Southern Eye 12 June 2014

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RELEVANT, CREDIBLE LOCAL NEWS
SA tycoon set free P3
Prof Moyo
steps out
EVERSON MUSHAVA
CHIEF REPORTER
INFORMATION Minister Jonathan
Moyo yesterday had his
first public engagement after
the weekend tirade against him
by President Robert Mugabe
over Zanu PF factionalism.
Moyo stepped out to tour
the British American Tobacco
(BAT) plant in Harare in a
scheduled engagement.
Observers had started writing
Moyo off after Mugabe
on Friday took advantage of
former Information minister
Nathan Shamuyarira’s funeral
wake to take a dig at the
shrewd political scientist for
allegedly using State media to
divide the fractious party.
Mugabe called Moyo a devil
incarnate and the following
day at Shamuyarira’s burial
made reference to weevils that
were “eating” Zanu PF from
within.
However, yesterday the former
Tsholotsho North MP was
conducting his duties as a government
official touring cigarette
producer BAT.
Moyo did not speak to journalists
during the tour, leaving
the BAT management to
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SOUTHERN EYE
Power generation down
THURSDAY JUNE 12, 2014
NEWS
Teachers take back seat
HARARE - Power generation
unit Zimbabwe Power Company
sent out 2 150,33GWh of power in
the first four months of the year,
3,56% down production targets,
due to reduced capacity at most
power stations.
In an update, ZPC managing
director Noah Gwariro said generation
was affected by system
disturbances, low availability of
boiler plant at the small thermal
stations, shortage of feed water
at Harare Power Station, as well
as load control at Kariba Power
Station.
“Towards the end of February
this year, we lost Hwange Power
Station as a result of an earth fault
resulting in the loss of station
transformer two,” he said.
Gwariro said a maintenance
team at Hwange had managed
to bring back the station, but the
company was still waiting for the
new transformer to be delivered
so that it could be reinstalled at
the station.
He said generation was likely
to improve as ZPC has established
various strategies in order
to improve plant efficiency at the
stations.
“Some of these strategies include
ensuring that there is adequate
coal supply, as well as
establishing plant performance
monitoring and control methods.
We have also put in place quality
maintenance programmes to ensure
that trips and tube leaks are
reduced,” he said.
Power generation has been
a major problem in Zimbabwe
and economists have cited
this as a major challenge
in efforts to revive industry.
- The Source
Mabena bounces back at NRZ
CHIEF BUSINESS REPORTER
FIFTEEN years after leaving the National
Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) as
general manager, Alvord Mabena was
recalled yesterday to revive the operations
of the struggling rail parastatal.
Mabena was appointed to lead a
seven-member board of NRZ and
would be deputised by retired brigadier
general David Chiweza. Chiweza
was the only board member who survived
from the previous board.
Other members who were appointed
into the NRZ board include
Joseph Mashika, Erick Makarimayi,
Nomathemba Ndlovu, Chrystosoma
Kanjoma and Angeline Karonga.
Mabena said the problems at the
rail parastatals would be resolved
if “we find the right chemistry between
the board, employees and the
government”.
“It won’t be easy. We have to prepare
to take painful decisions to bring
about the desired change. It requires
us to put our helmets on for the business,”
Mabena said.
Transport and Infrastructure Development
minister Obert Mpofu said the
new board was born out of an intense
selection process “throughout the
country which took us three months”.
Mpofu said he expected the board
to develop strategies that minimise
the need for retrenchment and increase
the business at NRZ.
“Let me state outright that reliance
on Treasury for financial support is
not feasible at this point in time in our
economy,” he said. NRZ has a total
staff complement of 8 043 composed
of 140 managerial and the remainder
non-managerial employees.
Mpofu said the board should seek
guidance on all policy issues from the
ministry. He said the ministry should
provide the annual schedule of board
meetings, agenda for its meetings
before the board sits and minutes of
each board meeting as soon as they
are approved by the full board.
Prof Moyo steps out
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explain the purpose of the tour.
BAT managing director Lovemore Manatsa said the
company invited Moyo as a part of its engagement programme
to prove to the government that the firm was
not divesting from Zimbabwe.
“That was the basis of engaging the minister, to ensure
that stakeholders appreciate what we are doing. We
are not divesting anywhere,” he said.
Manatsa added that the company had crafted an indigenisation
model where workers were now shareholders
and would do anything in its capacity to remain
afloat serving the local market.
Zanu PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa
who at the weekend reportedly urged party youths to
use gamatox (poison to kill weevils), yesterday refused
to comment on Moyo’s fate.
He referred questions to Zanu PF spokesperson
Rugare Gumbo who has said the matter was
personal.
Moyo today is expected to give a keynote address
at a Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe
workshop.
Tomorrow he will tour the Chisumbanje Ethanol
Plant in Manicaland.
Mugabe has in the past spoken openly about
his admiration for Moyo who is credited for saving
him from the jaws of defeat in 2008.
Moyo has also been singled out as the brains
behind Zanu PF’s 2008 election campaign that
saw the party pull out a surprise emphatic victory
over the MDC formations.
However, the two have always had an uneasy
relationship with Mugabe dismissing Moyo from
his Cabinet in 2005 in the aftermath of the socalled
Tsholotsho Declaration.
A Zanu PF faction reportedly led by Vice-
President Joice Mujuru is said to be unhappy
about Moyo’s use of the public media to fight the
factional wars.
NQOBILE BHEBHE
CHIEF REPORTER
A MINISTRY of Primary and Secondary
Education official has
revealed that headmasters and
teachers in Matabeleland North
are reluctant to teach life skills,
sexuality, HIV and Aids since it is
not an examinable subject.
Last year, the government
launched what it called a Life
Skills, Sexuality, HIV and Aids
strategy with the aim of ensuring
that the education sector supported
all learners with access to
correct information and life skills
related to sexual and reproductive
health, HIV prevention, care,
treatment and support by the end
of 2015.
However, the subject is not
examinable.
On Tuesday, an education official
who identified herself as Chiname,
told a National Aids Council
Matabeleland North stakeholders’
meeting in Bulawayo
that they were beset with challenges
in motivating headmasters
and teachers to take the subject
seriously.
“We are having challenges in
the province when it comes to
teaching of life skills. Life skills
is not an examinable subject so
teachers and school heads are not
showing keen interest in it,” Chiname
said.
“When you ask them why,
they say they concentrate on examinable
subjects such as Mathematics,
English and Ndebele.
“They fear that they would be
called to give an account of the results
if they are poor.
“Life skills is being sacrificed,
so some students graduate posthumous
because they would have
lacked life skills knowledge.
“We lobbied the ministry in
having life skills examined, but
the ministry said life skills were
being examined on a daily bases,”
Chiname said.
However, despite the “concentration”
on examinable subjects,
the Matabeleland region continues
to post poor pass rates at both
primary and secondary level.
Six schools recorded a 0% pass
rate in the Gwanda district in the
2013 Grade 7 exams.
Permanent secretary in the
ministry, Constance Chigwamba,
could not be reached for
comment.
Chiefs demand
special treatment
STEPHEN CHADENGA
OWN CORRESPONDENT
TRADITIONAL leaders attending
an environmental indaba in Gweru
surprised stakeholders when
they demanded exceptional treatment
in terms of allowances and
hotel bookings.
Chief Ntabeni of Zhombe, who
gave a vote of thanks at the oneday
provincial Environmental
Management Agency (EMA) veld
fire indaba on Tuesday, grabbed
the opportunity to outline the
chiefs’ demands.
He said those who invited chiefs
to meetings should reward them
handsomely and at the same time
book them as respected people.
“I speak on behalf of other
chiefs here present. How can you
(EMA) make double bookings for
us as if we are in hostels? This
is not proper and in future you
should not do that,” Chief Ntabeni
charged.
“Even when you give us allowances,
do so in a manner that
when we go back to our families
they can say yes, the chief was
away on duty,” he said, drawing
whispers and giggles from guests.
Other chiefs who attended the
seminar included Ndanga and
Chirumanzu.
The traditional leaders get State
benefits such as cars, and their
homesteads in rural areas are
electrified.
After Chief Ntabeni’s remarks,
an EMA official announced that he
wanted to have “a small talk with
chiefs” where they were given
fuel coupons while other participants
from Kwekwe, Chirumanzu
and Shurugwi left empty handed.
“I speak on behalf of other chiefs
here present. How can you (EMA)
make double bookings for us as if
we are in hostels? This is not proper
and in future you should not do
that”
Council probes Poly diarrhoea outbreak
NDUDUZO TSHUMA
STAFF REPORTER
THE Bulawayo City Council yesterday dispatched
health department officials to the
Bulawayo Polytechnic College following an
outbreak of diarrhoea at the institution last
weekend after drinking suspected contaminated
tap water. According to students at
the institution, council officials said they had
taken samples of water from the college’s
taps for testing.
“The team was moving from department
to department educating students on preventive
ways to diseases like cholera. They
said they had taken samples of water from
the school for testing at the laboratories,”
a student who attended the meeting said.
Another student said the council team
also advised students to boil water before
drinking.
“They gave us a number of options on
using the water. They said if we wanted to
consume the water, we should boil it first,”
the student said.
“They also said they would, upon agreements
with the school authorities, provide
clean water with bowsers and also provide
tablets to be put in water before drinking.”
Council’s chief public relations officer
Nesisa Mpofu said they were carrying out
tests to assess the situation.
“We are currently ascertaining what really
happened at the Bulawayo Polytechnic.
We have a team from council that is working
with the Matabeleland North provincial
medical directorate,” Mpofu said.
“We have taken water samples and stool
specimen which will be sent to the lab. We
can only have a conclusive report once we
receive the results from the lab.”
Mpofu said the results from the laboratories
were expected tomorrow.

