Prophetic healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya speaks at the launch of Aguma which he claims it cures HIV and Aids (Picture by NewsDay)
Deputy Information Minister Energy Mutodi has confirmed that police “police this evening raided Prophet Walter Magaya offices to recover samples of his Aguma medicine which he claims cures HIV.”
Prophetic healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya speaks at the launch of Aguma which he claims it cures HIV and Aids (Picture by NewsDay)
Writing on Twitter, Mutodi said “the raid marks the start of an investigation into this matter. Health experts say there is no cure yet.”
On Sunday Magaya used a Sunday church service of his Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries (PHD) to announce that he has discovered a cure for HIV.
Magaya claimed to have discovered the plant two years ago – but had waited “because I wanted it to be chemically proven, scientifically proven”.
“God has given me a revelation, we tested it and it’s perfect. God showed me a certain tree and certain people. We have found the cure for HIV and Aids,” Magaya announced during the service.
The controversial preacher said he was prepared for the Ministry of Health in Zimbabwe to scientifically test his HIV cure claiming the cure was developed from a plant called Aguma which is found in Zimbabwe. This was mixed with a different herb from Mozambique.
Not every major discovery or invention is made in the conventional science laboratory. Dmitri Mendeleev did not come up with a logical way to organize the chemical elements in a lab or classroom. ““In a dream I saw a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper,” he wrote in 1869.
Bishop Dave Chikosi
Five years earlier August Kekula had one night turned his chair towards his fireplace and dozed off to sleep. In a dream he saw atoms dancing. They danced themselves into the shape of a snake. And the snake kept turning around to bite its own tail! Weird dream yes, but that is how he discovered the molecular structure of Benzene.
But beyond the fortunate stroke of serendipity, direct religious experiences can also be a fruitful source of inspiration for new discoveries. Mr Srinivasa Ramanujan was a man of negligible formal training in mathematics. However in his short lifetime of 32 years he produced almost 4000 proofs, identities, conjectures and equations in pure mathematics well ahead of his time, and which continue to inspire and direct mathematical research even today.
His source of inspiration? The Hindu goddess Namagiri who many times appeared in his dreams. Ramanujan claimed that one time while sleeping he had an unusual experience.
“There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing.”
It’s a good thing society was not dismissive of his discoveries because of their religious origins.
The field of scientific discovery is too important to be left to trained scientists. Discoveries, inventions and innovations from non-scientific fields & sources must be encouraged, not judged and dismissed out of court prematurely.
The non-scientists are not always conversant with the procedures to follow when they stumble upon a new discovery. Usually and in the heat of excitement they make public pronouncements prematurely. But that is no reason for society to be dismissive of their claims and label them as charlatanic on account of an unorthodox methodology.
Wisdom would demand a suspension of judgment until all relevant authorities have had the opportunity to assess and evaluate the claims using their own clinical trials. “Do not go out hastily to argue your case; Otherwise, what will you do in the end, When your neighbor humiliates you” (Proverbs 25:8). Wise piece of advice to both sides in this Zimbabwean debate!
The number of people living with HIV Aids is estimate at over 36 million. Over 40 million have died since AIDS started killing people 38 years ago. The majority of casualties are in poor countries where the cost of drugs is beyond affordable. And affordability is a big issue in this debate.
The “Big Pharma” makes over $300 billion a year on pharmaceuticals. It tries to justify the high cost of drugs by citing high costs of R&D. However, according to a 2016 Washington Post article, 9 out of 10 big pharmaceutical companies put more money into marketing than research. Many of them spend almost double on annual marketing than they do on R & D. So the situation is more complex than high prices paying for the research.
Interestingly, Turing Pharmaceuticals, a global drug company, made international headlines in 2016 for hiking the price of a HIV medication by a whopping 5,556 percent. When asked why, CEO Martin Shkreli replied, “This isn’t the greedy drug company trying to gouge patients; it is us trying to stay in business.”
Which is why we must welcome and explore local initiatives that will help find cheaper ways of combating the AIDS menace, including religiously inspired initiatives. Ndatenda.
