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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Thursday, 22nd September 2011

Howzit

A very early start this morning as B has an appointment at City Hospital on the other side of Derby just after 9 this morning...

Not only has he managed a comeback, but now he is somehow excelling in his attempts to prove himself indispensable. You would have thought that Mugabe party, a party where deception and ulterior motives are known and practised, would have known better.

ZANU PF’s information spin doctor Jonathan Moyo has been promoted by his ZANU PF party to the powerful JOMIC (Joint Operations Monitoring, Implementation Committee) despite his dirty controversies exposed by whistle-blower website Wikileaks.

Moyo, ZANU PF’s ”straying parrot”, will now sit on the board, ZANU PF spokesman Rugare Gumbo announced on Monday.

Jonathan Moyo who has become the first to admit his damning shame and part in discussions with a US ambassador was unanimously chosen for the post and has now been informed of this, said Gumbo.

It will be very interesting to see what happens when it all goes horribly wrong...

I wonder if anyone will be able to quantify the loss to Zimbabwe...

Immigration officials at Beitbridge Border Post on Tuesday dismissed as untrue, claims that there was overcrowding at the border post as a result of the closure of the South African side of the border between 9pm on Monday and 2am on Tuesday.


Officials said business at the border post, regarded as the busiest in Africa, was normal.

“It’s normal. It seems people heeded the message that the border post would be closed between 9pm and 2am and they did not overcrowd. Even yesterday, we didn’t have any pressure. It was very manageable,” an official said.

The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority regional manager at the border post refused to comment.

“I am not allowed to discuss such issues with the Press. Try the corporate communications office in Harare,” he said.

There were claims early yesterday that the temporary closure of the South African side of the border had caused chaos as scores of people who had apparently not heard about the move thronged the border post, congesting both sides of the border.

The South African government on Monday temporarily closed its side of the border post in Musina until early Tuesday morning to allow for an upgrade of its immigration department’s information technology system.

Where are the police? Why haven't they done anything?

Or, as is apparent, is the gang politically motivated and therefore the police are instructed to turn a blind eye?

The Chipangano organization, based in the heavily populated suburb of Mbare, has been stepping up criminal activities in recent days with extortion at bus terminals and seizing control of market stalls.

Zimbabwean Co-Minister of Home Affairs Teresa Makone said Wednesday that Harare is overrun by by the gang known as Chipangano which is alleged to have ties to President Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF, beating residents and even attacking police officers.

The Chipangano organization, based in the heavily populated suburb of Mbare, has been stepping up criminal activities in recent days with extortion at bus terminals and seizing control of market stalls to such an extent it seems to have the run of the capital.

Witnesses said Chipangano gang members are brazenly committing robberies and assaults while the authorities fail to take action.

Makone told VOA that Chipangano youths assaulted commuter omnibus operators on Tuesday at the bus terminus opposite Harare Central Police Station, and beat up police officers who came to investigate the disturbance.

ZANU PF have never been people to sit doing nothing and the landgrab continues whilst companies are also being targeted...


Youths aligned with President Mugabe's ZANU PF party have begun a new wave of land seizures, attacking white and foreign-owned companies and damaging one of the few functioning parts of the economy.

A country still reeling under the economic meltdown of the controversial land reform,
Zimbabwe is on the brink of yet another potentially damaging economic exercise: seizing white-controlled companies in urban centers and mines through out the country.

Under the banner of the 21st February Movement, an organization formed in line with
President Robert Mugabe’s birthday, ZANU PF youths are indiscriminately invading white- and foreign-owned companies under the controversial Indigenization and Economic Empowerment Act, which requires that foreigners possess 41 percent of shares while the rest goes to indigenous people.

While compliance should be executed in boardrooms, young members of the Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front, led by President Mugabe, have adopted the violent land reform style of grabbing the companies, at times forcing the closure of strategic economic units and at the same time causing mayhem, especially in the capital,
Harare. It's a method that was used in the past decade against white-owned farms, and which has been blamed for a severe drop in food production. Once a food-exporter, Zimbabwe now is a recipient of food aid.

Mugabe will not allow his perceived enemies a chance to breathe. For him it is attack, attack, attack - even if the policies so adopted are detrimental to the economy and well-being of the country.

Mugabe is not concerned with the country - his concerns are more politically and racially based.

What happened to the Hippocratic Oath? Does the obviously political nature of the attack cancel out the need for medical attention? The Hippocratic Oath is an oath historically taken by doctors and other health care professionals swearing to practice medicine ethically.

An MDC supporter was rushed to Zimunya clinic after rowdy Zanu (PF) youths attacked a vehicle he was driving last Saturday.

The youths, who were visibly drunk, pelted Hebert Chiripanyanga’s Isuzu KB double cab with stones near Matondo business centre injuring him as he drove to an MDC youth meeting at the centre.

The injured Chiripanyanga was taken to Zimunya clinic, but was denied assistance because the nurses were afraid of a backlash from the youths.

The attack was allegedly engineered by a youth only identified as Tauzen.

The matter was reported at Matondo Police base, but nothing happened as it was manned by a member of the police constabulary who said he would wait for his boss to solve the matter.

“My hands are too small to deal with that matter. You should wait for my boss who is attending a scene somewhere,” he said, without naming the boss.

We have read of this before where injured motorists, shot by Mugabe's guards, have been refused medical attention - because it is 'political'....

Take care.

'debvhu

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