THURSDAY JUNE 12, 2014 3
SOUTHERN EYE
NEWS
The wreckage of
Frederick Wilhelm
Lutzkie’s helicopter
SA tycoon set free
PHILLIP CHIDAVAENZI
STAFF REPORTER
SOUTH African businessman
Frederick Wilhelm August Lutzkie,
who crashed a helicopter
in Gwanda and concealed the
wreckage, yesterday successfully
applied for bail pending
appeal against sentence after
he was jailed for an effective
42 months. Harare magistrate
Douglas Vakayi Chikwekwe
granted Lutzkie $2 000 bail.
He also ordered him to deposit
$25 000 surety with the
clerk of court, surrender his
passport and to report to the
Criminal Investigations Department
(CID) at Braeside, Bulawayo,
twice a week. Should Lutzkie
desire to travel outside the
country, Chikwekwe ruled that
he should seek written authority
from the CID.
Through his lawyer Itayi
Ndudzo, Lutzkie had argued
that he was a good candidate
for bail because he had shown
contrition by pleading guilty
to the charge during his initial
court appearance. Lutzkie also
argued that it was not a criminal
offence for a person to come
into Zimbabwe with large sums
of money, although it was a
criminal offence to externalise a
stipulated amount of money out
of the country. Lutzkie brought
NQOBILE BHEBHE
CHIEF REPORTER
THE Bulawayo City Council audit
committee has exonerated
Mawaba Primary School head
Maureen Dlamini on allegations
of embezzling funds and abuse
of authority.
In 2013, parents petitioned
the Education ministry to investigate
the alleged misappropriation
of funds after accusing
Dlamini of inflating the school
budget.
Disgruntled parents said they
were never informed about the
bank account and sales from
the tuckshop for 2013 stood at
$4 378 and there was no profit.
They alleged the school levy
was raised without consultation.
Parents also claimed that pupils
were being sexually abused
resulting in one learner being
impregnated and another being
sodomised, but authorities concealed
the cases.
Council was forced to carry
out investigations into the
claims.
“Minutes of the PTA (Parents
Teachers’ Association) annual
general meeting held on 22 July
2013 indicate that the standing
committee was dissolved and
elections conducted where new
committee members were chosen
with some of the old members
re-elected. The allegations
against the headmistress
are therefore unfounded,” the
council report read.
Council said the tuckshop
purchases were thoroughly
vouched by audit against sales
for the year and a profit of
$1 345, 05 was realised between
January and December 2013.
“Minutes of the PTA annual
general meeting indicate a proposal
raised by the school authorities
to raise the levy from
$18 as it was no longer enough
to cover other expenses,” the
council report reads.
“The meeting agreed that it
Picture: Zimbabwe Mail
R23 million into the country.
State prosecutor Michael
Reza had, however, opposed the
application on the basis that Lutzkie
was not ignorant of the law
as claimed by the defence. He
said the court was “not dealing
with a tribesman, but an international
businessman, engineer
and pilot”.
“Such a person should not be
heard talking about ignorance of
the law,” he said after the defence
had told the court Lutzkie
was not conversant with the
country’s laws.
He added that Lutzkie had an
ulterior motive when he buried
the airplane’s wreckage and
dismissed his assertions that he
had done so as a safety measure.
“We have EMA (Environmental
Management Agency)
and CAAZ (Civil Aviation Authority
of Zimbabwe), institutions
that are properly qualified
to attend to public safety issues,”
he said.
Lutzkie was jailed last Friday
after he was convicted of
breaching various regulations
of the country’s air space; contravening
the Aviation and Immigration
laws; concealing evidence
of an accident and using
a fraudulent immigration stamp,
among other crimes.
The court heard during trial
that Lutzkie had injected
about $2,3 million in the past
14 months into the Gwanda rural
council at the Doddieburn
Ranch. He was nabbed by police
detectives early last week after
disembarking at Joshua Mqabuko
Nkomo International Airport
in Bulawayo.
The court heard that Lutzkie
came into the country
without any clearance from
the CAAZ evading immigration
authorities.
He flew his Hughes MD500
helicopter registration ZS-RXZ
from a lodge in Doddieburn
Ranch West Nicholson, Gwanda,
without clearance from
CAAZ. While travelling to South
Africa last month his helicopter
developed a mechanical fault
and subsequently crashed 4km
from the lodge. The helicopter
sustained damages due to the
mishap, but Lutzkie escaped
with minor injuries. Lutzkie is
said to have dug a 3,5-meters
deep pit using a TLB excavator
at the scene of the crash before
burying the wreckage to avoid
detection. The matter came to
light after a police tip-off from
an anonymous source to the
police. Further police investigations
revealed the helicopter
wreckage was buried in a pit on
May 20.
Mawaba school head cleared
be increased by $7 to $25.
“This was approved by the
Ministry of Education on 2 September
2013. The allegation that
parents were not consulted is
therefore unfounded.
“After having considered
all the facts and details
of the above matter where
material allegations against
the school were found to be
unfounded, audits conclusion
is that the complainant,
who is an ex-SDA (School Development
Authority) executive
secretary could have had personal
misunderstanding with
the headmistress on the running
of the school affairs during his
tenure or could have been bitter
about his being voted out at an
SDA general meeting held on 22
July 2013 and was therefore trying
to solve matters through the
press.
“It is therefore from this
viewpoint that audit concludes
that the matter be closed.”
Cop in trouble over maize deals
STEPHEN CHADENGA
OWN CORRESPONDENT
A 39-YEAR-OLD Gweru-based senior
cop appeared in court yesterday facing
allegations of converting cattle meant for
food at a police mess to his personal use.
Assistant Inspector Marowa Nyamande,
mess manager at Gweru Main Camp
was tasked with procurement and issuing
of food stuffs. The police also tasked
him with bartering maize for beasts intended
for beef at the police base.
Nyamande, however, allegedly took
part or all grain bags in exchange for livestock
which he converted to his own use.
Nyamande is facing six counts of corruptly
concealing a transaction from a
principal and his trial was deferred to
June 24 after it was reported that his
lawyer was unwell. Allegations are that
sometime in July 2008, Nyamande took
11 50kg bags of maize meal to Lalapanzi
and exchanged seven bags for a beast.
He is alleged to have taken the remaining
four bags to one Flavian Takavangei,
and exchanged them for four goats that
he kept for himself.
On August 5 2008 Nyamande again
took 10 50kg bags of maize to Lalapanzi
and bartered them for a beast which he
again kept for himself.
The State further stated that on three
different occasions in October 2008, he
exchanged eight bags of maize for three
beasts which he allegedly kept.
On December 28 2008 he allegedly
converted 18 50kg bags of maize to his
personal use. The matter came to light
when a whistle blower informed Nyamande’s
superiors.
Doctor to repay council after failing degree
Date: 12 June 2014
Time: 8:30am – 4:30pm
TAX SEMINAR
CHIEF REPORTER
A BULAWAYO City Council medical doctor
who failed to complete a masters’ programme
while being fully paid on study
leave is now expected to refund the council
more than $120 000. According to a
confidential report seen by Southern Eye,
the doctor was granted leave to study for a
Master of Public Health with the University
of Zimbabwe between January 2012 and
December 2013. One of the conditions was
that he should pass his studies and it was
stipulated that failure would result in him
repaying council.
“This is a full time course authorised in
terms of Chapter 12, Clause 21 (9) of the
council’s condition of service (where the
course is initiated by the employer) He had
signed a memorandum of agreement before
he commenced his studies. Clause 3
of the memorandum of agreement states:
“The staff member agrees that should
he fail to obtain the required qualification,
he will refund the council after his return
to duty, the full value of study leave paid
to him. This payment is to be made over a
period not exceeding the original bond period,”
part of the confidential report reads.
According to the report, the doctor
had used 502 of his working days for the
studies. “The financial director’s salaries
section had given a breakdown of the salary
he earned during his studies.
“The total was $123 576,86 divided by
96 months equals $1 287,01. His monthly
deductions would therefore be $1 287,01
per month,” the report reads.
The repayment would be spread over
an eight-year period. The doctor wrote
to council indicating that he could not
write his final examination as he could not
meet the deadline for submitting his dissertation.
He apologised “for letting down
everybody”.
“I would like to inform your office that
I was not allowed to sit for the final examination
of the above programme as
I missed the deadline for submitting of
the dissertation and consequently was
deemed to have failed the same,” the
doctor wrote.
“I faced social problems that required
time, attention and at times money which
left me with difficult choices between
family and studies. The university offered
me a chance to re-do the subject,
but attached to the Matabeleland North
provincial directorate for a period up to
September 2014.
“This coupled with the financial obligations
attendant thereto makes it
difficult for me to take the offer as the
sociofinancial problems are not yet
over.”
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Court bars minister from PG case
RICHARD MUPONDE
SENIOR COURT REPORTER
THE Bulawayo High Court has
barred Labour and Social Welfare
minister Nicholas Goche from
intervening in the retrenchment
saga between PG Industries and
marketing director Nkululeko
Mabhena amid a scandal involving
officials from his ministry.
Mabhena is suing the company
for $73 million in salary arrears
and benefits, but instead of
paying up, PG opted to retrench
him in a fraudulent manner.
The case has also sucked in
the company’s lawyer advocate
Thabani Mpofu and chairperson
of the retrenchment Board Fannuel
Francis Mafuratidze.
Goche was barred from filing
his heads of arguments in
the matter after he failed to
submit them in time, reportedly
because of friction caused
by the manner the matter was
handled.
Judge Justice Martin Makonese
ordered Goche, his subordinates
and PG officials not to
file their papers saying they had
failed to file them on time.
The order by Justice Ma-
Injured Binga
pupils flown
to Harare
SENIOR COURT REPORTER
THREE Binga pupils from Mpambe
Primary School that were admitted
at Binga District Hospital with serious
injuries after jumping off a moving
vehicle, were last week flown away
for medical treatment in Harare.
Five pupils aged between eight
and 11 jumped out of the vehicle and
sustained serious injuries after the
driver, who had given them a lift on
their way from school sports activities,
refused to stop at their drop-off
point.
Two of them were immediately
transferred to Bulawayo and admitted
at Mpilo Central Hospital where
one of them reportedly died last
week. Binga North MP Prince Dubeko
Sibanda confirmed that the three pupils
who were at Binga Hospital were
transferred elsewhere for treatment.
“It’s true the pupils were flown
out of Binga for further treatment. I
am not sure where to, but here in the
country. On the death of the other
pupil I have no information,” Sibanda
said.
The accident happened two
weeks ago. The vehicle they were
travelling in belonged to a Christian
non-governmental organisation
which was established by a prominent
businessman to raise school
fees for disadvantaged and orphaned
children.
Binga Ward 4 councillor Elmon
Mudenda said he was grateful that
the organisation facilitated airlifting
of the pupils for further medical
attention.
“We are very grateful to the organisation
for flying the pupils so
that they could receive better medical
treatment,” he said.
“Their condition was serious, but
we now believe they will recover
soon after receiving specialised
treatment.”
Nicholas Goche
konese was followed by another
one by Justice Nokuthula Moyo
to the same effect.
Justice Makonese and Justice
Moyo’s orders have given Mabhena
the authority to set down
his court application for review
of Goche’s decision to approve
his retrenchment on the unopposed
roll.
The new twist in the case, according
to court papers Mabhena
Sweet melodies . . .
Headman in trouble over stray livestock
SHARON SIBINDI
OWN CORRESPONDENT
HEADMAN Mazwaligwa Moyo of
Bulilima district in Matabeleland
South has been arrested for unlawfully
detaining livestock that
strayed into community fields.
According to sources, the traditional
leader from Masendu was
nabbed by police after villagers
lodged a report concerning livestock
abuse with the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
(SPCA).
According to villagers, the
headman abused livestock which
destroyed his crop fields by keeping
them penned in his kraal for
more than a week.
SPCA regional inspector
Dumisani Sibanda confirmed the
case saying the headman had violated
statutes against protection of
animals.
Contacted for comment, Matabeleland
South provincial police
spokesperson Philisani Ndebele
professed ignorance on the matter
saying he had not yet received
the report. Villagers who spoke to
Southern Eye accused the headman
of abusing his power by
forcing them to pay fines for cattle
that strayed into his field.
“My donkey was caught and
penned in the headman’s kraal
for seven days without food or
water. The matter was reported to
Madlambudzi Police Station and
that’s when my donkey was released,”
a woman charged.
According to the SPCA, the
headman was found with livestock
which had been unlawfully
filed at the High Court, comes
after an application seeking the
arrest of PG Industries group
chief executive officer Hillary
Munyati and the group human
resources executive Caroline
Mapupu, for contempt of court
for supplying false information
to the court.
The pair is accused of submitting
to the court that Zimboard
Products (Pvt) Ltd was not in existence
yet the same company
was in the process of retrenching
Mabhena and active in court.
Mpofu was also sucked into
the matter after he allegedly
admitted to the court that the
company resorted to “creative
compliance” in its submissions
to the Retrenchment Board.
Mabhena said due to the lies,
the Labour and Social Welfare
ministry approved his retrenchment
from a non-existent
company.
This comes on the heels of
a confession by Mafuratidze in
November last year that he exclusively
dealt with Mabhena’s
retrenchment without the minister’s
involvement as required
by the law.
His revelations came after
Mabhena sued the new minister
Goche over his retrenchment
approval. Goche reportedly distanced
himself from the matter.
Mabhena went on to sue
Goche challenging his compulsory
retrenchment arguing they
had not followed proper remuneration
policy rendering it null
and void. The matter is still to be
set down for hearing.
Picture: Benson Dube
Tanya Mhlophe a Grade Three pupil at Convent Primary School in Bulawayo sings during Southern Eye’s charity walk at
Hillside Dams on Saturday
penned for allegedly straying into
his fields.
The headman, sources alleged,
forced owners of the livestock to
pay fines ranging between R30
and R50.
“We are told to pay R50 or R30
in order to get our cattle released.
The headman’s police pick each
and every head of cattle they see
and take it to his kraal,” a villager,
Donald Ndebele, said.
But the headman flatly denied
the accusation saying what he
did was in line with community
policies.
“What they are saying is totally
untrue,” Moyo said.
“Livestock that stray into people’s
fields is driven to the headman’s
kraal and owners pay a fine
of R20 or R30 to the community.”
Ex-guard in
signatures
forgery
scandal
OWN CORRESPONDENT
A FORMER employee of Zvishavane’s
biggest construction
company who recently accused his
war veteran boss of assaulting workers,
is in trouble for allegedly forging
signatures in a petition submitted to
the Labour Court.
Norman Mutuku, who was
employed as a guard at Newbase
Construction, is alleged to have
fraudulently appended six signatures
on the petition in a bid to give
weight to his labour dispute against
his ex-employer.
It was alleged that Mutuku and
an ex-colleague Stancilous Tobaiwa,
were laid off together with other
employees when their contracts
expired, but were not paid all their
outstanding salaries and benefits.
The two are alleged to have
contacted 38 other employees
that had been laid off and duped
them into submitting a paper with
their identification particulars and
signatures saying they had made
arrangements with Newbase to
quickly process their payments.
However, six out of the 38 employees
refused to sign and Mutuku
allegedly forged their signatures and
submitted the list as a supporting
document to the petition he lodged
at the Labour Court in Masvingo.
The Labour Court’s Mercy Mukosera
conducted interviews of the
employees listed on the petition,
but the six declined saying they
were not aware of the matter.
The six approached Newbase’s
human resources head Simon
Hungwe to complain that their signatures
had been forged and action
should be taken.
Hungwe filed a report with the
company’s lawyer Leopold Mudisi
and attached signed affidavits by
the six as proof of fraud and submitted
them to the Labour Court.
When contacted for comment,
Mutuku said he was waiting for the
court outcome over the matter.
“I did not sign the documents,
but these guys simply withdrew the
matter after they were persuaded
by Newton Bhasera (Newbase
owner) hence we await the court
decision,” Mutuku said.
Bhasera said although his company
was facing financial challenges
it was trying by all means to pay
its workers and those laid off their
outstanding dues through proposed
payment plans and Mutuku’s actions
were just aimed at tarnishing
his image.
“This case is enough to table
evidence that Mutuku has been
conniving with people to tarnish
my image in a number of ways,” he
said.
“If he can fraudulently forge a
colleague’s signature what stops
him from blackmailing former employees
who owe him?”
Newbase is the largest construction
company in the Midlands
and has contracts with Mimosa
and Unki mines as well as other
mining companies throughout the
province.
The company employs over 1
500 workers.

THURSDAY JUNE 12, 2014 5
SOUTHERN EYE
NEWS
Nkomo’s statue lights off
Lupane clerk
jailed for fraud
LUYANDUHLOBO MAKWATI
OWN CORRESPONDENT
BULAWAYO residents have expressed disappointment
over the neglect of the late Vice-
President Joshua Nkomo’s statue which has
been plunged into darkness barely eight
months after it was officially unveiled.
The statue, in the middle of the intersection
of Joshua Nkomo Street and 8th Avenue
in the city centre, had good lights when it
was unveiled and was a night attraction, but
now literally resembles a ghost.
Residents accused the city fathers of neglecting
the statue of the revered nationalist.
Mbuso Ndlovu said it showed that the local
authority did not take the city’s history
seriously.
“Our leaders should take us seriously.
As a city we were honoured with the statue
of Umdala Wethu, a revered statesman, but
council is failing to provide lighting and lining
their pockets with hefty salaries,” he
said. Mayor Martin Moyo said he was not
aware that there was no longer light at the
statue.
“I am not aware that the statue of our
late vice-president is in darkness because I
rarely pass through that place in the evening,”
he said.
Moyo said it was an engineering service
problem and the department should do
routine check-ups of the lighting systems
around the city.
“It is an engineering problem. They are
the ones in charge of doing routine work to
check around the city,” he said.
“I will engage them to go and check the
fault with the lighting system on the statue.”
The statue made in North Korea was unveiled
by President Robert Mugabe last year
and has become a magnet for both local and
foreign tourists.
It is one of the many projects meant to
honour the legacy of the veteran nationalist.
Some the projects included the Joshua
Mqabuko International Airport (formerly
Bulawayo Airport) and the Ekusileni Medical
Centre in Bulawayo.
Victoria Falls anti-poaching unit gets $5 000 boost
RICHARD MUPONDE
SENIOR COURT REPORTER
FIVE South African hikers raised $5 000 for the
Victoria Falls Anti-Poaching Unit after completing
a 100km sponsored walk from the resort town to
Msuna near Hwange last week.
Africa Albida Tourism on Tuesday said the five
hikers Leon Varley, Sara Norton, Megan Hacker,
Mike Gunn and Africa Albida Tourism’s photographer
Lesanne Dunlop, set off on a 100km journey
from Victoria Falls to Msuna on June 5 to raise
money and awareness for Victoria Falls Anti-
Poaching Unit.
“Africa Albida Tourism congratulated the participants
for conquering the challenging feat. This
brave team managed to raise over $5 000 for Victoria
Falls Anti-Poaching Unit. Hopefully this will
become an even bigger event next year,” the organisation
said in a statement.
The Victoria Falls Anti-Poaching Unit was established
in 1999 by Charles Brightman, a professional
guide, local safari operator and conservationist
together with the Victoria Falls Safari
Lodge.
It has worked in close co-operation with the
Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority (Zimparks)
and the police to beef up anti-poaching efforts.
They patrol a 50km² area around Victoria Falls
with 18 full time scouts to combat all forms of
poaching.
The anti-poaching unit’s activities are largely
directed at the removal of snares and apprehending
subsistence and commercial poachers, but a
great deal of time is spent educating and reinforcing
the benefits of conserving the area’s natural
resources.
The organisation’s work has been recognised
by the Zimbabwe Council for Tourism and has
been a four-time recipient of the Green Globe 21
Award for Conservation Efforts in Zimbabwe.
Brightman has been personally recognised as
a finalist in the safari awards category for best
personal contribution to wildlife conservation.
Since its inception in 1999, the Victoria Falls
Anti-Poaching Unit in conjunction with Zimparks
has removed over 22 000 snares laid by poachers.
It has also arrested more than 600 poachers in
and around the Victoria Falls National Park.
SILAS NKALA
STAFF REPORTER
FORMER Lupane Local Government
board finance cashier Nobuhle Nyathi
(35), who was charged with 22 counts involving
fraud, theft and forgery, was convicted
on 10 counts and slapped with a
total of 30 months in jail and acquitted on
10 other counts due to lack of evidence.
Nyathi faced 15 counts of fraud, five
counts of theft both from the Kusile Rural
District Council (KRDC) and Lupane Local
board and two counts of violating the
Zimbabwe School Examination Council
(Zimsec) Act.
Nyathi denied all counts when she
appeared before Lupane magistrate
Aelene Munamati, but was convicted on
10 counts after a full trial.
For the 10 counts, Nyathi was sentenced
to 60 months in jail but 10 months
were suspended for five years on condition
of good behaviour. Another 10
months were suspended on condition
that she restitutes the complainants a
total of $773.
Nyathi was first employed as a receptionist
clerk at the KRDC on November
11, 2007 after she applied using a
forged Zimsec ‘O’ Level certificate.
She was later transferred to the
Lupane Local Board as a finance clerk on
the strength of her forged qualifications.
Denying the charges, Nyathi told the
court that she was working with other officials
at the local board and at the KRDC
and she is not the one who defrauded the
institutions.