A statement made by Dexter Nduna in parliament yesterday is unfortunate, disgusting and exposes his party for what it represents. 24 hours later he has not corrected his statement, the MDC gave him a window period to appeal to his own conscience so as to realize that his rant was uncalled for.
Dexter Nduna (left) seen here at David Whitehead Textiles in Chegutu with then Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko
A member of parliament must be honorable in approach, this must include tolerance as opposed to revealing hate and even the hunger to take people’s lives.
Nduna must know that he is a beneficiary of daylight robbery, benefiting from incompetence on the part of the electoral commission and suspicious adjudication of the dispute.
He must at least redeem himself by using the stolen privilege to push for progressive legislation not spew his dreams of firing squads.
The man probably wants to use parliament to make up for the time he should have been using toy guns as a young boy. Everyone missed something in their childhood, national institutions cannot therefore be used to compensate for such misfortunes.
His utterances expose his misunderstanding of the supremacy of the constitution. A parliamentarian who pushes for legislation which is inconsistent with the constitution is not fit for purpose.
Section 48 of the constitution is clear on the imposition of the death penalty, “A law may permit the death penalty to be imposed only on a person convicted of murder committed in aggravating circumstances.”
We therefore condemn his attempt to scare Zimbabweans especially dissenting voices through a threat to bring an unconstitutional penalty especially for those who call for honest re-engagement which must be supported by reforms back at home.
We are aware that Nduna’s utterances which must be reversed are targeting a position on re-engagement which is mischievously labeled a call for sanctions for political expediency.
Anyone who wants to weaponise the law against dissent is an enemy of democracy.
Prophetic healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya speaks at the launch of Aguma which he claims it cures HIV and Aids (Picture by NewsDay)
By Tafi Mhaka
When I first heard the news that Magic Johnson had tested HIV-positive, I became dejected. I couldn’t believe Magic Johnson had contracted HIV and destroyed his life. This guy had it all: deft ball skills, money, screaming fans rallying behind him in every basketball match he played in, a beautiful wife and a loving family.
Prophetic healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya speaks at the launch of Aguma which he claims it cures HIV and Aids (Picture by NewsDay)
I just didn’t get it. Magic Johnson had the world at his feet. How on earth could he throw everything away simply for the thrill of causal, unprotected sex? And although he sounded upbeat and looked healthy on TV, I thought that was the beginning of a brisk end to life for Magic Johnson.
Everyone who had contracted HIV and developed AIDS never lived long. They all suffered and withered away into barely recognisable friends and family members in a year or two. No matter how many doctors and witchdoctors they visited for counselling and healing sessions, a year or two spent battling the diseases signalled a certain and seemingly painful death.
Uncle Romeo and Taurai
I suspected my Uncle Romeo had AIDS. He lived in denial and blamed his faltering health on evil spells cast by relatives and colleagues raging with jealousy and undisclosed vendettas. But watching him mellow into an emaciated and despairing shadow of his once confident and brash self evolved into a tough and emotional affair for me.
The pills he took made him weak and emitted a strong and repulsive smell around him. So I pretended he didn’t have AIDS and never asked anyone if he did. It felt better that way. I didn’t, in any small way, want to consciously experience a taste of what being afflicted by AIDS looked and felt like up close and personal on a daily basis.
My friends and I always talked about people who had contacted HIV/AIDS though. That was fine. We would speculate on who had AIDS. We would talk about how, when and where they had contracted HIV. That was fine. As long as we weren’t HIV-positive, that was fine.
We simply never got tested for HIV, and that, too, was perfectly fine. Perhaps we feared that discovering the essential medical truth would be way too difficult to bear physically and mentally. But, with time, many people, including Taurai, a close friend of mine, died from complications related to AIDS and this took a heavy toll on my health.
I never got over the profound shock and unfathomable fear that tore through my soul when I met Taurai a few months before he passed on. He looked severely ill and most unhappy; somewhat deflated and defeated by a formidable and ruthless foe.
