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Silveira Mission’s Father Magama celebrates silver jubilee in priesthood

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Silveira Mission’s Father Magama celebrates silver jubilee in priesthood

Christine Shenjere

Father Cuthbert Magama (pictured) marked the silver jubilee of his ordination as a Roman Catholic Priest with a solemn Eucharistic celebration at Gokomere Mission last Saturday.
Scores of people gathered to celebrate the life of Magama who was described as a selfless priest focused on preaching the word of God.
In his speech, Magama thanked God for keeping him alive in the past 25 years of priesthood and pledged to keep on preaching the gospel.
“It is God who has kept me to be who I am today. The past 25 years have been blessed and I will continue spreading the gospel because I was called to preach the word of God,” said Magama.
Delivering his remarks during the celebrations, Gweru Diocese Vicar General Augustine Chirikadzi hailed Magama for serving with dedication and honest in his long journey with the church.
“Father Magama is a selfless person, I knew him since we were at the seminary. I can safely say he is dedicated to preaching the word and bringing people to the serving knowledge of God,” said Chirikadzi.
Chirikadzi also said Magama was a role model for upcoming priests, urging others to continue serving the church with dedication and honesty.
The celebrations were also graced by Masvingo Diocese Bishop Michael Bhasera, Vicar and many other priests.
The celebrations were also attended by various church members from Masvingo and Gweru Diocese who came in their numbers to celebrate Magama’s excellent work in priesthood.
Magama, who is a holder of PhD degree in Theology, was born on February 18, 1968 in Chivi district.
He previously served at St Kizito Parish in Kadoma, St Joseph in Beitbridge, St Don Bosco in Masvingo, St Joseph’s Minor Seminary in Gaborone Diocese, Mutero Mission in Gutu, Gokomere Mission and is currently at Silveira Mission in Bikita.

Against the odds, Mapanzure High boldly moves

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Against the odds, Mapanzure High boldly moves




Diana Gondongwe

Mapanzure High has recorded a tremendous improvement in its performance at ‘O’ level, with the release of the 2018 examination results reflecting tangible progress the school is making against all the odds.
The government school, which has over the recent years sought to set itself apart from the ordinary rural school through a well-defined and consistent drive for advancement, managed to obtain a 34 percent overall pass rate for the pupils who sat for Zimsec examinations in November 2018.
Mapanzure High School’s pass rate exceeds the 32 percent national average, and it comes against a backdrop of renewed economic difficulties in the education sector.
The school also offers Higher Education Examination Council (Hexco) exams for which a 62 percent pass rate was obtained from among the pupils who sat last year.
Mapanzure High School head, Clepos Chauraya said the school was united in one forward-looking spirit which is making the school a dynamic centre of secondary education.
“We have maintained that we are there to exceed expectations and that’s exactly what we are doing. Our struggles and obstacles might not be similar to that other school’s obstacles, and we have therefore set for ourselves a unique bar by which we will continue to measure our performance and do self-assessment. Members of staff, the SDC, parents and pupils share the vision of growing this humble school to a better setting,” Chauraya said.
He encouraged parents to do their best to pay their children’s fees and clear arrears, saying the school needed every coin it could get to develop learning standards.
Mapanzure High became one of the very first rural government schools to buy a bus in early 2016, a development which has seen the school saving money that had hitherto been spent on hiring services.

Future lies in ideas, says Mboweni

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Future lies in ideas, says Mboweni
Douglas Mboweni

Tinaani Nyabereka


GWERU – Econet Wireless Zimbabwe Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Douglas Mboweni has called upon institutions and industries to digitalise and come up with new innovations, saying the world today demanded forward looking thought.
Speaking at the Midlands State University (MSU) Conference on Economic Transformation and Governance in Emerging Economies recently, Mboweni said digitalisation had become the language of the world.
“We are now in the world without borders due to digitalisation. So the beautiful aspect is now the joining of people to things through use of technology. The key elements to make it in development is to disrupt on a large scale because you cannot develop without disruption. So as institutions, I urge you to innovate, disrupt, transform, create and inspire. If we cannot digitalise, we can then go home and sleep,” said Mboweni whose stay at Econet saw the birth of EcoCash, which disrupted conventional banking and sparked a mobile money revolution.
The highly respected corporate executive said Zimbabwe was lagging behind in terms of technology.
“We need to upgrade ourselves and move with technology because we are lagging behind. If we say by 2030, we want to achieve this goal, we can definitely achieve it as a nation because we have been given the capacity to explain the why concept, then we instruct and strike the hub.
“The future is now in ideas. Zimbabwe has a high literacy rate but are we capitalising it to promote digital innovation in business?” said Mboweni, whose company is one of the biggest by both innovation and market capitalisation,
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Fanuel Tagwira said the country’s education was currently divorced from the industrial aspect.
“It’s high time our institutions get involved in the phenomenon of making industries because our education is now supposed to make goods and services. If you look at our education, you can see how divorced it is from the industrial formula. We need partnership to solve these problems,” said Tagwira.

