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Buffalo Souljah goes international

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Buffalo Souljah goes international

 ….as
Shatta Wale beef comes into focus
Munyaradzi Goche
MUTARE – Buffalo
Souljah has gained himself a musical mileage after recent with some fans
crowning him the King of Dancehall in Africa.
Buffalo Souljah, real name Thabani Ndhlovu, recently told the
media that he was honoured by the honour which is also being claimed by Ghana-based
Shatta Valle which has seen some lyrical confrontation between the two.
‘‘King of Dancehall in Africa has been my title from way
back. I think you know it yourselves. I will not fold my hands watching someone
taking it away from me. I am still the king,’’ said Buffalo Souljah.
The MTV B award winner and Rurare (featuring Winky D) hit-maker
told a Ghananian radio station that he was not bothered by Shatta Valle’s own
claims.
The feud has become the biggest talk in various radio and
television reggae-dancehall shows across the continent with people giving
different opinions. Among them is Mr Logic, one of the highly-rated reggae
experts in Ghana and Africa.
Mr Logic told a radio station in Ghana that Buffalo Souljah
deserves enough respect because he is a senior to most African artist in the reggae-dancehall
field.
“Despite the fact that I am from Ghana, I would not like to
take a side. I know Buffalo in person and Shatta Walle was my artist. Buffalo
Souljah’s music is very good and when I was in South Africa, it was trending in
there and in the whole of Southern Africa. You know South African music is very
influencing.
“There are Jamaicans, Indian, Americans and many other tribes
and races in South Africa making their music very influential across the globe.
In my own opinion, Buffalo Souljah was the king of dancehall in Africa but as
for now, I can’t give him the crown,” said Mr Logic.         
  
                    

Student boarding houses rent up by 100 percent in Masvingo

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Student boarding houses rent up by 100 percent in Masvingo

Panashe Nchenamilo
Landlords
in Masvingo have escalated boarding houses charges by up to 100 percent in a
move that borders both on profiteering and a fair attempt to keep up with
inflation.
Accommodation
prices have been raised from last semester’s RTGS$600 per head to RTGS$1200 per
head.
The
rise in private boarding fees is said to be a response to Great Zimbabwe
University (GZU)’s decision to hike on-campus accommodation fees from RTGS$300 for
a room for two and RTGS$350 for a room for one to RTGS$500 for two and RTGS$600
for one at some campuses.
A
landlord with a boarding house in Rhodene said he hiked charges to cushion
himself against increases in the cost of electricity, Wi-Fi and water.
“The
rentals per semester seem unreasonable to you but it is not that greedy but a
fair response to the increase in the cost of everything else. We have to see to
it that students have uninterrupted power, water and WI-Fi so there is no other
way I can manage.
“It
is also even difficult for landlords to come up with a cost structure for our
services because the market is not stable. The fee might be fine for us this
week but it may not be the same the following week due to inflation.
“Things
are now expensive in the shops and it’s becoming worse every day. We need the
money to renovate the walls, beds and everything so that the students can enjoy
their stay,” he said.
Some
landlords of other boarding houses are said to be charging their houses at
US$120 per head per semester.

Masvingo-bred cricketer ‘under attack’ for criticising political interference

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Masvingo-bred cricketer ‘under attack’ for criticising political interference

