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Tight race in Zifa Eastern Division One

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Tight race in Zifa Eastern Division One


Nashe Mahachi

MUTARE – With 14 games left to play in the division, three teams are hoping to be champions and be promoted into the top flight league with former league side Buffaloes FC trying to fend off stiff challenge from two rivals.
Things got heated up at the weekend when the two leading sides collected maximum points in their respective matches.
Mutare City Rovers scored twice to beat Melfort 2-1 and maintain their first position on the table. In another match, Tenax donated three points to Gutu FC by losing 2-1 and is now on third position.
Buffaloes were 2-0 winners over Prime Rangers. The army side is now on second position of the log table with the same number of points as Mutare City Rovers. Mutare City Rovers are on top of the log with 33 points. Tenax are third with 31 points.
Buffaloes FC are there to prove that had it not been for Tenax, they would have been playing top flight league. Buffaloes last season lost in the decisive match against Tenax and accused Tenax for being bribed by Magaya’s Yadah FC which eventually gained promotion.
Meanwhile, Mutare City Rovers should prove that their relegation was an error and are aiming for a quick return to the top flight.
Tenax ‘Chauya chikara’ are also there to prove that they are now on the pick and are ready for promotion.
The region will soon officially unveil a sponsorship package that will see branded uniforms being provided, an end of the year award ceremony and a reduction of affiliation fees.
Region chairperson Davison Muchena told TellZim News that they will reveal the sponsor soon.
“We are happy that we now have a sponsor. Everything is taking shape in our league which has been running without any sponsor. We will reveal the sponsor as well as the package during the official unveiling ceremony and we will announce the date soon,” he said.sport

‘Bvaru-Bvaru coach must deliver’

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Shabanie Mine FC head coach.

Takesure Chiragwi

ZVISHAVANE – Shabanie Mine FC coach Takesure Chiragwi and his technical team last week faced a barrage of fury owing to poor performance by the asbestos miners who are languishing at the bottom half of the log table thereby risking going back to second tier football.
Bvaru- Bvaru fans were shipped to Maglas Stadium in a lorry and some private cars singing and chanting “Chiragwi and his team must go” mantra.
“The coach is failing us now, we started well but seems he has lost it all. We need another coach to turn things around otherwise we are going back to Division One,” said one of the angry fans identified as Francis Makore.
The angry fans told the coach to pack his bags and go but were later addressed by the club technical director Takura Shariwa who pleaded with fans to give the coach more time.
“I understand your concerns, just give the coach enough time to prove his tactics, give him at least three games. If he fails them he will go,” said Shariwa.
When contacted for comment, Chiragwi said he was still restructuring his team since they lost some of their valuable player during the August transfer window.
“I think we need to do better and get some points because we are dropping down the log. We have lost seven of our best players to other teams this transfer window and we are still settling. I hope we will be able to do that in no time,” Chiragwi said.
Bvaru-Bvaru last won a PSL match about a month ago when they edged struggling Yadah FC in Harare, followed by a succession of poor results, losing to Highlanders and Bulawayo City and drawing with champions Caps United.sport

Boost for Nyanyadzi Irrigation Scheme

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Boost for Nyanyadzi Irrigation Scheme

Nashe Mahachi

MUTARE – The Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development has partnered the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to rehabilitate Nyanyadzi Irrigation Scheme.
The ministry injected US$400 000 for services and machinery while UNDP, through OXFAM, chipped in with US$300 000.
Over 700 families in Nyanyadzi are already benefiting from the project.
Production at Nyanyadzi Irrigation Scheme had dropped since year 2000 but work for rehabilitation commenced last October and it is expected to end this month.
An official in the Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development for Chimanimani district, Aaron Mwanasawani confirmed that the Nyanyadzi Irrigation Scheme was now fully functional.
“I can confirm that Nyanyadzi Irrigation Scheme is now fully functional. Water is now reaching each and every block of the irrigation scheme.
“This will change livelihoods across the entire community.
“Farmers are already using the facilities. There is now enough water and the farmers are expecting a boom in winter wheat yields,” said Mwanasawani.
OXFAM project manager Dr Leonard Unganai hailed the government, partners and the community for the rehabilitation of the project.
“This project started in 2014 and it will end in October 2018. It was funded to the tune of US$4 million. The project was a success because of the unity of purpose from all stakeholders.
“Chimanimani district projects were allocated $1 million,” he said.local

Zvimba RDC Cllr wins Chief Neromwe race

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Zvimba RDC Cllr wins Chief Neromwe race

