As I sit down to reflect on my journey towards mindset elevation, memories of challenges, triumphs, and self-discovery flood my mind. It's been a transformative path, one filled with ups and downs, but ultimately leading me to a place of greater resilience, optimism, and growth.
My journey began with a realisation: the power of mindset in shaping my experiences and outcomes in life. I recognized that my fixed beliefs and negative self-talk were holding me back from reaching my full potential. I knew I needed to embark on a journey of self-discovery and mindset elevation.
The first step was understanding the difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. I came to see that a fixed mindset limited me, causing me to shy away from challenges and fear failure. But a growth mindset offered a new perspective—a belief that challenges were opportunities for learning and development, and that my abilities could be cultivated through effort and perseverance.
Armed with this newfound understanding, I set out to cultivate the characteristics of an elevated mindset. Resilience became my guiding principle.
Instead of letting setbacks and failures discourage me, I saw them as stepping stones on the path to success. Each obstacle became an opportunity to learn and grow stronger.
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#Latest: Abusive Harare teacher escapes jail
The Maths teacher at Harare’s Einsten Tuition Centre, Talent Chingwaru, who was filmed assaulting a student, was yesterday handed a suspended three-year sentence.
Harare magistrate Judith Taruvinga, who convicted Chingwaru of assault on Saturday, suspended 18 months of his sentence on condition of good behaviour, while the other 18 months were suspended on condition that he does 630 hours of community service at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals.
Chingwaru told the court that he was an engineer and not a qualified Maths teacher.
In her ruling, Taruvinga said Chingwaru had shown remorse and that there was a chance for him to reform.
Taruvinga, however, said he should be punished for not controlling his anger.
“You are a first offender, you did not waste the court’s time. You are remorseful. The court also found in aggravation that it is unfortunate that the complainant did not sustain any visible injuries, but you must face the consequences of your anger,” Taruvinga said.
“Your case had attracted bad publicity. But you have been in custody from Thursday until today and the court will give you another chance.”
Taruvinga said corporal punishment was outlawed at schools, adding that children should be protected against violence.
Zimbabwe eases Covid-19 lockdown, allows gatherings and inter-city travel
Zimbabwe eased Covid-19 lockdown measures on Tuesday as President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced longer operating hours for businesses, the lifting of a ban on inter-city travel and allowing public gatherings of a maximum 100 people.
A curfew previously effective between 6PM and 6AM was also shortened to between 10PM and 5.30AM.
In a televised address, Mnangagwa said the low number of deaths justified the new measures.
Mnangagwa said: “The daily average of deaths has decreased from 20 to 10. It is a clear demonstration that the government’s implementation of public health and social measures including lockdowns in collaboration with all sectors and stakeholders is paying off.
“I’m therefore reducing the current Level 4 lockdown to Level 2 lockdown.”
Mnangagwa said the measures would be reviewed on September 21.
The Level 2 lockdown measures include:
♦️Curfew beginning at 10PM and ending at 5.30AM.
♦️Ordinary business enterprises to operate between 8AM and 7PM.
♦️Restaurants and bars within hotels and lodges to open between 8AM and 10PM.
♦️Liqour stores may sell alcohol for consumption off the premises between 10AM and 4PM.
♦️Beer outlets and nightclubs to remain closed during lockdown.
♦️Public gatherings to be limited to not more than 100 people with observance of public health measures such as wearing of masks, hand sanitisation, social distancing and temperature checks and people being encouraged to be vaccinated.
♦️Decongestion of offices shall be at 50 percent of ordinary capacity.
♦️Intercity transport is permitted with observance of public health measures.
♦️Low risk sporting activities shall operate from 8AM to 3PM while observing public health measures.
♦️Medium to high-risk sporting activities shall obtain approval beforehand.
♦️Persons entering Zimbabwe from neighbouring and other countries must obtain a Covid-19
Govt Announces Dates For Schools Reopening
The government has announced the dates for the reopening of schools which was delayed by the COVID-19 induced lockdown.
Addressing journalists during a post-Cabinet media briefing in Harare on Wednesday, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said schools will reopen on 30 August 2021 for examination classes and on 6 September 2021 for non-examination classes.
Mutsvangwa also said intercity and intracity transportation, which was banned when the government tightened lockdown measures two months ago, will be allowed to transport learners. She said:
Schools will re-open on 30 August 2021 for examination classes and on 6 September 2021 for non-examination classes. Intercity and intracity transportation for learners will be allowed during this period.
She also revealed that restaurants are now allowed to re-open for sit-in patrons who are fully vaccinated subject to the production of vaccination cards and strict adherence to COVID-19 protocols, which include wearing face coverings, social distancing, and hand sanitising.
Ministry of Health must respond to these worrying claims
The videos shared above are not conspiracy theories by the ignorant, far from it.
