The Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has expressed concern over President Robert Mugabe’s weekend attack on the judiciary for clearing anti-government protests.

Zimrights, in a statement on Monday, said it was worried that the attack poses “a clear threat to the independence of the judiciary in particular and the constitutional order at large”.

Addressing the ruling Zanu PF youth wing last Saturday, Mugabe said the judiciary acted recklessly by ordering popular demonstrations to go ahead despite police resistance.

“The statements are unfortunate coming from the head of State and government, whose primary duty and oath of office commits him to defending the constitution of Zimbabwe.

“The constitution…commits the president to protecting the inalienable rights that the Bill of Rights in Chapter 4 allots to Zimbabwean citizens regardless of their political affiliations, including the freedom to peacefully demonstrate and petition,” said ZimRights.

The watchdog said Mugabe must not put his personal interests ahead of the constitution.

“Neither should considerations of the interests of his political party override the duties of his public office through utterances that constitute an ill-advised executive interference with the democratic independence of the judiciary,” it added.

The freedom to peacefully demonstrate and petition is granted under Section 59 of the constitution.

“The judiciary justifiably performed its functions when it upheld this inalienable constitutional right by reasonably and legitimately granting court orders for protests to go ahead,” added ZimRights.

Recent protests turned violent when the police sought to stop them, but ZimRights said where violence occurs, police must investigate instead of shifting the blame to the judiciary.

“It is unfortunate that for reasons known to the head of state, he has also turned a blind eye to the reported cases of police provocation of protestors, and excessive and indiscriminate use of physical violence, teargas and water cannons against innocent civilians in the recent protests.

“The utterances by the President are clearly aimed at subduing the judiciary to the control and political puppetry of partisan interests of the ruling party, which is an abrogation of the principle of non-interference with the independence of the judiciary,” said the watchdog.

This is just a short note to follow my letter entitled “A New Beginning” in which I detailed the flight from Swaziland to Dubai, via Harare and Lusaka of Robert Mugabe. In that letter I said he was not going to be able to come back and was probably the victim of a stroke.

He left the SADC Summit on Tuesday evening and his aircraft returned Saturday morning after a 11 hour flight from Dubai. That meant he was in Dubai for two nights and three days. That is not enough time for anything to be done to him and the State media here are going to great lengths to ridicule talk of his health and possible incapacity.

However our sources are impeccable and there is no doubt that he is very ill and frail. There is also talk that he needs an operation but that his chances of survival are limited and that Singapore – his traditional choice for frequent medical treatments has said that they are reluctant to allow further visits on the basis that his survival his in doubt.

Pictures of the man at the Agricultural Show in Harare last week, unable to get shoes on his feet (circulation problems linked to heart conditions) and struggling to stand by himself or walk, sleeping in his seat at the Japan/Africa summit in Kenya and an awful image of him on the podium.

Followed by a very public collapse in the SADC summit and his hurried departure at 22.00 hrs for Harare where he did not get off the plane which then loaded a medical team and fuel and set off for Singapore.

Then the sudden diversion to Lusaka and another departure to Singapore with an unplanned turn over the Indian Ocean to Dubai can only mean a health crisis.

In recent months he has clearly not been fully in charge of national affairs. He is a frail, shrunken old man with obvious health problems. Flying him around the world in an aircraft is certainly not ideal treatment of care – more like a deliberate attempt to kill him.

I remain convinced that he cannot come back from this. This is the end of the Mugabe era and the start of a new era under new leadership for Zimbabwe the only questions are how and when.

A 51 year old Beatrice man caused a stir at Chitungwiza magistrates’ court after he drank a poisonous liquid upon conviction for cell phone theft.

Cuthbert Shoko was convicted for stealing his niece’s phone by magistrate Francis Mapfumo.

The magistrate was about to deliver his sentence when Shoko suddenly took a small bottle with a poisonous substance from his pocket and gulped the contents before court orderlies reached for him.

Shoko was out of custody during his trial.

He then took the bottle and hit the magistrate on face with it before he was apprehended by prison authorities who then rushed him to Chitungwiza hospital.

Mapfumo was forced to adjourn court business.

According to the state, Shoko was an employee at Tavistock Estates in Beatrice.

He stole a cell phone from his wife’s sister Yeukai Mutefani (25)

Allegations against him arose on April 15 this year.

His niece was having a drink with her boyfriend Chester Mupfimbwa and Edmore Chandanangirira at Hippo Drum Bottle Store.

The three then went to Beatrice motel where Mutefani had a disagreement with her boyfriend.’

She then gave her cell phone to Chandanangirira for safe keeping after striking her boyfriend with a bottle on the face and arm.

Chandanangirira then took the phone to his place and the following day Shoko went to Chandanangirira’s place where he resided together with Mutefani’s boyfriend to help him nurse his injuries.

