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<p>The Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet (Presidential Communications), George Charamba, said CCC leader Nelson Chamisa should visit his colleagues Job Sikhala, Godfrey Sithole, and the other 14 CCC activists jailed at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison at their next court appearance.</p>
<p>Charamba made the remarks after Chamisa was on Thursday denied access to visit his colleagues who have been in pre-trial detention since June.</p>
<p>Posting on Twitter, Charamba said the government will not compromise national security just to please Chamisa. Tweeted Charamba:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Chikurubi Maximum Prison is a high-security zone. We don’t play games with dangerous criminals behind bars.</p>
<p>Be at liberty to meet your inmate friends in the court gallery at their next appearance.</p>
<p>This is standard practice and a much safer way. We don’t compromise national security.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Earlier on, Chamisa was forced to wait at the prison for three hours before prison officers advised him that Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi had instructed to deny him access.</p>
<p>Sikhala, Sithole, and a group of CCC activists were arrested on 14 June 2022 for allegedly inciting violence in Nyatsime in the aftermath of the brutal murder of Moreblessing Ali, a CCC activist. | <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/mnangagwas-aide-scoffs-at-chamisas-ill-fated-chikurubi-visit-says-meet-your-ccc-members-at-next-court-date/"><strong>NewZimbabwe.com</strong></a></p>


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ED's Spokesperson Tells Chamisa To Visit Sikhala In Court, Not At Chikurubi

<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Presidential spokesperson <strong><a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/George_Charamba">George Charamba</a></strong> has threatened Harare mayor <strong><a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Jacob_Mafume">Jacob Mafume</a></strong> with arrest for opposing Cabinet’s decision to endorse the US$240 million Pomona waste management deal for the city.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">The threat comes after a Harare City Council (HCC) special meeting last week resolved to suspend the deal between Netherlands-based Geogenix BV company and HCC, which will see Geogenix BV pocketing US$22 000 per day for 30 years.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Charamba yesterday <strong><a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2022/06/charamba-threatens-little-lawyer-mafume-over-pomona-deal/">told NewsDay: </a></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">The government is not taking over the Pomona project, but is merely approving the project. The project owners are the Harare City Council and what the government is simply doing is to approve, and there is a difference between approving and taking over. The council voluntarily took the project to the minister (Local Government) for consideration. The minister cannot disown the minutes that he took to Cabinet.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">If this little lawyer whom you call the Mayor of Harare (Jacob Mafume) insists on opposing the Cabinet decision, he must know for sure that we will end up locking him (up) in prison. He will be a suitable candidate for Chikurubi (Maximum Security Prison).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">But Mafume, a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillor remained adamant, saying he was unmoved by Charamba’s threats.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">How does he run government by threats? What crime have I committed? If it’s a council decision, then we no longer want it. Why does he threaten me all the time? Does he want me to die in Chikurubi? Why does he want to kill me for saying the truth?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">The <strong><a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Zimbabwe_Anti-Corruption_Commission">Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC)</a></strong> has been petitioned to investigate the circumstances leading to the controversial agreement.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Civic society groups and residents’ groups have also questioned the corrupt deal as it is likely to cost taxpayers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Last week, <strong><a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2022/06/05/harare-handed-us750-000-bill-by-company-managing-pomona-dumpsite/">HCC was handed a US$750 000 bill</a></strong> by Geogenix BV fronted by businessman, <strong><a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Dylish_Nguwaya">Delish Nguwaya</a></strong>, but the local authority refused to foot the bill.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Centre for Natural Resource Governance director <strong><a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Farai_Maguwu">Farai Maguwu</a></strong> said the government’s insistence that the project should go on despite that it is mired in corruption proved that some powerful people could be involved.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">He pointed out that the fact that Nguwaya, who has also been mentioned in the multi-million dollar Drax saga for the purchase of COVID-19 personal protective equipment, is involved was enough to raise a red flag.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Political analyst Vivid Gwede said the project exposes how central government interferes in the running of councils. </span></p>
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Mnangagwa's Spokesperson Threatens Harare Mayor Over Pomona Waste Deal

