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Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association chairman Cde Christopher Mutsvangwa has said the war veterans who once gave the government 48 hours to reverse the decision to give back 37 farmers their land have said they support the government’s decision to compensate the commercial farmers, Sunday News reports.
While speaking to the publication at the sidelines of a Zanu-PF Provincial Coordination Committee, Mutswangwa said:
<blockquote>We strongly support the initiative because we are doing it for goodwill. We have been viewed as being cruel to former white farmers by expropriating land without compensation. We also lost foreign direct investment. So, we are hoping that once we have established good relations, we will get foreign direct investment. We have also been given sanctions based on the issue of land. So, America and other countries that had imposed sanctions on us based on the land issue will not have any reason for continuing to impose the sanctions on us.</blockquote>
Mutsvanga further urged the public to not stigmatise other Zimbabweans based on race and peached unity by saying:
<blockquote>We fought a non-racial war against a racial system. It’s been 40 years after independence. The white people who remained in Zimbabwe are now Zimbabweans. We should not stigmatise them and do racial discrimination in the country. President Mnangagwa wants a united nation regardless of race, creed, religion and gender. We did not fight a racial war. We were supported by the some whites people during the war. Let us not recycle racism in the country</blockquote>
While speaking at the same meeting Jacob Mudenda said compensating the white farmers was constitutional while Paul Mangwana said emphasised Monica Mutsvangwa’s live interview on Radio Zimbabwe by saying there were going to be reallocations but no farmer was going to lose their farm.
More: <a href="https://www.sundaynews.co.zw/war-vets-support-ed-on-white-farmers-compensation/">Sunday News </a>

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We Strongly Support The Initiative Because We Are Doing It For Goodwill - Chris Mutsvangwa On Commercials Farmers' Compensation Package

The MDC-T structures in the United States of America have accused the party’s secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora of fanning tribalism in the party and failing to rein in his errant supporters.
In a letter dated 31 August 2020 addressed to Mwonzora and copied to all members of the party’s standing committee, the party’s USA Secretary Andrew Chaponda accused Mwonzora of “importing” tribalism from the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa.
Chaponda challenged Mwonzora to take disciplinary action against his supporters for allegedly abusing the party’s president Thokozani Khupe and calling Ndebeles “dogs”. The letter read in part:
<blockquote>You are aware of the relentless attack on her person (Khupe) by the rebels over her stance on constitutionalism. You choose sides during the illegal take over, hobnobbed with them until they rejected you at the illegal Gweru Congress, despite your exuberant endorsement of their candidate.
It appears you were content with the tribal insults then but please do not import the same back to the MDC-T. As head of party Administration, it is your responsibility to instil discipline on errant members, let alone party employees promoting tribalism to advance your candidacy.
Your supporter, Tapiwa Sengweni referred to Ndebeles as dogs. As a beneficiary of the tribal utterances and leader, you have an unflinching responsibility to bring this to an end before it becomes a cancer of Gukurahundi proportions.</blockquote>
Mwonzora was also accused of acting unilaterally and failing to implement the party’s National Council resolutions. Chaponda’s letter further read:
<blockquote>It is prudent that the membership knows in writing that you have unilaterally and selectively decided to personalize the NC resolutions in unbeknownst by and in defiance of members wishes. You have also been playing footsie with the recall process.
Lynette Karenyi, Theresa Makone and Phyllis Ndlovu were long submitted for recall by their respective provinces. You removed their names from the list without explanation.
This trio still needs to be recalled as demanded by their provinces and without further delay. Your office exists to serve the membership not the other way round.</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/pig-head-mwonzora-in-tribalism-violence-storm/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NewZimbabwe.com</a></h4>

MDC-T America Savages Mwonzora

Defiant #31July protest organiser Jacob Ngarivhume said that during his incarceration at Harare Remand Prison alongside freelance journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, kind prison guards told them that had become household names and this greatly encouraged them.
Ngarivhume and Chin’ono were arrested on July 20 and charged with inciting public violence. In total, the duo spent 43 days in detention, including at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.
The Transform Zimbabwe leader further revealed that inmates who were awaiting trial for murder were actually their heroes as they looked after their buckets of food and also would warn them when Military Intelligence people were thrown into their cells to monitor them. He said:
<blockquote>I lived in a cell where at one point, Emmerson Mnangagwa (President) lived in, where Matemadanda (war veterans deputy minister) lived in (signatures imparted in the walls).
What encouraged us most was the solidarity we got from Zimbabweans.
We could be told by the guards that people are talking about you guys, you are becoming household names, a lot is being said about you.
So that really encouraged us during this senseless imprisonment.
Lawyers could tell us ‘don’t take any food, do not be seen by any doctor from prison. It was just they don’t, don’t and how do you do live like that!
This is the time we realised that our lives were at the hands of the oppressor and you could feel his power.
At remand prison, they placed us at the D Section, so we were staying with people who were going for trial for murder, armed robbery and rape charges.
70 % of those we were staying with were on murder, they could chat freely on how they murdered people, how they killed.
Within prison walls, they don’t hide how the committed the crimes so that they get assisted.
But again, these are the people who literally saved us, these are the young men who looked well after our buckets of food.
They would warn us when Military Intelligence people were thrown into our cells to monitor us, at one time, four of them were deployed and the guys warned us.
And the security of the prison would also warn us that ‘there are people that have been deployed to monitor you’ and we could put up with them. It was so scary.
They would really try to break your spirit, but we held on hugely by our conviction and also, of course, your prayers.</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/ngarivhume-speaks-on-jail-nightmare-says-chamisa-prison-visit-brought-more-woes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NewZimbabwe.com</a></h4>