Taurai never told me he was HIV positive and I never dared to ask a thing. But I did wonder if his wife and daughter were safe from the dreaded disease because my heart bled the last time I saw him. The usual camaraderie we often shared was muted by phony smiles and an unspoken sense of forced easiness between close childhood friends.
Yet I didn’t go to his funeral. I only found out about his death long after he had died. He had distanced himself from certain friends and maybe left all in the hands of time and an inescapable fate.
I went to so many funerals in and around Harare and felt an awkward sense of death encompassing me each time I bade somebody a silent and excruciating word of goodbye. And I prayed to God.
I prayed for the young and vulnerable orphans left to circumnavigate the treacherous hazards of a merciless and demanding world. I prayed for the husbands, wives, girlfriends and boyfriends unknowingly infected with HIV by an unfortunate or selfish partner. I prayed for biblical redemptions a million times.
I prayed at home. I prayed in taxis. I prayed at church. I prayed in the dark. I prayed as I walked up and down Leopold Takawira Street in Harare on nondescript Saturdays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. I prayed for righteous intervention in the best and worst of times. God had to understand how torturous and relentless this AIDS-inflicted pain and heartache was on all of us.
Despite my obvious and hurt-filled prayers asking God to help the sick time and again, nothing changed at all. God, I feared, couldn’t save anyone one of us from dying from AIDS should he want to. Our dear God, I began to suspect, didn’t exist at all.
Even the innocent children born HIV-positive and christened in church died from AIDS years before they could understand what a terminal disease is. They died young, confused and powerless, as all the devout prayers in the world couldn’t help them. Was this grotesque suffering, I cried out loud, God’s vision for humanity on earth?
Magaya’s Godly vision
So it interesting to read that Prophet Walter Magaya of the Prophetic of the Healing and Deliverance Ministries (PHD) received a vision from God that will purportedly help to cure AIDS. It is interesting because I have recurrent visions, too. I have distressing flashbacks of physically ravaged souls and wounded beings dying from AIDS related diseases – as a litany of long and tearful prayers fall on deaf ears.
I have disturbing hallucinations of poor and sickly mortals fleeced to deathly and sycophantic states of mind by elaborate conmen and self-trained psychologists selling unproven visions of powerless God.
I have raw visions of mounds of fresh soil covering mountains of smothered lives boxed in heaps of frustrated and quiet solitude at Granville Cemetery. If they had lived a decade longer and consumed the life-giving produce of modern medicine, many of these delightful and dearly departed souls would still be breathing fresh and fulfilling life.
So if I must choose between the powerful allure and potential of prayer and rambling, unseen visions from men of God and the physiological wonders scientific breakthroughs often facilitate, I will emulate Magic Johnson and forever choose science over immeasurable spiritual aspiration.
Approximately 27 years after Magic Johnson announced he had been diagnosed as HIV positive on November 7, 1991, the former NBA star is alive and tremendously healthy.
War Veterans leader, Chris Mutsvangwa, who served as President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s special advisor was not reinstated to his role after the elections in July, the office of the president has confirmed.
Douglas Mahiya, Christopher Mutsvangwa (centre) and Victor Matemadanda (right) during a press conference in Harare. (Photograph: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty Images)
Mutsvangwa was initially appointed as Minister of Information and Publicity, but was then appointed as the President’s advisor in Mnangagwa’s first cabinet, installed shortly after the November military driven operation restore legacy.
However, the Mail and Telegraph has learnt that when new cabinet appointments were made after the July elections, Mutsvangwa was not restored to his position, as the President sought to further trim his cabinet.
Officials from the Office of the President and Cabinet confirmed that despite Mutsvangwa’s absence on the most recent letters of appointment, members of the media had assumed that he had continued in his role, and continued to refer to Mutsvangwa as the President’s advisor.
“Ambassador Mutsvangwa has not been the President’s advisor for a long time. Everyone who was appointed as part of the new cabinet and to positions within the OPC had their names gazetted in announcements.
“Mutsvangwa was not fired per say, but his contract and appointment to that role was not renewed. He continues to be referred to, and quoted as the President’s advisor, which is incorrect.”, the office of the President said.
