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Madzibaba flees shrine after raping minor

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Madzibaba flees shrine after raping minor

Cephas Shava
MWENEZI – A
self-styled prophet of Madzibaba Enguvo Tsvuku church has disappeared after
allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl who had been consulting fo healing, TellZim
News has learnt.
The
prophet, popularly known as Madzibaba Joshua, could not be found at his shrine
at the growth point when people went there looking for him last week.
Ward
18 Councillor Albert Mashiri said women and children must be wary of dubious
churches sprouting everywhere and their so-called prophets.
“There
is a case of rape involving Madzibaba Joshua which is currently being
investigated by the police. When we heard about the matter, we visited the
victim’s place of residence together with a team from the department of social
welfare and the Justice for Children (JCT) and we compiled our own reports,”
said Mashiri.
The
victim, who is from Nyajena, is said to be a form three school dropout who was
employed as a housemaid at Rutenga.
“When
the girl first visited the prophet, she was told that she possessed some mermaid
spirits that required continuous exorcism. When she returned for the second
time, the rape ordeal began and lasted for a long time. The culprit would
always threaten her against divulging the abuse, warning that she would go mad
if she ever did,” said a source.
Other
sources said the matter came to light when prophets at the girl’s own church
asked her to confess the sin of adultery which they accused her of committing.
That is when the minor opened up about the rape ordeal, leading to a police
report being made.
TellZim
News managed to visit the shrine where the self-styled prophet used to conduct
his services and the place was completely deserted.
  

NRZ losing thousands litres of diesel to Rutenga syndicate

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NRZ losing thousands litres of diesel to Rutenga syndicate

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Cephas Shava

MWENEZI – A
syndicate comprising Rutenga-based illegal fuel dealers and some goods train
drivers is involved in organised theft whereby large quantities of diesel is
drained from goods trains and later on sold on the black market, TellZim News
has learnt.
Sources
say the syndicate, which also includes dishonest police officers, has profited
immensely at the expense of the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ).
It
is said the theft involves several goods train drivers travelling from Mozambique
and South Africa stopping some kilometres before Rutenga Station where they drain
diesel for sale to illegal fuel dealers.
“These
incidents are occurring in the dead of the night. The illegal fuel dealers
would always be communicating with goods train drivers and they have a place
deep in the bush where they strike their deals. Dealers drive into the forest
in pick-up trucks and lorries loaded with empty drums which are then filled
with diesel,” said a source.
One
illegal fuel dealer said the deal now involved some police officers who are
conspiring with train drivers to drain the fuel.
“You
find that most of the diesel we sell on the black market is too dark, being
that we get from the trains. When the police conduct raids on us, they always
find nothing at our selling points because we work with some of them and they
alert us,” said an illegal fuel dealer.
TellZim
News heard that a recent raid involving the police’s Criminal Investigation
Department (CID) and military intelligence yielded nothing as the syndicate
already knew about it well in advance.
The
illegal fuel trade is also rampant among cross-border truck drivers coming from
South Africa as well as among earth-moving equipment drivers working on the
Rutenga – Sarahuru Road.
   

Zaka woman plants rapoko on grave

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Zaka woman plants rapoko on grave

                                              Headman Nyamutaki


….caught watering the
plants at night

Brighton
Chiseva

ZAKA
– A
woman from Munyaradzi village under Headman Nyamutaki under Chief Bota recently
shocked the community after she was caught by a family member in the night
watering rapoko planted around a grave.
Pellagia Makocha, a
single mother of two, is alleged to have planted the crop around the grave of
his late brother Jacob Makocha who was murdered in South Africa back in 2016.
Headman Nyamutaki, born
Marxell Chaminuka, confirmed the incident and said his council tried to force her
to uproot the plants but she refused and they sought police intervention.
“I received the report from
the village head who had failed to persuade her to uproot the plants. My
council decided that she be accompanied to the grave to remove the plants but
she still refused. She also ignored pleas from her own family members saying
there was nothing wrong in planting flowers in the graveyard so we engaged the
police,” said Headman Nyamutaki
He said the woman told
the police her strange act was meant to provoke the spirit of her dead brother
to fight his killers.
Other sources said the family
member had earlier saw a nail wrapped with red knitting wool plugged onto a
Marula tree near Makocha’s homestead where she lives with his father.
“A family member saw a
nail with red cloth and wool on a tree near the homestead and reported the matter
to the village head who is also a member of the family. He was told to make a
formal report but before he could do it, he saw something worse happening in
the graveyard.