Hardcore Criminals Kept Me 'Safe' In Prison - Ngarivhume

The interim secretary-general of the judicially created MDC-T, Douglas Mwnzora has been accused of fanning tribalism and violence in the party.
Reports suggest that Mwonzora is one of several senior MDC-T leaders intending to challenge interim leader Thokozani Khupe for the presidency at the party’s belated extraordinary congress whose date has not yet been announced.
In a leaked 14-minute audio conversation linked to Khalipani Phugeni, who doubles as Khupe’s spokesperson and acting party spokesperson and an unidentified party official, Mwonzora is accused of having said Ndebeles are dogs. Phugeni says:
<blockquote>So, we told him that you mobilise people to abuse us tribally and you come and sit here. You are not even fit to a chairperson of a burial society.
He (Mwonzora) had no one supporting him, he was isolated. So, I am not surprised, you see today he is coming out and say ‘this war in Matabeleland’, you can’t be surprised we have people who say Ndebeles are dogs in his campaign.
… Such blatant tribalism and you have the guts to be in the standing committee to try and defend that!</blockquote>
The party’s USA structures expressed unhappiness over Mwonzora’s alleged abuse of his position to frustrate other contenders. A letter dated 31 August and addressed to Mwonzora and also copied to all members of the party’s standing committee read in part:
<blockquote>Tribalism has again reared its ugly head in the MDC-T. The victim is not only MDC-T acting president Dr Thokozani Khupe but the rest of the Ndebele people. Abuse of Dr Khupe seems to be a popular pastime of your supporters.</blockquote>
Mwonzora was also reminded of having sided with MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa when he took over control of the party “illegally” in 2018 and hobnobbed with the Alliance until they rejected him at the Gweru Congress.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/pig-head-mwonzora-in-tribalism-violence-storm/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NewZimbabwe.com</a></h4>

Mwonzora Not Fit To Lead Even A Burial Society - Khupe's Spokesperson

Some members of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) have called for the organisation’s executive to be disbanded on allegations that it is neglecting them.
The ZNLWVA executive has Christopher Mutsvangwa as the national chairperson, his deputy Headman Moyo, secretary-general Victor Matemadanda, spokesperson Douglas Mahiya and political commissar Francis Nhando.
Speaking during a press conference in Harare on Thursday, the ex-combatants, led by Ethan Mathibela, who was flanked by Ignatius Mutsinze, Shelly Kays and Fandafa Wandafa, claimed that Mutsvangwa’s leadership lacks vision. Mathibela said:
<blockquote>We demand that upon dissolution of the national leadership, there be a mechanism in place to start a process of conducting a congress which will allow the election of new leadership.
Since its inception, the ZNLWVA has been affected negatively by poor management and lack of visionary leadership.
We have observed that leadership has failed to establish an independent headquarters for the association.
There are no proper structures of up to date paid-up members, no annual general meeting, no clear policy to guide the direction of the association, no audited reports of the association’s finances.</blockquote>
The group said they had raised their concerns with Labour and Social Welfare minister Paul Mavima, who confirmed that he had been approached over the issue.
Mavima however, accused the war veterans of being presumptive by taking the matter to the media.
<h4>More: <a href="https://dailynews.co.zw/knives-out-for-war-vets-leaders/?fbclid=IwAR3X6PU1j_jRomSSrF107WMN1P7cGfYRGySdDz-RPtZartJ2yTfG1wA88TU" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daily News</a></h4>

War Veterans Accuse Mutsvangwa Of Lacking Vision

MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s recent visit to Harare remand prison to see #July 31 protest organiser, Jacob Ngarivhume and anti-corruption crusader Hopewell Chin’ono angered authorities, it has emerged.
Ngarivhume told NewZimbabwe.com that following Chamisa’s visit, authorities ordered that they are put in leg-irons and immediately transferred to Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, a notorious prison located on the eastern outskirts of Harare. Said Ngarivhume:
<blockquote>When Chamisa came to visit us, there was a backlash. It was hell, thunder and fury.
They started threatening and telling us they were going to take us to Chikurubi Maximum Prison as punishment.
So they literally grabbed and bundled us onto a big prison truck and told us ‘you are going to Chikurubi as punishment because we are no longer able to contain the huge volume of visitors, lawyers and everybody who was coming at Harare Remand Prison’.
It was psychological torture. Imagine being bundled into that truck in iron legs and shackles, you are never sure what’s gonna happen.</blockquote>
In another development, police in Murehwa on Monday rounded up 15 vendors suspected of having cheered on Chamisa when he passed through the area on Saturday.
Chamisa’s convoy was mobbed by scores of residents including children who were chanting ‘President! President!’ as he returned from the burial of activist Patson Dzamara in Mutoko.
The MDC leader stepped out of the vehicle and took time to talk to some of his supporters.
According to MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, the vendors, mostly women, were detained for several hours and fined, some as much as ZWL$500.00.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/ngarivhume-speaks-on-jail-nightmare-says-chamisa-prison-visit-brought-more-woes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NewZimbabwe.com</a>, <a href="https://www.zimlive.com/2020/09/01/police-round-up-and-fine-murehwa-vendors-who-cheered-on-chamisa/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ZimLive.com</a></h4>

