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Chamisa’s Manicaland marvel

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Chamisa’s Manicaland marvel

MDC Alliance supporters gathered at Sakubva Stadium


Shingirai Vambe

MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa’s final tour of Manicaland in preparation for the elections has left an impressive mark on the people who look up to the youthful opposition politician as only one capable of redeeming their hopes for change.
Accompanying Chamisa were top alliance officials like Happyson Chidziva, Douglas Mwonzora, Tendai Biti, MDC-T Manicaland provincial chairperson; David Chimhini and national women’ assembly leader; Lynnette Karenyi.
The campaign began in Chipinge; Gaza Stadium and proceeded to Chimanimani West; Nedziwe business centre where Chamisa showered the alliance’s parliamentary candidate for the constituency, Cannan Matiashe, with praise.
He also commissioned a full- equipped ambulance donated to the constituency by Matiashe.
“As Zanu PF continues to buy its own vehicles using State funds, few individuals like Matiashe have a heart for the people. The new government is going to bring new things as expected by the people of Zimbabwe,” Chamisa said.
Matiashe told the crowd some Zanu PF youths were moving around singing threateningly; indicating that the horrors of political violence of the past would return if the ruling party is defeated.
On July 13, the MDC Alliance team went to Mutasa Central and Mutasa East where the message of electoral victory was repeated.
While addressing the gathering, Karenyi said even though Zanu PF was employing every trick in the book, people were no longer afraid, as evidenced by the huge turnout at each of the alliance’s rallies.
In his own address, Mwonzora said Zanu PF was always trying to sabotage the MDC Alliance campaign by distributing agricultural inputs wherever they organised rallies.
At the Sakubva Stadium star rally in Mutare on July, 14 the turnout was massive, with the venue filled-up by excited supporters.
It was in Sakubva Stadium that Chamisa repeated his pledge to be a responsible leader and not to be a power-crazed ruler like deposed former president, Robert Mugabe.
He also repeated his wish to rename the country to Great Zimbabwe as well as rename the provinces so that they no longer carried any ethnic connotations.
He attacked the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for what he called was blatant bias and mismanagement of the country’s electoral process.
“Zec is helping Zanu PF to rig the elections, but we will not allow that. We are going to defend our vote,” Chamisa said.
Chamisa closed his Manicaland tour with a massive rally at Vengere Stadium in Rusape on July 24, where he pronounced his support for MDC Alliance Makoni Central parliamentary candidate, David Tekeshe.
“Following a meeting between Zec and political parties, Zec has maintained its course of refusing to be transparent,” Chamisa said.
Chamisa closed his last leg of the Manicaland campaign with a prayer; asking for divine intervention to ensure free, fair, credible and non-violent elections.top news

Bloody murder over girlfriend in Kwekwe

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Bloody murder over girlfriend in Kwekwe

Tinaani Nyabereka

GWERU – A reveler at Mbizo Inn Night Club was recently stabbed to death by a fellow patron who accused the man of snatching his girlfriend.
Midlands police spokesperson, Inspector Ethel Mukwende appealed to members of the public to desist from violence and seek police advice when there is a misunderstanding.
Though the suspect was still on the run by the time of writing, details gathered by TellZim News are that Alex Katambarare (22) of Mbizo Township, Kwekwe, was enjoying a drink with friend at the nightclub.
He then went outside where he met an unidentified woman with whom he began to talk, and this displeased the assailant who complained that Katambare was taking his girlfriend.
Eyewitness and Katambarare’s friend, Takawira Chaitezvi said the assailant, whom he identified only as Kelvin, slapped Katambarare in the face, accusing him of snatching his girlfriend.
Katambare tried to flee but was pursued by Kelvin and his friends who then tripped him to the ground and continuously stabbed him with a knife all over his body.
The woman at the centre of the dispute reportedly fled when she noticed that there was serious trouble.local

Mutonhori teacher reports pupils to police for assault

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Mutonhori teacher reports pupils to police for assault

