By A Correspondent- Staunch Warriors Supporter, Alvin Aluvah Zhakata, has reportedly arrived in Egypt for the 2019 Total Africa Cup of Nations which began on the 21st of June.
Aluvah embarked on a road journey with his South African counterpart, Botha around 12 June 2019.
The duo was temporarily barred from entering into Ethiopia with authorities demanding visas which the two soccer fans did not have. Consequently, they had to return to the Kenyan side of the border to fix the papers. After a six-day delay, Aluvah proceeded with the journey.
Below is a picture of Zhakata in Egypt soon after his arrival:
Sadly, Aluvah arrives at a time When the Warriors have since returned home after embarrassingly crashing out of the tournament. The Warriors performed dismally, scoring only one goal through Khama Billiat in all Group A matches.
Warriors captain, Knowledge Musona missed golden chances that could have seen the team progressing to the quarterfinals. Goalkeeper Chipezeze was also at fault when the Warriors suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the DRC Leopards.
Meanwhile, all teams that were in Group A have since crashed out of the tournament. The hosts, the Pharaohs of Egypt were sent packing by Zimbabwe neighbours, South Africa which is locking horns with Nigeria tonight at 2100 hours, Zimbabwean time.
By A Correspondent- Finance Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, has said that when he got appointed as the Minister of Finance, he thought his job was purely financial and detached from politics.
He said that it has however since dawned to him that he had to balance between politics and finance.
Speaking during an interview with the chairman of Alpha Media Holdings, Trevor Ncube, the minister said:
Initially, I thought it’s a finance job. Very quickly, it became a finance-political job and most of the times it’s a political job.
He also said that it was imperative to recognise that finance in government follow politics and certain devices are political.
The Minister added that the manifesto of the party in power has to be in sync with the policies of the finance ministry or vice versa.
He added that sometimes he would implement some projects which sound very political in nature. For him, what matters is that the development initiatives in question address the issues affecting the people.-Newsday
MDC supporters now protesting outside Harare Magistrate Court demanding Hon Job Sikhala release. Now, we are talking. Thats the language these crooks understand. Job must be released! pic.twitter.com/eIzAXIT1YK
By Own Correspondent- Hwange power station has been hit by a technical challenge putting load shedding back to stage 2, spokesperson of the ZESA Fullard Gwasira has said.
Said Gwasira:
“Depressed generation at Hwange since two hours ago due to a technical challenge. Load shedding is now back to stage 2.”
Depressed generation at Hwange since two hours ago due to a technical challenge. Load shedding is now back to Stage 2.
By A Correspondent- The deputy chairman of the Apex Council, a group of public sector unions, Thomas Muzondo, has said that public sector workers have rejected a government offer of ZW$180 million (US$21 million) in added pay for the July-December period. The workers are saying that the money is inadequate given the soaring inflation.
If the deal was accepted, each of about 309,000 civil servants would be receiving an additional ZW$97, approximately US$11.28) a month. The lowest paid government worker earns 430 Zimbabwe dollars a month.
Speaking to Reuters, Muzondo said:
We totally rejected that offer so they (government negotiators) will go back to their principals for further consultations.
It was a total waste of time.
He said the full Apex Council would meet in the capital Harare on Wednesday (today) to decide its next step.
This comes at a time when the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions last month threatened to take it to the streets in protest of the reintroduction of the Zimbabwe dollar and ban of all foreign currencies for domestic transactions through Statutory Instrument 142 of 2019.
The government has since January been boasting of recording a budget surplus. Finance Minister, Mthuli Ncube, today (10/07/2019) told guests and chairman of Alpha Media Holdings, Trevor Ncube, that the surplus was being channelled towards other social and economic needs including importation of grain (wheat and maize), fuel and electricity which are currently scarce.-Reuters
By A Correspondent- Finance and Economic Development minister, Mthuli Ncube, has said that they will be hiring a communications person to help them explain government policies to the general populace.
Speaking on Monday during a Daily News organised Business Breakfast Forum held to discuss the implications of the re-introduction of the Zimbabwe dollar, Ncube that government’s policies were not being properly communicated.
Ncube said:
We are hiring a new communications person to help us communicate better. I think we are almost there with that and I think we can do better (to communicate), including also in vernacular languages and so forth. We could do better with communications.
Guests had expressed that the re-introduction of the Zimbabwe dollar through Statutory Instrument (SI) 142 of 2019 was a surprise development.
Ncube’s response was also addressing Harare lawyer Effort Jera’s question on whether the country’s currency issue will likely destabilise the country as there are three pending High court applications challenging SI 142.
Jera also asked if people can actually have confidence in the system, considering allegations of policy inconsistency. In response, Ncube said that it was fundamental for government policies to be predictable and consistent. He said what happened with SI 142 was unlikely to be seen in the future.
Previously, the Finance minister unexpectedly appointed Acie Lumumba, real name William Gerald Mutumanje as head of the Finance ministry communications committee last October. Lumumba, however, lasted only three days on the job within which he implicated senior Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe officials in illegal foreign currency deals.
Farai Dziva|Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has reported that MDC official Job Sikhala was blindfolded from Harare to Gutu.
Sikhala was arrested and charged with subversion of a constitutionally established government after addressing a rally in Bikita.
Sikhala reportedly told lawyers that the police blindfolded him from Harare until they reached Gutu.
“When @ZLHRLawyers accessed @JobWiwa at 0840 hrs at Bikita police station, he said that when he was whisked away from Hre Central Police he was blindfolded – covered with a facial mask. This was only removed at Gutu.”
Farai Dziva|The brother of the man who allegedly murdered a university student has disclosed how the grisly offence was committed.
Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT)student Angela Dapi, was brutally murdered at the Elizabeth Hotel in Harare.
According to H-Metro the alleged killer Richard Nenohwe’s brother Munyaradzi and his two uncles Rufasi and Wellington, were well received by Angela’s family for the gesture they had undertaken.
Speaking to H-Metro, Richard’s brother Munyaradzai said: He (Richard) informed me through a text message. He said we had an argument, and I asked why, and he said he (Richard) had cheated on his girlfriend.
I asked him again on what transpired for that argument to result in this situation, and he just typed again saying they just had an argument.
He said due to this, it was no longer necessary for him to live anymore.
…After doing what he did, he sent his workmate and friend Tinashe in Shurugwi a message saying: ‘I have killed my girlfriend and I cut myself and I’m bleeding to death’ But for myself, he once called me and I recorded that call.
He was just asking saying, ‘do you want to know?’ And I kept asking him, ‘to know what’? And he just said, I have cut my wrist and I am bleeding to death. I asked him where he was and why he cut himself and many other questions, but he just said: ‘I will tell you when I am about to die’. So I did not know what to do then.
After that, that’s where I got the message and I started looking for Tinashe’s uncle, their boss. That was when we started looking for Richard. We then went to the police and told them that we were receiving disturbing calls and messages from someone who was not telling us his whereabouts.
We heard he sometimes goes to Hotel Elizabeth, but he had booked using a wrong name, so the police gave up looking for him.
Another shift manager came and checked in his hotel booking records and also confirmed that Rich ard was not booked in.
He then said to us: “There is a receipt here. Maybe they used the wrong surname during the printing.” That was when we saw Richard’s phone number. He was booked in Room 108, Hotel Elizabeth. That was when we and the police rushed to that room, trying to open the door. The police were shouting: ‘Open the door, open the door!’ Richard was answering saying, “Mukudei ndatadze chiyi?” So I was now just quiet wondering what was happening inside.
The police eventually opened the door and I could immediately tell that Richard was drunk. We then saw the girl’s lifeless body on the bed and she was naked. Richard had cut his throat so he was bleeding profusely. I did not focus on him from then as we were now hunting for the Dapi family and worried about how to approach them.
I haven’t paid much attention to him even up to today though when I last talked to him, he was talking faintly, but he seemed like he was recovering”
Since the New Dispensation, Zimbabwe has allowed all international media houses to freely operate in and from Zimbabwe. No journalist has been killed, abducted or imprisoned in the #NewErapic.twitter.com/VdAKJWfxSu
— Ministry of Information, Publicity & Broadcasting (@InfoMinZW) July 11, 2019
"No one has been killed in the new dispensation, no journalist has been abducted in the new dispensation, and no journalist has been barred in the new dispensation, and this is obviously an encouraging disposition for Zimbabwe," says @MinisterSBMoyohttps://t.co/wtQU6lGPHC
Farai Dziva|MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has described the RELOAD Policy document as “pure milk” implying that it contains vibrant ideas for nation building and economic development.
Speaking at the launch of the RELOAD Document, in Harare, Chamisa said:”This is an excellent document, mukaka chaiwo…
This document consists of vibrant ideas for economic development,” said Chamisa.
“I would like to thank party leaders who crafted the document.
This shows we are very serious as a party.If we are able to come up with such a document it means we have the potential to transform the country’s economy.”
Since the New Dispensation, Zimbabwe has allowed all international media houses to freely operate in and from Zimbabwe. No journalist has been killed, abducted or imprisoned in the #NewErapic.twitter.com/VdAKJWfxSu
— Ministry of Information, Publicity & Broadcasting (@InfoMinZW) July 11, 2019
Farai Dziva|MDC president Nelson Chamisa has accused Emmerson Mnangagwa of claiming credit for the hard work done by the opposition party in Harare.
Said Chamisa:”Why should Mnangagwa come to open a local authority institution, in fact, this is an effort of the council.
But if he is coming, he is welcome because he must also come and see evidence of good leadership at the local level.”
“That’s the problem. Success has many parents and failure seems to be orphaned, there is a failure at ZESA, ZINWA, there is a failure in the roads which are now death traps but we are not seeing him there.
Then there is now this child from our local authorities, he wants to come here. He should address the problems faced in government.”
MDC Youth Assembly Secretary General Gift Ostallos Siziba has been granted ZWL$1000 bail, ZimEye has learnt.
Siziba was arrested yesterday on charges committing to incite public violence.
MDC Youth Assembly Chairperson Tererai Obey Sithole confirmed the court decision to grant Siziba bail.
Meanwhile MDC vice Chairperson Job Sikhala has been denied bail and taken to Masvingo Prison but his lawyers have indicated that they will appeal at the High Court.
Farai Dziva|Lawyers representing MDC vice chairperson, Job Sikhala have filed an urgent application for bail pending trial.
“At Masvingo High Court, ZLHR lawyers have failed a bail application seeking the release of Zengeza West MP Hon. Job Sikhala after he was remanded in custody at Bikita Magistrate Court by Magistrate Marewanazvo Gofa.
Bail application was successfully filed at15:30pm.
The High Court will sit on the 15 July 2019 at 9:30am to hear Job Sikhala’s bail application,” the MDC has said in a statement.
In Harare, ZLHR lawyers have secured the release on $1 000 bail of MDC Youth Assembly Secretary-General Gift Ostallos Siziba charged with incitement to commit public violence. Magistrate Elijah Makomo ordered Ostallos to report three times per week at Harare Central Police Station. Ostallos returns to court on 24 July 2019.
