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I’m worth $10m:
Mnangagwa’s wife
BLESSED MHLANGA
STAFF REPORTER
AUXILIA MNANGAGWA, the wife
of Justice minister Emmerson, has
told the Bulawayo High Court that
her reputation is worth $10 million
because, among other things, she
is wife to a career minister.
Auxilia made the disclosures in
a $50 million defamation suit in
which she and four others are suing
Zanu PF Midlands chairperson
and Provincial Affairs minister Jasion
Machaya, former spy Douglas
Kanengoni and Masvingo Provincial
Affairs minister Kudakwashe
Bhasikiti for defamation.
“She is a member of the
Zanu PF central committee. She is
also a businesswoman married to
the current Justice, Legal and Parliamentary
Affairs ministry Emmerson
Mnangagwa who has been
a minister of different ministries
since 1980,” part of a discovery
affidavit filed in case HC2871/13
reads. Auxilia claimed in her affidavit
her marriage to Mnangagwa
and business empire suffered following
the allegations raised in a
document authored by Machaya’s
chief election agent Kanengoni fingering
her in electoral fraud.
“As a result of the defamation
by the defendants, she has suffered
damages in her reputation, political
circles in Zanu PF as well as in
society in general in the sum of $10
million.” her lawyer Valentine Mutatu
submitted in court.
Other litigants in the suit, who
include July Moyo, Owen Ncube,
Douglas Tapfuma and Daniel Ncube,
who are also claiming damages
of $10 million each, also justified
their claims.
Moyo submitted that he was a
former minister and also former
Midlands governor and as such,
his social standing was injured by
the Kanengoni document which
was leaked to the media and party
structures causing him international
ridicule. Ncube and Ncube
both submitted that they were MPs
and very successful and prominent
businesspeople in Kwekwe.
The two said because of the
allegations raised by Machaya
through Kanengoni’s report, they
were now viewed as liars and people
who are on cooking election
results and therefore they deserved
$10 million apiece to make up for
that damage. Tapfuma told the
court that apart from being a central
committee member, he was
also a prominent businessman and
therefore the allegations tainted his
image.
NQOBANI NDLOVU
STAFF REPORTER
MDC-T Bulawayo acting provincial
chairperson Dorcas Sibanda and former
city deputy mayor Amen Mpofu have
crossed swords over a recent ban of the
ongafuniyo kayekele party slogan that
the latter condemns as undemocratic.
Mpofu raised a motion recently at the
party’s provincial council meeting calling
for the slogan to be stopped arguing
that it was divisive, undemocratic and
projected the party as a dictatorship.
He got the backing of other provincial
council members and it was resolved
that the former deputy mayor, organising
secretary and Pumula MP Albert
Mhlanga and Bulawayo East MP Tabitha
Khumalo be tasked with conducting
FRIDAY JUNE 6, 2014
NEWS
Minister threatens to close Byo firms
MTHANDAZO NYONI
OWN CORRESPONDENT
ENVIRONMENT, Water and Climate
minister Saviour Kasukuwere
yesterday threatened to
close all Bulawayo companies
discharging raw sewage into the
Umguza River saying they were
committing murder by poisoning
people and livestock.
Speaking at World Environment
Day commemorations held
in Umguza district, Kasukuwere
said Bulawayo should be environmentally
conscious and he would
ensure the city council abides by
the law.
He said council should adopt
effective waste management
practices and ensure that it treats
all effluent before discharging it
into the environment to prevent
the pollution of water bodies.
“This day calls for all of us to
join hands and take corrective actions
to reverse this unpleasant
situation in our environment,”
Kasukuwere said.
“These challenges require all
of us as individuals, communities,
schools, the corporate world
and civil society to unite so as to
ensure proper waste management
and disposal mechanisms are instituted
as a way of preventing the
pollution of our bodies.
“It is unfortunate that poor
waste management remains a
challenge bedevilling most local
authorities and Bulawayo and
Umguza are no exceptions.
“Bulawayo is making money at
the expense of our people. How
can you say you are a city father
yet you discharge 40 megalitres
of raw sewer into our rivers? It’s a
murder and I will make sure that
all local authorities and companies
fingered in polluting the environment
are brought to book. If
it means closing them we will do
that.
“It is against the law to discharge
untreated effluent into the
environment. All industrial, agricultural
and mining effluent must
be treated before it is discharged
into the municipal sewer reticulation
system to avoid polluting
our water sources,” Kasukuwere
added.
He said most river systems and
dams in Zimbabwe were heavily
polluted to the extent that
they were now endangering both
aquatic and human life.
He said water pollution affected
about 226 families, 35 of
them child-headed households,
109 aged people and 82 families
headed by people living with
disabilities.
He added that Umguza district
would be the first to receive
a solar powered borehole and his
ministry expected that by June
We won’t mourn Shamuyarira: Mat groups
NQOBILE BHEBHE
CHIEF REPORTER
PRESSURE groups in the Matabeleland
region yesterday said they would not
mourn the death of former minister
and retired Zanu PF information secretary
Nathan Shamuyarira (pictured)
due to his provocative Gukurahundi
remarks.
Shamuyarira died on Wednesday
night at West End Clinic in Harare.
He was 85. Shamuyarira triggered a
political firestorm in 2009 when he
publically expressed no regret for the
brutal killing of more than 20 000 civilians
by the notorious 5 Brigade in
Matabeleland and some parts of the
Midlands province.
Shamuyarira told our sister paper
The Standard the that President
Robert Mugabe and former Cabinet
minister Edison Zvobgo were wrong to
apologise for the 5 Brigade massacres.
“No, I don’t regret. They (5 Brigade)
were doing a job to protect the people,”
Shamuyarira said.
The comments torched off a row
with political leaders in Matabeleland
where the North Korean-trained 5 Brigade
was deployed ostensibly to crush
dissidents which Mugabe said were
loyal to his chief political opponent at
the time, the late Vice-President Joshua
Nkomo.
Mbuso Fuzwayo, secretary-general
of Ibhetshu Likazulu, said Shamuyarira
“caused pain in the region” with his
comments. “We won’t mourn or miss
him. At least he is gone. He attacked
Mugabe and Zvobgo for offering their
half-hearted apologies on the killing
of our people. He (Shamuyarira) never
showed any remorse on the tragic loss
of those innocent people. He himself
died of an illness, but those people
were butchered and he celebrated
that. So his death is a relief to some of
us, as people who were so hardened
on Gukurahundi are departing. Maybe
reconciliation can be achieved,” Fuzwayo
said.
Mugabe described the massacres as
a “moment of madness” that should
never be repeated while the late Zvobgo
apologised and admitted that the
massacres gave him sleepless nights.
War veteran Max Mnkandla said the
region is still waiting for an apology
from the national leadership.
“While we don’t celebrate or
wish anyone to die, we do forgive
Shamuyarira but we don’t forget his
Gukurahundi remarks,” Mnkandla
said. “People (Gukurahundi victims)
are still in pain of the killings,
but while
he was still
alive Shamuyarira
saw it as a light matter and that is why
he criticised Mugabe for apologising.
“There was need and there is still
need for an apology from the national
leadership,” Mnkandla added.
MDC-T slogan raises dust
outreach meetings informing structures
about the slogan ban. However, Sibanda,
who is also the Bulawayo East MP,
said the slogan should not be banned
as it was a necessary morale booster.
“The slogan has been around for
years. It brings morale to the party
supporters,” she said. “I should hasten
to indicate that slogans are meant to
boost morale of party supporters and
this slogan did just that. We cannot,
therefore, say we should stop using this
slogan and besides those that do not
want to use it are not forced to do so.”
However, Mpofu hit back saying
those resisting its ban were undemocratic
in as much as they could not be
taken seriously in politics.
“The majority of the people are saying
that the slogan is divisive. I for one
am against this slogan,” he said.
“Some of us that are against this
slogan are saying that we cannot build
a party with such bad slogans.
“We need slogans that embrace
people from all walks of life, but this
one does the exact opposite,” Mpofu
said. “The MDC-T is a democratic party
and does not need such slogans that
are for governing political parties that
do not believe in multi-party states. I
can bet my last dollar that those who
want and are defending the slogan will
never win the hearts of the people.”
Infighting is rife in the MDC-T
Bulawayo structures with feuding
party members taking sides in almost
everything.
2015 the problem of water would
be averted.
Speaking at the same occasion,
Transport minister Obert Mpofu
said water pollution in Umguza
district had resulted in the loss of
human lives and livestock.
“Many people have died because
of polluted water we are
drinking. Reports that have been
made confirm that there is no
aquatic life in Umguza River,” he
said.
This year’s World Environment
Day was commemorated
under the theme “Clean, safe
and healthy environment our
responsibility”.
Pollution of the Umguza River
is so serious that the government
set up a task force to probe the
matter last month.
Local Government minister
Ignatius Chombo last month revealed
that the government had
dispatched a team of experts to
Umguza to carry out a detailed
study of water quality on the impact
of the contaminated water
on the agricultural activities and
inhabitants within the Umguza
area.
The Environmental Management
Agency has also condemned
water from the Umguza
River as unsuitable for drinking,
irrigation and agricultural
purposes.
Wife punches
hubby over
smelly feet
SILAS NKALA
STAFF REPORTER
A WOMAN from Mzilikazi in Bulawayo
who was once slapped with a peace
order for violence against her husband,
stunned the court on Wednesday when
she said she assaulted him after he
provoked her by saying her feet stank.
Nyaradzo Nyawungwa (38) pleaded
guilty to an assault charge when she
appeared before Bulawayo senior
magistrate Sibongile Msipa and she
was convicted, warned and discharged.
When asked why she assaulted
her husband, Nyawungwa responded:
“When my husband came home, he
said my feet were smelling and that is
when I punched him. I assaulted him
once with a fist.”
When asked why she had violated
an earlier court order, Nyawungwa,
said her husband Claudious Mufaro
Jiri had come home drunk and brought
another woman into the house which
angered her. In mitigation, Nyawungwe
said she was married with four
children.
The magistrate got impatient at
some point when she spoke non-stop
and ordered her to stop talking. She
said her last reason for assaulting her
husband was that he had poked her
with a mobile phone.
Allegations against Nyawungwa
were that on April 15 2014, at around
7pm, Jiri was washing plates when for
no reason Nyawungwa began shouting
at him.
When Jiri remained silent, Nyawungwa
punched him once on the chest
breaching a court order that she
should not act violently against her
husband.

FRIDAY JUNE 6, 2014 3
SOUTHERN EYE
NEWS
Key UBH unit faces closure
NDUDUZO TSHUMA
STAFF REPORTER
THE only orthopaedic centre servicing
the southern region at the
United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH)
is on the verge of being closed due
to a shortage of adequately trained
staff.
This was revealed by UBH chief
executive officer Nonhlanhla
Ndlovu on Wednesday during a
visit by the Parliamentary Portfolio
Committee on Health and
Childcare.
“The orthopaedic centre is a
unique centre; it is the only centre
in the southern part of the country
which provides artificial limbs.
“If your leg is amputated, you
get an artificial leg; they are the
ones who manufacture those
prosthetics, artificial legs, neck
braces and such things,” she said.
“In the early 1980s, Zimbabwe
used to train orthopaedic technologists
and around 1985 to 1986,
the training moved to Tanzania
under Sadc, but at the moment no
one has been going to training.
“The last person who went was
Farm
invasions
leader
charged
TATENDA CHITAGU
OWN CORRESPONDENT
A WAR VETERAN and Zanu PF member
has been charged with inciting
villagers to occupy 10 farms in Masvingo
from 2011 as the government
makes a major policy climbdown on
property rights in a bid to woo sceptical
investors.
Rueben Chikono (55) was on
Wednesday summoned to appear at
the Masvingo Magistrates’ Court to
answer a charge of incitement as defined
in Section 187 (1) of the Criminal
Law (Codification and Reform) Act.
Chikono was remanded to June 17
after the State, represented by Taonga
Musina, said it needed more time
to get some documentation to be
used in the case.
According to the State outline,
charges against Chikono stemmed
from November 2011 to date during
which he is being accused of allegedly
inciting Tichaona Calvin Mawisire,
Willy Nigel and Harrison Tapera and
other illegal settlers to occupy the 10
farms in Masvingo East. The farms,
which are listed as State land, are
Salemore, Sundowns, Chevden,
Arksden, Menabilly, Doornfontein,
Makwari, Kemmington, Vlacksfontein
and Nhenga. Chikono is accused of
encouraging the villagers to trespass
into the said farms.
According to the outline, in July
2012 Chikono also sought a peace order
at the Masvingo Civil Court against
the farm owners to stop harassing,
threatening or burning his subjects’
belongings.
The farm owners are not listed
in court papers although they are
believed to have been under black
ownership by then. The villagers are
still occupying the farms.
from our orthopaedic centre in
2008. The problem now arises that
when they retire, we do not have
the skills to make those limbs.
“That is a problem; we would
like a situation where a centre is
perhaps resuscitated in Zimbabwe
or there is sponsorship to allow
the people to go and train in
Tanzania.”
Ndlovu said the centre had a
staff complement of eight people,
but only two were properly
trained — the head of department
and another technologist.
She said in the event something
happened to the two, there
would be no one with proper
qualification to do those limbs and
the whole southern region would
be affected.
Meanwhile, Ndlovu said the
hospital had managed to decongest
its mortuary which at
one point carried more than 200
bodies.
“We have managed to clear our
mortuary. We are now working
on an average of about 40 bodies,
which is reasonable because our
Businessman assaults worker over infection
NOKUTHABA DLAMINI
OWN CORRESPONDENT
A 62-YEAR-OLD businessman
appeared in the Victoria Falls Magistrates’
Court facing allegations of
assaulting a five-month pregnant
worker accusing her of infecting him
with a skin disease.
Edgar Farai Mhere was convicted
on his own plea of guilty for unlawful
detention and assault when
he appeared before the Victoria
Falls resident magistrate Sharon
Rosemani.
The court heard that on April 13 at
around 8am, Mhere went to Martha
Phiri and Zivanai Shoniwa’s house in
Chinotimba and drove them to Mopani
Lodge.
When Mhere arrived, he ordered
Phiri and Shoniwa to sit down and
sent one of his workers Johnson Moyo
to bring some sticks which he used to
assault Phiri accusing her of infecting
him with a skin disease.
It is alleged that Shoniwa tried to
intervene and was also assaulted
with the stick several times all over
his body. Mhere’s wife Maria Joanna
(48) also joined in and struck Phiri on
the head and cheeks with a wooden
chair and fists accusing her of having
an extra-marital affair with her
husband and infecting him with a
disease.
Glen Mhere, their son, restrained
them and Phiri was ferried to hospital
and a police report was made, leading
to the arrest of Mhere and his wife.
Mhere was sentenced to three
months in prison wholly suspended
on condition that he compensates
Shoniwa $150 and the other two
months were suspended on condition
he does 70 hours of community service
at the Victoria Falls Magistrates’
Court.
For the assault on Phiri, the magistrate
remanded the couple to today
for continuation of trial since they
pleaded not guilty to the charge.
1972 Hwange disaster remembered
SENIOR REPORTER
VICE-PRESIDENT Joice Mujuru
will today officiate at the Hwange
Colliery Company (HCC)’s 42nd
commemorations of the Kamandama
Mine disaster where over
400 miners lost their lives after an
explosion at Number Two Colliery
in 1972.
The commemorations are an
annual event held at the site of
the blast which was turned into a
monument.
fridges are now coping with the
bodies.
“I think you will remember a
time when we had more than 200
bodies in the mortuary and our
mortuary is only supposed to accommodate
60 bodies, she said.
“It is something that is really
working well for us. We have
HCC spokesperson Burzil Dube
yesterday confirmed the holding
of the commemorations in the
mining town of Hwange.
“The commemorations are
on tomorrow (Friday) starting at
8am. Vice-President Mujuru will
the guest of honour. This will be
the 42nd anniversary of the disaster,”
Dube said.
Over 400 mine workers lost
their lives in the then Rhodesia,
which remains the country’s
found a company that is able to get
the bodies and dispose of them
and then claim from the Department
of Social Services, so this is
a very good development for us,”
Ndlovu added.
Matabeleland North MP of
MDC-T Ruth Labode chairs the
parliamentary committee.
Underwear for jailed women: Supreme Court
STAFF Reporter
A Supreme Court judge has ordered
police to provide clean
water, mattresses, blankets and
toilet paper to detainees at Harare
Central Remand Prison.
The judge also ruled that women
should be allowed to wear undergarments
while in detention.
Members of Women of Zimbabwe
Arise (Woza) filed the case
four years ago following their
detention at the remand prison
where they claim that they were
exposed to inhumane conditions.
Woza co-directors Jenni Williams
and Magodonga Mahlangu
said they were happy about the
Nonhlanhla Ndlovu
judgment and dedicated the ruling
to women in Zimbabwe
Williams, Mahlangu, Celina
Madukani and Clara Manjengwa
had through the Zimbabwe Lawyers
for Human Rights (ZLHR)
petitioned the Supreme Court
seeking an order compelling the
government to ensure that holding
cells at Harare Central Police
Station meet basic hygienic
conditions. Home Affairs minister
Kembo Mohadi, Police Commissioner-General
Augustine
Chihuri and Prosecutor General
Johannes Tomana were cited as
respondents in the case filed in
2011.
The Woza leaders petitioned
the court after their detention in
2011.
“They were arrested for demonstrating
against the government’s
failure to adhere to human
rights,” ZHLR had said in a statement
ahead of the ruling.
“Woza, whose members are
regularly detained in dirty police
cells for staging anti-government
protests wants the detention cells
at Harare Central Police Station
to be cleaned and resourced with
toilet paper and washing bowls
and not the current case where
the conditions are unhygienic.” —
Additional reporting by VOA
worst mine disaster to date.
Over a third of those who perished
were citizens of Zimbabwe’s
neighbouring countries of Malawi,
Namibia, Mozambique and
Botswana.
The initial explosion was
caused by a methane gas explosion
which was followed by a
cold-dust explosion.
A monument was erected on
the site in remembrance of the
miners who perished.
Tout killed
over R8
SILAS NKALA
STAFF REPORTER
A COMMUTER omnibus tout allegedly
stabbed a fellow tout to death in
a dispute over R8.
Chemist Sakala (20) of Matshobana
appeared before Bulawayo High
Court judge Justice Andrew Mutema
yesterday facing charges of murdering
Simon Nyathi (27) of Gwabalanda.
Sakala denied charges of nurder
through his lawyer Zibusiso Ncube,
but pleaded guilty to the lesser
charge of culpable homicide.
“The accused understands the
charge. He pleads not guilty to murder
but pleads guilty to a lesser
charge of culpable homicide,” Ncube
submitted.
In his defence, Sakala indicated
that he stabbed Nyathi after they had
fought and Nyathi kept chasing him.
Sakala said he did not intend to
stab Nyathi in the heart and when
all that happened he was under the
influence of alcohol and was not in
control of his emotions and actions.
For the State, Sifiso Ndlovu alleged
that on March 17 2013 at around
3.30pm at the corner of 6th Avenue
and Lobengula Street in Bulawayo,
Sakala had an altercation with Nyathi
over R8.
Sakala had forcibly taken R8 from
the kombi in which Nyathi was a conductor
after loading two passengers.
The altercation degenerated into a
fist fight and the two were restrained
by one Mpumelelo Dube, the driver of
the kombi Sakala was loading.
After about 10 minutes, Sakala returned
to the kombi he was loading
and took a pair of scissors and confronted
Nyathi and allegedly stabbed
him once on the left side of the
chest.
Sakala then fled from the scene
and got into another vehicle before
speeding off.
He was arrested on March 18 at
Stanmore while in a Toyota Granvia
heading to South Africa.
The State then called Dube who
told the court that Nyathi was his
conductor.
“I was at the scene when I saw
the accused loading two passengers
into my kombi. I brought the vehicle
into the loading bay and in the
process I smashed the light of the
vehicle. I went out of the vehicle to
check and when I was checking I then
saw accused and the now deceased
fighting,” Dube said.
Dube said Sakala had loaded two
passengers into his kombi while Nyathi
was seated in the car and then
went on to collect R8 from his cash
tray.
“Nyathi asked him why he had
collected the money from the cash
tray without permission and a fight
ensued. I restrained them and went
across the road. When I looked back
I saw Nyathi lying down, but did not
know what happened after I restrained
them.
“What I only saw was the accused
getting into another vehicle which
was parked close to the place and
driving off,” he said
A post mortem produced by a
government medical doctor Sanganai
Pesanayi of the United Bulawayo
Hospitals stated that Nyathi died due
to haemorrhagic shock, stab wound
to the heart and homicide.
The trial continues when other
witnesses will be called in to testify.

