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Bishop Mutendi donates towards Covid-19 fight

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Bishop Mutendi donates towards Covid-19 fight

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MASVINGO
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The Zion Christion Church (ZCC) on April 21 donated 30 tonnes of foodstuffs to
the Masvingo Provincial Covid-19 Taskforce as part of efforts to help fight the
spread of coronavirus, TellZim can report.
The donation was made
through the Rugare Community Relief Services (RUCORS) which is the church’s
charity services arm, and was received by The Minister of State for Masvingo
Provincial Affairs, Ezra Chadzamira, who is also chairperson of the taskforce.
It was received in the
presence of many dignitaries including Covid-19 National Taskforce member
Lovemore Matuke, who is also the deputy minister of Public Service, Labour and
Social Welfare.
Much of the food will
be used to complement government’s social welfare food distribution which is
targeted at the most vulnerable people.
In the event of people testing
positive for coronavirus and being placed into mandatory quarantine, some of
the food items will be used to feed them.
Speaking at the
handover at Benjamin Burombo government offices where the donation was
unveiled, Chadzamira thanked ZCC Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi whom he said had
demonstrated time and again his concern for community wellbeing.
“I must thank the
Bishop for working hard to make a difference at this trying time when we are
fighting the coronavirus pandemic. I am particularly glad that this is not the
first time that RUCORS has extended a helping hand in the time of need as they
were very active in mobilising resources for people affected by Cyclone Idai
last year,” said Chadzamira.
At the same occasion,
two ambulances donated by Matuke towards the same cause were also unveiled.
The ambulances are
fitted with ventilators, oxygen supply systems and other critical medical
equipment.
Matuke, who is the director
of Transcare Medical Centre, said his donation was a response to President
Emmerson Mnangagwa for the business community to play a bigger role in the
fight against the pandemic.

Day 2: #Lockdown Extension Picture Gallery

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Day 2: #Lockdown Extension Picture Gallery
Thre Zion Christion Chirch (ZCC) donated many food items to Masvingo Covid-19 Taskforce

Day two of the lockdown extension was marked by increased agitation in Chipinge where people are doing all in their capacity to make ends meet as May rentals beckon. Many home industries have sprouted as the lockdown means very little or no trade is allowed especially for those in the informal sector. In Zvishavane, money changers continued to play hide-and-seek with the police, but all of them had disappered by the close of businesss in town. Mutare City Council has shut down the Sakubva farm produce market and all trade was being held in other suburbs. The market in Dangamvura, however, was not as congested as it was yesterday.

Mutare
Rutenga

Mutare

Mutare

Masvingo

Day 1: #Lockdown Extension Picture Gallery

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Day 1: #Lockdown Extension Picture Gallery

Rutenga was crowded with shoppers and loiters today but most of them were gone by 12 mid-day. Many people indicated they were against the extension,  saying they were being forced into the worse of two hard situations where, according to them, livelihoods should come first. In Mutare, a few money changers were seen conducting their trade while a long queue formed behind TM Dangamvura for subsdised mealie-meal. The decentralisation of the morning market from Sakubva to other areas saw many people crwding at the shopping complex to buy and sell. Subsidised mealie-meal was also being sold at Mucheke High School in Masvingo. Queues in Mpandawana were well-managed and orderly.

Mpandawana Gutu

Mpandawana, Gutu

Mpandawana, Gutu

Fresh produce market, Dangamvura, Mutare

Fresh produce market, Dangamvura, Mutare

Chiredzi

Chiredzi

Rutenga

Rutenga

Mealie-meal queue, Mucheke, Masvingo

Sadza man tries to kill wife over alleged affair

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Sadza man tries to kill wife over alleged affair

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CHIVHU – A
Chikomba man is in police custody for attempted murder after he allegedly used
an axe to attack his wife whom he suspected of cheating on him.
Mashonaland East provincial police spokesperson, Inspector
Tendai Mwanza confirmed the case and urged members of the public to always seek
peaceful solutions to differences.
“The police in Sadza managed to track down the suspect and
arrested him. He is currently assisting police with investigations and will
appear in court soon. When faced with misunderstandings, people should seek
third parties to mediate and amicably solve such issues. Violence should never
be an option,” said Inspector Mwanza.
Circumstances are that on April 16, Ennias Mudzimai (44) of
Zvavamwe village, Chief Neshangwe in Sadza, used an axe to attack his wife Primrose
Mbadzi (33) several times all over her body after an altercation.
The altercation had begun after Mudzimai accused Mbadzi of
sleeping with another man. In a fit of rage, he picked up an axe and allegedly
used it to strike Primrose before fleeing the scene.
The victim was rushed to Murambinda Hospital where she got
admitted and was said to be in a critical condition. She sustained several deep
cuts on her head, neck and body.

