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OK Mart opens

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OK Mart opens

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OK Zimbabwe is on Thursday, December 06, expected to open OK Mart Masvingo in an investment move which affirms the giant retail group’s faith in the city’s market.
The new shop was built over a short period relative to the amount of time that similar projects take in a depressed economic environment.
The project becomes most probably the most significant single investment in the city for the year 2018, with dozens of people having already secured jobs in the shop.
Ok Mart Masvingo is also the company’s second business in town after OK Supermarket which has been here for many years.
By the time of writing, touch ups were being done in preparation for the opening ceremony which was expected to be graced by the group’s top management including Chief Executive Officer Alex Siyavora.
OK Mart Masvingo joins a growing list of other wholesale shops like N. Richards, Gain Cash & Carry and Metro Peach that have established their names locally.

Chief Chitanga set to lose land

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Chief Chitanga set to lose land

…as Mpapa moves to revive long-lost chieftainship

Cephas Shava


MWENEZI – A wrangle is reportedly brewing between Chief Chitanga and Julius Mpapa as the latter has embarked on a swift drive to revive the Mpapa chieftainship whose restoration would see the former losing vast parts of Ward 13.
Last Saturday, Mpapa convened a meeting in Ward 13, Simukai Township, under Headman Lamula where he appointed his own headmen and village heads.
Although no immediate comment could be obtained from Chief Chitanga as his mobile was not reachable, Nyashadzaishe Chidoni – who is secretary to Mpapa – said last Saturday’s events were part of a bigger programme to revive the chieftaincy.
“I am not sure about how Chief Chitanga will react but on Saturday, Mpapa appointed 11 headmen and several village heads who are set to fully assume their duties as soon as Mpapa is installed.
There are processes that are being followed and Mpapa is still approaching the responsible ministry right from the top. As soon as everything is finalised, Mpapa’s appointees will began to execute their duties,” said Chidoni.
Some sources, however, told TellZim News that Chief Chitanga was very bitter with Mpapa’s latest move.
“Chief Chitanga does not want the revival of the Mpapa chieftainship because it would eat into his own power but it is common knowledge that the area covering Ward 13 traditionally belongs to Mpapa.
“When the Whites invaded the land and established vast farms, they drove away the inhabitants and later on killed the then Chief Mpapa and destroyed the chieftainship altogether,” said a source.
Other sources said Chief Chitanga only gained a foothold in the area in the wake of the Land Reform Programme when hundreds of people were resettled there.
The Mpapa area stretches to as far as some parts of Chiredzi district.

Zanu PF to vet war vets

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Upenyu Chaota


MASVINGO – The claim by MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa (Pictured) to now have a liberation war veterans wing has spooked the ruling Zanu PF party into vetting the credentials of some of the veterans of the liberation struggle.
Zanu PF national chairperson, Oppah Muchinguri, who is also the Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs, says there are fake war veterans and has warned she will soon be asking questions on the roles played by those who claim a hand in the liberation war.
“There are benefits that are supposed to be enjoyed by war veterans chief among them is access to the land. After the land audit, we said 25 percent of the land should be given to war veterans.
“We will not just give any war veteran because some of them are fake and they lie about their credentials. We are going to vet them.
“We have cases of people who are below 50 years and claim to be war veterans. We would like to know which comrades you worked with during the liberation struggle because comrades have a sharp memory,” said Muchinguri.
She said those war veterans who have now joined Chamisa were all fake because real war veterans will never join ‘the enemy’.
“Chamisa claims to have liberation war veterans in his party and we wonder which war veterans and which liberation struggle are they talking about. A real war veteran does not abandon ship and join the enemy. Real war veterans are in Zanu PF and anyone else is fake,” said Muchinguri.