4 FRIDAY JUNE 6, 2014
SOUTHERN EYE
NEWS
Students exhibit works of art
Picture: Benson Dube
MTHANDAZO NYONI
OWN CORRESPONDENT
THE German Federal Enterprise for
International Co-operation (GIZ) in
partnership with the National Association
of Non-Governmental Organisations
(Nango) western region is
running a two-week art exhibition by
students in Bulawayo.
GIZ is an international enterprise
run by the German federal government
operating in many fields across
more than 130 countries. It primarily
works with states, state agencies, and
the private sector.
GIZ, together with its implementing
partners, has been running an out
of school pilot education project since
October 2012 and children who took
part in art lessons have completed
quite a number of works of art.
In Bulawayo, the group accelerated
learning arts programmes at St Pius
School.
As part of the programme, participating
schools were encouraged
to embark on life skills as well as income
generating activities as a means
of strengthening capacities of learners
in the programme and institutions
themselves. A local Nango official
Mthokozisi Ndebele told Southern
Eye that the exhibition would create
a market for them to sell their works
and subsequently motivate them to
develop their talent further.
“As a way of encouraging them
(students) to carry on with their newly
developed talent, GIZ with the support
of Nango western region seeks
to conduct an exhibition where the
works of art will be displayed for the
general public to view,” Ndebele said.
“The learners have produced very
creative work and since the project
is coming to an end, this is an ideal
juncture for them to showcase their
products.
“It is envisaged that this will create
a market for them to sell their works
and subsequently motivate them to
develop this talent further,” Ndebele
said.
According to Ndebele, the subject
of art has allowed learners to acquire
valuable skills as simple as paying attention
and focusing on completing a
task and skills that most learners had
difficulty in doing before.
He said expected outcomes from
the exhibition include raised awareness
on the plight of out-of-school
children; raised self confidence in
learners, possible continued donation
for the cause from well-wishers and
marketing of the artefacts on exhibition
and getting potential buyers.
“GIZ, together with
its implementing
partners, has been
running an out of
school arts pilot
education project
since October 2012.”
Khaya Arts perform during the World Environment Day celebrations at Seaborough Village 3, Ward 8, Umguza
district yesterday
TSCZ launches road
safety campaign
LINDA CHINOBVA
OWN CORRESPONDENT
THE Traffic Safety Council of
Zimbabwe (TSCZ) in collaboration
with other stakeholders has
urged motorists and pedestrians
to observe road rules citing the
increase in accidents due to ignorance
of road regulations.
Speaking at an anti-road
carnage campaign held at
the Basch Street terminus
popularly known as
Egodini in Bulawayo yesterday,
TSCZ traffic officer Ester
Kashangura said the prevalence
of road accidents could
be curbed if both motorists and
pedestrians observed road regulations
to control traffic and
pedestrian movement on the
roads.
“There has been an increase
in road accidents and this is a
result of ignorance displayed
by both motorists and pedestrians
towards road rules. As long
as we are not cautious of road
rules that are aimed at making
our roads safe, we will continue
losing a lot of lives as a community,”
Kashangura said.
“All motorists and pedestrians
must take responsibility
in promoting and ensuring the
safety of all road users.”
Kashangura said the public
must desist from driving without
the required documents. She
said it was important for motorists
to only drive when they have
an authentic driver’s licence and
defensive driving certificate.
“Many people who are driving
do not possess the right documents
and some do not have
them at all and that poses a danger
to the public,” she said.
“Motorists should only drive
when they have attained an
authentic driver’s licence and
defensive driving certificate for
the safety of the public because
a driver who possesses these
is believed to be aware of road
regulations.”
Kashangura said pedestrians
must also observe road rules to
avoid confusing motorists and
leading to accidents.
She said motorists and pedestrians
must accommodate
each other on the road and together
strive to eliminate road
accidents. Bulawayo City Council’s
security and traffic section
officer Ndumiso Ndlovu said
motorists should desist from
speeding, especially during
peak hours as it was when most
road accidents occurred.
He said motorists and commuter
bus operators should desist
from parking at unauthorised
points as this had led to the
sprouting of unauthorised ranks.
Bulawayo Public Transport
Association secretary Albert
Ncube said commuter omnibus
operators should desist
from consuming alcohol during
the day as this has resulted in
careless driving that has led to
accidents.
Council moves to reduce electricity bill
NQOBANI NDLOVU
STAFF REPORTER
THE Bulawayo City Council has
resolved to purchase low power
charging motors to slash its
$700 000 electricity bill blamed
on high voltage charging motors
at its water pump stations.
Once installed, the low charging
variable speed drives (VSD)
would drastically reduce the
cash-strapped local authority’s
electricity bill by nearly 30%,
according to the latest report of
the council finance and development
committee.
The savings are expected to
boost the coffers of the local authority
saddled with a debt of
over $37 million owed to Zesa
Holdings.
According to the latest council
finance and development
committee report, director
engineering services, Simela
Dube, noted that the electricity
bill at Ncema and Fernhill water
pump stations was unsustainable
and could only be reduced
through the installation of new
VSD motors.
“The director of engineering
services reported that one of the
biggest challenges that council
had been facing in the last
few years was the unsustainable
Zesa electricity bill for its
big water pump stations Ncema
and Fernhill,” the report reads
in part.
“The motors currently installed
at those stations always
ran at full throttle and their
speed could not be varied even
if the demand for water became
low. It was in this vein that the
electro-mechanical section
proposed to procure VSD that
could achieve this feat.
“The VSD would also solve
the low power factor and high
maximum demand problem all
which contributed to the high
energy bill. To this end provisions
had been made in the 2014
budget to address the two above
issues.”
Dube is quoted arguing
that the proposal to install
new VSD’s costing below $1
million would reduce drastically
the current monthly
Zesa Holdings electricity bill
which averaged between
$600 000 and $700 000.
Expected savings were in the
region of 30% with a payback
period of two years. The committee
resolved to adopt the
proposal.
Council recently resolved
to replace the incandescent
and halogen light bulbs with
the energy saving light-emitting
diode bulbs in a bid to
save the struggling local authority
over 50% in electricity
charges.

FRIDAY JUNE 6, 2014 5
SOUTHERN EYE
NEWS
Zim sex workers go extra mile in Bots
GABORONE — During the day,
she will give your hair the most
refined look, albeit in a makeshift
saloon, but when night falls
across Botswana’s capital Gaborone,
Debra Ncube (not her real
name) exchanges sex for money.
Routinely, every evening,
Ncube, who is in her early 30s,
sashays up Notwane road at Extension
12, a high— density suburb
in Gaborone, in a tight, short
skirt in search for customers.
She is usually joined by a
few other young women, also
thought to be her compatriots.
They strategically position
themselves some 100m from
Notwane bar, but Ncube picks
her spot, a tree opposite the car
park illuminated by headlights.
She says she has been a sex
worker for five years and has
been bedded by several men,
earning an average of $52 per
night.
Every evening, after knocking
off from her “other” job, she
joins her friends at their usual
spot to target clients who usually
frequent the three bars in the
neighbourhood.
She is part of many Zimbabwean
women in Gaborone who
travelled southwards to take on
the oldest profession – prostitution
– when Zimbabwe’s
economy got rough some years
ago. “This is what most women
from my country do. In fact, I
can safely say it is most of us
who work as hairdressers at the
roadside salons. During the day,
we while up time doing people’s
hair, which doesn’t really pay.
The real work starts in the evening,
around 1900hrs,” she says.
She adds that there are a few
who worked as maids during the
day and then added-on to their
meagre salaries by selling their
bodies.
A recent report released by
Botswana’s Health ministry indicates
that there are more than
1 500 Zimbabwean sex workers
in the southern Africa country.
The survey conducted between
2012 and 2013 focused on three
centres - Gaborone, Francistown
and Kasane.
The capital Gaborone has
more than 1 200 Zimbabwean
sex workers while 300 operate in
Francistown near the Plumtree
border post. The resort town,
Kasane, has 100 Zimbabwean
sex workers and others are scattered
in various urban areas in
Botswana.
There are almost 4 153 commercial
sex workers in the three
towns. More than 70% of the
Sex workers waiting for clients
women cite financial gain and
lack of employment as reasons for
engaging in this trade.
Those who work at the makeshift
saloon earn an average of
P800 ($93) a month. The cheapest,
room in Bontleng, where
Ncube stays, probably costs her
P400 ($46).
She says there was absolutely
no way she could survive on the
peanuts she makes at the salon.
“For most people, the saloon
is just to cover up our act in case
people start suspecting, especially
those who know us. On a good
night, I can make more than half
the money I earn in a month at the
saloon,” she says.
Through that, she has managed
to acquire a few belongings
for her lodgings in Botswana and
is able to send money back home
every month end.
She stays with a friend, identified
only as Thoko (not real name)
in Bontleng, which is adjacent to
Extension 12 and a stone’s throw
from the Gaborone central business
district.
Their house is strategically located
near a petrol station at the
South Ring Mall, where they occasionally
check for potential clients
when the bars have closed.
Ncube is hardly at home and
is not worried about not having
electricity supply.
“What would I need electricity
for? The house is just for me
to keep my belongings. The only
time you find me at home, I will
be sleeping.” During the day, she
is at work. From there, she just
comes home to bathe and head
to her spot. I only come home in
the early hours of the following
day, and at times I get clients who
would want to stay with me for a
few days. If I don’t do that, I will
not survive,” she explains.
Although she would not discuss
her prices, indications are
that her clients pay P70 ($8) for a
short time, and P350 ($40) for the
whole night.
Of late, the police have been
descending tough on Ncube and
her friends, who do not have the
required documents to live and
work in Botswana. But she has
mastered a way of beating their
raids.
“We now know them. Most of
them are now our friends. When
they come, we either pay them a
bribe or just do a short time with
them for free,” she says.
But that strategy only works
when they are dealing with men
officers, as she reveals that women
were always uncompromising.
A few years ago, the government
announced new regulations
that compelled beer halls to close
early.
President Ian Khama blamed
alcoholism for HIV and Aids and
other ills bedevilling Botswana.
And then Botswana followed
up with a campaign that sex
workers would either be detained
if they were locals, or deported
if they were foreigners for their
“disorderly and indecent” behaviour.
And this has hit hard on
Ncube’s business. “Many people
would rather buy beer and take
it home, than drink at the bar.
We used to get most of our clients
around midnight, but now we
have to get them earlier as there
will be no-one at the bars around
that time.”
But Ncube has found her way
around the situation.
She keeps contacts of every
man she sleeps with and every
day, she will call them and ask if
they would need her services.
“On any given day, there is
always at least one of them who
would want me to come and
spend the night with them,” she
reveals. Botswana is second after
Swaziland in terms of HIV and
Aids prevalence rate in Africa.
In 2012, it was estimated at
least 400 000 people aged between
15 and 49 in Botswana
were living with HIV and Aids.
Botswana has a population of
two million.And Ncube is aware
of those statistics and the danger
her night job comes with. One of
the ways is insisting on using protection
all the time. She adds: “I
know there are issues about HIV
and Aids, but the challenge now
is to make sure we use protection
always. Every business has its
risks, and even ours. One just has
to find ways of handling the risks
without endangering my life or
getting my family know this is
what I have been doing.”
Back home in Bulawayo, her
relatives think she is secretary
at a construction company. She
holds a secretarial certificate, but
claims it was hard to get a proper
job because she was a foreigner.
“Most companies prefer locals
for such positions because when
they employ foreigners, they
need to start doing permits,” she
says.
But Ncube also has to ensure
she does not get people
who know her parents visiting
her. “My parents and everyone
around our family think I work
for a construction company as a
secretary. That’s what I also told
my boyfriend. What else would I
do, this is the only way I can survive
here in Gaborone. This is not
a good life, but there is nothing I
can do, otherwise I would die a
pauper” she said.
Thoko recaps the situation of
many Zimbabwean women, saying:
“Back home, many people
believe we hold senior positions
at big companies, but that is not
the case.”
Most Botswana women are
more qualified and dominate the
marketplace, leaving only a few
good jobs for foreigners.
“Most of the stories you hear
about people working at banks,
diamond companies are lies. We
know some Zimbabwean women
who have bought properties
through this (prostitution).”
With the political and economic
situation in Zimbabwe still
unstable, Ncube and her friends
look set to hang on a bit in Botswana
to make a-no-so-decent
living. — Africa Review
ALLIEWAY NYONI
OWN CORRESPONDENT
THREE Rural Electricity Agency
(REA) employees have been arrested
for fraudulently conning a
client and allegedly stealing 400
metres of aluminum overhead
cables in the Mazhou village under
Chief Masunda in Zvishavane.
Andrew Hungwe (36), Jonathan
Mapuranga (40) and
Chrispen Mhiri (30) appeared before
Zvishavane magistrate Story
Rushambwa facing theft of Zesa
Holding cables.
It was the State’s case that
Trio up for Zesa cables theft
on May 28, the three unlawfully
took 400m of aluminum cables
belonging to Zesa at Mazhou village
that were intended to install
a power line at Jacob Ndlovu’s
homestead.
The court heard that on May
25, the accused approached
Ndlovu and indicated that they
were from REA and wanted to assist
him install electricity since
he was not covered by the REA
programme.
The three are alleged to have
instructed Ndlovu to buy poles
which they indicated could only
be obtained in Gweru where they
would make an application to
REA on the complainant’s behalf
for installation and supply.
The accused went on to write
a list of materials that were required
for the full installation,
including 400m of overhead aluminum
cables and Ndlovu paid
the required amount of money.
Three days later, Mhiri and
Mpunga informed Ndlovu that
they had delivered cables at his
sister-in-law’s residence.
Ndlovu got suspicious after
seeing that there were no receipts
and the material was not supplied
in full, including a missing
2x200m aluminum cable and
made a report to the Zvishavane
police.
Ndlovu, through the assistance
of police detectives, then
lured the accused to meet him at
his house so that he would make
a top-up payment for the missing
material and the three fell into
the trap and were arrested.
The 400m cable was recovered
and would be used as an exhibit
in court.
The three pleaded guilty and
were remanded in custody.