Authorities Punish Ngarivhume, Chin'ono And Murehwa Vendors Over Chamisa Visit

Build Zimbabwe Alliance (BZA) leader Noah Manyika on Friday said he has no desire to join President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD).
Manyika was a presidential candidate in the disputed 2018 elections and is therefore eligible to join the State House initiated by Mnangagwa in 2019.
Speaking after the POLAD interlocutors had met at State House earlier in the day, Manyika said Mnangagwa is deluded in thinking that everyone is desperate to join the gravy train. He tweeted:
<blockquote>I just received an inquiry from a journalist about Mnangagwa’s statement today inviting those who have so far refused to join POLAD to do so. I responded as follows:
Mnangagwa is still operating under the delusion that everyone is desperate to join the gravy train. I am not.
He still believes everyone can be bought, threatened, coerced into cooperating with his repressive, corrupt and incompetent regime.
The fight is not to join POLAD, but for freedom. The fight is to change a sadistic and selfish system whose true colours have now become evident to all.
The real message from Mnangagwa is when we saw the abduction and torture of Mathuthu’s relative, and Hopewell Chin’ono and Jacob Ngarivhume in leg irons and much much more.
The message is evident through the Neanderthal thinking that the brutal reality in our country can be changed by denying it, or that calls by the clergy for the government to do what’s right should be used as an opportunity to threaten Ndebeles.
Mnangagwa’s message is clear when he attempts to use an issue as critical as land to separate the white community from the rest of the Zimbabweans who live tortured lives under his regime.
Mnangagwa’s imperious statements that assume everyone will go crawling to State House at his call demonstrate the extent of his delusions of grandeur. Ultimately, no authoritarian, no matter how vicious, can escape the consequences of their own folly.
One day, Zimbabwe shall be free, and those who abuse God’s children shall be gone.</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://twitter.com/drnmanyika/status/1301901916553785344" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Noah Manyika on Twitter</a></h4>

Noah Manyika Says He's Not Desperate To Join ED's 'Gravy Train'

The Khupe led MDC faction is reportedly planning to paralyse the Harare City Council run by the MDC Alliance by recalling many councillors after Luckson Mukunguma lost to MDC Alliance candidate Jacob Mafume in the Harare Mayoral elections on yesterday, ZimMorning Post reports.
This was revealed by an MDC T official who said the party was moving to dismantle the Harare City Council as a reaction to losing to MDC Alliance. The well-placed source reportedly said:
<blockquote>We are faced with an impossible choice, either accept the MDC Alliance to continue using their influence in council to fund their operations which are targeted at defeating us, or to dismantle council, deprive it of a quorum and let a government run commission takeover.</blockquote>
According to the publication, massive recalls may open a window for the Government’s Ministry of Local Government to dissolve the Harare City Council and appoint a commission which will run the affairs of the city until the 2023 elections. The plot by the Khupe’s camp might be welcomed by the government which has been pushing July Moyo to dissolve the council and appoint a commission to run the council.
More: <a href="https://zimmorningpost.com/new-harare-mayor-faces-backlash-as-khupe-plots-mass-recalls-to-paralyse-council/">ZimMorning Post </a>

Khupe Planning To Recall Councillors To Paralyse Harare City Council And Let A Govt Commission Take Over  - Report

Former MDC Alliance Treasurer and MDC T official Tapiwa Mashakada while speaking to the state media yesterday said the opposition has always been in support of compensating commercial farmers who lost their properties during the early 2000s Land Reform program, The Herald reports.
Mashakada fought in the government’s corner in denying that the $3.5 Billion Global Compensation Deed was in a way a reversal of the controversial Land Reform Program. Said Mashakada:
<blockquote>Is this a reversal of the Land Reform Programme? The answer is an emphatic No. The principle of compensation is what both the MDC, civil society, white farmers, the EU and America have been calling for since 2000. In fact, in all our manifestos, we as the opposition have been calling for compensation in order to bring a closure to the land question. By compensating white farmers, Zanu PF has simply done what was expected by everybody. In my view, the Land Reform Programme is now irreversible.
The 2013 Constitution is very clear on the irreversibility of the Land Reform Programme. It is therefore cheap politicking to suggest that the Government is now reversing the land reform programme.</blockquote>
Meanwhile, the Minister Of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting services Monica Mtsvangwa said no one is going to lose their farm because of the compensation deed, there will be a few relocations but no land reform beneficiary will lose their farm.
More: <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/weve-always-wanted-to-give-land-back-mdc/">The Herald </a>

Its Not Land Reform Reversal, Even The Opposition Have Been Calling For Compensation - Tapiwa Mashakada

MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe’s spokesperson, Khalipani Phugeni said the party is a Tsvangirai family project and having members of the family in the structures is not a way of trying to gain public sympathy.
In an interview on Tuesday Talk, Phugeni said the fact the party is named after Tsvangirai is proof that the party belongs to the Tsvangirai family. Said Phugeni:
<blockquote>We are not trying to rope in the Tsvangirai family, this is their project, the party is called Movement for Democratic Change Tsvangirai, so this is their thing.
It is their project, and we are not trying to act in any fun way or whatsoever, it is their project, the headquarters is named after their father, brother or son so there is nothing amiss here.</blockquote>
Phugeni said there was nothing wrong with Khupe putting her name on the list of the party’s proportional representative nominees forwarded to electoral officials.
He said it was the party’s desire to have its president in Parliament leading the caucus.
The MDC-T has been accused of trying to use the late Morgan Tsvangirai’s family to appear like the genuine party since the party’s founding president died in 2018.
The MDC-T has roped in Vincent Tsvangirai, Morgan’s son, and Manase Tsvangirai, Morgan’s young brother, in its structures.
Earlier this year, the entire MDC-T leadership performed some rituals at Tsvangirai’s grave and promised to take care of his mother.
<h4>More: <a href="https://openparly.com/mdc-t-is-a-tsvangirai-family-project-phugeni/">Open Parly</a></h4>

Khupe's Spokesperson Says MDC-T Is A Tsvangirai Family 'Thing'