TellZim Reporter
Cricketer Patient Charumbira is said to be a distressed man after
he was reportedly threatened by people who are unhappy with his role in lobbying
for tough action against Zimbabwe cricket from the International Cricket
Council (ICC).
ICC recently suspended the country in protest against alleged political
interference in the administration of local cricket.
Charumbira is said to be a leading critic of alleged government
meddling in the management of local cricket. During an interview on CapiTalk
Radio on April 12, he attacked alleged corruption and political meddling in the
affairs of the Zimbabwe Cricket Council (ZCC).
Several Zimbabwe cricketers in the past have had to leave the
country, with others fleeing into exile fearing persecution for speaking out
against the government. Among these are fast bowler Henry Olonga, who relocated
to the Australia.
Although no comment could be obtained from Charumbira himself,
reliable sources said the cricketer, who currently plays for VVV Amsterdam in
the Netherlands, fears returning home. 
“Some cricket fans and State actors feel Charumbira is among a
group of disgruntled cricketers who have painted the sport in Zimbabwe in bad
light and lobbied for tougher ICC sanctions. They believe he deserves
punishment,” said a source.
The ICC has withdrawn funding and barred Zimbabwe from participating
at any ICC event in the world.
Zimbabwe was due to take part in a T20 World Cup qualifier
scheduled for October this year but ICC chairman Shashank Manohar has poured
cold water on the ambitions saying a strong statement had to be made against
political interference in sports management.
He claimed that the situation with Zimbabwe cricket was a serious
breach of the ICC constitution that could not be allowed to continue unchecked.
The ICC made the decision after government’s Sports and Recreation
Commission (SRC) suspended the entire Zimbabwe Cricket Board and replaced it
with an interim committee which critics say is illegal.
This decision to suspend Zimbabwe will be reviewed by the ICC in
October 2019. The country’s test status was suspended by the ICC in June 2004
after 15 players dropped out of the squad after the then captain Heath Streak
was dismissed.
They played eight test matches in 2005 after the suspension was
lifted, but could then not play another test match until 2011. Zimbabwe also
failed to qualify for this year’s just-ended Cricket World Cup in England and
Wales which was won by England in a sensational final against New Zealand.
In March this year, former Zimbabwe Cricket director Enock Ikope
was given a 10-year ban from the game after being found guilty of breaching
three counts of the ICC’s anti-corruption code.
Charumbira is a former Zimbabwe A cricketer, who represented
Zimbabwe at first class level from 2006 to 2011, and also represented the
country at the Under 19s level prior to that.
He relocated to South Africa where he developed into coaching as
well as playing but maintained ties and an interest in Zimbabwe Cricket.
The Masvingo-bred cricketer has gained some status as an opinion
leader in the field of cricket, working as a freelance commentator for
SuperSport, SandSport and Octagon.
He was recently invited to provide commentary on Zimbabwe’s last
home game against the United Arab Emirates.

MP Togarepi invests CDF in clinic

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MP Togarepi invests CDF in clinic

                        Bricks molded in 2014 had been lying idle until now


Moses Ziyambi
Gutu South Member of Parliament
(MP) Pupurai Togarepi is investing part of the $50 000 Constituency
Development Fund (CDF) allocated to him by parliament to resume work on a
clinic project in Ward 28 which will help thousands of villagers to get easier
access to health services.
A committee was formed to
supervise mobilisation of locally-available materials needed for the clinic to
be built, with villagers recently using their scotch carts to transport river
sand from a nearby stream.
Ward 28 Councillor Johnson Nhema
said he was pleased that work had at last been resumed at the project site
which had become a painful heartbreak for close to five years.
“We are pleased that much of the
resources needed are in place to build and complete the clinic. We are happy
that our MP has realised the importance of this clinic to people of this ward
and other surrounding areas.  This is the
development we yearn for and the community has pledged to support the MP in his
efforts to improve their lives. We all know he could have chosen to use the
money elsewhere if he wanted. There are many deserving cases in Gutu South,”
said Nhema.
Villagers told Tell Zimbabwe
Togarepi had pledged to build a decent house for nursing staff using his own
money while the CDF allocation is being spent on the main clinic building.
Toilets have already been built
and villagers said they looked forward to all work being completed before the
end of 2020.
The closest health centres at the
moment are Mukaro Mission Hospital, Chitando Hospital and Cheshuro Clinic, all
of which are at least 10 km away.
The project was initiated back in
2013 but work stalled in 2014 as factional battles in Zanu PF claimed the scalp
of then Gutu South MP Dr Paul Chimedza.
Chimedza was fired from his
government post of Health deputy minister and was also suspended from conducting
party activities for allegedly aligning himself with then vice president Joice
Mujuru’s so-called Gamatox cabal which was accused of plotting to
unconstitutionally seize power from then president Robert Mugabe.
Insurance giant Old Mutual, which
had reportedly agreed to bear much of the cost of building and equipping the
clinic, beat a hasty retreat fearing the consequences of being seen to be
working with members of the ostracised cabal.
Initial designs for the clinic
had intended it to be solar-powered as well as to have a solar-powered borehole
and a few maternity beds.
There had been no progress at the
project site for all those years until now, with many of the 50 000 bricks
which villagers had molded and transported getting damaged.