6 FRIDAY JUNE 6, 2014
EDITORIAL
Southern
Eye
ACCORDING TO YOUR HOUSING DIRECTOR YOU
BARMEN ARE GETTING FAR TOO MUCH, THUS
THE NEED TO REDUCE YOUR SALARIES . . .
LET HIM START BY CHOPPING HIS PAY
FIRST, THEN WE WON’T CRY FOUL!
Councillors
out of touch
THE fact that Bulawayo city councillors used most of their time during
this month’s full council meeting discussing night clubs, says something
about the calibre of our city fathers.
Some councillors on Wednesday were calling for the banning of night
clubs in the city centre saying they were a nuisance.
The debate was sparked by an application by Brumat (Pvt) Ltd, which
runs Horizon Restaurant, to establish a night club.
According to a council report, the application has been advertised
and adjacent property owners, including banks, did not object.
Horizon is one of the few decent leisure spots in the city and deserves
to be treated with respect by councillors.
The spot is currently licensed to run a liquor restaurant and the lawabiding
investors had done the right thing to apply to council to vary
their licence.
Some businesses that operate in the liquor sector do not bother and
simply run like shebeens.
Councillors should have seized this to encourage other businesses to
follow suit and comply with municipal regulations.
Instead, the city fathers elected to dwell on trivial issues such as the
suitability of night spots in the city centre.
Conditions for such licences are that owners of adjacent properties
have to be notified and their approval sought.
The application has to satisfy council’s other requirements and it appears
in this case the Horizon request had passed the test.
Bulawayo is a city that is desperate for investment and the current
crop of councillors should demonstrate in their deliberations that they
are acutely aware of these pressing issues.
The kind of debate they had at the council chambers on Wednesday
evening would raise a lot of questions about their aptitude.
Bulawayo has many problems crying out for the attention of the
councillors and establishment of night clubs in the city centre certainly
does not deserve to consume most of their time.
It is imperative for the city fathers to be seen to be in touch with Bulawayo’s
urgent needs and aspirations. From Wednesday’s debate it does
not look like they are in touch.
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Did Tokwe-Mukosi Dam wall collapse?
COME ABOARD SERIES
Moses Tshimukeni Mahlangu
zucwuhq@gmail.com
INTERVIEWED by Human Rights
Watch, one man at Chingwizi
Camp alleged that the “so-called
floods” at Tokwe-Mukosi were a
myth. There were no floods at all.
One of the theories suggests
that the sluice or spillways were
shut, thereby forcing the water to
flood the basin.
It is believed it would take at
least five years for the Tokwe Mukosi
Dam to fill up to capacity.
Another theory has it that the
spillways were deliberately shut so
as to flood the basin, giving a good
reason for the forced eviction of
the villagers.
The same villagers resisted
eviction since the commencement
of the construction of the dam wall
in 1998.
An employee of Salini Impregilo
JVC, the company building the
dam wall, argued that the cost of
idle equipment lying at the dam
site, as compounded by the villagers’
resistance to relocate, exerted
pressure on the government,
which in addition could not afford
to compensate the villagers. In his
opinion, “a quick and effective
method of relocating the villagers
had to be found”.
At one time DTZ had donated
68 000 hectares to the government
for the settlement of the
families earmarked for relocation.
During that time the relocation
costs for approximately 4
000 families was estimated at $19
million.
The completed dam is expected
to become Zimbabwe’s largest
inland water body whose capacity
will be 1,8 billion cubic metres
with a flood area of over 9 600
hectares.
History has similar incidents of
primitive accumulation of wealth
(supposing the floods were indeed
man-induced).
In England, peasants made
way to sheep ranching. In then
Southern Rhodesia peasants,
were forcefully removed from
fertile lands and dumped at sandy
and tsetse fly-infested tribal trust
lands.
Interestingly, in 2013 400
families constituting 2 500 people
were relocated from their villages
around Tokwe-Mukosi area
to Naunetsi Ranch in Mwenezi.
Each family was compensated in
the form of a four-hectare piece
of land and amounts ranging from
$3 000 to $8 000.
According to the United Nations
guiding principles on international
displacement, natural
and man-made disasters are
treated alike.
The guidelines provide for
protection against arbitrary displacement,
ensure protection and
assistance during displacement
and the right to liberty of movement,
including the right to move
freely in and out of camps or other
settlements.
Part 2, clauses 49, 51, 57, 61,
71, 72, 74, 75 and 76 of the Constitution
of Zimbabwe provide for
a range of constitutional rights
which are seriously infringed at
Chingwizi camp.
In summary, the said clauses
provide as follows
• Clause 49 — Right to personal
liberty,
• Clause 51 — Right to human
dignity,
• Clause 57 — Right to privacy,
• Clause 61 — Freedom of
expression,
• Clause 66 — Freedom of
movement and residence,
• Clause 71 — Property rights,
• Clause 72 — Right to agricultural
land,
• Clause 74 — Freedom from
arbitrary eviction,
• Clause 75 — Right to
education,
• Clause 76 — Right to food and
water.
Human rights lawyers are
hereby invited to take up a class
action, not only on the Chingwizi
camp disaster, but on all pieces of
legislation that violate the provisions
of the supreme law.
In terms of Section 2(1)(2), the
Constitution is the supreme law of
Zimbabwe and any law, practice,
custom or conduct inconsistent
with it, is invalid to the extent of
its invalidity and every person,
natural or juristic, including the
State and all Executive, Legislature
and Judiciary, and agencies
of the government at every level
must be fulfilled by them.
Under the circumstances, failure
by the government to repeal
all laws that do not conform to
the Constitution is in contempt
of the supreme law, and thereby
form a constitutional dispute between
the government and the
electorate.
Chingwizi camp had been in
the media and everywhere. Wellwishers
were sought until the
camp inhabitants on May 16 gave
their backs to the ministers who
had visited the camp.
Thereafter, it is reported soldiers
pulled down the campers’
tents. The non-compliant campers
were threatened with food
sanctions.
All this because the campers
expressed their displeasure at the
way they had been treated since
they were forcefully removed
from their settlements.
The government is implored to
heed these warning signals: The
Tokwe-Mukosi resistance, the Johanne
Masowe altercations with
police.
Instead of suppressing views,
the same views need to be taken
aboard, analysed and positively
addressed.
Inkosi yinkosi ngabantu, (the
king or ruler is there because
of or for the subjects, the
electorate).
• Moses Tsimukeni Mahlangu
is the general-secretary for Zimbabwe
Urban Councils Workers’
Union.
He is a labour consultant and
arbitrator. Feedback: Email:
mosietshimu@gmail.com

FRIDAY JUNE 6, 2014
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Let’s unite, revive our economy
DEAR EDITOR
AFRICA is one of the largest untapped
markets in the world
economy.
One of the things we are always
talking about is that businesses
should be global. People should
stop thinking outside the box and
not be limited to their villages, cities,
countries or even continents.
Africa is one of the hottest
emerging markets where thousands
of people can make a lot of
money. Our government came up
with a youth fund and community
share ownership schemes to empower
people.
Hong Kong-based real estate
tycoon Lee Shau Kee once said:
“Work hard and persevere. Clear
enough, save your first bucket of
gold — or small fortune — from
work, but then use it for investments.
Don’t just park money in
the bank.
“It’s better to work hard when
young and establish a career first.
For those already successful,
money can become a controlling
factor in life and enslave you.”
Lee goes on to say: “Giving
away money for the right cause
with a leveraged effect and your
own involvement in how it is
spent will give you peace of mind.
Try to maximise the number of
people that can benefit from an
individual contribution.”
The move by the ruling party
to empower our people was great.
What was wrong was disbursement
of the funds, especially
youth funds, was that only a few
people benefited.
If this disbursement had been
done in a transparent manner
at least more than 50% of the
youths in every province would
have benefited. Those who benefited
should return the funds to
the banks so other youths can also
benefit.
Every Zimbabwean has a role
to play for the betterment of our
economy. Most economies are
supported by thriving small and
medium enterprises.
We have natural resources
in our country and this can be a
stepping stone.
l come from Ngezi. The community
should benefit from Zimplats
and other mines, but the
road network is poor. How Mine
produces a lot of gold, but the
road to the mine is also among the
worst. Diamond firms in Manicaland
should make a difference in
that community.
In India the city of Surat — the
commercial capital of South Gujarat
— is known for its numerous
diamond processing units. A
wise Chinese businessman Robert
Kuok once said: “Wealth should
be used for two main purposes. It
should be used for the generation
of greater wealth; in other words,
you continue to invest, creating
prosperity and jobs in the country.
Part of your wealth should
be applied to the betterment of
mankind, either by acts of pure
philanthropy or by investment in
Lee Shau Kee
research and development along
the frontiers of science, space,
healthcare and so forth.”
We have an important part
to play for the betterment of our
country. Ask not what your country
can do for you, ask what you
can do for your country.
Politicians and civic organisations
are not the only ones with
solutions to economic woes besetting
the country.
It is in you as a son and daughter
of Zimbabwe to shun greed,
corruption and violence. Let’s
stand united.
Let’s work together and shun
selfishness. Let’s see people
from Limpopo to Nyamapanda,
from Plumtree to Chirundu, Beitbridge
to Machipanda, Victoria
Falls to Sango border post enjoying
the fruits of their motherland
Zimbabwe.
— ENOS DENHERE,
BULAWAYO
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We got it all wrong
GWERU
MASVINGO
VICTORIA FALLS
DEAR EDITOR
ALLOW me, through your esteemed
paper, to lay out my disgust
at the pathetic show by the
Zimbabwe national football team.
They put up a lifeless performance
against a below-average Tanzania
side at the giant National Sports
Stadium on Sunday.
The performance of the team
symbolised the state of the country.
Zimbabweans yearning for
that rare moment of glory sank
into further gloom, but the question
remains: Who is to blame?
Firstly, all Zimbabweans are to
blame because we have lost the
patriotism and vigour to be called
Zimbabwean. We are no longer
proud of our own country.
We conveniently support the
Warriors and quickly forget
and return to our sordid lives
of uncertainty, gloom and
sadness.
Secondly, the African
Nations Championship
(Chan)
tournament
was supposed to be
a launchpad for a
sustained Warriors
campaign and yet
we remained stuck
to the formats of
the Chan at a time
Tanzania, who
didn’t make it to
Chan, were busy
holding camps
and playing international friendlies
fine-tuning for the Zimbabwe
games. At this level we needed
just a handful of the Chan players
while bringing in our players, especially
those in elite leagues.
Thirdly, we can’t continue to
entrust Zifa to the leadership of
Cuthbert Dube and company.
We are retrogressive.
Why didn’t Zifa arrange
friendlies and give the players
good incentives for games against
Tanzania?
Lastly, Warriors coach Ian
Gorowa (pictured) got it all wrong
from the first leg, the reason why
he had an overhaul of the starting
11 on Sunday. Willard Katsande,
Denver Mukamba and Cuthbert
Malajila are all failed Warriors
who want to play when they feel
like. Edward Sadomba had
been away from the Warriors
for far too long to fly
in barely 72 hours before
kick-off and start.
I mean really?
If it is true that
Gorowa is contemplating
resigning, it
would benefit us.
We can now
look forward to yet
another
disaster
without him.
— STEPHEN
MANJORO

