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Donga FC seek sponsorship

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Donga FC seek sponsorship

Nyashadzashe Mambure
SHURUGWI– They are promising, they have the skills and talent but they do not
have the funds to ensure longevity. This is the fate that has befallen Donga
Football Club (FC) as it sets its sights on the Central Region Division 1
league.
The Chachacha
based outfit has extended its begging bowl to Unki mine with the hope of
getting a shot in the arm to compete in the region’s league.
Donga FC has
been solely relying on the community and local small business people for
sponsorship but as they upgrade into the region’s league, more funding is
needed.
Donga FC head coach
Tapreta Justin Kanyemba said that the team has a vision of getting into the Premier
Soccer League (PSL) but the financial constraints were the biggest setback.
“This is a
community team which relies of the community for survival. When the community
does not have money, the team does not have money.
“As we set our
sights on the region’s league, we will need more funding and we are still
looking for sponsorship from big companies like Unki mine. We hope to get the
funding otherwise we face a rocky run.
“Our players are
committed and talented and we are positive the team will put Chachacha on the
map,” said Kanyemba.

Meet the budding pencil artist with a dream

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Meet the budding pencil artist with a dream

          Yolanda Chaduka with some of her masterpieces

Moses
Ziyambi


MASVINGO
– A
19-year-old girl former Ndarama High School pupil is savouring the
possibility of a life as a full-time artist with a global reach.
Yolanda Chaduka says
she developed a strong taste for pencil -drawn objects at the age of 10 while
still at the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Zimuto Camp Primary School.
Now a school leaver
with a lot of career potential, Yolanda has skillfully used her graphite pencil
to make impressive drawings, and she boasts several eye-catching pieces under
her budding portfolio.
Having been in school
until a few months ago when she sat for her ‘A’ level examinations in Business
Studies, Geography and Economics; Yolanda has had little time to sit down and
draw, but she has produced some wonderful masterpieces nevertheless.
She studied Art and
Design at Ndarama High School from form one up until form four, a period she
credits for helping to hone her largely inborn talent.



“Drawing is my passion
and I hope to keep drawing. I developed the passion at a very young age and I
have since discovered that I want this to be part of my life. If circumstance
permit, I would like to study anything related to art at college or university.
I am very enthusiastic about that,” she said.

She often carries some
of her favourite pieces around, hoping to convince collectors, art curators and
anybody else who can help nurture her dream to fruition.
Yolanda has so far made
drawings of families, couples and individuals, and the likeness between the
actual camera-shot photographs and the pencil impressions are more than
stunning.
“The pencil is my
favourite friend. The work I do with it is more than just a pastime because it
speaks to my inner self. It is an expression of who I aspire to become,” said
Yolanda.
Given the chance, the
young artist says she would travel to South Africa to study art on a fulltime
basis.
“The South African tertiary
education sector has more opportunities for students who want to pursue courses
in art and the market for artists is bigger. My ultimate goal is to become an
oil painter,” she said.
Her father Innocent
Chaduka says he is optimistic of her daughter’s future as an artist of note.
“We are fond of her
talent and we have always supported her. It is our hope that she will be able
to fulfill the desires of her heart career-wise at this time when many children
are going to college or university to study what they do not necessarily like,
but what is available for them and what appears to be most lucrative on the job
market,” said Chaduka.
For a very affordable
fee, Yolanda can be commissioned to do any pencil artwork and she can be
contacted on 0772 388 085 / 0779688851

Inquest on gunned down Mwenezi poachers opens

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Inquest on gunned down Mwenezi poachers opens