Former MDC legislator Eddie Cross said MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa will never talk to President Emmerson Mnangagwa if he insists on his position that the latter is illegitimate.
Cross believes that Chamisa lost a huge opportunity when he rejected Mnangagwa’s offer, to make him the leader of the opposition in Parliament. Said Cross:
<blockquote>Nelson (Chamisa) called me this other day, I hadn’t seen him for about 18 months, he called me and asked me what I think he should be doing and I said you should be talking to Mnangagwa and he said how do we get that started and I said the first thing is you got to accept that he won the 2018 elections end of conversation.
If you don’t accept that the President is legitimate and that he won elections legitimately then you cant start a conversation and that’s the position and nothing is going to change that.
No amount of external pressure is going to change that situation, its something we have to do among ourselves.</blockquote>
Cross, who is a member of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s (RBZ) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), said Mnangagwa is under a lot of pressure from ZANU PF and does not make decisions on his own. He said:
<blockquote>I think Chamisa has lost a huge opportunity because I think if he had accepted Emmerson’s (President Mnangagwa) victory in 2018 and accepted his role as leader of the opposition in Parliament, I think the President would have been much more accommodating.
And I think we would have seen the situation in Zimbabwe moving more or less along the lines of a consensual type of government arrangement than what we have got at the moment.
You have to remember too that the President is someone who is also under pressure from his own people and he is a not a free agent and neither is Ramaphosa.</blockquote>
Chamisa has to accept that Mnangagwa was legitimately elected in 2018 as a starting point, else there are no prospects of dialogue between the two Cross added.
<blockquote>He (Chamisa) said the precondition for talks is that he wants the government to accept that it was not legitimately elected.
Therefore the conversation can’t even start, you can’t even begin to dialogue if that is the opening statement.</blockquote>
In spite of Cross’s assertion, it is not clear if Mnangagwa actually extended the alleged offer to Chamisa. A few months after the election, Mnangagwa formed the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD), a dialogue platform that was intended to bring together all the 2018 presidential candidates.
Chamisa, Joice Mujuru, Noah Manyika and Nkosana Moyo are some of the candidates who refused to be part of the “charade”.
<h4>More: <a href="https://openparly.com/chamisa-seeks-advice-on-engaging-mnangagwa/">Open Parly</a></h4>

Eddie Cross Says Chamisa Sought His Advice On  Engaging Mnangagwa

Jastone Mazhale who is the MDC Alliance Mayor For Gwanda yesterday reportedly rebutted reports linking him to the Thokozani Khupe led MDC T as he pledged allegiance to the youthful MDC leader Nelson Chamisa, Newsday reports.
This came after reports circulated that Mazhale is among the councillors who met Khupe’s spokesperson who urged them to quit MDC Alliance and join MDC T voluntarily.
Confirming that he attended the MDC T delegation meeting Mazhale said:
<blockquote>The correct position is that I still remain an MDC Alliance member where at provincial level I am the secretary for policy and research, It’s true I attended the meeting agreeing to engage them in my personal capacity. We engaged and they put their side of the story and eventually I had to tell them that no, I do not buy their story.
It was out of courtesy that I gave them room for dialogue; and even on Tuesday they were saying can we meet again so that we pursue the issue, but I refused because the moment we engage each other, we then spread falsehoods and that affects my principles and personality and it also affects my community role.</blockquote>
Meanwhile, 6 councillors from Gwanda ditched the Chamisa camp for Khupe’s camp following the meeting with the MDC delegation lead by Phugeni.
More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2020/09/i-wont-defect-to-khupe-gwanda-mayor/">Newsday</a>

Gwanda Mayor Pledges Allegiance To Chamisa

MDC-T organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe has criticised acting party leader Thokozani Khupe and secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora for their obsession with recalling MDC Alliance (MDC-A) MPs and councillors instead of focusing on rebuilding the party.
Bhebhe asserted that the MDC-T leadership has lost direction and it is making a bad situation worse by weakening an already fragile party. He said:
<blockquote>I have refused to be part of that circus where the top leadership is obsessed with mindlessly recalling party members without concentrating on rebuilding it.
All they have done since the court ruling is to recall while no programme to develop the organisation has been considered. The recalls are damaging an already fragile party.
I have always made it a point that I speak my mind in the standing committee and other platforms because it makes my job as a national organising secretary difficult.
I have opposed the behaviour that has now permeated to provinces where individuals just come up with names to say so and so must be recalled so that someone is seen as wielding a lot of power hence members are obliged to follow them when we eventually go to congress for fear of being recalled.</blockquote>
Khupe’s MDC-T has used the Supreme Court ruling that stripped Nelson Chamisa of the presidency of the party in March, to recall 21 MPs and several councillors from the MDC-A for refusing to toe her line.
Khupe’s MDC-T lost dismally to Chamisa’s MDC-A in the 2018 harmonised elections yet she has taken over her rival’s party.
<h4>More: <a href="https://dailynews.co.zw/bhebhe-frustrated-by-khupe-recalls/">Daily News</a></h4>

Khupe, Mwonzora Antics Frustrate Bhebhe

The Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet (Presidential Communications), George Charamba said South Africa overestimates its capacity to solve conflicts on the continent when all that it can do is offer friendly solidarity.
This comes after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa revealed on Monday that his Zimbabwean counterpart, President Emmerson Mnangagwa had sought a meeting of the two countries’ ruling parties – the African National Congress (ANC) and ZANU PF to discuss how the former can help the latter deal with its crises.
However, following a meeting of the ANC’s national executive meeting on Monday, it was decided that the ANC delegation would also meet Mnangagwa’s rivals – churches, opposition political parties and civil society organisations.
In an extraordinary outburst on Twitter, Charamba claimed that South Africa was deluded in supposing that it has the capacity to deal with the challenges facing the SADC region. He said:
<blockquote>South Africa is no donor State in SADC. If anything, its long apartheid legacy makes its post-1994 subregional role quite problematic for the rest of SADC States who know the continued dominance of Afrikaner capital in SADC does not benefit the ANC or blacks in Soweto or Khayelitsha. That is the sordid truth.
South Africa cannot intervene militarily in any SADC country. That lesson was driven home during the Mandela days when it sought to do so in Lesotho. Since that disastrous escapade, South African diplomacy has been tempered and restrained to function within SADC structures, as should be!
Just what is the logic and implication of Zimbabweans of insufficient history and national consciousness asking for South African intervention in Zimbabwe outside SADC structures?</blockquote>
Charamba said only Zimbabwe has the capacity to play a stabilising role in SADC and accused South Africa of being used by Western powers against Zimbabwe.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.zimlive.com/2020/09/02/mnangagwas-spokesmen-rant-at-problematic-south-africa-interference/">ZimLive.com</a></h4>