<p>Presidential spokesperson George Charamba has said Members of Parliament who are trying to push President Emmerson Mnangagwa to appoint a Vice-President are “ignorant”.</p>
<p>Speaking to<em> NewsDay</em> on Monday, Charamba said Mnangagwa will make the appointment in his own time. Said Charamba:</p>
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<p>It is a prerogative of the President to decide when to appoint a minister or a Vice-President.</p>
<p>Do you think you can force us to do something we don’t want to do? At what point does Parliament make decisions for the Executive?</p>
<p>How does the Legislature force the hand of the Executive? On what basis?</p>
<p>Parliament is out of order; they have no reason compelling appointments which are a prerogative of the President.</p>
<p>It is not their duty and they must keep off and know their terms. It’s straightforward, they are ignorant.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Last month, Magwegwe MP Anele Ndebele (MDC Alliance) raised a matter of privilege in the National Assembly, requesting to know when a second Vice President would be appointed in the spirit of the 1987 Unity Accord.</p>
<p>The Unity Accord created two Vice President posts one from the former PF ZAPU party which was led by the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo and the other from ZANU PF.</p>
<p>Former ZANU PF Mashonaland West provincial chairman, Temba Mliswa, who is Norton MP (Independent) has also called for the appointment of a second VP, saying the people of Matabeleland were being deprived of representation.</p>
<p>The post has been vacant since February last year when Kembo Mohadi resigned amid revelations that he was involved in a love affair with a married female staffer in his office.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, journalist Hopewell Chin’ono has advised opposition MPs to desist from entanglement in ZANU PF factional fights by calling for Mohadi’s replacement, saying instead, they should be holding Mnangagwa’s government to account. He said:</p>
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<p>I wouldn’t use the word ignorant, but misplaced! Any opposition MP agitating for the appointment of Mohadi’s replacement is getting involved in ZANU PF factionalism!</p>
<p>There are so many issues to take to parliament like Corruption, Clean Drinking Water, Plunder of natural resources and more.</p>
<p>Opposition MPs should use their parliamentary time to hold Mnangagwa’s Government to account for its failures and not get involved in ZANU PF factionalism fighting for another freeloader to come on board!</p>
<p>The appointment of another Vice President will not make the life of Zimbabweans, it will make things worse because it means another fat cat looting public funds. Why would the opposition be pushing for that?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The only VP who served alone since 1987 was Joice Mujuru (2009 to 2014) following the death of Joseph Msika who was from the former PF ZAPU party.</p>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2022/05/mps-are-ignorant-charamba/">NewsDay</a></h4>


MPs Can't Force Mnangagwa To Appoint Mohadi Replacement - Charamba

<p>Zimbabwe has been without a second Vice-President for over a year following the resignation of Kembo Mohadi in March last year.</p>
<p>Presidential spokesperson George Charamba on Tuesday told <em>NewsDay</em> that he could not comment on when President Emmerson Mnangagwa would appoint a second VP.</p>
<p>Mohadi resigned on 1 March 2021 in the wake of damning immoral allegations which dogged him until the end of February 2021.</p>
<p>Constitutional lawyer Lovemore Madhuku said there was no law that compels the President to appoint a second VP. Said Madhuku:</p>
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<p>The President has not breached any part of the Constitution by not appointing a second VP.</p>
<p>The 1987 Unity Accord is irrelevant in the appointment of the VPs because it is a private contract between Zanu PF and PF Zapu. That cannot be enforced using the laws of Zimbabwe.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The post of the second VP was created following the 1987 Unity Accord between ZANU PF and PF ZAPU and was reserved for former ZAPU members.</p>
<p>However, political analyst Methuseli Moyo said former ZAPU members are anxiously waiting for Mnangagwa’s choice. Said Moyo:</p>
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<p>The way Mohadi was induced to resign was very suspicious, and the amount of time it has taken to replace him or reappoint him makes the issue more suspicious.</p>
<p>No doubt Mohadi is bitter, and his fellow ex-ZAPU colleagues are anxious about what befell him, and who will succeed him.</p>
<p>The way ED came into power makes him indebted to a lot of people who made it happen.</p>
<p>He wants those harbouring ambitions to come out. It plays to his advantage to keep everybody anxious and hoping.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>This is not the first time that Zimbabwe has had a single VP. Joice Mujuru once served alone from 2009 to 2014 following the death of Joseph Msika.</p>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2022/04/govt-mum-on-2nd-vp-appointment/">NewsDay</a></h4>


