Vice President Joice Mujuru with her late husband retired General Solomon Mujuru (Picture via John Cassim for Nehanda Radio)
By Fungai Kwaramba
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s loyalist and Vice President Joice Mujuru is walking with a spring as her faction is on a roll, cleansing provinces ahead of elections and positioning itself for an eventual takeover of Zanu PF.
Vice President Joice Mujuru seen here with her late husband retired General Solomon Mujuru (picture by John Cassim)
Mujuru, who is reportedly engaged in a fierce battle to succeed Mugabe with bitter rival Defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, has her interests protected by the party’s secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa and national chairperson Simon Khaya-Moyo.
The two strongmen are leading a party restructuring exercise ahead of elections.
The former guerrilla movement is on fire with factional fights spreading across the country’s 10 provinces including the restive Masvingo province, where knives are drawn out for the incumbent chairperson Lovemore Matuke — reported to be a key member of the Mnangagwa faction.
Already the former guerrilla movement has been forced to reform its Manicaland and Bulawayo provinces as factional wars escalate ahead of an election which could be the 89-year-old Mugabe’s last due to advanced age.
Ousted Manicaland chairperson Mike Madiro — also fingered in the infamous Tsholotsho declaration of 2004 which sought to block the elevation of Mujuru to the vice presidency — was last month booted out for allegedly stealing Mugabe’s birthday party beasts and had been replaced by Dorothy Mabika.
Mabika has also been suspended.
In Bulawayo, Callistus Ndlovu has replaced Killian Sibanda as the Bulawayo Zanu PF provincial chairperson.
Both in Bulawayo and Manicaland province, Mujuru has emerged triumphant as individuals loyal to her faction are in the saddle.
The case is no different in Masvingo province.
In a letter seen by the Daily News, Zanu PF Masvingo political commissar Trainos Huruva has invited the party’s national chairperson — who heads a crack team formed by the politburo to “unite” the party ahead of polls — to visit the province on May 10.
“I am writing to confirm that Masvingo province is ready to receive you this Friday 10th of May 2013,” Huruva’s letter says.
“All arrangements are lined up in respect of the meeting. As the political commissar for the province, I strongly recommend that you come and lay the groundwork for an immediate change in leadership in the Masvingo Zanu PF provincial executive in line with the agreed roadmap.
“Mr Matuke, the current chairman of the province is resisting to co-operate with the VP’s views on the province’s new direction.”
Matuke said he was unaware of a plot to oust him, even though he confirmed that he was aware Khaya-Moyo was due in Masvingo province.
“Yes, they are coming but I don’t know their aim, however, they have been to other provinces,” he said.
Asked whether he knew his head was on the guillotine ostensibly because of failed leadership, Matuke retorted, “I am not aware of that, maybe it is his (Huruva) opinion.
“As far as I know, we are doing the right thing. It is just a letter from an individual and we cannot respond to that.”
Matuke is accused of having snubbed the Independence Day celebrations at Mucheke Stadium preferring to attend a low key meeting of an aspiring MP in Mashava.
The Mujuru faction, led in the province by politburo member Dzikamai Mavhaire, wants Mugabe to discipline their rivals for defying his calls for non-electioneering before primary elections dates and guidelines are set.
“In every province there could be factions but in Masvingo they are not that big. Factionalism had been suppressed but then it can arise anytime because people have their own interests,” Matuke said.
The factionalism rocking Masvingo presents a further headache to Mugabe whose party has failed to groom or anoint a successor.
Insiders say the chaotic scenes bedevilling the Masvingo, Bulawayo and Mutare provinces are replicated in all the 10 provinces, which are divided along factional lines and engaged in deadly combat. Daily News
A Harare businessman has filed a High Court application seeking an order barring Telecel Zimbabwe from running the popular Mega Promotion on the basis that it was a “stolen idea”.
