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MP Omar donates to Neshuro District Hospital

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MP Omar donates to Neshuro District Hospital

….wants
hospital to start farming
Cephas Shava
Mwenezi
East Member of Parliament, Joosbi Omar on July 3 donated an assortment of items
to Neshuro District Hospital to help the medical facility improve its capacity
to deliver services.
The
donation, which included 100 pairs of bed sheets, 10 side cupboards and a
hospital divider, came a few months after Omar repaired the hospital’s
ambulance.
Omar
spent thousands of dollars to repair the ambulance which he then handed it back
to the hospital on June 11.
Speaking
at the handover of the latest donation at Neshuro growth point, Omar said the
conditions at medical facilities in the district were deplorable.
“This
is our only hospital in the district so we must do all that we can to support
it. Patients are suffering there and even the nurses are suffering so all of us
must make a contribution. I am pleased that I managed to bring an ambulance
back on the road and work to repair the other ones continues,” said Omar.
He
said he was looking for ways to improve diet at the hospital, saying patients
were being fed non-nutritious meals.
“Neshuro
Hospital has access to good agricultural land that can be used to grow crops
and improve the meals that patients get. This will also save us some money. The
hospital must self-sustain and desist from over-reliance on donors. We need to
mobilise the community and work together to construct a wall at the back of the
hospital so that the institution can engage in agriculture,” said Omar.
          
 

Police under fire for sitting on ZISMIWU corruption evidence

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Police under fire for sitting on ZISMIWU corruption evidence

                                                  Addmore Hwarare
…Hwarare
and company suspected of bribing way out of justice
Beatific Gumbwanda
CHIREDZI –
The Zimbabwe Sugar Milling Workers Union (ZSMIWU) has filed another official
complaint with the police over their deliberate failure to act on evidence of
corruption allegedly committed by the organisation’s former leaders including Addmore
Hwarare and Freddy Nyangwe.
ZSMIWU
claims the corruption issue, though very serious, is being played down by both
the police and judicial officers in Chiredzi and Masvingo possibly because the
suspects paid a bribe.
Tongaat
Hulett Zimbabwe (THZ), whose employees form the bulky of the union’s
membership, is also said to be worried by the alleged mismanagement of the union’s
funds by the previous leadership and the police’s lethargic handling of the
case.
Nyangwe,
a former ZISMIWU executive who is the THZ human resources director, is alleged
to have approved many advance payments to his colleagues in the union
leadership without any justification.
“There
are criminal cases of fraud and theft as defined in sections 136 and 113(2)(c)
of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23 respectively,
Chiredzi CR 10 July 14 and CID Chiredzi DR 17 July 14 in
which Addmore Hwarare, Simbarashe Nyemba, Peter Chikamhi, Elias Madziva, Simeon
Mapfumo, Clemence Dembure, and Peter Marumbwa who were the secretary general
and executive members of Zimbabwe Sugar Milling Industry Workers Union (ZSMIWU)
respectively with assistance of THZ human resources director who continuously
approved advance requests by the union without reasonable evidence for such requests,”
reads part of the complaint.
Hwarare,
who is ZISMIWU former secretary general, is accused of converting union funds
to his own personal, financially crippling the association and sinking it into
deep debt.
He
is said to have written a number of reference letters to Triangle Estates seeking
deductions of money from workers’ salaries without seeking their consent.
The
THZ HR department, under the influence of Nyangwe, went on to effect the
deductions without verifying if the employee had consented to it.
“As
if that was not enough, THZ management received a letter dated 18 June 2004
with the subject, UNION DUES DEDUCTIONS. Mr. F. Nyangwe again approved and
recommended the deduction of 5% from every employee’s salary in grade A and B.
“The
money was supposed to be for buying a one-acre stand for a funeral parlour in
Chiredzi. A copy of the letter dated 18 June 2004 is held by the police as
evidence and a deduction of Z$383 166 336-49 was collected in July 2004.
“The
management of Triangle, Hippo Valley, Mkwasine and ZSA received a letter on 19
December 2003 with the heading DECLARATION BY THE UNION directing the companies
to deduct 5% from every employee’s salary in the month of January 2004 wages
and implemented the declaration without the Minister of Labour’s directive.
“The
deduction was done in January 2004 and a total of Z$129 039 820-21 was
collected. No construction was done but two motor vehicles were shown to
employees as vehicles to assist the employees in times if bereavement. These
vehicles, however, were never seen again thereafter,” the complaint further
reads.
The
union further complains that the accused persons are still free despite hard evidence
implicating them in gross acts of corruption being submitted to the police.
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We are all thieves, Zivhu admits