Cephas Shava

MWENEZI – An
inquiry into the case in which three poachers were shot dead in Mwenezi West following
an exchange of gun fire between them and game scouts was recently opened at the
Mwenezi Magistrates’ Court.
The
three deceased suspected poachers Reason Muzamba, Justin Sibanda and
Conservative Mafa were shot dead after they came face-to-face with game scouts
at Bubi Valley Conservancy popularly known as Towler Ranch. The Big Five conservancy
stretches from Mwenezi West to Matabeleland South.
Testifying
before magistrate Honest Musiiwa on Monday, January 20, the ‘killer’ game
scouts told the court that the three poachers were heavily armed.
They
said upon realising that the poachers were directly firing at them, they returned
gun fire in self-defence.
They
further told the court that cases of rhino poaching were on the increase in the
conservancy and that on several occasions, they encountered heavily armed
poachers.
“It
was a bit dark when we came face-to-face with the poachers. When we fired some warning
shots in the air, instead of them surrendering, they fired back at us. We ended
up randomly exchanging gun fire.
“We
retreated for a while and later on accounted for three dead bodies. One of the
dead poachers, Muzamba was an ex-game scout at the conservancy,” said one of
the witnesses.
It
is the State case that on July 28 last year, Bubi Conservancy game scouts came
face-to-face with some armed poachers who had intruded into the conservancy’
fence.
Gun
fire was exchanged and this led to the death on the spot of three poachers,
Muzamba, Sibanda and Mafu.
A
police report was made and detectives from Mwenezi attended the scene and
accounted for the three dead bodies.
The
matter was postponed to January 28 where a ballistic expert and an
investigating officer will give their versions of the story.  Willard Chasi prosecuted.

‘O’ Level results: Gokomere, St Anthony’s rule the roost

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‘O’ Level results: Gokomere, St Anthony’s rule the roost

 Brighton Chiseva
MASVINGO – Gokomere
and St Anthony’s Musiso High schools seem to have topped the province having
produced some of the best pupils scoring 18 As and 17 As respectively.
At
Gokomere High School, four pupils scored 14 As with the school recording a 97
percent pass rate.
At
St Anthony’s Musiso High School has two pupils with 14 As, one with 13 As and
five with 12 As.
A
total of 80 pupils at St Antony’s High scored five As and above with the school
recording a 97.4 percent pass rate.
St
Antony’s High had a total of 196 pupils who sat for examinations and 191 passed
with five subjects and above.
Reformed
Church in Zimbabwe (RCZ) run Gutu High School has its highest pupil with 10 As
with a pass rate of 95.1 percent.
Another
RCZ run Zimuto High School has 47 pupils with 5 As and above with an average
percentage pass rate of 90.
Pamushana
High School recorded a 91.25 percent pass rate with 93 pupils scoring five As
and above.
Mutendi
High School recorded a neat 87.63 percent average pass rate with 100 percent
pass rate in subjects like Pure Mathematics, Business Enterprise, TTD and
Statistics.
At
Mutendi High School, Heritage Studies recorded 115 As, followed by English
Language with 96 As and Geography with 70 As.
Tugwane
High School has five pupils with five ‘A’s and 57 pupils passed with five
subjects and above.
Mucheke
High School has its highest pupil with 8 As and three Bs with its second
highest bagging seven As with the third taking home 6 As.
Mapanzure
Government High School has a pupil with seven ‘A’s and the second highest with
four As. A total of 33 pupils passed five subjects and above while 58 pupils
passed English Language and 20 passed Mathematics.
At
St Joseph’s Tongoona, seven pupils have five ‘A’s and above and most learning
areas recorded more than 80% pass rate.
  

Police officers arrested for clearing seven stolen cattle

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Police officers arrested for clearing seven stolen cattle