8 FRIDAY JUNE 6, 2014
Southern
Eye
Opinion
NDEBELE CULTURE
I N MPOFU (uNyandeni oMpofu)
From what we have seen so far we can summarise
the Ndebele justice system by highlighting
some of its main features.
• The chief is the judge. He does not act
alone, but has a council of elders who advise
him in addition to the general public of all those
present during the trial.
• A trial is participatory. All those present
may ask questions or express their opinions
about the case. Usually any stray opinion is
short down by the people.
• Both the complainant and the accused
are given ample time to present their case without
harassment or intimidation. They speak for
themselves. Witnesses have a chance to testify.
• A trial is short but thorough. It is very rare
for a trial to go beyond a day. It is unlikely that
the guilty will escape punishment. You don’t
have to wait for days before you know your fate
(there is no justice delayed).
• Both the verdict and the sentences are
pronounced there and then and punishment is
meted “now” or at the earliest possible time.
Only capital punishment is never executed in
public. The offender is dragged away to some
secluded spot (usually a hill or thicket) a distance
away from the village.
• A trial takes place as close to the time of
offence as possible. There are rarely any pending
cases. No time is wasted on what is called
Changing culture v ndebele justice system continued
“investigations” Bring the offender before the
inkundla yamadoda and they will “cook him”
( bazampheka) iqiniso liphume.
• The Ndebele court is characterized by
deep respect and fear of the chief and the court
itself. Amadoda angakudla nxa udelela induna,
ungahloniphi inkundla. Ungalala phansi loba
udliwe imbuzi .( Lesi yisiNdebele esiphezulu.)
• Acquittals of the innocent are the order of
the trials but there is little chance of the guilty
to escape punishment. The elders know and
understand their work and there is very little
chance of convicting an innocent person in as
much there is little chance of the guilty getting
away.
These and many others are some of the
main features of the Ndebele justice system. It
must be pointed out that no justice system in
the world is perfect and certainly not the Ndebele
one. But if its main features are examined
is there no case for resuscitating some of them?
There are many people who reject trials in
an Ndebele court saying that the trial is crude
and unstructured and that the conditions under
which a trial is conducted are not very conducive,
because, as usually happens, the court
convenes not in a courtroom with people not
sitting on (comfortable?) benches and chairs.
Yes, but can those conditions not be improved
but without changing the order and nature
of the trial system? One suspects that what
these people are against is the lack of much affialdom
as well as those people called lawyers
who are allowed to open holes into a straightforward
case in such a way that wrongdoers can
escape justice. In the Ndebele system there is no
room for smooth talking and there are no legal
niceties to explain away an obvious wrong that
has been committed.
We therefore suspect that the real reason
why people don’t like to be tried in a traditional
Ndebele court is that there they have no chance
to wriggle out of a case . Inkundla iligubha
icala liphume dandalazi umoni asale esenqunu
egqokile.
One more case will conclude this series on
the Ndebele justice system for now.
Mhlupheki stole into Mgezelwa’s banana
grove and chopped seven bunches which he
carried away and hid in a cave at the foot of a
hill. Later, Sazini Ncube tumbled on that “ hidden
treasure” wathi ngibonwa yini- inkosikayiphi
ezandleni. He carried them away and three
days later his children were selling bananas
emsikeni (at open market) Mgezelwa chose to
report the matter of the missing bananas to the
local chief.
Meanwhile Mhlupheki went to Ncube and
demanded his bananas he had left in a cave.
Ncube denied any knowledge of the bananas
and advised
Mgezelwa to report the matter to the chief.
Mgezelwa could not because he would be giving
himself away. A court was convened where
Ncube was the accused. In the end the true facts
were established and Mgezelwa was the main
accused and he was punished severely.
NDLOVU: Ncube , isela nguwe; nguwe owantshontsha
amabhanana ka Mgezelwa.
NCUBE: Baba Nyandeni , nduna yethu. Mina
amabhanana ngawafumana etshwathikwe ebhalwini
ngase ngizithathela.
NGULUBE: Selandini ! Ungafica ulutho lufihliwe
usuzithathela? Hi? Ubusela kanti buyini ?
Khona uvele wabonwa ngubani “uwadobha”?
Wawathatha ensimini ka Mgezelwa.
NCUBE: Hatshi , baba nduna kangizange ngingene
ensimini ka Mgezelwa. Kuthangi ngimangele
uMhlupheki efika kimi esithi ufuna amabhanana
akhe kimi. Mhlawumbe nguye ongatsho
ukuthi afika njani ebhalwini.
INDUNA: Hawu, mahlabezulu, nansi insumansumane.
Ithiwani indaba nxa isingena lapha
iphume iyongena lapha iphume iyongena
laphayana?
NYONI: Baba Nyandeni, thole lesizwe. Indaba
isisegcekeni. UNcube lo-Mhlupheki bayazana
.Kabasitshele okuzwakalayo.
INDODA ENYE: Ye, liqiniso lelo. Kabakhulume .
Ngamasela.
MHLUPHEKI: UNcube uyangigcona bakithi.
Ngubani owangibonayo ngisiya kuye? Ngangizabe
ngilandani mina amabhanana lawo ngingawazi?
Katshiyane lami.
NGULUBE: Mhlupheki, ungacatshi ngomunwe
ungumuntu omdala. Kawufikanga ku Ncube,
uqinisile? Siveze ubufakazi na?
MHLUPHEKI: Kangiboni ukuthi ubufakazi
obudingekayo ngobani. Kanti nxa ngangisiya
kuNcube ngangisiya khuluma ngamabhanana
yini mina ngingawazi?
NYONI: Yetshwa ! Indlubu isiphumile ekhasini
. Baba Nyandeni, nduna yethu, kambe singabe
sisayaphambili silandani? UMhlupheki
usevumile. Kasitshele nje ukuthi amabhanana
wonke wawathwaliswa ngubani.
NGULUBE: Ye, kasitshele. Amaxha ayisikhombisa
wayengazake awathwale yedwa. Engxenye
waye lomfazi wakhe. Sukuma MaThwala . Wayithwalisa
indoda yakho?
MATHWALA: Nyandeni, baba, lomphakathi
ohloniphekayo. Mina kangazi lutho ngendaba le.
Ngezwa nje owangakwami esithi ulezinto zakhe
eqaqeni afuna ngiyemthwalisa zona kusihlwa
zilethwe ngekhaya.
Further details of this case have not been
exposed in this short except. It is pointed out
that by Ndebele standards this was a long trial
which lasted half a day. The point that is being
made is that the truth was exposed without all
the sophistry of a glamorous court and all the
expensive rigmarole.
Think if Mgezelwa had chosen to report the
matter to the police. All the fuss: policemen,
magistrate, prosecutor, lawyers, interpreters,
court officials , witnesses, the lot ! Perhaps the
case would still be going on today (June 6 2014)
having been postponed to September 18, 2014
(Justice delayed). Well, well, which way?
Myths around the Kamandama disaster
GUEST
COLUMN
Patrick Mubita Njamba
A thunderous explosion, vibrating from the
east of the school, followed by thick black smoke
with red ambers which filled the sky, scarred the
little twarts who were enjoying the morning break
at the infants department of my old school, Sir
Humphrey Gibbs in Madumabisa.
I was only seven then.
Watched over by infant teachers, I remember vividly,
the beautiful young Moyo in her favourite red
muslin dress with a matching flock round her neck
, Furusa, Mpofu and Malinga, who were seated by
the tree shade enjoying their morning tea.
But this was never to be so as the earthquake
like vibration sent them scurring for cover. The little
twarts screamed and ran for the nearest cover
in shock.
It took seconds for everyone to start wailing
and crying “daddy’’ and rush in the direction of
the sound, for it was where the mine entrance
was, and everyone knew what then had happened
to daddy.
No one needed to be told that there was a
fatal accident in the mine. Those coal dust decorated
faces with small trunks in their right hands
were not going to emerge from the earth’s crust
to the surface anymore.
My best friend Adin Milazi, and his affectionate
sister Elizabeth, my cousin sister Monde, and
others hysterically ran towards the mine outpacing
me. The race was obvious and by design, that my
father was not the victim but theirs was not going
to be seen forever.
“Daddy is gone’’, it was heard in their cries.
Within the next hour or so cars lined up the Old
Falls road that passed by the mine.
Police cordoned off the area. Hundreds of people
came to rescue the miners but the fire at the
entrance was so huge that no one could get in.
For 10 days we watched the fire burning, I was
too young to notice any survivors as bodies were
brought to the surface. I could see the ambulances
and men dressed in red outfits, obviously it was
the rescue teams running up and down. Never a
dead body in my sight.
However, it was during my visit every year to
No 2 Cemetery at the tomb of the unknown miner
, that I came to know the truth. Each visit or burial
that I witnessed at this cemetery, brought in stories
of how these people buried in mass graves
were brought to the surface.
Some were burnt beyond recognition, yet others
could not be brought to the surface as a whole.
Only limbs and other parts of the bodies which
were picked nearer to the entrance.
Those beyond a hundred metres could not be
saved as the fire became violent and too hot for
the rescue team to continue its operations.
Most experts thought that “coal dust’’ had
largely contributed to the explosion. According to
press reports that followed the day to day hearings
of the then Wankie Commission of Inquiry, (The
Chronicle 23/09/72), the then general manager
of Wankie Colliery Gordon Livingstone-Belvins
said that he had “thought coal dust at Wankie was
dangerously explosive before the No 2 disaster’’.
Tests had been carried out in 1960 and 1970
and coal dust was regarded as highly dangerous.
However others who feared the escalating war of
liberation had thought otherwise. William Finlay a
former mine safety officer who retired in 1968 after
20 years of service said it was possible that an
ignition of methane gas triggered the tremendous
explosion in No 2 Colliery (Chronicle 10 October
1972)
He therefore did not rule out sabotage, “During
these days of political uncertainty, sabotage cannot
be ruled out as a possibility’’.
Most black people took this as an act of sabotage
because of the guerrilla warfare with some
political leaders like Robert Mugabe and Joshua
Nkomo still in prison then.
What then had caused the disaster which had
killed 427 miners mostly blacks from the Sadc region
with a handful of whites who were either artisans
or supervisors?
I grew up with the myth that saboteurs from
South Africa came to put the explosives that killed
our relatives because of the highly methaneous
coal fields at Kamandama were going to make
Rhodesia more rich. The gas was good for modern
cars.
Yet others said it was an accident caused by
a cigarette from a careless miner . This reminded
me of a comedian miner who survived the blast.
Ambula had left the mine to get a puff of cigarette
at Kantor’s supermarket just after 10 or 20 houses
from the mine. It was his habit to sneak out every
morning for a smoke.
After the disaster, Ambula with his acoustic
guitars, used to sing by the street lights in memory
of his friends.
Experts thought they threw light on the Wankie
Disaster agreeing on one thing that coal dust explosion
spread the fire , triggered by a methane
gas ignition. One of the miners during the enquiry
Gherhard Noppe, said methane gas existed
in great and dangerous quantities in sections of
Wankie’s No.2 Colliery before the explosion. Two
earlier “ignitions attributed to the methane gas
were recorded at Wankie Colliery in 1960 and 1970
(the chronicle 7 sept 1972)
On the other hand, the general manager Livingstone
– Belvins concurred with earlier evidence
that there were more explosives underground at
the time of the disaster than there should have
been. At the entrance of the mine was a machine
room.
The commission of inquiry went on to give a
report that the cause of the explosion was only
a conjecture. It said that the explosion in Mantura
Main of No 2 Colliery as the result of a blown out
explosive shot, the flame of which ignited the fire
dump and thus the coal dust also ignited.
The No 2 Colliery Disaster, now known as the
Kamandama Disaster left a devastating trail as
many families broke up. Some went away and
never to be compensated as they migrated to
their homelands, Angola, Democratic Republic of
Congo-(ZAIRE), Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania.
Of the 150 widows, only six remained in Hwange
to start the Kamandama Disaster Widows.
About 47 were bachelors from Angola and DRC
then known as Zaire, who were in their 20s. 84
miners were either Tonga from Chief Mukumi’s village
in Zambia, or the Zambezi Valley in Binga.
There were about 12 white miners, among
whom I had the chance to meet his surviving son,
Stanley Brazer from the golf club.
I am still yet to meet my cousins whose father
Nelson Macwani died in the inferno. These were
conceived by Ivy Simango who married in 1960,
Jerald, Tombi, Lameck and Teresa. One day, I hope
to hear from them.
May the Kamandama Disaster miners’ souls
rest in peace.

FRIDAY JUNE 6, 2014 9
Southern
Eye
INDICES/HIGHLIGHTS
Business
Capital Bank surrenders licence
Zimplats bemoans
political obstacles
OWN CORRESPONDENT
PLATINUM mining giant Zimplats
has lamented political interference
which it says has created
“undue challenges” for its community-based
initiatives.
Zimplats head of corporate
affairs, Busi Chindove, said her
company conducted a baseline
survey and results revealed that
people wanted to deal with them
directly in matters regarding
community development.
“Communities say they want
to deal with us directly in developmental
initiatives, but the political
structures in place do not
allow us to go straight to them,”
Chindove said.
“We have to go through an MP
or councillor of the area. We are
not saying we want to be thickheaded,
so we will continue to
involve community leaders in
reaching common ground,” she
told stakeholders at a mining indaba
in Shurugwi.
She said Zimplats had learnt
the importance of consulting
communities in projects it
undertakes.
“You can go ahead and construct
a dam, but without proper
consultation the community will
reject that project,” she said.
Chindove said Zimplats prioritised
education, health and
income-generating projects,
adding that to date the company
had spent $220 million
in community developmental
projects.
NQOBILE BHEBHE
CHIEF REPORTER
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)
has cancelled Capital Bank Corporation’s
banking licence after the bank
voluntarily surrendered it.
In a notice yesterday, the RBZ
warned the banking public against
undertaking any banking transactions
with the institution. RBZ said it was
satisfied with the reasons given by
Capital Bank to shut down.
Capital Bank Corporation Ltd voluntarily
surrendered its licence and
requested for cancellation in terms
of section 14 (4) of the Banking Act
(chapter 24:20).
According to RBZ, the troubled
financial institution said its
major
shareholder,
the National Social
Security Authority
(NSSA) “is no
longer willing to
inject
additional
capital
into the bank
and in the
absence
of
capital
injection,
the
financial
condition of
the
Work in progress at a Zimplats Mine According to RBZ, the trou-
banking institution dictates that
banking wound up”.
The RBZ registrar of banking said
it was “satisfied with the reasons for
the request and that the cancellation
will be in the best interest of the Capital
Bank’s creditors and members”.
The bank has been operating in
an unsafe and unsound environment
largely characterised by intensive undercapitalisation,
persistent losses
and inordinately high levels of nonperforming
loans.
“As the consequence of the said
cancellation, Capital Bank Corporation
Ltd is no longer a banking
institution as defined in the Banking
Act and therefore its status is that
of a company registered in terms of
the Companies Act (Chapter 24:03),”
read the RBZ notice.
Capital Bank was placed under curatorship
in June 2011 after it emerged
top shareholders of its holding company
borrowed millions of dollars of
depositors’ funds in breach of banking
regulations, driving the bank
into negative equity. NSSA gained a
controlling stake of 84% in the bank
following the lifting of the bank’s
curatorship by the central bank in
March 2012 under a $24 million
deal. The bank was rebranded
from ReNaissance
Merchant Bank
following the injection
of fresh
capital and subsequent
removal
from curatorship.
RBZ building
in Harare
Gwanda mine workers go for 15 months without pay
MTHANDAZO NYONI
OWN CORRESPONDENT
WORKERS of Hlalalapha Mine,
formerly known as Mbetha
Mine, in Gwanda have gone for
more than 15 months without
pay, Southern Eye Business has
established.
According to a memo signed
by National Mine Union Workers
of Zimbabwe (NMUWZ) regional
officer Abraham Kavalanjila to
the National Employment Council
of mining industry and copied to
mine manager Lawrence Botha,
Hlalalapha Mine owes 31 employees
salaries backdated from January
2013 to May 2014.
It also alleges non-payments
of overtime, public holidays, sick
leave pay and non-provision of
personal protective equipment.
“We are looking forward to
the date for reconciliation to rectify
the allegations,” part of the
memo reads. Contacted for comment
on Wednesday, Hlalalapha
Mine manager Lawrence Botha
could neither confirm nor deny
the allegations. He only said: “My
friend, you must check if your
facts are straight.”
Recently, mine workers were
awarded a 5% salary increment
backdated to January 1 following
protracted negotiations with
mining companies.
According to a circular to
mines by the National Employment
Council for the Mining Industry
date April 28, the lowest
paid mine worker would earn
$238 per month from $227.
The highest will get $553 from
$527. However the new salary
scale failed to appease the
NMWZ, which accuses the Association
Mine Workers’ Union
of Zimbabwe of collaborating
with employers to enslave mine
workers. Mine workers also condemned
the salary scale saying
they were done deliberately
to impoverish them and their
families.

10 FRIDAY MAY 6, 2014
SOUTHERN EYE BUSINESS
The power game in business
SITHANDEKILE MAGIDA
stha4235@gmail.com
POWER is defined as the ability to influence
or control the behaviour of people. In
the corporate environment power is often
expressed as upward or downward.
When a company exerts upward power
it is the subordinates who influence the
decision. With downward power, a company’s
superior influence subordinates. In
most businesses in Zimbabwe downward
power is used.
In some instances, however, the subordinates
are involved in crafting the strategy
which then becomes the roadmap for
the businesses. There are many types of
power. These are often used interchangeable
to bring about the results that are required
by a business. I will attend to each
in a little detail as given below:
• Coercive power
This power is based on fear. This is
power that in my opinion is military.
Failure to comply may bring serious repercussion
to the offender. Punishment
may be unavoidable in this instance. This
type of power may work if the staff are
perceived to be lazy and need consistent
supervision.
This kind of work environment would
already be problematic in its nature and
could be a huge subject in its own right.
The weakness of this type of power is that
the workers will do only that which is required.
They are not motivated to think
out of the box or be creative. This kind of
power also frustrates those people who
might otherwise volunteer to do other
tasks that are not necessary in their brief.
• Connection power
This is power that is based on who the
person in power knows. Normally the
person who they know would be in an influential
position. Subordinates are therefore consistently
reminded of the person in authority and
their closeness to this person. The weakness of
this kind of power is that it becomes political.
• Charisma power
Charisma power is based on personality. This
kind of power hopes to influence subordinates
by the personality of the leader. The problem
with this kind of power is that smiles and warm
feelings cannot replace the truth.
• Competence power
It is based on the ability to get results. Obviously
every business wants to get concrete
results out of their efforts and it is pleasing to
all concerned when results show clearly. The
disadvantage of competence power is that raw
ability is good, but not if it alienates or fails to
empower people.
• Christmas power
This a type of power that is based on gifts bestowed.
It is also known as reward power. This
type of power can lead to corruption as those
who give gifts may get their way even if at that
point it is not necessarily what is best for the
business or industry. The weakness with this
kind of power is that people want what they
don’t need and want what they do not desire.
That is it on the power game. On a different
note tomorrow Southern Eye will undertake a
charity walk from the City Hall to Hillside Dams.
Greens Supermarket and Edgars will sponsor
this good cause. It should follow that companies
who give back to the community are recognised
and in deciding to do business it should also follow
that consumers would choose these. Sponsorship
of good causes is undoubtedly a good
way of marketing communications. I hope that
other companies will follow suit for the good of
Bulawayo.
Till next week keep reading the red publication
and remain Brand Savvy.
Rand steady ahead of ECB
interest rate decision
JOHANNESBURG — The rand was steady yesterday
morning as market participants awaited the
decision of the European Central Bank (ECB) on
interest rates.
At 8:15am, the rand was at R10,7390 to the dollar
from Wednesday’s close of R10,7549.
Against the euro, the rand was at R14,6100 from
its previous close of R14,6274 and at R17,9795 to
the pound from Wednesday’s close of R17,9973.
The euro was at $1,3607 from its previous close of
$1,3599.
The ECB is expected to ease monetary policy
at its meeting later yesterday by cutting interest
rates from already record lows in order to prevent
the eurozone from sliding into a bout of dangerous
deflation. Barclays Research said in an earlymorning
note that the rand was expected to lose
ground against the dollar in response to a more
accommodative ECB. Yesterday, the local unit
touched R10,80 to the dollar as fears of a credit
downgrade weighed, before recovering to levels
of R10,75 against the dollar.
“A number of participants appear apprehensive
ahead of today’s ECB meeting. We believe
that more accommodation from the ECB could
cause the rand to fall victim to broad-based dollar
strength, reinforce fears that one of South Africa’s
largest trading partners is still fighting deflationary
pressures and may also cause a rotation out of
emerging-market bonds in favour of peripheral
Europe, which would all be rand negative developments,”
Barclays said.
Barclays said while the rand could lose ground
to the dollar, it could strengthen in relation to the
euro and hold steady on a trade-weighted basis in
response to a more accommodative ECB.
“These considerations, together with the fact
that the platinum unions have rejected the latest
wage offer, lead us to believe that risk lies in
extended rand weakness today in relation to the
greenback, ahead of tomorrow’s United States
employment report, which could hinder the rand
even further if the figures prove to be more robust
than expected,” Barclays added. — BD Live