Mercy Murewa from Mutare struggles to hold back her tears when her name was announced as one of the winners of the Win Big Promo vehicles
Mr Peterson Tengende, who operates an information technology firm Trumbelt Computers is also claiming US$340 000 from the mobile network provider as damages after Telecel “hijacked” his idea to run the mega promotion.
Through his lawyer, Ms Tambudzayi Gonese of Gonese Attorneys and Ms Jacqueline Sande of Sande and Partners, Mr Tengende is seeking to stop the promotion and to be paid the damages.
According to papers filed at the High Court recently, Mr Tengende says early last year he met Telecel representatives seeking to provide consultancy services for the purpose of introducing marketing concepts for the company.
In the course of the engagement, Mr Tengende argues, he wrote a literary work in the form of a report in which he outlined a marketing strategy called “Mega Promo”. According to the report, Trumbelt and Telecel would partner in a mobile quiz programme.
“Defendant (Telecel) without plaintiff’s knowledge, assignment or permission, proceeded to copy and implement the report and its contents, thus infringing the plaintiff’s copyright.
Defendant has been unjustly enriched at the expense of the plaintiff and as a result of the defendant’’s infringement, plaintiffs have suffered damages in the sum of US$340 000, being a reasonable estimate of plaintiff’s project profit,” read part of the summons.
Mr Tengende says Telecel refused to rectify the infringement or to pay damages, prompting him to seek recourse at the High Court. In a defendant’s plea filed by Honey and Blanckenberg law firm, Telecel denied ever hijacking the project, saying when the company met Mr Tengende it already had the idea.
“During the defendant’s initial discussions with the first plaintiff, the defendant notified that it was already putting together a promotion with another company but nevertheless invited first plaintiff, if he was so inclined, to submit his proposals in writing for consideration and a possible agreement of engagement, subject to the terms and conditions to be agreed upon.
“Defendant has no knowledge of the plaintiff’s professed valid copyright. Defendant denies that copyright exists or vests in plaintiff and denied that an infringement of copyright has taken place,” read part of the plea.
Telecel also challenges the claimed US$340 000, saying the figure was unreasonable and that it did not know how Mr Tengende arrived at the figure. The Registrar of the High Court is yet to set the matter down for hearing.
An armed robber shot dead in Chitungwiza in this file photo from 2011
By Walter Nyamukondiwa
CHINHOYI – Four suspected armed robbers who have been terrorising travellers along the country’s major highways have been arrested leading to the recovery of various items, including the vehicles they were using in the robberies.
An armed robber shot dead in Chitungwiza in this file photo from 2011
The quartet’s names are being withheld to allow police to complete investigations into one of the most organised onslaughts on stranded travellers, especially along the Harare-Chirundu and Harare-Bulawayo roads.
The suspects would offer people lifts before attacking them and stripping them of their clothes and valuable items. One of the victims of the claw hammer attack was still admitted to Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital where his condition was reportedly stable.
District criminal investigations officer (Makonde-Hurungwe-Kariba district) Chief Superintendent Peter Machingura said the arrest and recovery of goods at a house in Glenara in Harare had so far led to the clearing of 13 cases of robbery.
“Working on information we received, we managed to track the suspects to their hideout where we managed to recover various items, including laptops, cellphones and clothes, among others, that people lost during the robbery spree,” he said.
He said the four suspects would pick up people using either a Toyota Altezza or a Toyota Corolla at undesignated pick-up points, especially at Greencroft and Westgate roundabout along the Harare-Chirundu highway.
They would drive to side roads just before or after the Mapinga Great Dyke Pass where they would produce either a knife, claw hammer and a knobkerrie, but police were still investigating the possibility of them using a gun.
“They pounced on desperate travellers at night around 8pm before attacking their victims and ordering them to strip naked and leave their valuable items before driving off leaving behind their naked victims,” he said.
Some of the people who have positively identified their valuables were from as far as Mutare, Bulawayo and Bindura where the group was operating. Detectives working on the information tracked the four to a house in Glenara where the loot which they had shared equally was recovered.