Govt Quiet On Second Vice President Appointment

<p>President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesman George Charamba says he will expose an altercation between MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and his security detail.</p>
<p>He did not reveal where and when the alleged quarrel took place or what it was about.</p>
<p>Chamisa recently toured Masvingo and Manicaland provinces where he was attacked several times by suspected ZANU PF supporters.</p>
<p>Posting on Twitter using his @Jamwanda2 handle, Charamba promised to release recordings of the alleged altercation between Chamisa and his aide. Wrote Charamba:</p>
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<p>We have recordings of an altercation between Chamisa and his security detail who tries in vain to knock sense into the drama-comedian!!! We shall release it in due course zvedu!!!!!</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Charamba also claimed that Chamisa does not want imminent by-elections as well as the 2023 general elections in the hope that “he recovers lost ground”. Said Charamba:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>IN CASE YOU DON’T KNOW: Chamisa haadi maELECTIONS. GET IT FROM ME. ZVESE INCLUDING THOSE BACKING HIM. THEY WANT A HOLDING POSITION WHILE THEY HOPE HE RECOVERS LOST GROUND. NOTHING WILL BE SPARED TO DERAIL 2023: PSEUDO-EVENTS ON NEVER-NEVER VIOLENCE; ELECTORAL SABBATICALS; NTAs…and DESTABILISATION OF OUR CURRENCY.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, we determinedly forge ahead with preparations for elections, starting with COVID-19-stalled by-elections!! We did not make appointments for full ZEC for nothing. Voter registration, delimitation are set to start soon. Antics or no antics, ZIMBABWE GOES POLLING!!!</p>
<p>Phoney challenges on the President’s legitimacy and much more court cases to stop elections being mulled, ZIMBABWE GOES A-POLLING. KNOW THIS ALL YE MEN AND WOMEN!!!!!</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Responding to a Twitter user who had advised him to move on from Chamisa since he has no “MP, Cllrs, Party name and even Party building”, Charamba said:</p>
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<p>Pabateyi maChinja mose: Chamisa tichatamba naye kusvika ati eke!!! Zvenyu zvekufunga kuti you demobilise us through cheap, saving claims kanganwai. Naye kusvika muna 2023. Get ready to defend your hopeless fella!!!!! #EDTheGameChanger!!!!</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Scores of MDC Alliance MPs and councillors have been recalled by the MDC-T under Thokozani Khupe and her successor Douglas Komichi, leaving their seats without representatives.</p>
<p>According to online sources, in Russian culture, <strong><em>kompromat</em></strong>, short for “compromising material”, is damaging information about a politician, a businessperson, or other public figure, which may be used to create negative publicity, as well as for blackmail, often to exert influence rather than monetary gain, and extortion.</p>
<h4><strong>More: <a href="https://insiderzim.com/mnangagwa-spokesman-threatens-to-expose-chamisa-shenanigans-says-by-elections-coming-soon/">The Insider</a></strong></h4>


