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Mwenezi Cllr finally admits adulterous affair, agrees to pay

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Mwenezi Cllr finally admits adulterous affair, agrees to pay

                                                           Murabharari (in scarf)

Cephas Shava

MWENEZI – Re-elected
Zanu PF Ward 7 councillor, Killion Murabharari who in September was convicted
by Chief Neshuro’s traditional court for having an adulterous affair with a married
woman, has finally agreed to pay damages after initially resisting.
Murabharari
was convicted of the offence though he had denied the charges, and had vowed to
appeal the judgement at a higher court.
The
traditional court had ordered him to pay a fine of four cattle or alternatively
$250 for each beast for having an adulterous affair with Peter Shereni’s wife.
The
councillor had, however, been non-committal, claiming he was preparing to
launch an appeal.
He
has since made a sudden turn and has agreed to pay the fine after learning that
Shereni was planning to approach the civil court to enforce the judgement.
Although
repeated efforts to get a comment from Murabharari were unsuccessful as his
mobile phone was not reachable, Chief Neshuro’s secretary and principal advisor
Pinias Shoko confirmed the new developments.
“There
was overwhelming evidence against Murabharari though he had denied everything.
He has now came back to pay the fine as ordered by the chief. As I speak, he
has already paid part of the fine in the form of money and has promised to
bring more soon,” said Shoko.
Murabharari
was in September this year dragged to Chief Neshuro’s court after Shereni, who
works in South Africa, acquired concrete evidence that the councillor was
having a sexual affair with his wife while he was away.
At
the traditional court, Shereni’s wife confessed engaging is a series of sexual
escapades with Murabharari at his homestead.
     
  

Grandpa licks, inserts finger into grade zero’s privates

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Grandpa licks, inserts finger into grade zero’s privates

Darlington Kanyongo
ZVISHAVANE – Tovakara Dozimbabwe (64) from Mutanda village under Chief
Negove recently appeared before Zvishavane magistrate Archie Wochiunga facing
charges of indecently assaulting a grade zero B girl by licking and inserting
his finger into her vagina.
Dozimbabwe pleaded guilty to
contravening Section 67 (1) (a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform)
Act Chapter 9:23.
State facts as presented by
Tinashe Maponde are that on January 21 this year at around 09:00 hrs, the accused
approached the complainant who was playing near her homestead asked for
directions.
He then asked the complainant to
accompany him and the complainant complied.
Along the way when they reached a
bushy area, the accused laid the juvenile on the ground, removed her underwear,
licked her vagina and inserted his finger into it before ordering her to go
back home.
Dozimbabwe will appear in court
on November 14 for sentencing.

Farewell for Midlands PED Gudo

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Farewell for Midlands PED Gudo


Tinaani Nyabereka

GWERU –
Schools in Midlands gathered on Friday, November 02, to bid farewell to former
Provincial Education Director (PED) Agnes Gudo who retired from the Ministry of
Primary and Secondary Education in September this year.
Speaking
at the farewell party ceremony which was held at Chaplin High School, director
in the office of the Minister of State for Midlands Provincial Affairs, Cleto Diwa
thanked Gudo whom she said had served the province’s education sector with
honour.
“As
a province, we have opened a new chapter in as far as education is concerned
because Agnes Gudo has led systems in the province from 2002-2018 and to us, it’s
a legacy which will live on and on.
“Pass
rates have increased in the province because of Mai Gudo’s hard work. She has
promoted development through the construction of schools in the province and
for that, we remain grateful,” said Diwa.
Educationist
and renowned artist, Bob Nyabinde thanked Gudo for working diligently for the province
and the country.
“I
have a guitar that I made for myself because Mrs Gudo inspired me to do music
when I was facing a lot of criticism from people who felt I shouldn’t be
singing because I was still at work. I was, however, happy when she said people
should leave me to play.
“I
am a musician today because of inspiration from her. I therefore urge you to
remain united despite Mai Gudo’s retirement and continue to work hard towards
building our education,” said Nyabinde.
In
her remarks, Agnes Gudo thanked the Midlands community for the love and support
they gave during her term of office, saying people should continue promoting
the province’s education through unity of purpose and hard work
 