Lockdown extension has ruined us, mahwindi complain

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Lockdown extension has ruined us, mahwindi complain

                                               Exor Masvingo on the fourth day of the lockdown
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TellZim today spoke to five touts
(mahwindi) who used to make a living loading pirate taxis at Exor and at N.
Richards Josiah Tongogara Avenue in Masvingo, and they complained that the
extension of the national lockdown by a further 14 days was insensitive.

After the lockdown extension was announced yesterday, touts and sex workers immediately became a butt of social media jokes as they constitute probably the most hard-hit informal hustle.

“If you contract coronavirus, you
die in a few days or you recover after some few weeks and go back to normal
life. But if you don’t work, you are as good as dead. Without money to pay bills, how do you lead a normal life?” said one of them, speaking on condition that
his name is not revealed.

Another one said there was no way
his family will be able to pay rent for the month of May.
“Life is now upside down. The
landlord still needs his money but I will not be able to raise it. Government
should have been more sensitive to vulnerable groups like us. You know, the
situation was already bad even before the lockdown because the Zupco vehicles
took away much of our jobs,” he said.
Asked if why they had not
registered for the government’s social welfare grants for people considered to
be the poorest, another tout said information about the process was sketchy.
“Many government programmes
involving the public are publicised a lot, but this one was not. But even if we
had learnt about it on time and through official channels, would we have
managed to register given the restrictions on movement?
“The registration was supposed to
be publicised enough and it was supposed to be done at community halls. We
heard that much of the processes were politicised and if you were not in ruling party structures, you had very little chance of succeeding,”
he said.

Fun-loving police officer loses car to stranger

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Fun-loving police officer loses car to stranger


Brighton Chiseva

MASVINGO – A police officer who recently gave one stranger a lift
in the night and took him to a shebeen in Mucheke where they bought beer before
picking up sex workers, has found himself in misery after the stranger stole
his car, TellZim can report.
Constable Misery Kupakunoyamura
(27), who is a based at Masvingo Central Police Station, was driving his Nissan
Sunny past Rujeko A shops at around 21:00hrs on April 15 when he gave the
stranger a lift.
The two became immediate buddies
and they drove to an illegal beer joint in Mucheke where they enjoyed some
drinks before going back to Kupakunoyamura’s place in Rujeko in the company of
two sex workers.
Later in the night, they went back
to the shebeen to buy more drinks which they enjoyed with their ladies before
retiring for the night.
Early the following morning on April
16, Kupakunoyamura woke up intending to collect some cash he had left in the
car, only to be shocked upon realizing that the car was not there and his new
friend was nowhere to be found.
He got back into the house and
asked one of the ladies about what had happened, only for her to profess ignorance.
A total of $1000, the police
officer’s identity documents and other particulars were in the car.
Kupakunoyamura only reported the
matter to the police the following day after all spirited attempts to quietly track
the stranger failed.

Day 21: #Lockdown Picture Gallery

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Day 21: #Lockdown Picture Gallery

The final day of the lockdown was characterised by greater quietness in many areas covered by our citizen journalists. Being a Sunday most probably helped matters as Sundays are usually quieter than ordinary business days. Just like yesterday, which marked the country’s 40 years of independence from white minority rule, more people stayed indoors than any other recent days.

Masvingo CBD
Masvingo CBD
Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri with members of the Masvingo Covid-19 Provincial Taskforce in Chiredzi

Mutare

Mutare

Mutare

Mutare

Masvingo

Day 20: #Lockdown Picture Gallery

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Day 20: #Lockdown Picture Gallery

The penultimate day of the lockdown was the quietest April 18 over the past four decades, with all stadia and open arenas being empty. The day, which marked the country’s 40 years of independence from colonial rule, was characterised by greater tranquility as more people stayed at home in areas that have were monitored since the lockdown began. Queues to get into shops were probably the bigggest irritation. In Mutare, the city council has now decentralised the morning fresh produce market from Sakubva to Hob House, Chikanga and Dangamvura as part of efforts to decongest the market. Many people, however, queued to get into TM supermarket in Dangamvura. The police teamed up with security personnel at big shops at Rutenga growth point in Mwenezi to help prevent squeezing and to maintain orderly queues.