6 THURSDAY JUNE 12, 2014
EDITORIAL
Southern
Eye
ABOUT THESE MINI BUSES BOUGHT BY RESIDENTS OF COWDRAY
PARK, HAVE THEY BEEN EXEMPTED FROM THE BAN ON KOMBIS?
Mpofu has to
be cautious
THE government’s robust response to the increasing carnage on the
country’s roads is encouraging, but a word of caution has to be sounded
lest the good intentions brew a disaster in future.
Transport minister Obert Mpofu has in the past few weeks proposed
a cocktail of measures to curb the number of road accidents including
increasing the age limit for public service vehicle drivers by 10 years to
35.
Mpofu has also announced plans to phase out urban commuter omnibuses
in line with comprehensive moves to decongest major cities as
well as create a modern and affordable transport system.
He was probably reacting to widespread complaints that commuter
omnibus drivers and touts are not responsible on the roads.
The drivers and touts are notorious for bribing police officers because
most of the times their vehicles are not fit to be on the road.
They are also known not to respect road rules, overloading, operating
from undesignated points and causing chaos on the roads generally.
However, this has not made Mpofu’s proposal to phase out the commuter
omnibuses, popularly known as kombis, acceptable to many
Zimbabweans.
For example, we reported early this week that the Zimbabwe Passengers
Association (ZPA) led by Paul Makiwa feels the phasing out of
the kombis would have a negative impact on the economy.
ZPA argues that Zimbabwe already has adequate laws regulating
public service vehicles, which are not being enforced.
The association cites regulations that for instance say a public vehicle
like a kombi should have a carrying capacity of 16 passengers but
in Zimbabwe it is more common to find them carrying 18 passengers
or more at a given time. Kombis are still a popular form of transport in
neighbouring countries such as South Africa and Botswana.
The same applies to age restriction for public service drivers, it is just
a matter of enforcing the law.
Mpofu’s proposals may be noble, but the government needs thorough
consulations before the radical changes because of their potentially
far reaching consequences on people’s livelihoods and the economy
in general.
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The spousal relationship
GUEST COLUMN
Kilton Moyo
citizenafricafoundation@gmail.com
NOT to over emphasise but, frankly
all life depends on relationships.
It is our duty to be soberly involved
in building sound relationships in
order to enjoy life. In today’s world
if there is a place where relationships
are suffering, it is the family.
When the family is sick, society is
very sick. Family relationships are
what drive societal relationships.
In other words family relationships
are foundational. I want to briefly
talk about the husband/ wife relationship
and its importance in
family and society building. I call
this the spousal relationship.
One reason why a lot of families
are struggling and collapsing is
because of neglecting the spousal
relationship. Many people when
they get married get so preoccupied
with other things and forget
the real relationship in a family.
You are a family because two of
you got married or love each other.
This means that the family is based
on this relationship. Keeping this
relationship, alive and solid is what
keeps the family solid and growing.
Neglecting this relationship
also means the family is struggling
and neglected.
One reason many couples
struggle is that they are too busy
for their relationship. They are too
busy for the thing that connects
them together and expose the relationship
to so much vulnerability.
They do not have time for each
other. They are busy with trying to
survive, work, children, relatives,
bosses, sports, church, ministry,
and sometimes even with helping
others at their own expense.
Very few couples take time
to attend to each other in love.
Whenever they do, it is either giving
instruction or quarrelling. Very
few couples will take themselves
out and leave behind everything
so they can revive themselves and
refocus. Very few tell each other
they love each other.
They come home every evening
too tired to be meaningful to their
own relationship. Others come
home too drunk to participate in
the small details of a spousal relationship.
Before they know it,
things are falling apart.
It is important to attend to your
spouse on a daily basis. It is important
to guard your relationship
and do not allow anything to come
in between. The other challenge
is that many of us still priorities
friends and relatives and our work
ahead of our spouses. This is a recipe
for disaster. You need to understand
what is now priority to you.
Your spouse is your number two
priority. What do I mean?
First priority for any living person
is God. The second priority is
your wife or Husband. Your third
priority is your Family. Your fourth
priority is your job/work. I think
this is a very healthy order.
Let me suggest a few things to
help us pay attention to our spousal
relationship. This will help minimise
chances for divorce.
• Always tell your spouse you
love them. It works in the morning,
noon and night. Love is communicated
all the time. Do not take
for granted they know. It is hard to
know until they are told. The first
time you proposed, you spoke it.
Keep speaking it therefore.
• Always found out if your
spouse is okay. Sms, WhatsApp,
call etc. It is good to ask. It shows
you care. One reason you are
spouses is so that you can care for
each other. Do not assume they are
okay.
• Give each other gifts. Love is
a giver. Do not wait for the birthday
or Anniversary or Christmas.
Gifts should be the order of the
day. This shows you are thinking
of your spouse. After all many of
us men, forget these crucial days.
What gifts sir? Find out what your
spouse likes and make use of that.
It can be a chocolate, a drink, etc.
Communicating love through giving
is inspirational.
• Get time out together without
children or friends. Just be the two
of you and just love each other.
Avoid talking about your debts and
problems, but concentrate on your
relationship. Take a walk, a drive,
hold hands and show great intimacy
and appreciation.
• Be the best friends ever. Keep
no secrets to each other. I mean
share secrets also. This builds trust
and you are always covering each
other’s back. Be a team. Let each
one of you know what the other is
doing
• Learn to forgive each other
and keep no grudge against each
other. Learn to say sorry and move
on.
• Share ideas together. Share
your dreams together and help
each other to accomplish the
dreams. Do things together and
enjoy doing things together.
It is a long walk to learning and
doing some of these simple things
but you can walk it if you want to.
Your spousal relationship is very
foundational. Perhaps you can
stop where you are today and readjust
some things and attend to
your spouse. Let nothing take your
spouse’s place in the order of your
day. Never be too busy for your
spouse.
• Kilton Moyo is a pastor, guidance
and counselling consultant
and author of Responding to Personal
Crisis. Call or WhatsApp on
+263 775 337 207/ 712 384 841.

THURSDAY JUNE 12, 2014
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Obert Mpofu’s decisions ‘unpeople’ as usual
DEAR EDITOR
THE Zimbabwean community on
June 1 woke up to be greeted by
spine-chilling headlines that the
Transport and Infrastructure Development
ministry led by Obert
Mpofu had issued an irrevocable
ban on kombis. The ministry
will not be issuing or renewing
permits for kombi operators. The
catastrophic decision by Mpofu
should not take the transport operators
and the people of Zimbabwe
by surprise as his political
history is marred by a catalogue
of footprints that are treacherous,
unpeople and retrogressive.
It is therefore the purpose of
this article to detail the evil and
treacherous history and nature of
Mpofu and the consequences of
his actions. It is common knowledge
that Mpofu joined Zapu
youth movement in 1966 and became
an occasional messenger
between Zapu comrades in Rhodesia
and Zambia. Mpofu was
proved to be divisive and untrainable
and dismissed from the role
by Zipra commander Alfred Nikita
Mangena. Mpofu then sought the
academic road and studied journalism
in India. When Zimbabwe
attained Independence Mpofu betrayed
Zapu and opportunistically
joined Zanu PF as a matter of survival.
His betrayal should be read
in context that Mpofu joined Zanu
PF at a time when that party was
genocidally, mercilessly killing 20
000 Matabeleland citizens. Mpofu
worked as a manager of Customs
in Harare and his corrupt colours
emerged to the public. Enos Nkala
came to his aid and protected
Mpofu under the wings of Zanu
PF, catapulting him to be Zanu PF
non-constituency MP in 1987 and
1995. As I write, thousands of entrepreneurs
who run small -tomedium
transport business are at
the brink of watching their businesses
collapsing and God knows
what will happen to the thousands
of dependants who feed from their
hands. The green lies that the government
will create a fund to assist
transport owners to buy buses
Obert
Mpofu
should be dismissed as a false
gospel preached by a false angel
to deceive the very elect. Mpofu
knows very well that the Zanu PF
government is cash-strapped and
is failing to meet salaries deadlines.
He knows that Zanu PF party
has failed to secure any funding
for the “unpopular” ZimAsset.
And lastly Mpofu knows very well
that he is the last person to speak
about creating a fund to assist
transport
operators
when
he failed to declare the diamond
proceeds to the Finance ministry
during the Government of
National Unity. The fallacy peddled
by Mpofu that congestion is
caused by kombis is unexpected
from a holder of doctorate degree.
Even a Grade One pupil can tell
you that congestion is caused by
the increased inflow of imported
ex-Japanese cars. The minister
went on further to declare that
the public transport operator’s age
should be 35 years. For God’s sake
can someone educate the minister
that life expectancy in Zimbabwe
is 34 years. So does he want graves
to operate the transport industry?
One wonders the rampant unemployment
that would prevail just
by the decree from the minister.
Is this part of the Zanu PF agenda
to indigenise, empower, develop
and employ? Is this part of the
four million jobs that we were
promised by the ZimAsset?
As a young person and community
activist, I dare ask where
is the Small and Medium Enterprises
(SME) minister Sithembiso
Nyoni when SMES are closed by
Mpofu overnight? I dare ask where
is the Youth minister when young
people are rendered jobless by
Mpofu? The people of Zimbabwe
should be given answers on why
the Zupco project to ferry people
from the suburbs to the city centre
failed. The government must
first account why it has failed to
ban Ipsums that have evidently
become moving coffins? Is it because
the majority of these cars
are owned by the police officers?
At a time when the country
especially the southern region
is gripped by the blood curdling
murders, Mpofu wants to drive
our citizens out of employment
to the underground world of unconventional
means of survival.
He instead of inflating toll fees,
and making life “hell hole” for
Zimbabweans must focus on fixing
potholes, erecting rural road
networks and restoring order
at the crumbling Air Zimbabwe.
Minister, give us a break!
— NDODANA MOYO
BULAWAYO
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Zim soccer needs cleansing
GWERU
MASVINGO
VICTORIA FALLS
DEAR EDITOR
THE soccer-crazy country was left
dumbfounded with no answers, a few
days ago when both the Warriors and
the Mighty Warriors were dumped
out of African safari by Tanzania and
Zambia respectively. The nation was
patiently and eagerly waiting for both
teams to raise the nation’s flag by
qualifying for the Morocco 2015 Africa
Cup of Nations (Afcon) finals and the
2014 African Women Championship
(AWC) to be hosted by Namibia.
Zimbabwe has failed to get anything
in return from both national teams although
their supporters spent time
and money going to the stadia. Both
the Warriors and the Mighty Warriors
have been finding it difficult to qualify
for major tournaments leaving the
soccer crazy supporters choosing to
support other countries whenever
major tournaments are staged.
Soccer fans have been denied
chances to watch their teams competing
with other nations raising a lot
of questions on whether is it necessary
to support our national teams.
Most Zimbabweans have blamed Zifa
as the main culprit which has failed to
organise its house. Of course some
may blame the Cuthbert Dube-led
Zifa as the culprit, but Dube’s influence
cannot be the same with the Zifa
Women’s Football Council, chaired by
Miriam Sibanda who took over from
Marvis Gumbo in March 2014. Blame
put on Zifa cannot be ruled out, but
before doing that many factors must
be taken into account. While this article
is not in defence of Dube, people
should read more on the history of our
Warriors and see whether there is any
need to blame the current Zifa leadership.
Zimbabweans are now used to
seeing such near misses taking place
even at the time when the team was
supposed to win and proceed to the
next round.
The entrance of Zimbabwe into the
international competitions just after
independence did not even bring any
joy to the nation. With good players
like the two brothers Sunday Marimo
and Misheck Marimo, Charles Jones,
Stanley Ndunduma, Oliver Kateya,
Shackman Tauro, Joel Shambo, Moses
Razorman Bambo Chunga and a
host of other good and talented players,
the Warriors failed to take this
nation to any major tournament with
the exception of the Peter Ndlovu-led
Warriors who made us proud in the
2004 and 2006 finals in Tunisia and
Egypt respectively. In both instances,
they failed to get past the first round
hurdle. Since that time, the nation has
reverted to seeing the Warriors failing
at the last hurdle.
Changing national coaches and
even players since then, has not even
done any good to the country. Some
simple remedies for our country to
rid itself of all such misfortunes have
nothing to do with change of coaches
or Zifa leadership. Our teams need
national cleansing for them to take
us to the promised land. It’s time
stakeholders join hands for stadium
cleansing. — MUKACHANA HANYANI

8 THURSDAY JUNE 12, 2014
Southern
Eye
Opinion
Sexual violence in war a great injustice
GUEST COLUMN
DEBORAH BRONNERT
THE use of sexual violence in war is
one of the great injustices of our lifetime.
It is hard to document, let alone
investigate. Perpetrators do not discriminate,
because it’s not about
sex, but violence, terror, power and
control.
When rape is committed during
conflict, it has often been seen as an
inevitable part of war, and so it has
been allowed to go unpunished.
But even war has rules. So just as
the world could agree that land mines
have no place on the battlefield, the
world must agree to end sexual violence
in conflict.
In London between 10-13 June, the
UK Foreign Secretary, William Hague,
and UN Special Envoy, Angelina Jolie,
will co-host the Global Summit to
end sexual violence in cConflict. Representatives
of governments, civil
THE widespread use of rape and other
forms of sexual violence in armed
conflicts around the world is one of
the greatest, most persistent and
most neglected injustices.
Sexual violence in conflict inflicts
unimaginable suffering. It is designed
to destroy individuals, families and
communities. In so doing it perpetuates
conflict and instability, often for
generations. But it is not an inevitable
consequence of war.
We applaud all that the UN, other
multilateral organisations and civil
society have done to halt this human
tragedy. We commit our fullest support
to them. But for too long those
who commit these crimes, and their
superiors who condone them, have
gone unpunished. As an international
community we can — and must — do
more to prevent and respond to these
acts of barbarism.
Under international humanitarian
law there is a long-standing
prohibition of sexual violence in armed
conflict. Sexual violence also represents
one of the most serious forms
of violation or abuse of an individual’s
human rights.
Sexual violence in conflict can significantly
exacerbate situations of
armed conflict and may impede the
restoration of international peace and
security, as reflected in many relevant
UN Security Council resolutions,
including those on Women, Peace
and Security, Children and Armed
Conflict, and Protection of Civilians in
Armed Conflict. We express serious
and ongoing concern with the role
played by illicit weapons in the commission
or facilitation of serious acts
of gender-based violence or serious
acts of violence against women and
children. Preventing and responding
society, the military and the judiciary
will all take part. So too will the public.
Events will also take place around the
world, including in (your country/city).
Representatives of your country will
be asked to commit to concrete action
that will help remove wartime rape
and sexual violence from the world’s
arsenal of cruelty. You can help to ensure
they do so.
It will be a summit like no other,
because sexual violence is a crime
like no other. Women and men are
made to suffer its horrors in conflicts
around the world, and shocking as
it may seem, many victims are very
young girls and boys. Sexual violence
carries a corrosive after-effect that
lasts a lifetime: An unjust and destructive
shame for the victims and their
families.
But we firmly believe that this can
— and must — change.
The appalling truth is that only a
tiny number of perpetrators of these
crimes have ever been brought to
trial, let alone convicted. That is why
at the Summit we will launch the first
International Protocol on the Documentation
and Investigation of Sexual
Violence in Conflict. The protocol will
help investigators preserve information
and evidence in the aftermath
of an attack, improve the chances of
someone being successfully prosecuted
later, and protect victims and
survivors from further trauma.
At the summit (next/this) week, we
want governments to announce their
support for the protocol and to encourage
local activists, lawyers, police
personnel, and doctors to use it. We
also want governments to make sure
that their national laws on rape and
sexual violence are in line with international
standards, so that there’s a
greater chance of securing successful
prosecutions for war crimes in their
own courts.
The summit will also look at the
role that the military can play. When
sexual violence occurs in conflict
zones, soldiers are often the first people
on the scene, but are not always
properly equipped or trained to deal
with this sensitive problem. This needs
to change.
And armies are often responsible
for carrying out these abhorrent acts.
This must stop. Finally, we hope the
governments of the world’s wealthiest
nations will announce new funding
support, including to local grass-roots
organisations which often work
at the heart of the most affected
communities.
But government action alone is not
enough. We need every family and
community to change the culture that
stigmatises survivors and to be united
in their abhorrence for these crimes,
so that any man with a gun will think
twice before ordering or committing
rape. Will you add your voice to the
global call for decisive action?
• You can join the conversation
on Twitter @
end_svc using #TimeToAct
and watch and
share the animation
on YouTube,
“Don’t believe the
thumbnail, this is
the stuff of nightmares”,
which depicts
the horrors of rape and
sexual violence through
the eyes of a child.
It is time to support
survivors, shutter the
culture of impunity and
ensure that justice is
done, both now and
in the future. It is
#TimeToAct.
Deborah
Bronnert is the
British
ambassador
to
Zimbabwe.
Declaration of commitment to
end sexual violence in conflict
to sexual violence is vital to resolving
conflicts, enabling development and
building sustainable peace.
We must address the range of
factors which contribute to sexual
violence in conflict and put in place
a comprehensive operational security
and justice response, in a manner
consistent with applicable international
law.
Sexual violence committed in conflict
must not be viewed as a lesser
crime. The overwhelming majority
of victims never see justice for what
they have endured nor receive the
necessary assistance and support.
We must shatter the culture of impunity
for those who commit these
crimes, by bringing those responsible
to justice – as a critical element of our
prevention efforts.
There should be no safe haven for
the perpetrators. We stress the important
contribution of the ad hoc and
mixed international criminal tribunals,
the International Criminal Court
and chambers in national tribunals to
ending impunity by ensuring accountability
and punishing perpetrators of
sexual violence in conflict.
We recall that rape and other forms
of serious sexual violence in armed
conflict are war crimes and constitute
grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions
and their first Protocol.
Ensuring women’s and girls’ full
human rights and fundamental freedoms
and women’s active, full and
equal political, social and economic
participation, including in all conflict
prevention and resolution, justice and
security sector processes, as well as
in wider development activities, is
critical to ending sexual violence in
conflict. But we must also recognise
that men and boys are victims of this
crime, as are those who are forced to
witness or perpetrate this violence
against their family or community
members.
Our efforts must also serve to shift
the stigma of shame from the victims
of these crimes to those who commit,
command and condone them.
We therefore pledge to do more to
raise awareness of these crimes, to
challenge the impunity that exists and
to hold perpetrators to account, to
provide better support to victims, and
to support both national and international
efforts to build the capacity to
prevent and respond to sexual violence
in conflict. We are determined
to:
• Ensure that sexual violence
prevention and response efforts are
prioritised and adequately funded
from the first phase and throughout all
responses to conflict and humanitarian
emergencies.
• Provide better, more timely and
comprehensive assistance and care,
including health and psychosocial care
that addresses the long-term consequences
of sexual violence in conflict,
to female, male and child victims and
their families, including children born
as the result of sexual violence.
• Ensure that all peace, security
and conflict mediation processes explicitly
recognise the need to prevent,
respond to and reduce crimes of sexual
violence in conflict and stressed
the need to exclude such crimes from
amnesty provisions.
• Promote women’s full participation
in all political, governance and
security structures, as well as all decision-making
processes, including
peace negotiations, peacebuilding,
prevention and accountability efforts,
recognising the important contribution
that National Action Plans on
UN Security Council Resolution 1325
can play in this regard, and ensure
that such processes also take into full
consideration the needs and rights of
women and children.
• Strengthen UN efforts to address
sexual violence in conflict and provide
further support to the Special Representative
of the Secretary-General on
Sexual Violence in Conflict as chair of
UN Action against Sexual Violence in
Conflict.
• Strengthen and support the efforts
of regional organizations to
prevent and respond to sexual violence
in conflict in their peacemaking,
peacekeeping and peacebuilding
initiatives.
• Support conflict-affected states
in strengthening their capacity to prevent
and respond to sexual violence in
conflict and to develop and implement
national security sector and justice
reform programmes that take into full
consideration the needs and rights of
women and children.
• Support the deployment of national
and international expertise at
the request of host governments, the
UN and other international organisations
to build national capacity to
hold perpetrators to account and to
improve the response and support to
victims and their access to justice.
• Ensure our national military and
police doctrine and training is in accordance
with international law so as
to enable a more effective prevention
and response to sexual violence in
conflict.
• Encourage and improve the safe
and ethical collection of data and
evidence relating to acts of sexual
violence committed in conflict, to
inform national and international
responses.
• Encourage, support and protect
the efforts of civil society organizations,
including women’s groups and
human rights defenders, to improve
the monitoring and documentation
of cases of sexual violence in conflict
without fear of reprisal and empower
victims to access justice.
• Support and encourage the
development of the International
Protocol on the documentation and
investigation of sexual violence in
conflict at national, regional and international
levels, with a view to its
conclusion in 2014.
By working together, sharing our
knowledge and our experience, mobilising
resources and committing our
global political will we are determined
to end the use of rape and other
forms of sexual violence as weapons
of war. This crime must not be allowed
to continue any further. Now is
the time to act.

