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Afr-I-CAN wants to demystify mental health problems

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Afr-I-CAN wants to demystify mental health problems

Ropa Muzari (centre) with colleagues

Samukelisiwe Ngwenyama

ZVISHAVANE – Society should accept that just as anybody can get medication and assistance for any health challenge without facing stigma, the same can also be done for people with mental illnesses, a newly-formed mental health lobby group has said.
Ropa Muzari, director of the Bindura-based Afr-I-CAN in me, says she wants to draw attention to the plight of people living with varying degrees of mental health challenges.
She says mental health issues have either received far less than enough attention in the past or have largely been neglected altogether.
Her organisation, which was formed in January, held a seminar in Bindura last weekend and offered counselling sessions and there are plans to take the work to other parts of the country.
“We want to see society being more tolerant to people with mental illnesses and we want our generation to have the best mental health conditions. We are out to stop the stigma and help people to learn to develop the same attitude for mental illnesses as they have for other kind of illnesses” said Muzari.
She said Afr-I-CAN in me was borne out of her own personal history of suffering with mental health issues from a time when she was still young.
As somebody who grew up with mental health problems, Muzari said she had noticed that it was difficult for sufferers to speak out due to the discrimination and stigma that society attaches to such cases.
She realised that some social problems like suicide and severe cases of mental illnesses were partly caused by unreported cases of mental health problems.
Afr-I-CAN in me, she says, comes with a determination to spread awareness through projects that conscientise communities through education.
The organisation has partnered SOS children’s village and its programme of action is receiving some help from Mayfair Lodges in Bindura as well as from Wonderlife Herb.health

GZU student shines at Zone 4 boxing games

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GZU student shines at Zone 4 boxing games

Brandon Denes

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MASVINGO – Brendon Denes, a 2:2 Political Administration student at Great Zimbabwe University (GZU), recently raised the university’s flag high during zone 4 boxing games held in Angola, winning a gold medal after a 3:0 unanimous judges point decision against his opponent from South Africa.
Also known as Boyka in the boxing circles, Denes won his first match against a boxer from Namibia and met another one from Angola in the semis.
The boxer has a total of 11 gold medals from different tournaments held in such places as Bindura in 2010, Bulawayo in 2013 and in the 2014 Masvingo youth games.
He won another medal in February this year during his first international test match in Zambia and got another chance to represent Zimbabwe after beating Phillip Masarira of Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) in Victoria Falls.
Denes told TellZim News that he started boxing at a very young age and was spotted by Charles Manyuchi doing open boxing at Chikwarakwara in Mucheke.
Manyuchi went on to mentor him before sending him for the 2010 Olympics in Bindura.
The gold medalist said he was facing challenges of funding and was asking well-wishers and GZU to help him get proper training equipment.
“I am facing funding challenges and I mostly rely on my mother who gives me some of the little she gets from her business. I thank GZU for all it has done for me and I am very confident that I can do my university more pride if I get all the necessary support,” said Denes.
He also thanked Manyuchi, Zimbabwe Boxing Federation (ZBF), Ministry of Sport, the Student Representative Council (SRC) and his career coaches; Alexander Kwangwari, Ali Phiri, and Anderson Sibanda for supporting him.sport

I have no problem with Amidu, says Mapeza

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I have no problem with Amidu, says Mapeza