Police have called on people to use public transport to avoid being robbed after the cases escalated from March this year.
FC Platinum line up at Maglas Stadium in Zvishavane
By Augustine Hwata
AMBITIOUS FC Platinum are bracing for their top of the table showdown with leaders Highlanders with their assistant coach Tendai Chikuni indicating that they have rolled up their sleeves and are ready for a potentially thrilling tie at Mandava on Saturday.
FC Platinum line up at Maglas Stadium in Zvishavane in this file photo
Bulawayo giants Bosso shot to the top of the table following their 3-0 win over Buffaloes while FC Platinum who had set the pace, dropped into second because of an inferior goal difference.
But Chikuni believes that the platinum miners are doing everything in their power to reclaim the top spot although he knows it’s not going to be an easy assignment.
“We are not putting pressure on our players just because we are playing Highlanders in a top of the table clash. Infact we are trying to take it like any other normal game,” said Chikuni.
However, Chikuni said deep down, they are aware of the hype that has attracted the match and he would like his charges to get a positive result, not only from the match against Bosso.
“The league is a marathon and we need to manage the players not only for this game against Highlanders,” said Chikuni.
FC Platinum are still buoyed by their 2-2 draw against Dynamios at Rufaro last week when gave the miners their first point in a league encounter against DeMbare.
“We have just got to the quarter of the race and the games are getting intense now. So there is need to manage the players, even at training so that we remain focused. The other thing is that we have just entered a cold spell and injuries are bound to be numerous,” said Chikuni.
Both FC Platinum and Highlanders have played eight matches and won six while drawing once and losing once. The two teams have scored 16 goals each this season but Bosso have conceded one less than FC Platinum’s seven goals.
“Highlanders are doing very well and we should be well prepared. I am sure everyone is ready and the players are competing hard for places in the team,” said Chikuni.
The Moneybags are likely to miss Raphael Mudiviwa and Quad Amini who are still injured while the Zvishavane side are still seating over the fitness of highly rated midfielder Joel Ngodzo who picked a know during their duel with Dynamos.
FC Platinum still have the identical Moyo twins, Elvis and Kelvin while the side also has tall defender Daniel Veremu and former Hwange goalkeeper Petros Mhari at the rear.
Bosso will be going into the match without Simon Munawa who is sitting on three yellow cards but the Bulawayo will be praying that goalkeeper Munyaradzi Diya retains his fine form.
Meanwhile Highlanders have been slapped with an US$8 000 fine by the PSL disciplinary committee following the riotous behaviour of their fans during a Premiership match against Shabanie on Good Friday.
Highlanders won the match 2-0 but according to the judgment delivered yesterday, trouble at Maglas started in the 21st minute when Highlanders fans threw missiles onto the pitch in protest to the referee’s decision to book midfielder Knox Mutizwa for simulation in the box.
Shabanie Mine were on top of the situation, when Masvingo referee Makonese Masakadza flashed a yellow card to Mutizwa. The match had to be stopped for 24 minutes as missiles rained onto the pitch and only resumed after police details were beefed up.
The missiles were mainly targeted at assistant referee Allen Parehwa, who had to flee the touchline and declined to resume his position fearing that the worst could happen. It then degenerated into a war of stones between the Bosso and Shabanie Mine fans which left a number of fans injured after the match.
According the judgment handed by Don Moyo (chairman) Vusi Vuma and Brighton Mudzamiri who made up the committee, Bosso have until the end of this month to pay the fine as well as the costs of the hearing.
Both Highlanders and Shabanie had been brought for a hearing but it was Bosso who have been made to face the music while the Chinda Boys were found not guilty after it was reached that they had provided enough security as the home team. The Herald
Fixtures:
Saturday: Chicken Inn v Motor Action (Luveve), Black Mambas v Black Rhinos (Morris Depot), Tripple B v Monoz (Dulibadzimu), FC Platinum v Highlanders (Mandava)
Sunday : Shabanie v Harare City (Maglas), How Mine v Buffaloes (Luveve), Triangle v CAPS United (Gibbo), Dynamos v Hwange (Rufaro).