Mnangagwa Spokesperson Taunts South Africa

The MDC Alliance leadership has nullified Marondera Mayor Chengetai Marowa’s suspension on the basis that it was unconstitutional, Newsday reports.
Marowa had been suspended by some party district leaders for his alleged ties to Thokozani Khupe’s faction. The MDC Alliance released a statement declaring his suspension null and void and stating their reasons for doing so. The statement reads in part:
<blockquote>We want to put it clear that the mayor of Marondera, his worship Chengetai Murowa is not suspended as reported. He is not suspended as councillor, mayor or party member. The said suspension as reported is dubious, flimsy and void. Our party’s construction is very clear on disciplinary procedures.
Murowa is a member of the provincial executive and national council and in this case, cannot be suspended by a lower structure such as the constituency co-ordinating committee. All our councillors in Marondera subscribe to the leadership of MDC-A, the party that sponsored them during the 2018 harmonised elections.
If there are any other issues of disharmony of some sort the party leadership has got the capacity to unite our family for the good of Marondera residents and rate payers.</blockquote>
Marondera Central Mayor Caston Mutewu reportedly echoed the same sentiments that Marowa’s suspension was unprocedural.
More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2020/09/mdc-alliance-nullifies-marondera-mayors-suspension/">Newsday </a>

Marondera Mayor's Suspension Nullified By The MDC Alliance

MDC Alliance Secretary General Chalton Hwende has revealed that they are mobilising voters to reject Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s bid to replace MDC Alliance legislators with MDC T nominees, Newsday reports.
Hwende said the move by ZEC is violating the rights of thousands of voters who chose legislators of their choice by replacing them with Khupe’s nominees:
<blockquote>It is the same as what happened in 2018 when a man that lost Presidential elections was sworn in as President. What is happening now is that Zanu PF is using Zec is stealing seats from MDC Alliance and giving them to the MDC-T.
We are not surprised, they can do what they want, but we will not betray the people’s struggle. They took away the rights of people who woke up at 4am to go and cast their votes.</blockquote>
Speaking about strategy, Hwende said countrywide, the electorate was getting ready to reject ZEC’s move to impose Khupe’s MPs on them:
<blockquote>I am here in Kuwadzana doing projects and residents are already signing their objections to imposition of MPs by ZEC and Khupe.
A number of people will challenge this move throughout the country, but we also know that dictators do not respect the Constitution and will do anything to subvert the people’s vote.</blockquote>
This came after ZEC published a statement notifying the nation of their plan to replace MDC Alliance MPs with Khupe’s nominees and further urged people objecting the move to lodge their complaints in 14 days.
More:<a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2020/09/voters-ready-to-reject-khupe-mps/"> Newsday </a>

Voters Countrywide Working On Rejecting Khupe's MPs - Hwende

Three MDC Alliance (MDC-A) councillors have dumped the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance and joined the MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe.
The development was confirmed by MDC-T secretary for women’s assembly in Mbizo district, Rita Munyorovi-Svova.
Munyorovi-Svova revealed that the councillors are from Ward 2, 11 and 12. She said:
<blockquote>They all belong to MDC-T. In fact, they must not make the mistake of following an individual (Nelson Chamisa) but should follow the party (MDC-T).
People should read and understand the constitution of the MDC-T.</blockquote>
Meanwhile, MDC-A Midlands secretary for information Takavafira Zhou said it is the democratic right of the three councillors to decide on whomever they want to associate with. Said Zhou:
<blockquote>In politics, there is freedom of association and disassociation. We don’t have any problem with them, in fact, we wish them good luck.
But we foresee them coming back. As MDC-A led by Nelson Chamisa, we will soldier on.</blockquote>
Using a controversial Supreme Court ruling delivered a few hours after the country went into lockdown in March, the MDC-T has so far recalled at least 21 legislators from both the National Assembly and Senate as well as several councillors.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has said by-elections for vacant constituencies and wards would be held when the government relaxes lockdown restrictions.
<h4>More: <a href="http://newziana.co.zw/2020/08/31/three-kwekwe-mdc-alliance-councillors-defect-to-khupe-faction/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New Ziana</a></h4>

3 MDC-A Councillors In Kwekwe Defect To Khupe

Former War Veterans leader Rugare Gumbo has made sensational claims that the President is being sabotaged by people within the ruling party, the Daily News reports.
Speaking to the Daily News, the former cabinet minister said the country is for everyone and dialogue is the only way to go:
<blockquote>He (Mnangagwa) must be aware of being sabotaged from within, and I think this is now clearly happening in Zanu PF. In politics, those things happen. But the president must be a visionary leader with good strategies to be able to deal with all these problems.
As I also always say, dialogue is the only way forward for this country. The 2023 elections are very far because people are suffering. You cannot solve these problems through propaganda.
The country is for everyone, from trade unions to churches and other stakeholders. People just need to sit down and talk.We went to war to make sure that all Zimbabweans have a good life and that they are happy all the time. It is important for Zanu PF to implement political and economic reforms.
They must do this not for themselves, but for the good of the country. The future of the party will not be good if they fail to implement the much needed reforms.</blockquote>
Gumbo’s sentiments were echoed by Godfrey Tsenengamu who said President Mnangagwa was surrounded by people who cant tell him the truth:
<blockquote>He is being sabotaged by his own comrades who are bitter for various reasons and also from remnants of the old dispensation. But his biggest challenge has been that of surrounding himself with people who have no appreciation of his vision. He picked people from nowhere and entrusted them with key positions, and these people are letting him down. The other challenge is that he surrounded himself with people who can’t tell him the truth, and this is working against him.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The majority of the people who rushed to surround him are nothing but mere opportunists and extortionists who are busy lining their pockets and doing everything possible to tarnish his name,” Tsenengamu also let rip. It is important that the president lays the foundation for a better society in which he will be able to live even after his time as president. In whatever he is doing today, he must think about tomorrow.</blockquote>
The duo’s sentiments come amid a dire economic meltdown that has seen inflation soaring to over 830%.
More: <a href="https://dailynews.co.zw/zanu-pf-vips-sabotaging-ed-forthright-gumbo-tsenengamu-say/">Daily News </a>