Precila Takabvirakare
GUTU—
Two members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) stationed at Gutu police
station were last week arraigned before magistrate Victor Mahamadi facing abuse
of office charges after allegedly clearing seven cattle which were stolen from
Gutu Mission.
Vincent
Tinarwo (32) and Rodrey Makuro (27) were remanded to February 7.
State
facts as presented by Ratchel Murape were that on December 29, 2019 at around
1500 hours, Tinarwo was on charge office duties at ZRP Gutu when he received a
call from one Kudzai Murima, a cattle buyer intending to clear his cattle from
Village Mazongororo.
Tinarwo
and Murima then met in Hwiru location where the former completed the clearance
book, ZRP 392, in the absence of the alleged seller Jonathan Mangoro.
Three
cattle were cleared and were then ferried to Masvingo for slaughter.
On
January 1, 2020 at around 1400 hours, Mukaro received a phone call from Murima
who told him that he wants his cattle to be cleared from Mazongororo village.
The
two then met in Hwiru location where Mukaro completed the clearance book, ZRP
392, in the absence of the seller Jonathan Mangoro. Four cattle were cleared.
It
was later discovered that the cattle cleared were stolen at Gutu mission and
Jonathan Mangoro did not sell any cattle to Marima.
The
accused persons abused their office as police officers by clearing stolen stock
without following proper procedures of stock clearance.

Junior leagues, academies key to untapped sports talent

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Junior leagues, academies key to untapped sports talent


Clayton Shereni

While
some cities boast of having junior leagues and vibrant academies in various
sporting disciplines, Masvingo still lags behind though some of the finest
talent in Zimbabwe trace roots back to the province and it seems sports
administrators and the corporate world are far from walking the talk in
promoting and nurturing young talent.
Pamushana,
Chibi, Gutu, Chidyamakono and Dewure High Schools have been forces to reckon with
at national sports tournaments especially in Netball, Soccer and Volleyball but
little has been done to tap talent from these schools.
Six
former Pamushana pupils shined at the netball world cup in United Kingdom last
year with Claris Kwaramba and Sharon Bwanali attracting attention from Australian
clubs.
Charles
Manyuchi who hails from Masvingo province has managed to set up a boxing
academy for young boxers but the academy is based in Chivhu, which makes it
hard for some Masvingo school going aspiring boxers to attend training
sessions.
Young
football players in the country have found fortress at the Willard Katsande’s under-18
annual soccer tournament but this hasn’t been enough since the tournament takes
place once a year.
However,
for Masvingo the situation is worse, as successful players and the corporate
world have turned a blind eye at the young talent which remains untapped.
Other
major cities like Bulawayo and Harare pride themselves in Serie A junior league
and Harare junior league respectively where junior soccer teams for clubs like
Highlanders, Dynamos and Harare City get a chance to showcase their talent.
Not
only do these provinces have junior leagues but they have vibrant academies
like Aces Youth Soccer Academy in Harare where Khama Billiat started his career
and Bantu Rovers Academy in Bulawayo who have produced Aston Villa midfielder
Marvelous Nakamba.
Many
Masvingo young football players have been playing in the Mucheke Social League (MSL)
while volleyball players from Masvingo Christian College and Great Zimbabwe
University (GZU) have been playing in the Dzimbahwe Volleyball league.
In
these leagues young talent play against old players some of them who have
retired while some just play to maintain physical fitness as they will have
lost the hope to turn professional.
Efforts
to set up academies have been done with the latest academy being Masvingo Youth
Academy (MYA) but the academy’s vision has been thwarted due to lack of funding
to acquire proper training equipment.
Tennis
has been the only sport which seems to be making strides in nurturing young
players as the administrators have set up a vibrant board which seeks to
promote young talent.
Young
tennis players in Masvingo are promising to conquer the continent with the
likes of Ednah Mhango claiming more than 15 accolades including regional
trophies before completing her primary school education last year.
Thirteen
year old Masvingo tennis ace, Thompson Thomu Jnr is currently in Namibia with
team Zimbabwe Under14 team in the International Tennis Federation
(ITF)/Confederation of African Tennis (CAT) tourney where he has won a gold and
silver medal against Africa’s best junior players.
Tennis
coach and Masvingo Tennis board chairman Thompson Thomu said they are in the
process of partnering local schools and also revealed that they have lined up
seven tournaments for junior tennis aces.
“Our
junior players are school going so we are currently heavily engaged with the
Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to try and bring a junior league
into their structures.
“We
have lined up seven tournaments to be held in Masvingo for the junior players.
The tournaments include Masvingo Open, Masvingo Junior Tennis closed I, II,
III, Zim closed, Inter provincials  and Simon
Muzenda tourney,” said Thomu.
If
all sports administrators in the city emulate the tennis board, Masvingo will
once again become a hub of producing quality sports personalities.  