HARARE – Robert Mugabe has embarked on an intricate charm offensive ahead of general elections as he hosts Central Intelligence and Security Services of Africa (CISSA) chiefs, sources in President’s Office says this is a daylight bribery mission in preparation for backing from African leaders after rigging elections.
Happyton Bonyongwe
Some of Africa’s most brutal State spies agents are being pampered and taken to splash Victoria Falls tourist resort at a considerable cost as a plot to influence their governments to secure his shaky position.
Last week Mugabe hosted Malawian President Joyce Banda on a five day official visit to Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe’s relations with Malawi had hit an all-time low when Banda took over the presidency of that country. Too close to the West, Zimbabwe thought of Banda.
With Mugabe in a war of contrition with the West, it was unthinkable that the Zimbabwean President could sup with Banda. She came into the country and she was conquered with unprecedented State welcome protocol.
This week Zimbabwean intelligence agents dressed in dark suits thronged the corridors of the downtown Harare convention center.
Mugabe said he hoped the visiting intelligence chiefs will enjoy “Zimbabwean hospitality” and visit the nation’s tourist attractions.
Accreditation forms for the convention asked delegates to provide details of their golfing handicap and several played golf in teams arranged Sunday.
General Happyton Bonyongwe, head of Zimbabwe’s feared domestic security agency, the Central Intelligence Organisation, took over as chair of what is known as “the spies’ organisation” for the next year.
The members of the Central Intelligence and Security Services of Africa (CISSA) are now in Victoria Falls for a Five Star tour of the majestic falls, which is one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Last night a senior source in President Mugabe’s office said the Spy agents were being showered with extraordinary luxuries since their arrival and behind it all, some are being bribed with diamonds to set them to influence their governments to back a stolen election in Zimbabwe.
The delegation including directors-general from the CISSA member states, were received at the Victoria Falls Airport by Mayor Jiyane, ZTA Chief Executive Karikoga Kaseke, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Secretary Margaret Sangarwe and other senior government officials.
The delegates will tour the rainforest and the Zambian side and also get an appreciation of the state of preparedness ahead of the UNWTO General Assembly in August.
The Mayor of Victoria Falls, Jiyane said the delegation has been given an opportunity to experience the true hospitality of Zimbabwe and as such should be tourism ambassadors and market the country when they go back to their home countries.
He said Zimbabwe is proud to host the 10 CISSA conference and hopefully the intelligence chiefs will endorse Zimbabwe as the tourism destination of choice.
Opening a convention of the continent-wide 49-nation Committee of Intelligence and Security Services on Monday, Robert Mugabe said outsiders have used at least 20 armed conflicts in Africa since 1990 to gather intelligence and deploy “stealth predator drones,” unmanned surveillance aircraft, to spy on African countries.
He told Africa’s annual meeting of security agents who work under the cloak of secrecy that they are now confronted by increasing human and drug trafficking, money laundering and cyber- terrorism.
Mugabe said Africa’s vast reserves of untapped resources and the world-wide recession have triggered a new scramble for control of its “raw wealth.”
Opening a convention of the continent-wide 49-nation Committee of Intelligence and Security Services, Mugabe said outsiders have used at least 20 armed conflicts in Africa since 1990 to gather intelligence and deploy “stealth predator drones,” unmanned surveillance aircraft, to spy on their countries.
“Our erstwhile colonizers continue to manipulate international institutional and conventions to justify unilateral military interventions in African states with the objective of extracting and unfairly exploiting our resources,” Mugabe said.
He told Africa’s annual meeting of security agents, who work under the cloak of secrecy, that they are now confronted by increasing human and drug trafficking, money laundering and cyber-terrorism.
The pervasive fear of violence and intimidation in Zimbabwe’s 2013 elections contradicts Robert Mugabes’ rhetorical commitments to peace, and raises concerns that the country may not be ready to go to the polls.