Woman finds hubby in bed with sex worker, arrested for assault

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Woman finds hubby in bed with sex worker, arrested for assault

Munyaradzi Goche
MUTARE
– A Chikanga woman recently appeared in court on assault charges after she
allegedly attacked her husband’s lover leaving her nursing serious injuries.
Moreblessing
Ngoshi (30) of Number 3499 Chikanga was ordered to perform community services
after pleading guilty.
The
State charged that on May 23, the accused unexpectedly returned from work and
found the two pants down. Out of anger she beat the complainant on the arm
several times using a water glass and a knife.
The
matter was reported to the police leading to Ngoshi’s arrest.
In
passing sentence, the court stated that those found at the wrong side of the
law were supposed to be given appropriate punishment, adding that first-time offenders
should however stay out of prison where possible.
 

Newly appointed chiefs have no power to apportion land

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Newly appointed chiefs have no power to apportion land

     The Bere throne is one of the chieftaincies revived in recent months

Brighton Chiseva                                              

MASVINGO – Masvingo Provincial Development Coordinator (PDC)
formerly known as Provincial Administrator (PA) Fungai Mbetsa has said
newly-revived chieftainships in formerly white settlements have no power to
distribute land.
Some of the newly-revived
chieftainships in the province are Bere, Nemamwa and Neromwe and Musara.
These chieftainships are in
resettlement areas that were created after the Land Reform Programme displaced
white settler farmers.
Mbetsa said the chieftainships were
there only to uphold cultural values and harmony through solving social and
cultural disputes between people in his area of jurisdiction.
“The Ministry of Lands through
relevant departments is responsible for giving people land and the chief will
only solve disputes among people who were put under his area by the ministry. He
has no power to give land because it is feared the resettlement areas will be turned
into communal areas,” said Mbetsa
He said the chiefs, however, had
power over the selection of village heads and headmen in their area of
jurisdiction. He said the village head and headmen will have similar roles to
play but only at village level.
“The chiefs can appoint village
heads or headmen through the required procedures and they will also bring peace
among their subjects through presiding over domestic disputes in their areas of
jurisdiction,” said Mbetsa.
Chiefs and village heads in many
areas are being reported to be selling land especially those near growth points
and main roads.
Village heads around Nemamwa area
have been accused of doing so and those around Jerera in Zaka are also said to
be selling stands in areas meant for the expansion of the growth point and
efforts by the local authority to stop them seem be failing. 

SolidarMed pushes E-health hackathon initiative

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SolidarMed pushes E-health hackathon initiative