Brighton Chiseva

ZAKA – The case of two Mutonhori High School ‘A’ level pupils who attacked a teacher for seizing their cell phones has taken a new twist after the teacher reported the pupils to the police for assault, TellZim News has learnt.
Amon Munodzana clashed with the pupils (names withheld for professional reasons) earlier this month after they demanded that he returns the cell phones that he had seized from where they were on charge in the school library.
The pupils attacked him, pulling his private parts after he refused to release the phones. The teacher had refused to release the phones before the pupils had served their punishment.
The matter was reported to the district education office and the pupils were reprimanded and send back to school.
It has, however, been learnt that the Public Service Commission later intervened on behalf of Munodzana, recommending the suspension of the pupils and ‘forcing’ the teacher to report the matter to the police.
When contacted for comment, Munodzana confirmed the new development saying the case was due to be heard before the courts of law.
“I reported the matter and the pupils were picked up by the police. They were later released and are back at school. The matter will be heard in court but I don’t know the date yet,” said Munodzana.local

Neshuro hospital patients lament bad diet

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Neshuro hospital patients lament bad diet


Cephas Shava

MWENEZI – Patients at Neshuro District Hospital have pleaded with Mwenezi East Member of Parliament (MP) Joosbi Omar to help them get better meals, saying the food they were getting was very bad.
Omar made a visit to the hospital recently and listed to sad stories of the same unappetising meals being served to patients every day.
“It’s either sadza or rice with poorly prepared beans or cabbage every day. Now these are people who are not in good health, meaning their appetite is low. They need properly prepared meals for them to eat,” said one bedridden elderly woman.
Others pleaded with Omar to source milk for them, saying that would make a better alternative to cabbage and beans.
“It would be better if we are served sadza and sour milk. Patients would find such a meal more appetising than what they are getting now,” said another female patient.
Omar later told TellZim News he will donate two beasts to the hospital so that they could be slaughtered and the meat served to patients.
“I pledge to give two cattle to this important hospital. A good diet is important in the recovery of patients. Some of them are lying there and getting worse because they are cannot take the food that is served there,” said Omar.
Last year, the legislator helped repair the hospital’s two ambulances that had broken down.health

Zanu PF youth chair up for defacing MDC Alliance posters

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Zanu PF youth chair up for defacing MDC Alliance posters


Precila Takabvirakare

MPANDAWANA – Zanu PF’s Gutu district youth chairperson, Tapiwa Sivaya, recently appeared before Gutu magistrate, Victor Mahamadi facing charges of tearing down MDC-Alliance campaign posters.
He was charged for contravening with Section 152(1) of the Electoral Act Chapter 2:13 “Unlawfully removing a campaign poster”.
Sivaya was remanded to July 26 for trial.
State facts as presented by Samuel Magobeya are that on July 5 this year at around 17:00 hrs, Enerst Mandingo was travelling from Gonye business bentre to Gutu  in company of Lloyd Mufudze and Tafunga Mangombe.
Along the way, they saw Sivaya tearing the MDC Alliance campaign posters which were displayed on a tree by the road side.
Mandingo then approached Sivaya and asked why he was tearing down the posters but he denied saying he was only displaying Zanu PF campaign posters on the same tree but on a different branch.
Mandingo picked up the torn pieces and reported the matter to the police leading to Sivaya’s arrest.local

Mkoba Teachers’ launch Science-Teacher initiative

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Minister  of  Higher and Tertiary education Amon Murwira and  Minister of State for Midlands during the official launch of the science teacher programme at Mkoba Teachers College

Tinaani Nyabereka

Gweru – Mkoba Teachers College recently launched the science teacher programme under the government pre requisite programme of training science teachers for national development.
 In his welcome remarks at the official launch, Minister of State for Midlands Provincial Affairs, Owen Ncube, said the programme will go a long way providing science teachers from marginalised areas like Gokwe and Mberengwa among others.
“I am glad to say the programme will help in the areas such as Gokwe and Mberengwa as they will benefit and get science teachers.
“So to the aspiring science teachers I say grab this opportunity because fortune knocks once at your door,” said Ncube.
He emphasized the need to have scientists who are guided by strategy to transform the economy and propagate effect development.
“In order for us to fulfil the vision of achieving the middle income economy by 2030 in Zimbabwe, we need to have scientists who are guided by strategy to transform the economy.
“While the programme will be launched here, it will also be conducted at Masvingo Teachers College and Joshua Nquabuko Polytechnic. As Midlands we feel honoured to be chosen as the launch pad of this innovative programme,” said Ncube.education

Mwenezi ZCC prophet fined for bedding Madzibaba’s wife

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Mwenezi ZCC prophet fined for bedding Madzibaba’s wife