He then took Mutefani’s phone from Chandanangirira, saying he was going to deliver it but never did.

He was arrested after he failed to account for the cell phone.

POLICE have claimed that the country was under threat of terror attacks, hence, a decision to ban demonstrations and political rallies to ensure terrorists do not take advantage of the volatile situation to create anarchy.

After banning demonstrations in Harare last week, police now say they fear a full-scale war could break out in the country due to messages circulating on social media and could not allow political rallies in other urban centres in light of the threats.

“Serious threats have been received from various pressure groups through social media inciting people to declare a full war in Zimbabwe starting on September 2, to destroy all police properties, to destroy all roadblocks with fire, to blow up allgovernment vehicles and buildings, attack all members of the prison services and release all prisoners in jail, seize Zimbabwe Revenue Authority by force, shut down all major shops until government changes, prevent all airlines from landing and taking off, allow bus operators to operate at their risk and to blow up all Zupco buses and ambulances,” the police wrote in a letter banning the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)’s first anniversary rally.

PDP had notified the police of its intention to hold a rally to mark its first anniversary, but the police said they could not allow it, as they were stretched in trying to prevent full-scale war and terror.

We do not take these threats lightly and we have remained on high alert since September 1, a situation that has strained our resource utilisation,” officer commanding Bulawayo West district police, Chief Superintendent Mthokozisi Manzini Moyo, wrote to the party in a letter yesterday.

“We advise that your intended event be delayed up to such a time when security threats levels reduce to normal. In this regard, I invoke the provisions of section 26(9) of the Public Order and Security Act Chapter 11:17.”

He said information reaching his office indicated that the opposition party’s planned event might be compromised.

PDP’s anniversary rally was scheduled for White City in Bulawayo on Sunday, but has become the latest casualty of the prohibitions.

The police claimed the ban follows reports of terrorism threats circulated on social media platforms.

PDP Bulawayo provincial spokesperson, Edwin Ndlovu, described the ban as ridiculous.

“It is very ridiculous for the police to act in the manner they have acted. Ours is just an anniversary celebration, which has nothing to do with the said allegations,” he said.

“All these accusations do not hold water and are ridiculous, to say the least. We are appealing against this unilateralism. For the avoidance of doubt, our celebrations are going ahead, whichever way, come Sunday. Zimbabwe is not a police State and we frown at this behaviour by the police.”

PDP said its legal team was preparing a court challenge to the ban, which comes a few days after police in Harare prohibited protest marches in the central business district until September 16 under Statutory Instrument 101a. The provision is currently being challenged at the High Court, with PDP leader, Tendai Biti representing the applicants.

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has alleged that the country is on the brink of a civil war being plotted by social media activists.

The claim emerged in a statement used to ban an application by the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to hold its anniversary in Bulawayo on 11 September.

Bulawayo police threw out the application, insisting there was a serious threat to national security and thus police could not entertain political gatherings.

Zinhu zvinoita kuti vakomana murambwe nevasikana vamunonyenga! Vamwe vakanyora zvinoita kuti vasikana varambwe ini ndiri kunyoravo zvinoita kuti vakomana murambwevo.
1-kusagez­a mazino kunorambisa.
2-kudrop­er trouse.
3-kuputa fodya nekumwa hwahwa.
4 kuda kungorara nemusikana pasina kutendera.
5 kuchiva vamwe vasikana une babe rako.
6 kugara nemabvudzii mumosoro.
7 kukumbira number dzevamwe vasikana ndinewe zvorambisa.
8 kusarespector musikana wako.
9 kusamuendesawo kusaloon.
10 kuvirikidza matrouse.
11 kusada kuyemerwa nababe wako.
12 kusamutengeravo pizza.
13 kunyepera babe
14 kushaya nyaya une musikana wako.
15 kusamufambirawo kunomuona asi kuti iye akufambire.

Zvinhu zvinokurambisai Vasikana Batisisai Mashoko Angu.. ..

1-Kuramba kubatwa zamu kunorambisa
2-kuuya kuzoona mukomana wakapfeka jean tight
3-kupfimbwa nhasi mangwana wakutoda airtime
4- kupfeka see through hembe
5-Kubvunza mukomana kuti uchandiroora rinhi
6-kubviswa bhurugwa usingaitewo nharo ‘open check’
7-Kuita mazino eyellow kunge anogezwa ne royco
8-Kuita skin dzz uchikoniwa kutsvaga brake fluid
9- kurukwa magodi
10-kukumbira mari uchida zvekuroorwa siyana nazvo
11-Kufarira prezha maningi kunorambisa
12- kugara mu 4n mako muine dancehall chete musinawo kana Agatha kunorambisa
13- kungobatwa nemukomana usingashinyirewo
14-kungobvuma chese chataurwa nemukomana
15- kuonekwa uri online asi usati wapindura chat yake
16-kusaisa mukomana wako pa profile pic
17-kutaura slen always
18-ku reserver call everytime uine mukomana wako
19- kuziva pese pane Chicken inn,Nando’s,Pizza inn or Bello warambwa
20- kunoona mukomana urikumwedzi