A quick glance at the list of presidential appointments gazetted after President Mnangagwa was appointed appears to confirm the position of the Office of the President, as Mutsvangwa’s name is absent.
Mutsvangwa, who was in China recently for medical treatment, returned to Zimbabwe to torch a storm, conducting an interview with local weekly The Standard, where he accused a local businessman, Kuda Tagwirei of running a forex cartel in the country.
Mutsvangwa accused Tagwirei of getting preferential treatment from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) through shady forex allocation as well as running a monopoly on the fuel supply.
“One of the optimal conditions to attract investment is free competition. The RBZ is not a source of capital. Tagwirei relies on RBZ foreign currency allocation and claims to be a businessperson. I don’t respect such business people,” he said.
“Tagwirei’s business gets about US$80 to US$90 million every month for fuel from the RBZ, yet many companies, some of them largest fuel dealers in the world, want to come and invest in the fuel industry in the country.
“You can ask (Energy) minister Joram Gumbo. There are many who want to come. We can’t have a whole country for one man,” he said.
Mutsvangwa also claimed his election loss to Norton MP Temba Mliswa was due to interference by Tagwirei ensure he was kept out of government as he was outspoken critic of the Sakunda “oligopoly.”
Mutsvangwa also alleged that Sakunda’s support for the government’s command agriculture programme was meant to facilitate state capture.
Comedian Felistas Murata, affectionately known as Mai Titi, has vowed to try the ‘HIV curing herb’, which PHD Ministries leader Walter Magaya claims to have found.
Comedian Mai Titi
Mai Titi, who went public about her status early this year, said she is willing to give a leg and an arm to buy the ‘newly found treatment’.
Mai Titi revealed her intentions through a Facebook post which read:
“Heard the man of God Prophet Magaya vawana mushonga we. HIV if so can I kindly be the first patient. If it means selling out my properties to pay for it. Will be glad.’
In a follow-up interview with H-Metro, Mai Titi said she chose Magaya because she believes in him.
This is despite warnings from virtually all major stakeholders in the country’s health delivery system, who on Monday urged patients to continue taking ARVs as Magaya’s herb has not undergone local tests to be approved for human consumption.
“I have chosen to take this drug because I believe Magaya is a true man of God, however I want it to be placed on record that even if it was a man of God from America who had found the cure, I was still going to do anything in power because all I want is to be healed.
“I have faith, that’s why I was healed of cancer last year, Prophet Makandiwa prayed for me and I was healed despite the controversy I was healed” said Mai Titi.
Asked whether she has consulted her doctors and whether she is going to quit other medications she is taking Mai Titi said, “To be honest, there is no need for me to consult anyone because it is my decision but I’m not going to stop taking my ART, just as Prophet Magaya has said.”
Mai Titi went on dismiss any suspicions that this may be a publicity stunt on her part as well as that of Magaya.
“I am doing this because I want to be cured, it is not a publicity stunt, I am not a member of PHD Ministries neither do I know Magaya to the level of scheming with him in a publicity stance and in any case, whether I am cured or not, I’m still going to go public after taking the medication,” said Mai Titi.
Yesterday Mai Titi went for blood and CD4 count tests to confirm her status before the new drug is administered to her. Below are some of the reactions to Mai Titi’s post from her followers:
Sharon Parehwa: Mai TT if you believe in God ka vanorapai not zvkutsvga kutengeserwa mushonga zvamwari hazvide muripo kufungawo kwangu mnhu wamwari anofanirwa kungotaura shoko then motenda kwariri motoponeswa
Chipo Tarabuku: You are already healed Mai Tt.First at least you have something to keep you going.Secondly you are surrounded by your children who love and motivate you. God will make you live long.
Ashley Kays: Ko magaya wacho ngaango vanhu mahara zvee…musarege ma piritsi pliz vanhu varipakutsvaga mari mmmh muchaburitswa mazi million hobho ukabroka zvako dear hameno ita zvoda moyo wako.
Kumbirai Mpala: Its so sad how Africans can never celebrate another African. dai arimurungu ipapa taiita makwikwi kutotenga mishonga iyoyo.Mwari atiitire nyasha tivhurike meso If you feel it in your heart maiTt im sure you wont need to sell any of your Properties.It wont be that expensive.