Man beats up police officers, throws plate of sadza at them

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Man beats up police officers, throws plate of sadza at them

Monalisa Matongo

A tout has been sentenced to 105 hours of community service for resisting arrest and assaulting four police officers at Family Of God (FOG) church illegal commuter pick up point along Robert Mugabe Road.
Martin Masiyiwa (21) was charged with acting unlawfully, as defined in Section 176 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23 and was convicted by ,magistrate Rufaro Mangwiro.
It was the State’s case that Masiyiwa is alleged to have resisted police officer Goodwell Chingwenya’s attempts to arrest him after being found touting.
The accused was further alleged to have assaulted the police officer and threw a plate of sadza on him and on another police officer identified as Philemon Madondo.
He went on to strike them on their bodies with fists and kicked a female police officer Tariro Masenda on the foreheadand. He also attacked another police officer Robbin Chamayi Mapotsa with clenched fists.
Masiyiwa, however, admitted to attacking only one officer, not all of them.
The four police officers went for medical treatment and the medical reports were expected to be produced in court as exhibits.
Andrew Ndaramira appeared for the State.

Masvingo police accused of stealing confiscated drugs

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Masvingo police accused of stealing confiscated drugs


Courage Dutiro

A self-confessed drug peddler has suggested that police officers who arrested him on February 06 could have stolen part of the stockpile they confiscated from him as only a few bottles of the dangerous drugs were declared to the court.
Appearing before magistrate Peter Madiba on Friday last week, Morgan Chimahwinya (27) of Sisk in Masvingo said he was surprised that State papers made mention of only 37 bottles of the much abused broncleer cough syrup instead of the 151 bottles he claimed the police confiscated from him.
Chimahwinya, who pleaded guilty, was being charged for breaching the Medicines and Allied Substances Control Act.
“They took from me 151 bottles of broncleer not the 37 they are alleging,” Chimahwinya confidently told the court.
The magistrate, however, said the case will proceed on what was written on State papers and that Chimahwinya’s allegations against the police was a different case that will have to be investigated separately.
If Chimahwinya’s allegations are anything to go by, it means 114x100ml of the drug disappeared while in the hands of State actors.
It was the State’s case that acting on a tipoff on February 06, police found Chamahwinya in possession of 37x100ml of broncleer in Kaguvi St, Sisk Township and arrested him.
Trynos Madaka represented the State.

Rights Forum documents 1 803 Army, Police violations

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Rights Forum documents 1 803 Army, Police violations

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The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum has compiled some 1803 violations committed most-ly by the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) in the past few weeks following the national shutdown protests.
Security forces have been accused of taking a heavy-handed response to the protests; with vide-os, audios and pictures of battered and brutalised civilians dominating the social media scene over the past three weeks.
“The violations of human rights that started as the state’s response to mass protests on 14 Janu-ary, 2019 following the increase in fuel prices immediately took a widespread systematic charac-ter, the dominant actors being the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), the Zimbabwe Republic Po-lice (ZRP) and suspected ZANU-PF militia.  The systematic and sustained nature of the viola-tions raises fear that this is becoming a case of crimes against humanity,” the confederation of human rights civic organisations says in a report released on February 06.
The report compiled 17 extra-judicial killings, 16 rapes, one case of sexual assault, 26 abductions, 61 displacements, 81 gunshot assaults, 586 other assaults, 51 cases of destruction of property, 954 arbitrary arrests and 10 incidents of harassment of journalists committed largely by security forces.
“Post-protest retribution by the ZRP and ZNA officers resulted in the warehouse arrest and de-tention of over 954 people across the country, including children between nine to 16 years. The highest recorded arrests were in Harare followed by Bulawayo, then Midlands. There were also many arrests in Mashonaland West provinces,” the report says.
“As the Forum continues to monitor the situation and keep the world updated, it is important that national leadership from all sectors be seen to play a positive role in ending the ongoing vio-lations and charting a new way towards the peaceful resolution of the ongoing conflicts,” the re-port say in conclusion.
In many videos, police and soldiers in uniform were seen pulling people from their homes and savagely attacking them; triggering an international outcry that has left President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime as isolated as was his predecessor Robert Mugabe’s.