Brett Amidu

Exsto Makunzva

ZVISHAVANE – FC Platinum manager Norman Mapeza has said he does not have any issues with former Dynamos talisman Brett Amidu after questions were raised against the way he was treated during the team’s game against Black Rhinos a Morris Depot recently.
The former Dynamos player was substituted after playing for only two minutes, leading to widespread suspicions that Mapeza was out to prove a point.
Amidu was introduced from the bench only to be substituted in no time, but social media and the football world went nuts about the decision which was interpreted proof that Mapeza was a talent killer.
Speaking at a press conference at Mandava Stadium last Thursday, Mapeza, however, said he had no sour relations with Amidu, adding that the decision was taken for tactical reasons.
“To be honest, I don’t have any issues with Brett. The good thing is he (Amidu) understands that. I substituted him for tactical reasons to avoid high long crosses which were done by our opponents. All the messages which are circulating on social media are fake. I have a good relationship with Amidu,” he said.
Mapeza also rubbished the claim that he has reduced Amidu to a mere bench warmer after he played only two Castle Larger Premiership games since his move from Dynamos this season.
“When Amidu came here, he was not guaranteed first team jersey. No one has a guarantee for that at this club. Players work hard every day to get that.
“Amidu is a very good player and also new to the club. He will suit into our philosophy very soon. I played in Europe, it took time for me to command a first team jersey as I had to adapt to the system of the team first,” Mapeza said.sport

Thieves break into Mucheke bar

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Thieves break into Mucheke bar


Peter Chawapiwa

MASVINGO – Daring thieves last week broke into Rashai Foroma Sports Bar at Mucheke Old Business Centre and made away with an electrical gadget valued at hundreds of dollars.
Masvingo lawyer, Foroma Chakabuda told TellZim News that the thieves gained entry through an open space just below the roofing which lies over the generator room in the bar.
“The thieves helped themselves to a number of beers and they were drinking the expensive Zambezi lager. Some of the lagers were found broken next to the generator room and may have fallen when the thieves made good their escape.
“The thieves stole a flat screen television set that was in the bar. The decoder was on the shelf next to the television set but they did not take it away,” Foroma said.
Foroma added that the generator room stays locked up at night and it is not clear why it was not locked when the thieves struck. He said none of the employees in the bar offered an explanation as to why the room was not locked.
A report was made at Chikato Police Station where investigations are still in progress.
Cases of unlawful entry and theft have been on the rise in Mucheke where thieves have targeted the business community and residents getting away with thousands of dollars’ worth of property.local

Rapist herdboy fakes age to escape jail

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Rapist herdboy fakes age to escape jail


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CHIREDZI – A 21-year-old headboy who was facing charges of raping his neighbour could not think of any other way to escape jail sentence than to fake his age.
Shepherd Moyo of Mapindani Village, Chief Tshovani in Chiredzi, amused people at the court when he boldly told the court that he was only 14-years-old when Regional Magistrate Judith Zuyu was about to deliver sentence.
Moyo told the court that he was only fourteen years and had no birth certificate or a national identity card.
The court was later adjourned in a bid to wait for Moyo’s dental medical tests to identify the latter’s age.
The court sentenced Moyo to 15 years imprisonment after the tests showed that he was 21 years old but he will serve an effective 12 years imprisonment after three years were suspended on condition of good behaviour.
The court heard that on April 10 this year, Moyo’s female neighbour confronted that Moyo’s herd had got into his maize filed and destroyed some crops.
The court also heard that during the confrontation, Moyo attacked the woman with stones before driving his cattle away.
The next day the cattle escaped back to the field and grazed more maize crop and the complainant drove the cattle to Moyo who was hiding a few metres from the fields.
He then went to meet the woman whom he then grabbed and took down the stream where he raped her.
Moreblessing Rusere prosecuted.local

Man nabbed with over 20 kg dagga

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Man nabbed with over 20 kg dagga