Linda Rose Zimba: If u HIV positive take medication the virus becomes undectable it’s hidden in you and you the same has a person who is negative From my understanding people stick to your medication in Jesus name maintain health life style.
Lisa Bianca Bonongwe: Mutori dumb if you think you can take your ARVs and this new drug at the same time. How will you know what’s working? Musangovukura imi.
Munyaradzi Mutodzaniswa: Let him prove himself inga zviHuta makachengeta wani mukarima matapiri mumasaga kuyedza yedza. H Metro
Under-fire PHD Ministries leader, Prophet Walter Magaya has begged the government to give a herb, which he claimed on Sunday is a cure for AIDS and cancer, a chance by subjecting it to tests as guided by the country’s health regulations.
Prophet Walter Magaya
The government, through the Ministry of Health, insists there are processes and procedures that any new medicines go through before they can be certified as effective and safe for use by patients adding that there are no records on Prophet Magaya’s herb.
Apart from the government, the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association, the Retail Pharmacists Association and Pharmaceutical Society of Zimbabwe also issued statements urging patients to continue taking ARVs as there is no proof of cure for AIDS.
Under Zimbabwean law, Prophet Magaya’s herb has to go through the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe for review and assessment before it can be given to patients.
In what might be a ray of hope for Prophet Magaya, the ministry concludes by saying that they will continue to encourage and support innovation and discoveries of new products within the regulatory framework providing for such.
In a statement , Prophet Magaya said it was unfortunate that his statement on Sunday triggered an outcry that all but derailed their roadmap for the herb. His biggest regret was that social media had seemingly complicated things by distorting his message on Sunday.
“My plan was to work with the Ministry of Health so that the herb undergoes the requisite tests locally after those done in India as per the law. Most people are commenting on what the social media is dictating but on Sunday I was very clear that people had to continue taking ARVs.
“I said from the beginning that I will be working in compliance with the Ministry of Health’s existing guidelines. I know what I have and I wrote to World Health Organisation, government and other authorities, some of whom have not responded but my intention was to communicate what I have.
“I believe what the tree I found has properties scientifically proven that they can fight HIV and cancer. That is what I found and I stand guided by the government and its organs. But I am crying, ‘please my government give me a chance, test what I have found. I still cry, give me a chance.”
Prophet Magaya said the rebuke by some key stakeholders will ultimately derail the ‘project’ such that what would have been undertaken in 14 days might take over a month now. H Metro
Prophetic healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya speaks at the launch of Aguma which he claims it cures HIV and Aids (Picture by NewsDay)
By Letwin Nyambayo
The government has warned Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) ministries founder Walter Magaya that he risks being arrested if he goes ahead and starts selling his controversial HIV/Aids herbal medicine without regulatory approval.
Prophetic healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya speaks at the launch of Aguma which he claims it cures HIV and Aids (Picture by NewsDay)
This comes after the popular preacher told multitudes at his Waterfalls church on Sunday that he had found a cure for HIV/Aids and cancer — adding that his controversial herbs, named Aguma, would go on sale this coming Saturday.
At the same time, authorities and medical experts have robustly pooh-poohed Magaya’s claim, saying this had the potential to destabilise the government’s fight against HIV/Aids.
Yesterday, Health and Child Care deputy minister John Mangwiro warned that the charismatic preacher risked facing the full wrath of the law if he goes ahead and sells Aguma this weekend.
“If he goes ahead and sells the drug … we will stick to the Constitution of the country and the law in terms of drugs and sales.
“The law will definitely take its course if he breaches it,” he said, adding that as Magaya’s herbal medicine was not registered, people should not buy it.
“I don’t think people are going to be foolish enough to buy the drug on Saturday. From our research, we gather that the medicine costs $1 000,” Mangwiro told the Daily News.
On its part, the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) said it was investigating Magaya’s herb, warning that any sales and advertisements of medicines needed to receive prior approval from authorities.
“We need to make sure whatever is going to be sold and distributed to the public is safe, effective and of good quality.