Zanu PF, MDC fight for Bikita clinic project

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Zanu PF, MDC fight for Bikita clinic project

The late Kennedy Matimba
Diana
Gondongwe
Zanu PF Bikita East constituency is accusing MDC
Alliance Ward 15 Councillor Samson Dzinodya of hijacking the Nerumedzo Clinic
project.
The ruling party has since prepared a report to
counter Dzinodya’s own version of the story which implicates the area’s Member
of Parliament (MP) Johnson Madhuku.
Dzinodya was recently quoted in the media accusing
Madhuku of sending three ruling party youths and two police officers to stop
the construction of a toilet at the project site.
In their report dated April 29, the Zanu PF
leadership in the area, however, accuses Dzinodya of hijacking the project
which they claim was initiated by the ruling party’s former MP, the late
Kennedy Matimba in his personal capacity.
“Mr Dzinodya came in as the new ward 15 councillor
after the 2018 harmonised elections and hijacked the project which was not a
project by his predecessor, the Zanu PF councillor Cde Ishmael Kanjera.
Dzinodya stole our bricks and used them to build a toilet at the site. This is
a parallel and impermissible project,” reads part of the report, which also
makes it clear that they want Dzinodya to pay for the bricks.
Dzinodya, however, said the cement was bought using
money from the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) that was availed by
parliament by Matimba.
“The bricks were moulded using CDF and I am
surprised by Zanu PF’s actions because this has nothing to do with politics or
personal gains but this is the development that the people of Zimbabwe need.
People of Nerumedzo village walk for 11km to Silveira Hospital or Negovana
Clinic for treatment,” said Dzinodya.
TellZim News has also learnt that Matimba had made an
agreement with Chief Nerumedzo and his local traditional leaders to build Nerumedzo
Clinic.
Matimba made an internal agreement with Zanu PF
youths to mould concrete bricks and provide free labour so as to construct the
clinic as a way of campaigning for the ruling party.
The late MP promised to provide $1300 towards the
training of the 26 youths who had volunteered to do the job.
Matimba later died before releasing the money and
current MP Johnson Madhuku took over and promised to pay the money in full
thereby making the project a Zanu PF property.

Headmaster convicted of driving without licence twice in two weeks

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Headmaster convicted of driving without licence twice in two weeks

Cephas Shava

MWENEZI – Tafara Secondary School head Million Hlongwane has been
sentenced to 18 months in prison for driving without a licence but he will perform
community service instead of serving a jail sentence.
Appearing before Mandlenkosi Ndhlovu
on Thursday, Hlongwane pleaded guilty to charges of driving a motor vehicle
without a licence and failure to comply with a lawful instruction given by
police after he fled from a road block.
Six months of his sentence were suspended
while the remaining 12 months were also set aside on condition he performed 420
hour of community service at Rutenga Police Station starting from June 01.
Presented by prosecutor Charles
Masawi, it was the State’s case that on May 21 at around 10:12hrs,  Hlongwane was driving a Toyota Passo (AET
9568) when he was stopped at a police roadblock along the Rutenga – Sarahuru Road.
After failing to produce a driver’s
licence, he was asked to pull off the road but he sped off only to surrender
himself the following day after his bosses told him the police were looking for
him.
Last week, Hlongwane was in the
same court for driving that same car without a licence, and he was sentenced to one month in prison with an alternative
of paying a $100 fine.
He paid the fine and remained a free man.