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Cephas Shava

CHIREDZI – A 23-year old man is languishing in custody while his father and three brothers were on the run after a massive police drug bust recovered dagga weighing many kilogrammes.
Ishmael Mlambo was apprehended by Chiredzi detective inspector Victor Chinone after a tip off over unlawful dealing of dangerous drugs.
Mlambo, of house number 1647 B Molly Road, Tshovani Township was remanded in custody after submissions for bail made by defence lawyer Charles Vhudzi of Zimbodza and Associates was turned down by Chiredzi Magistrate Geraldine Mutsoto.
The magistrate pointed to recurring fears that Mlambo posed a flight risk as his brothers were still at large and that Ishmael had tried to evade arrest before the police finally managed to apprehend him.
The State represented by Doubt Phiri alleged that on the May 5, the accused person together with his accomplices namely Daniel, Trust and Simbarashe Mlambo had in their possession a blue 20 litre drum with 10 taxi bags containing dagga and a large blue trunk with one taxi bag also containing dagga.
The total weight of all the confiscated dagga was 20 kg.
Ishmael was arrested after the police received a tip off that they were receiving dagga from a supplier who was yet to be named.
The supplier was alleged to be their father who was not named in court but the deal went sour when police ambushed them, arresting Ishmael while the others managed to flee.
Ishmael, who was not asked to plead, was remanded to the May 24 for continuation of trial.
In Mwenezi, Tapera Zhou was sentenced to 10 months behind bars or alternatively 350 hours of community service in addition of paying a US$2 000 restitution after he was convicted of poaching a nyala.
Zhou, of Umbono village under Chief Chitanga, pleaded guilty to charges of killing the nyala when he appeared before Magistrate Honest Musiwa.
Prosecutor Willard Chasi said on April 28, 2017, Zhou, an ex-employee of Zimbabwe Bio Energy (ZBE) and his accomplice, Bernard Mangezi, who was still at large, went to ZBE game ranch, set wire snares and caught a one male nyala.
His wife later told TellZim News that the family was on hard times because ZBE owed her husband US$900 in unpaid wages and that he had tried for a long time to get the money but with no success.local

Chiredzi man sodomises six year old boy

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Chiredzi man sodomises six year old boy


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CHIREDZI – A 68-year-old man will spent a great deal of the last days of his old age behind bars after he was convicted of forcing a six-year-old boy to have anal sex with him without the boy’s consent, TellZim News has learnt.
Makasani Gosha Mukondo of Farm 27 Hippo Valley Estates in Chiredzi was last week sentenced to 17-years imprisonment, three of which were suspended after he pleaded guilty of having anal sex with an ECD boy without his consent.
In what Magistrate Judith Zuyu described as aggravated indecent assault, the court heard that on April 14 this year, Mukondo went to the boy’s homestead where he offered to give the boy’s mother some dried vegetables (mufushwa).
The court also heard that Mukondo then said he would go with the boy to his homestead to collect the said dried veggies and when they reached Mukondo’s home, he summoned the little boy into his bedroom.
The court heard that when they were inside the bedroom, Mukondo ordered the boy to bend down then he then lowered the boy’s trousers and inserted his organ into the boy’s anus and ordered him to shut up.
The court also heard that after the act, Mukondo then gave the boy some mufushwa and ordered him to go home and not to tell anyone.
The matter came to light after the boy’s mother asked why the boy took so long, to which he revealed what had happened.
In his defence Mukondo said he was drunk and he was not aware of his actions.
“I am sorry for what I did, I am really ashamed of myself. I was under the influence of alcohol,” said Mukondo, begging for a lighter sentence.
Moreblessing Rusere prosecuted.local

GZU hosts International Gender Conference

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GZU hosts International Gender Conference

