A 35-year-old Midlands State University student, Victor Majoni Tuesday appeared before Bulawayo Provincial Magistrates Court facing charges of insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
This came after he allegedly uploaded on his WhatsApp status a video status of a cartoon character with contents allegedly insulting the President.
The witness, Remigious Komboni, a Zanu PF secretary for administration in the youth league and a farmer in Umguza area, told the court that Majoni posted the video on his status a few days after President Mnangagwa had announced that citizens should fast and pray for the nation. He said:
<blockquote>I was going through WhatsApp statuses on my phone one day and I saw the status on Majoni’s phone. I sent him a message to warn him that he was out of line, but he ignored my advice.
I approached the councillor and the Member of Parliament before I proceeded to the police.
He later told me that his nephew is the one who had uploaded the status.</blockquote>
Majoni’s lawyer, Nqobani Sithole disputed Kombani’s evidence, insisting there was bad blood between his client and the informant because of their different political affiliations.
The ruling will be delivered on November 9 after Majoni finishes writing his examinations.
A number of people have been arrested since the days of the late former president Robert Mugabe for insulting the president.
Analysts say authorities are infringing the citizens’ constitutionally given right of expression.
More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/msu-student-in-soup-for-using-ed-cartoon-character-as-whatsapp-status/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NewZimbabwe</a>

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WhatsApp Status Of ED Cartoon Gets MSU Student In Trouble

President Mnangagwa has revealed that India is a strategic partner for Zimbabwe. He acknowledged efforts by Indian government, companies and nationals in the diaspora.
He further indicated that India could enhance Zimbabwe’s economic recovery process.
In a speech read on his behalf by Patrick Chinamasa at the inaugural India Diaspora Convention yesterday, Mnangagwa said:
<blockquote>The country is on a path to economic recovery. We have set ourselves a shared, ambitious yet achievable vision of becoming a middle income economy by 2030.
We are confident that we will achieve this vision. However, our developmental trajectory will be smoother and softer with support from friends like India and its corporate citizens and the Indian Diaspora.</blockquote>
He said India has been assisting Zimbabwe in business, politics, diplomacy, health, academia and other areas. Mnangagwa further said India offers opportunities and markets to both Zimbabwe and Africa. He said:
<blockquote>India is both a potential market for Zimbabwean goods, as well as a source of investment and technology. There is a huge opportunity for Indian businesses which, taken at its tide, will see this growing economy in the world establishing a foothold in Zimbabwe in manufacturing and provision of services for the entire African region.
On the health sector, it is not a secret that Indian medical and pharmaceutical companies have made a huge impact on the African market by providing access to life-saving drugs at affordable prices.</blockquote>
 
Indian Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Rungsung Masakui reiterated Mnangagwa’s words. He gave a brief history of Indo-African relations.
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India Is A Strategic Partner For Zimbabwe: ED

An article in the internationally recognised publication, The Economist urges people not to believe President Mnangagwa’s promises. The article argues Mnangagwa has kept the same incompetent people that formed former President Robert Mugabe’s government.
The article argues against reports that the Western world and financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is behind Mnangagwa. The writer argues that Mnangagwa has failed to apologise for past horrors and that even if Mnangagwa wants to reform, Zanu-PF is beyond redemption. Part of the article reads:
<blockquote>It is a beguiling argument, but it is false. Mr Mnangagwa’s government, shorn of Mr Mugabe and his wife’s chief acolytes, is still the same one that ruined a bountiful country, set records for hyperinflation, routinely tortured and murdered its critics, and prompted several million citizens to emigrate. During his eight months in office, Mr Mnangagwa has kept on many of the same band of incompetent crooks. He has promoted brutal, greedy generals. Virtually all his ministers and several judges are the beneficiaries of stolen wealth and land. He has failed to apologise for past horrors. Even if he wanted to turn over a new leaf, his party is irredeemable.</blockquote>
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Don't Believe Mnangagwa's Promises: The Economist Columnist

Minister of State for Matabeleland Abednico Ncube has called on Zimbabweans to complete formalities by voting for President Emmerson Mnangagwa. He claimed that Mnangagwa has already been chosen by God and that by voting for him, people will be merely completing God’s will.
Speaking in Mangwe, Ncube said,
<blockquote>God has already chosen President Mnangagwa. It is God’s will that he lead us. God has since written all that here in Mangwe, we have [Mangwe legislator], Obedingwa Mguni [Zanu PF]. When we go to put an X, we will be fulfilling God’s will.</blockquote>
He also called on the people of Mguni to vote for Zanu-PF legislator Obedingwa Mguni.
<blockquote>Mguni heard your request of the school and said he will give you 100 bags of cement and drill a borehole here, we thank him so much. If I was voting here, I would vote for him for the rest of his life.</blockquote>
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God Has Already Chosen Mnangagwa, It Is His Will For Him To Be President: Ncube

The Employers’ Confederation of Zimbabwe (Emcoz) has dismissed the list of externalisers released by President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week as a mockery in the fight against corruption. Emcoz president Matthew Chimbghandah said,
<blockquote>It (the list) fell short of expectations. This is not what we expected from the new dispensation. If the president is serious about fighting corruption, he should root it out and there should be no sacred cows.
To say that the companies that have not completed their acquittals are on the list of externalisers and looters is a mockery.Look, we should not promise and under-deliver. The electorate is expecting a lot from the new dispensation and they should walk the talk. Over the 37 years, the country has developed a culture that can only be described as inimical to business.</blockquote>
 
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New Dispensation Should Walk The Talk On Corruption: Employers Dismiss ED's Externalisation List

Former Minister of Finance and leader of the People’s Democratic Party, Tendai Biti has criticised the naming and shaming of alleged looters by President Emmerson Mnangagwa as mere posturing. Biti challenged the release of the list of alleged looters saying that the definition of “externalisation” was ambiguous and that the list itself referred to illicit financial flows which is a different matter altogether.
Writing on social media site, Twitter, Biti said,
<blockquote>The legal definition of externalization is a challenged one &amp; not filling acquittals is not externalisation. Publishing a Mickey Mouse list without legal clarity is defamatory &amp;inexcusable. Particularly if that list refers to illicit financial flows, which is a different issue.
However, it is quite clear that the mining sector remains the bedrock of illicit financial flows which are costing Africa a $ trillion annually, much more than the all foreign aid into the continent. The mining sector dominates categories one and two on #theList
Category 3 on #TheList are 90% Chinese nationals transferring money to Chinese banks. Question is, where are they getting this money given small Chinese imprint in Zim. Clear that there is rampant Chinese looting &amp; rape of this economy
The sum of $464 m on #TheList is a paltry amount given the haemorrhage in the country from corruption &amp; illicit financial flows. Diamonds alone were $15 b. The legitimacy &amp; credibility of the list is undermined by those that are not there, those that we know.</blockquote>
This is not the first time that Biti has challenged Mnangagwa on the issue of externalisation. Biti once described Mnangagwa as “legally illiterate” for not crafting legal instruments to deal with loopholes in the law to ensure that actual perpetrators are prosecuted and convicted. Said Biti,
<blockquote>But you and I know that even though Mnangagwa is a lawyer, all his legal pronouncements have been legally deficient, starting with the announcement of ministers which did not take into account the provisions of Part 5 of the constitution. So even though he is a lawyer, he is legally illiterate.
…So if they try and arrest people (on externalisation charges) lawyers will have parties in town because of the lack of that clarity.</blockquote>
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