“We are still gathering all the facts on this issue to ensure that the public is provided with accurate information and that all rules and regulations with respect to medicines are satisfied,” MCAZ spokesperson Shingai Gwatidzo said.
According to the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe, Medicines and allied substances control Act Chapter 15.03 under the advertisement of medicines subsection (1) no persons shall publish, distribute or in any other manner whatsoever bring to the notice of the public or cause or permit to be published or distributed or to be brought to the notice of the public any false or misleading advertisement concerning a medicine.
Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level twelve or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
On Sunday, Magaya told thousands of his congregants that his herb Aguma could cure both HIV/Aids and cancer — adding that the government was ready to support him.
“When I approached the government, their response made me feel that they were ready to support us.
“Government will carry out its own research and is summoning a local research board to bring in people who are HIV positive and take statistics on people taking Aguma.
“They will test it for any threats to health, its efficacy and side effects among many other things and have the final say,” he said at his Waterfalls church in Harare.
He added that the government was set to announce the first public results on Aguma after 14 days, saying further that the herb had undergone the appropriate registration as a supplement in Zimbabwe and that he had also approached the World Health Organisation.
“We wrote to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and they said they would work hand-in-hand with government rather than individual-to-individual,” Magaya said.
The claims set off a wave of criticism as health professionals and rights groups said his revelations had the potential of destabilising the anti-retroviral treatment (ART) programme, which currently has millions of patients on treatment.
The government is currently on an ambitious $103 million, five-year HIV-testing strategy — to raise the number of people who know their status, as the country bids to build on the progress which has been made in the last seven years, which saw new HIV infections falling by 50 percent.
The testing strategy is part of the government’s efforts to achieve the 90-90-90 target — which seeks to have 90 percent of all people with HIV know their status, 90 percent of diagnosed people being on treatment, and 90 percent of those on treatment having suppressed levels of the virus in their bodies by 2020.
Zimbabwe has an HIV prevalence rate of 13,7 percent according to 2016 national estimates.
The country has been making strides in its fight against HIV/Aids despite the current economic turmoil which health experts say has hit the operations of most of the country’s major hospitals, including the procurement of essential drugs for people living with the pandemic. DailyNews
Vice President Kembo Mohadi and wife Tambudzani Mohadi
By Tendai Kamhungira
Vice President Kembo Mohadi’s estranged wife Tambudzani has pulled yet another stunt, after dragging the magistrate who dealt with her husband’s application for a protection order to the High Court, accusing the court official of bungling legal procedures.
Vice President Kembo Mohadi and wife Tambudzani Mohadi
In the latest application filed at the High Court on Monday, Tambudzani is now seeking an order reviewing the magistrate’s decision.
According to the application, the respondents are the magistrate only identified as Gwatidzo, the vice president, Irene Mohadi, Abigail Mohadi and Malcom Ambrose.
Mohadi and his wife Tambudzani are going through a divorce, in a case which started in September last year, when the vice president, who was then State Security minister, petitioned the High Court in Bulawayo seeking nullification of the couple’s divorce, claiming their marriage had irretrievably broken down.
But in August this year, Mohadi applied for the divorce matter to be transferred to Harare High Court where determination is still pending.
Since then, the two have been in and out of court, with different applications and, at one point, Mohadi approached the Civil Court seeking a protection order, which was granted in his favour.
Tambudzani, however, applied for a review of the court ruling, after which Mohadi filed another application for contempt of court against his wife. But Tambudzani, claims the contempt case was improperly handled.
“I make this application in terms of Section 27 (1) of the High Court Act (Chapter 7:06) on the basis of procedural irregularity in the proceedings,” Tambudzani said.
She said the application for contempt of court had been set down for hearing on September 29, 2018, before being postponed to October 2, 2018 by consent of the parties.
Tambudzani said on the hearing date, Mohadi was in default, leading to the dismissal of his application.
He later discovered the development, according to Tambudzani, and filed a fresh application of contempt of court.
She said the vice president later caused the application to be set down for hearing without seeking a rescission of judgment.
