ZANU PF aligned social media user Kudzai Mutisi has told President Emmerson Mnangagwa to resign and stay if he does not understand his responsibility to appoint a new minister of Health and Child Care to replace the sacked Dr Obadiah Moyo. Posting on Twitter, Mutisi who has of late been candid on Mnangagwa and ZANU PF said the President was failing to see the urgency to appoint a new minister when the country was going through a pandemic which he said was strange of him. “President @edmnangagwa must appoint a new Minister of Health without any delay… If he doesn’t know his responsibilities as a president he must resign and stay at home. Why is he so slow to act? We are in the middle of a pandemic & the President sees no urgency at all? Strange,” sais Muti
Before we set out, I made a telephone call to my trusted long-time mentor, friend and lawyer – David Drury. I told him that we were about to go on a peaceful walking protest in the neighbourhood. I told him we had taken every precaution in the book to ensure we were compliant with the law. We wore face masks. We were walking within the permitted radius. We carried sanitizer. We were going to respect social distancing. There were 7 of us. Our actions were peaceful. We had written placards that read “No Violence,” “I am protesting peacefully,” Babies’ Lives Matter,” “Covid Kills, So does corruption,” “FreeZimbabwe,” “I have a dream,” and “EndHunger”. When we were making these placards, we joked
NOTICE TO THE PEOPLE OF ZIMBABWE By Hon Job Wiwa Sikhala 31st July Movement As you have noticed after the 31st of July, instead of the regime attending to the issues raised by the Zimbabwean citizens they went into the default mode and escalated human rights abuses all over the place. Our people are being beaten, tortured, arrested for no apparent reason. This can not be allowed to continue. On Saturday night residents of Dzivarasekwa were beaten door to door by people in military uniforms. The same thing happened in St. Mary’s around Chigovanyika area where citizens at night were indiscriminately beaten in their homes for no explanation. Yesterday they were beating people door to door around the place where my house is called kuMapositori. In Zvishavane, the same happened,
FORMER Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has challenged ex-Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono and presented evidence that he settled his debt under the Farm Mechanisation Programme. Kasukuwere was forced to absolve himself after a State-owned daily claimed that he did not pay back the loan under the programme after United Kingdom-based Zimbabwe lawyer Alex Magaisa disclosed the full list of top Zanu PF bigwigs and their cronies who benefited from the controversial scheme in 2007/8. In a statement, the former Zanu PF national commissar blamed top party and government officials for hiding behind the finger, by claiming that the programme was not a loan in order to avoid paying back. “It is with great disappointment that I learnt the RBZ and some former ex
FAMOUS novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga and spokeswoman for the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance Fadzayi Mahere have been released on ZWL$5000 bail. Dangarembga, a colleague Julie Barnes, Mahere and six others who took part in the anti-corruption protest appeared before Harare magistrate Ngoni Nduna. They were charged with contravening section 37(1)(b) of the Criminal Law (Codification & Reform) Act by participating in a gathering with intent to promote public violence, breach of peace or bigotry. They had been arrested in Zimbabwe’s capital on July 31 and subsequently spent the night in prison before appearing in court on Saturday. Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights represented the accused and also secured the bail of Simon Drury, Tinashe Murap
ZIMBABWE will not be lectured by misinformed and misguided regional parties such as the South African Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) on anything as the country is not a province of South Africa. Responding to a misleading statement issued by the Generation 40 (G40) linked EFF, which sought to cast aspersions at the recently signed US$3.5 billion Global Compensation Deed (GCD) deal between Government and representatives of former white farmers, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Mr Nick Mangwana said the agreement was a fulfilment of constitutional provisions. "The compensation of the said farmers is in line with the Zimbabwe Constitution, overwhelmingly voted for by the majority of Zimbabweans, political leaders acr
HARARE Mayor Herbert Gomba, who is facing criminal abuse of office charges, was on Thursday granted $10 000 bail by the Anti-Corruption Court of the High Court, but has been banned from setting foot at Town House and dealing with municipal officials, meaning he will find it almost impossible to continue mayoral duties. He was appealing against a decision by Harare regional magistrate Mrs Bianca Makwande to deny him bail after she found that there was high risk he would interfere with evidence if released. Through his lawyer Professor Lovemore Madhuku, Gomba appealed for bail at the higher court. Anti-Corruption Court of the High Court judge Justice Felistus Chitakunye granted the application by Gomba and freed him on $10 000, but banned him from setting foot at Town House and banned
Obert Gutu is laughing at the 31 July demo which was a major flop and disappointment for many Zimbabweans. The lead up to this Demonstration saw the arrest of journalist Hopewell Chin'ono which sparked the emotions of many Zimbabweans. 31 July came and everyone was hoping for the same demo which happened in 2016 which saw Mugabe get out of office but 31 July was a huge failure. Obert Gutu wrote the following. A monumental flop at every level. An embarrassingly grand exposition of a debilitating deficit in strategy. A laughable demonstration of lack of thought and precision. A historic exposition of leadership deficiency. Mediocrity RELOADED - obert Gutu Many of the organizer such as Job Sikhala went to hiding weeks before the Demo. People had no leadership or anyone
MDC Alliance Secretary for Communications Advocate Fadzai Mahere has been arrested in Harare for participating in the much-hyped #31July protests. Mahere was arrested live on Camera when she was doing a Facebook Live video MDC Vice President Tendai Biti said, "It appears that the desperate regime is now arresting citizens wily nily. They appear to have picked up Tsitsi Dangarembgwa, our spokesperson Mahere and others. The right to peacefully demonstrate is codified in our constitution."
The MDC-T secretary general, Douglas Mwonzora, has laughed off the planned July 31 protest against the deteriorating economy saying it will be a big flop as no person in their right mind will waste their time going into the streets, a strategy which he says has proven to be a failure over the years. Mwonzora said his party will not be participating in the protests as they have bigger issues to attend to among them, their congress. He said he was willing to bet his last cent that no protest will be done on July 31. “I can bet you my last cent that no one will attend the demonstrations. It will be a huge flop. The MDC-T will not be a part of the protests because we are busy preparing for our congress. “On the day of the protests, is when we are supposed to have our congr