FRIDAY JUNE 6, 2014
Southern
Eye
World view
11
China detains 29 in security
operation in restive Xinjiang
South Korean President Park Geun-hye walks out of a voting booth after
marking her ballots for the local elections at a polling station in Seoul
South Korea poll
offers fresh
mandate for Park
to speed reform
BEIJING - Authorities in China’s
Xinjiang region have rounded up 29
suspects on charges such as inciting
separatism, State media said yesterday,
part of a crackdown following
deadly attacks blamed by Beijing on
Islamists and other militants.
The suspects were detained in
the regional capital Urumqi, site of a
suicide bombing that killed 39 people
last month, State news portal Xinjiang
Net said.
“As of May 31, the city’s prosecutors
have, according to law, quickly
approved the arrest of 29 people
suspected of crimes of inciting separatism,
assembling to disturb social
order, illegal business activities, and
inciting ethnic hatred and ethnic discrimination,”
it said.
The website, run by the ruling
Communist Party’s committee in
Urumqi, gave no further details.
Authorities have launched a yearlong
“anti-terrorism” operation nationwide
and in Xinjiang, home to a
large Muslim Uighur minority. Hundreds
of suspects have already been
detained.
Experts say economic marginalisation
of Uighurs is one of the main
causes of the violence.
They argue that benefits of development
in Xinjiang, resource-rich
and strategically located on the borders
of ex-Soviet central Asia, largely
have gone to majority Han Chinese,
stoking resentment among Uighurs.
Rights groups complain that Uighurs
- who speak a Turkic language
- face hiring discrimination, with jobs
going to an influx of migrant workers
from other parts of China.
Uighurs have long chafed at restrictions
on their language and culture,
and curbs on religious worship
and other freedoms.
Beijing says separatist groups
in Xinjiang are seeking to form their
own state called East Turkestan,
though experts dispute the influence
and reach of the most prominent
group, the East Turkestan Islamic
Movement.
President Xi Jinping has pledged
to alleviate poverty and improve ethnic
relations in Xinjiang, an indication
that China’s leaders recognise
some of the causes of the violence.
- Reuters
SEOUL - South Korean President
Park Geun-hye was
handed a sharp rebuke at regional
and mayoral polls for
her government’s handling of
April’s ferry disaster, but an
official said yesterday her party
can now work to rebuild trust
in the grieving nation.
Park’s conservative Saenuri
Party still managed a strong
enough showing yesterday’s
nationwide polls to push ahead
with plans to reform bureaucracy
and boost the economy.
The elections were the first vote
since more than 300 people,
most of them school children,
were killed when the ferry Sewol
sank.
The ferry disaster sidelined
traditional regional campaign
issues such as jobs, education
and welfare and focused attention
on the perceived failure by
Asia’s fourth largest economy
on such basics as enforcing
safety standards.
However, the results suggested
voters were at least willing
to let Park’s government
move on from South Korea’s
worst maritime disaster in 20
years.
“We accept this as an opportunity
for President Park
Geun-hye to accomplish the
duty of nation rebuilding,”
senior Saenuri Party official
Lee Wan-koo said yesterday.
Park came to power last
year after pledging to introduce
greater innovation to spur
the next stage of growth and
to keep North Korea in check,
while also restarting dialogue
with the South’s unpredictable
and heavily armed neighbour.
Saenuri Party candidates
won eight of the 17 races for
major city mayors and provincial
governors, including battleground
races in the city of
Incheon and Gyeonggi province
near the capital, Seoul, the
National Election Commission
said.
However, liberal Seoul Mayor
Park Won-soon retained
his post - seen by some as a
springboard to the presidency
- by more than 10 percentage
points over his conservative
rival.
Park’s approval rating fell
sharply from 61% to 46% in the
days after the April 16 ferry disaster
- her lowest since coming
to power 16 months ago - and
show little sign of improving.
However, polls by Gallup
Korea in late May suggested
more than 40% of voters still
support the Saenuri Party. Only
28% said they supported the
main opposition New Politics
Alliance for Democracy.
The opposition was careful
not to campaign too aggressively
on the government’s
handling of the disaster because
distrust of politicians
has increased across the board.
- Reuters
Families who have fled fighting in Slaviansk, eat at the canteen of the Makiyivsky Coke and Chemical Plant in the town
of Makiyivka in eastern Ukraine
Fighting rages in eastern
Ukraine town, residents flee
SLAVIANSK - Ukrainian government
forces battled separatists with artillery
and automatic weapons on Wednesday
in a second day of fighting in and
around Slaviansk, forcing many residents
to flee.
The Kiev government, trying to
break rebellions by pro-Russia militias,
said over 300 rebels had been
killed in the past 24 hours in the “antiterrorist
operation” centred on the
eastern town, a strategically-located
separatist stronghold.
Rebels denied this, saying losses
among the Ukrainian forces during an
offensive begun on Tuesday exceeded
theirs.
At an army checkpoint on the
edge of town, heavy artillery shelling
could be heard while a plume of black
smoke rose above the outskirts. Automatic
gunfire rattled out from nearby
fields.
Families fled the fighting through
a barbed-wire checkpoint with only
as much as they could carry. “It’s a
mess,” sobbed a young woman as
she clutched her husband’s arm. “It’s
war.”
Andrei Bander left with his fouryear-old
daughter. “We are going. We
don’t even know where. We will head
to Russia though because it’s clear we
need to leave Ukraine,” he said, waiting
for a taxi in a small a no-man’s
land between the two sides.
In support for the Ukrainian forces,
acting President Oleksander Turchinov
and Interior minister Arsen Avakov
paid an impromptu visit, clad in flak
jackets, to another army roadblock on
the far side of the encircled town on
Wednesday.
A spokesman for government forces
said two soldiers had been killed
and 45 wounded since Kiev launched
its offensive near Slaviansk with aircraft,
helicopters and artillery.
Separatists controlling the town
since early April denied the government’s
casualty figures and claimed
to have shot down an army helicopter
- something denied in turn by Kiev.
“Losses to the Ukrainian side
were more than ours,” Aleksander
Boroday, “prime minister” of the
self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s
Republic, said. He said nine had died
and 15 were injured among separatists
forces in Slaviansk.
At a news conference in the regional
capital Donetsk, he said separatists
would mobilise forces and train volunteers
to fight in Slaviansk and defend
their positions in Donetsk.
President-elect Petro Poroshenko
ordered the resumption of operations
by government forces soon after his
May 25 election to quell the rebellion
by militia in the Russian-speaking,
where people were largely unable or
unwilling to vote in the poll. - Reuters

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SOUTHERN EYE 10n10
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1 2 3 4 5
CAR authorities
suspend sms
services
We’ll protect our
sovereignty at all
costs: Uhuru
China takes
more assertive
line in diplomacy
US criticises
Rwanda over
disappearances
UN voices
‘grave concern’
at violence
CAR KENYA SOUTH SUDAN
RWANDA
SOUTH SUDAN
BANGUI — Central African Republic
(CAR) authorities have
told mobile phone operators to
suspend text messages following
calls on services for a nationwide
civil disobedience campaign to
protest against violence.
An organisation called Collectif
Centrafrique Debout has been
distributing sms messages since
the weekend asking people to stay
home starting yesterday following
more inter-communal bloodshed
in the capital Bangui.
The government did not say
who was behind the campaign,
but in the mass messages, the organisation
urged people to stay at
home until there is complete disarmament,
especially of the PK5
Muslim neighbourhood.
“On the instruction of the
Prime Minister . . . in order to contribute
to the restoration of security
in the country, the use of sms
by all mobile phone subscribers
is suspended,” Communications
minister Abdallah Assan Kadre
said in a statement.
The suspension will be in effect
until further notice.
CAR has been gripped by ethnic
and religious violence since
northern Seleka rebels, who are
mostly Muslim, seized power in
the mainly Christian nation in
2013.
Seleka left power in January
under international pressure after
10 months of looting and violence
that had prompted the formation
of Christian militias known as
anti-balaka who have carried out
retaliatory attacks on Muslims.
An interim government led
by Catherine Samba-Panza and
nearly 8 000 African Union and
French peacekeepers are struggling
to contain the violence that
has killed more than 2 000 and
displaced about a million of the
country’s 4,5 million people.
The United Nations has warned
that the conflict could spiral into a
genocide. — Reuters
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NAIROBI – President Uhuru Kenyatta
has affirmed the government’s
commitment to protecting the
country’s sovereignty.
He said the ongoing modernisation
of the Kenya Air Force and
the wider Kenya Defence Forces
will boost capacity to deal with all
emerging challenges.
“Serious tests lie before us. Terrorists
who do not shy away from
doing violence to mothers and
their children threaten Kenyan
lives and property. Poachers steal,
kill and destroy the inheritance
nature has left us,” he said.
To secure the country’s borders
and ensure peace in the region,
President Kenyatta said the government
will work closely with
friends and neighbours.
“Use your diligence, patriotism
and innovation to meet the problems
that face the country. You will
not fight alone: Our friends from
across the world and region, will
stand by you,” President Kenyatta
told the Kenya Defence Forces.
The president was speaking on
Wednesday during the Golden Jubilee
celebrations of the Kenya Air
Force at Moi Air Base in Nairobi.
— Reuters
JUBA — China is swopping its reserved
diplomacy for a hands-on
approach to help resolve a more
than five-month-old rebellion in
South Sudan that threatens Beijing’s
oil investments.
The subtle change has been
evident in months of faltering
peace talks in the Ethiopian capital,
where Chinese officials have
been in regular contact with Western
diplomats to help regional African
mediators push for a halt to
fighting.
Diplomats say the permanent
Chinese presence at the Addis
Ababa talks and their frequent
lobby chats and closed-door consultations
with diplomats from the
United States, Britain and Norway
— the main Western backers of
newly independent South Sudan
— shows China’s more proactive
approach.
When a first ceasefire deal was
reached on January 23, a month
after fighting erupted, a senior
Western diplomat said China’s
ambassador to Ethiopia, Xie Xiaoyan,
joined other envoys by giving
a speech at the signing that set
the tone for Beijing’s involvement.
— Reuters
The national flags of South Sudan and China are displayed in front of South
Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao,
during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing
KIGALI — The United States expressed
deep concern on Wednesday
over the arrest and disappearance
of dozens of Rwandans
over the last two months, including
people held up to two months
without being charged or allowed
to communicate with their
families.
The State Department also cited
“credible reports” that journalists
have been threatened in the central-East
African country and that
the government has suspended a
call-in news radio programme.
“The US calls upon the government
of Rwanda to account for
individuals arrested over the past
two months and currently in custody,”
spokeswoman Marie Harf
said.
Harf said in a statement some
of those arrested were detained
incommunicado without charges,
but that Rwandan authorities
recently have begun bringing a
number of them before a court.
“We also call upon Rwanda to
fully respect freedom of expression,
including for members of the
press so that they can investigate,
report, and facilitate discussion
on issues of public concern,” Harf
said.
Washington’s concern followed
a May 16 Human Rights Watch report
that said an increasing number
of people have been disappearing
or detained in Rwanda since
March. It said some were detained
by the Rwanda Defence Force and
may be in military custody.
The rights group collected information
on 14 people it said were
missing in the northwestern Rubavu
district, near the Congolese
border, and said there were several
additional cases in Musanze and
the capital, Kigali.
It said some may have been
targeted because of suspicion
they were aligned with the rebel
group Democratic Forces for the
Liberation of Rwanda, or FDLR.
— Reuters
JUBA — United Nations Secretary-
General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday
condemned the continued
bloodshed in South Sudan in violation
of two ceasefire agreements
and urged both sides in the conflict
to halt all military operations
in keeping with previous pledges.
The remarks came in a readout
of a telephone conversation Ban
had on Wednesday with South Sudan’s
President Salva Kiir.
“He (Ban) expressed his grave
concern that hostilities have continued
in violation of the January
23 Agreement on the Cessation of
Hostilities and the May 9 Agreement
between President Kiir
and former Vice-President Riek
Machar to resolve the crisis in
South Sudan,” the UN press office
said.
“He stressed the need for both
parties to abide by these agreements
and end all military operations
immediately,” it said, noting
that Ban urged Kiir and Machar to
meet on June 9.
The UN has already said that
maintaining a ceasefire was crucial
for efforts to alleviate the
worsening humanitarian crisis in
the world’s youngest country.
Fighting has killed thousands of
people and driven more than 1,3
million from their homes.
Government forces and rebels,
who have been fighting since mid-
December, agreed a second ceasefire
deal in May after the first one
in January collapsed.
South Sudan’s army spokesperson
reported more clashes
on Monday in Unity and Upper
Nile states, oil producing areas
that have been flashpoints in the
conflict.
A senior UN official said on
Tuesday that South Sudan can only
avoid famine if the shaky ceasefire
holds and people displaced by
more than five months of fighting
are able to return home in the next
few weeks to plant crops before
the rains. — Reuters
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Mining strike
could end this
week: Minister
Morsi urges
supporters to
continue protests
Suspected
Islamists kill
dozens
Bomb targets
renegade Libyan
general
Students caught
in Boko Haram
crossfire
SOUTH AFRICA
EGYPT
NIGERIA
LIBYA
CAMEROON
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s
new Mining minister Ngoako
Ramatlhodi said he hoped to resolve
the strike in the platinum
sector this week and the Association
of Mineworkers and Construction
Union (Amcu) was also
optimistic the five-month stoppage
that has crippled mine output
could be nearing an end.
About 70 000 Amcu members
downed tools in January at Impala
Platinum, Anglo American Platinum
and Lonmin, cutting 40%
of global production of the precious
metal used for emissionscapping
catalytic converters in
automobiles.
Ramatlhodi’s task team,
charged with resolving the longest
strike in South African mining
history, was due to sit down with
the management of the three platinum
firms on Wednesday, a day
after meeting Amcu leaders.
“We are hoping to have it
(strike) end by the end of this
week,” Ramatlhodi said. “It’s a
work in progress, but so far so
good.” — Reuters
CAIRO — In a message released
from prison, Egypt’s ousted Islamist
president Mohamed Morsi
has encouraged his supporters
to protest against the “military
coup”, especially after the “coup
leader” has become president.
The statement, published on
Morsi’s official Facebook page late
on Wednesday, was Morsi’s first
since Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi was
confirmed as the country’s next
president a day ago.
El-Sissi, the former general
and Defence minister who led
Morsi’s popularly-backed removal
nearly a year ago, won Egypt’s
presidential election last week by
nearly 97% of the vote. His only
rival, leftist politician Hamdeen
Sabahi, claimed a humble 3%.
Morsi’s statement was directed
to Egyptian youth, asking them
to continue their revolution that
started on January 25 2011.
He also stressed that the aim
of the revolution will never vanish
as long as it exists by the efforts
of the country’s youth.
— Al-Bawaba
Miners on strike chant slogans as they march in Nkaneng suburb outside the
Lonmin Mine in Rustenburg
MAIDUGURI — Suspected Islamist
militants have killed dozens of
civilians in three villages in northeastern
Nigeria, a region now hit
by almost daily attacks, a security
source and a victim's relative said
on Wednesday.
Gunmen in combat uniforms
rode army trucks on Tuesday
through Borno state’s Gwoza area,
the main stronghold of the Boko
Haram militant group, firing on
villagers and burning houses and
churches to the ground, the security
source said.
Andrew Tada, a Gwoza man
living in Borno’s capital Maiduguri,
said he lost two cousins in the
attack. He said residents had told
him they were preparing to bury
45 people from one village alone.
“It is very sad and the villages
are deserted now,” he said. “We
are just asking the government to
give us security to go there tomorrow
to evacuate the corpses for
burial.”
Boko Haram has killed thousands
since 2009 and grabbed
world headlines after it abducted
more than 200 girls from a secondary
school in Borno’s town of
Chibok in April. The orgy of killing
has continued with more than 560
civilians killed by insurgents since
April 14, the day of the abduction
and a deadly bus park bomb in Nigeria’s
capital Abuja.
In one of the deadliest incidents,
a bomb in the central city
of Jos last month killed 118 people,
officials said. The mass kidnapping
and bombings have piled political
pressure on President Goodluck
Jonathan, who last Thursday ordered
a “full-scale operation”
against Boko Haram.
The Archbishop of Canterbury
Justin Welby, who used to live in
Nigeria, paid a visit to Goodluck
Jonathan on Wednesday, to express
condolences for the near
daily atrocities carried out by the
insurgents fighting for an Islamic
state. — Reuters
BENGHAZI — Libyan renegade
general Khalifa Haftar said he had
been briefly treated in hospital after
suffering minor injuries in an
assassination attempt.
“I am well,” he told Libya’s
al-Oula television station. “There
will be a strong response.”
A suicide bomber earlier on
Wednesday blew up a jeep loaded
with explosive near Haftar's base
outside Benghazi.
Haftar has been leading an offensive
against armed groups in
the eastern city. The attack left
three people dead and injured
several others.
Haftar’s spokesman, Colonel
Mohamed Higazy, initially
said the general was not hurt,
but military officials said he was
wounded and taken to a Benghazi
hospital. Several messages
were posted on Haftar’s Twitter
account, quoting Quranic verses
and prophetic sayings to condemn
“Takfiris”, a term used to
condemn Islamic groups that are
considered extreme.
“God is the best protector”,
said one message on his account,
although it cannot be confirmed
whether he wrote the messages
himself. — Malta Today
Libyan general Khalifa Haftar
FOTOKOL — Stray bullets regularly
whizz through the courtyard of the
Fotokol High School in northern
Cameroon, a terrifying reminder
of the Boko Haram gunmen carrying
out deadly raids just across the
border with Nigeria.
Their insides cramped with
fear, pupils’ eyes dart from their
teacher towards the windows during
class, unable to concentrate on
their lessons.
“We have a phobia, the danger
is always there,” Boris Bouba, a
20-year-old student at the school,
said. “When we are in class, we
are always keeping watch on the
windows. We can never fully concentrate
because we are afraid.”
As the school year wraps up,
students gathering in the treelined
courtyard appear impatient
to get their reports and leave as
soon as possible.
“We are always on the alert,”
school headmaster Jean Felix Nyioto
said, seated behind his desk in
a cramped office. “At any moment
gunfire crackles on the other side,
but also from time to time here”
in Fotokol. The other side refers to
Gamboru, a Nigerian village descended
upon by swarms of Boko
Haram fighters in May. — TimesLive
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Eye
Lifestyle
Byo turns down
Sandra Ndebele
NQOBILE BHEBHE
CHIEF REPORTER
BULAWAYO songstress Sandra
Ndebele’s quest to use the Large
City Hall for free to launch her album
has suffered a setback with
the Bulawayo City Council turning
down her request citing financial
constraints.
The nimble-footed songbird,
who is also the
brand ambassador for
Mpilo Central Hospital,
plans to launch
her latest album on
August 1.
According to
a latest council
report, Ndebele
sought council approval
to use the
facilities for free.
“We write to apply
for sponsorship to
use the Large City
Hall for launching
Sandra’s
forthcoming
album on the
1st of August
2014,” part of
the letter sent to
council on May
13 reads.
“Sandra has
just released an album
which relates
to social relations
and the community,
and as the custodians
of the city we
are seeking your
assistance in the
form of donating
the Large
City Hall for
this event.
“We will
acknowledge
your
participation
in this event on
all our posters, banners
and flyers and
you will benefit from
the visibility in the
upscale audience
which will attend the
launch. It is also an
opportunity for the
city to help local artistes
as they seek to
re-establish Bulawayo
as the hub of
the arts industry in
Zimbabwe.
“Sandra Ndebele
Sibindi has
just been named
the ambassador
of Mpilo Central
Hospital. Your
support will also
contribute to
her service to
Mpilo Central
Hospital in alleviating
the plight of many that require
the services of the hospital.
As we all support Sandra Ndebele
we save a life!
Sandra
Ndebele
“We look forward to a favourable
response and thank you in anticipation”
part of the letter adds.
The application was circulated
among various
council departments
for input.
Senior public
relations officer,
Nesisa Mpofu
said: “The noble
objective to
raise funds for
the rehabilitation
of Mpilo
Hospital is commendable.
This
is a community
effort that requires
council’s
support as other
stakeholders
such as Bulawayo
United
Residents Association,
NGOs
and the corporate
sector are
also involved in
the project.
“Any meaningful
support
that council can
give towards
this project is supported.”
The director of housing and
community services Isaiah
Magagula said the revenue
accrued in the hire of council
halls assisted in the maintenance
and refurbishment of
such facilities.
“However, in view of the
charitable aspect highlighted
in this instance, council might
consider granting a small rebate
as its contribution in this
cause.”
But the chamber secretary
department objected
to the request.
“This application is not
supported as it appears to
be a commercial launch of
an album. This should attract
normal charges for the City
Hall,” the department said.
“In the past, council had not
acceded to requests for free use
of its facilities except in the case
of national events such as Independence
and Heroes Day celebrations.
However, charitable
organisations had from time to
time been granted small rebates
on individual merit basis eg 25%,
50%, 75% etc.
“The normal hire charge for
the purposes applied for was $1
924,20 (VAT inclusive), plus 50%
refundable deposit for the Large
City Hall”.
Subsequently, Ndebele’s request
was rejected by councillors.
Khoi Khoi to launch
single at Club Forty-40
SHARON SIBINDI
OWN CORRESPONDENT
NKULUMANE-based upcoming
Afro-pop artiste Mulgan Dalubuhle
Sibanda (23), aka Khoi
Khoi, launches his debut single
Tipeiwo Hwahwa at a popular
club joint tomorrow.
Speaking in an interview with
the Southern Eye Lifestyle, Khoi
Khoi said the single Tipeiwo
Hwahwa is the third release, but
first to be launched.
“Tipeiwo Hwahwa is my third
single, but has become the first to
be launched. It will be launched
at Club Forty-40. The single is a
Shona traditional song and I have
made an Afro-pop fusion of it
with a mixture of jerusalem feel,”
the artiste said.
Khoi Khoi will get a chance
to perform some of his two new
tracks, Lengoma and 2Bhobho.
He said his music was produced in
Gweru by Zimboys — Oskidd and
DJ Tamuka.
Khoi Khoi said he was once
based in Francistown, Botswana,
Shinsoman
where his music made waves
among the Tswana people from
2010 to 2011. He is also a fashion
designer.
The artiste has promised to give
patrons and fans good and sweet
melodies tomorrow evening.
“People should expect the
unexpected on Saturday, more
plus fire works are yet to be witnessed,”
he said.
Khoi Khoi has been a finalist in
Dreams to Fame and Bulawayo’s
Got Talent in 2012.
Meanwhile Club Forty-40 entertainment
manager Sibanengi
Ndebele, aka DJ Mzoe, said Khoi
Khoi will be backed up by Izikhothane
LoFraz, from Luveve.
Fraz is popularly known from
Three Kings of Seqamabhilidi.
“Izikhothane LoFraz will come
and back up Khoi Khoi. Local DJs,
DJ Ally, Humble Kid, Mzoe and
Ericdo will also back up the show.
Patrons will be given free CDs of
Khoi Khoi’s single Tipeiwo Hwahwa
, ” he said.
Vendor sentenced for
playing Shinsoman’s song
ALLIEWAY NYONI
OWN CORRESPONDENT
A street vendor was sentenced
to 10 days in prison after being
found guilty of publicly playing
Shinsoman’s song Mai Devante.
Louis Khupe (21) was charged
on his own plea of guilty for contravening
C/S 59 (2) as read with
section 59 subsections 5 of the
Copyright Act Chapter 26:05 that
is performing literary or musical
works in a public place without
the authority of the owner of
copyright.
In passing his sentence Zvishavane
magistrate Story Rushambwa
said it should be known
that public performance of musical
works without the authority
of the owner of copyright is
illegal and such cases may have
stiffer penalties to offenders.
It was the State’s case that on
May 30 this year police detectives
were on patrol and received
a tip off that Khupe who resides
at 63 Shu Shine Houses Mandava
was performing literary music
in a public place — that is Ruswa
House.
The accused was playing Mai
Devante a song by popular urban
grooves and dancehall artist
Shinsoman who is registered under
Zimbabwe Musical rights Association
for the administration
of his copyright.
Khupe was not in a possession
of a copyright licence that
permits him to play musical
works publicly as stated by the
Copyright and Neighbouring Act
Chapter 26:05.