Clemence Madzingo and his officials

…Chief Tshovani’s land taken away

Beatific Gumbwanda

CHIREDZI – Clemence Madzingo, the Zvimba Rural District Council (RDC) Ward 14 councillor, seems to have won a protracted inter-family wrangle to the revived Neromwe throne after the Romwe clan recommended him to the Provincial Chiefs’ Council last week.
Deliberations that happened at Masimbaevanhu Primary School, in the presence of the provincial chiefs’ council led by Chief Serima, pointed to the former police detective taking the reins soon.
“We have been sent by the government to resuscitate the Neromwe chieftainship. We are not here to appoint a chief but to get a nominee. You had a grace period to discuss over who will take over,” said Chief Serima.
The Romwe clan, represented Joseph Matumba, told the council that Madzingo should be their chief.
“We discussed the issue and reached the consensus that the chieftainship should be returned to Chanyururwa family,” said Matumba.
The event was, however, not without drama as a clan elder, Bernard Murumbi, who stood to make submissions on behalf of Madzingo’s rivals in the Kurera family, suddenly collapsed and was whisked away, leading to an increase in suspicions that juju was being used to win the throne.
The new chief-to-be, however, faces hurdles in the form of a legal challenge against the legitimacy of the chieftaincy which has been carved out of the existing Chief Tshovani’s area.
Chief Tshovani is not happy because has lost wards 17, 26, 28 and 29 to the new chieftaincy, leaving him with only three wards.
Madzingo staked his claim to the chieftainship ahead of other aspirants within the Chanyururwa and Kurera royal families.
The Neromwe chieftaincy became extinct in 1908 when its land, which lies between Chiredzi River to the east, Mutirikwi and Runde River to the south and west as well as Musiwidzi River to the north, was seized and declared a European area.top news

Sex worker jailed 12 months for stealing $23

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Sex worker jailed 12 months for stealing $23


Itai Muzondo in Gweru

GWERU – A Gweru prostitute rued the day she stole a few dollars from her client after she was slapped with a 12 month jail sentence by the Gweru Magistrates Court last week.
It was the State’s case that on August 16 2017, Nyarai Moyo (18) duped her client Ancikaria Murove of a plastic bag which contained some clothes and $23 cash before disappearing.
The court further heard that the complainant later identified Moyo at Mboma Night Club in Mkoba and tipped the police leading to her arrest.
The accused pleaded guilty but the stolen valuables were not recovered.
Gweru Magistrate Taruvinga presided over the case.local

Tongaat to compensate new farmers

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Tongaat to compensate new farmers

Beatific Gumbwanda

CHIREDZI – Tongaat Hullet has indicated that it may soon compensate people who seized vast tracts of its sugarcane land before President Robert Mugabe ordered them off, TellZim News can reveal.
In a letter dated 11 August 2017 and titled ‘Compensation of Farmers settled on Hippo Valley Section 6 and 7 and Triangle section 12, 13 and 14,’ the Ministry of Lands and Rural Resettlement wrote to Chimwamurombe Legal Practitioners, who are representing the new sugarcane farmers, that  Tongaat Hullet wanted to settle the matter.
“Further to our communication in the above cited matter, we wish to advise that Tongaat Hullet has reverted to us on your query” reads part of the letter. Farmers are going to be compensated according to categories on the levels of costs they incurred to maintain the cane.
“They will harvest the cane on an average cost per ton of $8.15 inclusive of haulage to the mills. Compensation of farmers will be based on categories highlighted to yourselves at our meeting of 25 July 2017 as follows:
(a) For farmers who maintained the crop fully to point of harvest, compensation is based on revenue less costs incurred by Tongaat Hullet with farmers receiving full profit. (b) For farmers who maintained the crop partially, compensation to be based on actual verifiable costs incurred by the farmer,” reads the letter.
Tongaat Hullet lost more than 4000 hectares of sugarcane plot to 215 Zanu PF supporters, who took six of its sections by force.
President Mugabe ordered them to vacate after they refused to obey minister Douglas Mombeshora’s offer letter reversals.local

Break-in at Mudenge’s Glenlivet home

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Break-in at Mudenge’s Glenlivet home

The late Stan Mudenge

Clever Taperamoyo

MASVINGO – Lucky Hotera (42) last week appeared before magistrate Takawira Mugabe facing charges of unlawful entry and theft after he walked away with property worth US$3 450 from the late former Higher Education minister Stan Mudenge’s home in Glenlivet.
Hotera was slapped with a 12 month Jail term but two months were suspended on condition that he will not commit a similar offence in the next five years and will serve 10 months effectively.
The State, led by Edmond Mapope, charged that at an unknown date in March, Hotera together with other two unknown suspects, intentionally and without permission or authority entered Plot 8 Glen Livet Masvingo.
The trio stole household property including radio sets, Zanu PF regalia and kitchen utensils among others things but police acted on a tipoff and carried out investigations leading to Hotera’s arrest.
The suspect then led the officers to the crime scene where he explained to them how he, together with his accomplices who were still at large, broke into the house for the purpose of theft.
Property worth US$1000 was recovered while the rest was yet to be found by the time of going to print.local

Jaboon is still commissar- Kasukuwere

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Jaboon is still commissar- Kasukuwere