The last time Zimbabwe held an election it descended into extreme violence. 200 people were killed and thousands more injured.
Zimbabwe’s Inclusive Government – the country’s uneasy power-sharing experiment, based on a 2008 Global Political Agreement (GPA) between, principally, President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC-T party – averted greater political violence and repression.
But it has not delivered political or economic stability. A reasonably free, conclusive vote is still possible, but so too are disputed polls or even a military intervention by security officials supporting, and profiting from, Mugabe’s continued rule. Zimbabwe Mail
The future has arrived. Tomorrow is now here. This is a call for action. The time for hate-mongering and mud-slinging is over. A New Zimbabwe is beckoning and this is our generational challenge to rise and shine.
Senator Obert Gutu
The politics of confrontation should be discarded to the dustbin of history where it now rightfully belongs. We are sick and tired of hurling insults at each other. We would like to engage a new developmental trajectory.
The past is gone. Gone forever. We are the NOW generation and we refuse to be intoxicated by the gospel of hatred, malice and retribution. We would like to move Zimbabwe forward.
With 80 percent of our population living on less than US$2 per day, we are classified as a poor nation by United Nations standards. But then, Zimbabwe is too rich to be poor.
We are well-endowed with abundant natural resources, from the alluvial diamonds of Chiadzwa to just about every mineral known to mankind; from the mighty Zambezi and Limpopo rivers to the awesome and breathtaking natural wonder called the Mosi-a-Tunya, we have it all here in Zimbabwe.
The time has now come for us to pull up our socks and to engage a gear up. We should completely refuse to be poor, because we don’t deserve to live in poverty.
That there will be a brand new government in Zimbabwe before Christmas 2013 is as sure as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. That the new government will be led by Morgan Tsvangirai is as certain as the fact that a day has 24 hours. We have a date with history; an appointment with destiny. What God has ordained, no one made of flesh and blood can change.
They may shout their voices hoarse and claim that they will never salute Tsvangirai, but then we shouldn’t be bothered one iota. This is a people’s project. The people will always emerge victorious.
Ian Smith had deadly sub-machine guns and a lethal air force but he was still brought down to earth by a rag tag guerrilla force that had the support of the majority of the people on its side; and a few thousand AK 47 assault rifles.
Thus, we shouldn’t be surprised simply because the darkest hour is just before dawn. They have the guns but we have the people on our side. That is what really matters at the end of the day. Victory is guaranteed. Indeed, victory is certain.
The new government has a formidable task before it. We have a battered economy with a staggering 85 percent unemployment rate. But then, we shouldn’t feel discouraged. This is our generational challenge to rise and shine.
This is an opportunity for us to build Brand Zimbabwe and to showcase our unique talents to the entire world. We should not consider this a problem but a challenge because it is a brilliant opportunity for us to mark a break with the past and to engage the future.
We should draw a line in the sand and tell ourselves that never again are we going to permit a few greedy and corrupt men and women to hold the whole nation to ransom and to drive the majority of the people into endemic poverty whilst a few fat cats line their pockets with looted public wealth.
Put bluntly, going forward, we should refuse to be misgoverned.
Our new government should love the people. And of course, the government has to be lean and efficient without a bloated cabinet. A number of ministries will have to be combined and collapsed into single entities.
For instance, the Ministry of Justice & Legal Affairs and the Ministry of Constitutional & Parliamentary Affairs can easily be combined into a single ministry. The Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Lands can be collapsed into one ministry.
The Ministry of Regional Integration can be collapsed into the Ministry of Economic Planning & Regional Integration etc.
We should immediately adopt a new socio-political and economic paradigm where the concept of “jobs for the boys” is abolished forthwith. We want to build a culture of meritocracy as opposed to obscurantism and clientelism. We should not expect a cabinet of anything in excess of 20 ministers.
Whether or not Yours Truly is part of that cabinet is not an issue! What Zimbabwe needs, and needs very urgently, is a lean and fully functional and efficient cabinet.