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FRIDAY JUNE 6, 2014
Charlize Theron Courteney Cox Justin Bieber
Charlize Theron made a worker
of PinkBerry in Hollywood full
of worry after taking a mini
frozen yoghurt without paying.
She said to the worker that
she did not have money at that
time and she promised her bill
would be paid later when she
came back. The worker, Keila,
said that “Charlize came in and
she said she was at the park
and didn’t have her purse with
her, and she got a mini with
some toppings which is $3.75.”
Charlize promised to come back
within an hour and then left
with her car. After more than an
hour, Charlize eventually came
and unexpectedly, Charlize paid
her $3,75 debt with $100, telling
the worker to save the change,
which meant the worker got
$96,25 tip. - AceShowbiz
Courteney Cox and her boyfriend
Johnny McDaid have
been thinking of getting engaged,
a new report suggests.
A source tells Page Six that the
pair are thinking of marriage
and people close to them including
Jennifer Aniston are
delighted with the idea of their
nuptials. “Johnny loves her
daughter Coco, and he wants
to marry Courteney. They have
discussed getting engaged and
everyone thinks it is going to
happen,” the source explains.
“She met Johnny through Ed
Sheeran, who is friends with
Jen Aniston. Jennifer Aniston
wasn’t so fond of David Arquette
Courteney’s ex-husband,
with whom Courteney
has remained on very good
terms after their divorce,” the
source adds. — AceShowbiz
Justin Bieber seemingly responded
to racism controversy surrounding
him with Bible verses. A
few hours after news of him using
N-word and joking about joining
the Klu Klux Klan emerged on
wednesday, June 4, the Canadian
heartthrob took to Instagram to
address the issue.
“When your sins weigh heavily
upon you, come to me,” the
passage read. “Confess your
wrong doing, which I know all
about before you say a word. Stay
in the light of my presence, receiving
forgiveness, cleansing,
and healing.
“Remember that I have clothed
you in my righteousness, so nothing
can separate you from Me.
Whenever you stumble or fall, I am
there to help you up.” The singer
did not directly mention the controversial
video. — AceShowbiz
Busy showbiz scene for Bulawayo
Over the past few weeks, an ambitious
young brother going by
the name Butshilo Nleya has been
hustling around in the organisation
of cultural events in Bulawayo
as part of efforts to mark 120
years since the city was founded.
There was the show at Horizon
Bar and Restaurant called Zimboita
with Bled Chimanga and
some Italian outfit.
There were other events such
as the book launch, poetry slam,
Africa Day concert and the Night
of a Thousand laughs at Rainbow
Elite in Bulawayo centre which
proved to be perhaps the most
successful in terms of audience
attendance he was involved in.
The joint was filled with comedy
fans that turned out to snigger
and guffaw at the irreverent wisecracks
of young Clive Chigubu
and Q the Boss, and some other
upstart comedienne by the name
of Nomusa Muleya.
That’s not all. Besides the behind
the scenes donkey shift of
organising the events, Nleya is
a percussionist par excellence
who has shared the stage with
just about everyone from Willis
Wataffi, Bozoe, Jeys Marabini,
Siyaya Arts, Dudu Manhenga to
name just a few. On top of that,
he is the founder of Bulawayo
Cultural Festival which he started
in 2013. He might have formed
the festival out of a desire to do
his own thing. Perhaps not . . .
But one thing for sure is that the
brother is headstrong.
It’s not necessarily a bad thing
if your vision is clear enough. The
only problem is that once folks
think you are a know it all punk,
then they want to see you fail and
fall flat on your face. What must
you then do? You “eat” humble
pie and make certain the pie
doesn’t choke you. You must also
deliberately “emit” the kind of
vibe that makes people want to
give you a high five rather than
beat you down just for kicks. Still,
by putting others in the spotlight,
the spotlight falls on him.
What does Nleya want?
A few weeks ago I posed this
question: what does Butshilo
want ? “In relation to what ?” was
the answer. Well, in relation to
all this hustling about in the local
creative sector? “I want to be
an authority when it comes to the
entertainment industry” That was
Nleya’s answer.
I have said it before, the brother
is ambitious! But personally
I believe that ambition must be
matched with capability. Yes Butshilo
has both the gumption and
currently , the seeming humility
to successfully pull off a showbiz
event.
This territory is fraught with
egos that compete with Mount
Kilimanjaro for size whilst being
peculiarly as fragile as egg shells.
Artists tend to have ultra thin
skins.
As an industry watcher, I believe
that Nleya will attain his
goal. So far, he is proving to be
one to watch with his power plays
and macro vision.
The missing link
Local showbiz is not begging
in terms of pedigree. What is begging
are structural issues such
as associations, unions or even
guilds a formalised coming together
of creative workers where
they can network, share and deliberate
regularly on industry
related matters and form strategies.
One area they would need to
think upon is how to build audiences
from ground zero.
No matter how good you are
as a full time performer, if no one
comes to see you then you just
can’t get paid.
So how do you get the crowds
to come see your show ? First you
must educate them. You have to
go where the people are. Go to
the churches, go to the streets
Butshilo Nleya
(e.g. Egodini, Erenkini, Bradfield
Shopping Centre, Stanley Square,
the colleges, the schools) Knock
every door.
Take out your small public address
system or acoustic guitar nxa
kusenzakala thwala ngengungu
yakho. It’s a hyena fight out there
and getting a morsel inside your
mouth takes everything in you.
Additionally, get a good mobile
phone and bombard your friends
with your videos and audio files of
your recorded works.
Start with your friends. Upload
your stuff on You Tube, Reverb
Nation and many other platforms.
If they won’t play you on national
radio, cyberspace will. By all
means run hard.
Currently though, there is
no structure in our creative
industries.
Everything hangs loose. Slowly,
through the work of the likes
of Cont Mhlanga, Raisdon Baya,
Butshilo Nleya, Simon Mambazo,
Pathisa Nyathi, Brian Jones, Jane
Morris and others, the creative
sector is taking shape.
What must now happen is to
formalise the local creative sector
through associations.
This will serve the purpose,
among others, of gathering stats
around who is doing what, where,
when and how.
Yes, there is a national directory
of arts organisations and
practitioners, but a local one is
begging. Before audiences fully
patronise artists, they must first
find one another.
Visual artists have formally associated
themselves under VAAB
(Visual Artists Association of Bulawayo).
and this helps them work
as a collective facing challenges in
the sector. But the other sectors
are yet to follow suit.
Across the border. . . at The South
African Music Awards
South Africa continues to be a
valuable reference point for me.
I watched the music award show
with awe.
I marvelled at how a twenty
year old sector trumps ours which
is thirty four years old ! South Africa
of course has the benefit of
having major global music companies
such as SONY-BMG and
Universal Music Group operating
on its territory apart from television
channels MTV and Channel
O with an international reach.
Content distribution is not much
an issue over there as it is here.
What must the local musicians
and videographers do to gain access
to the world markets ?
They must gain local critical
mass of fans as did Oliver Mtukudzi.
This takes time. The other
route is the Mokoomba one.
This one is about making sure
that you live in a resort town
where the tourists will see what
you do and spread the word to
their friends overseas!
Of course you must be really
as good as Mokoomba are. I have
also noticed that people with
marketing backgrounds who understand
how to build brands become
managers of artists in South
Africa.
All the popular artists over
there have managers the kind
who work with artists from the
ground up and invest time and
effort into the building of artist
brands.
Artists must think of themselves
as commodities that must
be branded, packaged and distributed.
If this doesn’t happen,
then it’s all kid’s play.
Maybe someone out there
needs to take a leap of faith and
front our local creative. We have
quality product but no clear grasp
of the selling and marketing
thereof.
Gospel music soul food
Tonight, at the Word Of Life
church a gospel group called Sunshine
City Choir from Harare will
stage a mouth watering concert
alongside Pastor G, Xmile, Vocal
Ex and others.
The star— studded cast is sure to
deliver the kind of hoopla Pentecostal
music shows tend to deliver
and Culture Beat will be there to
sample it all.
Hopefully local entrepreneurial
videographers will capture
the event for posterity and for the
market.
I recommend we all go and see
this show. When properly executed,
gospel music is soul food.

FRIDAY JUNE 6, 2014 17
Langa lauds Streak academy
Joseph Rego and Raj Modi at the press conference
Modi the major sponsor,
Rego the mastermind
FORTUNE MBELE
SPORTS REPORTER
BULAWAYO businessman Raj
Modi, who runs a chain of retail
shops in the city, leads a consortium
of corporates in the City of
Kings and Queens, that are behind
the success of the Heath
Streak Multi-sports Academy.
At the launch of the initiative,
last year, former Education, Sport,
Arts and Culture minister David
Coltart said the former Zimbabwe
Cricket captain’s idea had come in
where the government had failed.
The former Cabinet minister
hailed Modi and the other corporates
for supporting the initiative.
“Heath Streak’s initiative steps
in where the government and
Zimbabwe Cricket have failed,
that is in developing the sport of
cricket”. Coltart said
“This initiative will play a major
role in restoring cricket in
Zimbabwe to the heights we have
not seen before. I will also commend
Rajesh Modi and other corporates
for supporting the initiative
and I hope you will continue
to support it.”
Modi said it was the responsibility
of
the corporate
world to
plough
back to
the community.
“It is the responsibility of
the corporates to give back to
the community what they have
gained. If they chose to sponsor at
least five children at $1 000 each,
I believe that the country could
produce more Heath Streaks in
the years to come,” Modi said.
But the chief architect behind
the establishment of the stateof-the-art
facility in Bulawayo is
none other than Indian national
Joseph Rego, who said Modi’s financial
commitment gave birth to
the rise of the Heath Streak Multi-
Sports Academy.
Rego, who has been Streak’s
agent for close to 14 years, is the
chief executive officer of Heath
Streak Consultancy and Sports
Development.
He came into the country a
year and half ago, with the vision
of establishing the sports development
initiative, which he says
will restore Zimbabwe’s glory as a
cricketing country.
Rego’s curriculum vitae speaks
for itself.
He is a graduate from St Xavier’s
College in Bombay and
a diploma holder in Advertising
and Marketing Management
from Xavier’s Institute of Mass
Communication.
At some stage he was the senior
vice-president of India’s high
profile celebrity cricket portal
Cricket Next.com in its marketing
and entertainment division
in 2000 and was instrumental in
organising the “ICC CricketNext.
com Cricket Cup” in Dhaka in the
year 2000 which was an event
of the ICC Cricket Week organised
by the ICC in Bangladesh to
promote cricket in developing
nations.
Between 2001 and 2005 he
worked with several cricket veterans,
like
Ricky
Ponting,
Chris
Cairns,
Streak
and Daniel
Vettori on coaching clinics for
budding young players in India.
In 2012 he launched the Heath
Streak Foundation in India in support
of underprivileged children
and child education.
The inaugural edition of the
“Heath Streak T20 Cricket Cup”
was held in the coastal city of
Mangalore, India, in April 2012
with 10 000 spectators on board.
The Zimbabwean Cricket
team was led by Streak and had
the likes of Elton Chigumbura,
Brendon Taylor, Grant Flower,
Mpumelelo Mbangwa, Ray Price,
Charles Coventry and Alistair
Campbell.
SUKOLUHLE MTHETHWA
SPORTS REPORTER
THE Sport, Arts and Culture minister
Andrew Langa says the Heath
Streak Multi-Sports Academy
is very important because it has
been established at a time when
the City of Bulawayo is celebrating
120 years.
Langa said this at the launch of
the academy in Bulawayo on Africa
Day where he was the guest of
honour.
“It gives me great pleasure and
gratitude to be part of this significant
event in Bulawayo. The
opening of the Heath Streak Multi-Disciplinary
Sports Academy is
not only a first of its kind in Bulawayo,
but celebrates the 120 years
birthday celebrations of the City of
Bulawayo with a change.
“The City of Bulawayo celebrates
these 120 years with many
valuable feats,” he said.
Langa assured Bulawayo citizens
that Bulawayo will host the
Region V Under-20 Youth Games.
“In December this government
through my ministry of
Sport, Arts, and Culture
will host the African
Union Sports
Council Region V Under-20
Youth Games in Bulawayo. There
has been talk that the games will
be moved to Harare. I am saying
these games will be held here in
Bulawayo. This will be a sporting
showcase that will involve all the
countries of the Sadc region.
“We therefore should not disappoint
abantu bako-
Bulawayo. We need
therefore to make
sure these games
are a success. We
know they will
be,” he said.
Bulawayo
will
be a hive of activity
in December
as
countries
which
in-
clude Zimbabwe, South Africa,
Zambia, Namibia, Malawi, Lesotho,
Botswana, Angola, Swaziland,
the Seychelles, Mauritus, Tanzania,
Democratic Republic of Congo
and Madagascar will feature in
the competition.
Langa said sport is very important
because it plays a role in the
country’s economy.
“The government’s priority
and mandate to my ministry is
to ensure that sport contributes
to the following; economic
growth and development, creation
of employment, wealth
and is actively involved in
poverty eradication and lastly
contributing to social empowerment,
national pride
and identity within
the values of
ubuntu,” he
said.
Andrew
Langa

