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Chief Mawarire installed

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Chief Mawarire installed

                                                   Jawanda (right) and his wife


Cephas Shava
MWENEZI – Elliot
Jawanda, who was appointed the new substantive Chief Mawarire at the end of
last year, had his installation ceremony finally held on March 15
after the occasion was postponed more than twice last year.
The
installation ceremony was held at Mawarire Primary School, Ward 4, under Chief
Mawarire.
In
attendance was the Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs, Ezra
Chadzamira, National Council of Chiefs president Chief Fortune Charumbira, legislators,
trational leaders and government employees.
Jawanda
took over the chieftainship from Amon Vengo who has been acting chief since the
death of his father who was then substantive chief until his death.
Speaking
to TellZim News during the appointment of Jawanda as acting chief, the District
Administrator (DA) Rosemary Chingwe said there were four families with a stake
in the Mawarire chieftainship.
She
said unlike in many cases elsewhere, there was consensus on the new chief and
the families had avoided leadership wrangles.  

Homeless blind man jailed 13 years for sodomy

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Homeless blind man jailed 13 years for sodomy



Courage Dutiro
A
married visually-impaired man from Mucheke recently appeared before Masvingo
magistrate Dambudzo Malunga for sodomising a 16-year-old boy and was given a
13-year jail sentence for the dastardly act.
Edson
Chivi (41) told the court that he sodomised the boy by mistake thinking that
the boy was his wife.
“I
am guilty. I did it by mistake thinking that the boy was my wife. I fondled the
legs and thought it was my wife who had changed side. The boy did not resist or
complain and he did not even cry,” Chivi pleaded.
Two
of his 13-year jail sentence were suspended on condition he did not commit a
similar offence over the next five years.
It
was the State’s case that on February 10 at around 22:00hrs, the accused person
was sleeping with his wife Elisina Ndou, who is also blind, in their shack at
Mucheke bus terminus.
The
accused invited the complainant to come and sleep in the same shack and they
both agreed.
While
the complaint slept, Chivi sodomised him without his consent and this happened
in the full view of another juvenile who tried in vain to wake him up.
The
court heard that the complainant only woke up after the accused had finished.
 Liberty
Hove prosecuted.

Forget about Chilonga Bridge upgrades, Govt says

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Forget about Chilonga Bridge upgrades, Govt says


Beatific Gumbwanda
CHIREDZI – Masvingo provincial
roads engineer, Peter Mukome has revealed that it is not possible to do
upgrades on the ramshackle Chilonga Bridge across Runde River, saying the
RTGS$18 million allocated to the project last year falls short of what is
required.
Mukome told TellZim News on
the sidelines of a stakeholders meeting at Chitsanga Hall last week that the
project needed at least US$20 million just for the importation of materials
needed to do the work.
“We got some RTGS$18 million
last year but construction was delayed by the economic shocks of October last
year when inflation took a sudden turn for the worse. That means the money
allocated lost significant value.
“Looking at the engineering
designs of the piling foundation, the materials of which are not found locally,
we need at least US$20 million in real foreign currency.
“The RTGS$18 million was
only meant for the construction of substructure of the bridge but taking into
cognisance macro-economic shocks; inflation, price increases and fuel
shortages, the contract price of the project was negatively affected,” Mukombe
said.
He said his department had
identified a new site that would allow for the construction of a new bridge
altogether at less cost.
“We have chosen a new site
which has firm rock that allows use of mass concrete by local engineers. In
that vein, we are focusing on the designs as well as the tendering process
which is in progress,” said Mukombe.
On average, five people die
every good rainy season trying to cross the flooded Runde River in makeshift
boats or in motor vehicles.

Rediscovering the past: Tangible and intangible heritage

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Rediscovering the past: Tangible and intangible heritage