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We are all thieves, Zivhu admits

Moses
Ziyambi

Chivi South Member of
Parliament (MP) Killer Zivhu has all but admitted that he and other
well-connected ruling party politicians as well as government officials are
corrupt and would not miss a good opportunity to steal.
Writing on his Twitter account
recently, Zivhu dismissed protestations against corruption in high places,
saying anybody would steal as much if given chance.
He argued that those that have
never been implicated in corruption are innocent not because they are morally
upright, but because they have not had a chance to steal.
“Everyone is a thief as long as
there is (sic) nothing to steal u remain innocent (sic) when your time comes to
be near what can be stolen tichakuverengaiwo some of u the the only (sic)
advantage u have is u are just Zimbabweans without names so no one bothers to
write about what u have stolen,” Zivhu wrote.
Zivhu is believed to be a
multi-millionaire although he has no traceable business to talk about.
When TellZim News called him to
expand on his tweet, Zivhu struck a defiant tone, arguing that he meant exactly
what he implied.
“People are good at criticising
others yet they have never had an opportunity to prove their integrity. You
should first be in a position to steal something and avoid theft before you can
criticise others based on unsubstantiated allegations.
“Instead of maliciously pulling
each other down, let us rather support each other and move forward. How can you
accuse others of being thieves when you yourself are only innocent simply
because you have never had a chance to steal anything? You are only a beneficiary
of your circumstances,” said Zivhu.
In 2005, he reportedly served
jail time after violating his bail conditions while on trial on charges of theft
by false pretenses.
Zivhu had allegedly took ZW$4.5
million – a huge sum of money by that time – from a woman affiliated to his
association, claiming he was able to procure foreign currency for her but he went
on to convert the money to his own personal use.
There are also reports that
during that time, Zivhu was facing two other charges of theft by conversion. In
one case, Zivhu allegedly received Z$5 million from a Pastor Makore whom he had
convinced he could import some unspecified goods on his behalf from Zambia but
he allegedly converted the money to his own personal use.
In the other case, Zivhu is
said to have received some ZW$6 million from a Mr. Mutano after promising to do
a task which was, however, never done.
Zivhu has, however, maintained
that he never went to jail, saying he successfully cleared his name with the
law and left the country, a period he claims many people became mistakenly
convinced that he was in prison.
When TellZim News asked him to
clarify his alleged criminal record, Zivhu turned down the request, saying it
is the media themselves that should dig deeper and unearth the details.
“I don’t want to talk about
that. Do the investigative work yourself and find out the facts. Don’t expect
me to give you the details that I am not ready to give,” said Zivhu.
Norton MP Themba Mliswa
recently accused Zivhu of defrauding many desperate home seekers of their money
through his Galloway residential stands project.


He served as Zimbabwe Local Government Association (ZLGA)  and was deputize by former
Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni.


In 2015, Zivhu expressed
interest in contesting for the post of Zanu PF Masvingo provincial chairperson,
but backtracked in light of the intriguing factional dynamics in the ruling
party at that time.
After the 2013 harmonised
elections, Zivhu served as chairperson for Chivi Rural District Council (RDC)
after being elected Ward 31.
Zivhu is the chairperson of the
Zimbabwe Cross Border Traders Association (ZCBTA) and was in August 2016
elected Association of Rural District Councils (ARDC) president.
In September 2017, Zivhu was elected ZLGA leader, taking over
from former Bulawayo mayor Martin Moyo. 