Luc Antoine Montagnier led the team that identified the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and shared half the 2008 Nobel Prize with his colleague Françoise Barré-Sinoussi. Robert Malone is the inventor of mRNA vaccine technology on which some of the Covid vaccines are based. Geert Vanden Bossche’s vast and impressive experience is available in the screenshot above.
The Ministry of Health must give the public an explanation. Our role as the media is to provide full information to the public, not to merely support the vaccination programme.
Government has dozens of experts in its employ, why are they not responding to these issues to reassure the public that the vaccine will not do more harm than good?
As a publication we are in an extremely difficult position in that we have to balance the need to inform the public against the risk of fueling vaccine hesitancy. Ultimately, we have no option but to publish, throwing the ball into the Ministry of Health’s court. They must respond, they cannot expect the public to simply dismiss this information off hand.
We have spoken to two Professors in Zimbabwe who have expressed similar worries but they are unwilling to take a public position for fear of victimization.
Madam Boss faces backlash from fans after zanutising callous Marange shrine death in her paid video
Social media star, Tyra Chikocho aka Madam Boss has come under fire for an outburst she made on Friday concerning 14-year-old Memory Machaya, who died while giving birth at a Johanne Marange Apostolic sect shrine in Marange.
Machaya died last month and was buried secretly, sparking outrage among citizens and rights activists opposed to the exploitation of minors.
The United Nations and rights organisations urged the government to protect the rights of children, particularly young women and girls.
Recent data from the Multiple Indicators Survey estimates that Zimbabwe’s child marriage rate is 33%, slightly higher than the global average of 29%. Consequently, Zimbabwe is classified among the 41 countries globally with an alarming rate of child marriages
Experts note that ending child marriage calls for structural, institutional, community and individual strategies to tackle factors fuelling the scourge.
While the Marange incident has received global condemnation and called for all hands on the deck to eradicate the scourge, Madam Boss, who is a brand ambassador for several corporates, including Nyaradzo Funeral Services, chose otherwise as she tried to generate a joke out of the unfortunate incident.
The social media star in a leaked video seemed to mock activists pushing for the arrest of people involved in Machaya’s demise.
She said protesting against the incident would be a futile attempt in addressing the issue.
People felt her message was “insensitive and incredibly tone deaf”.
There was outrage on social media platforms, which prompted Madam Boss to issue an apology through a Facebook live streaming.
Yesterday she took to Facebook where she again issued another written apology.
“Once again I am sorry to all my fans and all the corporates that I represent,” Madam Boss posted on her page yesterday.
“I’m a very peaceful person,
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Zimbabwe bribed Malawi president, SADC leaders to endorse 2013 election – researchers
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu PF paid US$990 million in bribes to SADC leaders and regional liberation movements to endorse the disputed 2013 elections, a new report by the Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) has claimed.
Locating Zanu PF as a beneficiary of illicit election funding, researchers for the study (Mortgaging the Future in Return for Power) found that the liberation movement was selling off state-owned mining claims and minerals to a shadowy network of shelf-companies that eventually delivered the proceeds back to Zanu PF in the form of election funding.
“Official documents gleaned by the research team covering the July 31, 2013 elections give a window to understanding how Zanu PF election funds are sourced and the individuals or companies responsible for underwriting its huge election expenses,” the paper reads.
Adding: “According to the report, a great part of the budget, 67 percent, which amounted to US$2.01 billion, went towards the presidential campaign while US$990 million went towards ‘regional diplomacy’ (next SADC chair, liberation movements) to drum up ‘support for poll credibility before, during and after elections’.
“The so-called ‘regional diplomacy’ is nothing but a euphemism for bribes paid to the SADC Chairperson, then-President Joyce Banda, and liberation movements in the SADC region to proclaim legitimacy to the elections whose credibility Zanu PF anticipated was going to be questioned.”
A Joint Operations Command (JOC) document acquired by the researchers revealed that US$800 million was provided by Chinese miner Anjin and Mbada Diamonds in exchange for tax-free diamond mining rights in Marange, Manicaland province, where vast alluvial diamonds fields where discovered by artisanal miners before the area was violently taken over by the military in 2008 after 35,000 fortune hunters descended on the area. Ove
South Africa extends tight Covid-19 restrictions for another 14 days
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa extended tight Covid-19 rules on Sunday for another 14 days, maintaining restrictions that include a ban on gatherings, a curfew from 9PM to 4AM and a prohibition on the sale of alcohol.
The country, the worst-hit on the African continent in terms of recorded cases and deaths, is in the grip of a third wave of infections driven by the more infectious Delta coronavirus variant.
“Our health system countrywide remains under pressure,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a televised address to the nation.