Anymore Magawa
MASVINGO – Non-profit
health organisation SolidarMed last week organised an E-health hackathon at
Charles Austin Theatre where various issues were raised and discussed under the
theme, ‘Strengthening Health Service Delivery Through Digitalisation’.
The
E-health hackathon is a community-driven initiative meant to help drive digital
solutions by strengthening the country’s health systems through digitisation
and technology.
Speaking
at the event, SolidarMed programmes manager Ronald Manhibi said there were many
gaps in the health systems of many African countries and the E-health hackathon
was aimed at helping to bridge the gap.
“In
low and middle-income countries, health systems seem to be lagging behind for
many reasons so the E-health hackathon employs information technology and health
experts to make a difference,” said Manhibi.
The
initiative explores the health problems that Masvingo community faces and
identifies trends to address those problems through a social network platform
called Inyasha (Iyi Ndiyo Yedu Aid and Support Health App) which SolidarMed developed
specifically for that function.
The
application is now used in hospitals like Silveira, St Antony’s Musiso and
Mashoko mission hospitals in Masvingo province.
Masvingo
Provincial Health Director (PHD) Amadeus Shamu praised the initiative which he
said should be supported and developed further.
“In
many countries health care services are data-driven so we encourage local
health experts and computer experts to interact in their full capacity to
enhance vibrant health systems. Technology amplifies people’s intentions and
voices, it activates local agency and utilises local capacity,” said Shamu.
Great
Zimbabwe University (GZU) philosophy lecturer Professor Munyaradzi Mawere said it
was critical for people to think about challenges in the local health systems
and be able to appreciate E-health solutions.
“We
need to understand African culture and see how E-health initiative can be
employed as an intervention against all diseases including the Ebola which is
prevalent in Central and West Africa.
Mawere
touted Zambia as a success story of E-health interventions, saying the country
had developed a national E-health record system called SmartCare.

Digitisation must not leave poor citizens behind, Govt warned

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Digitisation must not leave poor citizens behind, Govt warned

Conrad Mupesa
The partial rolling of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) migration
slated for December 2019 would not be a panacea to limited accessibility of
information in the country if government does not subsidise Set Top Boxes,
media practitioners have said.
Responding to questions during the recently held Media and
Broadcasting Conference organised by media lobby group MISA in Chinhoyi
recently, the director of International Communication Services in the Ministry
of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting
Services Dr Ivanhoe Gurira said government will make sure the products are
affordable.
Gurira also stated that the digitisation process was currently
hovering slightly above 50 percent towards completion with the current
austerity measures militating against faster progress.
Areas such as Kadoma, Buhera, Siyabuwa-Chitekete, Chikombedzi
and Tsholotsho had not been equipped by DTT equipment by March 2019.
This will affect accessibility of the television signal
should government conducts the expected partial roll-out of the digitisation
programme.
In addition to that, some of these areas are currently not
accessing analogue signals.
By March 2019, more than US$40 million had been used out of
the US$142 million budgeted for the whole exercise. More than 40 percent of
work needed to be done to complete the process.
The ministry, through Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe and
ZimDigital, is expected to roll out awareness campaigns and adverts to market
the DTT program thus chewing from the remaining US$100 million budgeted for the
exercise.
Adverts aimed at promoting purchasing of Set Top Boxes were
ran on state television and various radio stations in 2017 before the
government had even planned to roll out the exercise.
Neighbouring countries South Africa, Zambia and Namibia saw
their citizen accessing the STB at relatively cheaper prices whereas South
Africa made available five million STB for free to poor households. Swaziland managed
to subsidize 63 percent of the total price of the STB despite the relatively
sound economic conditions there.
Many people said they felt subsidising STBs and speeding up
completion of the DTT process would measure the government’s seriousness in improving
access to information.
Although it is yet to be seen if the partial rolling takes
place by December, the current economic meltdown bedeviling the nation demands
that government makes the gadgets more affordable.
This would improve access to television and radio now that
the State broadcaster ZBC has failed to repair its dilapidated analogue
equipment and ensure seamless service across the country.

Justice delayed is justice denied in Mwenezi stock theft case

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Justice delayed is justice denied in Mwenezi stock theft case