Shock nezvandaona corner mbuyanehanda na Speke vamwe Ambuya vanga vachiyamwisa kiti vapedza vakabva vaidzorera mu bag kwakuenda

DZIMWE nyanzvi munyaya dzechivanhu pamwe nemaporofita vakapa maonero avo pamusoro penyaya yemusikana anoti akagara pasi pemvura nenjuzu kwemakore akawanda apo aitumwa kunobira vanhurume mari neupfumi hwavo.

Izvi zvinotevera nyaya yaCharity Makurumidze, uyo akabuda pachena kuti aishandiswa nemweya yetsvina achigara pasi pemvura nenjuzu kwemakore 16 apo aitumwa kunodanana nevarume achivatorera mari nekuparadza upfumi hwavo. VaPatrick Kapfunde (40), n’anga yekuMt Darwin iyo inozivikanwa nekuti Sekuru Bhaureni, vanoti njuzu mukurarama kwevanhu haina kuipa nekuti inotochengetedza mhuri dzevanhu vanenge vachibatwa nemweya iyi.

“Nyaya yemusikana uyu kwedu kuchivanhu hapana chakaipa nekuti shavi renjuzu rinorapa zvikuru kunyange zvirwere zviya zvinonzi zvinonetsa kupera. Izvo zvekuti pasi ipapo pane misha inogarwa nevanhu vachitorarama upenyu kuine huku, mombe, motokari nezvimwe hazvirambike, zviriko. Ndokusaka muchinzwa kuti kune makomo anonzwikwa vanhu vachidzvura nekuseka huku dzichikekedza,” vakadaro.

Zvisinei vakapokana nemashoko akataurwa naCharity ekuti aitumwa nenjuzu kunobira vanhurume mari neupfumi vachiti njuzu hadziite zvakadaro. “Njuzu ine runyararo, aya akanga ava mabasa emweya yetsvina nekuti kutora mari dzevanhu nekuparadza mabhizimisi mweya wakaipa.” Sekuru Bhaureni vakatsinhirawo nyaya yekuti vanhukadzi vatsvuku, vanaku ndivo vanodiwa nenjuzu.

“Ichokwadi ichi kuti mabasa iwaya anofambirana nekunaka kwevanhu saka muchizoona vamwe vachiti mukadzi akanaka zvakanyanya anotyisa, vamwewo vanobva vati mukadzi mutsvuku muroyi kana kuti ipfambi,” vakadaro.

Mbuya Florence Musarurwa Mushipe Madyira (50) vekuChitungwiza vakati mushure mekunge Charity agara nenjuzu pasi pemvura aifanira kudzoka ave murapi achishandisa mishonga yechivanhu. “Nyaya yandinoziva ndeye kuti vanhukadzi vakanyanya kunaka vanoshandiswa zvikuru nemweya yetsvina, zvikuruwo nekubatwa nemashavi enjuzu uyewo havadi kuroorwa,” vakadaro Mbuya Madyira.

Mbuya Marita Ridhi vekuChitungwiza vakatiwo nyaya yemusikana uyu inotyisa uye yakasiyana nekuziva kwavanoita maitiro enjuzu.

Madzibaba Passmore Chinovava vekuMt Hampden, vakati ichokwadi kuti mweya yakaipa inoda kushandisa madzimai akanaka.

“Honai mukaenda mumabhawa vakadzi vamunoona imomo munoti vashaya chii kuita basa iri, mashavi iwayo anotevera madzimai akanaka,” akadaro Madzibaba Passmore.

Ndiri mudzimai ane makore 29, ndave nemakore 2 ndaroorwa. Ndakasangana nemurume wangu mubhazi ndichienda ku South Africa muna 2011. Takataure tese munzira tiri mubhazi ndokubva ndamupa phone number dzangu akandivimbisa kuti aizondifonera. Pakapera mwedzi wese asina kumbondifonera, nerimwe zuva ndakagara zvangu ndakanzwa yapinda nhare wanike ndiye Peter. Takataura kwenguva refu, nekufamba kwenguva rudo rwakatibata. Peter aigara ku Kadoma ini ndaigara ku Gweru.