THURSDAY JUNE 12, 2014 9
Southern
Eye
INDICES/HIGHLIGHTS
Business
Gwayi $2b project
to start next month
HARARE — China Africa Sunlight
Energy will next month begin
construction of its Gwayi coal
mine and residential complex
worth $100 million, an official
said on Tuesday, the first phase
of ambitious $2,1 billion energy
projects to be developed over five
years.
The company’s deputy general
manager Charles Mugari on Tuesday
said both the mine and the
residential complex to accommodate
1000 employees would
be completed by early 2016.
“We will commence the civil
works to construct the mine and
residential complex by beginning
of July,” he said.
As part of the first phase of the
project, the company will also
construct a 300 megawatt (MW)
power station although the exact
cost is yet to be determined.
Mugari said the company had
also agreed on an average tariff
with the state’s Zimbabwe Electricity
Distribution Company for
the plant, which had been submitted
to the energy ministry
through Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory
Authority.
“We are now working on specific
charges on energy and capacity
charges, but these do not
Marvo workers continue to sing the blues
Remnants of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam wall in 2006
affect the average charge,” he
said.
The company is still waiting
for environment impact assessment
for the power generation
from the Environment Management
Agency by end of the week.
He said the company had also
entered into an arrangement with
the Zimbabwe National Water Authority
to inject $53 million into
the construction of the Gwayi-
Shangani Dam where it will draw
MTHANDAZO NYONI
OWN CORRESPONDENT
STRUGGLING Bulawayo firm Marvo
Stationery Manufacturers has reduced
the number of working days to two
weeks a month for employees who
have gone for 18 months without pay.
The short-time work is a concept
used by companies in a bid to adapt to
changing economic circumstances.
Marvo Stationery has been struggling
to remain afloat for some time
and a cash injection from the government
and Old Mutual-run Distressed
Industries and Marginalised Areas Fund
(Dimaf) failed to change its fortunes.
According to a letter from National
Employment Council (NEC) in
printing packaging and newspaper industry
to Marvo managing director,
Saul Mashamba, the company was
given permission to implement the
short time week between this month
and August.
“Further to your application to implement
short-time up for a period of
three months, the NEC retrenchment
committee would like to advise you
that your application has been granted
as applied for,” part of the letter reads.
“The NEC retrenchment committee
has considered that you and your employees
agree in principle the need for
such a measure to be implemented at
your establishment.”
However, some workers said they
were not consulted about the new
arrangement. “The management is
its water from.
The second phase of the power
project will focus on methane gas
extraction and another 300MW
plant to be completed in mid-
2017. China Africa is a 50/50 joint
venture between Zimbabwe’s Old
Stone Investments and Shandong
Taishan Sunlight of China, plans
to spend $2,1 billion in the next
five years on power generation,
coal mining and methane bed gas
extraction in Matabeleland north.
forcing us to go on short-time work,
but failing to pay us our monies,” a
disgruntled employee said. “We are
disturbed by this behaviour and we are
surprised by the government failure to
help us.
“We have more than 20 workers
who are over 65 years of age and they
are supposed to retire, but Marvo is refusing
to pay hence they are still there
because they are finding it difficult to
go home empty handed after serving
the company for so many years. Others
have more than 45 years of service
at Marvo.”
The workers appealed to civil society
groups and the government to come to
their rescue.
“Marvo workers are appealing to
Mugari said the projects, which
would be carried out on 100 000
hectares of land would create
4 500 jobs in the next two years
in a country where over 80% of
the adult working population is
unemployed.
The company is also planning
to establish a coking plant
for coal required in processing
of steel as well as build hotels
and business complexes
— The Source
non-governmental organisations and
well-wishers to help them with food
and school fees for their children
because the situation is very bad,” another
employee said.
“Some are failing to pay rent while
others are living with relatives. Some of
us have separated with our wives and
children because of poverty.”
Mashamba refused to comment
about the latest developments saying
he did not find the introduction of
short-time work newsworthy.
Last month about 50 workers
stormed the Marvo management offices
demanding their salaries.
The workers also wanted clarification
on what happened to the Dimaf loan
given to Marvo in 2012.
Striking
workers
could be
fired
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s
Mineral Resources minister
Ngoako Ramatlhodi has
warned the country may suffer
job losses due to the protracted
strike called by the Association
of Mineworkers and Construction
Union (Amcu) in the platinum
mining sector.
Briefing the media on Tuesday
on his withdrawal from
strike talks, the minister suggested
changes to the current
labour legislation to provide a
mechanism to break a deadlock
once a strike dragged on for too
long.
Hopes for a quick end to
the platinum sector strike have
been dashed after the last meeting
facilitated by the minister to
end the five-month-long strike
ended Monday, with parties
failing to reach an agreement.
Ramatlhodi said amendment
of the Labour Relations Act of
1995 would assist in ensuring
that South Africa had a legal
remedy of how to proceed once
there was a protracted strike.
“It will provide a remedy for
the two parties,” he said.
The economic ramifications
of the strike are far reaching.
Gross domestic product
(GDP) figures for the first quarter
showed that the country recorded
a negative reading and
the second quarter does not
hold much hope.
This is the last month of the
quarter and variables that saw
the GDP figures plunge have not
changed.
The Cabinet said it will continue
to monitor the strike on
the Rustenburg platinum belt
and to offer advice on how to
end it.
Ramatlhodi set up an intergovernmental
technical task
team two weeks ago to intervene
in talks between Amcu and
platinum mining companies.
Amcu members downed tools
on January 23 to demand a basic
monthly salary of R12 500.
— SABC

10 THURSDAY JUNE 12, 2014
Talking
Social Security
National pension scheme is
not a safety net programme
THERE is a common misconception
that social security pension
schemes such as the national
pension scheme operated by the
National Social Security Authority
(NSSA) are or should be safety
nets for the poor and vulnerable.
At the recent Zimbabwe Association
of Pension Funds congress
one of the participants in a panel
discussion argued that the national
pension scheme was a safety
net and contribution and benefit
levels should remain low to reflect
this safety net status.
This followed a presentation
in which examples were given of
national pension schemes in East
Africa where replacement rates
were, it was said, as low as two
percent. The replacement rate is
the percentage of a person’s insurable
earnings that a retirement
pension replaces.
The presenter suggested that
the role of national schemes such
as the NSSA pension scheme
should be circumscribed because
they offered little benefit to their
members.
Zimbabwe’s national pension
scheme is not and was never
meant to be a safety net for those
without other means of support
in their old age. It is a contributory
pension scheme with defined
retirement benefits that depend
primarily on an individual’s contribution
period and insurable
earnings at retirement.
Safety nets are defined as
non-contributory transfer programmes
seeking to prevent the
poor or those vulnerable to shocks
and poverty from falling below a
certain poverty level.
Such safety net programmes
may be provided by the State and
aid donors or by non-governmental
organisations, private firms,
charities and informal household
transfers of funds or assistance.
Safety net transfers may consist
of cash transfers, food-based
programmes such as supplementary
feeding programmes
and food stamps or vouchers or
coupons; in-kind transfers such
as school supplies and uniforms;
conditional cash transfers; price
subsidies for food, electricity or
public transport; public works or
fee waivers and exemptions for
healthcare, schooling and utilities.
It should be clear from this
that the national pension scheme
(NPS) is not a safety net programme.
It is a social insurance
scheme, members of which have
a right to defined benefits on the
basis of their contributions to the
scheme.
A defined benefit pension plan
is one in which an employee is
entitled to a specified monthly
benefit on retirement that is predetermined
by a formula based
on the employee’s earnings history,
tenure of service and age. In
the case of the NPS the formula is
based on the employee’s contribution
period and insurable earnings
at retirement.
Not only is the NPS not a safety
net to prevent the poor and those
vulnerable to shocks and poverty
from falling below a certain poverty
line but it currently excludes,
in addition to the unemployed,
those employed in the informal
sector, gardeners and domestic
employees.
Safety net programmes in Zimbabwe
are the responsibility of the
Public Service, Labour and Social
Welfare ministry, which runs
such programmes through its Social
Welfare Department.
The insurable earnings replacement
rate of NPS pensions
depends on the number of years
that an employee has contributed
to the pension scheme.
The minimum replacement
rate is 13,3% for a person who
has contributed to the scheme for
10 years, which is the minimum
contribution period for a pension.
After 20 years of contributions
the replacement rate is 26,7%. After
25 years it is 33,33%. After 30
years it is 40%. It is 51,7% after 35
years, 63,3% after 40 years, 75%
after 45 years and 79,7% after 47
years.
The replacement rates for
someone who has contributed
to the scheme for all his or her
working life are comparable with
replacement rates in countries
where national pension schemes
were established many decades
ago.
Of course there is nobody yet
who can enjoy the replacement
rates that come after 40 or even
30 years of contributions, because
the pension scheme is not yet 20
years old. It will be 20 years old in
October.
A further limiting factor is the
imposition of an insurable earnings
ceiling. The replacement rate
is a percentage of an individual’s
insurable earnings at retirement.
The insurable earnings are the
earnings on which one’s pension
contribution is based.
The amount of an individual’s
pension depends primarily on the
insurable earnings at retirement
and the number of years one has
contributed to the scheme for.
In 2009, when there was no
insurable earnings limit, the insurable
earnings of those who retired
then were equivalent to their
actual basic earnings, since those
were the earnings on which their
contribution had been based.
Some of those who retired then
on good salaries are receiving
monthly pensions of more than
$500.
However, in May 2010 the government
reimposed an insurable
earnings limit of $200 per month.
This limit was raised to $700 in
June last year.
Had the $200 ceiling still been
in place, then the pension that
would have been paid to a person
earning above $200 who retired
today after contributing to the
scheme since its inception would
be $52.
However, with the new ceiling
of $700 such a member would
take home a pension of $185, if he
or she earned above $700.
Pensioners often complain that
workers who retired after them
are receiving better pensions than
them. This is because of the new
ceiling on insurable earnings and
because the person has contributed
for longer. The longer the contribution
period and the higher
the insurable earnings, the higher
the pension will be.
In the developed world most
national pension schemes are administered
by the state. They are
the primary pillar of social protection
in old age. The NSSA scheme
is intended to be the same.
It is not designed to pay minimal
pensions as a safety net. It is
meant to pay a living pension to
contributors.
Once people start retiring after
contributing for 35 or 40 years,
they should receive significant
pensions, particularly if the insurable
earnings limit has by then
been increased significantly or
abolished.
• Talking Social Security is
published weekly by the National
Social Security Authority
as a public service. There is also
a weekly radio programme on
social security, PaMheponeNS-
SA/Emoyeni leNSSA, at 6:50pm
every Thursday on Radio Zimbabwe
and Friday on National
FM.
There is another social security
programme on Star FM on
Wednesdays at 5:30pm. Readers
can e-mail issues they would
like dealt with in this column to
mail@mhpr.co.zw or text them
to 0772 307 913. Those with individual
queries should contact
their local NSSA office or telephone
NSSA on (04) 706523/5,
706545/9, or 799030/1.
PARIS — Stocks slipped from near recent
highs yesterday while the euro
retreated towards a four-month low in
the wake of upbeat United States economic
data and the European Central
Bank (ECB)’s monetary easing.
Profit warnings from Germany’s Lufthansa
and France’s Vallourec dented
investors’ appetite for equities following a
sharp rally, with the FTSEurofirst 300 index
of top European shares losing 0,3%.
“Markets have risen a lot lately, so there’s
very little room for disappointment,” Alexandre
Baradez, chief market analyst at
IG France, said.
“The new ECB measures are positive,
but it’s going to take a while before
we see any impact on the real economy.
Stocks seem to have gotten ahead of
themselves and are ripe for a correction.”
The euro slipped across the board,
with the dollar’s yield advantage over the
single currency widening.
It fell 0,1% to $1,3536, nearing a fourmonth
low of $1,3503 set last Thursday
shortly after the ECB cut interest rates to
record lows and took its deposit rate into
negative territory for the first time.
The euro has also been under pressure
against the dollar following last week’s
US monthly jobs data which showed US
Global markets-stocks retreat from peaks
employers maintained a solid pace of
hiring in May. The single currency also
hit a seven-month trough on the higheryielding
Australian dollar and to near its
lowest against the pound since late 2007.
Investors looked to borrow euros at
super-low rates and buy higher-yielding
assets abroad, the so-called carry trade.
“The chase for yield looks like it has
further to run,” Shane Oliver, head of investment
strategy at AMP Capital, said.
“The ECB’s actions provide a reminder
global monetary conditions remain very
easy, which is supportive of relatively
high yield assets and growth assets
generally.” On the fixed income front,
yields on the eurozone’s lower rated
bonds rose, as upcoming debt auctions
prompted investors to book profits after
a fall to record lows triggered by the ECB’s
measures. Spanish and Italian yields were
three basis points higher at 2,66% and
2,82%, respectively. Portuguese yields
rose two bps to 3,39% before Lisbon’s
first debt auction since the end of its
bailout programme in May. Portugal will
offer up to €750 million in 10-year bonds,
while Italy plans to sell up to €8,5 billion
of three, seven and 30-year bonds last
Thursday. German Bund futures were 34
ticks lower, at 144,89.
Asian stocks dipped from recent
peaks, while Japan’s Nikkei bucked the
trend, gaining 0,5% after MSCI’s decision
to remove South Korea and Taiwan
indexes from its review list for reclassification
to developed markets, keeping
them in the emerging markets classification.
There had been speculation Tokyo
equities would take the brunt of rebalancing
if Korean and Taiwanese shares
were reclassified to developed markets.
Brent futures added 24 cents to $109,76
a barrel, lifted by expectations that a
drop in US gasoline stockpiles pointed to
a healthy outlook for demand.
The market was also watching the unfolding
crisis in Iraq, where an al-Qaeda
splinter group seized control of the city
of Mosul. The United States said it would
support a strong, coordinated response
to the aggression, while Oil minister
Abdul Kareem Luaibi aimed to assure
markets that any state of emergency
would not impact oil exports.
Gold added $1.01, to $1 261,50 an
ounce, off a four-month low of $1 240,61
hit last week, while zinc in London and
Shanghai hit the highest in around 15
months as improving demand met tight
supply, and copper premiums fell further
in China as traders faced tougher financing
conditions in the wake of a fraud
investigation. — Reuters

