09 April 2017, CHIREDZI – Town Council chairperson Francis Moyo, once linked to Farai Musikavanhu’s campaign to snatch Chiredzi West from incumbent legislator Darlington Chiwa in the 2018 general elections, has attacked what he called attempts by Musikavanhu to gain political relevance by needlessly criticising council.
Musikavanhu was recently reported criticising corruption and unaccountability in council saying he will waiver his planned injection of US$150 000 until corrective measures are put in place.
Moyo has however came out guns blazing, ridiculing Musikavanhu for making ‘unsubstantiated’ allegations against council.
 “Musikavanhu must be professional. What transparency is he talking about? If he needs audit reports, they are readily at our offices available for public consumption,” said Moyo.
He also mocked Musikavanhu saying the former Tongaat Hullet executive was broke and was spending more than he can afford in his campaign for political office.
“If he is broke, he should not hide behind allegations of irregularities that he cannot even prove. He is biting more than what he can chew,” charged Moyo.
Last month, Musikavanhu promised to inject the US$150 000 to help stimulate development in the town as well as to refurbish and/or equip Tshovani stadium, Chiredzi Polyclinic, heroes’ acre and Chiredzi General Hospital.
He has however shown reservations about releasing the cash if what he called gross mismanagement in council is not urgently addressed.
 “I thought Musikavanhu was a good man. I moved around with him making some quotations for the hospital etc but as we speak, he hasn’t done anything. It seems he is trying to paint us with a black brush so as to win the hearts of the electorate. We are not responsible for Chiredzi General Hospital nor the heroes’ acre as he may want to claim,” said Moyo.politics

09 April 2017, CHIREDZI – Plans by Chiredzi residents to demonstrate against Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Savior Kasukuwere’s failure to take action against reports of massive corruption at Chiredzi Town Council were dealt a blow after police showed unwillingness to sanction the march.
United Chiredzi Residents and Ratepayers Association spokesperson, Bernard Dhachi expressed disappointment for what he called spurious excuses on the part of the police.
 “It’s true that we were planning to demonstrate against Kasukuwere and Chiredzi Town Council for failing to take action over the audit report which cited a lot of irregularities at the council but the police are reluctant to clear the way for us.
“On our first application, they highlighted some mistakes we had made so we went back and made a new application only for them to make more unreasonable demands. It seems they want to make things difficult for us because they are quoting a non-existent section in the law as a way of frustrating us,” said Dhachi.
He said police initially demanded that residents recruit marshals to assist maintain order in accordance with the Public Order Security Act (Posa).
On the residents’ second application, police demanded that names of all the marshals be availed to them in line with a Posa clause that later turned out to be non-existent.
Section 25 (2)e of Posa requires “the organiser to appoint marshals to assist in the maintenance of order at the public gathering.”
The clause that requires the names of the marshals to be made available to the police could not be found.politics

07 April 2017, MASVINGO – The anti-G40 wave currently dominating Zanu PF politics has reached the province, with party members openly calling for provincial political commissar Jeppy Jaboon and Masvingo Urban legislator Daniel Shumba to be expelled.
At a meeting held at Chiefs Hall on Tuesday, district representatives allegedly aligned to Team Lacoste openly voiced their dislike for Shumba and Jaboon.
The meeting was chaired by provincial secretary for administration Ailes Baloyi flanked by Godhati Dunira and Zvapano Munganasa.
However, the planned street demos national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere and his alleged lackeys did not materialise due to “orders from above.”
Allegations of corruption, sexual harassment and violation of the party’s constitution were levelled against Jaboon and Shumba.
“In Chiredzi MPs no longer represent their electorate due to instructions from Kasukuwere, Shumba and Jeppy. They want MPs to always extort money from Tongaat to fund their agenda of removing the President from power,” said one party member.
Jaboon was accused of working to destroy the party by unnecessarily suspending councillors in Bikita.
“He is also violating the party’s constitution. He should be fired along with his accomplices,” said provincial secretary for information Ronald Ndava.
Another youth accused Jaboon and his group of asking female cadres for sexual favours in exchange for positions.
“We now do not know if people are given position on merit or on the grounds of sexual favours. We have lost respect for them so we want them fired,” the youth charged.
Elsewhere, Midlands Woman’s League provincial secretary for administration Perseverance Zhou attacked Gweru business woman Smelly Dube for funding G40.
“Here in Gweru, Smelly Moyo is funding Kasukuwere’s activities to destroy Zanu PF. She must be stopped,” Zhou said.politics