Midlands given another chance to host youth games

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Tinaani   Nyabereka


GWERU – The Midlands province is set to host the National Youth Games which are sched-uled for August, Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) provincial officer Simon Masaka has said.
Last year’s games were cancelled after the outbreak of typhoid in Gweru and the city has been given the right to host this year’s competitions.
“Midlands province is going to host the youth games at such venues as Gweru Sports Club and Chaplin High School. We are still working to see that everything is put in order because we are still mobilising resources. We had a challenge last year because each province was sup-posed to pay its affiliation fee but they didn’t pay up since the games were postponed. We are still calling for more sponsors to come on board,” said Musaka.
He said SRC was working to have facilities at Gweru Sports Club revamped.
“We have asked a number of companies and associations to come and assist. The Handball Association of Zimbabwe has indicated a willingness to come and help.
“We are also engaging Midlands State University (MSU) to put their resources there so that they too can enjoy the privilege of using the kind of facilities that they don’t have at their campuses,” he said.

Ignore sanctions, share wealth: Gono

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Ignore sanctions, share wealth: Gono

Beatific Gumbwanda


CHIREDZI – Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) secretary for lands, Retired Major Faster Gono has challenged politicians and the country’s leadership to stop blaming sanctions and work for greater national unity through equitable sharing of the country’s resources.
Gono, who went to war in 1975 at the age of 14, said Zimbabweans were not happy, adding that only if all citizens began to enjoy their fair share of national wealth would there be real unity.
He dismissed the sanctions mantra saying late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi lived under stringent Western sanctions for decades but still managed to develop a fairly sophisticated and equal economy.
“Gaddafi was sanctioned throughout his reign but his people lived a happy life because resources were shared more equitably among the citizens. There was free education, health and housing for those who deserved. Loans were given at zero interest,” said Gono.
The Zimbabwe Sugarcane Milling Industry Workers Association (ZSMIWA) leader, who owns a highly productive 29ha sugarcane plot in Hippo Valley, said instead of parceling new plots to new farmers, there should first be an audit of the available land as a way of addressing corruption.
“We still have a crisis of land which was acquired corruptly and a team from the ministry was here last year but they haven’t done anything about it. There are high profile people with as much as 600ha per family. It would be good to share that land with other deserving people before we can talk about creating new plots to be irrigated by water from Tugwi-Mukosi,” he said.
Gono has been leading calls for a thorough audit of land that was allocated to new small scale indigenous farmers, saying there were countless incidences of corruption involved.
Recently, he came out strongly against new famers who hijacked Tongaat Hulett houses, saying only the company’s employees should live in those houses.

Col Sipanera appointed HQ 4 Infantry Brigade deputy commander

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Col Sipanera appointed HQ 4 Infantry Brigade deputy commander