Masvingo unveils vast investment opportunities

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Masvingo unveils vast investment opportunities



…city wants multi-storey flats, cluster houses in bid to clear backlog
Moses Ziyambi
Masvingo City Council has compiled a brochure with key information on
investment opportunities that business people can exploit for their own profit
and for the economic growth of the city.
Masvingo city and the wider province have wide investment potential but
capital inflows are miniscule due to many factors including a difficult
macro-economic environment affecting the whole country.
With the brochure, city fathers hope to convince local and foreign
investors that the prospective benefits of investing in Masvingo far outweigh
the risks.
“The City of Masvingo enjoys a unique natural attribute; located
equidistant from the major cities and host to the Great Zimbabwe Monument, a
World Heritage Site and second most popular tourism site in Zimbabwe after the
Victoria Falls. The City of Masvingo prides itself in a fairly well maintained
road, water and wastewater disposal infrastructure. The city is designated a
Tourism Development Zone (TDZ) accessible by road, rail and air,” the city
states as the reasons why it is wise to invest in Masvingo.
The
city has dangled massive incentives to prospective investors and these include competitive
prices of land, flexible and negotiable payment terms, rates moratorium and
free water during construction.
The
city has also committed to give investors in the tourism development zone some
tax holidays.
In
the heavy manufacturing and industrial activities category, the city is
offering prime stands measuring 2 000 – 6 000m2 in the Westview
industrial area while commercial stands in the CBD are being offered at very
affordable prices.
The
city is also looking for a joint-venture partner interested in reviving the
278-hectare Shakashe Game Park by fencing its environs, stocking it with small
game, building lodges and conference facilities.
Masvingo
has also floated exclusive advertising rights on every space covered by the 578
solar-powered streets lights that the city wants investors to install.
City
fathers are also looking for investors capable of servicing 800 high density
and 200 medium density residential areas in the envisaged Rujeko D housing
project.
The
deal will also involve the provision of off-site sewer reticulation
infrastructure including a sewerage pump station.
The
city has also made available some 3000m2 of land close to Exor along
the Masvingo-Beit Bridge highways for the construction of medium density, multi-storey
residential flats and/or cluster houses.

Education system creating fools: Minister Murwira

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Education system creating fools: Minister Murwira

Upenyu Chaota
The
Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education Professor Amon Murwira has lampooned
the country’s higher education system which he claims is producing less of
thinkers and more of fools.
Murwira
spoke at a recent Zanu PF Masvingo Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC)
meeting where he said the education system had over the years failed to produce
solution holders.
He
said at birth, people are ignorant and without knowledge of anything but are
made stupid and foolish with the type of education they receive.
“We
should know that every person born of a woman is born ignorant but not foolish
or stupid. So where does stupidity and foolishness come from? Fools come from
the education system. The type of education that tells them that in order to do
engineering you have to study English first.
“Our
ancestors never learned English but we have our Great Zimbabwe monuments. That
kind of engineering remains a marvel even to date. Our education system is teaching
people to read and write but is doing little to teach them to think.
“This
is why you see a lot of people fighting on WhatsApp because they mastered the
skill of writing and reading but not thinking,” said Murwira.
Murwira
said there is need for a complete paradigm shift in the country’s higher
education system as the education is contributing to uselessness with 98
percent of the people only good at reading and writing while 38 percent are
equipped with skills.
 “This country has been subjected to systematic
destruction of the confidence of its people. The issue now is how do we
construct and reconstruct the confidence of our people.
“We
need to move away from being beggars to producers. The aim of our education is
to modernize and industrialize this county. It is not to Westernise,
Easternise, Northernise or Southernise.
“We
need to ask ourselves why our universities and colleges are detached from the
society they are intended to transform. We want to restore ourselves as a
people through relevant education,” said Murwira.
He
said a lot of graduates complain that there are no jobs yet the country is
facing a myriad of problems which requires people to put their brains and
skills to work and provide jobs for themselves in the process of solving the
crisis.  
“Education
has to have a purpose and benefits. We don’t want people who go through higher
education and come back looking for jobs.
“What
have you been learning? How does education lead to uselessness? We have now
looked at this thing and said let us look at our tertiary institutions and see
why people are being taught to destroy rather than build.
“Education
should create solutions not add to the problem. We see graduates getting into
the streets demanding jobs yet we expect them to create jobs. We asked
ourselves why our education system is creating professors who are begging for
food. People say there are no jobs but the country has drought. There are no
drugs but people say there are no jobs. To address all these problems is a job
on its own.
“There
are plenty of jobs but there is no one doing it. We need to fix our education
system first. 98 percent of our people can read and write but only 38 percent
have skills,” said Murwira.

