By Own Correspondent- The Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) is set to host a Water Dialogue Forum tomorrow

The meeting, set to be addressed by Harare Mayor Councillor Hebert Gomba and other senior Harare City Council officials is set to be held at New Ambassador Hotel.

Said CHRA in a statement:

“In view of the water challenges bedeviling Harare,CHRA will be hosting a Water Dialogue Forum tomorrow 13 March 2019 at the New Ambassadors Hotel from 5pm-7:30pm.

Key Speakers who have confirmed attendance to the Forum are ; 
-His Worship the Mayor ,Councilor Herbert Gomba,
-The Director of Water in the Ministry of Agriculture,Lands Climate and Water
-CEO Upper Manyame Sub Catchment Council 
-Mr H.Mudzingwa Community Water Alliance 
-Mr S.Chari Harare Wetlands Trust,
-Harare Water Director Engineer Mabhena Moyo.

This important Forum come at time when the City of Harare has introduced a Water Rationing Program as a measure to deal with water demand management,in view of the poor raw water quality , quantity at Lake Chivero and shortage of water treatment chemicals

Farai Dziva| Ruling party Zanu PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo is unhappy with the fact that MDC A president Nelson Chamisa has not called for the removal of sanctions.

According to Khaya Moyo Chamisa has direct communication with United States President Donald Trump.

In an interview with This Morning Post on Monday, Khaya Moyo declared: “
What is stopping him from calling the US about sanctions? Sanctions are illegal and they should be removed as a matter of emergency.”

Moyo further claimed Chamisa had openly indicated he was in a position to communicate with Trump without going through bottlenecks.

ZIMBABWEAN authorities have arrested and charged a man with
undermining authority of or insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa
after he allegedly stated that he disliked him for mismanaging the
country’s economy.

32 year-old Farai Gwaza of Dindi village in Pfungwe, Mashonaland East
province was arrested early this month and charged with undermining
authority of or insulting President Mnangagwa as defined in section 33
of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act.

ZRP officers who arrested Gwaza, who is represented by Tinomuda Shoko
of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) claimed that he pointed a
finger at a colleague wearing a ZANU PF party T-shirt and said; “I
like the colour of the T-shirt but I don’t like the picture of the
person on it because he is making people suffer yet enriching
himself”.

For allegedly uttering that statement, Gwaze was detained in police
cells for two nights before he was released.

Meanwhile, in Harare, Magistrate Francis Mapfumo recently acquitted a
Harare woman, who had been on trial on charges of disorderly conduct
after she was arrested for allegedly insulting some police officers by
labelling them as President Mnangagwa’s lackeys.

31 year-old Prisca Dausi of Epworth, who was represented by Idirashe
Chikomba of ZLHR, had been on trial at Harare Magistrates Court after
she was arrested in September 2018 by ZRP officers who charged her
with disorderly conduct as defined in section 41 of the Criminal Law
(Codification and Reform) Act.

During trial, prosecutors charged that Dausi uttered some abusive
words to the effect that the law enforcement agents, who intended to
demolish her brother’s cabin which he uses as a barber shop as they
were under the impression that it belonged to some unidentified men
whom they had reportedly arrested in connection with drug use, were
minions.

However, Magistrate Mapfumo discharged Dausi at the close of the
prosecution case after ruling that the state witnesses who testified
during her trial gave contradictory evidence thereby rendering the
state case unreliable.

By Paul Nyathi|A female teacher who made false claims that she is MDC Vice President Welshman Ncube’s daughter, Gugulethu Ncube has been arrested in Pretoria South Africa for holding a solo nude demonstration at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s offices at the Union Buildings in South Africa.

She is currently being held by police at Sunnyside Police Station in the South African capital.

The story is developing and more details will be made available as they unfold.

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Paul Nyathi| Ideal Zimbabwe president Tinashe Jonasi who took all and sundry by surprise when he said he was going to arrest President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his two deputies has been himself arrested and charged for undermining the authority of the President.