MDC promises more demos after congress

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MDC promises more demos after congress

                 Amos Chibaya 
Beatific Gumbwanda

CHIREDZI
– The
MDC Alliance has warned the government that it will organise demonstrations
after its elective congress scheduled for May 24 in Gweru.
Addressing party supporters in
the faction-ridden Chiredzi West at the Civic Centre grounds in Chiredzi Town
on Sunday, May 12, MDC Alliance national organising secretary Amos Chibaya accused
the Zanu PF government of trying to destabilise the opposition party ahead of
its congress.
He said the destabilisation plot
was one of the Zanu PF government’s strategies to deflect attention from its
glaring failure to stabilise the economy.
He pointed at the recent High
Court judgement nullifying the 2016 appointment of party leader Nelson Chamisa
to the party vice presidency and his subsequent rise to the presidency as one
of the many ways by which Zanu PF is trying to destroy the opposition.
“We are not going to be given a
leader by Zanu PF’s courts, never! We did our internal processes as required by
law after our icon, Morgan Tsvangirai had passed on. The (MDC) national council
resolved that Chamisa has to lead the party for two weeks before they said he
is by law allowed to act for 12 months. That’s why he stood as our presidential
candidate (in the 2018 harmonised elections).
“Khupe is a leader for another
political party, MDC-T which held its congress in 2018 at Stanley Square where
they elected leaders of their party. She also contested in the harmonised
elections and she is also currently in dialogue with Mnangagwa as a president
of her party. So the courts have nothing to do with our party,” said Chibaya.
He said the party will regroup
after congress and organise peaceful demonstrations to protest the worsening
economic conditions.
“We will unite party cadres
during our congress so that we speak with one voice. We are going to reclaim
our stolen vote soon after congress in order to address the economic crisis,”
said Chibaya.
Chiredzi West has so far failed
to elect new leadership and set up new structures due to factionalism and deep
internal divisions. Chibaya said he will preside over the elections himself on
Sunday this week after a rally that is expected to be addressed by Chamisa.

Another free eye care programme in Chivi

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Another free eye care programme in Chivi

TellZim
Reporter

CHIVI
– The
Council for the Blind in conjunction with the Chibi District Hospital is
scheduled to conduct yet another round of free cataract screenings on June 18
and operations on June 19-21 as part of their social responsibility work.
The programme comes
courtesy of Rtd Col Manasa Mahapa who mobilises the well-wishers to help people
with treatable sight problems every year.
A total of three
similar exercises have been held at Chibi District Hospital in the past, with hundreds
of people from the district and the other places coming to have their sight
restored free-of-charge.
“The
eye camp aims to give relief to people with eye problems like cataracts. This
is a community programme borne out of the desire to help people. We therefore advise
everybody in need of such services to come and receive the requisite medical attention.
“We expect many people to take
advantage of this offer and come for their life-changing experience or bring
their loved one with such challenges. This is not a programme just for the
people of Chivi but is for those in other districts as well. We understand
there are many people who are living as blind when all they need to get back
their sight are simple surgical procedures,” said Mahapa.
The operation is open
to any elderly people persons who can travel to Chivi on 18 June for screening.
Rtd Col said operations
were scheduled to be conducted throughout the day on 19-21 June.
For any clarification,
patients can contact OPN Mabhiza of Chivi District Hospital on 0772252723.

MDC’s Chibaya blames top party leadership for chaotic structures

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MDC’s Chibaya blames top party leadership for chaotic structures