ZEC ignores SI 142, charges accreditation fees in US$

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ZEC ignores SI 142, charges accreditation fees in US$

                                                         Zex Pudurai
TellZim Reporter
MASVINGO—
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has come under fire from members of the
media, civil society and elections observers who argue that the charging of
accreditation fees in US dollars is unjustified.
Government recently gazetted
Statutory Instrument (SI) 142 of 2019 banning the use of foreign currency to do
local transactions. This meant that only the RTGS$ became the sole legal tender
for local transactions.
The Zec Masvingo provincial office
is, however, charging $10 for accreditation to cover or monitor the Bikita East
Ward 31 by-election which will be held this Saturday, July 13, 2019.
Various stakeholders who visited the
Zec provincial offices today seeking accreditation were shocked after being told
that accreditation fees were pegged at US$10 or the RTGS$ equivalent using the
interbank exchange rate of the day.
“This kind of selective application
of the law and inconsistency is what makes every government policy defective.
Other organisations will also ignore the US dollar ban,” said one journalist.
Zec provincial boss Zex Pudurai
could not be reached for comment as his mobile was not available, with his
office saying he was in the field assessing preparations for the election.
Three political parties are battling
it out in the by-election; with Zanu PF being represented by Thomas Mataga
while the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC is being represented by Moses Maposa. The National
Constitutional Assembly (NCA) is being represented by Peter Mavenga.

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‘Politicians supporting illegal settlements in wildlife areas’

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‘Politicians supporting illegal settlements in wildlife areas’

Beatific Gumbwanda
CHIREDZI – The Minister of Environment, Water and
Climate, Prisca Mupfumira has lambasted top Zanu PF politicians for supporting illegal
settlements in wildlife reserve areas, saying their actions were detrimental to
the building of investor confidence.
Speaking during a tourism
indaba at Triangle Country Club recently, Mupfumira said she was on a move to
restore sanity in wildlife areas as part of efforts to prevent human wildlife
conflict and promote tourism.
Mupfumira warned top
government officials and politicians whom she said were defending illegally-settled
people thereby discouraging investment in the tourism sector.
Hundreds of people are
settled in the Save Valley Conservancy and they have vehemently resisted
eviction amid claims that they enjoy support from top Zanu PF politicians who
are using them for political expediency.
Mupfumira said the tourism
sector was losing money from such possible funding partners as KFWF and EU
due to the disorder in the sector.
“Some people invaded
wildlife areas, places that must never be invaded. We want to make sure that
both animals and humans are safe by erecting strong fencing in identified areas.
We are being seen as a disorderly people and that is an obstacle to investment,”
said Mupfumira.
She said citizens of the
country were very much known for their failure to respect the law and were
regarded as disorganised people.
“Top government
officials who are resettling people in restricted areas should stop that
behavior so that we can have positive reviews from important stakeholders. No
one is above the law and we will soon alert the President that we are not being
funded by EU and KFWF due to the actions of people who think they are above the
law.
“They just invade farms and
wildlife areas where they are not allowed and resettle people arbitrarily.
There are many people who invaded forests, parks and plantations,” said
Mupfumira.
Many people were also
resettled illegally in Chiredzi North, leading to land degradation and
incidences of human-wildlife conflicts.

AFM pastor in church break-in drama

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AFM pastor in church break-in drama