Early this month South Africa recorded a new record of over 26,000 daily cases, stretching hospitals to breaking point.
Ramaphosa moved the country to the fourth level of a five-tier restriction scale in late June as infections climbed, promising to review the restrictions after two weeks.
On Sunday he said the cabinet had decided to maintain “adjusted alert level 4” for another 14 days, although restaurants would be able to serve food on their premises again subject to strict health protocols. Gyms would also be allowed to reopen under certain conditions.
Ramaphosa added that a government advisory committee was working on how soon to bring Sinovac’s CoronaVac vaccine into the Covid-19 immunisation programme.
So far the vaccine campaign has been slow, with 4.2 million doses administered out of a population of 60 million, but officials are hoping to ramp up daily vaccinations to at least 300,000 by the end of August.
Ramaphosa said the African Union and European Union had reached an agreement for local pharmaceutical company Aspen to deliver more than 17 million Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses to South Africa and other African countries over the next three months.
Aspen is sourcing vaccine ingredients from J&J to package them in South Africa, a process known as fill and finish.
Ramaphosa said his country was negotiating for the drug substance to be produ
Greenfuel gives Chipinge villagers two months to leave their homes
[Masvingo Mirror]
Greenfuel, a company run by multi-millionaire Billy Rautenbach, has given villagers from Chinyamukwakwa Village in Chipinge two months to harvest their crops and leave their ancestral land.
The company was leased the land that was once used by the Agricultural And Rural Development Authority (ARDA) in Middle Sabi and Chisumbanje.
Greenfuel is now expanding its boundaries into areas settled by the villagers. Currently, the company has over 40 000 hectares of land.
Professor Lovemore Madhuku, who is representing the villagers, accused Greenfuel of greediness. He said:
The company accepted that it can not plough down unharvested crops owned by the villagers and has given up until possibly August for them to finish harvesting. We are preparing court papers against this.
The company is just greedy, if they admire good land, they will just grab it. They are taking law into their own hands.
Headman Chinyamukwakwa and his community are blaming their MP Enock Porusingasi (ZANU PF) who they accuse of supporting Greenfuel against the people who elected him into office.
They also blamed District development Coordinator (DDC) William Mashava and chief Garahwa. Said Chinyamukwakwa:
Who will fight for us when all these people are involved. The MP and the DDC are on Greenfuel’s side.
The MP is giving away our land to Rautenbach. We were born and bred here and this is our land.
Greenfuel spokesperson Merit Rumema told Chipinge Times to send questions via email but she did not respond.
EFF leader Julius Malema praises Zim on Covid vaccination
South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema, has praised Zimbabwe for its cordinanated Covid-19 vaccination programme and indicated that he is also contemplating on taking his vaccination in the country under which has received worldwide acclaim.
The EFF leader this week urged his compatriots to visit Zimbabwe to get vaccinated in what has become the latest endorsement of the way Zimbabwean authorities have managed the Covid-19 pandemic.
This came after the World Health Organisation (WHO) said it was impressed by Zimbabwe’s transmission and prevention measures in containing the Covid-19 pandemic, which had resulted in low levels of infections and mortality.
The World Bank also noted in a report that despite a raft of challenges presented by Covid-19, Zimbabwe was poised to achieve economic growth through adaptations to the pandemic’s disruptions.
Malema’s open endorsement of the country’s vaccination programme comes as local healthcare systems are being configured towards regional and continental leadership to match a middle income society.
“People are being vaccinated in Zimbabwe. I am also considering going to Zimbabwe to get my vaccination. We are going to die before we are vaccinated,” said Malema.
“You were chasing Zimbabweans away and saying they are taking your jobs. It looks like you are going to be chased away when you go to look for a vaccine in Zimbabwe.
“Vaccine is available in Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans are being vaccinated, very soon you are going to be illegally crossing into Zimbabwe to go and get a vaccine,” said Malema.
“Who would have thought one day South Africans could cross into Zimbabwe to go and seek help. We told you when we were still even in the youth league that one day you will go to this country and ask for help. That is what is happening now,” said Malema.
Zimbabwe has performed far better than some First World coun
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Murdered Tapiwa Makore’s Head Buried In Damafalls
Anxious moments in Damafalls as hundreds storm a house suspected to be where the head of a murdered Murehwa boy, Tapiwa Makore, is hidden.
Police have since erected a barrier for people not to disturb investigations that are still underway.
The house belongs to Tapiwa’s other uncle, a twin of the other uncle already arrested and charged with murder.
Today we are in Southlea Park, Harare South where we are meeting various rights holders and linking them with the office bearers. Residents aren't happy with the political rift between Zanu PF & MDC that's now hindering progress of the area.
What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians? Goofy? Very light! Fool? Not enough! Brainless? Yes, that is the very adjective!