Court records indicate that, Jonasi 42, is charged from an incident which occurred sometime in 2018 not on his latest stant.

The court claims that in 2018 Jonasi appeared on South African DSTV Channel 405 whilst being interviewed and he insulted President Mnangagwa.

Jonasi allegedly said it was on record that the President had killed more than 30 000 people and he went on to say he was warning the President and Vice President Retired General Constantino Chiwenga to resign within 6 months or he would face them in the sea or in the mountains and they would both regret among other utterances.

Jonasi is appearing before Magistrate Mrs Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa.

Paul Nyathi|Fresh details have emerged on controversial daughter to MDC Vice President Welshman Ncube, Gugu, who was arrested while staging a naked protest outside at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Wednesday morning.

Indications are that Gugu Ncube demonstrated outside the buildings housing President Cyril Ramaphosa’s offices after claiming she had suffered abuse at the hands of the University of South Africa (Unisa) and the South African Police Service (SAPS).

Ncube claims her boss at a former Unisa-sponsored centre had asked her for sexual favours in exchange for her keeping her job. She said claims that the she had resigned were false.

She says this was when her manager made the unwanted and unsolicited advances.

“I want the Unisa management to show the country, Thuma Foundation, Commission For Gender Equality and other interested parties, my resignation letter they claim I tendered. This is my demand,” she told South African News24 this morning before she started protesting.

When asked why she had decided on a naked protest, Ncube said she had “nothing more to protect”.

“Nudity is a sign of my dignity that l have been stripped of. I have nothing more to protect. My dignity is gone.”

She wants President Cyril Ramaphosa to takes note of this alleged abuse.

Ncube said she was manhandled after reporting her boss to the police.

“I have seen first-hand [a] commissioner sitting on my supposed tribunal taking bribe money to discredit me.

“I have seen corrupt police come to arrest me unprocedurally because my abuser has money to pay them. I will be heard,” she said.

Unisa, however, the same media that Ncube’s claims are “misconstrued”.

“It is regrettable that Ms Ncube is persisting with her action of dragging the name of Unisa into her dispute with UCECE (Unisa Centre for Early Childhood Education); and in the process bringing our name into disrepute. Whilst we respect her right to fight for what she believes is unfair treatment towards her, we appeal to her to desist from her actions; and that the name of the university should not be dragged into this matter as it is solely between herself and UCECE”, said Unisa Principal and Vice Chancellor Mandla Makhanya in a statement.

The institution said that Ncube was employed by the UCECE, an external company previously sponsored by Unisa.

Sunnyside police spokesperson Captain Daniel Mavimbela confirmed that Ncube had been arrested.

“Our members were called after it was reported that a woman was standing nude at the Union Buildings.

“She is expected to be charged with public indecency and should appear in court soon. It is an offence to stand nude in a public place,” he said.

Source News24

Farai Dziva|Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has justified the arrest and detention of opposition MDC A members.

Ziyambi was grilled in Parliament over the harassment and detention of MDC A MPs.

Ziyambi was responding to questions from MDC A MPs Amos Chibaya and Innocent about the detention of opposition members.

Ziyambi has indicated that according to the laws of the Republic of Zimbabwe arresting of suspects is a way of ensuring that accused persons will assist the state with useful information.

“For your own information people are are arrested because they are expected to furnish the State with relevant information. We cannot just arrest someone without a genuine reason for doing so,” claimed Ziyambi.

Chibaya and Gonese accused government agents of exercising their duties in a biased manner.

Farai Dziva|MDC A leader Nelson Chamisa has responded to the assertion that he should plead with the United States of America to remove sanctions against ruling party cronies.

On Monday Zanu PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo urged the youthful opposition leader to call for the removal of restrive measures imposed on Zanu PF honchos.

“With rigging of elections and state sanctioned violence in place, imagine lives lost due to human rights abuses, crimes against humanity, unconstitutional and unlawful use of state institutions.

Sanctions must go and it begins with the cause,” tweeted Chamisa.