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Great Zimbabwe University (GZU)’s Nehanda Centre for Gender and Cultural Studies has organised an International Gender Conference under the theme “Breaking the Nexus between Gender and Poverty.”
The two-day conference, being held at the Elephant Hills Hotel in Victoria Falls has attracted over a hundred local, regional and international delegates.
The conference was officially opened by the Deputy Minister of Women’s Affairs, Gender and Community Development Abigail Damasane who thanked GZU Vice Chancellor Professor Rungano Zvobgo for facilitating the important research forum.
The forum brings together academics to do research and come up with ways of eradicating world poverty and such ideas are not only part of the 2016 Sustainable Development Goals but resonate well with the Zimbabwe’s own economic blueprint ZimAsset.
“The conference is ongoing and academics are sharing ideas as well as presenting papers whereupon a research journal will be published for academic purposes and ideas expanded in order to ensure that the nexus between Gender and Poverty is broken,” said the conference director and organiser, E.F Zvobgo.
Speaking during the official opening, Damasane urged academics to not only conduct research but augment them with practical and policy-oriented approaches in advancing gender issues and eradicating poverty.
She said that the government of Zimbabwe places high importance on research forums of that nature.
 The keynote speaker is Dr Caroline Sweetman from the University of Oxford and it has delegates from as far as America, Nigeria, South Africa and from local Teacher’s Colleges, polytechnics, universities and NGOs.
Dr Sweetman spoke on gender and development in line with the theme and stated that economic inequality was increasing globally especially in the Global North.
She said the feminisation of labour was a key factor and emphasised the need for social change.
She said crises in masculinities lie in job losses or unemployment, leading to domestic violence.
“In order to break the gender – poverty nexus, women need equality, education, employment, marital and family relations,” Dr Sweetman said.
Director for Research and Post Graduate Studies Professor P. Gwirayi said he was very humbled by the response the initiative had generated.
GZU Pro-Vice Chancellor Dr Andrew Chindanya, who will officially close the conference, applauded participants for having the initiative to push forward an agenda for sustainable development with a particular view to ending poverty.local

A Bed Full of Foreigners thrills fans

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A Bed Full of Foreigners thrills fans

A Bed Full of Foreigners cast after the play

Itai Muzondo

MASVINGO – The Masvingo Drama Circle thrilled theatre goers recently with their impressive performance of British playwright Dave Freeman’s 1973 play ‘A Bed Full of Foreigners’ at Charles Austin’s Theatre.
Speaking to TellZim News after the performance, one of the play directors, Mike Banda said they had followed the advice of Charles Austin’s Theatre patron, Doug Hill who recommended the adaptation of the play.
“The play was recommended by Mr Doug Hill who saw that the play was good and would go well with our audience. It would have been played way back but I was tied up with other commitments but after reading it, we decided to adapt it with the help of Charles Munganasa.
“We knew it would be a winner on stage. We also felt bringing it back home would really be good for the audience and the theatre,” Banda said.
He said the drama circle maintained the original themes and the notion of foreigners as depicted in the original play by bringing on board Malawians who are currently on duty with My Age Zimbabwe; Joseph Nyoka who played Chikatero and Jane Phisso who played Helga.
“We stuck to the original themes of the play knowing that they were universal. We also decided to do a foreign play translated to prove that language barriers should be thrown out of the window when art comes into the picture. Art is a universal language and it should be treated as such,” added Banda.
On the play’s future, co-director Munganasa said they were looking forward to stage the play in other parts of the country.
“There has been good reception of the performance and some audiences have asked that the paly be staged elsewhere. We will look into that and see if we will be able to take it out of Masvingo,” said Munganasa.
The cast also featured local talent including Ngoni Chinovava, Josephine Pedzisayi, Nicole Jamu, Donovan Takaendesa and Mike Banda.entertainment

