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Anglican Church to adopt Gundura Sec Sch

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Anglican Church to adopt Gundura Sec Sch

         
Tendai Mange
Masvingo
Rural District Council (RDC) recently approved that the Anglican Church can
adopt and upgrade Gundura Secondary into a boarding school.
According
to the Social Services Committee minutes dated May 30, 2019, the proposal was
moved by Ward four Councillor, Pio Maguvaza on behalf of the community
following the meeting that was held by the council and the community.
The
Anglican Church proposed to become the accountable authority of Gundura
Secondary School.
The
project was once proposed by the council and the community aimed at developing
the Mashava area through attracting pupils from across the country and also serving
the local community.
The
council agreed that the Anglican Church needs to be supervised and monitored if
it has the capacity to carry out such a big project.
“The
Anglican Church should provide a time framed action plan which should be
monitored and if they fail, the school be repossessed,” reads part of the
resolution.
The
council noted with concern the dwindling enrolment at Gundura Secondary School
and an upgrade will avoid the withdrawal of teachers by the Ministry of Primary
and Secondary Education due to impracticality.

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Chivange’s Zaka East sports gala at advanced stage

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Chivange’s Zaka East sports gala at advanced stage

                                     Talent Chivange


….Khiama boys to sample new album

Brighton Chiseva
ZAKA – Preparations for two Zaka East sports galas organised by Talent
Chivange at Dzoro and Matara Schools sports grounds on July 27 and 28
respectively are at an advanced stage.
Sungura legend and Alick
Macheso’s mentor, Nicholas Zakaria and the Khiama Boys will perform at both
events where they are expected to give the audience a glimpse into his new album.
Chivange, who hails from Svuure
area in Zaka East, said the galas were a continuation of social programmes he
started in 2017.
He said the sports galas were
meant to create a social networking platform for youths to promote social
development.
“Preparations are at an advanced
stage. We are just doing final touches to the programme but most of the things
required for it to kick off are in place. The galas are meant to make sure that
young people do not indulge in bad behavior. They have to get exposure and
enjoy sport and get time away from the usual rural life,” said Chivange
He also said the galas were part
of his own contribution to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s vision 2030 of making
Zimbabwe an upper middle class income economy by year 2030.
“I intend to bring soccer scouts
from Harare and Bulawayo. I am also liaising with Tau Mangwiro from Triangle FC
so that we can see how he can help our young people to develop. We want to
create some form youth development through sports because we have seen what our
national netball team ‘the Gems’ are doing at the 2019 World Cup. We take
inspiration from that,” said Chivange.
Last year, Chivange organised two
sports galas; one at Matara which featured Andy Muridzo and the other at Svuure
Secondary School where various teams walked away with cash prices.
Chivange has said he will install
solar systems at various schools and clinics in the constituency before the
gala.

Chitando the best of all Gutu MPs, says Matuke

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 Chitando speaks at the victory celebrations at Mushayavanhu High School on July 13