18
SOUTHERN EYE
FRIDAY JUNE 6, 2014
SUPPLEMENT
Who is
Heath Streak?
BORN March 16 1974, he is the
only son to Dennis and Sheona
Streak. The Streak family has lived
in the Inyathi farming community
for over 100 years so it’s no
surprise that this cattle ranching
establishment is where Heath
has chosen to build his home life
with his wife Nadine and three
children.
Zimbabwean way of life is
in Heath’s blood and he
can’t think
of a greater
foundation for his
family. Outside of his passion
for cricket, Heath enjoys a
good game of soccer or squash,
but more than anything he
is a keen Bass
Angler and
aims
to
represent his country in the latter.
School Level Sporting
Achievements
Zimbabwe Schools Cricket
U-12, U-15 & U-19,
Captained Falcon College 1st
Team Cricket 1992,
Captained Matabeleland
Province U19 Cricket,
Zimbabwe Schools Rugby
U-12, U-15, U-17.
First Class Cricket Playing
Career
Matabeleland Province 1991 to
2005 (Captained 99-05),
Hampshire CCC 1995
Warwickshire
CCC
2004 to 2007,
(Captained 06-07)
Africa XI 2005
Ahmedabad
Rockets
(Indian
Cricket
League)
2008 to 2009.
International
Playing
Career
Zimbabwe 1993 to
2005,
Captained
Zimbabwe 2000 to
2004,
Career Highlights
• Played in
Zimbabwe’s first Test
Victory v Pakistan,
• Zimbabwe’s first
Player to reach 100 and
200 Test and ODI wickets
• Was ranked No 3 in the
World Rankings by Wisden
in 1995,
• Played in Zimbabwe’s first
home ODI series win,
Joseph Rego, CEO Heath Sreak Foundation, assists Andrew Langa, Sport, Arts and Culture minister cut the ribbon to
mark the official launch of Heath Streak Academy last month.
• Played in the World Cup squad
that made the Super Six in 1999
and 2003 World Cups,
• Captained Zimbabwe’s first
Away ODI series win v New
Zealand:
Coaching
Private Coaching 2008 to 2010
includes
• Whitestone School, Bulawayo,
Zimbabwe,
• Victoria Falls Primary School,
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe,
• Stanford Lake College,
Haenertsburg, South Africa,
•Duivelkruin
College,
Polokwane, South Africa,
• Limpopo Academy, Polokwane,
South Africa,
• Zimbabwe National Team
Bowling Coach 2009 to 2013,
Matabeleland Tuskers Assistant
Coach 2010 to 2011,
Matabeleland Tuskers Head
Coach 2012 to 2013 season.
Consultant Bowling Coach –
Auckland Aces 2012 (Champions
League SA) Currently bowling
coach Bangladesh Cricket
Coaching Staff at the Academy
Godwill Manhiyo
Born May 1992
“Here is a player making his
way in the game the right way.
Having captained his country
since the age of eleven, Manhiyo
has a fantastic cricketing brain for
such a young man.
A dominant right handed
batsman, he looks to rotate
strike and take the game to the
opposition and can adapt easily to
changing situations.
Manhiyo’s reference comes
from none other than Dave
Houghton, the record holding
Zimbabwean cricketer which
speaks volumes for the calibre of
this fine young man.
The Academy is delighted to
have Manhiyo on the Coaching
Staff... He is a bubbly character
who has been involved with the
Tuskers Franchise since 2011.
He has coached Falcon’s
U-14’s and U-16’s at Christian
Brothers College.
He has his Level 2 Coaching
Certification.
John Curtis Nyumbu
Born May 1985
John has been Zimbabwe U-16
Cricket Manager and Tuskers U-16
and U-18 Coach.
John is happily married and
the proud father of two sons.
Gavin Mackie Ewing
Born January 1981
Ewing is married to Agata and
they are expecting their first baby
soon. Ewing has been Heath’s
right-hand man and is currently
Coaching at Falcon. He has his
Level 3 coaching certification
obtained in Australia.
350 to benefit from academy
is proud to be associated with
the Heath Streak Academy
and we wish them
every success
FORTUNE MBELE
SPORTS REPORTER
The Heath Streak Cricket Academy
has identified 12 schools that they will
be working with and 350 children will
benefit from the benevolence of the
former Zimbabwe Cricket captain’s
consultancy and sports development
initiative.
The Heath Streak Consultancy
and Sports Development Initiative
was launched in August last year
and work has been going on at
MacDonald Sports Club, where the
academy is housed.
The academy was officially
opened on Africa Day by Sport, Arts
and Culture minister, Andrew Langa.
Chief administrator of the Heath
Streak Academy, Samukelisiwe
Nkiwane said 12 schools had
been identified although some of
them were yet to confirm their
participation.
The schools that have been
identified are secondary schools
Hamilton High, Eastview, Northlea,
Mandwandwe, Masiyephambili.
Primary schools include SOS, REPS,
Nkulumane, Nketa and Mgiqika and
two girls’ schools, Girls’ College and
Eveline High School.
“We have identified 12 schools
that we want to work with but so
far three have confirmed. We will
be sending coaches to the schools
for our programmes on cricket
development and at times we will
be bringing these kids here to the
academy. Our target is that we are
looking at 350 kids benefitting from
these coaching clinics,” Nkiwane
said.
Heath Streak Consultancy
and Sports Development chief
executive Joseph Rego also
confirmed the programme and
said the idea was to bring the
sport of cricket to under-privileged
children in society.
“The academy is open to
everyone. I will soon be acquiring a
bus which will be taking children
from these schools to the
academy for the
coaching clinics,”
he said.
“We
held
successful
coaching
clinics
during the
school
holidays.
It will be
some
free for the underprivileged children
but for those that can afford, they
will pay for the sustenance of the
academy.”
A number of corporates in
Bulawayo have been roped in to
support the programme, with
Macdonald Sports Club
being
transformed
into a world —
class
sporting
facility,
which
boasts
of
cricket fields, a
state-of-theart
gymnasium,
a restaurant and
the
academy
offices.
Heath
Streak

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SOUTHERN EYE
Thomas Muller wants meeting
with Bayern Munich hierarchy
SPORT
BAYERN MUNICH star Thomas
Muller says he expects to have
talks with club officials over his
future this summer.
Muller is one of a number
of top European players linked
with a move to Manchester
United, where his former Bayern
boss Louis van Gaal is set to take
charge this summer.
Van Gaal gave Muller his firstteam
debut back in 2009, and
he has gone on to become one
of the best forwards in European
football.
Muller is under contract until
2017, but he is expecting talks
over his future, if Bayern want
him to stay for the long term.
Speaking to German-based
weekly news magazine Stern,
Muller confirmed that he had
asked the club for a meeting.
“I have reached the point
where I want to know if
I am an essential
component of the
Bayern Munich
first XI for the
new season and if
the club has plans for me over
the coming years,” Muller said.
“That’s why I will be out to
have a meeting.
“I am not
the type of
guy that says,
‘Alright, I have
played a good
part and will
keep my mouth shut and everyone
else is able to do with me
whatever he wants’.
“As a Munich-boy your test
at Bayern Munich is always a bit
tougher, but we (those players
graduated from the youth academy)
are the grassroots of this
club!”
Muller has previously revealed
that he had a
“special” relationship
with van Gaal and
stated: “It’s no secret
that Louis van Gaal
and I have a relationship
that goes
a little beyond
the normal relationship
between
coaches and players.”
— SkySports
Thomas
Muller
Messi, Cristiano, Suarez named
world’s most valuable players
Roy Hodgson
Hodgson takes
positives from
draw with
Ecuador
BARCELONA forward Lionel Messi
is the most valuable player in
world football and worth almost
twice as much as Cristiano Ronaldo,
according to a study by the
CIES Football Observatory.
The ninth edition of the annual
football review has estimated the
Argentina international’s value at
£161,5 million ahead of secondplaced
Ronaldo on £85,2m and
Liverpool’s Luis Suarez, whose
worth is put at £79,4m.
Chelsea’s Eden Hazard and
Messi’s Barcelona teammate Ney-
mar
complete the top five,
valued at £61,2m
and
£50,6m
respectively.
Meanwhile,
Ronaldo’s Real
Madrid teammate
Gareth
Cristiano
Ronaldo
Bale comes in at seventh, valued
at £50,9m, almost £30m less than
the world-record £80,6m fee Real
Madrid paid Tottenham for the
Wales international’s services last
year.
Colombia striker Radamel Falcao
and Argentina winger Erik
Lamela have seen their values fall
by more than 50% since completing
transfers 12 months ago.
Falcao joined Monaco for
£48,4m from Atletico Madrid last
season and is now worth £22,7m,
according to the study, while
Lamela, who joined Tottenham
for a fee of £28,2m from Roma,
is valued at
£13,6m.
Luis
Suarez
The 96-page publication also
found Real Madrid fielded the
most expensive starting line-up
ever during their successful 2013
to 2014 Uefa Champions League
campaign with average transfer
expenditure per player of over
£24m.
By contrast, La Liga winners
and Champions League runnerups
Atletico Madrid had average
transfer fees of just £3,2m per
player.
Th e CIES Football Observatory
uses a database that has been
developed since 2005 and will
disclose their 2014 World Cup
predictions based on their formula
within the next
week. — SkySports
Lionel
Messi
ROY Hodgson was in a fairly positive
mood after his side’s 2-2 draw
with Ecuador in a pre-World Cup
friendly in Miami despite a red
card and a possible injury blow.
Hodgson felt the clash at Sun
Life Stadium was a “very good
game” and he admitted performances
from some of the players
who he might not have expected
to compete for a start in Brazil
were impressive.
He also had negatives to deal
with as Raheem Sterling was sent
off for a late tackle on Antonio Valencia
— who also saw red — and
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain suffered
a worrying injury that will
need a scan.
But it was experienced duo of
Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard
who earned the plaudits,
Rooney scoring England’s opener
and Lampard performing well
alongside Jack Wilshere and Ross
Barkley in midfield.
“Rooney and Lampard I
thought were immense,” Hodgson
said. “It’s hot out there, they
have got a lot of young players
around them and I thought they
really showed their maturity and
we saw the benefit of that.
“That proves to me as well that
we have a balance between experience
and youth and I shall go
away from today’s game relatively
happy.
“It would have been nice to
win it, but certainly there were
many positives I can take from it.
“I thought it was a very good
game. I was disappointed with the
sendings off and the potential injury
to one of our players — but as
a friendly, a warm-up match for
our players, it was good.
“They tested us but we dealt
with them very well for long periods
and caused their defence
many problems. We could have
been several goals up before they
scored their goal.”
Barkley’s performance caught
the eye of pundits, but Hodgson
went on the defensive when asked
if he had played his way into his
selection plans for the clash with
Italy in Manaus on June 14.
“I think Ross Barkley had some
good moments,” Hodgson added.
“I think he needs to learn when
he can turn with the ball and
when he has to keep the ball. But
that’s quite normal for a player his
age. He’ll be quite happy to have
played so long on his first start.
“There always seems to be an
enormous obsession with one
player . . .
“I will be prepared to start any
of the players in any game, but
I’m not prepared to address your
obsession with Ross Barkley.
“If he’s going to be the player
we want him to be, he has to
make better decisions of when he
turns with the ball.
“That’s not a criticism, but
there were other performances
out there today. Oxlade-Chamberlain
and Phil Jones were outstanding,
as was Jack Wilshere
in the middle of the park, while
Rickie Lambert scored a magnificent
goal.” — SkySports

FRIDAY JUNE 6, 2014 21
SOUTHERN EYE
SPORT
Maduma expects Wembley drama
Serena Williams
Muguruza
shocks Serena
LONDON — Ghislain Maduma
believes his lightweight clash
with Kevin Mitchell is potentially
more exciting than Carl
Froch-George Groves II.
The Canada-based fighter
will battle Mitchell on this
Saturday’s undercard, live on
SkySports Box Office, with the
winner landing a shot at IBF
champion Miguel Vazquez.
Maduma, originally from
Congo, gained plenty of amateur
experience after moving to
Canada, and is yet to suffer a defeat
in 16 fights since joining the
professional ranks. A match-up
involving Mitchell should supply
excitement, especially with
added pressure to perform, and
his opponent expects a memorable
encounter at Wembley
Stadium.
“You’re going to see a lot of
skills, that’s all I can say, a lot
of skills,” he told said. “I know
he’s a very, very good fighter,
very good skills too so I think it’s
going to be the best fight of the
night. Groves and Froch is going
to get the most attention, but
we’re going to get the best fight
because we’ve got very good
skills and I think we’re going to
match-up very good.
“I’m very excited to be there.
It’s a very historic event for all
the boxing world, so I’m very
proud to have my name men-
Ghislain Maduma
tioned on it.”
Mitchell is facing his second
and possibly last chance to secure
a world title, whereas Maduma
is yet to test himself at the
top level. But the 29-year-old
has been preparing in this country
since last Saturday and is
confident he will burst onto the
world scene.
“Yes, sure, that’s the plan
for this year. To first be known
on the world level — that’s what
I’m going to do on Saturday
night - and second to be world
champion,” he said. “It’s going
to be a big night for me. You’re
going to see on Saturday night,
make sure you’ve got a ticket.”
— SkySports
WORLD No 1 and defending champion
Serena Williams lost in the
second round of the French Open,
beaten 6-2, 6-2 by Spain’s Garbine
Muguruza.
The 17-times grand slam champion
never got into her stride against
the 20-year-old world No 35.
Top seed Williams had not been
knocked out of a major before the
fourth round since losing in the first
round of the 2012 French Open.
Muguruza, whose powerful
groundstrokes and pace around the
court proved too hot to handle for
Williams, will next face Slovak teenager
Anna Schmiedlova, who earlier
in the day beat Serena’s older sister
Venus. Williams, who made 29 unforced
errors and hit only eight winners,
said: “I don’t think anything
worked for me today.
“It was one of those days. You
can’t be on every day, and, gosh, I
hate to be off during a grand slam.
It happens. It’s not the end of the
world.
“I think she played really well
and she played really smart. It’s
great because I’m going to go home
and work five times as hard to make
sure I never lose again.”
Williams’ 6-2, 6-2 defeat was her
worst in terms of scoreline in her
16-year grand slam career and will
send shockwaves through the tournament,
which lost Australian Open
champions Stan Wawrinka and Li Na
in the first round. Like Rafael Nadal
on Monday, Williams was sent out
to Roland Garros’ second court, Suzanne
Lenglen.
But, while her fellow defending
champion barely broke sweat in
beating Robby Ginepri, Williams began
badly and got worse.
Despite her 17 Grand Slam titles
and huge experience, it is not unusual
for Williams to have days where
nerves get the better of her and her
movement deserts her.
One of the most painful defeats of
her career came in Paris two years
ago when she lost to Frenchwoman
Virginie Razzano in the first round.
That was the moment she turned
to coach Patrick Mouratoglou and
began one of the most dominant
spells of her career.
She has been particularly dominant
on clay and last year finally
won her second French Open crown
11 years after her first.
Williams was the overwhelming
favourite to retain her title but, after
winning the first game in cold and
heavy conditions, she lost the next
fi v e .
Much of the credit must go to
20-year-old Muguruza, who struck
the ball superbly and maintained her
aggressive approach to ensure there
was no way back for Williams.
Muguruza clinched victory on
her first match point when Williams
netted a backhand.
Maria Sharapova is now the leading
favourite to take the 2014 title in
Paris.
The Russian battled past Bulgaria’s
Tsvetana Pironkova 7-5, 6-4
to reach the third round. However,
the four-time Grand Slam winner,
who won Roland Garros in 2012,
will have to raise her game after an
alarming 27 unforced errors.
The 27-year-old improved her
record on clay this year to 14 and 1,
after wins in Stuttgart and Madrid
left her with 31 titles on the WTA
circuit.
The world No 8 now faces Romania’s
Monica Niculescu or Paula Ormaechea
of Argentina for a place in
the last 16.
Third seed Agnieszka Radwanska
of Poland also went through with a
comfortable 6-3, 6-4 win over Karolina
Pliskova of the Czech Republic.
Radwanska will face Croatia’s
Ajla Tomljanovic for a place in the
last 16. — SkySports

