent years and in 2020 we see ourselves spreading to all provinces in Zimbabwe. Our vision can only be achieved with the support our organization gets from clients and stakeholders since inception in 2008. 
“We are sincerely grateful to our clients and stakeholders who made it possible for us to get this far since our establishment 12 years ago,” he said. 
Craft Properties (PVT) Ltd has also been chosen as the high profile representative of regional business elite on behalf of Summit of Leaders organizing committee at a business conference held in Oxford United Kingdom. 
The diversified property developer has also been awarded an International Business Licence in Oxford, UK by the Europe Business Assembly in accordance with the United Kingdom Trade Marks Act of 1994 and Europe Business Assembly awards regulations which allows it to operate internationally.

Masvingo vendors get PPE from VISET

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Masvingo vendors get PPE from VISET

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MASVINGO
– The Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset) has
today, June 10, donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to vendors at
Tafara market in Mucheke.

A consignment of hand
sanitisers and hand washing bucket tanks were among some of the donated items.

The Tafara market is located in Ward 1 whose Councilor Selina Maridza expressed gratitude to the donations saying market places pose a serious threat
if they are ignored.

“A lot of people come
to do business at this market and this means that there will be great risks of
spreading coronavirus.

“We want to thank Viset
for handing over this donation so that our market place remains safer. Now we
have to make sure that the donation will be put to good use.

“More donations of this
kind are needed at this market,” said Maridza.

Viset director Samuel
Wadzai Mangoma said the donation was a way of empowering women to continue working for
their families during the economic hardships caused by the Covid-19 national
lockdown which has seen most of the informal sector remain closed.

“We have realized that
our economy is largely informal and vendors are contributing a lot to the growth
of the economy.

“The women are the ones
who are working at the markets to feed their families since most companies are
closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic so they need a place which is safe for them
and their customers,” said Mangoma.

Premier Africa disinfects Masvingo Teachers’ College

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Premier Africa disinfects Masvingo Teachers’ College

Diana Gondongwe

Premier Africa, a new company offering disinfection services,
has donated 40 litres of a water based disinfectant to Masvingo Teachers’
College for the disinfection of six hostel blocks, the clinic, the dining hall
and the surrounding areas which were used by people who were quarantined there
in recent weeks.

The organisation also donated an ultra-sonic
disinfectant automiser to the office of the Minister of State for Masvingo
Provincial Affairs and Devolution.

In his remarks, Chadzamira said the private sector was
critical in complementing government efforts in the fight against this pandemic.

He urged communities to not harbour people who escape
from quarantine centres and those who come home straight from neighbouring countries
without getting into mandatory quarantine.

“As I launch this disinfecting programme, I would
like to thank Premier Africa for the donations. I also want to thank other
private organisations who are working with us to contain the pandemic. Communities
should report returnees who have not gone through quarantine and those who run
away from quarantine centres,” Chadzamira said.

Premier Africa director Viktor Hwakwa said they are
working together with the provincial task force to fight the pandemic.

“As Premier Africa, my co director Esther Hwakwa
and I are offering free disinfecting services to the college as a way of fighting
against the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Hwakwa.

Masvingo Teachers’ College principal Benson Mutambudzi
said many facilities at the institution needed to be disinfected as they had
been used by hundreds of repatriates.

“We are thankful to Premier Africa for the free
disinfection offer because we are preparing to welcome back 600 third-year
students,” said Mutambudzi.

Last month, Masvingo province received 681 returnees,
of which 297 were accommodated at Masvingo Teachers’ College starting on May 06.

 

Sanitizers for all golf clubs as courses reopen

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Sanitizers for all golf clubs as courses reopen

Mudzikisi, Cummings and Ngwenya at the handover of sanitizers for Masvingo Golf Club

Moses
Ziyambi

MASVINGO
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The Zimbabwe Golf Association (ZGA) has welcomed government’s cautious decision
to allow a conditional reopening of the sport, and has taken steps to comply
with the conditions by donating sanitizers to all golf courses in the country.

Masvingo province received
its share this week and such courses as Masvingo, Hippo Valley in the Lowveld and
Mutirikwi in Renco have already benefited.

At national level; Royal
Harare, Chapman and Warren Hills are among other courses that have already
received their own share.

ZGA Masvingo provincial
president Pascal Mudzikisi said he was pleased that his organisation took the
safety of players seriously.

“These have been very
difficult moments for us as an association and for the sport in general but I
am glad that government has acknowledged that we are a low risk sport hence the
special dispensation for our conditional reopening.