Elizabeth Duve Dziva
Cultural Heritage allows us to have a feel of the past
through its tangible and intangible aspects. As a matter of fact, this
generation is undoubtedly benefiting from cultural heritage hence the necessity
to actively participate in the veneration and perpetuation of cultural
heritage.
The very first stage of involvement is the ability to
identify and define what defines us, thus our tangible and intangible heritage.
As the word tangible suggests, these are physical things that we can touch and
they entail artifacts produced, maintained and transmitted over generations.
Such include bows, arrows, drums like the famous and controversial Ngomalungundu
(subject for another day).
Tangible heritage includes artistic creations, built
heritage such as buildings and monuments, and other physical or tangible
products of human creativity that have cultural significance. There are
approximately 200 recorded monuments in the country which the National Museums
and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) has worked tirelessly to preserve and
conserve. Among them are Khami Ruins, located 15 miles from the Bulawayo,
Bumbusi National Monument in Hwange National Park, Ziwa National Monument in
Nyanga National Park, Great Zimbabwe and the neighbouring Mujejeje Ruins in
Masvingo, the National Heroes Acre in Harare, Matobo Rock Art, Naletale
National Monument, Dhlodhlo Ruins, Tsindi Ruins, Chamavara Rock Paintings and
Insunkamini Ruins in Gweru.
It is important to note at this juncture that tangible
aspects of heritage encompass natural features which are worthy conserving and
preserving for generations that will come after us, The National Parks and Wildlife
Management Authority of Zimbabwe (Zimparks) has a statutory mandate to preserve
that form of heritage. In Zimbabwe natural heritage includes Mosi oa Tunya,
Popoteke Gorge in Masvingo, Inyangani and Chimaninani mountains, Chinhoyi
Caves, the many national parks as well as the flora and fauna therein.
Intangible heritage
According to
United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organisation (Unesco), intangible cultural heritage is a practice,
representation, expression, knowledge, or skill, as well as beliefs essential to
a particular group of people and worth passing inter-generationally. Intangible
heritage entails oral tradition which includes
language, songs, folktales, performing arts like music, dance,
rituals, festive events, rites of passage, knowledge and practices concerning
nature and universe. Intangible heritage also includes traditional medicine,
traditional architecture, traditional craftsmanship, knowledge and skills of
pottery-making, carpentry, blacksmithing, jewelery-making and musical
instrument-making.
Controversial as it is, both cultural and natural
tangible heritage have custodians, but the million dollar question is who
guards intangible heritage? In the midst of religious chaos and the dilemmas
faced by the supposed custodians of intangible heritage who are torn between
following present day wealth-promising religious doctrines and cultural values,
intangible heritage faces possible extinction.
The sun is almost setting on most of the elders who are
well-acquainted with the information on how to safeguard the endangered heritage
aspect in question. The upcoming generation should consider utilizing the
elders. One wise man once said the richest place in the world is the graveyard,
for there lies the intelligent, wise men, once famous and rich men, men and
women who died and were buried with important knowledge and skills. The
possibility is that in decades to come, our intangible cultural heritage will
be regarded as faded glory, a once lively culture, extinct and beyond resuscitation.
All the same, there are various remedies and strategies which can be employed
to conserve and preserve intangible heritage.
Till we meet again next week
The writer is an Archeological and Cultural Heritage
practitioner. The views expressed in this article are entirely those of the
writer in her private capacity and do not necessarily represent the views of
any organisation
email:duveelizabeth@gmail.com

Gutu motorist tied onto tree, robbed of his car

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Tendai Mange
It
was one hell of an experience for a motorist recently when robbers he had
picked up at Mpandawana thinking they were genuine travellers tied him onto a
tree using a rope before getting away with his car.
Enerst
Chambare (46) was driving a Toyota Granvia owned by Godwin Hwenga when he
picked up four passengers at Gutu Garage at around 19:30hrs on March 31, but
little did he know they were car thieves.
They
had lied that they wanted to be dropped off at Maungwa business centre.
Along
the way, the man seated in the front passenger seat asked the driver to stop at
Muzorori, 12km from Gutu Garage along the Gutu-Masvingo Road so that they could
pick up a female friend.
He
got out of the car and pretended to be looking for the friend, only for the
other three muggers to strangle the driver.
One
of the robbers drove for about 20km from Muzorori while the other three took
the driver’s phone, cash and forced him to reveal his EcoCash pin.
They
later tied him onto a tree and made a U-turn back to Gutu, leaving the
screaming Chambare stranded. The victim was only rescued by a villager
identified as Peter Mugova.
Mugova
called Hwenga who later arrived at the scene with detectives from Gutu police
station.
Masvingo
Provincial Police spokesperson Chief Inspector Charity Mazula warned motorists against
picking strangers especially during the night.