Saviour Kasukuwere


Upenyu Chaota

MASVINGO – Embattled Zanu PF Masvingo provincial political commissar Jeppy Jaboon, who was slapped with a five year suspension over insubordination charges by the provincial executive in May this year, has been exonerated by national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere who said the suspension does not hold water.
Jaboon is allegedly linked to a Zanu PF faction G40 which opposes Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa succeeding President Robert Mugabe.
When Ezra Chadzamira, an alleged Lacoste minion, took over as the chairperson of the province after defeating his rival and G40 sympathiser Mutero Masanganise, the axe first fell on Jaboon while other G40 members were put on notice.
Jaboon openly defied his suspension saying the people who fired him had no power to do so and he kept on doing his duties.
Kasukuwere told TellZim News that no one has been suspended in Masvingo and all was in order.
“We are not suspending anyone in Masvingo and no one has been suspended. As far as I am concerned, Jaboon is still the provincial commissar and not otherwise.
“If the provincial executive suspended him (Jaboon) then they should have communicated through the proper party channels and there has been no such communication,” said Kasukuwere.
He said the party was not out to unite people together and not create unnecessary divisions by suspending someone because of certain differences.
“We are going for an election and now is not the right time to divide the party. We should be working towards uniting our people so that we will win resoundingly in 2018,” said Kasukuwere.
The Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) meeting which saw the suspension of Jaboon was chaired by Chadzamira, the late minster of state Shuvai Mahofa, Ailes Baloyi among other Lacoste minions who admitted that Jaboon was a hard worker but had gone astray.topnews

SECTA lounges debate championships in Masvingo

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SECTA lounges debate championships in Masvingo

Best female speaker, Charity Magawa from Gutu high school

Phineas Chinyanga

Sustainable Environmental Conservation Trust Africa (SECTA) recently launched a high schools debate championship for Masvingo province, attracting Masakeyi, Gutu, Silveira, Gwindingwi, Rupare, Chibi and the host, Pamushana.
SECTA is a non-profit making organisation that empowers young people to become responsible citizens and leaders through its engagement with them on environmental issues.
Since 2012, the organisation has been using the British parliamentary debate style to engage tertiary institutions on contemporary issues bedevilling our nation and Africa at large. The British parliamentary debate style develops learners’ confidence and presentation skills, and also encourages critical thinking as well as originality of thought.
The championship has already been launched in Manicaland.
The initiative to introduce the same debating style to Masvingo was brought about by Talent Hilary Gowere who is a seasoned debater, trainer and adjudicator. Moses Chimedza, the SECTA programmes coordinator, was also responsible for training both speakers and adjudicators.
The tournament was structured to have three teams per school, comprising two students per team. From the 24 teams that participated, two teams from Gutu High School, one from Chibi and four from Pamushana made it to the semi-final.
Gutu and Pamushana teams broke through to the finals with Charity Magawa and Shawn Muzenda walking away with a trophy and gold medals as the winners. Pamushana, as the runner-up, got a trophy and silver medals.
The best male speaker was Tinotenda Madusise from Silveira while the most outstanding female speaker was Charity Magawa from Gutu.
“As SECTA, we are now preparing for the national tournament in December. Viva BP, Aluta continua!” Said Talent Hilary Gowere, the tournament convenor.education

GZU’s Prof Mawere selected for ASA 2017 presidential fellowship

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GZU’s Prof Mawere selected for ASA 2017 presidential fellowship

Professor Munyaradzi Mawere

Upenyu Chaota

Great Zimbabwe University (GZU)’s Professor Munyaradzi Mawere will be among the six Africans selected to visit the African Studies Association (ASA) 2017 presidential fellowship in the American city of Chicago from November 11-24, 2017.
ASA was founded in 1957 in North America to promote Africa in all academic disciplines.
Prof Mawere teaches at the Simon Muzenda School of Arts, Culture and Heritage Studies at Great Zimbabwe University in Zimbabwe.
“I have been chosen to present my work at the ASA 2017 presidential fellowship in America. It is a good thing to have your work get recognised across the world and be rewarded for it. I have a passion in writing and researching and I always keep myself busy.
“I am going to have the privilege of visiting renowned universities like Harvard, Chicago, Yale, Trinity, Boston, Princeton, Kansas and Connecticut among others,” said Prof Mawere.
He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa; three Masters Degrees namely: Master of Arts Degree in Social Anthropology (Passed with Distinction); Master of Arts Degree in Philosophy; Master of Arts Degree in Development Studies; a BA (Hons) Degree in Philosophy, and a number of certificates across disciplines.
Before joining GZU, Prof Mawere was a lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) and at Universidade Pedagogica in Mozambique, where he has also worked in different capacities as a senior lecturer, assistant research director, postgraduate coordinator, and professor.
He is an author of more than 50 books and over 200 book chapters and peer-reviewed academic journals with a focus on Africa straddling towards areas of poverty and development, African philosophy, society and culture, democracy, human rights, politics of food production, humanitarianism and civil society organisations, indigenous knowledge systems, urban anthropology, existential anthropology, cultural philosophy, environmental anthropology, society and politics, decoloniality and African studies.
Prof Mawere’s research acumen has earned him prestigious international honours such as the Wenner-Gren Research Fellowship (2011-2014) and recently (2017), the much coveted Association of African Studies (ASA) Presidential Fellowship Award.
He is a Senior Editorial Board Member and peer-reviewer for a number of publishing houses and journals, and has been involved in several research projects across disciplines.education,topnews

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