THURSDAY JUNE 12, 2014
Southern
Eye
World view
11
Thai army delegation visits China
amid Western reproach of coup
Parents wait behind police tape for students from Reynolds High School
to arrive by bus in Troutdale, Oregon, US
One student,
gunman dead
BANGKOK - A delegation of Thai military
commanders travelled to China
yesterday for talks on regional security
and joint training exercises amid
Western unease over the Thai army’s
seizure of power in a coup last month.
General Surasak Kanjanarat, deputy
permanent secretary for defence,
said the meeting was aimed at mapping
out “future plans of action” with
the Chinese army, one of its oldest
regional allies. He did not elaborate
on the plans.
The bid by Thailand’s military rulers
to strengthen ties with China
comes after Western powers, including
old ally the United States, criticised
the May 22 coup. The junta has
said it has China’s support.
“This meeting will be to talk about
ties . . . and future plans of action and
exchange views on regional security,”
Surasak, the head of the delegation,
told reporters.
“We will discuss in which areas
we could increase military training.
We will not talk about the situation in
Thailand because it is not relevant.”
Surasak was due to meet the
deputy chief-of-staff of the China’s
army, lieutenant-general Wang
Guanzhong.
The coup was the latest convulsion
in a decade-long conflict between
the Bangkok-based royalist
establishment and former Prime
Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his
allies.
The ousted government had been
headed by the self-exiled, former
telecommunications tycoon’s sister,
Yingluck Shinawatra.
Several foreign government have
voiced disapproval of the coup, including
the US, which scrapped joint
military programmes days after the
generals took power.
In contrast, Thailand’s armed
forces chief met China’s and Vietnam’s
ambassadors in Bangkok last
week in what the junta said was a
show of support.
On Monday, in the first major corporate
deal since the coup, Stateowned
China Mobile Ltd agreed to
buy a 19% stake in Thai telecoms
group True Corp for $881 million.
The Thai regime’s engagement
with China comes at a critical time
for the US, which is shoring up ties
with Asian allies and building stronger
relationships with countries like Vietnam
and Myanmar to counter China’s
growing assertiveness.
Perhaps with that over-arching
strategy in mind, the US response to
Thailand’s coup has, for now anyway,
been limited to the suspension of
about $3,5 million in military aid and
the cancellation of various training
exercises and visits by commanders.
For a decade Thailand has been
caught up in a political tug of war
between supporters of Thaksin in
the north and north-east and middle-class
Bangkok residents aligned
with the royalist establishment.
- Reuters
after Oregon
high school
shooting
TROUTDALE - A gunman
walked into an Oregon high
school gym with a rifle and shot
a student to death on Tuesday
before he was found dead in a
bathroom stall, in the third outbreak
of gun violence to shake
a United States high school or
college campus in less than
three weeks.
Reynolds High School in the
middle-class Portland suburb
of Troutdale was immediately
locked down, then evacuated
room by room, as law enforcement
officials converged on
the campus of 2 800 students,
which had been set for its last
day of classes yesterday before
the summer break.
“A gunman entered the high
school this morning, shot one
student. Unfortunately, that
student has died,” Troutdale
Police Chief Scott Anderson
told a news conference. “The
gunman was located and the
gunman is also deceased.”
Authorities identified the
victim as 14-year-old high
school freshman Emilio
Hoffman.
Gym teacher and track
coach Todd Rispler was grazed
by a bullet, but made his way
to the school’s office to initiate
the lockdown, possibly saving
lives, Anderson said.
Authorities have not publicly
named the gunman nor
said how he died, but USA Today
cited a police spokesman as
saying the shooter was a teenager
who shot himself to death
in a bathroom stall following
the attack.
The violence in northern
Oregon was the latest in a string
of fatal shootings in US public
places since May, including
one at a Christian college in
neighbouring Washington state
last week in which one student
died.
President Barack Obama
expressed deep frustration
on Tuesday at the inability
of Washington lawmakers to
tighten gun control measures in
the wake of US shootings.
“The country has to do some
soul searching about this. This
is becoming the norm and we
take it for granted in ways that,
as a parent, are terrifying to
me,” Obama said in reply to a
question at a White House online
event. - Reuters
Families fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Mosul wait at a roadblock in outskirts of Arbil, in Iraq’s Kurdistan region
Mosul falls to militants, Iraqi
forces flee northern city
MOSUL - An al-Qaeda splinter
group seized control of the Iraqi
city of Mosul on Tuesday, putting
security forces to flight in
a spectacular show of strength
against the Shi’ite-led Baghdad
government.
The capture of the northern city
of two million by the Islamic State
of Iraq and the Levant - Sunni
Muslims waging sectarian war
on both sides of the Iraqi-Syrian
frontier - complements ISIL’s grip
on key western towns and followed
four days of heavy fighting
in Mosul and the border province
of Nineveh around it.
The United States, which pulled
out its troops two and a half years
ago, pledged to help Iraqi leaders
“push back against this aggression”
as the government of Prime
Minister Nuri al-Maliki asked
parliament to declare a state of
emergency that would give him
extraordinary powers to tackle the
crisis. But the battle, for the time
being, seemed to be over. Some
police were discarding uniforms
and weapons and fleeing a city
where the black flag of ISIL now
flew over government buildings.
“We have lost Mosul this
morning,” said a colonel at a local
military command centre. “Army
and police forces left their positions
and ISIL terrorists are in full
control. It’s a total collapse of the
security forces.”
A Reuters reporter saw the
bodies of soldiers and policemen,
some of them mutilated, littering
the streets.
“We can’t beat them. We
can’t,” one officer said. “They are
well trained in street fighting and
we’re not. We need a whole army
to drive them out of Mosul.
“They’re like ghosts: they appear,
strike and disappear in
seconds.”
The fall of Mosul, a largely
Sunni Arab city after years of ethnic
and sectarian fighting, deals a
serious blow to Baghdad’s efforts
to fight Sunni militants who have
regained ground and momentum
in Iraq over the past year, taking
Falluja and parts of Ramadi in the
desert west of Baghdad at the start
of the year.
Control there, in Anbar province,
as well as around Mosul in
the north, would help ISIL and
its allies consolidate control along
the barely populated frontier with
Syria, where they are fighting
President Bashar al-Assad, an ally
of Shi’ite Iran. - Reuters

