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05/12/2023

𝙐𝙎 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝘽𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣 𝙕𝙞𝙢𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙬𝙚...𝒂𝒔 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒚 𝑩𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔
The United States of America has introduced a new sanctions regime on that will punish individuals involved in election management and the judiciary for allegedly suppressing opposition during elections.

The measure, dubbed a visa restriction, is likely to elicit a strong response from Harare, as it amounts to interference in local processes. Already, the US has sanctions in place against Zimbabwe aimed at institutions and individuals that allegedly undermine democracy and commit human rights abuses.

The opposition has over the years complained about rigged elections and uneven playing field, including alleged compromised institutions of electoral management and the courts.

And, on Monday, the US Secretary of State obliged by announcing “a new visa restriction policy for undermining democracy in Zimbabwe”.

The punitive measures will immediately apply to those fingered in the elections held last August.

“Under this policy, the United States will pursue visa restrictions, pursuant to Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, for individuals believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining democracy in Zimbabwe,” Blinken said in a statement.

“Such acts may include manipulating or rigging the electoral process; disenfranchising voters or preventing individuals from exercising their right to vote; excluding members of the political opposition from electoral processes; restricting the ability of civil society organizations (CSOs) to operate and engage in democratic, governance, or human rights related activities; or intimidation of voters, election observers, or CSOs through threats or acts of physical violence.

“They may also include engaging in corrupt acts, including bribery, that undermine the electoral process; interfering with the independent operation of the judiciary during its adjudication of electoral cases; or abusing or violating human rights in Zimbabwe.”
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05/12/2023

Ex-CBZ manager ordered to pay US$82k

By Judith Nyuke
Court Correspondent
Former senior manager at CBZ Bank and seasoned banker, Norman Sambaza, has been ordered to pay US$82,000 after failing to settle the debt two years ago.

This decision by the High Court came after Sambaza failed to defend himself against the claim filed by one Damascus Tazvitya Mabeka. In response to the judgement, Sambaza lodged an application to halt its ex*****on.

However, Justice Happias Zhou rejected the application after ruling that it was solely designed to postpone the payment to the creditor.

“More than two and a half years later the applicant has not paid a cent.

“There can be no real and substantial justice in staying ex*****on in these circumstances where the substance of the claim is not being disputed…

“The conduct of the applicant after the granting of the default judgment betrays an entire want of care.

“He does not expect the court to accept his version that from 2 March 2023 (or whenever it was that he had last communicated with his legal practitioners) he never checked on the progress of the case for more than six months only to be reminded about the case by the service of the writ of ex*****on,” read part of the judgment.

The case originated from a lawsuit filed by Mabeka against Sambaza, seeking payment of a debt amounting to US$82,280, plus interest.

Mabeka also requested a court order declaring a specific immovable property, known as stand 980 Strathaven, as specially executable.

The case was scheduled for a pre-trial conference on March 2, 2023. However, Sambaza did not attend the conference, even though his legal representative was present.

After the default, a court order was issued in favor of Mabeka who caused a writ to be issued.

The writ and the attachment of an immovable property compelled Sambaza to file the current application.

Sambaza gained notoriety as he grabbed the headlines sometime in 2017 after assaulting his wife and children over a sadza dispute.

04/12/2023

𝙎𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙚𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚...
Zimbabwe international defender has called on his time at United States professional soccer side .
The former Bantu Rovers player and loanee, who also turned out for locally, joined the (Major League Soccer) side in 2021 after playing in Turkey and South Africa's .
played 39 times for the American outfit and scored twice.
It was not immediately clear at the time of writing where Hadebe is headed. See his heartfelt farewell message below. - Sports Review

01/12/2023

𝘽𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙉𝙀𝙒𝙎: 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚 7 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙪𝙩
The 2023 Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) Grade Seven results are out, with the pass rate increasing by 5.48 percent, per .

01/12/2023

𝘽𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙉𝙀𝙒𝙎: 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙝 𝘼𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖 𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙕𝙞𝙢𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙬𝙚, 𝙇𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙤 𝙀𝙭𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙨
The development allows who hold this special visa to stay until 2025.
At the same time, South African authorities extended the same reprieve to Lesotho, another top migrant-sending country, for two years.
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01/12/2023