…as Gutu Central MP
donates 1 200 bags of cement for constituency development

Moses
Ziyambi

GUTU
– Masvingo
Senator Lovemore Matuke has praised Gutu Central Member of Parliament Winston
Chitando as a committed public representative whose work in the district
surpasses all that the other three MPs are doing.
The other MPs are John Paradza
of Gutu West, Pupurai Togarepi of Gutu South and Yeukai Simbanegavi of Gutu
North.
Speaking at
Mushayavanhu High School in Ward 35 where hundreds of Zanu PF supporters
gathered to for an election victory celebration on July 13, Matuke said in
Chitando, the people of the area had a selfless representative.
“It’s unfortunate that
the other MPs are not here. I would have liked them to be here so that they see
what Chitando is doing. Right now we are looking at 1 200 bags of cement that
he donated to the constituency for use in the various projects that he has
initiated. This donation alone means the MP has parted ways with $120 000 from
his own pocket for this cement to be here.
“As a senator, I have
the privilege of moving around the constituency assessing what is happening on
the ground and I can confidently say that the work being done by our MP is
greater than that being done by all the other MPs combined,” said Matuke.
He said the people of
Gutu Central were yet to realise what a selfless leader Chitando was, adding
that there was no doubt that he will be re-elected in 2023.
“I derive some pride
from the fact that I am the one who introduced him to you. He is the Minister
of Mines and a very busy man. The president wants to see him all the time so it
is remarkable that he still spares some moments to come and be with his own
people,” he said.
Matuke himself donated
hundreds of kilogrammes of rice to villagers, saying he was helping to fulfill
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s wish to see all families having enough to eat.
Ward 35 Councillor
Fungai Ravasingadi said she was impressed by Chitando’s efforts to improve access
to social services in the area.
“I am really inspired
by the work he is doing. He has assisted many schools and clinics and is also
building deep tanks in many wards. The cement he has donated will go a long way
in making sure that the projects are quickly completed,” said Ravasingadi.
In his own remarks,
Chitando said there was a lot that still needed to be done to improve living
standards in the country-side.
“As a leader, I am
working to make a difference in the lives of the people that sent me to
parliament. There is a lot that still needs to be done but I am glad I have
managed to make a difference that even my political seniors like Senator Matuke
have appreciated,” said Chitando.
Among many other
projects, Chitando has funded the building of a classroom block at Mushayavanhu
primary School and has also donated computers to Mushayavanhu High School.
He has also provided
money to build deep tanks in wards 19 and 38, and is funding the construction
of a mortuary at Chingombe Rural Hospital.

Chief Mugabe selection process rocked by disputes

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Chief Mugabe selection process rocked by disputes

                                                  Matubede Mhute Mudavanhu
Brighton Chiseva
NEMAMWA – Five houses that constitute the
Mugabe chieftainship namely Dumbu, Chipfunhu, Haruzivishe, Mudavanhu, Chikanhe
– Muzondo have petitioned authorities to register their displeasure with the
on-going selection of substantive chief.
The families argue that the process was being
done unprocedurally and was rigged in favour of the acting chief, Matubede Mhute
Mudavanhu.
The aggrieved families have since written two
petitions to one to the Provincial Development Coordinator (PDC) formerly known
as Provincial Administrator (PA) Fungai Mbetsa and the other to the District
Development Coordinator (DDC) formerly called District Administrator (DA) Ray
Hove.
Dated May 24 and June 7, 2019 and signed by
representatives of the five houses, the letters were copied to the Director
Traditional Leaders Support Services, the office of the Minister of Masvingo
Provincial Affairs and the President’s Office.
In the first letter, the aggrieved families say
they were concerned that the process of choosing a substantive chief was not
following traditions.
They accuse the team leading the process of
acting corruptly, saying they were literally imposing Mudavanhu – who has been
acting chief since 2009 – as substantive chief against the tradition of
rotating the throne among all the royal families.
 “We want
to bring to your attention of that there (sic) is a backdoor activity trying to
bring back an acting chief as substantive Chief Mugabe. This is against our
customs and traditions. We are feeling that there is a great betrayer (sic) on
us as a result of very corrupt people sent by the government to handle the
selection process.
In the follow up letter, the Mugabes claim that
the selection process had in the past been delayed unjustifiably to give the
acting chief room to manoeuvre.
They argued that custom demands that the next
substantive chief be chosen from the Dumbu house.
 “The
customary principle of succession is quiet clear; it has remained based on
rotation of the five houses. There is no time in our history where the
chieftaincy has been passed from father to son as we now see being imposed on
us,” reads part of the letter.
When contacted for comment, Mbetsa claimed he
had not yet seen the petition, saying the matter was still at consultation
stages within the provincial chiefs’ council.
“I am yet to see the petition but if Mudavanhu
was indeed nominated, it’s them who know about it and the chief’s council. The
matter is still at consultation stages and the provincial chiefs’ council is
above the situation. They have not yet submitted their resolutions to my office,”
said Mbetsa.
According to the Mugabes, Dumbu was the second
chief after Mugabe who reigned before 1850. Dumbu was replaced by Chipfunhu who
reigned from 1853 to 1894 and was succeeded by Mudavanhu who reigned between
1921 and 1927.
Chikanhe took over the reins from 1929 to 1934
and was succeeded by Muza who ruled from 1936 to 1943.
Muza was Mugabe’s grandson and son to
Haruzivishe and was the first to rule after Mugabe’s sons.
Muza was replaced by Chiminya the son of Dumbu
who reigned from 1945 to 1951 before he was replaced by Mushuku son of
Chipfunhu who ruled between years 1953 and 1959.
Chikudo son of Haruzivishe took over in 1962
and ruled up to 1973 before he died and was replaced by Dr Stanely Manyera son
of Muzondo in 1975 who ruled up to 1997.
Muzondo was replaced by Mhute Mudavanhu, son of
Mudavanhu, who ruled from 2000 to 2009 and was replaced by his son Matubede,
the current acting chief whose suitability for the throne is being disputed.
According to the chronology, the Dumbu,
Chikanhe-Muzondo, Chipfunhu and Mudavanhu houses ruled two times each and Haruzivishe
ruled for three times. They therefore argue that it is yet again time for the
Dumbu house to take the throne in accordance with the rotational sequence of
choosing chiefs.