“On the date of hearing, my counsel of choice advocate Tawanda Zhuwarara objected to the procedure that had been adopted by the applicant.
“He raised a point that instead of approaching the court with a fresh application, the second respondent (Mohadi) was firstly supposed to seek rescission of an order that was granted in default.
“My legal practitioners also raised a point that the matter was lis pendens as there was an application for review pending in the High Court under case number HC 8128/18. All these points were dismissed as it appears.
“It is with this background that I have entreated to this court for review in terms of the High Court Act and the High Court Rules,” she said.
The respondents have not yet responded to the application.
Tambudzani has also filed other pending cases, which include a demand for $13 000 for maintenance every month pending the finalisation of the divorce case.
She has also sued Mohadi’s mistress Juliet Mutavhatsindi for $1,5 million for adultery damages. DailyNews
Then Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa shares a lighter moment with then Environment, Water and Climate Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri (right) and Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Mr Justin Mupamhanga at the wedding of the Deputy Chief Secretary’s son Kudakwashe who tied the knot to Katie Murray at Palm Estate, Greystone Park in Harare – Picture by Kudakwashe Hunda
Deputy chief secretary to the president and Cabinet, Justin Mupamhanga, has been embroiled in a nasty farm wrangle in Bindura, following a boundary dispute which has spilled into the High Court.
Then Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa shares a lighter moment with then Environment, Water and Climate Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri (right) and Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Mr Justin Mupamhanga at the wedding of the Deputy Chief Secretary’s son Kudakwashe who tied the knot to Katie Murray at Palm Estate, Greystone Park in Harare – Picture by Kudakwashe Hunda
According to the court application, Soul Gomwe is the applicant, while Mupamhanga and Lands minister Perrance Shiri are cited as respondents.
Gomwe told the court that in 2002, he was allocated Subdivision 3 and 4 of Argyle Park Farm in Bindura by the Lands minister.
“The respondent (Mupamhanga) and I have been involved in a boundary dispute which dates back to 2003. That dispute remains unresolved up to date. Since 2003, the first respondent has made numerous illegal attempts to illegally appropriate 40 hectares of my piece of land and a farm house, which attempts I have been resisting since 2003,” Gomwe said.
He said he had written letters to the relevant authorities seeking remedies against Mupamhanga.
“The first respondent showed his determination to annex the aforesaid 40 hectares of land which constitute 20 hectares of arable land by clandestinely obtaining a purported 99-year lease from the office of the second respondent (Lands minister) through fraudulent means.
“The purported 99-year lease has a map which purportedly extends the boundaries of his farm Tomy Farm. The aforesaid 99-year lease has effect of consolidating my farm with the first respondent’s farm,” Gomwe told the court.
He accused Mupamhanga and the Lands minister of unilaterally changing his farm’s boundaries, without affording him an opportunity to make any representations.
“I submit with due respect that the decision to change the boundaries of our respective farms has the effect of adversely affecting my rights, as such, it was irregular and illegal for the second respondent to alter the boundaries without affording the applicant an opportunity to be heard,” he said.
He said that it is also government policy that no 99-year lease is issued to anyone in the event that there is a pending dispute over a particular farm, adding that Mupamhanga had misrepresented that there was no dispute pertaining to the land in question.
He said Mupamhanga had approached the court in 2013, seeking to evict him from the 40 hectares. He however, said the application was dismissed on the basis that it was not proper for Mupamhanga to evict him using a map that was obtained through unprocedural means.
Gomwe said he later filed a complaint to the Zimbabwe Land Commission in October last year, forcing Mupamhanga to file another application seeking to evict him.
The Zimbabwe Land Commission ruled in Gomwe’s favour, and Mupamhanga appealed to the Lands ministry and the hearing is still pending.
He however, said Mupamhanga has started erecting a fence which cuts across his field. He said Mupamhanga has resorted to use of “violence and intimidation” in trying to wrestle the piece of land.
Gomwe is now seeking an interdict, barring Mupamhanga from annexing his farm by erecting a fence before the finalisation of the appeal and that the government official be ordered not to use any threats of violence against him.
Mupamhanga has not yet responded to the application. DailyNews