Zanu PF Members Sabotaging ED - Rugare Gumbo

MDC Alliance Secretary General Chalton Hwende has been asked to surrender his diplomatic passport after MDC T  recalled him from parliament. The matter came to light on Twitter after Zanu PF posted the following letter to Hwende from the parliament clerk:
<blockquote>Dear Mr Hwende
RE: RETRIEVAL OF DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT
As you maybe aware, His Excellency President Emmerson Mnangagwa gracefully extended the facility for all Members of Parliament to hold Diplomatic Passports in September 2019. You may recall. conditions for use of the document were linked to the tenure of the current Parliament inclusive of you being a serving Member of Parliament of Zimbabwe.
Following your recall from Parliament, in accordance with Section in (to) of the Constitution at Zimbabwe, you are, therefore, kindly requested to submit the Diplomatic Passport to the Registrar- General’s Office and retrieve your ordinary passport in accordance with the attendant conditions attached during the issuance of the document.
Should you need any assistance in this regard, you may contact Ms. Rudo N.E Deka. Acting Principal Director-External Relations on +263712880017
Your cooperation will be greatly appreciated Yours Sincerely,
KM Chokuda
Clerk Of Parliament
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FULL TEXT: Hwende Asked To Surrender Diplomatic Passport

Vice President Kembo Mohadi has said the country has registered a number of positives the previous administration failed to achieve in the past 38 years.
He attributes the said “achievements” to the military background which the leaders in the presidium have. The presidium is comprised of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his two deputies, Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi.
Commissioning a new bridge in Chirumhanzu, Midlands province, Mohadi said:
<blockquote>What we failed to achieve 38 years ago, we have done it. Maybe it goes to the fact that the people that are at the helm now in the presidium were once in the military high command.
We are all soldiers. If you want the best manager, it has been proven worldwide that you get a soldier.</blockquote>
His remarks echo those of president Mnangagwa who recently said his administration was delivering on the promises made during the 2018 harmonised elections.
Meanwhile, government critics have said the current administration is worse than that of the late Robert Mugabe after failing or worsening the socio-economic and political crises which were also prevalent during the previous administration.
Since 2017 when Mnangagwa took over power from Mugabe, Zimbabwe has been on a downward trend but authorities say that was expected after the introduction of austerity measures premised at kickstarting the economy.
More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/zims-military-presidium-has-brought-economic-growth-mohadi/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New Zimbabwe</a>

VP Mohadi Attributes New Dispensation's "Success" To Military Background Of Leaders In Presidium

Former Deputy Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Energy Mutodi has said no one could have transformed Zimbabwe adding that only God has the capacity to do so.
He was speaking at a funeral of the late ZANU PF official whom he only identified as Mr Munyonga.
Mutodi speaks when the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led administration which took over in 2017 following the demise of the country’s founding leader the late Robert Mugabe has failed to address the economic and humanitarian and political crises prevalent in the country.
There was hope when Mnangagwa took over from his long-time boss and mentor that he would flatten the over two-decades-long crisis but things have worsened in the past 24 months.
In a bid to turnaround the country’s fortunes, his administration introduced a raft of strategies including austerity measures which have however worsened the light of the citizenry.
The crises manifest in a shrinking democratic space, shortages of food, fuel, medicines, electricity and cash, and is also more pronounced in the skyrocketing inflation and high unemployment rates.
Observers say corruption was among leading factors hamstringing efforts to revive the economy while authorities are putting the blame on climate change and sanctions by Western powers as well as sabotage by the “country’s enemies.”
Watch Mutodi’s speech below.

"Even You Could Not Have Solved Zimbabwe's Crises," - Mutodi

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The Secretary-General of the opposition MDC Alliance, Chalton Hwende has urged a critic to come and lead a revolution on the ground instead of talking on social media.
Responding to a tweet by one <a href="https://twitter.com/maDube_/status/1300308481971544064" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Zandile</a> who had urged the public not to “embrace leaders who despise the idea of a revolution,” <a href="https://twitter.com/hwendec/status/1300253343701491713" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hwende said:</a>
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They are not elected to sit and enjoy benefits of being in government. Representing us means leading from the front as well not fronting masses for something we voted them for. You are right <a class="link-complex" data-user-name="madiba" href="https://twitter.com/madiba/" rel="noopener user noreferrer" target="_blank">@madiba</a>
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This comes as the MDC Alliance leadership has been criticised for not taking a more radical approach to confronting the government which is accused of bad corruption and violation of human rights.
Some of the leaders including the jailed Job Sikhala have been rallying the citizenry to participate in anti-government protests although they themselves were in hiding.
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"Come And Lead From The Battlefront," - Hwende Tells Pro-Revolution Critic