Mwenezi school head caught pants down with married teacher

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Mwenezi school head caught pants down with married teacher

                                                   Kombi Chirove
Cephas Shava
MWENEZI – Rusaza
Primary School head, Kombi Chirove recently received a thorough beating and had
his car window smashed by a man who had caught him sleeping with his wife, a
teacher at the school that he heads.
Chirove
had reportedly been having a sexual affair with a female teacher identified
only as Kandirai.
Their
illicit affair, however, turned to grief recently when Kandirai’s husband, a
truck driver who is often away on the road, came back and busted his wife
having a quality time in Chirove’s bedroom.
The
incident happened at Rutenga growth point in the residential areas where
Chirove rents some rooms.
When
contacted for comment, Chirove said he was not at liberty to discuss anything
with the media.
“I
am very sorry I not willing to discuss anything with regards to the issues you
are asking me,” said Chirove and cut the call.
Sources
said Kandirai’s husband came back home abruptly, acting on a tip-off from
concerned neighbours that had become suspicious of his wife’s movements.
“Kandirai
also rents a place here in Rutenga and the two saw an opportunity to entertain
each other. Chirove is a divorcee and Kandirai’s husband is often away with
work but on the fateful night, he just came back when nobody expected and his
worst fears were confirmed. He simply smashed the windows and got into
Chirove’s bedroom after finding that his wife was not at their own place,” said
a source.
The
source said it took the intervention of some brave neighbours to restrain
Kandirai’s husband but not before he had assaulted Chirove and broken his car
windows.
Chirove
is said to have threatened to file a police report on assault and malicious
damage to property against his lover’s husband but they later agreed to reach
an out of court settlement.
Kandirai
is now said to be now looking for a new workplace as she is too embarrassed to
remain at Rusaza.
  
  
 

Chamisa blocked from visiting Sikhala

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Chamisa blocked from visiting Sikhala

Upenyu
Chaota
MASVINGO— MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has claimed that he was
blocked from paying a visit to the party’s deputy national chairperson Job
Sikhala at Masvingo Remand Prison where he is held on charges of subversion.
Addressing thousands of party supporters at Mucheke
Stadium this afternoon, Chamisa said he went Masvingo Remand Prison to see
Sikhala but prison guards lied to him that he had been moved to Mutimurefu Prison.
Chamisa claimed the guards were under specific instructions
to block him.
“Before I came here, I paid a visit to Masvingo Remand
Prison wanting to see our deputy chairperson Sikhala but we were told he was at
Mutimurefu. We drove to Mutimurefu and we were told Sikhala is at Masvingo
Central Police Station.
“We drove back to Masvingo Central Police Station and
we were told Sikhala is at Remand Prison and we went back there again. We were
then told that there is an instruction to stop me from seeing Sikhala and
anyone who let me in would be fired,” said Chamisa.
Chamisa said the prison officers were under instruction
to call their superiors once he arrived and he waited for close to an hour
while the prison officers went back and forth making phone calls.
“They were making phone calls to their bosses in
Harare and they were told not to let us through. I told them that the end of
Zanu PF is near and they should not abuse the law. The prison officers then
told us that they were warned that if they allowed us in, they would be
imprisoned,” said Chamisa.
Chamisa said riot police showed up from nowhere saying
they had been sent to make sure that there were no disturbances at the prison.
Sikhala is expected to apply for bail at Masvingo High
Court tomorrow, July 15.