                                                                Mercy Muganyi 
Cephas Shava
MWENEZI –
The adage that justice delayed is justice denied is proving to be apt in a
stock theft case dating back to 2017.
The
complainants are one man and his wife who decided to take matters into their
own hands by going on a cross-border expedition in South Africa where they
allegedly kidnapped the fugitive suspect and brought him back to Zimbabwe.
They
had long harboured feelings of disgruntlement with the way police had handled
the case, and by the escape of the suspect from lawful custody allegedly with
the help of complicit police officers.
After
successfully ‘extraditing’ the suspect back to Zimbabwe, it is the ‘snail pace’
at which the case is moving at the Masvingo Magistrates Court that has become a
new irritant for the disaffected couple.
The
complainants themselves are, however, faced with their own criminals charges
related to the alleged kidnap incident and the severe assault which their alleged
victim suffered.
Many
people feel the people handling the case are violating Section 165 (1) b of the
Constitution which demands speedy justice delivery. 
The
deferment of the matter, which was transferred from Mwenezi Court to Masvingo
Court last year owing to its sensitivity, has not only become a big let-down to
the complainants but to the five suspects as well.
All
the parties continue to go back to court every now and then, but the case seems
to be making no real progress.
The
alleged cattle rustlers are Clever Mashira, Menius Chihora, Munyaradzi Matibwini,
Manatsa Chigova and Talent Moyo, whom the aggrieved couple dragged back to
Zimbabwe from his South African hideout.
Their
hearing was supposed to continue last week on July 31, with all the State
witnesses having shown up for the trial but the case was further postponed to
August 22 after the docket reportedly went missing.
Three
of the five suspects are out of custody on bail, with Chigova and Moyo already
serving jail sentences after being convicted on separate charges of stock theft
and escaping from lawful custody respectively.
Chigova
and Moyo are alleged to have been complicit in theft of 14 cattle belonging to
Elfas Nyatera and his wife Mercy Muganyi.
The
crime was allegedly committed in 2017 but the case has been beset with several
postponements.
The
endless rescheduling of the trial is said to be a violation of Section 69 (2)
of the Constitution which stipulates that every person has right to fair and
speedy hearing within a reasonable time.
What
worries many is that such a sensitive matter which is taking eternity to
conclude and will probably be thrown out of court due to ‘lack of evidence’ or
missing dockets.
Alleged
police corruption in Mwenezi and the interest that this particular case has
generated among members of the public has attracted the attention of senior
police bosses who last year paid a visit to the district to get a better
appreciation of the story.
After
hearing of the news of the daring cross-border raid by Nyatera and his wife, the
Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs, Ezra Chadzamira met the
couple to hear their side of the story. This was after Nyatera, his wife and their
co-accused were released from remand prison on bail following their arrest on
two charges of kidnapping.
Sources
close to the matter told TellZim News that complicating the matter is that the
seemingly obvious case against the alleged five cattle rustlers could die a
natural death as the police have allegedly done a shoddy investigative job so
as to shield their own.
“Owing
to the shoddy investigation, the State’s case is unlikely to stand the test of
a good lawyer. It is very clear that the complainants’ cattle were stolen but
the evidence that is before the courts is unlikely to warrant convictions,”
said a source.
Other
reliable sources said the couple were likely to be convicted on
kidnapping charges as evidence against them was overwhelming.
The
cattle theft case was transferred to Masvingo to improve neutrality as it
implicates several police officers in the district.
Some
police officer were transferred following an internal investigation which was
done after complaints were registered that police officers in Mwenezi were
clearing stolen cattle and were working with cattle rustlers in exchange for
massive bribes.

Village head earns $25, wife demands $462 maintenance

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Village head earns $25, wife demands $462 maintenance

Cephas Shava
MWENEZI – Sabina
Tinorehwa of village Ngwenya under Chief Mazetese in Mwenezi West last Thursday
dragged her husband Roderick Ngwenya to the Mwenezi Civil Court claiming
maintenance money that is far beyond her husband’s monthly earnings.
Asked
by magistrate Honest Musiiwa the amount of money she wanted from her husband
who is a village head, Tinorehwa said she wanted a monthly maintenance fee of $462
despite acknowledging that he earns only a $25 a month.
“Besides
the $25, my husband also does some piece jobs around the village. For the
upkeep of our two children, I want $462 maintenance,” Tinorehwa said.
On
his part, Ngwenya argued that although he still loved his wife, she had already
left their homestead for her parents’ place. He said he could not afford to pay
the money that she demanded as the children were still under his care.
After
hearing that the couple’s children were residing with their father’s place,
Magistrate Musiiwa dismissed the applicant’s maintenance bid saying the set-up
made her unworthy of receiving any money.

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