𝘽𝙤𝙣𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙬𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙐𝙎 𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨
Former CIO boss, Happyton Bonyongwe (63) has been removed from the United States' list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN). The removal of , a once-feared securocrat and former Justice Minister under Robert Mugabe, was confirmed in an updated list this Thursday, Nov 30.
SDNs are individuals and entities located throughout the world that are blocked pursuant to the various sanctions programmes administered by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac). SDNs can be front companies, parastatal entities, or individuals determined to be owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, targeted countries or groups.
The US maintains a sanctions programme on Zimbabwe, that includes blacklisting of Government and ruling party-linked individuals and companies, which the US claims are responsible for human rights abuses. Harare contends that the sanctions are meant to cripple the governing party and administration to aid regime change.
The US has progressively updated lists of blacklisted peoples often removing the dead or those that are no longer influential in Government.
Bonyongwe was Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister for slightly over a month, before the November 2017 coup that swept away Mugabe, paving way for .
The says regarding Zim sanctions: "Sanctions are not intended to be permanent but to incentivize changes in behavior. Each removal is based on a thorough review and is part of an ongoing effort to keep the sanctions program current, focused, and relevant."
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30/11/2023

Zimbabwe care workers invited to UK ‘exploited on grand scale’

Foreign care staff invited to the UK to help fix a chronic worker shortage are being “exploited on a grand scale”, a trade union has said, after it emerged some had been effectively paid as little as £5 an hour and charged thousands of pounds in unexpected fees.
Zimbabweans, Nigerians, Indians make up the majority of care workers in post-Brexit Britain, through a special visa for care workers, but life has been hell, with reports of exploitation and disillusionment for those that had hoped for better life.
The are also cases of fraud and deception by sponsors of visas, leading to growing concern about the emerging modern day slavery under a scheme of “bonded labour”.
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30/11/2023

𝗛𝗲𝗻𝗿𝘆 𝗞𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿, 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 '𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆' ...
Former American diplomat, who "finally" died today, was a notable character in international diplomacy and geopolitics. He gained infamy for ochestrating coups and installing US puppets in South and Central America, destabilisation in Vietnam and other eastern countries as well as support for apartheid in South Africa between the late 1970s and 1990s.

𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑨𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂
Scholars have recorded that Kissinger declared that, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and South Africa were but part of "black Africa", essentially meaning that he supported racial segregation in this country as well. Illustratively, Kissinger, as US' Secretary of State, supported the Smith regime and America continued to trade with Rhodesia when the United Nations imposed sanctions on the settler regime. His involvement is blamed on fuelling Angola's civil war and prolonging apartheid in SA and Namibia. He is said to have had a "disdain for black Africa".

'𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒚'
In the Middle East, Kissinger's policies were aptly captured by the term strategic ambiguity, which refers to the deliberate use of ambiguous language on a sensitive issue in order to advance some political purpose. It is widely held that this approach had long term repercussions seen in the instability of the region today. - Global | Review & Mail

29/11/2023

𝙃𝙤𝙩 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙚: 𝙄𝙘𝙚 𝙎𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙚

Entertainment Review Writer
Ice Spice, real name Isis Naija Gaston, is an American rapper.
Born on January 1, 2000 and raised in the Bronx in New York City, she embarked on her musical career in 2021 after meeting American record producer RiotUSA while studying at college.
She has been one of the top talents of 2023, with 3 of her songs getting into the top 5 of Billboard’s Hot 100, and also racking awards.
Her featured performance on and friendship with pop star Taylor Swift has propelled her fame to dizzy heights.

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27/11/2023

𝙕𝙞𝙛𝙖, 𝙈𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙...
The Zimbabwe FA says it has mutually agreed to part ways with manager Wellington Mpandare and other top officials who were made redundant following the coming in of the so-called Normalisation Committee which is seeing the post-Fifa ban reconstruction of the local game.
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27/11/2023

𝙈𝙪𝙗𝙖𝙞𝙬𝙖 𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 "𝙠𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙙𝙤𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧" 𝙞𝙣 𝙎𝘼 𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙬𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙖'𝙨 𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨.....𝗖𝗵𝗶𝘄𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘆

Review & Mail Court Correspondent
Marry Mubaiwa, the former wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, was seen kissing a doctor she brought to treat her husband as he lay stricken in a hospital in South Africa.
This was revealed in court this Monday during the cross examination of Chiwenga's aide and former deputy Minister of Health, Dr John Mangwiro in the ongoing trial of the former model, who stands accused of trying to kill the former army general by unplugging his life support during his hospitalisation in 2019.
Chiwenga would be later flown to China, where he underwent remarkable recovery.
During the ongoing trial of Mubaiwa, the court further heard that the doctor in question was actually a veterinary surgeon, whom Mubaiwa inexplicably brought in to treat the ailing Chiwenga in the pretext that he was a family doctor.
Mangwiro told the court that Mubaiwa introduced one Dr Bruce Peck as the best in South Africa and would give the complainant treatment from time to time.
Dr Mangwiro told the court that Dr Willi Leo Seiling, one of the specialists treating Chiwenga, suspected something mysterious about Dr Peck when he saw him kissing with Mubaiwa .
He further submitted that he later learned that Dr Peck was veterinary doctor after Mubaiwa introduced him as a family medical practitioner.
He said Mubaiwa often requested confidential time with the complainant .
The State wants to summon Vice President Chiwenga to testify on December 7 for trial continuation.
On the last sitting Dr Mangwiro told the court that each time Mubaiwa went inside the room in which the Vice President was admitted he would be fit but when she walks out he would be unconscious and ill.
Dr Mangwiro said the complainant's health condition would start deteriorating each time he was brought back to his house.
"Each time we took the complainant out of the country for medication he would come back home well and he would start deteriorating when he gets home, I don't know what would have happened," he said.
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24/11/2023