The opposition MDC Alliance has nominated Jacob Mafume to replace ousted Harare Mayor Herbert Gomba as a way to prevent MDC-T interim leader Thokozani Khupe from recalling the party’s official.
Gomba, a former councillor for Glen Norah was recently recalled by the interim MDC-T leadership for ceasing to be a member of the MDC-T. Speaking to New Zimbabwe on Sunday, an anonymous MDC Alliance official said:
<blockquote>As the MDC Alliance, we still have a majority of councillors in the Harare City chambers, and anyone nominated from Khupe’s MDC-T will not get in on a silver platter.
The good thing about it is the mayor is voted for by elected councillors and Khupe’s camp will be floored.
Our candidate is Jacob Mafume who was formerly with PDP (People’s Democratic Party) and Khupe cannot recall him hence his name has been thrown in the hat.</blockquote>
Meanwhile, MDC-T has identified Luckson Mukunguma, a local businessman who is also the chairperson of the council’s finance committee as the successor to Gomba.
Mafume, a lawyer and former MDC Renewal spokesperson, is the chairperson of human resources.
MDC-T has in recent months recalled scores of MDC Alliance councillors and legislators for showing allegiance to Nelson Chamisa.
More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/chamisa-khupe-in-new-fight-over-harare-mayor-post/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New Zimbabwe</a>

MDC Alliance Nominates Former PDP Member As Gomba's Replacement To Avoid Recalls

The opposition MDC-T’s Mashonaland Central’s provincial executive has recommended the recalling of the Mayor of  Bindura Carlos Tokyo and eight other councillors for failing to respect the party’s leadership.
The leadership wrote to the party’s interim president, Thokozani Khupe saying the councillors were no longer serving the interests of the party and their recall was in line with their party’s constitution. Read the letter in part:
<blockquote>We hope you will urgently execute this exercise as a matter of urgency and within the earliest possible time. Further delays will greatly disadvantage the MDC-T party.</blockquote>
This comes when the party’s interim leadership has in the recent past recalled a number of legislators and councillors whom it seeks to replace by new appointees as by-elections are currently suspended.
The issue has attracted criticism on the part of the MDC-T interim leadership which is accused of lacking morals by recalling officials that were elected by the electorate and replacing them with the ones they want.
More: <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/mdc-t-to-recall-bindura-mayor-eight-councillors/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Herald</a>

MDC-T Moves To Recall Mayor, 8 Councillors

The MDC has released the following statement that states that it is investigating the abduction of Tawanda Muchehiwa after it emerged that its Bulawayo Provincial Women Assembly Chair Tendai Masotsha led the abductors to Tawanda,
The statement says they will investigate and make the findings of the investigation public:
<blockquote>STATEMENT ON ALLEGATIONS OF INVOLVEMENT OF MDC ALLIANCE OFFICIAL IN STATE-SPONSPORED ABDUCTION OF TAWANDA MUCHEHIWA
The MDC Alliance is currently investigating the vet.), serious allegations against Ms. Tendai Masotsha, the Bulawayo Women’s Assembly Chair, in the events surrounding the abduction and subsequent torture of Tawanda Muchehiwa by the State.
The outcome of the investigation will be conununicated publicly and expeditiously once the investigations and internal processes are complete in accordance with due process.
We apologize for the perceived delay in communicating on this matter but we have had to proceed cautiously in order to avoid inadvertently re-victimising our member, who herself was recently victimized in the run up to the planned protests of the 31 of July 2020.
On this International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, we continue to express our revulsion at the repeated incidences of state-sponsored abductions, human rights violations and torture. The recently availed video footage of Tawanda’s abduction confirms beyond any doubt that these violations are carried out by the State, something that the State has been denying all along.
We stand with Tawanda Muchehiwa and all victims of state-sponsored violence.
Fadzayi Mahere National Spokesperson
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FULL TEXT: We Are Investigating The Sponsored Abduction Of Tawanda Muchehiwa - MDC Alliance

The MDC Alliance Bulawayo Province has suspended Tendai Masotsha who is the provincial women’s assembly chairperson for her alleged involvement in the abduction of ZimLive editor Mduduzi Mathuthu’s nephew Tawanda Muchehiwa, CITE.org reports.
The suspension which came after Muchehiwa narrated his abduction and how Masotsha might have helped the abductors, was confirmed by MDC Alliance Bulawayo Spokesperson Swithern Chirowodza who said:
<blockquote>After taking note of journalism student, Tawanda Muchehiwa’s statement published by<a href="https://www.zimlive.com/2020/08/27/i-felt-the-gun-on-the-back-of-my-head-i-had-made-peace-with-death/"> Zimlive,</a> the alleged participation of Tendai Masotsha in Tawanda’s abduction and also the abduction and torture of our Party members in Bulawayo by suspected state security agents, the MDC Alliance Bulawayo Province has suspended and opened investigations into her involvement  in the matter. A concise statement would be issued in the next 48 hours.
This request is also extended to the Party’s National Council. This decision, taken after careful consideration, will assist the Party to finalise investigations on the matter.</blockquote>
When contacted for comment, Masotsha said she was surprised by the allegations levelled against her and said:
<blockquote>Yimihlolo leyi (I am actually surprised by all this). I am also a victim in this. I haven’t been told about the suspension officially but had seen news on the suspension on twitter. There is nothing I can do but my heart is free, I am clean and not involved in any of this. Masotsha said the investigations would clear her name. If the investigations are not polluted and are proper, they will show I am also a victim</blockquote>
Sources that spoke to the publication on condition of anonymity said party members want Masotsha fired from the party:
<blockquote>Party members want her to be removed as the party’s integrity is under stake. We have written to the National Council asking them to expel her immediately from the party. We cannot continue working with someone who was alleged to have involved in abduction and torture</blockquote>
MDC Alliance released a statement that said they are investigating the matter.
More: <a href="https://www.cite.org.zw/mdc-alliance-suspends-byo-womens-assembly-boss-over-muchehiwa-abduction/">CITE</a>

