ZVISHAVANE – The dispute between Zvishavane Youth Centre (ZYC) and the Zvishavane Town Council over ZYC’s current premises could soon be a thing of the past after council reportedly promised the organisation a permanent site to establish its own premises.
The organisation, since its inception in 2014, been housed at the council’s swimming premises and has vehemently resisted numerous eviction plans arguing that there was an oral agreement that council will first have to find a suitable alternative place for them.
ZYC patron Bigboy Murenga told TellZim News that Zvishavane Town Council director of housing Nhlanhla Ngwenya had visited them and applauded their work.
“The director of housing recently visited us and praised the work that we are doing in empowering the youth. He said he had not known that such developments were taking place in Zvishavane.
“He asked us to identify a place to establish a permanent site for the centre and promised that council will help to mobilise resources for the construction of a temporary structure for ZYC.
“We have so far found what we think is suitable land and we have informed them about it. They told us they will visit the place so we are still waiting for them,” said Murenga.
Efforts to get a comment from the council were unfruitful as Ngwenya’s mobile number was unreachable.local

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Chivi – Acting District Administrator (DA) Wafios Hlavati has banned witch hunters (tsikamutandas), warning chiefs not to entertain such people whom he accuses of creating divisions in families.
Hlavati recently described tsikamutandas as evil people who leave a trail of destruction in their wake while robbing families of their wealth.
“These tsikamutandas are not welcome in Chivi. They are day light robbers who destroy families. We want peace and harmony not a situation where people are left at each other’s throats because of some nefarious claims.
“Some of them are so young and you wonder where they got the power they claim to possess,” said Hlavati.
He said people were losing their livestock to the dubious witch hunters who often demand payment in return for ‘cleansing homesteads of bad omens and goblins’.
“They are the very evil thing which needs to be cleansed. You cannot come and impose your services on people who never asked for that in the first place.
“Cattle are a valuable asset in our society so for someone to come and perform some ‘magic’ on our people and then demand cattle is criminal. We will not tolerate that in Chivi.
 “Hakuna musha usina zvawo. Kana auya atora mombe uye apumha vanhu uroyi vachasara vogarisana sei? For the chiefs in Chivi, I warn them against entertaining such people because if we find out these people are operating in our area, the chief will have to answer,” said Hlavati.local

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MASVINGO – Leading humanitarian organisation Care International is challenging a National Employment Council (NEC) judgment requiring it to pay Rumbidzai Chikuse over US$4 000 outstanding dues following the termination of her contract.
The case, recorded under case number LC/MS/LRA/APP/50/17 and whose judgment has been reserved, sat in the Masvingo Labour Court Circuit on July 14 2017.
TellZim News is well informed that Care International hired Chikuse on a fixed 10 months contract which they later terminated using a contract clause which states that either parties can terminate the contract on two weeks’ notice.
“Chikuse had been given a 10 months contract which included three months’ probation period but the contract was terminated without reason. She then went to the Labor Court where judgment was granted in her favour.
“Care International, however, does not agree with the judgment as it requires them to pay the former worker over $4 600 for the remaining 9 months of her terminated contract,” a source said.
When contacted for comment, NEC Masvingo representative Lovemore Boorerwa refused to talk about the matter, saying he was not allowed to speak to the media.local

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BIKITA – A 14-year-old form two pupil at Silverira Mission High School committed suicide by hanging himself in a dormitory storeroom using his tie and was discovered on Monday, two days after he went missing.
Though no comment could be obtained from school head Albert Maruta and Provincial education Director (PED) Zedius Chitiga by the time of going to print, sources said the boy, identified as Wesley Shuro, hanged self after he was bullied by fellow students.
Another version of the story leading to the suicide said the boy had left a note claiming two prefects (names supplied) had beaten him earlier on and he had decided to hang himself than face more abuse.
When contacted for comment, acting provincial police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Kudakwashe Dhehwa said he was yet to receive the report.
“I have seen the story circulating on social media but I am yet to receive the report from Bikita,” said Ass Insp Dhewa.
There was yet another version to the story alleging acts of Satanism, after another pupil allegedly produced a three-headed snake and threatened the boy that the snake was going to swallow him.
Shaken by the incident, the boy is said to have decided it was better to commit suicide than having to bear the snake swallowing him alive.local

CHIVHU – A man severely assaulted his wife recently after she threw away his bottle of ‘anointed’ water which he was given by a prophet as a solution to infertility, TellZim News has learnt.
The drama occurred at the couple’s residence in Buckernhill suburbs after the husband came home to find his special water missing.
The couple, whose identity has been protected,  has been married for three years but have not had a child, a challenge which, according to sources, forced the man to seek the services of a prophet who gave him the water.
The sources said his wife, however, has always opposed the idea of using anointed water as she strongly doubts the trustworthiness of modern-day prophets.
“Zvekuti takarwa haisi nyaya kwandiri but kuti takarwirei. I do not believe mutuporofita twamazuvano tunoreva nhema, iye ndakamuudza kuti enda hako ikoko asi ini handidi kuona zvinhu zvaunopihwa pano. Anonyeperwa kuti ndini ndine shavi rinoita tisabare vana,” the woman said after she was contacted for comment.
Her husband, on the other hand, refused to shed light on the matter saying he was not comfortable discussing his personal affairs with the media.
“I do not discuss family matters with reporters. Go write whatever you want because I know you are capable of doing that,” he said.
Another source, however, said the woman’s failure to conceive over the past three years had taken its toll on the couple as quarrels were now happening more often than not.local