“We have taken the
initiative to distribute sanitizers to all golf clubs as a way of demonstrating
our willingness to comply with the conditions and as a way of helping our
courses to improve the safety of players and employees,” said Mudzikisi.

Receiving 40 litres of
sanitizers on behalf of Masvingo Golf Club, deputy club captain Ryan Cummings
thanked ZGA for the effort, saying the assistance came at a time of great need
for the club.

“The lockdown has had a
dire impact on our operations so we welcome the donation which has come when we
have recorded almost zero revenue over the past nine weeks,” said Cummings

The Sports and
Recreation Commission (SRC) recently allowed golfing activities to resume under
strict protocols and guidelines.

The guidelines prohibit
group competitions, the use of caddies and ball spotters as well as the opening
of clubhouses and bars.

Sanitizing
material and running water must be readily available to players, staff and
visitors to the club.

 

 

 

 

 

GZU campus radio goes on air

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GZU campus radio goes on air
Golden Maunganidze
TellZim Reporter
The Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) Vice Chancellor Professor Rungano Zvobgo recently earned for himself a page in the history books of local broadcasting after his institution became the first in the country to get a broadcasting license for its campus radio station.
The government has set aside ten radio frequencies for universities across the country but the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) issued the first license to GZU Campus Radio which then went on air on June 07.
In the wake of the developments, other state universities are said to be flocking to Masvingo to appreciate how GZU has managed the feat.
The GZU Campus Radio director Golden Maunganidze said that they were looking foward to the official launch the station.
“We have worked so hard and I am glad that we can finally heave a sigh of relief and say we have done it. It has been a long road which needed a lot of patience and dedication. We received our broadcasting license last week and we have already gone on air. We hope to officially launch the station this month.
“We would like to thank Prof Zvobgo for walking with us through the whole process which was emotionally draining but worthy every effort,” said Maunganidze.
The radio station was awarded three frequencies for their Masvingo, Mashava and Chiredzi campuses.
In Masvingo the radio station can be accessed on 89.5 FM, Chiredzi 90.0 FM and 100.4 FM for Mashava.
In the wake of the Covid 19 pandemic in which institutions of higher learning are devising new teaching methods, GZU will use its radio station to reach out to its students across campuses.

VID won’t open anytime soon: Govt

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VID won’t open anytime soon: Govt

TellZim Reporter

The
public should not expect the immediate reopening of the Vehicle Inspectorate
Department (VID) because it would be difficult to maintain social distancing
rules at the premises, government has said.

In
a telephone interview with TellZim News, permanent secretary in the Ministry of
Transport and Infrastructural Development, Amos Marawa said the set-up at VID depots
was similar to schools hence the sustained ban.

“We
put the VID in the same category as schools therefore just as schools remain shut;
the department will also remain closed. Prospective drivers, for instance, need
to sit down for a test as a group under supervision, and that would make it
very hard to comply with social-distancing rules required by the current level
two lockdown regulations,” said Marawa.

Asked
what would become of those whose learner’s licences expired in the course of
the ongoing lockdown, Marawa said government had not yet considered that.

“It’s
something we have not considered at policy level. Nobody has come forward to
say we have lost out so we cannot solve a problem when there are no complaints
but now that you have brought it up, we will look into it and find a way
forward,” he said.

Marawa
also said those who require any other VID services like retests and defensive
driving certificates will have to wait as every government move was guided by
the existing lockdown regulations.

VID is a government department under the Ministry
of Transport and Infrastructural Development, operating under the auspices
of the Public Service Commission (PSC).

The closure of its 23 depots countrywide since
the beginning of the lockdown at the end of March means people cannot get
driver’s licences and driving schools have been hit hard.

 

Masvingo quarantine centres now empty

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Masvingo quarantine centres now empty


...as Covid-19 positive cases are released into self-isolation

Moses
Ziyambi

The five quarantine
centres in Masvingo province are now largely empty due to low numbers of new
arrivals from neighbouring countries, TellZim News can reveal.

The province set aside
Masvingo Teachers’ College, Masvingo Polytechnic, Rupagwana in Chiredzi, Bikita
Training Centre and Alvord Training Centre in Masvingo Rural as quarantine
centres to accommodate people repatriated from neighbouring countries.

With a capacity of 300
inmates, Masvingo Teachers’ College is the largest, followed by Masvingo
Polytechnic which can hold 200 inmates at a time. Bikita Training Centre and Alvord
can take just under 50 people each while Rupangwana can take only 26.

Speaking at a meeting
of the risk communication subcommittee of the provincial Covid-19 taskforce over
the weekend, Masvingo provincial information officer Rogers Irimayi said there
were only 42 inmates at Masvingo Poly as on June 06, while all the other
centres were now cleared.