                                     Robson Makuvise




Beatific Gumbwanda
CHIREDZI –
A pastor with the Rev Cossam Chiyangwa faction of the Apostolic Faith Mission
(AFM) in Triangle stands accused of breaking into church premises and raiding
church furniture that belong to members of a rival faction.
Rabson
Makuvise, who used to minister at the church’s Mount Hermon assembly in
Triangle, acrimoniously broke away in October 2018 with some congregants and
started his own factional grouping at Terry Goss.
He,
however, is now back with a vengeance; allegedly harassing his rivals and
disrupting their own sermons.
A
few weeks ago, he wrote to his former assembly’s leadership requesting that an
arrangement be made for both camps to share the premises.
He
reportedly did not get a favorable reply from the Mount Hermon fellowship and
he allegedly hired a gang with which he stormed the premises and broke in by
destroying three locks in attempts to have access to the furniture.
“Makuvise
has been causing chaos at Mt Hermon despite the fact that he left on his own
accord some eight months ago. A farewell service was even held for him and he
left elder Ndlovu in charge of the assembly so we don’t understand why he has
suddenly become vengeful,” said one concerned church member.
Another
source said Makuvise went on to lay malicious criminal charges against rival
congregants whom he accused of disrupting his sermons when in actual fact it
was him who repeatedly disrupted services at Mt Hermon.
One
of the victims of the alleged malicious charges is Petros Mazodze who said he
was summoned to appear in court on July 15 after Makuvise and team filed for a
protection order against them.
“What
amazes is that they are saying we disrupted their church service when they in
fact always disrupt ours. We should be seeking a protection order against them,”
said Mazodze.
When
contacted for comment, Makuvise admitted that he broke locks at Mt Hermon so
that he could take furniture for use at his new assembly.
“Yes
I did break into the church because they had locked us out. When we split, we
told church elders that we will come back for deliberations on how we could use
the church premise.
“We
left the church premise in October last year and we quickly wrote to them so
that we could discuss how to share premises but they did not cooperate. We
decided to break into the church and for the past many Sundays, they came and
disrupted our church services in revenge,” said Makuvise.
He
could, however, not explain why he chose to come back despite having left on
his own accord without any conditions.

When army is deployed, expect deadly force: Matemadanda

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When army is deployed, expect deadly force: Matemadanda

… ‘ED should stop listening and start biting’

Upenyu
Chaota
Zanu PF national political commissar Victor
Matemadanda has warned would-be protesters that the army will be readily deployed
to quell any political unrest, saying if that happens; the use of maximum force
should be expected.
Addressing a Zanu PF Provincial Coordinating Committee
(PCC) meeting in Masvingo recently, Matemadanda, who is also Defence and War
Veterans deputy minister, said government would not be intimidated by violent
demonstrations.
 “You can play with
the police but not with the army. The police get trained to use minimum force
but in the military, it is a completely different story. The army is trained to
use deadly force whenever it gets deployed.
“I am not threatening anyone but all I am saying is
let us work to build our country and not destroy it. Regular protests are dealt
with by the police who will pick you up and throw you into a car when you
misbehave – that is child’s play – but when you start destroying property, the
army is constitutionally mandated to step in,” said Matemadanda.
Matemadanda said he was surprised that people tried to
make an issue of who deployed the army in times of trouble like the August 01,
2018 demonstrations which saw six people being shot dead and 35 more being
injured in Harare.
 “We hear people
asking about who deployed the army but the answer is right in the country’s
constitution. The army is mandated to step in to help the police when they are
overwhelmed and from that moment, it will be deadly force. So I am warning
people to desist from engaging in violent protests because violent protests
will be dealt with violently.
 “We had been
complaining of potholes on our roads for a long time. Now when those roads are being
fixed, someone comes with a tyre and burns it to create new potholes. Do you
then expect us to fold our hands and do nothing?
“We have faced bigger threats before and many people
paid the ultimate price and we are here today because of that,” Matemadanda
said.
He said it was high time President Mnangagwa stopped being
a listening President and started ‘biting’.
“President Mnangagwa is a listening President but
people have abused that. He should stop listening and start biting. I was
angered by one Mkwananzi (Tajamuka/Sesjikile leader Promise Mkwananzi) who said
there would be a blood bath in Harare yet he is in South Africa, what a coward.
Whose blood is he talking about? Whose child’s blood? He should come here and
lead from the front and not mislead people into harm’s way while he remains
safe in South Africa. When we said ‘It Can’t’, we did not go out of the
country. We were here and we even forgot that we had passports,” said
Matemadanda, referring to his campaign of defiance against former president Robert
Mugabe’s alleged plans to set up his wife Grace as his successor.
Matemadanda warned that Zanu PF will never surrender
power to ‘people who burn tyres on the streets’, saying that would disappoint
even the dead party cadres who fought in the liberation struggle.
“If the heavens were to open up one day and our
departed comrades like Hebert Chitepo asked us what became of the country they
fought for, and we told them that the country was taken from us by people who
burnt tyres…ahhh,” said Matemadanda to loud applause.
Earlier on, Zanu PF secretary for security in the
politburo, Lovemore Matuke had given a summary of his department’s national outreach
work, warning that the party will not allow ‘shutdowns’.
“We have been going around the country briefing the
people on government programmes. We are asking the people to accept the new
Zimbabwe dollar introduced by government and not engage in misguided shutdowns.
We will not sit around and let provocateurs mobilise our people for shutdowns,”
said Matuke, who is also Labour and Social Welfare deputy minister.