                     Douglas Mwonzora

Beatific Gumbwanda

CHIREDZI-MDC Alliance national
organising secretary Amos Chibaya last week blamed the party’s top leadership
for the party’s loss in Chiredzi West during the harmonised elections last
year, saying imposition of candidates which saw some disgruntled party members
contesting in the national election as independents had cost the party dearly.
Chibaya addressed party
supporters at Chiredzi Civic Centre grounds on Sunday last where he attacked
some unnamed party leaders for manipulating the party’s primary elections last
year to suit their personal ambitions, much to the detriment of unity in the
district.
“We lost in Chiredzi West and you
don’t have to blame yourselves on that but you can blame party leaders. When we
visited Tshovani Stadium with President Nelson Chamisa, he ordered for a re-run
(of the primaries) but that was not done,” said Chibaya.
Chiredzi West’s primary elections
were chaotic resulting in many candidates contesting as independent candidates.
Simbarashe Baloyi and UK-based
businessman John Manganye stood as independent candidates after Stanley Themba
won during the chaotic primaries.
The parliamentary seat was later
won by Farai Musikavanhu of Zanu PF who had prevailed in his party’s own
chaotic primaries.
At the meeting, Chiredzi district
chairperson James Kampota claimed that the opposition party’s Masvingo
provincial chairperson James Gumbi was responsible for manipulating Chiredzi
West structures.
“I personally presided over the
formation of structures in Ward 3 and everything went well there. Later on, Chairman
Gumbi called me and declared the structures null and void,” said Kampota.
Chibaya said those who supported
independent candidates should not be barred from contesting for positions in
the new structures that he said will be formed next week.
He however said those who
contested as independents were not allowed to participate as they had
technically expelled themselves from the party.
“We don’t see any reason why
those who supported independent candidates must be barred from participating in
structures. Only those who stood as independent candidates should appeal to my
office stating why they stood as independent candidates and a committee will
decide whether to admit them back into the party or not,” Chibaya said.
During a recent provincial caucus
in Bulawayo ahead of the MDC Alliance congress, party’s secretary general
Douglas Mwonzora blamed the double candidates debacle that the party suffered
in many constituencies on the then national chairperson Morgan Komichi.

Two churches emerge at divided AFM Philadelphia Assembly

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Two churches emerge at divided AFM Philadelphia Assembly

Precila Takabvirakare
Several
people have been shocked by developments at AFM Gutu Philadelphia Assembly
which have seen church members attending parallel Sunday services in two tents
facing opposite directions.
The
assembly has divided itself into two camps, with those loyal to Amon Madawo worshiping
in one tent while those that follow Cossam Chiyangwa use their own tent as
well.
Sources
said that the whole drama started a few weeks ago when Reverend Murinye, who
was the pastor at the assembly, resigned and the church elders began to quarrel
on their own.
Some
Madawo loyalists told TellZim News said they were tired of the shenanigans of
the other faction and were ready to do their own thing.
“Those
who follow Madawo are tired of the other faction and we think they are also
tired of us. We used to worship at Kingdom Assembly and formed this assembly as
a way of trying to dissociate ourselves with those disagreements but it seems
the whole problem has followed us and we are broken apart once again,” said one
congregant.
Other
church members said Rev Murinye resigned after getting fed up by the endless
squabbles in the church.
“He
felt people were no longer there to serve the word of the Lord but to push
their own power agendas. It is sad that the church is losing long-time faithful
members due to the power games of our leaders. The church is falling apart,”
said another member.

Villagers threaten Chief Maranda for protecting corrupt village heads

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Villagers threaten Chief Maranda for protecting corrupt village heads

Cephas Shava
MWENEZI– Angry
villagers in Munyamane in Mwenezi East are reportedly threatening Chief Maranda
whom they accuse of trying to protect corrupt village head irregularly
appointed by his predecessor.
The
villagers have now removed five village heads and replaced them with community
chairpersons and are reportedly threatening Chief Maranda for organising a
meeting at Chemvana to try to resolve the conflict.
Chief
Maranda, however, chose to be diplomatic when TellZim News asked him about the
matter.
“It
is true that I convened a meeting at Chemvana but it was a very minor issue.
There are some few individuals who want to influence some villagers. The most
troublesome are those from village three but the problem is small,” said Chief
Maranda.
He
was also coy on responding to reports that some angry villagers had threatened
to burn down his vehicle.
Villagers
who spoke to TellZim News, however, confirmed they removed all the village
heads and replaced them with their own choices.
“People
are now under the leadership of chairpersons whom they have installed for
themselves. Chairpersons are the ones who are now presiding over our cases here.
The former village heads were corruptly appointed by the previous Chief Maranda
after they paid him. They were crooks who parcelled land to desperate home
seekers and those people are now facing eviction,” said one villager.
  
 

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