How many shops would survive in Zimbabwe, if this were to be done here?

23/11/2023

𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙗𝙤𝙣 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙨: 𝘼 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙗𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙨
In late September, Zimbabwe’s environment minister, Mangaliso Ndlovu signed away control over a staggering amount of land — almost 20% of his country — to a little-known foreign company. Blue Carbon was a small, new outfit, not even a year old, has reported today.

There are emerging controversies around carbon credits in the country with interest from other wealthy countries such as Switzerland; and Zimbabwe is among countries in Africa at the centre of this scramble, with Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya making up the list.

Carbon credits, in simple terms, involve the management of forests that absorb carbon from the atmosphere, and maintenance of such resources is said to mitigate . In this system, companies can buy and sell "credits" to companies or instituitions with carbon footprint due to use of fossil fuels. In turn, those that buy the "credits" can show regulators in their countries that they are supporting climate action - and continue to burn fossil fuels.

But the catch is that to maintain these forests or projects essentially means grabbing land, so much much prestine land, like in Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley (Kariba, Kanyemba, etc) amid accusations, too, that wealthy countries are using the scheme as "greenwashing". As a relatively new phenomenon, it is open to corruption and opens the door to losing control of national wealth rights.

According to reports, Zimbabwe is the 12th largest carbon offsets producer in the world. It delivered over 4 million carbon credits from various projects in 2022.
On the African continent, Zimbabwe ranks top 3 among carbon credit producers, representing about one-eighth of total production.

The unravelling carbon credit land grab follows two other major land grabs ostensibly associated with new energy transition: Green Fuel, owned by mogul Billy Rautenbach, controls vast tracks of land to grow sugar for ethanol. Ethanol blends with petroleum fuels such as petrol and diesel and reduces quantities of fossil fuels burnt. In Zimbabwe, the other cause was to reduce import bill.

At the same time, lithium companies -which produce a raw material for batteries to power electric vehicles and other renewable energy solutions - are also being allocated hundreds of hectares of Zimbabwe's land.

The question is, are people like Minister Ndlovu and the Government President fully aware and accountable for these developments that could have wide implications on Zimbabwe's economic sovereignty and rights over natural resources?

22/11/2023

𝘾𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣...
SA opposition legislators, including leader ,
have been docked one month's salary, banned from Sona 2024 & ordered to apologise to for their disruption of this year's State of the Nation Address (Sona) in February.

22/11/2023

𝗚𝘄𝗮𝘂𝗻𝘇𝗮 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿

Popular Harare doctor, Lenon Gwaunza, has appeared in court for blackmailing a colleague, accusing him of not being qualified.

Lennon Tonderai Gwaunza (40) who is a specialist neurosurgeon, is facing charges of contravening the Data Protection Act after Andrew Matarutse, a specialist physician of clinical neurology and internal medicine raised a criminal complaint against him.
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22/11/2023

𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘀𝘆𝗹𝘂𝗺 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀
…𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒌𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒑𝒕 𝑪𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒏-𝒔𝒕𝒚𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏

Zimbabweans constitute a significant chunk of immigrants in South Africa, both illegal and legal; and many of them have claimed political asylum, while it is understood that most, strictly speaking, are economic refugees.

Anti-immigrant sentiment has become political currency itself, and the ruling party has lately caught on after minority and fringe parties had used that to shore support for themselves.
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South Africa has drafted plans to withdraw from the world refugee treaty and adopt a Canadian-style asylum determination system that will be tough on asylum seekers

17/11/2023

𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙢𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜...
Not too shabby for a man who once made a trip overseas to attend a virtual meeting, and has had extended stays abroad after international summits.

17/11/2023

𝙒𝙖𝙨 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙜𝙤𝙫𝙖 𝙖 𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙛𝙩, 𝙛𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙘𝙮?
A video clip shows a church service and the pastor tells him, "There's nothing on you..." he also tells him to go home and name certain individuals in a prayer ritual.
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