Cephas Shava

MWENEZI – A self-proclaimed Zion Christian Church (ZCC) St Enginas Moria prophet was recently convicted by Chief Neshuro’s Court after for engaging in an adulterous affair with a married woman.
The woman had gone to the prophet to seek healing, TellZim News was told.
Stephen Mapendere from Mapendere village, who is widely known as Nyajena, was fined four cattle and US$300 in cash for bedding one Madzibaba Endbin’s wife.
Although repeated efforts to get the side of the story from Chief Neshuro yielded nothing as his mobile phone was not reachable, reliable sources confirmed the matter.
“Without the knowledge of her husband, Madzibaba Endbin’s wife visited Nyajena supposedly for prayer healing. At the court, she claimed that they engaged in a consensual sexual act after Nyajena insisted that there was something that needed to be administered into her private parts,” said a source.
Other sources also told TellZim News that after receiving a tipoff, Madzibaba Endbin pounced on the two lovebirds and caught them red-handed at Nyajena’s homestead.local

‘Elections not free and fair’

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‘Elections not free and fair’

Pastor Cover Mugwadhi

…people with disabilities condemn upcoming poll
Tiyani Hahlani
People with disabilities in Masvingo have already dismissed the July 30 elections as not free and fair, saying the government’s failure to print a Braille ballot paper made the poll discriminatory.
Speaking during a Tell Zimbabwe-organised public dialogue meeting held at Charles Austin Theatre for candidates with special needs on July 24, outspoken disability activist, Pastor Cover Mugwadhi said they will condemn the poll results regardless of who wins.
“We have already ruled the elections not free and fair. Even if our own candidates win, that lack of freeness and fairness will still remain. Look at how government, for example, obstinately refused to print Braille ballot papers for the visually-handicapped voters. That is grossly unfair because it perpetuates our dependence on others while in the ballot booth,” said Mugwadhi, who is partially blind himself.
He condemned the High Court’s recent decision to reserve judgement in a case by which blind barrister, Abraham Mateta had sought for an order compelling the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to print ballots in Braille.
“The courts reserved judgement as a delaying tactic knowing fully well that the elections were fast approaching. That means visually-impaired voters will depend on the honesty of those who accompany them into the ballot booth to implement their choices.
“We strongly doubt that ZEC even knows the number of people with disabilities per every polling station and the nature of disabilities they have. How can such an election be fair?“
“Right now there are claims that the ballot paper that will be used is chemically designed to migrate the ink to a certain candidate as a way of rigging. Such a scenario is not possible with a Braille ballot because the mark would be imprinted there in a way that is not at all easy, if not possible, to change,” said Mugwadhi.
He said the disability lobby had prepared a letter that will be delivered to the Southern Development Community (Sadc) and the African Union (AU) with regards to the conduct of the elections.top news

Zanu PF, MDC aspiring Cllrs converge on generational consensus

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Zanu PF, MDC aspiring Cllrs converge on generational consensus
Sengerai Manyanga

Clayton Shereni
Two aspiring Masvingo Urban councillors from two rival political parties yesterday agreed that there was need for young people to play a bigger role in leadership of the country.
At a public dialogue meeting organised by Tell Zimbabwe at Charles Austin Theatre on Monday, July 23, Zanu PF’s Ward 10’s Sengerai Manyanga and MDC Alliance’s Collen Maboke of Ward 2 seemed to converge on the popular view that it is now time for the youth to lead.
In his presentation, the youthful Manyanga exuded confidence, saying he had already won the election because his main opponent, Margaret Chakabuda, posed no significant competition as she was old enough to be his grandmother, therefore, should be given time to rest.
“Considering the work I have done for the people of Ward 10 with that of my contender Mbuya Chakabuda – whom I know is around the same age with my grandmother – I think I am the best candidate; she should do farming. I know Mbuya Chakabuda will vote for me in this election,” said Manyanga.
He went on to highlight his achievements in the ward; such work as installing unlimited free Wi-Fi at Zimuto Camp which he said will be available for the next six months.
He also promised to work for improved access to public transport services in such places as Clipsham, Morningside all places beyond Shakashe River to the east of the city.
“There is less public transport there than anywhere else and people there walk long distances. We need an affordable secondary school between Eastvale and Morningside and we also need a business centre in Morningside,” said Manyanga.
On his part Maboke said he was happy that there were people in Zanu PF who understood the logic of leadership renewal through the mainstreaming of the youth into decision making.
“I am also a youth, and I am energetic. I have the capability and I am contesting against Sekuru Kubiku who uses a walking stick. I understand he is of the same age group with my father. It is good that Manyanga and I agree that young people should lead,” said Maboke.
Many people regard Matthew Kubiku of Zanu PF as Maboke’s main competitor in Ward 2.
The generational consensus mantra is being championed mainly by the MDC Alliance as a way of selling their presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa (40) as a better leader than Zanu PF’s Emmerson Mnangagwa (75).politics