Rutenga Primary School: A cut above the rest

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Rutenga Primary School: A cut above the rest

                                                              Tenson Mukapa

Cephas Shava
MWENEZI – Masvingo
Provincial Education Director (PED), Zedius Chitiga has applauded learning conditions
and massive developmental initiatives at Rutenga Primary School.
Chitiga
said the developments had proved that the school was under a visionary and hardworking
leadership.
Addressing
school heads, pupils and other participants who attended the 2018 Provincial
Merit Awards ceremony at the school last Friday, November 02, Chitiga praised
school head Tenson Mukapa for transforming Rutenga Primary.
“What
we are seeing here does not need to be explained further. This is the diligence
with which the school head has always executed his duties even before he came
here to Rutenga. At his former school, people did not want him to leave,” said
Chitiga.
Rutenga
Primary is making impressive progress in the improvement of school
infrastructure, with a new administration block and 2 x 2 classroom blocks about
to be completed.
Mukapa
moved to Rutenga from Dare Primary School in Chivi district in July 2017.
He
told TellZim News in a side interview that he could not have achieved what he
has achieved at Rutenga Primary without support from the School Development
Committee (SDC), staff and parents.
“As
you can see, we are now about to complete the administration block. Despite the
current economic challenges, we are very sure that by the end of November, all the
work will have been done.
“A
fishery project is also in our plans and work on the fish pond has been
completed. We recently started a rabbit project and we have 15 rabbits and we
hope to expand the project soon.
“I
am also pleased with the school garden which is producing various types of fresh
produce for the market. These are some of the improvements we are currently
doing but we are working to do more,” said Mukapa.
Last
year, the school topped the district after a total of 43 out of 118 pupils who
sat for their final grade seven examinations attained between 5 and10 units.
With
a current enrolment of 1 174 pupils, the school has a total of 27 qualified
teachers and 18 student teachers.
   

Pamushana dominates Provincial Merit Awards

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Pamushana dominates Provincial Merit Awards

                           The Pamushana team pases for a picture at the awards ceremony

TellZim Reporter

Pamushana High
School last week dominated the Sports category of the FBC Bank Masvingo
Provincial Merit Awards ceremony held at Rutenga Primary School in Mwenezi.
Pamushana won in
the under 17 Stella Netball, under 20 National Association for Secondary School
Heads (NASH) football and under 15 boys Copa Coca Cola football categories.
The school’s
football coaches Simbarashe Mlambo and Bernard Matenga were named best coaches in
the under 20 and 15 boys football categories respectively.
In athletics, Pamushana
High School scooped six awards, with one pupil Mary Mashoko being honoured for
winning a gold medal in the 4x100m in the under 16 girls category while Kuzivakwashe
Mugwazi won an award in the under 16 boys category of the same discipline.
Claris Kwaramba won
in the under 21 girls in 100 and 200m category and medley. 
Pamushana ‘O’
level teachers also won Best Teacher awards in Woodwork where 21As and 4Bs were
produced, Agriculture with 42As, Commerce with 60As, 40Bs and 10Cs as well as
in Principles of Accounts with 30As, 27Bs and 28Cs.
‘A’ level teachers
were aslo named best teachers in Divinity with 12As, 16Bs and 1c; Economics
with 7As, 20Bs and 7Cs; Mathematics with 49As, 4Bs and 3Cs; History with 21As
and 2Bs as well as in Accounting with 15As, 6Bs and 5Cs.