Charamba Claims To Hold 'Kompromat' On Chamisa

<p>President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba on Tuesday sparked a diplomatic tiff with the new government of Zambia after calling President Hakainde Hichilema a “sellout”.</p>
<p>Charamba attacked Hichilema in May this year and repeated the undiplomatic rant yesterday after pictures of MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa meeting with the new Zambia leader at the inauguration ceremony emerged.</p>
<p>Hichilema (59), took the oath of office on Tuesday before thousands of jubilant supporters gathered at the Heroes Stadium in the capital, Lusaka, with both Mnangagwa and Chamisa in attendance among other regional leaders.</p>
<p>When pictures of Hichilema and Chamisa went viral, Twitter users reminded Charamba of his provocative comments about the new Zambian leader.</p>
<p>In response to lawyer Alex Magaisa, Charamba showed no contrition for his initial attack on Hichilema. He said:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Yes, they are sellouts. What is your problem?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>United Party for National Development (UPND) party spokesperson Joseph Kalimbwe told <em>NewsDay</em> that it was wrong for Mnangagwa’s spokesperson to attack Hichilema when there was no previous relationship with his boss and Zambia’s new leader. Said Kalimbwe:</p>
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<p>In my own personal view, it is catastrophic. (The comments) cannot be taken lightly. What is worrisome is that he is using a fake name, because he cannot come out openly as a spokesperson of a head of State to be saying such shameless statements.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Magaisa, a Zimbabwean academic who teaches law at the University of Kent in Britain, said by virtue of being the President’s spokesperson, there was no distinction between Charamba’s views and government position, which made his latest sentiments on Hichilema an issue of concern. Said Magaisa:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Charamba is a presidential spokesperson who is making a vile statement against a fellow Head of State.</p>
<p>His statement matters because we have seen his several other posts reflecting government positions on other issues.</p>
<p>It is undiplomatic for a presidential spokesperson to attack a fellow head of State on baseless accusations.</p>
<p>Ironically, Charamba makes the attack when they are attending Hichilema’s inauguration.</p>
<p>The fact is that there is fear and panic within the ruling party ZANU PF over the perceived close association between Chamisa and Hichilema.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Tensions between Mnangagwa and Chamisa have escalated since Hichilema’s victory with both leaders claiming to have close relations with him.</p>
<p>Earlier before the inauguration, Charamba had falsely claimed on Twitter that Chamisa was not going to attend Hichilema’s inauguration although he had been invited.</p>
<h4><strong>More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2021/08/charamba-labels-hichilema-sellout/">NewsDay</a></strong></h4>


Mnangagwa's Spokesperson Labels Hichilema "Sellout"

<p>A political commentator using the Twitter handle <a href="https://twitter.com/MJairosi/status/1429828939044859917"><strong>@MJairosi</strong></a> says Presidential spokesperson George Charamba was working for the military for several years before the late former president Robert Mugabe was overthrown in November 2017. Below is his Twitter thread:</p>
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<p>Let me do a short thread about George Charamba aka @Jamwanda2. It is sad that we have to waste time on maggots like him rather than getting directly to the rotten carcass, but at times it is necessary to clear away the pus before treating the putrid sore.</p>
<p>In 2008, when Robert Mugabe lost the elections to Morgan Tsvangirai, a meeting was convened by the military junta in which they agreed to reverse the outcome. At that time, Mugabe had indicated that he was going to concede defeat but @edmnangagwa rejected the idea.</p>
<p>Mugabe was convinced that his intention to concede defeat was not in the best interest of Zanu PF &amp; that it was tantamount to betraying the revolutionary party. Eventually, he agreed to stay. However, the military junta was already infuriated by Mugabe’s initial intentions.</p>
<p>After the rerun, the junta started working together with @edmnangagwa to remove Mugabe. This is where George Charamba was recruited. George would provide information about Mugabe to the junta. Like a sellout would do Charamba, continued to pretend as if everything was ok.</p>
<p>Charamba knew what was going on but Mugabe did not know what was going on neither did Grace. Grace haana neremuromo na George. I don’t think she will ever forgive him. The first attempt to remove Mugabe was deliberated before the 2013 elections. They wanted him out.</p>
<p>However, there was a stumbling block &amp; it was Solomon Mujuru, who they thought was also sympathetic to Morgan Tsvangirai. They wanted him eliminated, before the elections which were coming in 2013. In 2011, two years before the elections, they brutally eliminated Mujuru.</p>
<p>There was a heated debate after Mujuru’s demise with some arguing that it would look obvious that they checkmated Mujuru if they removed Mugabe from office before 2013, so they decided to go with Mugabe as the presidential candidate.</p>
<p>Fast forward to months before the 2018 elections, by this time the military junta, working with George Charamba, had resolved to remove Mugabe. At that time Charamba had hoodwinked the public that he would soon retire.</p>
<p>As someone who was at the centre of the plot to remove Mugabe, George Charamba hinted at the public when he said “<em>Chine vene vacho chinhu ichi</em> (this country belongs to certain people) and you won’t be there when great questions of the day are settled <em>mumatare avo</em>“.</p>
<p>George never warned the man he had worked with for many years. It was one of the greatest betrayals a man as ever plotted against his boss. He wanted Mugabe humiliated &amp; indeed he has been humiliated. Grace Mugabe <em>haana neremuromo kani.</em></p>
<p>George Charamba is a backstabber who belongs to that genre of Zimbabweans who empty their little minds at the least opportunity &amp; feel they have all the solutions without even a fundamental understanding of the complexity of our situation. One day it will come back to him.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4><strong>More: <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a></strong></h4>