Muchinguri pays homage to Mahofa

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Muchinguri pays homage to Mahofa

                                         Oppah Muchinguri


Upenyu Chaota

Defence minister and Zanu PF national chairperson, Oppah Muchinguri has paid tribute to the late former Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs, Shuvai Mahofa saying she was part of a unique breed of politicians who never wavered.
Addressing a Zanu PF provincial inter-district conference at Masvingo Polytechnic College on Monday (December 3), Muchinguri said it was impossible to talk about Zanu PF without mentioning Mahofa’s name.
Chikoforo, as Mahofa was widely known, was a staunch supporter of then Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and was allegedly poisoned in 2015 in Victoria Falls at the Zanu PF National People’s Conference leading to her death in August 2017.
“Ndinonzwa kushushikana nekurasikirwa kwatakaitwa nemusikana mukuru Chikoforo, Mahofa. Haingavi nyika, haingavi Zanu PF isina Chikoforo. Ndinonzwa kubatikana nekuti ini ndakashanda zvakanyanya nemusikana anonzi Chikoforo. Ndinorwadziwa nekuti munhu anga akarurama (I feel sadden by the loss of Mahofa. We cannot talk of Zanu PF or Zimbabwe without Mahofa. I feel greatly saddened because I worked closely with her and she was a straightforward person),” said Muchinguri.
She said former first lady Grace Mugabe duped them all into giving her the powerful Women’s League leadership post but Mahofa stood by her conviction.
“Mahofa was poisoned and vilified for refusing to acknowledge Grace Mugabe. This is what led to her untimely death because this woman could have become President. Mahofa said over her dead body would she acknowledge Grace Mugabe and that is what made her a target,” said Muchinguri.
Since the poisoning incident in 2015, Mahofa went in and out of hospital battling a number of ailments.
When Mnangagwa was allegedly poisoned last year in Gwanda and whisked to South Africa for treatment, it is said that Mahofa cried for two hours fearing for the life of her long-time ally.
It is believed that the Mnangagwa poisoning incident took a toll on Mahofa’s frail health as her blood pressure is said to have sharply rose and she collapsed.
She was taken to the hospital and was pronounced dead upon arrival.
Mahofa was buried at the National Heroes’ Acre while her ally, Mnangagwa, was still battling for his life.
Her burial was marred by controversy as G40 and Lacoste factions clashed with the latter not happy that the funeral was being superintended by then Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, a known G40 functionary.
When Mnangagwa returned from hospital, he attended Mahofa’s memorial where he, for the first time, launched a scathing attack on the G40 faction.
“Vekumavhitori (Masvingo) vanoti kumagumo kune nyaya. Tasvika here panyaya? Ukahwa vanhu vachiti kumagumo kune nyaya zvivheneke uone kuti painouya nyaya iyi unenge uri papi maererano nenyaya yacho. (Masvingo you sing ‘kumagumo kune nyaya’, one therefore, should do self-introspection to see where they will be standing once the imminent end comes). There will be gnashing of teeth at the end,” said Mnangagwa then.

Veteran educationist, Renco Primary School head Mashiba calls it a day

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Veteran educationist, Renco Primary School head Mashiba calls it a day