22 FRIDAY JUNE 6, 2014
SOUTHERN EYE
SPORT
Kamandama tourney tees off
SUKOLUHLE MTHETHWA
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competition and the Hwange Closed tournament
titles recently. Competing in the A division
he managed a gross score of 147 while Christian
Lungu came second with a gross score of 16
to emerge as the winner of the Hwange Closed
competition. The format of the Kamandama
competition will be four-ball better-ball.
The Kamandama Memorial Golf Tournament
is aimed at raising funds for widows and orphans
of the Kamandama Mine Disaster which claimed
427 lives on June 6 1972 at Kamandama underground
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Morgan Gorerino, Josphat Phiri, Diamond
Jackson, Innocent Nousenga, Thembinkosi
Ncube and Matabeleland Golf Association vice—
president Victor Suerga had registered.
Vincent Makamure and Colletta Mhonda were
crowned champions of last year’s four-ball better-ball
competition on 53 points.
Marko Phiri and Julliet Gurani on 49 points
were second while Christian Lungu and Getrude
Katsidzira followed on 48 points. The excelling
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Mighty Warriors
arrive in Zambia
HENRY MHARA
SPORTS REPORTER
THE Mighty Warriors left the country for
Zambia early morning yesterday for the
decisive African Women’s Championship
(AWC) final round second leg qualifier,
hoping to salvage national pride after
their male counterparts’ embarrassing
exit from the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon)
qualifiers at the hands of Tanzania
last Sunday.
Team manager Charity Munemo yesterday
said the team, looking to overturn
a 0-1 deficit and qualify for the AWC finals
set for Namibia this October, left Harare
at 4am by bus.
They were expected in Lusaka just before
midday and were set to have a training
session in the afternoon ahead of the
Sunday match at Nkoloma Stadium.
The team’s departure could mean
players got part of their allowances they
were promised by Zifa.
Players, who said they were owed
monies from the previous ACW round
against Botswana in February and in the
friendly against South Africa and demanded
better living conditions at Zifa
Village, had threatened not to fulfil the
match unless they received half of what
they were owed.
The stand-off between Zifa and the
players reached alarming levels on Tuesday
afternoon when the Mighty Warriors
staged a mini-training boycott pressing
for their demands to be met.
Zimbabwe lost the first leg 0-1 and the
winner of the Sunday match will join the
other six countries plus hosts Namibia for
the ACW finals to be staged in October.
However, coach Rosemary Mugadza
who returned to the fold from a compassionate
leave after the death of her brother
forced her out of the first leg, said her
team would be capable of turning things
around in Lusaka and break a 10-year
jinx of no-show at the finals. She believed
the win could offer some sort of solace to
local football fans following the ouster of
their male counterparts from the Afcon
2015 qualifiers by the Taifa Stars.
“We played the same Zambia side
twice at the end of last year in friendly
matches and we scored seven against
two,” she said.
“We know we are capable of beating
them. What we just need is the right attitude
for the game.
“I’m confident we will win the match
and qualify. We just need to get an early
goal and I know we can finish them off.
“The girls need this win to qualify, and
so are our supporters after the Warriors
defeat.”
Zambia women, the Shepolopolo
Queens, are flying on the wings of a recent
turnaround in women’s football in
Zambia, and will now feel that they are
close to getting the ticket to AWC finals.
The ACW finals are similar to the men’s
Afcon. This year’s tournament also serves
as a qualifier for the 2015 Fifa Women’s
World Cup in Canada next year, with the
top three teams going through.

FRIDAY JUNE 6, 2014 23
SOUTHERN EYE
SPORT
Langa meets Region V LOC
Moses Chunga
SUKOLUHLE MTHETHWA
SPORTS REPORTER
SPORT, Arts and Culture minister
Andrew Langa will this morning
give an update on the African
Union Sports Region V Under-20
Youth Games to be held in Bulawayo
in December.
Twelve countries that include
hosts Zimbabwe, South Africa,
Zambia, Namibia, Malawi, Lesotho,
Botswana, Mozambique,
Angola, Swaziland, the Seychelles
and Mauritius had initially confirmed
participation at the games,
but three more Tanzania, the
Democratic Republic of Congo
and Madagascar have shown interest
in taking part in the biennial
competition.
Games local organising committee
(LOC) chief executive officer
Henry Manzungu yesterday
confirmed the minister’s meeting.
“I am not privy to all the details,
but I know that the minister
will give his brief on the Region V
Sports Reporter
BOTSWANA be-mobile league outfit
Township Rollers coach Madinda
Ndlovu received his second accolade
in Botswana after winning the Coach
of the Year award in Botswana on
Wednesday night.
Ndlovu rejoined Township Rollers
last year and immediately made an
impact guiding the club that had last
won the championship in the 2010 to
2011 season, to a title.
Rollers had finished the 2012 to
2013 season on position eight from
the 16-team league with 40 points.
Ndlovu spoke to Southern Eye Sports
from Botswana yesterday.
“I feel very great especially to
receive such an award in a foreign
country. I feel very excited. I received
a trophy and some money for winning
the coach of the year award. The
first season I did not get it. The second
year I was coach of the year but
I did not get the Mascom Top-Eight
coach of the tournament award. This
season I got both awards, the coach
of the year and Mascom Top-Eight
coach of the tournament award,” he
said.
He attributed his success to the
support he has received.
“The reason why I was successful
is because there is appreciation
here. The people give you time and
they support you. There will always
be external forces and interferences
in football, but here it is better than
games tomorrow (today) morning.
The local organising committee,
board and the LOC secretariat
and officials from the ministry
will also attend,” he said.
The budget for the African Union
Sports Region V Under-20
Youth Games that had been set
at $46 million was trimmed to
$16 million after the organisers
shelved plans to construct a new
games village last month. Meanwhile,
the Bulawayo director of
housing and community services
Isaiah Magagula has been appointed
to serve in the Region V
Games LOC according to the latest
city council minutes.
The minutes state that tenders
have been awarded in preparation
for the games.
“A great deal of preparatory
work had been done towards the
hosting of the games, one of the
major issues being to upgrade the
venues,” the minutes read.
“With regard to council venues,
work had been tendered out
and on Friday May 23 2014 the
sites/venues were handed over
to successful contractors. The affected
venues were Bulawayo
Athletics Club, the Bulawayo Pool,
White City stadiums, Luveve and
Barbourfields stadiums. As some
activities might still be taking
place in these facilities, council’s
administration had nominated its
officials to liaise with local organising
committee and contractors
at its venues.
“The City Hall and Trade Fair
grounds where boxing and basketball
would take place were to
be attended to later, whereas the
Hillside Teacher’s College to be
used as the participants’ village
would be done by Public Works.
Council was expected through its
departments to facilitate/monitor
work in its area of jurisdiction; in
particular the Housing and Community
Services and Engineering
Services departments.”
Madinda wins top coach award
home because there is much support.
However, our league at home
(Castle Lager Premier Soccer League)
is tougher than our league here,” the
former Highlanders and Warriors
coach said.
Township Rollers lost two games in
the 2013 to 2014 season.
“I lost two games only and I went
28 games unbeaten. There is no coach
who went 29 games unbeaten this
means I was the best. This marks my
third championship in Botswana, it
feels great,” he said.
Orap Zenzele Chevrolet World Cup on cards
SPORTS REPORTER
NINE rural schools have confirmed
they will take part in the Under-20
Orap Zenzele Chevrolet World Cup
football tournament to be staged
at Gifford High School today and
tomorrow.
JZ Moyo (Insiza), Thekwane,
Phakamani (Plumtree), Fatima
(Lupane), Sibomvu, (the Midlands),
Majiji (Bubi), Maveva (Tsholotsho),
Mhwali (Gwanda) and Hlangabeza in
Nkayi will battle out for the honours
with hosts Gifford, Milton and Mpopoma
High schools.
Mzingwane High School has pulled
out of the competition.
Montrose High and Magwegwe
High will curtain raise the boy’s final to
be played on Saturday after a knockout
stage that will be played today.
Orap chief executive officer
Mvuselelo Huni confirmed the tournament
which will be officially opened
by Sport, Arts and Culture minister
Andrew Langa.
“Sport brings people together to
compete, share perspectives, learn
and develop bonds of friendship and
to find strength to overcome obstacles,”
Huni said in a statement.
“We decided to take on this project
despite the tough economic times
because an investment in young people
can never be a price too heavy to
pay as youth are the future.
If sport and this tournament in particular,
inspire young people to value
Madinda Ndlovu
education, then we will be fulfilling our
mission and mandate.
“We have to thank Autoworld
Bulawayo for their courage in being
the anchor sponsor of this
event. They have demonstrated that
through partnership anything can be
achieved.”
General Motors of the US, through
its Chevrolet brand are giving
away 1,5million balls worldwide as
part of their commitment to encourage
youth and play sport and be
active.
In Zimbabwe, Orap in partnership
with Autoworld Bulawayo, are continuing
to distribute balls to schools,
clubs and other organisations
throughout the country.
Chunga takes charge
FortUNE MBELE
SPORTS REPORTER
DESPITE the alleged fallout with
his bosses, Chiredzi FC head coach
Moses “Bambo” Chunga will take
charge of his struggling Premier Soccer
League new boys when they
host Hwange at Chishamiso Stadium
tomorrow.
Chiredzi FC chairman Charles
Muchatukwa yesterday said the legendary
Chunga will be in charge of
the team as they have ironed out
their differences and the executive
committee is meeting this morning to
map the way forward.
Chunga allegedly had a misunderstanding
with his superiors involving
finances after the 0-1 loss to Dynamos
on Africa Day, but Muchatukwa
yesterday said the issue had been
resolved.
“Everything is in place. He (Chunga)
will be in charge of the game against
Hwange. We are having a meeting tomorrow
(today) morning after which
we will issue a statement,” Muchatukwa
said.
Chiredzi FC, handed over to the
community by its sponsors Tongaat
NRL derby: Busters v Panthers
THANDIWE MOYO
SPORTS CorreSPONDENT
WESTERN Panthers, who have already
beaten city rivals Old Miltonians
(OMs) will be hoping to make it two
out of two when they take on Matabeleland
Busters in a Nationals Rugby
League match at Hartsfield Ground
tomorrow.
Panthers beat OM 21-15 a couple
of weeks ago and they face their second
local challenge.
“It is a tricky fixture. We are going
to give them a good run and we
are looking for maximum points. I will
be banking on Slater (Silethokuhle
Ndlovu) who did not travel in our last
match,” Panthers coach George Mukorera
said.
Ndlovu is a former Cheetahs player
and has since retired from national
duty, but continues to feature in some
of Western Panthers’ matches.
Mukorera said they had assembled
a stronger side for the Busters
match which includes back liners Tich
Mupamhadzi, Mayibongwe Ncube
and captain Kuda Chimukuyu. He
said they also have youthful Terrence
Ncube who will play the full-back
position.
They will still be without fly-half
Busani Ncube who sustained an injury
in the season opener against OM.
“We played them in pre-season
matches and we know what to expect.
Their front line is strong and they
have great strength in their scrummage.
We do not want to lose our
Hullet, who also finance Triangle, have
struggled in the top-flight league and
have only won one game beating
Bantu Rovers 2-0 at Luveve Stadium
on May 3.
They have lost six times and played
two draws in nine matches, anchoring
the log standings and face yet another
daunting task tomorrow when they
clash with Chipangano — who have
only lost once and are on position
two with 18 points — just one behind
pacesetters Highlanders.
Skipper Fidelis Mangezi, Tapiwa
Dephistara, Malvern Gaki, Allan
Gwatidzo, Brighton Pamhirwa and
Ashley Mukwena are some of the
players at Chiredzi who are at the
bottom of the log standings with five
points from nine matches.
Nation Dube’s Hwange have
started the season on a good note
with a relatively strong squad that
has Warriors right-back Erick Chipeta,
Rodwell Chinyengetere, Evans
Rusike, Aleck Marime, Tafara Chese,
Isaac Masame, Farai Vimisayi and
veterans David Boriwondo, Gilbert
Zulu and Gerald Ndlovu.
ball in the scrum, so we are working
on that. I am happy with the performance
of the players they are starting
to win, which is good,” he said.
Mukorera added that last season
they started well, but had points
deducted for using an unregistered
player, Brian Ncube, who is based in
the United Kingdom.
“This season we have registered a
number of players from South Africa.
Gardner Nechironga will be playing
for us and we also have Thamsanqa
Nyoni and Danai Mhlanga,” he said.
Busters drew against Harare Sports
Club and will be hoping for a win this
time around. They are placed fifth
on the log with 12 points two shy of
Western Panthers who are fourth.
Seventh-placed OMs play eighth
placed Gweru Sports Club at Hartsfield
with only a point separating the
two teams.
Harare Sports Club will face their
second toughest challenge when they
take on defending champions Old Hararians
at Harare Sports Club.
Old Hararians are wounded following
their defeat to rivals Old Georgians
36-32 and will be aiming at a win. Harare
Sports Club have the confidence
as they beat Old Georgians 20-19 in
their first derby. Old Georgians have
a fairly easy outing as they take on
struggling Zvishavane Bulls at Harare
Sports Club.
Bulls have not registered a win and
would be under pressure to start collecting
points.

24 FRIDAY JUNE 6, 2014
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Gabriel Nyoni back
FORTUNE MBELE
SPORTS REPORTER
HIGHLANDERS tear-away striker Gabriel Nyoni says
he is ready for a return after a nine-week lay-off due
to an injury he sustained when the Bulawayo giants
hammered Shabanie Mine 4-1 at Barbourfields
Stadium (BF) on April 13.
Nyoni only played 17 minutes in the
game against Shabanie Mine. He came
in for Charles Sibanda in the
59th minute only to be
replaced
by
Welcome
Ndiweni in
the 76th after sustaining a dislocated left
ankle. It was Highlanders’ second game of the season
after they had been held to a goalless draw by Chapungu
at Ascot Stadium on April 5.
Nyoni, who has been in plaster, started full training
with the rest of the team last week. Yesterday he
said he had fully recovered and was hoping to make
it into the team that will take on FC Platinum at BF on
Sunday.
“I have fully recovered and I started full training
last week. I have been training well and I might be
part of the team on Sunday, but that will depend on
the coaches. I am hopeful that I will make it into the
team for the Sunday game after a long time out of action,”
Nyoni said.
But Nyoni will face stiff competition from Ozias
Zibande who has been scoring important goals for
Highlanders and Charles Sibanda who grabbed a
brace when Highlanders beat Buffaloes 3-1 in Mutare
in their last match, with the third goal — an own goal
by defender Liberty Chakoroma — deflecting from
Sibanda’s effort. With Kuda Mahachi and Sibanda
nursing injuries and still to pass fitness test, Nyoni
could be back in the fold against the platinum
miners on Sunday.
Bosso are leading the pack with 19 points from
nine matches and are yet lose a match as the
Premier Soccer League gets into round 10 starting
today. FC Platinum head coach Lloyd Mutasa
says Sunday’s match would be one of their toughest
encounters of the season. Since coming into the top
flight league, FC Platinum have never beaten Bosso at
BF in a league match and only claimed their first victory
against Highlanders at Emagumeni in a 6-5 penalty
shoot-out in the CG Msipa Charity tournament
semi-final and a 3-2 victory in the army charities
semi-final.
“This is one of the toughest encounters. Bosso are
one of the best teams in the league. They have done
well so far and we have so much respect for them. But
we want to be able to stand up and be counted. It will
be a tough match, but the better team of the day will
be victorious. Anything is possible. We have beaten
them this year, but this would be a different ball game
altogether. I am happy that Charles Sibanda has done
well for Highlanders. He is proving his mettle there.
It is good for Highlanders that he is playing well. As
a former FC Platinum player, we will have a plan for
him,” Mutasa said.
FC Platinum have Thabani Kamusoko, Allan Gahadzikwa,
Mitchelle Katsvairo, Donald Ngoma, Njabulo
“Tshiki” Ncube, Tarisai Rukanda, Nelson Maziwisa
and Qadr Amin in camp as they seek their first
league win at BF.
Platinum are on position nine on the log table with
12 points from three wins, three draws with three defeats.
They hammered Triangle 4-0 in their last league
match on May 24.
Bantu Rovers
seek elusive win
THANDIWE MOYO
SPORTS CORRESPONDENT
BANTU Rovers will be seeking a win
when they take on ZPC Kariba in a
Castle Lager Premier Soccer League
match at Luveve Stadium this
afternoon.
Rovers’ last win was against
Chicken Inn when Proud Zireni scored
a “hat-trick” — two for his side — and
gave the GameCocks their consolation
goal.
The Bulawayo side have
won three of their matches
and lost six with no draw.
Bantu Rovers, coached
by former Warriors midfielder
Methembe Ndlovu
(pictured), have tried to
make use of both their
youthful and experienced
players.
His young players that could
be thrown into the fray include Denzel
Khumalo, Bukhosi Sibanda and
Tafadzwa Kutinyu.
Ndlovu said early this week that
they would be looking for a win despite
the fact that they would be
playing a team that has not lost in the
league. He said the match would be
a challenge for them and they had to
concentrate on their strengths.
Former Highlanders forward Obadiah
Tarumbwa has scored once.
Fortune Ncube, who has been their
most prolific goalpoacher, could be
part of the team.
ZPC Kariba, on the other end, are
in Bulawayo for the first time and are
also hoping for three points.
Coach Saul Chaminuka said they
would want to take the three points
home “if Bantu Rovers let us”.
The former Caps United assistant
coach has had a dream start in the
league following his side’s promotion
this season. Already they have
dismissed defending champions Dynamos
1-0 and drawn 1-1 against
Highlanders. In their nine outings,
ZPC — who are placed fifth on the
log — have drawn six times and won
three times.
In their last match they came
from two goals down to draw against
How Mine in Harare. Chaminuka said
he had watched Bantu rovers play
against Caps United and had an idea
of what they would throw at them.