Masvingo North’s independent candidate Mudzikisi fishes in Marapira pond

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Masvingo North’s independent candidate Mudzikisi fishes in Marapira pond

Mudzikisi says his people will vote for Mnangagwa

Upenyu Chaota

The July 30 harmonised polls have broken records in many facets and for the first time there is an unprecedented number of independent candidates who were disgruntled by the way the Zanu PF and MDC-T primaries were conducted.
Both Zanu PF and MDC-T have threatened their former members who filed for nomination as independent candidates with expulsions and have refused to be associated with such members.
The independent candidates have however remained steadfast in their quest but still refuse to cut umbilical codes with their mother parties.
Masvingo North’s independent candidate, Pascal Mudzikisi is mobilising people to vote for President Emmerson Mnangagwa as their presidential candidate.
Mudzikisi, a businessman and chattered accountant, was not given a chance to contest during the chaotic Zanu PF primary elections with claims suggesting that his CV was thrown out by his bitter rival and Zanu PF’s Masvingo North candidate Davison Marapira.
Mudzikisi claims that Marapira engineered his premature exclusion from the Zanu PF primaries and he decided to file as an independent candidate.
Addressing his rally at Maraire Shopping Centre in Zimuto, Mudzikisi narrated how he has been cheated and elbowed out of the race and claimed that Zanu PF has once again been hijacked by novices.
“I am not an independent by choice but because you the people pushed me. Your support for me has been overwhelming and I did not want to disappoint you.
“There are people who are privatising Zanu PF and elbowing out genuine members because of their greed and we say no to that. We will fight for what is rightfully ours and we will win.
“Yes I am an independent but that does not matter because I still believe in my President Mnangagwa. He is our candidate and we are going to vote for him,” said Mudzikisi amid wild cheers from hundreds of his supporters wearing Zanu PF regalia.
Mudzikisi said it is time that the people of Masvingo North voted for one of their own to see meaningful development not what has been done over the past years by Marapira.
“Marapira is not our own. He is from Zaka and we want to send him packing. He is so arrogant and is impossible to talk to. He is too smart and thinks of himself as more superior than the people who voted him into office.
“Masvingo North will never be a colony of Zaka. I joined this party long back when it was still Zanu so these novices who think they have the power to personalise the party will get burnt,” said Mudzikisi.
He claimed that Marapira was sending spies to his rallies and intimidating people from coming but that would not deter him.
There was a black Ford Ranger parked at Mudzikisi rally which was said to have been send by Marapira to on a reconnaissance mission.
“He sends his people to intimidate us but gone are the days. This is the new dispensation and we will not be intimidated.
“We are going to run vibrant projects and our people are going to be empowered,” said Mudzikisi.
Marapira, however, rubbished Mudzikisi claims saying he is a bitter man waiting for a rude awakening come July 30.
“I did not throw Mudzikisi’s CV out. I don’t have a reason to do that because to me he is a nonentity and far from offering a real challenge.
“He is seeing ghosts of me wherever he goes and that is called fear. The people of Masvingo North are not stupid and will not be sold a dummy. People want tangible development and not someone who just talks and cannot walk the talk. I will not insult him and the people will speak come July 30. My work on the ground will speak for me.
“I have no reason to spy on him and I don’t even know the car he wants to give to me. My cars are orange so he has to point fingers elsewhere. I believe in peaceful campaigns and no one will be forced to do what they do not like,” said Marapira.
A total of eight candidates are running for the Masvingo North seat but the real contest seems to be between Zanu PF’s Marapira, MDC Alliance’s Progress Masocha and Mudzikisi.politics

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