Young people in bid to market Chivi’s rich cultural heritage

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Young people in bid to market Chivi’s rich cultural heritage

                                                  Stuart Madzore


Peter Chawapiwa
Chivi district is on April 25
expected to launch its own chapter of Zimbabwe Youth in Tourism, an
organisation that seeks to empower young people through activities that promote
tourism in the country’s 10 provinces.
Zimbabwe Youths in Tourism
national chairperson, Stewart Mutizwa is expected to attend the launch
ceremony.
Zimbabwe Youth in Tourism Chivi
district chairman, John Abbiot Madzore told TellZim News that his organisation
will work to market the localities’ tourism potential in order to help grow the
district’s economy.
“We want to market Chivi as
a whole and make sure that the youths benefit from its resources. We also want
to ensure that by 2030, Chivi district will be a world-famous tourist
destination attracting many tourists every day,” said Madzore.
Madzore said the organisation was
in the process of compiling heritage sites in the district.
“So far, we have identified
the rock paintings in Gongwa Mountain near the growth point, the stone
resembling a breast feeding mother at Rungai, the 400m tunnel at Bindangombe
which was used as a refuge by our ancestors and the ancestral village on
Nyaningwe Mountain,” he said.
A cultural village, Madzore said,
will be established near the baobab tree in Silver City, a place where Chief
Mazorodze was executed after being captured by Ndebele warriors in the 19th
Century.
“Other cultural villages
will be established at Ngundu and Mhandamabwe but the main activities must be
concentrated around Tokwe-Mukosi and Bindangombe dams. These will provide water
for sporting events, fish breeding projects, botanical and horticultural
gardens among others,” said Madzore.
He said they had received
assistance from a local benefactor Dr Tapiwa Murambi, Chivi Rural District
ouncil chairperson Godfrey Mukungunugwa and District Administrator (DA) Vafias
Hlabathi.

Chinembiri Secondary School rises above challenges

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Chinembiri Secondary School rises above challenges

      Chinembiri High head Owdy Matongo (behind desk) deputy head Marshall Chiome (left) and              senior teacher ….
CHIVI – Chinembiri Secondary has produced
many professionals who are making it big time in many sectors of the economy,
thanks to a strong work ethic which has seen the school carving out a strong
identity as centre of educational excellence in the rural district.
Established in 1984, Chinembiri Secondary School is
continuously upgrading itself as a way of positioning itself to become a high
school in the very near future.
Facilities like classroom blocks and staff houses recently
got a facelift, and there are plans to build new infrastructure to enable the
school to meet the ever-rising standards of modern-day learning.
A computer laboratory has been completed while a state-of-art
science laboratory will soon be constructed in response to current emphasis on
practical education as well as to the focus on science learning.
The school is located a mere 6km from Chivi growth point and
3km away from the main road in Mazorodze village.
In 2020, Chinembiri Secondary will introduce ‘A’ Level
classes to complete its evolutionary transformation and give local ‘O’ level
graduates a convenient place to further their studies.
Chinembiri Secondary School head, Owdy Matongo told TellZim
News the school was making progress in many fronts and was optimistic about the
future.
Chinembiri Secondary was one of the schools that were involved
in Care International’s Wash and Girl Friendly programmes.
“We have completed a number of projects and we are looking forward
to develop further. We are confident we will be able to introduce ‘A’ level
classes in 2020 so we have extended the school yard to accommodate a double
classroom block and a standard science laboratory.
“It’s quite encouraging that our parents are cooperating and
they have pledged to provide a bag of cement from each household towards the
building project,” said Matongo.
He said he was pleased that teachers were consistently taking
pupils through holiday lessons as a measure to keep on improving the school’s
pass rate.
“Our enrollment is big since we are the attraction of many
pupils; a great deal of who come from far-flung villages. Those children travel
long distances to school and our wish is to find a partner willing to donate
bicycles to those children,” said Matongo.
Deputy school head Marshall Chiome said despite the
challenges, he was encouraged by what he said was the excellent work ethic at
Chinembiri.
“We don’t have much in terms of resources but we are making
the best out of that little. All our teachers are dedicated but I will single
out our physical education teacher Tendai Kasonde who has greatly improved our
performance in sport
She has also introduced rugby and cricket and is getting
assistance from Kyle College in Masvingo. We thank her for that hard work and
dedication,” said Chiome.