                                                 Mashiba surrounded by his grandchildren

Brighton Chiseva

RENCO MINE – Veteran
educationist and Renco Primary School head, Tirivamwe Kennedy Mashiba,
affectionately known as TK, has decided to call it a day after serving in the
education sector for 43 years.
Parents
and pupils who gathered at Renco Primary School for Mashiba’s farewell ceremony
last week described him as a person they would not want to go.
Mashiba
joined the education sector in January 1975.
He
became a teacher after graduating from Morgenster Teachers’ College and for the
43 years he has been in education, he was a classroom teacher for only six
years at Shumbayaonda and Mutusha primary schools.
He
spent the other 37 years doing administrative work at different levels and in
different schools.
Mashiba
joined Renco Mine Primary School in 1998 after the then head was transferred to
Runyararo Primary in Masvingo Urban. He was recruited from the district education
offices where he was serving as the District Education Officer then known as Area
Schools Inspector at the request of the responsible authority which is Renco
Mine.
Mashiba
is a founding member of the Masvingo Teachers’
Savings and Credit Co-operative Society (MTSACCOS),
founder member and Masvingo’s first secretary general of the National
Association for Primary School Heads (NAPH) and he rose to become the
provincial chairperson in 1996.
He is also among the
veteran members for the Zimbabwe Teachers Association (ZIMTA) for Masvingo
district and province.
Under his leadership,
Renco Mine Primary School won several accolades including the Permanent Secretary’s
Merit Award during his third year at the school in 2000.
The school has not scored
less than a 70 percent pass rate in the grade seven final exams.
Renco Primary School has
also built a state-of-the-art computer laboratory block with an auditorium and
a strong room fitted with a Chubb door. The school has also bought a powerful PA
system, a performing arts stage and an overhead projector.
The school, under Mashiba,
produced the highest number of distinctions among students on Teaching Practice
(TP) for the 19 and 20 Morgenster Teacher’s College intakes. A total of 20
distinctions were recorded from among the 23 students, itself a national record.
The school is now in a
process of requesting students from Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) and
Reformed Church University (RCU) to come for work related learning.
At one time, TK became
part of a national taskforce sent to Zambia to do an understudy of the Zambian
initiative known as SHAPE which resulted in the formation of the Better Schools
Programme Zimbabwe (BSPZ) led by the then Chief Education Officer Melania
Rukanda.
Masvingo South District
NASH chairperson, Javan Hore described Mashiba as a very creative, innovative
and a no-nonsense person from whom the district has much to learn.
“No-one wanted him to go when
we held our meetings. He is an exemplary person and you can see that even from
his dress code. He is indeed a true leader,” said Hore.

Mwenezi MDC Alliance losing Cllr jailed

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Mwenezi MDC Alliance losing Cllr jailed

                                                                      Felix Mashavele

Cephas Shava

MWENEZI – MDC
Alliance’s losing council candidate for Ward 7 in the July 30 elections, Felix
Mashavele has been convicted of malicious damage to property and jailed for
nine months.
Magistrate
Honest Musiiwa convicted Mashavele (34) of burning down the houses of his in-laws
following a misunderstanding.
Mashavele,
who resides in Ranganai village under Chief Neshuro, pleaded guilty to all the
three counts but three months of his sentence were conditionally suspended, leaving
him to serve an effective six months behind bars.
The
State’s case as presented by prosecutor Caroline Pasipanodya, was that on
November 26 this year at around 18:00hrs, Mashavele went to Tivahlire village
where his father in-law, Isaac Tivahlire resides.
He
told Tivahlire that he had come to collect his wife but a disagreement arose
and an angry Mashavele used a match stack to start a fire on a kitchen hut
before fleeing.
The
fire destroyed 5x50kg of sorghum worth $300.
On
that same day, Mashavele proceeded to Ranganai village where he torched two
houses belonging to two of his brothers-in-law, destroying property as well as some
bags of maize and sorghum that were inside the huts.
The
value of the property that was destroyed at the two houses amounted to $855. A
police report was made at Sarahuru Police Base leading to Mashavele’s arrest.
In
the July harmonised elections, Mashavele contested for Ward 7 and lost to Zanu
PF’s Killion Murabharari.

Chivi man in trouble for gathering firewood on sacred mountain

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Chivi man in trouble for gathering firewood on sacred mountain

                                            Mupfure Mountain is host to a sacred shrine
Peter Chawapiwa
CHIVI – A local man was recently convicted by a traditional leader
on his own guilty plea and was fined a cow for desecrating a sacred
mountain.
Stephanos Mudyanembwa, of
Matsveru Village, entered the guilty plea when he appeared before Headman
Matsveru charged with desecrating a sacred shrine in the Mupfure Mountain.
The traditional leader’s court
heard that Mudyanembwa, in the company of his new wife, was spotted gathering
firewood at the sacred place, something that is strongly forbidden.
Headman Matsveru ordered Mudyanembwa
to pay a beast but the accused pleaded with the court for leniency saying he had no
livestock.
The court then decided that he should pay four goats instead.
Local villagers, who declined to
be named for fear of victimisation, said until last year there was no shrine on
the mountain.
“It was only after Nehoreka (a famous local spirit medium) held his ceremony at Headman Matsveru’s homestead that this sacred shrine was
created.
“In fact, Nehoreka himself
held part of the ceremony on the mountain and declared part of it to be
sacred,” said one source.
The villagers said they used to
roam freely on the mountain and were finding it difficult to adjust to the new
order.
“Old habits die hard.
Perhaps with time, we will get used to the idea that there is a prohibited area
on the mountain,” said the villagers.