Mahofa new DSI for Bikita

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Mahofa new DSI for Bikita


Staff Reporter
BIKITA – Former Zaka and
Gutu District Schools Inspector (DSI) James Mahofa has been reassigned to head
Bikita district, TellZim News has learnt.
Mahofa confirmed
the development saying he got into his new office on October 26, replacing
Chioneso Maradza who held the position on acting basis since the death of
Zacharia Makopa last year.
“Yes I can
confirm that I am now DSI for Bikita and I assumed duty on the 26th
of last month,” said Mahofa.
He said his hope
was to bring more value to the district’s education sector by building upon the
work done by his predecessor.
“I am going to
bring in valuable insight and move the district to greater heights. I do
appreciate the efforts made by the previous team and I hope to work with
everybody as a formidable team and as one family with one love, without anybody
undermining anyone in any way. My belief is to take human relations seriously
ad allow the almighty Lord to lead the way always,” said Mahofa.
Mahofa is not
new to the district as he once worked there as an administrator between 1996
and 2010.
His office in Gutu
has since been given to Ronald Muganho who had been heading Insiza district in
Matabeleland.
 Mahofa was DSI for Zaka until 2016 when he was
transferred to Gutu when all DSIs were shuffled.

Bond notes, a stitch in time saves nine

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Bond notes, a stitch in time saves nine

The country’s surrogate
bond note currency has let the country down and those who imposed it on the
people should hang their heads in shame. That is the least they can do or, if
they still have any moral uprightness left, should apologise and resign. But
knowing them to be who they are, we dare not expect them to voluntarily abandon
the gravy train lest we get depressed by disappointment. The bond note was
introduced ostensibly to solve the severe shortage of the US dollar which was
then the dominant legal tender in the banks. The bond note was therefore
introduced, against widespread public sentiment, with Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe
(RBZ) governor John Mangudya as its proud groomsman. Two years down the line,
the US dollar is still in short supply and so is the bond which was supposed to
solve the problem in the first place. As if that was not a big enough failure,
the bond not has now severely weakened and wrought havoc on consumer prices.
Prices of goods have doubled and in some cases have trebled threefold. That is
the reason why it is only reasonable that the bond note is dumped immediately.
Prices would definitely come down if the real US dollar is restored as the only
legal tender alongside other dependable currencies like the South African rand.
In such case, the US dollar would still remain in short supply yes, but is the
inflationary bond note itself easily accessible? Would we not rather struggle
to get money that is reliable than struggle to get something as resented as the
bond note? The price of bread would hardly reach $1.50 in real US dollars terms
but right now, bakers are fighting to be allowed to charge their products as
they deem fit, something that would take the price of bread to $4.40 and
beyond. This is surely bound to happen unless the bond note is retired with
immediate effect. The market has made it clear that it does not want the bond
note and there is no wisdom in antagonising the market.

Masarasara Sec Sch project gets Chief Shumba’s approval

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Masarasara Sec Sch project gets Chief Shumba’s approval





Brighton Chiseva


RENCO MINE – A community
initiative to construct a secondary school near Masarasara Primary School in Mushawasha
area has been supported by Chief’s Shumba and land for the project has been
identified.
Chief Shumba,
born Elliot Zovovo, said he visited the site last Friday with his delegation
and saw it fit for the construction of the school.
“That is a good
community initiative and I support it because pupils in the area are walking
long distances to the closest secondary schools. I have therefore approved construction
of the school and it is now up to the other responsible authorities to approve
the project as well,” said Shumba.
He said the
community was in the process of handing the proposal to the Ministry of Primary
and Secondary Education and Masvingo Rural District Council (RDC) for approval.
Masvingo
Provincial Education Director (PED) Zedius Chitiga said the initiative was
welcome, adding that there was no development without community involvement.
“We welcome such
initiatives. I think if all the necessary channels and procedures are followed,
the ministry will approve,” said Chitiga.
Pupils from
Mushawasha are travelling up to 15km to Makoho or Tugwane secondary schools,
making the initiative all the more critical for the welfare of children in the
area.
More than 80
pupils have already made their intention to begin their form one at the school
next year should the project succeed.
The school will
draw pupils from the surrounding farms as well as Mafunye, Chitorido and
Muzenda villages among others.
Locals are contributing
towards the establishment of the school in cash and kind and are waiting for
approval to start clearing the land.