MP Omar donates to Neshuro District Hospital

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MP Omar donates to Neshuro District Hospital

….wants
hospital to start farming
Cephas Shava
Mwenezi
East Member of Parliament, Joosbi Omar on July 3 donated an assortment of items
to Neshuro District Hospital to help the medical facility improve its capacity
to deliver services.
The
donation, which included 100 pairs of bed sheets, 10 side cupboards and a
hospital divider, came a few months after Omar repaired the hospital’s
ambulance.
Omar
spent thousands of dollars to repair the ambulance which he then handed it back
to the hospital on June 11.
Speaking
at the handover of the latest donation at Neshuro growth point, Omar said the
conditions at medical facilities in the district were deplorable.
“This
is our only hospital in the district so we must do all that we can to support
it. Patients are suffering there and even the nurses are suffering so all of us
must make a contribution. I am pleased that I managed to bring an ambulance
back on the road and work to repair the other ones continues,” said Omar.
He
said he was looking for ways to improve diet at the hospital, saying patients
were being fed non-nutritious meals.
“Neshuro
Hospital has access to good agricultural land that can be used to grow crops
and improve the meals that patients get. This will also save us some money. The
hospital must self-sustain and desist from over-reliance on donors. We need to
mobilise the community and work together to construct a wall at the back of the
hospital so that the institution can engage in agriculture,” said Omar.
          
 

Police under fire for sitting on ZISMIWU corruption evidence

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Police under fire for sitting on ZISMIWU corruption evidence

                                                  Addmore Hwarare
…Hwarare
and company suspected of bribing way out of justice
Beatific Gumbwanda
CHIREDZI –
The Zimbabwe Sugar Milling Workers Union (ZSMIWU) has filed another official
complaint with the police over their deliberate failure to act on evidence of
corruption allegedly committed by the organisation’s former leaders including Addmore
Hwarare and Freddy Nyangwe.
ZSMIWU
claims the corruption issue, though very serious, is being played down by both
the police and judicial officers in Chiredzi and Masvingo possibly because the
suspects paid a bribe.
Tongaat
Hulett Zimbabwe (THZ), whose employees form the bulky of the union’s
membership, is also said to be worried by the alleged mismanagement of the union’s
funds by the previous leadership and the police’s lethargic handling of the
case.
Nyangwe,
a former ZISMIWU executive who is the THZ human resources director, is alleged
to have approved many advance payments to his colleagues in the union
leadership without any justification.
“There
are criminal cases of fraud and theft as defined in sections 136 and 113(2)(c)
of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23 respectively,
Chiredzi CR 10 July 14 and CID Chiredzi DR 17 July 14 in
which Addmore Hwarare, Simbarashe Nyemba, Peter Chikamhi, Elias Madziva, Simeon
Mapfumo, Clemence Dembure, and Peter Marumbwa who were the secretary general
and executive members of Zimbabwe Sugar Milling Industry Workers Union (ZSMIWU)
respectively with assistance of THZ human resources director who continuously
approved advance requests by the union without reasonable evidence for such requests,”
reads part of the complaint.
Hwarare,
who is ZISMIWU former secretary general, is accused of converting union funds
to his own personal, financially crippling the association and sinking it into
deep debt.
He
is said to have written a number of reference letters to Triangle Estates seeking
deductions of money from workers’ salaries without seeking their consent.
The
THZ HR department, under the influence of Nyangwe, went on to effect the
deductions without verifying if the employee had consented to it.
“As
if that was not enough, THZ management received a letter dated 18 June 2004
with the subject, UNION DUES DEDUCTIONS. Mr. F. Nyangwe again approved and
recommended the deduction of 5% from every employee’s salary in grade A and B.
“The
money was supposed to be for buying a one-acre stand for a funeral parlour in
Chiredzi. A copy of the letter dated 18 June 2004 is held by the police as
evidence and a deduction of Z$383 166 336-49 was collected in July 2004.
“The
management of Triangle, Hippo Valley, Mkwasine and ZSA received a letter on 19
December 2003 with the heading DECLARATION BY THE UNION directing the companies
to deduct 5% from every employee’s salary in the month of January 2004 wages
and implemented the declaration without the Minister of Labour’s directive.
“The
deduction was done in January 2004 and a total of Z$129 039 820-21 was
collected. No construction was done but two motor vehicles were shown to
employees as vehicles to assist the employees in times if bereavement. These
vehicles, however, were never seen again thereafter,” the complaint further
reads.
The
union further complains that the accused persons are still free despite hard evidence
implicating them in gross acts of corruption being submitted to the police.
.

