CHIVHU – Employees of the Zimbabwe Electricity and Supply Authority (Zesa) last weekend went onto the streets for a clean-up campaign targeting some of the most littered places in the small town.
They said the exercise was meant to show that the electricity utility valued a clean environment and was also their way of contributing to the good of the community.
“We have a social responsibility to clean the environment so we had to close our offices and do this for the sake of a safer and healthier community,” one of them said.
The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) also took part in the clean-up campaign and their Chivhu district environmental officer Jozywell Mawungwa applauded Zesa for a job well-done.
Chivhu is a heavily littered town with a deplorable service delivery record and the Chikomba Rural District Council (RDC); the responsible authority has dismally failed to improve things.local

Anesushe Mamhute

CHIREDZI – Ward 3 and 4 residents in Chiredzi are complaining about the alleged hiring of unskilled workers to run the council pre-school at a dilapidated building at Chitsanga Hall.
Residents who recently attended a tariff consultation meeting at the hall said unskilled employees were not doing justice to the education rights of the ECD pupils.
Two senior council officials; town secretary Charles Muchatukwa and town engineer Wesley Kauma attended the meeting but did not address those specific concerns.
 “The education being given to children at the ECD centre is poor in comparison to what is happening everywhere else. Children who graduate from that place struggle academically and they are being rejected by primary schools when they want to begin grade one,” said Liberty Macharaga of Ward 4.
Another resident said authorities must quickly replace the unqualified teachers as the future of children was being compromised.
“There are many qualified teachers looking for work so there is absolutely no reason why we have this situation. This is serious because we are talking about elementary education which forms the basis of all else that follows. If the foundation is not done properly, you can rest assured that the structure will definitely fall down,” said another resident.
Others also condemned the facilities themselves, saying the building was not suitable to act as a learning facility for the young children who are affected by noise whenever there is a function at the hall. They urged council to quickly budget for the construction of proper structures.
The Chitsanga Hall ECD class accommodates many children from poor areas of ward 3 as well as the old houses commonly as Majaradha in Ward 4.
The children learn in crowded conditions while sitting on substandard chairs and there is no definitive uniform for the kids. The centre is so despised that primary schools in the town do not want to accept children who graduate from there.local

RUSAPE – An unrepentant felon who was serving a 220-hour community service sentence at the Rusape Magistrates Court allegedly broke into the district prosecutor’s office and stole six rims of bond paper, 2 boxes of staples, an ink pad.
Three days later, Shorai Pleasant Doriro (21) also broke into the office of an assistant accountant where he force-opened a locked cash box and got away with US$330.
Doriro, of NE 54 Vengere, Rusape, was serving yet another sentence for unlawful entry when he committed the offences on September 27 and 30.
On his second appearance in the Rusape Magistrate Court on October 9, magistrate Patience Madondo remanded him in custody to October 16 for continuation of trial.
It is the State’s case that on September 26, Doriro tried to forcibly gain entry into district prosecutor Tirivanhu Mutyasira’s office but failed.
The following day, he brought a hoe which he used to pry open the door and gain entry into the office where he stole the items.
The break-up was reported at Rusape Police Station on September 28 leading to the arrest of the suspect on October 1.
By then, he had sold some of the items to a fellow Vengere resident for US$11 while the rest was sold to another resident for US$18 which was paid through EcoCash.
After his arrest, he led the detectives to 48 Manda St and 38 Tongogara St where the people who bought the stolen property reside.
On September 30, Doriro had used the same strategy to gain entry into the assistant accountant’s office where he stole the cash and some receipts.
He then went further to conceal the empty cash box, receipts and the hoe in a drain at the same premises before going away.
All the stolen money was recovered.
Tafara Chawatama appeared for the State.local

Shingirai Vambe

RUSAPE – Lameck Manyanga (38) of Mandindi Village under Chief Makoni last week appeared before Rusape senior magistrate Shane Kubonera facing charges of murdering his wife Tendai Mafuranyuri in December of 2014.
Manyanga was not asked to plead but was remanded in custody to October 18, 2017.
It is the State’s case that on December 8, 2014, Manyanga had a misunderstanding with his wife Mafuranyuri who had refused him sexual intercourse.
Manyanga then struck Mafuranyuri with a hoe on the neck and she died on the spot. Realising that he had killed his wife, Manyanga then wrote a suicide note claiming he was going to kill himself.
He then set the hut on fire with the deceased’s body inside. The remains of the charred body was discovered the following day and a post mortem was done leading to the conclusion that Mafuranyuri was murdered.
The police then launched a man hunt for Manyanga who had left the suicide note but never found his body. Manyanga has been running from the law since 2014 until now when the police received a tip off from someone about the whereabouts of Manyanga.
He was arrested on October 3, 2017.local

MWENEZI – A polygamous man showed more affection to his second wife and this enraged the first wife who then severely assaulted her love rival and injured her in the process.
Thirty-two year-old Takesure Munyarari of Chikiti village under Chief Maranda was recently convicted, on her own plea of guilty, of domestic violence when she appeared in the Mwenezi Magistrates Court.
Magistrate Honest Musiiwa sentenced her to 20 days behind bars or alternatively to pay a fine of US$50.
Asked by the magistrate why she committed the offense, a tearful Munyarari admitted she was jealousy of the younger wife.
“Musiwekutanga ndaimurovera phone ye light ye murume wedu yaairamba nayo— pechi two ndakamurova nokuda kwekuti ainditi hee handichadiwa ne murume saka ndofanira kuchibva pamba nokuti iye ndiye akanga avapakati pemoyo womurume,” she told the court.
The State’s Angelinah Makonya convinced the court that on August 22 around 8 pm, Munyarari sent her younger sister to go and collect her husband’s phone which was being used by Matilda Rugwe, who is the second wife to Munyarari’s husband.
Rugwe refused to let go of the phone and this angered Munyarari who then went and severely beat the complainant using her bare hands until their husband restrained her.
Rugwe was taken to the hospital where she was medically examined and established that she suffered injuries on her face and other parts of her body. A police report was made leading to Munyarari’s arrest.local