Uhuru Kenyatta recently cut the size of the Kenyan cabinet from 44 ministers to only 18. We can learn from the Kenyan experience. It is not quantity that matters. What really matters is quality. As it is often stated, it is not the size of the dog that matters in a fight, but the fight in the dog.
Zimbabwe is at the crossroads. Failure is not an option. Surrendering is simply not on the agenda. Success is guaranteed. We know that only 18 percent of the country’s 88,000 km road network is tarred.
We know that less than 25 percent of the country’s 14 million inhabitants have access to safe and piped water as well as electricity. This might sound formidable but then with the correct focus and determination, we can achieve a remarkable turnaround in record time. It can be done. And it should be done.
When some of our political leaders talk of achieving a US$100 billion economy by 2040, we shouldn’t think that they have taken leave of their senses. We have to dream; and to dream big.
It is a complete embarrassment for a great nation like Zimbabwe to be run on a shoe-string budget of a mere US$3 billion a year. We are too big to be run like a tuck shop. We should refuse to be poor. We deserve better and as I have already stated, the time for playing a blame game is over.
We deserve to be the new emerging tiger of Africa. We are a sleeping giant waiting to wake up from a deep slumber.
Countries with very limited natural resources such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong have managed to transform their economies into highly developed nation states in record time. We can also do it; we have both the natural and human resources.
Lake Kariba was commissioned by the Queen Mother in 1960 and today, more than 50 years afterwards, we still have a limited electricity generation capacity of 1200 megawatts at Kariba. We have failed to improve upon what the colonialists had done for us.
We should wake up and smell the coffee. And now we hear stories that the Kariba dam wall has to be reinforced or else it may collapse with devastating consequences for the entire sub-region. We should not wait to take action because a major disaster might be happening soon.
We have to be pro-active, we have to plan in advance.
I was in Kariba during the Easter holidays in March 2013 where I noticed a major environmental disaster that is slowly taking place. The deadly water hyacinth weed is slowly covering the water surface in Lake Kariba. If we are not careful, the whole of the lake will soon be covered under this deadly weed. The time for action is now.
It is not impossible to emerge victorious from trying times. Fifty years ago, South Korea was a peasant economy whose gross domestic product (GDP) was less than the GDP of Ghana. But where is South Korea now?
Who doesn’t know about the global brand called Samsumg? Samsung has taken the world by storm in a relatively short period of time. It has overtaken major brands such as Sony and Panasonic. Today, everyone is talking about the Samsung smart phones.
Zimbabwe can also design its own unique products that can capture global appeal. That is the way to go. We have highly qualified personnel both locally and in the Diaspora who should be able to take this great nation to the next level.
Our agenda for action should take us away from a life of deprivation, servitude and penury. We should unlock value from all the opportunities that abound in this blessed country. It shouldn’t be impossible to create one million new jobs within the next five years.
The idea is to build an industrialised modern nation state where poverty is eliminated. We cannot continue to have a flea market economy when our country is endowed with so much natural resources. Looking ahead, exciting times are about to happen in Zimbabwe. Truly, a New Zimbabwe beckons.
Obert Gutu is the Senator for Chisipite in Harare. He is the MDC Harare provincial spokesperson and also the Deputy Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs in the coalition government.
MUDZI – A shocking You Tube video exposes the murderous role of Zanu PF’s MP for Mudzi North, Milton Kachepa (also known as Newton in other reports).
Video posted by SW Radio Africa last year implicates Milton Kachepa as an inciter of violence in Mudzi
Despite the formation of a coalition government in February 2009 the MP was filmed in 2012 warning MDC-T supporters that Zanu PF doesn’t just ‘kill’ but ‘destroys’ those who provoke it by supporting ‘sell-outs’ in the opposition.
A headman who also gave his testimony in the video says Kachepa boasted to him during a meeting that he had killed MDC-T activists known as Muronde, Tambo, the son of an official called Mweza and another activist in Ward 2.