CGCDZ breathes life into Charumbira fish project

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CGCDZ breathes life into Charumbira fish project

Clayton Shereni

The Center for
Gender and Community Development (CGCDZ) last week extended a helping hand to
the Mhene village fishery project as part of the organisation community
empowering initiatives.
The
community-based organisation managed is drilling a borehole for the community,
which is under Chief Charumbira’s area, for the provision of water to the
fishery project and to several households.
The borehole
helps about 40 households and will supply water to the project which is being
run by local community members.
CGCDZ Chief
Executive Officer (CEO), Elliot Vengesa told TellZim News that the organisation
was committed to the empowerment of communities and the provision of water as a
basic need.
“Our
commitment is to empower communities through programmes that are designed to
meet community needs. Since water is a necessity, we saw it fit to drill a
borehole for this potentially prosperous society,” said Vengesa.
The community
lacks a reliable water supply system for the project and for domestic use, and
the borehole, which is set to be completed by the end of November, will provide
some critical relief to many villagers.
Recenty, CGCDZ helped
upcoming Renco Mine-based gospel band, Morning Stars launch their debut album.

Great Zimbabwe gets half a million dollars from USA

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Great Zimbabwe gets half a million dollars from USA



Brighton Chiseva

The Great Zimbabwe monuments will be a better
place to visit after the United States (US) embassy, through the Ambassador’s
Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) injected a total of US$475 000 towards
the cause on Tuesday.
US ambassador to Zimbabwe, Brian Nichols and
World Monuments Fund director Stephen Battle and the National Museums and
Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) executive director Godfrey Mahachi were in
Masvingo to seal the deal.
Speaking at the event, Nichols said the US was
keen to help Zimbabwe preserve its heritage sites so that they could be enjoyed
by future generations of the country.
He said the donation will help to maintain the
stone walls in their natural state and fight the invasive plant lantana camara
which is spreading rapidly in the area.
“We wanted to work on preserving the impressive
dry walls and to ensure that the monuments stand as majestic as they are now
for generations to come. We will partner Zimbabwe for the preservation of other
sites throughout the country,” said Nichols.
He further said the US provided about US$200
million to Zimbabwe in the areas of culture, adding that he believed the latest
gesture was a good seed that will geminate and help future generations.
The Minister of State for Provincial Affairs
Ezra Chadzamira applauded the US for the donation, saying he felt greatly
honoured to be associate with the
He said Great Zimbabwe was the cradle of
Zimbabwe’s national heritage from where Zimbabweans derive great pride.
“We had a dream as Zimbabweans, our dream lies
in the restoration of the Great Zimbabwe monuments to their historic and
symbolic status. Our identity as a nation is derived from it. Great Zimbabwe
was the world trade centre attracting merchants from as far as Asia, Europe and
US.
“Your Excellency, your intervention to
rehabilitate Great Zimbabwe monuments is therefore equally symbolic. Whilst
many see financial materials and technological inflows, I see the revival of
our tourism through the increasing volumes of domestic and international
visitors. I equally see the same visitors looking for investment opportunities,
with our government improving infrastructure like roads, airports, hotels. The
impact of your assistance, therefore, goes beyond what eyes can see today,”
Chadzamira said.
On his part, Battle said the programme will
help bring in new expertise to do investigations for better preservation of the
heritage site.
Mahachi, in his own comments, said the fund
will go a long way in controlling lantana camara, increasing conversation on
the monuments as well as building greater capacity to preserve the site.
“The fund will be put into use as soon as
possible by finding new methods of removing lantana camara and preserving the
stone walls,” said Mahachi.
NMMZ southern region director, Lovemore Mandima
expressed delight at the developments which he said will improve management of
the monuments.
“We are really happy and we will start
implementing right away. We will follow all accounting procedures and reporting
systems to make sure that the money is not abused. We have experience in
managing such funds for we have received other grants before, though smaller
than this one,” said Mandima.
Also present at the event was Chief Murinye,
Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) Vice Chancellor Professor Rungano Zvobgo,
Reformed Church University (RCU) Vice Chancellor and Professor Obert
Maravanyika.
Before the signing ceremony, Nichols took time
to tour Masvingo Provincial Hospital to get an appreciation of the challenges
of the only referral hospital in the region. He also toured Great Zimbabwe
monuments.

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