Farai Dziva|Unruly Zanu PF MPs verbally insulted MDC Harare West legislator, Joanna Mamombe in Parliament on Tuesday.

Mamombe was a target of sexual harassment and suggestive utterances from Zanu PF legislators when she appeared in Parliament after her arrest on treason charges.

The ZANU PF legislators called her hur* (prostitute) on her return to Parliament.

Mamombe was arrested in Nyanga more than a week ago soon after attending a Parliament workshop.
The 25-year-old MP was subsequently charged with treason in relation to the fuel riots that broke out in January this year.

Farai Dziva|Church leaders in the city of Masvingo have castigated Emmerson Mnangagwa for making blasphemous utterances.

Yesterday Mnangagwa equated himself to God and castigated the opposition.

Mnangagwa said even in Heaven God had problems with the devil but He still remained the Creator. He said this while responding questions from journalists during a news conference held at the conclusion of the third session of the Zimbabwe-South Africa Bi-National Commission Summit in the capital, Harare.

“It is our view that we don’t need to commit the mistakes of those who have gone ahead of us. We need to leap frog in terms of our development to catch up with other developing countries but to do so, we need their hands like what South Africa is doing – holding our hand, moving with us and then other countries. That’s what we are doing.

We will not be swayed by negative forces because even the Lord upstairs was not able to keep his house in order — he had Satan. So, these things happen but He still remains there as the Creator,” said Mnangagwa.

Church leaders in the ancient have declared that Mnangagwa should retract his utterances as a matter of urgency.

Chegutu legislator Dexter Nduna caused a stir in parliament Wednesday afternoon when he said the MDC party must lose government funding due to the January 2019 military engineered violence. Said Nduna:

“Thank you madam speaker according to the political finances act which attributes for management of political parties I ask madam speaker madam those who are guilty of the preparations of that time to forfeit that money to compensate those businesses who lost their money…” – MORE FOLLOWS

Farai Dziva|Controversial Deputy Minister Energy Mutodi has described the late veteran broadcaster Judith Makwanya as an influential figure who has left a lasting impression at the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.

Mutodi said: “We have lost a dedicated broadcaster. Judith was a hardworking and committed news reporter.Through determination and perseverance Judith rose through the ranks until she was promoted to the position of diplomatic correspondent.May her soul rest in peace,” said Mutodi on Tuesday.

However sources within the state run broadcaster have pointed out that government officials – including Mutodi are feigning concern about Makwanya’s death.

“The whole issue is complicated and I do not think government officials are really sincere- their condolences reflect cajolery,” claimed sources in the national broadcaster.

Farai Dziva|Caps United have paid tribute to three players who perished in a tragic road accident 15 years ago.

“Today we remember three CAPS United players – Blessing “Yogo Yogo” Makunike, Shingirai Alon Twaliki and Gary Mashoko who perished in a horrific car accident,”posted a Caps United Fans Club on Facebook.

The tragic accident happened when the players were travelling back from Bulawayo to Harare.The Harare giants had won 2-1 against Njube Sundowns in a crunch league tie.

The three players did not travel in the team bus and instead joined two supporters in their car -which crashed into a pillar of the bridge near Norton and caught fire.

Makunike was one of the most promising youngsters of his age.

Farai Dziva| Chimurenga Music icon Thomas Tafirenyika Mapfumo has challenged the Dynamos leadership to ensure the club’s long history is well documented.

The Chimurenga Music legend insisted the Glamour Boys should be recognised for the role they played in the country’s struggle for independence.

Mapfumo, an avid DeMbare fan, met with one of the Glamour Boys founding fathers and board chairman, Bernard Marriot Lusengo, and club patron Webster Shamu.

The Chimurenga Music icon said as Zimbabweans look to celebrate Independence Day commemorations next month, it was also imperative for the nation to recall the contributions that football and music played during the liberation struggle.

“Dynamos is a team I have always supported from the Rhodesian times and this team is part of the history of this country,’’ said Mapfumo.