Every Friday ndaikwira bhazi ndakananga Kadoma kunoona mudiwa wangu ndaizodzoka kumba Gweru Sunday manheru. Pese apa handina kumbobvira ndarara naye kusvika taroorana. Kutaura chokwadi Peter haazi iye akandibvisa humhandara ndakazotoroorwa na Peter ndararwa nevakomana vakati wandeyi chaizvo. Zvisineyi hazvo ndakamirira kusvika Peter andiroora asi ndakange ndanzwa nekuda kurarwa. Pfuma yese akabvisa kuvabereki vangu hapana chaasina kuvapa, mombe dzese nemari akabvisa asi dammbudziko rapinda mumba mangu ndere bonde.

Peter ane mudziyo muhombe chaizvo mubhurugwa make but haagone kushandisa zinhu rake. Musi wekutanga paakabvisa hembe ndakafara ndaona kukura kwakaita zinhu rake nekuti ini ndine magaro mahombe saka ndiyo size yandainyatsoda tsvaga. Zuva rekutanga hatina kana kumbotora nguva refu Peter anga atotunda kare.

Ndakashingirira semunhu anga achangobva kurorwa, pakapera mwedzi asi no change 2 minutes shasha inenge yatopedza. Ndakataurira babamunini anova munin’ina wake kuti Peter arikutadza basa rake mubedroom. Nezuro ndakaramba kuenda ku Church nekuti ndainyatsonzwa kuda kurarwa apawo Peter ndokubuda mumagumbeze achiti anoda kuenda kuChurch. Ndakasara ndine hasha dzakanyanya. Ndakabuda mumagumbeze pakaenda Peter kuchurch ndokubva ndapinda mukitchen ndisina hangu kupfeka hembe sezvo ndakanga ndasara hangu ndega.

Ndakarohwa nehana pakapinda babamunini mu kitchen ndokubva vandiudza kuti ndine magaro nemazamu akanaka. Ndakangonyemwerera ndokubva ndatarisa pasi ndichienda kubedroom. Ndanzwa nenhomba yekuda kunyatsororwa nayo, asi Peter atadza basa rake. Babamunini vakanditi vanogona kundikwirwa kana ndisingazotaurire Peter. Zvino vehama ndibatsireiwo ndovhurira babamunini makumbo here

Thank you Tete Molly. I have a big problem and you are my last hope. I am so confused I don’t know what to do. I am madly in love with my sister’s ex­boyfriend and if all goes according to our plans, he wants to go and pay lobola this year in December, anytime before Christmas. The problem is everyone including my father is saying no to our relationship. They are all saying that it won’t be fair to my sister. Nyaya iripo ndeyekuti vakarambana vega ndisiri mukati mazvo, takazodanana after the break­up.

Of course, this guy used to come home for my sister and before their break­up vanga vasvitsana kwana tete, but my sister falsely accused him of cheating on her. Tete Molly he is a good guy, very understanding, loving and caring and would never cheat. It’s not like I snatched him from my sister, please understand vemhuri vari kungopaparika vachiti hazviite without giving me a chance to explain. I no longer see eye­to­eye with my sister, my question is chii chiri kumunetsa pamunhu waanga asiyana naye?

Ukarasa chinhu kubin munhu akanonga hake akachigadziridza iye akamborasa anotevera here kunobvunza? I want you to look at this issue without favour but I am not ashamed to say I am in love, this is my man, my life, my future, my husband­to­be, my everything. I hope you will pick my letter because I’m desperate for an answer. Anondipedza simba kana yasvika nguva yebonde, ndinoona nyeredzi chaidzo zuva rakacheka nyika” Tirikudanana zvinopisa, I feel it’s true love.

Response

Thank you for following our column, yes I picked your letter because my sixth sense tells me that we need to iron this out immediately. Let’s go through your letter phase by phase. You say you are so confused, I will confess and say I am equally confused because I don’t understand why you are fussing about your sister’s ex­boyfriend. In our culture, family plays a pivotal role that’s why we say mhuri yakura when someone gets married. My question is sei iwe uri kuda kutanga nekuita shut out the whole family, you need their blessing

How do you know for sure that your sister falsely accused this guy when you were not part and parcel of their relationship? Example yako yechinhu charaswa kubin haikwane apa, chinhu chikaraswa hachitaure zvakare hachikonzerese, that’s the difference, munhu munhu. In my opinion this guy has no respect for your family at all. Zvinoreva here kuti anoda kunosumiswa rwepiri kuna tete vamwe chetevo, this time around with the younger sister, chirudziiko ichocho?

Remember even if you marry this guy you describe as the love of your life you will still need your sister and family. Ko unoperekedzwa nani? Ungadewo here kuti mukoma wako ave kunze kwehupenyu hwako nehurongwa hwewanano yako? For interest’s sake, what kind of relationship will be between this guy and your sister? Shamwari, dzikisa pfungwa, usaputirwe nerudo. In all fairness I think you should listen to your family and maybe to me. I boldly say leave this guy alone unozozvidemba, dai ndakaziva haitungamire. This will hurt you for a while but you will surely get over it, there is plenty of love in the air. Chokwadi hachiputse hukama. I will wait to hear from you.