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SOUTHERN EYE 10n10
SOUTHERN EYE 10n10
1 2 3 4 5
Jonathan faces
'storm' over new
Muslim leader
Bloc threatens South
Sudan’s feuding
sides with sanctions
PM warns of Islamist
threat within
Tuareg rebels
SPLM downplays
defection of MPs
to rebellion
Govt remains
pro-abortion:
Dlamini
NIGERIA ETHIOPIA MALI
SOUTH SUDAN
SOUTH AFRICA
LAGOS — Nigeria’s ruling party
has been given another headache
in the run-up to next year’s general
election, with the appointment
of the former central bank governor
to an influential religious post.
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was
named Emir of Kano on Sunday,
making him the second mostpowerful
Islamic leader in the
country and giving him immediate
influence across the Muslimmajority
north.
But with Sanusi’s background
and the allegiances of the Kano
state governor who approved his
appointment, domestic politics
and jockeying for position before
next year’s vote have been
suspected.
Dapo Thomas, a political scientist
at Lagos State University,
said Sanusi, as a grandson of a former
emir and member of a ruling
house in the northern state, had all
the right credentials to win.
Kano state governor Rabiu
Kwankwaso was also within his
rights to approve the recommendation
of four royal “kingmakers”.
— News24
ADDIS ABABA — East African
states threatened on Tuesday to
slap South Sudan’s warring sides
with sanctions unless they cease
all military operations in a conflict
which has sparked fears that it
could spiral into genocide.
South Sudan’s government
and rebels, locked in heavy fighting
since mid-December, signed a
second ceasefire agreement in May
after a previous deal failed to hold.
But government forces backing
President Salva Kiir and soldiers
loyal to his sacked deputy
Riek Machar violated the ceasefire
hours after it took effect, with the
continued bloodshed compounding
the worsening humanitarian
crisis in the world’s youngest
country.
Fighting has already killed
thousands of people and driven
more than 1,3 million from their
homes.
The United Nations has warned
that four million people could be
on the brink of starvation by the
end of the year because violence
had disrupted the planting season.
— Reuters
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir attends an urgent session for the Summit of
the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development on South Sudan in Ethiopia’s
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BAMAKO — The international
community is underestimating
the threat posed by Islamist fighters
sheltering in areas of Mali’s far
north controlled by Tuareg separatist
rebels, Prime Minister Moussa
Mara said.
When Mara travelled to the
Tuareg stronghold of Kidal last
month, clashes broke out between
rebel groups there and troops.
Mali’s army launched an operation
to seize Kidal, but was defeated
by the rebels, who seized more
towns. The fighting threatened to
wreck fragile peace negotiations
and plunge the country back into
war. Mara said in an interview on
Monday that the armed groups who
seized Kidal last month had jihadist
elements within them which posed
a threat to the peace of the region.
“The international community
is not giving the importance needed
to the jihadist threat in Kidal,”
Mara said in his office overlooking
the Niger river in the dusty capital,
Bamako. “At the moment, there
are jihadists in Kidal. They arrived
even before I got there.”
Mali was thrown into chaos in
2012 after a Tuareg uprising was
hijacked by better-armed Islamist
groups linked to al-Qaeda’s north
African wing. Taking advantage of
a coup in the capital, they seized
control of Mali’s vast desert north.
France, saying the enclave
posed a threat to western security,
led a military intervention last year
that scattered the Islamists. Armed
Tuareg separatists were allowed to
retain control of Kidal, irking President
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.
The separatist movements demand
greater autonomy for north
Mali, which they term Azawad.
The three main groups — the National
Movement for the Liberation
of Azawad, the Arab Movement of
Azawad and the High Council for
the Unity of Azawad — have denied
having links with Islamists.
— Reuters
JUBA — South Sudan’s ruling party
(SPLM) said on Tuesday that lawmakers
who recently defected to
the country’s rebel movement
only represented 1% of its members
in the national Parliament.
A total of 18 MPs, mainly from
Upper Nile, Jonglei and Unity
states, declared joining armed opposition
in Kenya, last week.
Anne Itto, the SPLM acting secretary
general, said the 18 MPs
who joined rebels led by former
vice-president, Riek Machar were
looking for “greener pastures”
ahead of the proposed interim
government.
“You can count on your 10 fingers
how many (MPs) have gone.
The population is here and they are
supporting peace. They are supporting
(the) SPLM. They are supporting
the elected president and
we are together looking to take this
country out of its current predicament
to peace”, Itto told reporters
in Juba Tuesday.
“There are 300 plus (SPLM
members) and defection of 18 of
them is insignificant,” she added.
— Sudan Tribune
JOHANNESBURG — The ANC government
will remain pro-abortion
to enable women to make their
own choices, Social Development
minister Bathabile Dlamini said on
Tuesday.
“Where abortion is permitted
on broad legal grounds, it is generally
safe and where it is highly
restricted, it is typically unsafe,”
Dlamini said in a statement. She
was addressing delegates in Boksburg
at an Ipas conference on 20
years of advancing access to safe
abortions in South Africa.
Ipas is a global non-profit organisation
that works around the
world to eliminate deaths and injuries
from unsafe abortion and
increase women’s ability to exercise
their sexual and reproductive
rights. Dlamini said there was
insufficient evidence to support
claims that “repeat abortions”
were a large-scale problem. “In
South Africa, we have reduced
mortality and injuries related to
unsafe abortion, but we have some
serious issues that we need to address
in relation to abortion,” she
added. — Mail&Guardian
Acting SPLM secretary-general Anne Itto speaks to the press in her office in the
South Sudan capital, Juba
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6 7 8 9 10
Suspected
militants kidnap
up to 30 women
Prayers,
precautions amid
Ebola threat
Police officer
shot after leaving
work
El-Sissi orders
crackdown on
sexual harrassment
‘Durban
police paid me
for sex’
NIGERIA
GUINEA
SOUTH AFRICA
EGYPT
SOUTH AFRICA
ABUJA — Suspected Islamist Boko
Haram militants have kidnapped
up to 30 women from nomadic
settlements in Nigeria’s northeast,
close to where the group
abducted more than 200 schoolgirls,
residents and Nigerian media
said.
Villagers from Chibok, where
the schoolgirls were grabbed in
April, said on Tuesday they had
met nomads fleeing last week’s
raids and saying the kidnappers
were demanding cattle in exchange
for the women.
“One of them named Mohammed
told me Boko Haram held the
men at gunpoint and moved from
hut to hut taking the women,”
Yahaya Musa said. “The abductors
told them to bring a ransom of
cows,” farmer Yakub Chibok said.
Police and army spokesmen
said they could not confirm the
accounts that women were taken
last Thursday in areas outside
Chibok.
Th e Daily Trust newspaper,
citing unnamed officials, said the
nomadic settlements hit included
Bakin Kogi, Garkin Fulani and Rigar
Hardo.
Reports that kidnapping has
continued, in the face of an army
offensive and an international
outcry over the girls, will increase
political pressure on a government
struggling to contain the
fighters.
President Goodluck Jonathan
has accepted military and intelligence
help from Washington and
other powers to help find the girls.
But the militants have only upped
their attacks.
Nigeria’s government and
army say they are doing all they
can to free the schoolgirls, and
know where they are being held.
They have ruled out exchanging
them for militant prisoners
and say any bid to force their release
could lead to a bloodbath.
— Reuters
CONAKRY — One preacher advocated
fasting and prayer to spare
people from a virus that usually
leads to a horrible death. Some
people pray that the Ebola outbreaks,
which are hitting three
countries in West Africa, stay
away from their home areas. Others
seem unruffled and say it will
blow over.
But more than a month after
Guinea President Alpha Condé
told reporters the Ebola outbreak
that originated in his country was
under control, the death toll continues
to climb in his country as
well as in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
At least 231 people have died
since the outbreak of the fearsome
disease, which causes bleeding
internally and externally and for
which there is no known cure.
Guinea has recorded just over 200
deaths, along with about a dozen
each in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
The head of a non-governmental
health organisation in Sierra
Leone said on local radio on Tuesday
that the death toll is double the
number officially reported in that
country.
Charles Mambu, chairman of
Health for All Coalition, also called
on the government to declare a
public health emergency. — IOL
CAPE TOWN — A police officer is
recovering in hospital after being
shot near his home following
the night shift at Lentegeur police
station.
The incident happened in
Khayelitsha at 6:10am on Tuesday.
Police spokesman Captain FC
van Wyk confirmed that the officer
was stationed at Lentegeur
police station.
“The motive for the incident is
unknown and no one has been arrested
as yet. The circumstances
are under investigation,” Van Wyk
said. An attempted murder case
has been opened.
A source said the officer was
shot “multiple times” and that the
hospital where he was operated
on had brought in extra security to
protect him.
He was in the intensive care
unit, with gunshot wounds to his
upper body, the source said.
The source said it was alleged
that the officer had been shot by
someone known to him. Police declined
to comment on these allegations.
Tuesday’s shooting comes
close on the heels of an incident in
Klapmuts on April 16 when Warrant
Officer Steven Britz (44) was
shot dead in the police station’s
charge office. — IOL
Doctors Without Borders, healthcare workers from MSF prepare isolation and
treatment areas for their Ebola patients in Gueckedou, Guinea
CAIRO — Abdel Fattah El-Sissi,
Egypt’s new president, on Tuesday
ordered the Interior ministry
to take all necessary measures
to combat sexual harassment of
women following a series of attacks
around his swearing-in.
At least nine women were sexually
assaulted by mobs in Cairo’s
Tahrir Square between June 3 and
8, during celebrations of el-Sissi’s
electoral win and his inauguration,
drawing widespread criticism
from human-rights groups for the
state’s failure to curb a growing
problem.
El-Sissi has ordered the rapid
implementation of a new law to
combat sexual harassment, according
to a presidential spokesperson,
which could see offenders
sentenced to prison terms between
six months and five years.
A video circulated on social
media showed one of the victims
on the evening of June 8 in a
méleé of men with fireworks and
vuvuzela horns sounding in the
background.
A single white-uniformed police
officer runs to the scene and
there is a close-up of the woman
naked, bloodied and bruised.
The police officer drags her
away to a nearby vehicle, still naked,
as men crowd around her.
A statement issued on Tuesday
by the non-governmental organisation
Nazra for Feminist Studies
and signed by a further 25 rights
groups condemned the State’s
lack of a comprehensive strategy
to deal with the hundreds of cases
of sexual harassment, mob sexual
assaults and rape that they have
documented since 2011.
“The undersigned have followed
the latest changes to the
criminal law related to sexual
violence and we confirm that the
changes are not enough to hold the
perpetrators of these crimes accountable,”
the statement reads.
— The National
DURBAN — A schoolgirl prostitute
told the Durban Regional Court on
Tuesday that two police officers
were among her clients at the time
she sold herself to pay for drugs.
One paid her R50 for oral sex in
a police van and an additional R50
to keep quiet about it. She had sex
with the other at a Durban railway
station.
She was giving evidence in
the trial of Dr Genchen Rugnath,
his wife Ravina, and Sandile Patrick
Zweni, Nonduzo Dlamini and
Bhabha Dubazini.
They have all pleaded not guilty
to 156 charges, including assault,
rape, sexual exploitation of a child
and racketeering.
Girls as young as 12 allegedly
worked as prostitutes at a Durban
hotel.
The girl, now 19, said the police
officer took her to Durban’s Blue
Lagoon area some time in 2010.
Asked by Rugnath’s lawyer Arnand
Nepaul during cross-examination
about why she got R100,
she said: “This (extra) R50 was for
me not to tell that I have been doing
this with the police officer.”
The officer allegedly refused to
let her go because “he wanted
Sandile’s money . . . he knew that
Sandile was paying”.
In previous testimony, the girl
told the court that Zweni bribed
police twice to release her and
other girls prostituting themselves.
She denied that she had
been arrested because the officer
kept her in the front of the van
while looking for Zweni.
Nepaul asked her about a statement
she made to police in which
she claimed she solicited sex from
a police officer at Durban’s Berea
Road railway station.
When queried about the officer,
she said she only remembered
his name as Ngumisa.
“He was working at Durban
central (police station),” she said.
— IOL
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Lifestyle
Byo hip-hop artistes in war of words
Shongwe, Tholakele
gospel show cancelled
NONHLANHLA SIBANDA
OWN CORRESPONDENT
THE much-hyped Bulawayo
Family Gospel show featuring
South African artistes Elias
Shongwe and Tholakele has been
cancelled due to poor response
from churches and low ticket
sales, organisers said yesterday.
Xmo Promotions, announced
the cancellation of the show in a
public notice yesterday.
The show had been set for
Zimbabwe
International
Trade Fair, Hall 3.
Sylvester Machingura,
speaking on behalf of the
promoter, said: “Our target
was the churches and the
response that we have been
getting from them is poor.
“This would not
have been just a
show, but an
opportunity
to preach the
gospel of God
to gospel lovers
and fellow
churches
to
worship
together
at this
life
transforming
occasion.
“Flocks are led by pastors
and I believe if pastors
had encouraged people to
come, we would have sold
out the tickets. We are yet
to go around churches and
SINDISO DUBE
OWN CORRESPONDENT
UPCOMING local rapper Kabelo
Matiwaza, popularly known as K
Brizzy, has left tongues wagging
after his latest controversial song
cast aspersions on the works of
local hip-hop group Kasi Lami
Art Platform (Klap).
K Brizzy, who is presently
based in Namibia where he is furthering
his studies, takes a dig at
Klap on his track in which he refers
to himself as the best rapper
in Bulawayo.
“The main reason I did that
track is because of a little too
much mouthing off by members
of Klap who claim to be the best,
apparently they are in charge of
It’s Bigger Than Hip-hop show
which is supposed to carter for
every rapper, but they were turning
it into an event mostly about
them, and many artistes are upset
by this,” he said.
“When the phrase ‘We are the
best’, gets, thrown around too
much, the people who are really
the best get upset and without a
doubt I am the best in the city.”
On the song K Brizzy chants: “I
am better than you, I don’t compete
with you talentless gonorrhoea
boys who confused a musical
interest with a career choice,
the only thing about Its Bigger
Than Hip-hop is the poster, in my
city I am the best laphana (there
is)”.
The self-proclaimed best rapper
goes on to diss Klap, using
unprintable lyrics.
Bekithemba Sibanda, aka
Thorne of Klap said the group
did not have time to respond to K
Brizzy’s track.
“We have no time for antiprogress
people who would love
to talk down whatever move
made by those who have put their
sweat and tears into uplifting Bulawayo,”
Thorne said.
“I know people think the
quickest way to fame is taking
shots at those who have made
it. We are where we are because
of working hard. If he thinks he
will get big that way he needs to
go back to the drawing board. We
don’t care and not tuned to that
frequency and he has to work
hard like the rest of us.”
Top Klap producer Polite
Sithole, aka P2daoh, didn’t have
much to say.
“It’s not worthy replying,
that’s being little of him and he
has to try harder,” he said.
Klap has labelled K Brizzy an
ask what the problem was before
we organise another show.”
Machingura attributed the
poor response to other factors,
particularly the football World
Cup which kicks off in Brazil today.
The cold weather and the
fact that it is in the middle of the
month before people receive their
salaries.
The cancellation of the show
comes hard on the heels of the
flopped Harare Sunshine City
Choir gig over the weekend
in which organisers also
blamed the churches for
not supporting it.
Elias
Shongwe
Kabelo Matiwaza, aka K Brizzy, (far left) and hip-hop group Kasi Lami Art Platform (Klap)
attention seeker, but the young
artiste revealed that he did not do
it for attention.
“That I am better than them is
LSU Student releases debut gospel album
LUYANDUHLOBO MAKWATI
OWN CORRESPONDENT
LOCAL up and coming artiste Tinoe
Musara has released a debut
album titled Makanakana Ishe.
The seven-track album was
recorded in Masvingo. It is a collection
of church hymns that are
fused with contemporary beats.
The Lupane State University
student — studying a degree in
languages and communication
— said he was happy that he had
finally released a project since
music had been his passion from
a tender age.
“I am happy that I have finally
released my work. I have been
working hard and lots of people
assisted me to make sure that this
album became a success. I have
been in music since I was young,”
he said.
The album was mastered and
mixed by Hofmeyer Madzinga.
All the tracks were lifted from the
Zaoga church hymn book.
Musara added that he had
started depositing copies to various
media houses and of late his
all is about. They have no grounds
to claim they are the best and
that’s what I am trying to show
them. Whether I did this for attention
or fun or simply because I
don’t like them, I did it and what
we do in the music industry is not
for attention,” K Brizzy added.
Jennifer Lopez to perform at World Cup
JENNIFER Lopez has assured her
fans she will perform at the opening
ceremony of the World Cup in
Brazil today.
Fifa announced on Monday
that the On The Floor hitmaker
would no longer be taking to the
stage to sing the official song, We
Are One, with Pitbull and Claudia
Leitte at the soccer tournament’s
opening ceremony in Sao Paulo,
Brazil, today, but she has since
had a change of heart because she
doesn’t want to disappoint people.
A spokesperson for the
44-year-old singer told People.
com
yesterday: “Jennifer has al-
ways wanted to participate in the
World Cup opening ceremonies.
We have been trying to work out
scheduling and logistics. Any
statements to the contrary were
premature. Jennifer would not
want to disappoint her fans or
fans of football.”
Fifa previously said Jennifer,
who recently split
from her long-term boyfriend
Casper Smart,
wouldn’t be performing
because of unspecified
“production issues”.
Last week, Jennifer
said she was
“thrilled” at the
prospect of performing
at the
opening
ceremony.
She said: “This
is an amazing
celebration
of
global
unity,
competition
and sport.” —
BangShowbiz
Jennifer Lopez
songs seem to be appealing to the
public.
“I am happy that my music is
being played on radio stations. I
hope if my album continues to
receive more air play in radio stations,
it will make waves in the
country’s gospel scene. Those
who have listened to it have received
it with warm hands,” he
said.
Some of the tracks include
Mweya Wemasimba, Huyai Tibate
Basa, Makanaka Ishe, Holy is the
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THURSDAY JUNE 12, 2014
Stevie J Dr Dre Chief Keef
Love&Hip-hop: Atlanta star
Stevie J just learned a hard lesson
about being a baby daddy .
. . you rack up a million-dollar
child support debt and you go
directly to jail.
Here’s what landed Stevie
J behind bars. He and his
live-in girlfriend had a kid
in ’97 and ’98. In ’99 Stevie
was ordered to pay around
$6 600 a month in child support,
which eventually was
raised to $8 500. According
to the criminal complaint,
Stevie J stopped paying in
2001 — he’s never paid a cent
since then. So now the tab is a
whopping $1 107 412.
Cops nabbed Stevie J in
Georgia, US. He’ll probably
bail out soon, but then has to
face criminal charges in New
York. — TMZ
Shortly after buying Gisele
Bundchen and Tom Brady’s
mansion in Brentwood, Californi,
US, Dr Dre listed his
Hollywood Hills mansion. The
property is described as having
“the best view estate in
the city”. The music producer
bought the house in 2011 for
$15,4 million and now he’s
selling it for $35 million.
The mansion features six
bedrooms, nine bathrooms,
a library and a media room
in addition to other facilities
such as a guest house and a
wine cellar. It also has a pool
and patio which provide a
beautiful view to Los Angeles.
Last week, Los Angeles
Times reported that Dr Dre officially
bought Bundchen and
Brady’s mansion for $40 million.
— AceShowbiz
Rapper Chief Keef, aka Keith
Cozart, has been evicted from
his house after he failed to pay
rent. According to Chicago
Tribune, Keef left the Highland
Park, Chicago mansion
on Tuesday. He was forced to
leave the rented mansion after
falling behind by about
$30 000 by March and promised
to pay it fully in April.
According to court documents,
a final eviction order
was filed on May 7. Keef reportedly
caused some inconvenience
when he lived in
the area. “It’s been horrible.
. . . They were certainly not
good tenants,” said a neighbour
named Ken Cooper. The
owner of the property, Bal
Bansal, insisted that Keef was a
good tenant and that he simply
moved out. — AceShowbiz
Puff Daddy debuts I Want the
Love music video Ft Meek Mill
The Game, 40 Glocc beef worsens
LOS ANGELES — It’s bad enough The
Game famously beat down 40 Glocc
on video — but now he’s verbally
slapping the guy around . . . claiming
40 is only suing him to extend his 15
minutes of fame and soak up Game’s
shine.
40 Glocc filed the lawsuit after
Game humiliated him two years ago
by beating the crap out of him, recording
it and posting it on YouTube.
Now, Game says — in new docs obtained
by TMZ — he was acting in
self-defense during the fight and only
started punching after 40 pulled a gun.
40 has claimed Game pulled a gun,
though neither is seen with a firearm
in the video. In the docs, Game throws
a few jabs — for instance . . . he has
Grammy nominations and a TV show
and 40 does not. He also points out
his 1,1 million Twitter followers compared
to 40 Glocc’s measly 53 000.
Best of all . . . Game claims the
whole lawsuit is part of Mr. Glocc’s
“gangster agenda to profit from
threats, intimidation and taunts”
— said the guy who made 40 Glocc
cower in fear during that infamous
“whoopin”.
Whatever happens in court — the
awesome video will live forever.
— TMZ
LOS ANGELES — Just a day after
putting out the official audio
version of his collaboration with
Meek Mill, I Want the Love, P Diddy
Puff Daddy debuted the track’s
accompanying music video.
Directed by Eif Rivera, the clip
features the rapper and his collaborator
braving the low temperature
in the Swiss Alps as they
ride snowmobiles and dogsleds
around the snow-covered area.
Diddy and Meek, both clad in
fur coats, rap their respective
verses alongside some
ladies and some huskies
in another scene. Sean
Combs is also seen
bragging while sitting
on a throne that’s
inspired by Game of
Thrones.
I Want the Love,
along with Rick Ross
and French Montana-featured
Big
Homie that arrived
earlier this year,
will appear in Diddy’s
upcoming fifth
studio album.
Titled MMM (standing for
“Money Making
Mitch”), the new
record is expected
to arrive
sometime
this summer
via Bad Boy/
Interscope Records.
— Ace-
Showbiz
Britney, Christina Aguilera
immortalised in drug bust
Jim Carrey back in Dumb,Dumber To
A sneak pick of a scene in Dumb and Dumber To
HOLLYWOOD — The first trailer
for Dumb and Dumber To is made
available for fans’ viewing pleasure
after getting premiered on
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy
Fallon.
Both Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels
return to reprise their roles as
Lloyd and Harry respectively.
The video opens with Harry
visiting Lloyd in what seems to be
a foster home, only to find out that
the latter fakes helplessness as a
gag. More hilarity ensues as Lloyd
has the hot for Harry’s daughter
and the duo sets out a journey to
find her. The trailer closes with an
old dusty lady sex joke.
Kathleen Turner is back as Harry’s
former flame, while Jennifer
Lawrence is cast as her younger
version. Directed by Bobby and
Peter Farrelly from the original
1994 movie, the comedy is also
supported by Laurie Holden and
Brady Bluhm. It’s due November
14 in the US. — AceShowbiz
NEW YORK — Christina Aguilera
(pictured) and Britney Spears
have expanded their brand . . .
they’re now codes for powdered
and crack cocaine.
New York law enforcement
conducted a 10-month tion into a massive drug ring.
Authorities wiretapped a
number of phones to bust the
investigatraffickers.
They figured out from the recordings
. . . the dealers were ing pop code.
They referred to crack cocaine
as Britney and powdered cocaine
as Christina Aguilera (for some
reason the dealers used Chris-
ustina’s
last name).
The investigation paid off . . .
New York Attorney-General Eric
Schneiderman charged 25 people
with 340 counts of drug ing. —
traffick-
TMZ

THURSDAY JUNE 12, 2014 17
Simplicity is
Regency’s
style of
service
Great Zimbabwe National Monument
THE ruins of Great Zimbabwe — the
capital of the Queen of Sheba, according
to an age-old legend — are a unique
testimony to the Bantu civilisation of
the Shona between the 11th and 15th
centuries. The city, which covers an
area of nearly 80 hacters (ha), was an
important trading centre and was renowned
from the Middle Ages onwards.
Great Zimbabwe National Monument
is approximately 30km from Masvingo
and located in the lowveld at an altitude
of some 1 100m in a sparsely populated
region of the Bantu/Shona people. The
property, built between 1100 and 1450
AD, extends over almost 800ha and is
divided into three groups: the Hill Ruins,
the Great Enclosure and the Valley
Ruins.
• The Hill Ruins, forming a huge
granite mass atop a spur facing northeast/south-west,
were continuously
inhabited from the 11th to 15th centuries,
and there are numerous layers of traces
of human settlements. Rough granite
rubble-stone blocks form distinct enclosures,
accessed by narrow, partly
covered, passageways. This acropolis is
generally considered a “royal city”; the
west enclosure is thought to have been
the residence of successive chiefs and
the east enclosure, where six steatite
upright posts topped with birds were
found, considered to serve a ritual purpose.
The Great Enclosure, which has
the form of an ellipsis, is located to
the south of the hills and dates to the
14th Century. It was built of cut granite
blocks, laid in regular courses, and
contains a series of dagga-hut living
quarters, a community area, and a narrow
passage leading to a high conical
tower. The bricks (dagga) were made
from a mixture of granitic sand and clay.
Huts were built within the stone enclosure
walls; inside each community area
other walls mark off each family’s area,
generally comprising a kitchen, two living
huts and a court.
• The Valley Ruins are a series of
living ensembles scattered throughout
the valley which date to the 19th
Century. Each ensemble has similar
characteristics: many constructions
are in brick (huts, indoor flooring and
benches, holders for recipients, basins,
etc.) and dry stone masonry walls
provide insulation for each ensemble.
Resembling later developments of
the Stone Age, the building work was
carried out to a high standard of craftsmanship,
incorporating an impressive
display of chevron and chequered wall
decorations.
Scientific research has proved that
Great Zimbabwe was founded in the
11th century on a site which had been
sparsely inhabited in the prehistoric
period, by a Bantu population of the
Iron Age, the Shona. In the 14th Century,
it was the principal city of a major
state extending over the gold-rich plateaux;
its population exceeded 10 000
inhabitants. About 1450, the capital
was abandoned because the hinterland
could no longer furnish food for
the overpopulated city and because of
deforestation. The resulting migration
benefited Khami, which became the
most influential city in the region, but
signalled waning political power. When
in 1505 the Portuguese settled in Sofala,
the region was divided between the
rival powers of the kingdoms of Torwa
and Mwenemutapa.
Archaeological excavations have revealed
glass beads and porcelain from
China and Persia, and gold and Arab
coins from Kilwa which testify to the
extent of long-standing trade with the
outer world. Other evidence, including
potsherds and ironware, gives a further
insight to the property’s socioeconomic
complexity and about farming and pastoral
activities. A monumental granite
cross, located at a traditionally revered
and sacred spiritual site, also illustrates
community contact with missionaries.
— unesco.org
With its roots in Masvingo, Zimbabwe’s
oldest town, Regency
Hotels and Leisure group owns
and manages a total of five properties
located in Masvingo and
Gweru.
Two hotels, a lodge and a night
club are located in Masvingo,
while a three—star motel is located
in Gweru.
Regency caters for the business
and leisure markets, offering
an array of conference facilities,
varied cuisine, accommodation
facilities and entertainment.
Simplicity is Regency’s style of
service.
The vision of the brand enshrines
co-values which interpret
the various needs of our discerning
markets.
Its policy is simply put: “Regency
Hotels is dedicated to ensuring
the longevity of our business
for generations to come
through responsibly managing
our impact on the environment,
our employees and the communities
in which we operate.”
Hotels and a lodge
Regency Hotel Flamboyant
The hotel can accommodate 212
guests at any given time making
it the largest hotel in Masvingo
province.
The hotel boasts two presidential
suites, deluxe and standard
en-suite rooms to give one a range
of choices.
All rooms are connected with a
variety of DStv channels.
With complementary Wi-Fi
connectivity in all 106 en-suite
rooms and public areas, no one
can ever fail to miss.
Regency Fairmile Hotel
It is located 1½km from the
Gweru city centre, along the Bulawayo
Harare road.
Being situated in Gweru, the
City of Progress, Fairmile is the
ideal stopover for travellers.
Regency Hotel Chevron
One of group’s classic hotels is
Regency Hotel Chevron which is
in the heart of Masvingo, a prime
location for business and leisure.
The hotel offers meeting and seminar
facilities as well as outside
catering facilities.
For those with a reason to celebrate,
the hotel hosts cocktail
parties.
Lodge Panyanda
The group boasts a lodge known
as Lodge Panyanda which is located
10km from Masvingo town
along the Beitbridge Highway.
Panyanda offers a beautiful
view of the Nyanda mountain
surrounded by wild life and untamed
vegetation.
It is a very exclusive lodge with
six lodges and a campsite.