MDC Alliance Bulawayo Province Suspends Provincial Women’s Assembly Chairperson Over Muchehiwa's Abduction

Zanu PF Political commissar,  Deputy Defence Minister and secretary-general of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) Victor Matemadanda while addressing party structures in Harare urged people to unite and put an end to infightings ravaging the party as he said they would destroy the party.
Taking a jab at the former first family and the MDC Matemadanda said:
<blockquote>There is this habit among party members of labelling each other G40 (a vanquished faction of the party) for example. People are not putting maximum effort to their party work due to this. We must know that Mugabe was our leader … for nearly 40 years. All of us wanted to be close even to (Mugabe’s wife) Grace.
We must forget about the past and start new things so that our party can continue to grow. You must not make unnecessary accusations against each other. I want to warn you … this must stop for the good of our party. The MDC is dead and we can’t lose elections to a dead party. But as long as we remain divided we will not go anywhere.
We are witnessing tribal wars but we can’t run the party through tribal lines,” he added ruefully. 
Matemadanda said further that failure to nip factionalism and tribalism in the bud in the party would have serious ramifications for its survival.
We respected (the late vice president Joshua) Nkomo as our leader. People from Plumtree up to Mutoko sang songs praising Nkomo. Our relationship should not be premised on tribalism and regionalism. Some are saying let us wait and see whether we are going to support a certain leader or not. That’s what you are doing here in Harare … this habit has grown in Harare. It is now like a huge tree and you are saying we are tribal specialists. This is not good for the party and it must stop</blockquote>
Matemadanda over the years has said so <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2019/12/15/if-elections-fail-well-use-any-other-means-necessary-zanu-pf/">many controversial things like the elections will not remove Zanu PF</a>.
More: <a href="https://dailynews.co.zw/zanu-pf-big-shot-appeals-for-sanity/">Daily News </a>

Lets Unite, MDC Is Dead We Can’t Lose Elections To A Dead Party - Matemadanda Appeals To Zanu PF Factionalists

Former MDC T Vice President Obert Gutu who of late has been criticising Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s decision to replace MDC Alliance’s legislators with MDC T nominees has further opined that the move by ZEC would render the election process worthless if voters are convinced that their vote is worthless.
Gutu took to microblogging site Twitter and said:
<blockquote>Electoral democracy is all about allowing voters to decide who their Parliamentary representatives should be. Once voters are convinced that Parliamentary representatives will not necessarily be determined by their votes, the whole electoral system is bastardized.</blockquote>
Gutu earlier on made <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/08/30/gutu-rejects-nomination-into-parliament-by-khupe-on-moral-grounds/">claims that he refused a seat in parliament he was offered by Khupe</a> on moral grounds. He also yesterday said <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/08/29/obert-gutu-questions-khupes-morality-and-intelligence/">it was immoral to replace legislators picked by the electorate</a> with a member of a rival faction of the party.
Source:<a href="https://twitter.com/GutuObert"> Twitter </a>

Electoral Democracy Is All About Allowing Voters To Decide Who They Want To Represent Them - Obert Gutu

Opposition political activists and human rights defenders have been urged to exercise extreme caution due to rising suspicions that they could be targets for food poisoning or abduction.
The deaths of several prominent opposition and civic leaders due to colon cancer in the last few years has raised eyebrows, with critics suspicious that they may have been assassinated “Russian-style”.
Russia is considered a dangerous place for government critics, who risk dying agonising deaths due to poisoning.
High profile poisoning Russian cases include that of Alexander Litvinenko, a former intelligence officer who was poisoned by two Russians in a suspected assassination in 2006 in London, and Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military officer and double agent for the UK’s intelligence services who was poisoned in the city of Salisbury, England alongside his daughter Yulia.
Professor of law at the University of Kent, Alex Magaisa advised politically exposed persons (PEPs) to rather err on the side of caution rather than fear being considered paranoic. He wrote:
<blockquote>One of the first lessons I learnt in the field when I went onto the dance-floor was that you have to be very selective about whom you tell things especially your whereabouts in times of crisis. Because if they are caught and tortured, they’ll squeal.
The other was that the one person you can truly trust is yourself. The third was that persons closest to you can be the most dangerous. That’s because you trust them and you lower your guard. If they are weak they are easily bought. If they are captured, they’ll squeal.
The other is the honey-trap. Politicians or technocrats in corridors of power find themselves enjoying growing attention and adulation. The delusional might think they have suddenly become more handsome or beautiful. But not all such attention is innocent.
And if you’re having a drink, you can’t leave it unattended at the table. If you’re going to the loo, make sure it’s done. Avoid being a regular at a single spot. You can’t be predictable. But humans are creatures of habit, a weakness that’s easy to exploit.
When you eat, a buffet is a way to go. Eat from the communal pot! Reject special treatment. It might seem special to order room service, but if you’re a PEP (politically exposed person) it’s not a smart idea. The kitchens are infested; some waiters do not only deliver food.
Also, carry your own water. Cut out the middleman. They know your hotel room before you know it. Now, I know this sounds like paranoia but our political space is not normal. It’s had-hat area and you can’t be too careful. Always err on the side of caution.</blockquote>
Recently, Tawanda Muchehiwa, a 22-year-old Midlands State University (MSU) journalism student was abducted in broad daylight and there are suspicions that he could have been trapped by Tendai Masotsha, the MDC Alliance women’s assembly chairperson in Bulawayo province.
Muchehiwa’s abductors then attempted to use his phone to waylay other activists, including Thandekile Moyo, who initiated the #ZANUPFMUSTGO hashtag and Samkeliso Tshuma.
Both were wise enough to avoid falling into the trap but Muchehiwa’s friend, Collen Dhlamini fell for it when he was baited with a WhatsApp message from his phone. He was given a thorough beating by the abductors.

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