Ndakabata Munin’ina Wangu Achisvira Mukadzi Wangu – Ndovaita Sei?

Ndiri murume ane 25 years, ndakaroora mukadzi ane 21, munin’ina wangu ari form 6 ane 19 years. Ndaigara nemunin’ina kubva ari form 4 kusvika nhasi.Vaviri ava vanoremekedzana chero chiramu havatambe. Asi zvakaitika nezuro zvakandishamisa handina kana kurara nhasi.

Ndinobva kubasa kuma 9pm and patinogara pane imbwa so ndikasvika dzinohukura & people will know ndauya. Tinoroja cottage yedu tega kuma low density. Main entrance ine screen door resimbi zvekuti uchipinda pascreen unenge wave mupassage, ku right kune spare bedroom inorara munin’ina and kuleft kune kitchen and inside kitchen mune inside door rinopinda mu bedroom medu. Nezuro I got home early than usual, around 7.55pm. Imbwa dzakangondi mhanyira asi hadzina kuhukura. All lights edzimba were off.

Handina kushamisika nekuti pamwe ndosvika varara.
Ndakavhura screen door ndokupinda ndikabva ndavhara. Ndakavhura door rekuleft mukitchen ndokuita light on. Ndakashamisika kuona mudzimai wangu akamira pakati pemba. Ndakamuvhunza asi iye akati ndanzwa screen door noise ndikaziva wauya so ndoda kukutambira. Ndakabva ndamupa paperbag randaive naro and proceeded to the inside door remubedroom. But iye akandimisa achitaura zvine love mukati achiti ‘ko ukuendepi hausi kundiona.’ Akabva andigumbandira about 2 mins achibvunza kuti ndaswera sei, basa riri sei etc.

Ndakazomuvhunzawo kuti ko matako angu aswera
sei ndipo paakati shhh nyarara babamunini vari mubedroom. Imomo ndimo mune TV yedu sezvo tisina dinning room asi ndakabva ndaita dzimwe pfungwa.

1. Kana vanhu ava vanga vasati varara ko why were all lights were off & place quiet especially since vanga vari 2 mubedroom vega.

2. Vaviri ava havana kuziva ndasvika nekuti imbwa hadzina kuhukura. Vakazongonzwa noise ye screen door ndavhura. I suspect wife akamhanya achida kuita kitchen light on, but even though ndakanonoka nefone yadonha ndakamutangira saka akabva angomira pakati pemba.

3. Pandaida kupinda mu bedroom she delayed me nelong hug and sweet talks pamwe munin’ina akanga asati anyatsopfeka.

Idzi pfungwa dzakandinetsa asi I tried zvakawanda kuti ndizame kuvabata but hapana zvandakanzwa kana kuona. Nyaya iyi ndinga investigate sei ndibate chokwadi. Ko kana chiri chokwadi ndingaitonge sei nyaya iyi.

Ndiri musikana ane makore 19 years ndinogara kwaMajange kuMasvingo. Ndine mwana mukomana ane 3 months asi handina murume. Ndakange ndakaroorwa asi ndakasiyana nemurume wangu mushure mekunge tarambana. Murume wangu ndaimuda chaizvo nemoyo wangu wese asi takatadza kugarisana.

Hembe dzake ndaidzigeza, chikafu ndaimubikira zvese zvaiida ndaimuitira. Dambudziko hombe rakatanga mushure mekunge ndave nepamuviri pange pave ne 8 months. Ndakatanga kuita chirwere chekungoda kukwirwa nguya yega yega. Murume wangu akatanga achimbozama chaizvo asi ndaingoti after one hour takwirana ndainzwa kuda zvakare. Murume wangu akambotanga achimwa guchu nemapiritsi kuti awane simba rekunyatso ndikwira asi zvakashaya basa.

Ndakamboshingirira ndichiudza murume wangu kuti asaore moyo nekuti aizama chaizvo kuda kuti ndifare. Ndisati ndave nepamuviri apa taikwirana almost everyday but izvi kana neni zvaitondinetsawo nekuti pakanga pasingaperi one or two hours ndisati ndave kuda kukwirwa. Pamba patinogara imba yatakasiirwa nevabereki vedu vasati vashaya. Pamba apa ndinogara ne sister yangu inovawo ine murume wayo musoja. Pane rimwe zuva sister vangu vakange vasipo uyewo murume wangu akange asipo.