Broke Masvingo City Council fails to build Rujeko Sec Sch

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Broke Masvingo City Council fails to build Rujeko Sec Sch



…sends
SOS to churches

Brighton Chiseva
City
of Masvingo has failed to build a secondary school in the high density suburb
of Rujeko and is now set to put the land on sale to possible private buyers
with capacity to do the work.
The
city has made several false promises regarding plans to build a secondary
school in the area, with candidates for the Ward 7 city council seat in many
elections promising to deliver on the project.
Indications
are that the secondary school project had been provided for in the 2019 council
budget but the local authority failed to commence the project ‘due to financial
challenges’.
Council
has therefore decided to invite potential church organisations that may have
the capacity to do the work.
It
was resolved in the recent full council meeting that the housing director should
advertise an institutional stand for the establishment of a secondary school in
Rujeko.
Some
councillors, however, argued that the land should not be sold but be given for
free in return for council having some control of the school.
Ward
10 councillor Sengerayi Manyanga argued that if the land was to be sold, then
the responsible school authority may then seek to charge high fees to recover
the money used to buy the land.
“Let’s
give the land for free so that we will be able to regulate the fees and other
services. If they start charging similar amounts to what boarding schools charge,
we would then be empowered to stop them,” said Manyanga.
Mayor
Collen Maboke, however, said the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education will
regulate the fees and everything else to suit the normal standards expected of
a high density residential area school.
Housing
and Community Services director Levison Nzvura said a lot had been taken into
consideration before the decision was made.
“We
considered that council need some money to operate and since the project is of
community benefit, we decided to sell the land at half price to a church
organisation,” said Nzvura.
However,
many believe that council has diverted some of the money that was budgeted for
the project as they hurriedly try to surface the Nyaradzo Road whose own
budgeted funds they misappropriated.

Prophet tricks another into confessing murder

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Prophet tricks another into confessing murder


Munyaradzi Goche

MUTARE –
A 23-year-old self-styled prophet recently appeared in court facing allegations
of murdering his own father for a Mazda 323 motor vehicle after he was tricked
by another prophet into writing a confession of the murder.
Derrick
Chitakatira of Chitakatira Village under Chief Zimunya, who is a prophet at
Jekeniseni Church, was remanded in custody after he pleaded not guilty on his
initial appearance.
It
is alleged that on some day in 2018, Chitakatira took the now deceased to his
shrine for spiritual cleansing where they prayed and fasted for three days.
On
the last day, Chitakatira gave his father poisoned water as part a ‘cleaning
process’ but the concoction killed him.
The
matter came to light after the accused consulted a prophet in Burma Valley
asking for spiritual protection and cleaning.
Chitakatira
allegedly told that other prophet that he was responsible for the death of his
father and wanted spiritual cover as he feared the deceased’s spirit will haunt
him.
The
prophet told him to write a letter confessing the criminal act as a
precondition for spiritual help but he then called the deceased’s relatives
from Burma Valley and showed them the confession.
The
matter was later reported to police station leading to Chitakatira arrest.
       

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