Theileriosis kills hundreds of cattle in Gutu

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Theileriosis kills hundreds of cattle in Gutu


Courage Dutiro
More
than 300 cattle in Gutu have succumbed to
a tick borne disease known as theiloriosis or January disease, the Masvingo
provincial veterinary office has said.
Theileriosis
refers to diseases caused by theileria, which are very small parasites called protozoa.
Different species of theileria cause different diseases in animals, but the two
of most concern are corridor disease and turning sickness.
Provincial
veterinary officer, Enerst Dzimwasha, revealed that the disease has taken a
huge toll on villagers’ cattle in the rural Gutu and so far a total over 300
cattle have been reported to have died in a short space of time.
“We
have received reports from Gutu that Theileriosis has killed about 300 cattle
in Chatsworth and in some other parts of Gutu. We think the number is bigger
than the recorded deaths as some of the death cases are not being reported by
farmers to the veterinary department.
“The
disease is transmitted by ticks and symptoms of the disease include,
depression, weakness and difficulty in breathing for the animal. The affected
animal dies within a few days,” said Dzimwasha.
TellZim
News learnt that the government is failing to provide dipping chemicals to the
veterinary department and Dzimwasha has called on farmers not to wait for the
government but to sacrifice
and buy their own chemicals to dip their cattle.
Dzimwashe
pointed out that the province has about 700 dip tanks and is facing a serious
shortage of dipping chemicals in the province.
“It
is difficult for the department to control and limit the spread of the disease
since there is no longer regular dipping of cattle in the province due to the
shortage of the chemicals. During the rainy season cattle are supposed to be
dipped regularly so as to break the cycle of ticks,” said Dzimwasha.
It
has been learnt that farmers pay a dipping fee of $2 per animal per year but
the government is failing to provide the dipping chemical which farmers are
paying for.

Chiredzi woman jailed for protecting rapist hubby

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Chiredzi woman jailed for protecting rapist hubby


Honour Makovore
CHIREDZI – Magistrate
Constance Mtandwa has sentenced a woman to 36 months in jail for protecting her
husband from prosecution after he repeatedly raped her nine-year-old daughter
between January and February.
The
37-year-old woman, a vendor from Makondo Township who cannot be named to
protect the identity of the minor, used methylated spirits to treat her
daughter’s lacerated private parts after the rape by her 36-year-old husband,
who is step-father to the victim, and failed to report the matter to the
police.
She
was convicted for contravening Section 7 (3) of the Children’s Act Chapter 5.06
which talks about ‘ill-treatment or abuse of children and young persons’, but
12 months of her sentence were suspended on condition of good behavior.
Six
months of the prison sentence were for obstruction of justice and 24 months were
for child abuse, but six months were set aside in condition that she will not
commit a similar offence in the next five years.
The
State, represented by Nyasha Dzirutsva alleged that on an unknown date in
January, the accused, who also cannot be named to protect the identity of the
minor, raped his stepdaughter once and threatened to beat her with an electric
cable if she told anybody.
The
injured girl then told her mother upon her arrival from work but she ordered
her to remain silent.
The
accused then kept on raping there girl and literally tore apart her private
parts until suspicious neighbours alerted the police. All along, the woman was
using methylated spirits to treat the victim’s wounds.
Meanwhile,
her husband is serving an effective 18 years in jail for the rape.

Mwenezi teacher neglects family, drinks 24/7

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Mwenezi teacher neglects family, drinks 24/7

                                                     Joseph Vafi

Cephas Shava
MWENEZI –
Joseph Vafi, a teacher at Batanai Secondary School in Mwenezi reportedly blows
his entire salary on alcoholic drinks while his family suffers severe lack,
month in month out.
This
was revealed by his wife Lavenda Mugwira who dragged Vafi to the Mwenezi Civil
Court claiming $300 maintenance for the upkeep of their two children.
Mugwira
told the court that her husband had totally neglected the duty of taking care
of the family as he always squandered all his monthly earnings on beer.
“Beer
is his only interest and he is not taking care of the children. He drinks beer
from January to December without a break. He doesn’t have even funeral
insurance, meaning he gets his salary in full without any deductions,” Mugwira
told the court.
On
his part Vafi said he could afford to pay $150 per month but magistrate Honest
Musiiwa ordered him to pay a monthly maintenance allowance of $280 for the
upkeep of his two children.  

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