Ndinonyatsoziva kuti murume wesister yangu anoda zvevakadzi chaizvo nekuti vanogara vakanetsana nesister yangu nenyaya dzevasikana vake vasingaperi. Ipapo ndainyatsonzwa kuda kurarwa saka ndakaita zvivindi ndokubva ndabvisa hembe dzese ndokubva ndaenda kune musoja ndikamuudza kuti babamukuru ndinoda kurarwa. Shasha yakamboramba­ramba but yakandirova makumbo kwete zvekutamba zviya. Kubva ipapo hatina kuzombomira, takange tooita almost everyday.

Manje ndakaita dambudziko one rekuti murume wangu akaona ma messages mufoni mangu aibva kuna musoja achitaura nezvekukwirana kwatange tichiita. Murume wangu neshungu akaenda kunotaurira sister yangu tikarwa zvakaipa ne sister yangu. Manje chavekunetsa ndechekuti sister yangu ndave ne almost 4 months ndisina kutaura nayo yabva pamba.

Murume akabvawo pamba haana kana kuuya kuzoona mwana since pandakazvara. Musoja paakaonawo kuti nyaya yashata akabva atiza. Manje ndini ndega ndasara pamba asi chave kundishungurudza ndechekuti ndakanzwa kuti sister yangu yave kugara kuRujeko nemurume wangu. Handichazivi zvekuita ndapererwa ini, ndibatsireiwo nemazano

Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has declared that the ruling Zanu PF government will not consider the electoral reforms that opposition parties are clamouring for as that would be tantamount to “reforming ourselves out of power”.

Moyo told journalists here on Friday last week that the mooted move by the opposition parties to hold nationwide demonstrations to push for electoral reforms will be a waste of time as government has “had enough of attempts to institutionalise and entrench unreasonability”.

A grouping of 18 opposition parties under the banner of the National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) recently united to push President Robert Mugabe’s government to implement electoral reforms.

The parties, however, had their mega demos against the non-implementation of the reforms that had been planned for last Friday in Bulawayo and Harare banned.

But Moyo said even if opposition parties continue boycotting elections in protest — the ruling party will not move an inch because “their demands are totally unacceptable”.

“They (opposition parties) have been quiet for three years and now all of a sudden they want electoral reforms and give themselves a funny name, a parastatal name, like Nera,” Moyo said.

“Let us be clear, for a long time since 1999, the opposition had said the most important reform that must happen in the country is a new Constitution.

“…they were saying no Constitution, no elections, For a long time. We got that in 2013 and it was a negotiated Constitution among the political parties within the context of the Global Political Agreement (GPA),” Moyo said.

“The Electoral Act as it is right now is a product of GPA parties. Then they said no we must start talking about electoral reforms. It is totally unacceptable and we should not be in doubt about that because the fundamental laws of the land have changed.

“There is no law, conduct or practice or custom that supersedes the law or that is above the Constitution.”

Moyo said latest demands by opposition parties is an act of cowardice as the move is meant to disadvantage the ruling party and favour their opponents, something he said will not happen.

“Those people who made the laws they must be the ones who know what the provisions of section 2 of our Constitution say.

“Now they are coming out in their full colours as electoral cowards, they are now literally saying put in place electoral reforms that will ensure that you lose and we win and we are saying no,” he told journalists.

Moyo added: “That will never happen anyway in a modern constitutional democracy that a political party that is coming to government on the back of a new negotiated Constitution, on the back of a new negotiated Electoral Act to then come up with reforms intended to reform itself out of power.

“The reforms they are talking about are a clear code to say, come up with laws that will ensure that you are out.

“That will not happen. That will not happen because it is inherently unreasonable.”

The Tsholotsho North legislator said if the opposition parties were serious about electoral reforms they were supposed to put them in their electoral manifesto ahead of the 2018 watershed elections.

“We have heard enough of attempts to institutionalise and entrench unreasonability. We cannot continue doing that. If they want those reforms over and above what has been done they must put them in their manifesto.

“They must say we are contesting elections, we want these reforms implemented so that when we win we will reform ourselves out of power.

“Let them do that, that is what is done in a civilised world . . . let every party contest election on the basis of its reform agenda, let every party carry its own cross.”

The former Information minister also rubbished allegations from different quarters that he intended to destroy Zanu PF from within.

Opposition parties are demanding, among other things, the implementation of electoral reforms and also the announcement of a clear road-map to the next election by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission — a road-map complete with processes and time-frames.

Kuzvambura maiguru nayo mboro nyoro mukoma varikubasa! Hana yakati bha kurova, pandakatii baa food yandainge ndairwa patable. Nechemumoyo ndakangoti, aya ndiwo mashura chaiwo.