Don’t blame us, sort your own house: China tells Zim

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Don’t blame us, sort your own house: China tells Zim

                                                                  Zhao Baogang


Shingirai Vambe
HARARE – The China-Zimbabwe
relationship is viewed by many as bad because China is said to be enjoying
unfair advantages but the giant Asian state has business ethics, acting ambassador
Zhao Baogang has said.
He
said this during a recent Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) and University
of Zimbabwe (UZ)’s Faculty of Industry and Commerce business symposium in the
capital.
Ambassador
Zhao Baogang said Zimbabwe had faced many challenges for a long time, adding
that he hoped the new government will turn things around.
“China
saw an opportunity in Zimbabwe and we appreciate our working ethics. We don’t
support corruption and we don’t implement policies in the same manner that Zimbabwe
does. In China, we first put them (policies) on trial and implement only if
they are acceptable,” said Baogang.
He
criticised the country’s so-called special economic zones, saying those were
only pieces of land with no requisite infrastructure to support their
apportioned status.
“We
were told of a special economic zone in one part of Harare but the place has no
roads, no water, neither is there electricity and you call that a special
economic zone. You need to be more serious and transparent,” he said.
One
of the participants, Dr Joseph Kanyekanye criticised the ‘Look East’ policy
which he said had not benefitted the country since its adoption in the wake of
the Land Reform Programme.
“In
Zimbabwe we have a syndrome which I have decided to call a slow and stop
syndrome. We are not able not move with speed even to create one thing of our
own. Accountability and transparency is one subject for which I ask the
Parliament of Zimbabwe to play its oversight role with due diligence,” Kanyekanye
said.
He
said Zimbabwe had nobody but itself to blame for failing to exploit its
relationship with China to retool its industry and grow its economy.
China
stands accused of taking unfair advantage of Zimabwe and the rest of Africa to
loot natural resources through many ways including unfair trade deals,
exploitative labour practices and the dumping of poor quality products.

Rugeje, Chadzamira in holy alliance

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Rugeje, Chadzamira in holy alliance

Rugeje (in black cap) and Chadzamira (green cap) at a ruling party meeting in Bikita earlier this year

Upenyu
Chaota

Zanu PF national secretary for the commissariat,
Engelbert Rugeje has kept at bay those harbouring ambitions to remove Masvingo
provincial chairperson Ezra Chadzamira, saying the new Minister of State for
Masvingo Provincial Affairs will retain his influential party post.
When Chadzamira was appointed minister, some bigwigs
started to position themselves to take over the provincial chairperson post,
claiming Chadzamira could not simultaneously hold both posts as that would make
him ‘dangerously too-powerful’.
Speaking at a Zanu PF inter-district conference at
Masvingo Polytechnic on Tuesday, Rugeje warned those eyeing Chadzamira’s job to
back off.
“We hear there are people who have been campaigning to
replace Chadzamira but we say it is not yet the time for that. Restructuring
will be done next year and the commissariat will give you the date.
“Right now is the time to work and unite the party not
to create divisions. Let us work to bring more people to the party and not
chase people out. Labelling people along factional lines will not help anyone
but will destroy the party,” said Rugeje.
Some party members, however, have been whispering
accusations against Rugeje himself, alleging he was fronting a secret bid to
make Bikita West legislator Elias Musakwa the new provincial chairperson.
At the same event, Chadzamira also got a seal of
approval from Zanu PF national chairperson and Defence minister Oppah
Muchinguri who praised Chadzamira as a dedicated party cadre.
“Chadzamira has seen it all and has won elections
twice. This shows that the man is loyal and has the people at heart,” said
Muchinguri.
The provincial youth league also resolved that they
would want Chadzamira to remain provincial chairperson, pledging to defend him
‘with our blood’.
“As the youth league, we have resolved that Chadzamira
should remain our chairperson and we rally behind him and we will defend him
with our blood.
“Chadzamira has proven to be loyal to the President
and he defended him during the fiercest fights last year when the G40 faction
vilified him.
“He is a tried and tested leader and he did not waver
when heavy punches were thrown his way. He led us through the trials and
tribulations and we believe in his leadership,” said provincial youth league
chairperson Brian Munyoro.