Yeukai shopping centre, Masvingo

Yeukai shopping centre, Masvingo

Chiredzi

Chiredzi

Chiredzi

Chiredzi

Mucheke Stadium, Masvingo

Rutenga growth point, Mwenezi

Sisk business centre, Masvingo

Dangamvura business centre, Mutare

Sakubva bus terminus Mutare

Day 19: #Lockdown Picture Gallerry

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Day 19: #Lockdown Picture Gallerry

In Bikita South Ward 8, Mukore business centre, there was a World Food Programme (WFP) food aid distribution where people mixed and mingled, seemingly with reckless abandon. Many residents queued for for LP gas at Maps Petroleum Dangamvura, Mutare, with some of them saying electricity had become too expensive for them to use it for cooking. A longer queue of motorists existed at the adjuscent fuel station, with money changers taking full advantage of their opportunity. At Dangamvura business centre, a shop continued to sell goods illicitly through the window after the 15: 00 hrs closing time. In Masvingo, there was a discernible increase of shoppers in town, and it was alarming to see a tightly-knit long queue of people waiting for their turn to get into Pick n Pay supermarket. The queue at Nyanigwe supermarket was similarly bad, as opposed to OK supermarket where people queued in a more orderly manner, with police officers requiring people to leave a one-metre gap or more between each other. There was fear at Rutenga growth point after a truck from the Support Unit division of the police, which was driving from Dhavata to Buchwa, stopped for some moments.  A group of money changers who had been doing business prior, as well as other petty loiters on the streets, quickly disappeared from the scene but they reappeared after the vehicle drove off.

Dangamvura shopping centre, Mutare

Mukore busines centre, Bikita

Mukore business centre, Bikita

Rutenga growth point, Mwenezi

Pick n Pay supermarket, Masvingo

Rutenga growth point, Mwenezi

Hippo Valley Chiredzi; Tongaat Hulett Covid-19 donation

A queue for LP gas in Dangamvura, Mutare

Dangamvura, Mutare

Dangamvura, Mutare

Tongaat fulfills part of $12 million Covid-19 pledge

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Tongaat fulfills part of $12 million Covid-19 pledge

Tongaat handed over medical equipment to the Masvingo Provincila Covid-19 taskforce today




Beatific Gumbwanda

CHIREDZI – Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe (THZ) has
fulfilled a large part of its $12 million donation to the fight against the
spread of coronavirus by handing over medical equipment, personal protective
equipment and other sundries to the Masvingo Provincial Covid-19 Taskforce.

Equipment donated by
the company include five laryngoscopes and blades, 10 SD check glucometers, 25
SD check strips, 1000 viral transport media (specimen collection links) 20
suction catheters, 40 adult oxygen masks, 20 paeds oxygen masks, 20 adult
ambulags, 20 paeds ambulags 500 Endoendotracheal tubes, five knapsack sprayers,
45 N95 respiratory masks, 120 three-ply face masks, 1000 disposable gowns, 50
gum shoes, 60 protective goggles, 20 buckets of detergents and floor cleaners,
five containers of chloride lime, 100x500ml alcohol-based hand sanitisers,
10x5l liquid soap, 4x5l methylated spirits, 100x500mls water guard, 80x2l Jik
bleach, 20 refuse bins with lids, 30 pedal bins, 100020l containers with taps,
2000 bin liners and 2000 rolls of toilet paper.

THZ chief medical
officer Tongai Mukweva said other relevant high-tech equipment like 10 ventilators,
BP machines and 20 suctions machines, multi-paramonitors and oxygen machines.

The company’s corporate
communications officer Adelaide Chikunguru said she was pleased the company was
moving fast to fulfill its pledges.

A total of $1.2 million
has also been deposited with N. Richards Hardware for the supply of materials
needed for renovation of identified isolation centres.

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