Kukasafiwa ,ndini ndinofa nemuchetura. Hazvaisashamisa nekuti nguva dzose mukoma vasipo maiguru vaindipakurira kaspede, kana kutoshaya zvachose. Maiguru vanga  vakandimaka zvekuti, vakatombosvika pakuda kundidzosa kumusha vachiti hee haateerere ,anehusimbe haadi kutsvaga basa. Zvemusi uyu ndakangoti hamheno. Ndakaigarira rice nechicken zvanga zviri so appetizing, neka salad padivi. Ka coca cola kari pa side.Ndapedza kudya ndakageza ndookuchinja semunhu aida kupinda mutown.

Ndavakutobuda ndakanzwa , “nhai bamunini ko zvamunenge mavekutobuda Siyai mandigadzirirawo bulb rangu ini ndichinogeza, mungazononoka kudzoka.”
Ndakabva ndaenda kubedroom kwavo ndikatrya kubakisa light zveshuwa harina kubaka. Ndakakwira pastool yaivamo ndookubvisa bulb. Hapana kupera kana 2 minutes munhu achigeza ndakanzwa door bheu, ndikati “ah maiguru handisi kuona problem, bulb harina kutsva.Maybe zvaakutoda electrician atarise wiring yacho.”

Ivo ndokuti,”zviri kwaaniko bamnini? Harina kutsva ndini zvangu ndadhingura magetsi.” Pandakati cheu ndakaona maiguru vasina kumonera towel kana kupfeka hembe. Hana yakati bha ndokusvetuka pa stool pandaiva ndakakwira ndikati,” zvino mandishevedzerei nhai
maiguru pasina problem?” Vakabva vauya close neni ndokuti ,” ndanga ndichida kuti mumbogarawo mukoma wenyu nhaka zvanhasi chete. I’m so lonely since akaenda
kuBulawayo. Ndoita nzara imi vadyi venhaka muripo? ” Hana yangu yakatanga kubika manhanga.

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The State Procurement Board (SPB) has reported its former boss, Charles Kuwaza, to the police for allegedly evading tax and drawing unauthorised allowances.

The SPB board led by former ambassador, Buzawani Mothobi, has also alerted the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) which is now supervising procurement following a series of reports of corruption over the years.

Kuwaza reportedly omitted paying salary and allowance taxes on hundreds of thousands of dollars he earned since dollarisation in 2009 even though the rest of the SPB employees complied.

The former SPB head is alleged to have argued that he would not pay tax since his contract was with the OPC but the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) went on to garnish the board after issuing numerous letters of demand.

Police’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Serious Fraud section is said to have opened a docket against Kuwaza, but it could not be established immediately what further action it had taken.

Kuwaza was relieved of his post at SPB, which recommended that he must negotiate his exit package with the OPC.

Mothobi said SPB was working on Kuwaza’s exit.

“We are in the process of finalising on the exit of Mr Kuwaza and all those issues are being taken into account. One does not want to pre-empt some of the things that need to be done and not to be done by just rushing to make statements on those issues,” Mothobi told the government-controlled media

Ndakatanga kuyuwira nekunakirwa ndichibatwa muviri wese nemukadzi wasahwira! Pane nyaya yanditemesa musoro pano. Zvakaitika ndezvekuti nezuro makuseni mudzimai wasahwira wangu akamukira kuuya kumba kwangu. Hazvina hazvo kundishamisa nokuti vanosishanya kumba kwangu semhuri.

Mudzimai wasahwira akandiudza kuti aida kugeza kuno sezvo geyser rake raive ratsva
element. Bathroom rangu riri mumba padhuze nekitchen ndakabuda mubedroom mangu ndikamuratidza kwekuti aende kunogeza. Haana kuuya nezvombo zvekugezesa saka akashandisa zvangu. Sahwira wangu aive aenda kupiece job saka iye mudzimai aive ega zvake kumba kwake uye aive asina shungu dzekudzokera kumba kwake nekukurumidza.  

Akapedza kugeza akauya mubedroom mangu akamonera tauro akati aida kuzora mafuta. Ndakamupa mafuta erudzi rwe camphor akazora zvake. Apedza kuzora akauya akazogara padivi pangu pamubhedha akapenengura towel kusiya zvinhu zvese zviri panze achiti aida kumbofurwa nemhepo.Ndakashaya kuti ndoita sei apa ndainzwa mboro yangu ichiita kuvhita vhita ichisumudza musoro wayo zvishoma nezvishoma zvekuti ndakashaya kuti ndoibata sei kuti mudzimai washahwira wangu asazvione kuti ndainge ndamisa mboro. Asi painge pasina mavigiro mboro yainge yatobatwa kare yaiswa mumuromo ichiita kusvisvinwa kunge chimwana chirikudya lollipop. Ndakatanga kuyuwira nekunakirwa  ndichibatwa muviri wese pandakaita nhasi ndinosvira mukadzi wasahwira. Ndakawona munhu asimuka ndikati ndazorova beche nhasi, ndikawona munhu achibuda zvikanzi maita basa kuti ndigeze mumba regai ndimhanye kumba murume wangu apedzise zvatatanga izvi.

