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Zim businessman wrest control of his R4m Rolls Royce Ghost from SA authorities

Posted on June 28, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Zimbabwean businessman Frank Buyanga has thumbed his nose at South African authorities, including the South African Revenue Services (SARS) and the police, after wresting control of his R4 million Rolls Royce Ghost. This comes after a protracted four-year battle between the Pretoria authorities and the maverick businessman, and in which the posh car was controversially auctioned in March by Tom Moyane’s organisation. When the Auto Haus Car Hire (Auto Haus)-owned Rolls Royce was sold off…

Pushing for either Mphoko or Mnangagwa to succeed me is another “Gamatox”-Mugabe warns!

Posted on June 28, 2015June 28, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

PEOPLE pushing for either one of the country’s two Vice-Presidents to become Zimbabwe’s next leader are creating another “Gamatox” phenomenon and must cease such divisive activities, President Mugabe has said.In his first remarks on succession post-Zanu-PF’s landmark 2014 National Congress, President Mugabe said he had received reports that party organs were polarising around VPs Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko. “Gamatox” refers to the factional putschist cabal fronted by disgraced former VP Dr Joice Mujuru who…

Matebeleland, Bulilima villagers assault tribalists, who harassed Shona speaking villagers

Posted on June 28, 2015June 28, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

TWO notorious villagers from Bulilima who were recently embarrassed by community members for harassing Shona-speaking villagers have been each sentenced to 15 months imprisonment. Obvious Ncube (34) and Shalen Dumani (23) of Zuzaphi area attacked villagers who were at a business centre in protest over Shona-speaking people in the area. They also damaged property at a local businessman’s shop after accusing him of employing a Shona person as his shopkeeper. Disgruntled community members then stripped…

’30 year old , woman axes mother in law , Mugabe , at Mugabe Bus Stop to death’ ‘

Posted on June 28, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

A Hurungwe West woman allegedly axed her mother-in-law to death following an argument over why the former was not falling pregnant. Lingiwe Mugabe of Chinovhiringa Village under Chief Nyamhunga died at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare last week after the alleged axe attack by daughter-in-law Trish Kutadzaushe (30) on June 8, 2015. Kutadzaushe initially appeared before Karoi magistrate Obedience Matare charged with attempted murder a fortnight ago. That charge has been amended to murder following Mugabe’s…

The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) , fight to assist, jailed journalist, ‘Patrick Chitongo’

Posted on June 28, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has embarked into a fight to assist the journalist jailed for operating an unlicenced newspaper. ZLHR communications officer Kumbirai Mafundasaid human rights lawyers on Friday 26 June 2015 filed a notice of appeal against the conviction and imprisonment of Patrick Chitongo, a freelance journalist, who was convicted and sentenced to serve eight months in jail for allegedly publishing an unregistered newspaper. Chiredzi Magistrate Tafadzwa Mhlanga on Tuesday 23…

‘ 70,000 illegal abortions per year in Zimbabwe, despite the risk of a five-year jail term’

Posted on June 28, 2015June 28, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

BULAWAYO: The death of a 15-year-old Zimbabwean schoolgirl during an apparent botched abortion this month has spurred calls for stronger efforts to prevent teenage pregnancies and unsafe terminations. Health campaigners say the girl’s death in a Bulawayo township highlights the inadequate sexual and antenatal health care available to teenagers, whose parents are reluctant to accept they are sexually active. School authorities and local media have reported cases ranging from schoolgirls giving birth in school grounds…

Zimbabwe’s sangomas (traditional healers’, claim to be entitled to medical aid remittances

Posted on June 27, 2015June 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Zimbabwe National Practitioners Association (ZINPA), an organisation which represents the interests of traditional healers, herbalists and faith healers, wants its patients to start using medical aid facilities when seeking their services.ZINPA said they will soon engage the Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr David Parirenyatwa, over the matter.The association’s president, Friday Chisanyu, said traditional and faith healers were demanding the same recognition accorded to medical practitioners and other modern health care practitioners since they…

‘Mugabe’s invite to politburo to discuss his succession, is spurned , over fears of reprisalss’

Posted on June 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Top members of Zanu-PF have spurned a politburo invitation to discuss the succession issue within the ruling party as they are afraid it could be a way of trapping them. Party sources who spoke to The Zimbabwean said word had filtered down from the politburo that party structures were free to discuss President Robert Mugabe’s succession. “What we heard is that the subject of succession was mentioned at a recent politburo meeting after the president…

Chief Zimunya says Chinese firm, ‘Anjin Investment’ took bones of Zimunya & Marange people, away.

Posted on June 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

MUTARE: Chief Zimunya from Manicaland province attacked top politicians Friday whom he said were colluding with the Chinese to violate people’s rights in the Marange area. Chief Zimunya was addressing the Manicaland Provincial Alternative Indaba 2015 which was convened by Zimbabwe Environmental Lawyers Association (ZELA). He said politicians despise traditional leaders and hence they pass them on important issues such as diamond mining. The livid chief said an example of this was on the issue…

MDC-T says traumatised Zimbabweans cannot freely vote for Mugabe

Posted on June 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

ZIMBABWEANS are a fearful people who have been so traumatised by the ruling Zanu PF party’s dictatorship that they will not freely answer questions of a political nature, a spokesperson for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says. The MDC-T’s Obert Gutu was reacting to a recent survey conducted by the Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) which found that President Robert Mugabe would defeat Morgan Tsvangirai if elections were to be held in the country…

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