DEPUTY COMMANDER 4 INFANTRY BRIGADE ,COLONEL HEBERT SIPANERA


Sgt Denford Chimbwinya

Colonel Herbert Sipanera has been appointed the new Deputy Commander for 4 Infantry Brigade replacing Colonel Blessing Maraire who has been transferred to Army Headquarters in Harare.
Prior to his new appointment he was the Staff Officer Grade One (SO1) Land Systems at ZDF Headquarters, Defence Economics Development Department (DEDD).
Born on March 02, 1961 in Chegutu then Hartley, Colonel Sipanera did his primary education at Pfupajena Primary School in Chegutu and on completion of his grade seven, he enrolled for high school education at St Augustine’s Mission in Penhalonga near Mutare.
He later answered the call to liberate his country, since it was during the peak of the liberation struggle. He crossed into Mozambique to join the liberation struggle in1977. His pseudo name was Thomas Gidi Tsvairai Mabhunu.
He was trained at Tembwe Training Camp and on completion he was deployed in 1979 in Tete Province, Nehanda Sector where he was involved in a lot of contacts against the Rhodesian Army till ceasefire.
On ceasefire, he was selected to undergo further training in Yugoslavia, where he trained at a Military Training Centre in Sagreb up to 1981. He came back the same year and assembled with fellow comrades at the Zengeza 4 Assembly Point where he was attested in the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) on August 01, 1981 as a Private.
The Deputy Commander rose through the ranks to become colonel in 2018 and held several appointments which includes Commanding Officer 13 Reserve Force Battalion, Directing Staff at Zimbabwe Staff College and Staff Officer Grade One (SO1)  Land Systems at ZDF HQ Defence Economic Development Department (DEDD) and currently 4 Infantry Brigade Deputy Commander.
During his entire service he was awarded several medals which include Independence Medal, Liberation Medal, 10 year Service Medal, 15 Year Long and Exemplary Medal, Mozambique Campaign Medal, United Nations Mission in Sudan Service Medal, OSL Campaign Medal and the Officer of Zimbabwe Order of Merit. He is married and has three children and likes to watch and play soccer.
Meanwhile, Major Timothy Ponde is now the new Brigade Major, he replaces Major Espedito Machingauta who has been transferred to the Zimbabwe Staff College. Prior to his appointment, Major Ponde was General Staff Officer Grade Two (GSO2) at Headquarters Bulawayo District in Bulawayo.
The Brigade Sergeant Major (BSM), Warrant Officer Class One Joel Mugore has been transferred to Headquarters 3 Infantry Brigade with the same appointment and has since been replaced by Warrant Officer Class One (WO1) Thabani Moyo, who was the Group Sergeant Major at 41 Combat Group.

He is not the one to let you down

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He is not the one to let you down

“For I am certain of this very thing, that He by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ” Philippians 1 vs 6.
Here is a good verse that should help someone understand that the God we worship is not the one to take you halfway. He can only take you all the way to the very end where you intend to be.
Regardless of what you are going through, always know that He who started something in you will give you the means to complete it.  It may seem a farfetched dream but it will surely prove to be a good ambition after all. You could be failing to pay school fees or to properly look after your family, just know that He who began a good work in you will make it complete. If your business is failing or your marriage is falling apart, have faith that the Lord will see you through the hardship.
One musician sang that do not give up on the Lord because he will never give up on you as He is able to do just what He says He shall do. If you want a miracle in your life have faith in God; speak positive and with boldness and also with confidence. Say the Lord which hath begun a good work in me – business idea, university, dreams, marriage and career – will perform. Have faith in God and believe in Him in all your situations.

Tingamufadza sei Mwari uyu?
How will a mere man, in all his sinful nature, be able to please a holy, omnipotent and omnipresent supreme being? The Bible says it is impossible to please God without faith. Do not ever tell God how big your situation is but tell your situation how big God is. Do not let the whole lot know that you are struggling but walk tall with your head high, shoulders up saying you are a child of God.
We do not lack because the Lord is our shepherd and provider as David sings is that famous psalm of his, ‘The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.’ He shall supply our needs according to his riches and glory, and in his endless wisdom. Let us make it our habit to speak positive words!
Christians do not say ‘zvakaoma, zvakadzvanya, ndiri pamahwani, mazino’. Instead, they say ‘all is well, zvakarongeka’. Always know that He who began a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. Regardless of the difficulty of the situation you could be facing, just say it in your heart that you have a mighty God before whose presence everything and everyone crumbles to nothingness.
If you do such kind of a prayer with absolute faith in your heart and believing that He is able, you would surely be saved, and all things will start falling into line with opportunities emerging before you. It is true that help is never far from us but we ourselves tend to often be far from help due to our minds and hearts that lack real faith.

We are Kings and Priests
“And have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are ruling on the earth” Revelations 5 vs 10.
A king rules and as Christians, we must know the power we wield over the world and everything that happens in it. As priests, the duty that is expected of us is to intercede on behalf of our neighbours; praying for our families, parents, relatives, country and others.
We are being told here that He has made us kings and priests; meaning here on earth meaning we are the chosen children of the high God. Kings and priests are known to be respected leaders whose word is listened to and that is a privilege which God has put upon us. Everything, therefore, should be at our service. Romans 5 vs 17b says reign like a king in life.
If you do not read the Bible, you cannot understand this good privilege that God has bestowed upon us. We are suffering due to this lack of knowledge and we are perishing due to this dearth of knowledge just as the Lord laments that my people are perishing due to lack of knowledge. We must therefore be Christians that know the word of the Lord and we must be able to meditate on it.
Joshua 1 vs 8 says this book of law shall not depart from your mouth but you shall meditate on it day and night.  If we do not meditate on it, we would never know the power and the authority we have.  As kings, we just speak a word and things will happen. As Christians we must know the power and authority we were given.

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