Mzembi messes up big time

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Mzembi messes up big time

Haa vana Mavhaire mutikwanire imi. Kana mukawana nguva muite mushe hamugute kunyarwa makaita sei? National People’s Party (NPP) supporters sometimes are full of themselves. What’s so special about Joice Mujuru that they think she must lead the coalition? What war credentials do they want to use as trump card? What war credentials do Mavhaire and Sipepa Nkomo have? Christopher Mutsvangwa told us long time ago that it was all lies that Mujuru gunned down a helicopter, so stop talking nonsense about war credentials. After all, Zimbabwe is not comprise war vets only – in fact, the youth now make up a larger portion of the population than war vets saka regerai kutinyaudza apa.
Do you want to tell us kuti NPP ndiyo yega yazoita zvishamiso zvekuva nema war credentials? There are war vets in almost all opposition parties so kana musina zvekutaura nyararai vana Mavhaire.
Whether kuenda kuhondo or kusaenda we don’t care all we want is Morgan Tsvangirai to lead the coalition. Period! If you are not comfortable Cdes the door is open. Mapombi is always a gentleman handivanzi kana zvakukonai endai kwamakabva kuZanu PF uko. Muna 2008 Tsvangirai chematama chakangohwina imi muri kuZanu PF and you only joined opposition politics zuro uno madzingwa kuZanu PF.
Mavhaire and Chipepa or is it Sipepa please shape up or ship out! Ende hatimbokuteverei nekuchembera kwamaita ikoko tinokudiii shuwa nhai nhai? We don’t want to be distracted by ageing people who no longer have a future to worry about. We need young leaders with a vision not kungoti chero pese pese hee-e war credentials hee –e kurwa hondo kkkkkkkk as if makairwa hondo yacho vana Mavhaire nana Chipepa. MDCs can go alone – tinongodzibatanidza MDC Ncube and MDC 99 then Tendai Biti zvobva zvatokwana. We suspect NPP is highly infiltrated and tava kuzviona manje.
Anyway, Mapombi is sorry for diverting a bit chete anotsamwiswa netumadhara tusina direction utwu. By the way Mapombi has a burning question vakomana dai mandipindurawo. Is Walter Muzembi really an engineer? What about his doctorate (PhD)?  Mapombi always wonders if the Toursim Minister has all those qualifications ekuti engineer blah blah. Chete kuZanu PF madoctorates (PhD) anopiwa mahara senge hembe dzemubhero. It’s more difficult to find a Grade 1 dropout in Zanu PF than to find a doctor (PhD), fake of course.
Whether Mzembi is a fake doctor or engineer, Mapombi doesn’t care because I rarely call him with the titles. Tough luck Wale; Mapombi heard you bit the dust at the UNWTO elections. Kkkkkk Mwari vanoziva zvavo chokwadi  dai makahwinha taimhoreswa nezvitanda chokwadi.
Anyway, now that you lost the contest for the UNWTO secretary general post it’s high time you come back to Masvingo South and fulfill the promises you made during the July 31, 2013. Mapombi heard you hardly visit the constituency hanzi munoti basa rakakuwandirai rehuMinister kuHarare ikoko – heya regai tione kuchawira tsvimbo nedohwe.
Masvingo province has benefited virtually nothing from Mzembi as the Minister of Tourism. We have Great Zimbabwe Monuments where the country derives its name but Mzembi did absolutely nothing to market the place. Many people would be tempted to think that Mzembi comes from Victoria Falls and not Masvingo.
Anyway, if you ask people like Jeppy Jaboon, Kasukuwere, Mahofa and vana Ndaarombe they will tell you kuti Mapombi haanyepe. I am not a prophetess but everything that I say would come to pass. And today I would like to tell you that Masvingo South hauchalume Mzembi. Pawakadya pakakwana – the electorate now wants someone who really cares about their issues. But since you are an engineer, I hope you will find something to do. Kkkkkkk engineer Walter Mzembi!
Mapombi however, was saddened by the news that Jaboon was suspended from the party for five year. This simply means Jaboon cannot seek re-election in Bikita South. Zvonzwisa tsitsi izvi. But I have warned many before and those who listened survived asi vaya vakandishora vachiti ndiri murwere wepfungwa vari mupfumvu nhasi uno.
By the way, it’s almost lunch time guys allow me to go ndindokanga hangu maputi angu for lunch. But before I go, vakadzoka here ava vekuenda kuSingapore? Mapombi heard his spokesperson George Charamba lost his wife who passed on over the weekend. I would like to pass my condolences to the Charamba family.
Where is Dr Amai these days? She is too quiet hey, very unusual of her. But pavanobudikira toziva kuti pane anoenda kumusha chete. Kasukuwere watch out! Dr Amai havangonyarare zvenhando she is brewing something. Anyway, izvi handingazvipedze izvi let me go ndinodzvikangira maputi angu for lunch. But chando chava kurova kwedu kwaDr Grace Trading Centre uko chakaipa gore rino mapezi tinofa tikazvirega. Mboko imboko!mapombi
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