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Career blunders you could be making
WHATEVER your chosen profession,
we all have something in common:
We’re trying to do the best we can in
our careers. Of course we aren’t going
to gossip about our boss, fail to meet
our deadlines or do anything else to
jeopardize our jobs or careers
It’s that “knowingly” that’s the
problem. We can easily avoid the professional
pitfalls we know, but what
about the ones we don’t? And even
more important, could we be making
major mistakes when we think we’re
making the right move?
To keep from falling into that trap,
we asked career experts to shed light
on the missteps we make without
even realising, whether at the office
or in the trenches of a job hunt. Are
you making these mistakes?
Knowing that social media channels
such as Twitter, Facebook and
even LinkedIn are rife with opportunity
for career-damaging blunders,
it’s understandable that you might
want to lay low, leave your profiles
dormant or even take yourself offline
entirely.
Just having the profiles isn’t
enough. You must have a dynamic
presence. That means using these
channels to promote yourself in a
positive, professional way.
Worked on a new ad campaign?
Tweet it. Added to your photography
portfolio? Facebook it. Come across
a fascinating industry article? Share
it on LinkedIn. When recruiters or interviewers
look you up, they’ll find an
engaging, productive individual.
It’s always a good idea to attend
work happy hours, volunteer days
and other forms of group bonding,
because while these people are your
colleagues, they’re also the people
with whom you spend 40-plus hours
a week.
But bonding becomes problematic
when you become very close to some
coworkers . . . and not others. It’s a
mistake to align yourself with one
person or one camp While it’s tempting
to align yourself with a strong
person or group, in doing so, you
separate yourself from everyone else.
Then what happens when personnel
changes occur, someone falls out
of favour, or you need support from
someone not in the chosen group?
To keep from getting in too deep
with some colleagues over others.
Their advises people to take some
simple steps to keep things friendly
across the board: Go to lunch with
a group of people, or different people
each day; sit next to people who
aren’t your deskmates already at
meetings; mix up your routine a bit—
stop by the kitchen or watercooler for
a brief chat at different times of day,
to run into different people.
We don’t need to tell you that
there’s no shame in taking a gig unrelated
to your ultimate career path
(think: waiting tables) to make ends
meet while hunting for other opportunities,
or to make a little extra
money on the side. Plus, your scrappiness
will show future employers
that you’re hardworking and ready to
hustle, right? Not exactly.
As a job hunter, you should be
looking at yourself as a candidate
through your potential employer’s
eyes. And to an employer, a side job
is a distraction from your primary position.
A Fortune 500 company simply
isn’t going to appreciate your time as
a night manager at 7-11.
Instead of trying to bulk up temporary
jobs by explaining how they
taught you “tenacity” and “reliability,”
minimise such positions down to
only a line on your resume or eliminate
them altogether while bulking up
your more relevant past positions.
If you spent six months scooping
ice cream and are now applying for
a completely unrelated corporate job
in ad sales, eliminating your makeends-meet
job from your resume
altogether.
If your employment gap should
come up in an interview, explain that
you were devoting your full attention
to finding the right job in a difficult
economy — an understandable excuse
if it’s been 12 months or less.
Raise your hand if you’ve ever
made a pros and cons list about a potential
job or project. It’s the sensible
move — you’re laying out all the reasons
you should and shouldn’t take
on a new venture in order to make an
informed, rational decision.
But informed and rational isn’t all
it’s cracked up to be. If you are getting
a bad gut feeling about working
for a certain boss, a “pit in the stomach”
sensation about a dicey work
environment, or are self-rationalising
over taking a major pay cut, you
should never ignore the little voice in
your ear warning you that something
is wrong.
If you’re getting a bad feeling about
an opportunity that seems promising
on the surface, it’s time to get more
information. Dig deeper and either
reassure yourself that your impressions
are wrong, or back away from
the offer.
This is true even for choosing your
first career track—trust yourself.
That’s not to say that a few nerves
means you should bail on a secondround
interview, but if you can’t shake
your anxiety and can’t alleviate it with
more information, it might be time to
take a step back. — Online

20
SOUTHERN EYE
THURSDAY JUNE 12, 2014
SPORT
Giroud wants to start for Les Bleus
OLIVIER GIROUD has admitted he would
be disappointed not to start France’s open-
ing Group E encounter with Honduras on
Sunday.
Giroud (27) struck three goals in as many
World Cup warm-up matches prior to Les
Bleus jetting to Brazil, confirming the ex-
cellent form he showed in front of goal for
Arsenal during the Barclays Premier League
season.
The Gunners striker has often found
himself playing back-up to Karim Benzema
as the sole central striker in Didier Deschamps’
preferred 4-3-3 formation.
However, after the pair teamed up effec-
tively in Sunday’s 8-0 trouncing of Jamaica
in Lille, Giroud told media from his coun-
try’s base camp in Ribeirao Preto he will
be frowning should he find himself on the
bench when Group E kicks off.
“It would kind of be a disappointment,
because I think I’ve done well in the warm-
up games. But there is a coach and you have
to respect his choices. But that’s not my pri-
mary concern, nor will it stop me sleeping
right now. The important thing is to prepare
yourself well for the first game and make
yourself available for the team and the
coach,” the ex-Montpellier man said.
Much has been made of Deschamps’
apparent reluctance to play Giroud with
Benzema (26) from kick-off. The pair have
been only rarely tested as a strike duo — the
Jamaica match saw them link up for only
the tenth time — but Giroud declared the
two strikers’ partnership has been the focus
of far too much media attention.
“You mustn’t concentrate too much on
SETE LAGOAS — It appears there are
no hard feelings.
Perhaps they were unaware of the
history that exists between the two
teams, or perhaps they just did not
care. What is certain is that 5 000
spectators, mainly Brazilian, gathered
at the Arena do Jacaré to catch
a glimpse of the 1950 World
Cup champions — the
stars of that fateful day
at the Maracana Stadium,
the Uruguay
national team.
Only one
day after having
arrived at
the Confins de
Belo Horizonte
Airport and after
having received a warm
samba-filled welcome at
their hotel in Sete Lagoas,
Uruguay manager Oscar
Tabarez was ready to
comply with his Fifa requirements.
As requested,
the coach organised
a training session
open to the
public before
the squad’s
debut at
this 2014
World Cup
against
Costa Rica in
Fortaleza.
On the right-hand side of the
stands, low down, up against the
wired fence, a group of Uruguayans
could be seen, well prepared with
their country’s flags. The rest of the
stadium was dominated by the colour
yellow.
The squad stepped onto the field
at 3:45pm. Having jogged round the
that either, counting the
number of passes
we make to each
other. It’s good for
strikers to find each
other, but also to
propose
solutions
to our midfielders.
It’s also good,
because he makes
me score. And even
though not everything
was perfect, we
really enjoyed ourselves
on the pitch.”
Olivier
Giroud
celebrating with his
French
teammates
during their 8-0 rout of
Jamaica
Giroud’s club teammate,
Laurent Koscielny,
watched from the bench as
his country wrapped up their
World Cup preparations in
the most convincing of
styles.
The ex-Lorient defender
(28) might have
been on the pitch, but
for a rush of blood
to the head in
November’s
play-off
first-leg in
Ukraine,
which led
to
him
Brazilians flock to watch Uruguay
Luis
Suarez
field to the sound of a grand
ovation from the crowd,
the players began to
warm up. At one end
of the field were the
three goalkeepers and
19 players. At the other
end, the one everyone
had come to see:
Luis Suarez.
The Liverpool
striker,
who is currently
recovering from
an operation
to his left knee,
carried out some
ball exercises,
dodged cones
and shot with
both feet. On
such a hot afternoon,
he kept
himself well-hydrated
and chatted
frequently
with members
of the training
staff.
During
the last halfhour,
Tabarez
organised a
friendly game
between
the players.
Red
bibs against
the celestial blue. It was a while before
the first goal was scored. Booing
could even be heard when a shot on
goal ended up in the street.
Surprisingly, chants of “U-ruguay,
U-ru-guay” could be heard,
though with little evidence of La Celeste’s
repertoire, the crowd soon
began chanting in Portuguese. At the
end, the chant of “Bra-zil, Bra-zil”
dominated, which triggered some retaliation
from the Uruguayan fans, in
the form of whistling.
Eventually, the spectators were
witnesses to three goals. The last one
was by far the best, a Gaston Ramirez
masterpiece. The Southampton
midfielder was dynamite in the box,
with just one side-step he fooled
the goalkeeper and found the
back of the net.
The training session finished
an hour after it began,
Diego Lugano leading the team
toward the crowd-filled stands. For
several minutes, he signed flags, had
pictures taken with the fans and gave
away his personal belongings.
On his way back to the dressing
rooms, practically naked, he came to
the aid of a small boy who had managed
to get onto the field and was being
chased by the police.
The only player who could not
participate fully in the training session
was precisely the most watched,
hovering on the sidelines right next
to the bunker for photographers and
cameramen.
Twenty minutes before the end of
the session, showing signs of tiredness,
Luis Suarez removed his boots
and left the field.
The fans of La Celeste have
just one hope — that he puts his
boots back on sooner than later.
— ESPNFC
first conceding a penalty before
he picked up a late red card
and subsequent suspension.
While
Koscielny
served his one-game
ban, Mamadou Sakho
stepped into central
defence
alongside
Raphael
Varane,
and scored two
crucial goals to
take
Deschamps’
men to Brazil and
earn himself a starting
role in the side.
Koscielny
acknowledged
to the
media that he had to
halt the costly red mist
from descending in the
future.
KAKA could be on his way back
to Sao Paulo this summer with
reports in Italy and Brazil claiming
the AC Milan midfielder
wants to return home.
The 32-year-old is currently
spending his summer holidays
in Brazil, but the chances of him
returning to Milan later on this
month appear to be reducing.
With the Rossoneri
failing to qualify
for the 2014 to
2015
Champions
League, the
former Real Madrid
player has the option
to terminate his
contract and walk
away from the
Serie A club. He
has until June
30 to decide.
Should he
release himself
from the
final year of
his contract
in Italy, Sao
Paulo would
be delighted
to welcome him
back,
subject
to an
“I have given away penalties, I admit.
It’s true that I go over-the-top in some
matches. I have to channel myself more,”
he said, adding the days of a clique-ridden,
squabbling French squad are now over following
their dramatic second-leg triumph
at the Stade de France.
“For a while now we’ve been a united
team. We are prepared to put in the effort
together and find team-mates. And that’s
important. The spark was the return leg
of the play-off with Ukraine. We felt the
enormous fervour. We have to keep that
same spirit.” — ESPNFC
Kaka linked with Sao
Paulo return
Kaka
Olivier Giroud
agreement over his wages.
“He’s a fantastic player, but
it’s very difficult because the financial
aspect counts a lot,” said
Sao Paulo coach Muricy Ramalho
to ESPN Brasil. “Clubs
here are in (financial)
difficulty and that’s
weighing us down.
“But we have seen
many times in football
that impossible
things do actually
happen, so
maybe that will
also happen
with Kaka.”
According
to La Gazzetta
dello Sport,
Kaka favours a
return to Brazil
to be closer to
his family.
He played
four seasons
for Sao Paulo
between 1999
and 2003, scoring 47
goals in 125 appearances
before moving to Milan for
the first time.
“I would love to have Kaka
back,” Sao Paulo’s president
Carlos Miguel Aidar is quoted as
saying by Terra. “He fits in Sao
Paulo like a glove. He plays well
and scores goals, but we know
we can’t compete with the Arabs
or the Chinese.” — ESPNFC