“This is due to
declining numbers of new arrivals being repatriated lawfully through the regular
border points. It is worrisome; however, that many more people are coming back
into the country through illegal crossing points in order to avoid mandatory
quarantine. We urge members of the public to work with law enforcement and
report such people who put everybody else at risk,” said Irimayi.

It was also revealed that the vast majority of the 37 people who tested Covid-19 postive in the province, had been released into self-isolation at home where the Ministry of Health makes follow-up checks on them.

Government last week
published names of people who escaped from quarantine and urged the public to
help efforts to apprehend them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chiredzi Town Council on Zacc radar

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Covid-19 aid: US urges World Bank to closely monitor Zim

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Covid-19 aid: US urges World Bank to closely monitor Zim

Upenyu Chaota

The United States government has
written to the World Bank (WB) calling for strict conditions to be attached to any Covid-19
relief funding for Zimbabwe in light of the country’s shoddy record in
administering such resources.

In a letter dated June 03 to
World Bank Group president David Malpass, chairperson of the foreign relations
committee in the US senate, James Risch says that strict accountability and
transparency measures are needed given Zimbabwe’s corruption record.

Citing the controversial command
agriculture programme as an example of government corruption, Risch says any
package mobilised for Zimbabwe must ‘incorporate independent Zimbabwean civil
society and community voices.’

“These are needed given the need
for significant reform of most state institutions in Zimbabwe, pervasive
corruption and impunity, and the demonstrated disinterest of the Government of
Zimbabwe in the wellbeing of its citizens,” reads part of the letter which was
copied to secretary of state Michael Pompeo and secretary of the treasury
Steven Mnuchin.

He claimed that the government had
a sordid history of abusing aid money for patronage and self-enrichment.

“This extraordinary crisis
requires an exceptional response, but it is important not to lose sight of the
historical behavior of countries like Zimbabwe where government has used, and
continues to use, state resources and international aid to suppress its
population and enrich the country’s ruling elite,” the letter reads.

The World Bank recently refused to extend, through regular funding channels, new assistance to such countries which are in arrears as Zimbabwe and Sudan, but availed US$5 million through a trust
fund called the Global Financing Facility.

An additional US$2 million was redirected
from the existing Zimbabwe Idai Recovery Project (ZIRP), a displeasing development
for the US which feels that communities affected by Cyclone Idai need the money
more than anybody else.

“Finally, I am concerned that
some of the funds were redirected from the ZIRP’s Idai response. Areas affected
by Cyclone Idai, including Mutare and Chimanimani, still suffer total devastation
and significant need.

“We must continue to support
those communities as they rebuild, and it is my hope that the redirected funds
will continue to support communities affected by the cyclone. In fact, the
devastating conditions in which communities affected by Cyclone Idai live, make
them all the more vulnerable to coronavirus infection, acute food insecurity
and displacement,” further reads the letter.

 

 

Soldiers, police set camp at restive quarantine centre

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Soldiers, police set camp at restive quarantine centre
Securitu forces a keeping a close eye on the quarantine centre

…as tensions rise over
delayed results, corruption

TellZim Reporter

MASVINGO
–
Soldiers and riot police are now a constant sight at Masvingo Teachers’ College
quarantine centre as a response to the increasing restlessness among people who
are being kept there.

On May 29, tensions
boiled over and a nurse was held hostage for several hours after authorities
had released only 33 people whose Covid-19 test results had come out negative.

The rest of the people
demanded their own results and blocked the nurse who had been sent to call the
names from leaving.

The previous day,
inmates had blocked a Health ministry vehicle from leaving, alleging that
authorities were corruptly facilitating the release of results of people who
came to the centre later while sidelining those who have spent over 21 days
there.

They complain their
continued detention exposes them to even greater risk of catching coronavirus,
saying the centre is the source of at least 12 of the 25 new cases recorded in
Masvingo province last week.

They say there are good
grounds to believe most of those who tested positive were negative when they
got admitted, but contracted the virus at the centre.

“The place is
poorly-managed; almost 300 of us go to the dining hall at the same time and up
to 15 people share a bucket in the bathroom. Meanwhile police officers are
making money here by selling food items and cigarettes to some inmates,” said a
source.

Many people who are
kept there have spent more than the mandatory 21 days of quarantine as they
have not yet received test results.

No official comment
could be obtained because Provincial Medical Director (PMD) Amadeus Shamu
hardly answers calls from journalists nowadays and if he does, he gives the
same lame excuse of being ‘in a meeting’ over and over again.

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