Francis Aphiri destined for a class of its own

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Francis Aphiri destined for a class of its own

…school head Maregere
sets school for new challenges

Star
Matsongoni

With a rising pass rate
and an expanding school infrastructure system, Francis Aphiri primary looks set
to become an institution occupying a place of its own in a sector characterised
by increased competitiveness.
Owned by Masvingo City
Council and named after one of the most revered policy makers to ever lead the
city, the late Mayor Francis Aphiri, the school has been on an upward
trajectory in its relatively short history.
Under the leadership of
school head Henry Maregere, the school now boasts an enrollment of 1 200 pupils
mostly from the adjacent Runyararo West suburb as well from other surrounding
residential areas like Victoria Ranch and Mucheke D.
Having been developed
as a response to the ever-growing need for more educational facilities in the
sprawling city, Francis Aphiri Primary School has rapidly grown to be a school
of choice for many people in the city.
Since taking over as
school head, Maregere has presided over a steady rise in the grade seven
examinations pass rate from 91.27 in 2016 to 95 percent for 2019. Maregere says
his wish is to record an improved pass rate after each examination period, with
greater focus being on the quality of results.


The school has also
made formidable strides in improving its facilities; having completed the
construction of a new classroom block which is being used by grade ones and yet
another one which is currently being used by grade sevens although it was
initially designed as an industrial block for pupils studying woodwork and home
economics.
Francis Aphiri is also
finalizing plans to build an ‘infant centre away from the school’, and one
classroom block is already up.
Maregere says
experience points to the importance of isolating ECD, grade one and grade two
pupils from the rest of the classes.
“The infant department
will help the youngest of our children to be free and to be themselves. Those
are the children who are at the lowest formative years of their development so
they need to be given room to live and learn without being subjected to the same
kind of control that should otherwise be reserved for older children. The
younger children want to be happy, they want to make noise and you can’t expect
them to be as much responsive to instruction as their older counterparts do,”
said Maregere.
He said facilities in
the envisaged infant department will also house teachers offices as well as any
other infrastructure required for early childhood academic development.
The school has a
thriving poultry project which recently contributed a substantial amount of
money to the coffers after the sale of 250 birds.
“We also have plans to
start a rabbit and fisheries project. We have already built the ponds for the
fish and we are building a permanent foul run to replace the cages that we are
currently using. The idea is to establish separate income streams that
complement the developmental work being done using school fees,” said Maregere.

                                      Francis Aphiri Pri admin staff

He said many of the
plans were being delayed by inadequate water supplies at the school.
“We have a borehole
here but it doesn’t yield much water. I am pleased therefore that a new
borehole will soon be drilled and most of the water will be used for those
agricultural projects,” said Maregere.
Since becoming Francis
Aphiri Primary School head, Maregere, who previously headed Victoria Jnr and
Makoho Primary schools, has overseen a number of new projects including the
construction of a perimeter fence around the school and the paving of the front
yard.
Three classroom blocks
have also been constructed and plans are that more learning space should be
created in order to decongest the classrooms and allow more pupils to be
enrolled.