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SOUTHERN EYE
SPORT
Sables coach Dawson believes
DANIEL NHAKANISO
SPORTS REPORTER
SABLES coach Brendan Dawson
called on his charges to draw
inspiration from past experiences
as they bid to overcome
the myriad of problems which
have threatened to prematurely
end their dream of qualifying to
the Rugby World Cup for the first
time in 22 years.
Dawson’s comments came in
the wake of the cancellation of
their tour to South Africa due to
lack of funds which left the flagship
national rugby side without
any meaningful warm-up
games ahead of the crucial 2015
Rugby World Cup qualifiers in
Madagascar.
The team had earlier this
year earmarked other matches
against the England Counties
team and an unnamed European
team.
However, both matches were
cancelled following media reports
of alleged racism in the local
game.
While Zimbabwe has been
plagued by these problems, their
Brendan Dawson
opponents Kenya and Namibia
have been fine-tuning against top
opponents.
Dawson, who was part of the
last Sables squad to qualify for
the Rugby World Cup way back
in 1991, remained optimistic and
believed despite the challenges;
qualification for the World Cup
remains an achievable goal.
“We have to do the best we can
with the little that we have because
honestly speaking we just
don’t have the money,” he said.
“Our corporate world has not
been supportive as we would have
hoped and we haven’t been able
to get any sponsorship. It’s not
due to lack of trying,”
“We have tried to organise
matches and look for sponsorship,
but all to no avail which is
really sad considering the success
the team has enjoyed in recent
years. However, we just have to
solider on.”
Dawson said lack of sponsorship
was not a new phenomenon
to the team as they had taken part
in previous rounds of the World
Cup qualification campaign without
any sponsorship.
“If you don’t get sponsorship
you can’t do anything because
there’s no money to organise international
matches. We just have
to accept it and focus on what we
are able to do which is to work
hard and try to overcome that adversity,”
he said.
“In the past we have gone to
similar tournaments without any
preparatory matches and done
well because of the will to achieve.
“If we work hard during our
training camp and travel to Madagascar
with the unity and self-belief
I’m confident we can surprise
many people by achieving our
goal.”
Despite the problems that have
affected the Sables qualification
campaign, they have always
found that extra motivation to
punch above their weight.
Last year the team cancelled
matches against South African
teams Valke and Pumas due to financial
challenges, but still managed
to do well to reach the Africa
Cup final, where they eventually
lost to Kenya.
In 2012, the Sables were also
crowned African champions in
Tunisia after playing only one
warm-up match against South
African provincial side Valke in
the capital.
ZVA fails to send team to Poland
SUKOLUHLE MTHETHWA
SPORTS REPORTER
ZIMBABWE Volleyball Association
(ZVA) failed to raise $15 000
to send four Under-23 players for
the on- going World Championships
in Poland.
The six-day tournament ends
on Sunday. Bruce Paguti, Trevor
Sibanda, Christine Manyanya and
Progress Gass were the members
of the team. ZVA has a task
of raising $20 000 to send Keith
Machakaire and Douglas Choto
for the Under 21 World Championships
set for July 22 to 28 in
Cyprus.
However, ZVA president
Frederick Ndlovu said they would
continue serving the sport and try
to source funds to send teams to
take part in international competitions
despite the challenges they
are facing.
Ndlovu said they were unable
to send the team to Poland, but
they would not be giving up.
“We failed to send the team to
Poland, but as this stage we are
still optimistic that we will be able
to send our team for the World
Championships in Cyprus next
month. We will continue to explore
other avenues so that we try
and source funds,” he said.
“We will not give up in trying
getting the funds because we
failed this time. We are facing
challenges, but we will continue
trying.
“We have to send teams to various
international competitions
from our coffers and we hope
that we will be able to do that
again despite the challenges we
are facing.”
Efforts to get assistance from
the government has provided futile
as the Sport, Arts and Culture
ministry has indicated that they
do not have the money to assist
the teams.
Meanwhile, Federation of International
Volleyball top instructor
Yaniv Noyman from Israel
started conducting an International
Beach Volleyball Grassroots
Course in Harare on Tuesday.
ZVA secretary-general Ringisai
Mapondera confirmed the
course to Southern Eye Sport
yesterday.
“We have an instructor from
Israel who is conducting a fiveday
beach volleyball grassroots
course in Harare. He started yesterday
(Tuesday),” he said.
“We have 24 coaches and
players attending the course. It
is aimed at training volleyball
coaches and players of the sport
from grassroots level.”
Amla’s quiet style to the fore
THE ability to command respect,
control a dressing room and encourage
calm through actions rather than
words will define Hashim Amla’s captaincy,
according to two former Test
players he has led before.
Imraan Khan and Mfuneko Ngam
were part of the Dolphins’ squad
Amla took to the domestic first-class
competition title in the 2004 to 2005
season and both believe he will make
an astute and authoritative national
leader, but not in the obvious ways we
have come to expect of Test captains.
“I don’t think he will shout much —
at the guys in his own team and the
opposition — so it will be different, but
that could be a good thing,” Khan said.
“We all know he is relaxed and calm
in the way he goes about things.”
While Amla’s predecessor, Graeme
Smith — and captains through the
ages from Ricky Ponting to MS Dhoni
— led through presence, Amla is expected
to do the same by example.
“His lifestyle is something that
will make him a good captain. He
is disciplined and quiet and goes
about his own business. Guys respect
him,” Ngam said.
“Sometimes quiet guys are more
powerful.”
Amla’s silent strength was evident
from a young age according to
childhood friend Khan, who played
alongside Amla from Under-13
level.
“He has always been a mature
guy which is why he was always
involved in leadership through
the age-groups,” Khan said.
“I always thought he
could become a Test captain.”
— Cricinfo
Hashim
Amla
De Jongé bids for
glory at US Open
SPORTS REPORTER
ZIMBABWE’S Brendon de Jongé
will be bidding for glory when he
tees off in one of golf’s most prestigious
events, the US Open at the
world renowned Pinehurst Resort
in North Carolina,US, starting this
evening.
De Jongé, fresh from being
named the country’s International
Golf ambassador at the inaugural
Zimbabwe Golf Awards will take
his place in a star-studded field
with an eye on a lion’s share of the
rich prize fund of $8 million.
The talented Harare-born golfer
will tee off at 7:15pm (Zimbabwe
time) alongside American
Kevin Stadler and Irishman Shane
Lowry in today’s opening round.
The last few weeks have witnessed
an amazing turn around in
de Jongé’s season with the highlight
being his spectacular comeback
at the Wells Fargo Championship
last month.
De Jongé, who has made 15 of
20 cuts on the PGA Tour this year
looks to be back to his consistent
self after a slow start to his season.
Crucially for de Jongé is the fact
that he’s made his last five cuts
and four of them have led to top
30’s, a clear sign that he’s due to a
big week soon.
He proved last year he can handle
the big occasions. He finished
in a tie for position 37 on his first
appearance at Augusta National
carding rounds of 74, 72, 76, 73 for
a gross total of seven-over 295.
He was also arguably the Internationals
team’s best player in
the President’s Cup and made it
all the way to the final leg of the
Fedex Cup play-offs without actually
winning an event, which is
hard to do.
De Jongé made his US Open
debut at Pebble Beach in 2010,
finishing in a tie for position 33,
but is yet to feature in the prestigious
championship ever since.
He has played the US Open just
once, back in 2010 where he finished
a respectable 33rd.

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Ndoro’s UK trials on
SUKOLUHLE MTHETHWA
SPORTS REPORTER
MPUMALANGA Black Aces striker
Tendai Ndoro will attend trials
at Barclays Premier Soccer League
(PSL) side Crystal Palace later this
month, his manager George Deda
said yesterday.
Ndoro started playing for the
South African Absa Premier Soccer
League side in February and
immediately made an impact,
attracting the attention of several
South African clubs as well as
Crystal Palace.
The 2013 Zimbabwe PSL golden
boot winner scored seven goals
from 13 games in South Africa.
Southern Eye Sport spoke to
Deda yesterday to find out latest
developments on Ndoro’s intended
trip to England.
“Ndoro will attend trials at
Crystal Palace later this month.
The only thing that is left to be
finalised is the date and the air
ticket,” Deda said.
“I cannot say anything much
on that trip until sometime next
week. He might also try other
clubs there.”
Yesterday, Kickoff reported
that former champions Orlando
Pirates were eager to sign the
Warriors forward.
“Orlando Pirates have stepped
up their efforts to sign Mpumalanga
Black Aces striker Tendai
Ndoro. The Zimbabwean interna-
Buffaloes host How Mine
KENNETH NYANGANI
SPORTS CORRESPONDENT
TROUBLED CASTLE Lager Premier
Soccer League side Buffaloes
are eager to put aside their
financial woes when they take on
the unpredictable How Mine at
Sakubva Stadium today.
The army side is struggling to
pay players their winning bonuses
and salaries and currently morale
is reportedly at its lowest ebb.
After starting the season convincingly,
the army side took the
foot off the pedal and they are
still reeling from three successive
defeats.
They were crushed 1-5 by Triangle
at Gibbo Stadium before
losing 1-3 against Highlanders at
Tendai Ndoro
tional is hot property after a stellar
first few months in the Absa
league.
“Pirates are very interested.
Ndoro remains their top target
for next season,” KickOff.com’s
website report said, quoting its
home and their last defeat came
against Black Rhinos in a 0-1
scoreline in Kadoma on Saturday.
Another defeat at home would
likely spell a doom for the soldiers
who have so far collected 14
points from the first 10 matches
of the season and they are occupying
ninth position on the log
standings.
How Mine are within the leading
pack as they have collected 18
points from the same matches and
currently lie on fourth position just
two points away from log leaders
Highlanders and a win today
will ensure they go on top of the
standings.
In an interview yesterday, Buffaloes
coach Luke Masomere said
sources.
Ndoro is also reported to
have also attracted the attention
of Mamelodi Sun-
downs owned by billionaire Patrice
Motsepe and SuperSport
United.
he was ready for the war despite
the issues in his camp.
“This is the game we must win
at all costs and I am confident that
we are going to collect maximum
points.”
“I think I have a full strength
squad at my disposal for the first
time in almost three matches. We
do not have any injuries to worry
about,” he said.
“The major challenge l am
having in my camp is that morale
is low. The players need food on
the table, they need to be paid. I
have to try my level best to vate them.”
The match is expected
to be beamed live on
moti-
SuperSport 9.
George Chigova’s
farewell match
TAWANDA TAFIRENYIKA
SPORTS CORRESPONDENT
DYNAMOS shot-stopper George Chigova
might be playing his last match for
the champions on Sunday when they
travel to the Colliery for a clash with
Hwange in a Castle Lager Premier
Soccer League tie.
Chigova is heading for Absa Premier
League side SuperSport United
after an impressive performance
in national colours at the African
Nations Championships (Chan) tournament.
SuperSport United are
expected to start their pre-season
training on June 23.
The goalkeeper proved his heroics
between the poles at the Chan tournament
where Zimbabwe reached
the semi-finals — their first time to
achieve that feat since the tournament
designed exclusively for
home-based players was inaugurated
some four years ago. The Dynamos
keeper manned his goal jealously at
the tournament conceding just two
goals in open play and was also the
hero in the penalty shoot-out against
eventual champions Libya after saving
two penalties in the 5-4 defeat
which saw them crashing out of the
tournament at the semi-final stage.
That heroic show caught the eye of
SuperSport United who immediately
swooped on the Zimbabwean goalkeeper.
Chigova who signed a
three-year contract with the
Pretoria outfit, revealed
yesterday Sunday’s match
could be his last as he prepares
for a new life in the
Absa League.
“I am
George
Chigova in
Warriors
jersey
supposed to join Supersport for preseason
training, but I am not sure
when because they (SuperSport) are
yet to send me a ticket. I am just waiting,
but the Sunday match against
Hwange could be my last,” Chigova
said.
“It’s sad that I will be leaving Dynamos
— the team that helped me to
be what I am today. These things happen
in football, but at the same time
you also need challenges as a player. I
am also happy at the same time to be
leaving Dynamos after winning three
league titles. I hope I will be able to get
a first team jersey at SuperSport. It will
not be easy, but if I work hard it will be
possible.”
Should he leave DeMbare after the
match against Hwange, he would miss
the big clash against old foes Highlanders
in Harare on June 22 as well as
the Harare derby against Caps United,
leaving second choice Artwell Mukandi
between the sticks.
Former Dynamos and Highlanders
striker Makwinji Soma-Phiri, Joel
Luphahla, Kaitano Tembo and Simbarashe
Sithole had a stint the Absa
League side while former Warriors
goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar once
served the team as the goalkeeper’s
coach. Meanwhile, troubled Caps
United, still reeling from a 0-3 morale
shattering defeat to Chapungu last
weekend will host tricky Shabanie
Mine hoping for a change of fortunes.
Taurai Mangwiro’s men
are low on confidence as they
are owed outstanding salaries
by the club management.
They are a distant eighth on the
league table with only 14 points
from 10 matches while Shabanie
Mine are sixth on the
table with 15 points from the
same number of matches
— five behind log leaders
Highlanders.
Fixtures:
Today: Buffaloes v How
Mine (Sakubva SS9)
Saturday: ZPC Kariba
v Chapungu (Gwanzura,
SS9), FC Platinum v
Black Rhinos (Mandava),
Chicken Inn v
Chiredzi (Luveve)
Sunday: Hwange v
Dynamos (Colliery), Caps
United v Shabanie Mine
(NSS, SS9), Triangle v
Highlanders, (Gibbo).
Monday:
Harare
City v Bantu Rovers
(Rufaro SS9).
Referee Bennet out of World Cup
Daniel Bennett
JOHANNESBURG — Former South
African referee of the year, Daniel
Bennett’s 2014 Fifa World Cup
dream has been shattered after he
was ruled out through injury.
Bennett was selected as support
referee for the world football
spectacle taking place in Brazil
from 12 June to 13 July 2014.
However, the diligent official
picked up an injury in a routine
training session at the Zico Centre
in Rio last Tuesday where the niggling
injury was detected.
“The medical investigations
revealed the seriousness of the
injury which means a minimum
of four to six weeks for cure. The
main consequence is that Bennett
will be unable to officiate and
support matches at this 2014 Fifa
World Cup,” Fifa secretary-general
Jerome Valcke said in a letter
to the South African Football Association
and Caf.
The Fifa medical team still had
hopes to help Bennett recover
but their efforts were in vain to
get him ready in time for the
tournament.
“During these days, adequate
rehabilitation (twice a day) has
been provided to Bennett, however,
this represents an additional
load on the medical team, which
has to ensure recovery massage
and specific treatments to referees
and assistant referees actively
involved in the 2014 Fifa World
Cup,” Valcke said.
As a result, the Fifa Referees’
Sub-Committee meeting on
Monday 2014 decided to release
and send Bennett home to ensure
proper recovery.
However, his assistant Marwa
Range from Kenya will continue
with his duties in Brazil as support
assistant referee.
There will be no replacement
for Bennett as Fifa believe they
have sufficient cover.
“The quality of referees and
assistant referees at the 2014 Fifa
World Cup is paramount, and
the support referees were implemented
in order to provide a
seamless transition when a referee
or assistant referee must be
replaced for any reason after the
final selection has been made.
“At this stage of the competition,
taking any referee who is not on the
final list of selected match officials
is counter-productive, since those
referees did not partake in any official
Fifa fitness tests nor all theoretical,
tactical and physical sessions
since January 2014 when the final
list of referees and assistant referees
was approved,” Valcke said.
— SuperSport

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Eye
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World Cup is here
SAO PAULO – It’s almost time. The day
Brazilians have been anxiously waiting for
is finally here.
Brazil plays Croatia tonight to get the
home 2014 Fifa World Cup under way;
beginning its quest for a sixth world title
almost seven years after the country was
picked as host.
After so much talk about delays, protests
and problems, fans at last are getting
a chance to cheer for the national team on
home soil in football’s showcase tournament.
If Brazil wins the opening game, the
fact that the stadium in Sao Paulo isn’t even
fully finished yet will quickly be forgotten.
A loss, quite simply, is unthinkable for a
country whose identity is so closely linked
to its football team.
Brazil hasn’t hosted the World Cup
since 1950, when it endured a heartbreaking
loss to Uruguay in the final. This time,
everybody knows that only the title will be
enough to please the home crowd.
“We are all eager to get started, we are
just counting the days,” Brazil midfielder
Ramires said yesterday. “We know that the
fans have confidence in our team and they
are behind us. We have to do everything
possible to try to win this World Cup. We
know everybody is expecting us to do it.”
Boosted by the home crowd, Brazil is
one of the main favorites to recapture the
trophy won by Spain four years ago in
South Africa. But the other usual World
Cup contenders will be trying to spoil the
party in the land of football, including
Germany, Italy, Argentina and the Netherlands,
runner-up in 2010.
Brazil is trying to become the first country
to win the World Cup at home since
France did it in 1998. The Brazilians were
eliminated in the quarter-finals of the last
two tournaments, to France in 2006 and
the Netherlands in 2010.
A festive World Cup atmosphere has
taken over Brazil in the run-up to the tournament
despite the country’s preparation
problems and the threats of protests. Brazilians
had been slow to get into the World
Cup mood, but now streets are being
painted with the green and yellow colours
and local flags are being displayed on windows
of homes across the country.
The crowd support is one of the biggest
reasons Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has been
saying loud and clear that Brazil is obligated
to win the World Cup at home. Players
also don’t hide that they believe Brazil is
the main title favorite.
“We know that we will have the fans
behind us, and together I think we have
a great chance of reaching our final goal,
which is to win the World Cup,” Brazil
starting midfielder Luiz Gustavo said.
Brazilian fans had been questioning
the national team before last year’s Confederations
Cup, but the title in the warmup
tournament was enough to bring the
fans back on board. That tournament also
helped show that Brazil has a team capable
of competing against the top football
nations today. The victory came in a final
against world champion Spain.
“The Confederations Cup allowed us
to regain our confidence,” Scolari, the
coach when Brazil won its last world title
in 2002, said. “Now we have to repeat that
during the World Cup.”
Brazil begins the tournament having
won 15 of its last 16 matches, the only
loss a 1-0 result at Switzerland in the first
match after the Confederations Cup.
Brazil will start the World Cup with the
same lineup that won the Confederations
Cup, with 22-year-old Barcelona striker
Neymar leading the team.
Scolari, meanwhile, has been hit by a
personal tragedy ahead of the start of the
World Cup. His nephew, Tarcisio Joao Schneider,
reportedly died in a car accident on
Tuesday. Several local and international
media outlets report, the 48-year-old’s
car collided with a truck at a roundabout in
the city of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul.
Croatia, led by Real Madrid playmaker
Luka Modric, will hope to pull off a monumental
upset, but the team won’t be at full
strength against the hosts.
Coach Niko Kovac won’t have forward
Mario Mandzukic, who was red-carded in
the team’s final qualifier, and experienced
midfielder Niko Kranjcar, who had to be
dropped from the squad because of a late
hamstring injury.
Novac was already without defender Josip
Simunic, who was banned for 10 games
by Fifa for leading fans in a pro-Nazi chant
after a qualifying match.
The high-profile opening match will be
played at the troubled Itaquerao, the construction
of which was delayed so badly
that the roof won’t even be fully finished
until after the tournament.
A crowd of more than 61 000 people is
expected at the Itaquerao, including many
heads of states.
The other Group A match will be played
between Mexico and Cameroon tomorrow
in the northeastern city of Natal.
The five-time champions are expected
to qualify from their group without too
much trouble but Barcelona defender Dani
Alves admitted there was anxiety ahead of
the Sao Paulo opener, as they seek to ease
the jitters. — Reuters