Ndakaita hasha ndikati saka ndizvo zvamayinga kuzondiyedza, ndakavatuka ndikati handidi kukuwona futi pamba pangu.

Zimbabwe’s High Court struck down on Wednesday a two-week ban on public protests issued by the police, a ruling hailed as a brave stand by the courts in the face of threats to the judiciary from President Robert Mugabe.

Judge Priscilla Chigumba, who was deciding a case brought by political activists, said the official police notice issued last week after some of the worst public violence in two decades was invalid, and therefore suspended.

Mugabe’s opponents have become emboldened in the last two months by rising public anger over economic hardships including severe cash shortages, high unemployment and delays in payment of public workers.

Lawyer Tendai Biti, a former finance minister who represented the four activists, said the police commander who issued the notice had no authority and had violated the constitution.

After the ruling, Biti told reporters Chigumba had issued “a brave judgement that asserts the independence of the courts.”

On Saturday, 92-year-old Mugabe accused judges of being reckless in allowing anti-government demonstrations that later turned violent

Controversial legislator Joseph Chinotimba is in the eye of a storm after he allegedly threatened to have teachers who had attended an opposition party rally transferred from his Buhera South constituency.

While Chinotimba dismissed the allegations that are contained in a report compiled by Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) for the month of July, he insisted that he would not allow any teacher to attend a rally during school hours, whether they are MDC or Zanu PF.

According to the ZPP report “two school teachers, Christopher Jera from Muzokomba High School and one Munemo from Muzokomba Primary School were on July 22 threatened with transfers after attending an MDC rally at Mushongwi Business Centre in Buhera South”.

“It is reported that after the rally, Chinotimba summoned Kambira and Chirau, the headmasters of the schools, and ordered them to immediately transfer the teachers in clear violation of the teacher’s constitutional rights and freedoms of assembly. The teachers are reportedly living in fear due to the threats and suspicion that transfers could be effected anytime,” read the report.

However, Chinotimba said the allegations are a “100 percent lie”.

“I don’t have the power to transfer a teacher. But if a teacher abandons his post to go to a rally whether it’s a Zanu PF or MDC rally, handidi teacher anoenda kurally nguva dzebasa. Ndinoti pasi navo (I will not allow a teacher to attend a rally during schooling time).”

Chinotimba said he has often been labelled uneducated and would do everything in his power to give the children in his constituency the education he never had.

He added that he does not see Zimbabweans, particularly children, through political affiliation lenses.

“In fact, umwe teacher uyu muZanu PF (One of the teachers is a Zanu PF supporter) but you don’t give an excuse that you are sick and then go and attend a rally,” said Chinotimba.

In the report, ZPP also singled out a school in Buhera South that risks being prejudiced of development material due to political interference.

“The headmaster of Muzokomba Primary School (Buhera South) a Mashonganyika and his staff were verbally threatened with unspecified action by Chipo Chin’ono (Zanu PF) on July 4, after hosting some white missionaries from America,” ZPP said.

“It is reported that the missionaries had visited the school to offer financial assistance towards the construction of teachers’ accommodation. Chin’ono allegedly approached the headmaster accusing him of bringing American spies camouflaged as church pastors,” read the report.

“He further accused the school staff of being MDC party activists and promised tough action against them in the run-up to the 2018 (elections). The threats have the potential to deny the school staff the chance to freely associate with a political party and agencies of their choice.”

The Jestina Mukoko-led civic organisation said police brutality, denial of freedom to demonstrate, discrimination and denial of food aid were the other major highlights for the month of July

Winky D is pleased to announce the release of “Panorwadza Moyo” his highly anticipated first single of 2016

“Panorwadza Moyo” was produced by Prince “Oskid” Tapfuma of Oskid Productions and features the Living Legend Oliver Mtukudzi majestic voice and the iconic Tuku guitar. The track, creatively blends dancehall, Tuku music with a melody and poetic lyrics that can only be of extra­terrestrial origin.

The single is set to hit airwaves September 8(th) and will kick off the countdown for Winky D’s next studio album. Recorded in Zimbabwe and set for release WORLDWIDE on September 8(th), PANORWADZA MOYO marks Winky D first studio single since the highly successful release of Disappear

The single “Panorwadza Moyo” will premiere on Thursday, September 8(th) at 8am on “Hate It/Rate It” on StarFm  Zimbabwe’s most successful artist of his generation, multi­Award­winning dancehall chanter, songwriter Winky D (a.k.a. GAFA) collaborating with Zimbabwe’s most renowned and internationally recognised cultural icon of all time, Dr Oliver Mtukudzi, brings “Panorwadza Moyo” a song that will last generations to come.