Chamisa must be stopped: Muchinguri

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Chamisa must be stopped: Muchinguri


… ‘we will
amend law to squeeze opposition’
… says MDC Alliance supporters were paid $10 to
demonstrate


Upenyu
Chaota
MASVINGO
– Zanu PF bigwigs
that are annoyed by pressure from the MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa are
agitating for the ruling party to use its two-thirds parliamentary majority to
amend the Constitution and limit political freedoms.
Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri, who is also the
Zanu PF national chairperson, told a provincial inter-district conference at
Masvingo Polytechnic on Monday (December 3) that the ruling party will make laws
to stop ‘the opposition madness’.
“I want to thank you Masvingo for voting Zanu PF and
giving us 25 out of the 26 parliamentary seats in the province. You contributed
so that we have majority in parliament and we can change any law in our Constitution
to fit our needs.
“Zvakuita manje
tava kutonga nekuti ndimo munodiwa kuti tichinje mutemo (It’s now possible we
have to change some laws). Zviri kuitika izvi imi wee-e wanhu wakufarisa, iwo
maopposition members aya akufarisa (These opposition members are enjoying
too much freedoms),” said Muchinguri.
He words were soon followed by calls from war veterans
secretary general Victor Matemadanda to amend the Constitution and raise the
age of eligibility to contest a presidential election from 40 to 52 in a move
seen as an specifically targeted at eliminating Chamisa’s chances of contesting
President Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2023. Chamisa will be 45 years of age in 2023.
Buhera South Member of Parliament (MP) Joseph
Chinotimba first mooted the idea some few months ago but the plan is said to be
facing immense opposition not only from citizens but from the Zanu PF youth
league.
Muchinguri bemoaned the ruling party’s poor showing in
urban areas claiming that was the reason why Chamisa was ‘causing so much
trouble’.
“We won resoundingly in rural areas but we suffered
heavy losses in all urban areas. Harare boosted Chamisa’s votes because he got
over 500 000 and we got about 200 000. The same trend was seen in Bulawayo,
Mutare, Masvingo, Gweru and pretty much all the urban centres.
“We have a lot of work to do in all urban set ups.
This is what is giving Chamisa all this madness and he has to be stopped. Chamisa
has been so stubborn.
“He has refused to accept the election results even
though all other countries have endorsed them. We had free and fair elections
and President Mnangagwa was declared the winner. Chamisa refused and made a
Constitutional Court (ConCourt) challenge where our President was again
declared winner. Despite all this, Chamisa still remains adamant and is doing
demonstrations,” said Muchinguri.
Muchinguri mocked MDC Alliance supporters saying
organised people will not be led to their ‘deaths’ because they would have ‘better
things to do’.
“When people have something to do and are organised,
they don’t go into the streets to demonstrate like what we are seeing with MDC
Alliance supporters led by Chamisa. People were shot and died in the streets
all because they shun the ruling party’s developmental initiatives and subject
themselves to poverty. They are paid $10 to get into the streets and
demonstrate,” said Muchinguri.
Chamisa has been on record saying they will defend
their ‘stolen’ vote through peaceful protests and that President Mnangagwa is
no Father Christmas who dishes out rights as they are given by the national Constitution.

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