“From their formation in 1963, Dynamos are linked to the struggle for emancipation of the black people in this country and all those teams like Lusitanos, Callies, Salisbury United, who were playing in the same league with them before independence, were fully aware of what that the club represented.”

Farai Dziva | The president of the United Democratic Alliance, Daniel Shumba has castigated Emmerson Mnangagwa for equating himself to God.

Shumba,whose party withdrew from the Mnangagwa brokered dialogue, was at one point fired from the ruling party for supporting the Midlands godfather.

An irate Shumba said:”That’s clearly an arrogant and vindictive view from a President who claims he wants to promote unity but don’t take him seriously for equating himself to God, that is just a limitation of descriptive English.

That is the best he could do under the circumstances.”

Farai Dziva|Health and Child Care Minister Obadiah Moyo has blamed restrictive measures imposed on Zanu PF officials – for the shortage of equipment in government hospitals.

Moyo made the remarks at a post Cabinet briefing in Harare.

“As you know, sanctions are severely affecting us but we are trying our best to resolve the critical shortage of equipment in our hospitals.

We met with several medical experts who expressed their views on the current state of affairs in hospital and we are looking into it,” said Moyo.

A medical expert at Parirenyatwa Hospital, Dr Mashumba described the situation at the country’s largest health institution as pathetic.

Farai Dziva| Former Premier Soccer League outfit Tsholotsho FC has disbanded due to financial constraints.

The Matabeleland North-based side was now playing in the Southern Region Division One after their three-year stay in the topflight league came to an end in 2017.

In an interview with Chronicle, club chief executive officer Mlamuli Phiri confirmed the development but said that they would concentrate on juniors who compete in the Tsholotsho District Football Association (Tshodifa).

“It’s true we are no longer in the First Division, and we will not even compete in Division Two because of financial issues.

“We don’t have money to continue, we shall be back when we gather our strength. The focus will be on the junior team that is still participating in Tshodifa,” said Phiri.

Tsholotsho, who were runners-up to Hwange in the 2018 Southern Region Division One, join Zim Leopards, who pulled out of the league also citing financial challenges.

Farai Dziva | Zimbabwe Warriors kingpin Knowledge Musona’s agent Mike Makaab has ruled out chances of the player’s return to Absa Premiership.

The striker had a slow start at Anderlecht, a club he joined on a fee reportedly in the region of €2m last year in June.

But the 28-year-old’s name is regularly linked with a return to Chiefs – where he’s had two spells before.

Speaking to Soccer Laduma, Makaab explained that the amount that Anderlecht paid for him and the substantial wages that he is on in Europe would prove to be a gigantic roadblock for any South African clubs, including Chiefs. The Belgian side will also not let him go anytime soon as they want to see some return on their investment.

“Look, first and foremost, Knowledge has a long-term contract with Anderlecht once his loan with Lokeren expires, his long-term goal is to remain at a top level club in Europe for as long as possible,” the agent explained.

Feedback from Chiredzi District Civil Protection Unit meeting:

1. Cyclone Idai is forecasted to reach us this evening or tomorrow morning.
2. It’s causing havoc in Mozambique and up to the noon today it had claimed 66 human lives
3. Parents are advised to exercise discretion tomorrow on whether to allow their children to go to school or not especially where children cross streams and rivers.
4. People should move from low lying areas to high ground areas should they feel threatened
5. Rainfall in excess of 50mm is expected from tomorrow up to Saturday.
6. Let’s all be on standby to assist whoever will be in need.

Thank you

R. Zireva
Secretary General Mkwasine Management Committee (Interim)

Jane Mlambo| Ideal Zimbabwe political party Tinashe Jonas will remain in prison custody after Harare Magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa denied him bail after he was arrested on Monday 11 March 2019 and charged with insulting or undermining authority of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Magistrate Mugwagwa ruled that Jonas, who is represented by Nontokozo Dube-Tachiona of ZLHR, is not a good candidate to be granted bail as he is likely to abscond attending trial after he allegedly entered the country illegally.