Legal Perspectives: People cannot marry

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Legal Perspectives: People cannot marry




Categories of
persons who cannot marry in Zimbabwe

With Fidelicy Nyamukondiwa
The Customary Marriages Act [Chapter 5:07],
the Marriage Act [Chapter 5:11]
and of course the Constitution governs marriages in Zimbabwe. The gazetted Marriage Bill, 2019 seeks to repeal and
replace the aforementioned two statutes and align Zimbabwe’s marriage laws to
the Constitution. This article outlines the categories of persons who cannot
marry in terms of the country’s marriage laws.

Children
Section
78(1) of the Constitution provides for marriage rights and is in tandem with
International Conventions and Treaties to which Zimbabwe is a signatory. It
sets eighteen years as the minimum age of marriage.
However, at the time section 78(1) of the Constitution came into effect, section 22 of the Marriage Act allowed a sixteen year old
girl to marry provided the guardians consented. It also empowered the Justice
Minister to authorize marriage of boys under eighteen and girls under sixteen
years. The Customary
Marriages Act on the other hand, did not provide for a minimum age limit
for marriage
The landmark Constitutional Court judgement of Mudzuru and Anor v Minister of Justice…CCZ
12/15 was a child marriages death knell. It declared the Marriage Act and the Customary Marriages Act unconstitutional
and held that with effect from 20 January 2016, no person below the age of
eighteen years may enter into any marriage, including an
unregistered customary law union or any other union
including one arising out of religion.
It’s been 4
years after Mudzuru was decided but
it is disturbing to note that child marriages are still prevalent in Zimbabwe.
Adults who in any way take part in child marriage arrangements must be
prosecuted under section 94 Criminal
Law (Codification & Reform) Act, Chapter 9:23. It is high time the relevant laws be aligned to the Constitution
to ensure the smooth running of the wheels of justice.

Persons of the same sex
There has been growing
concerns and advocacy for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights
in Zimbabwe since the 90’s. The Constitution does not however provide for such
rights. Former president, the late Robert Mugabe was internationally known for
castigating the advocacy for LGBT rights. Section 78(3) of the Constitution
expressly prohibits marriage of persons of the same sex. Consensual sexual intercourse
between adults (sodomy) is an offence inviting a maximum penalty of one year
imprisonment or a level fourteen fine. The case of S v Banana 2000 (1) ZLR 607 (S) demonstrates how sexual intercourse
between persons of the same sex is frowned at in Zimbabwe.

Relatives
Persons of certain
degree of relationships have always been prohibited from marrying since time
immemorial. The common law crime of incest was codified through section 75 of
the Criminal Law Code. If convicted,
a person can be sentenced to a maximum of five years imprisonment or to pay a
level fourteen fine.
Section 75(2) lays down the degree of relationships
which can neither have sexual intercourse nor marry. Besides the common ones, also
included are relationships between; parent and step/adopted child (even above
18years), any person and his or her ascendant or
descendant, any person and a descendant of a brother or sister, whether of
whole or half blood and between  any person and an ascendant or descendant of his or her former
spouse.

Other Categories
Besides children,
persons of the same sex and relatives, mentally challenged persons who cannot
comprehend the nature of the marriage contract cannot marry. Parties to a Civil
Marriage contract cannot marry as long as the marriage still subsist. Whilst a
man customarily married can marry another wife, a woman in the same marriage
cannot marry another husband.
Fiat
Justitia Ruat Caelum!
Nyamukondiwa
Fidelicy writes in his personal capacity. He holds a Diploma in Law and is a
former Public Prosecutor at Masvingo Magistrates Court. He is a LLB (HONS)
student at Herbert Chitepo Law School. Contactable on 0785827154 /nhanyams@yahoo.com.

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