We are all thieves, Zivhu admits

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We are all thieves, Zivhu admits

Moses
Ziyambi

Chivi South Member of
Parliament (MP) Killer Zivhu has all but admitted that he and other
well-connected ruling party politicians as well as government officials are
corrupt and would not miss a good opportunity to steal.
Writing on his Twitter account
recently, Zivhu dismissed protestations against corruption in high places,
saying anybody would steal as much if given chance.
He argued that those that have
never been implicated in corruption are innocent not because they are morally
upright, but because they have not had a chance to steal.
“Everyone is a thief as long as
there is (sic) nothing to steal u remain innocent (sic) when your time comes to
be near what can be stolen tichakuverengaiwo some of u the the only (sic)
advantage u have is u are just Zimbabweans without names so no one bothers to
write about what u have stolen,” Zivhu wrote.
Zivhu is believed to be a
multi-millionaire although he has no traceable business to talk about.
When TellZim News called him to
expand on his tweet, Zivhu struck a defiant tone, arguing that he meant exactly
what he implied.
“People are good at criticising
others yet they have never had an opportunity to prove their integrity. You
should first be in a position to steal something and avoid theft before you can
criticise others based on unsubstantiated allegations.
“Instead of maliciously pulling
each other down, let us rather support each other and move forward. How can you
accuse others of being thieves when you yourself are only innocent simply
because you have never had a chance to steal anything? You are only a beneficiary
of your circumstances,” said Zivhu.
In 2005, he reportedly served
jail time after violating his bail conditions while on trial on charges of theft
by false pretenses.
Zivhu had allegedly took ZW$4.5
million – a huge sum of money by that time – from a woman affiliated to his
association, claiming he was able to procure foreign currency for her but he went
on to convert the money to his own personal use.
There are also reports that
during that time, Zivhu was facing two other charges of theft by conversion. In
one case, Zivhu allegedly received Z$5 million from a Pastor Makore whom he had
convinced he could import some unspecified goods on his behalf from Zambia but
he allegedly converted the money to his own personal use.
In the other case, Zivhu is
said to have received some ZW$6 million from a Mr. Mutano after promising to do
a task which was, however, never done.
Zivhu has, however, maintained
that he never went to jail, saying he successfully cleared his name with the
law and left the country, a period he claims many people became mistakenly
convinced that he was in prison.
When TellZim News asked him to
clarify his alleged criminal record, Zivhu turned down the request, saying it
is the media themselves that should dig deeper and unearth the details.
“I don’t want to talk about
that. Do the investigative work yourself and find out the facts. Don’t expect
me to give you the details that I am not ready to give,” said Zivhu.
Norton MP Themba Mliswa
recently accused Zivhu of defrauding many desperate home seekers of their money
through his Galloway residential stands project.


He served as Zimbabwe Local Government Association (ZLGA)  and was deputize by former
Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni.


In 2015, Zivhu expressed
interest in contesting for the post of Zanu PF Masvingo provincial chairperson,
but backtracked in light of the intriguing factional dynamics in the ruling
party at that time.
After the 2013 harmonised
elections, Zivhu served as chairperson for Chivi Rural District Council (RDC)
after being elected Ward 31.
Zivhu is the chairperson of the
Zimbabwe Cross Border Traders Association (ZCBTA) and was in August 2016
elected Association of Rural District Councils (ARDC) president.
In September 2017, Zivhu was elected ZLGA leader, taking over
from former Bulawayo mayor Martin Moyo. 

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