The headman said Kachepa told him: “All these four people were killed by me. The only one left is you (he said pointing at the headman). He said ‘You are the only one left and I am yet to kill you. You are easy to kill.”
The video dated 20 April 2012 and which was posted by SW Radio Africa onto video sharing website You Tube, clearly captures Kachepa inciting violence at Dendera Business Centre in Mudzi.
Speaking in Shona he tells the crowd: “Don’t be taken away by things to do with sell outs (MDC-T). If you do sell out things, I am telling you, you will cry.” He proceeds to warn them: “You should stop provoking the spirits of the dead heroes. That’s why there was chaos in 2008.”
Kachepa was referring to the violence that preceded the June 2008 presidential run-off.
After MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai won the first round of the March 2008 presidential election, state security chiefs loyal to a defeated Mugabe launched a retribution campaign killing over 500 people and maiming tens of thousands.
“We should not support something that will make us suffer and lose our human aspects at the end,” Kachepa lectured the crowd.
“When we talk about the nation, we talk about death. I am with you here because of the issue of death. You say ZANU PF kills. It doesn’t kill. If you provoke it, it destroys,” he warned them.
Several days after Kachepa’s speech in which he was inciting violence, a group of over 300 ZANU PF supporters advanced on a gathering of some 70 MDC-T supporters who were having a rally at Chimukoko Business Centre. The skirmishes resulted in the death of MDC-T official Cephas Magura.
According to the testimony of a young boy herding cattle at the time, Magura was hit with a stone by the ZANU PF gang, who continued to assault him as he lay on the ground. He was then dragged to the roadside and left for dead. Seven other MDC-T activists were injured and treated at the Avenues Clinic in Harare.
Two ZANU PF MPs, Kachepa (Mudzi North) and Aqualinah Katsande (Mudzi West), were implicated in this and many other incidents in the area.
Several witnesses saw Kachepa’s pick up truck and Katsande’s Mazda T3500 truck being used to ferry the ZANU PF youths, who later attacked Magura.
The Zimbabwe Wall of Shame is constantly updated with new information. If you have any extra details or testimonies that need investigating or publishing contact this journalist via email [email protected] or follow him on twitter @LanceGuma
HARARE – Court officials in Zimbabwe say a man has been charged in the murder of six people who died from poisoned food meant only for a neighbor he accused of flirting with his wife.
State prosecutors said Tuesday that Saini Sakandya, 63, arrested last week, allegedly used a wild herb to spike food being prepared for lunch at his neighbor’s house.
But the neighbor, four members of his family and a builder working at the homestead 250 kilometers (160 miles) south of Harare shared the meal.
In a separate incident in Bulawayo, police said Tuesday a child of 12 confessed to trying to poison his father with rat killer, copying a murder in Generations, a popular South African television soap screened in Zimbabwe.
His father survived after hospital treatment last Thursday. AFP
HARARE – Urban grooves sensation Rockford ‘Roki’ Josphats showed again his versatility and talent when he unveiled a new style during his performance held at the Telecel main stage at the Harare international Festival of the Arts (HIFA).
Roki and Mampi
Roki shared the stage with Zambian songbird Mampi.
Though the Chidzoka’s singer overall performance was received with mixed feelings, he displayed high levels of creativity.
He performed a track called H-Town Swing which had a rock and roll flair fused with shone lyrics just before his duet with Zambia’s former Big Brother housemate Mampi.
Roki has shown his creativity and versatility on other tracks like Chidzoka which was a hit a couple of years back.
Apart from Roki’s performance, Zambian songbird Mampi who was clad in a black outfit and fancy heels, gave a good account of herself on stage.
She dazzled fans, especially the male patrons with her dances and hit song Walilowelela.
State prosecutors said Tuesday that Saini Sakandya, 63, arrested last week, allegedly used a wild herb to spike food being prepared for lunch at his neighbor’s house.