"George Charamba Backstabbed Mugabe, Wanted Him Humiliated"

<p>MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba of treason for suggesting that the country’s war veterans, who coincidentally head the military, will not allow MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to take over power even if he wins elections.</p>
<p>Charamba on Tuesday said Mnangagwa and his generation did not go to war <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2021/08/17/its-blasphemy-to-think-war-veterans-will-let-chamisa-rule-zimbabwe-charamba/"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">so that they will hand over the country to Chamisa on a silver platter.</span></strong></a></p>
<p>Responding to Charamba’s remarks, Biti said the former should be charged with treason and incitement of public violence. <a href="https://twitter.com/BitiTendai/status/1428346003447549960"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Said Biti:</span></a></p>
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<p>The remarks of the regime’s spokesman Mr George Charamba are not only false but treasonous and designed to create public disorder and despondency.</p>
<p>In a normal country, George Charamba would be charged with treason and incitement of public violence.</p>
<p>The truth however is that George Charamba is not a spokesperson for the military. The military is a legitimate constitutional body that will defend the constitution and the people of Zimbabwe.</p>
<p>The attempt to politicise the same and to suck same into internal party politics and ZANU factions is deranged and ahistorical Change will occur in Zimbabwe sooner rather than later.</p>
<p>Change is the only constant variable. That change will be part of a new consensus. A new United Vision that will establish a sustainable democratic great Zimbabwe in which all are free to pursue justice, prosperity and happiness.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4><strong>More: <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a></strong></h4>


George Charamba Should Be Charged With Treason - Biti

<p><span style="font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;">George Charamba, the spokesperson of President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday insinuated that war veterans will not allow opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to take power from the ruling ZANU PF.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Observers say the remarks are an open threat of violence by the ruling party ahead of the 2023 elections. Previously, ZANU PF said war veterans and military personnel would not salute the then leader of MDC, the late Morgan Tsvangirai. They eventual did when he became the Prime Minister during the government of national unity (GNU) that was formed in 2009. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Posting on Twitter after MDC Alliance officials had expressed optimism that the party can win elections in Zimbabwe following veteran Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema’s victory in the presidential election held on 12 August, <strong><a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2021/08/17/its-blasphemy-to-think-war-veterans-will-let-chamisa-rule-zimbabwe-charamba/">Charamba said:</a></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Kwaa kufunga kuti madhara ehondo anongopfeka hovhorosi kuti Chamisa agotonga hake??? Imika imi, ityai Mwari!!!! [<em>Do you think these war veterans just wear overalls so that Chamisa can govern? Come on, revere God!!!! [laughing emoji</em>]</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Pindula News presents some of the responses to Charamba’s remarks.</span><br/>
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<strong><span style="font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Hopewell Chin’ono@daddyhope (freelance journalist)<br/>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">This tweet by Mnangagwa’s spokesman George Charamba @jamwanda2 </span><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">is loaded with fear and intimidation! Hardly an hour passes without Charamba or his surrogates reminding Zimbabweans who the REAL opposition leader is in Zimbabwe. It also <span style="font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;">debunks the falsehood that Joji is smart!</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong> Hon. Temba P. Mliswa @TembaMliswa (Independent Member of Parliament for Norton Constituency)</strong></span><br/>
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It’s both unfortunate&amp; deplorable that government officials are invoking the name of War Veterans and throwing subtle war threats, crafting an erroneous image of veterans as a troublesome group which is against democratic power changes in national politics.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Tichawona Mutoro @dvdticho</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Those who died whilst fighting for our freedom are turning in their graves because this is surely not the Zimbabwe they fought and died for.I am disgusted by someone who believes they are entitled to rule Zim because they fought or were part of those who organised Chimurenga.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">We appreciate and respect those who sacrificed their lives to free Zimbabwe…including our parents, brothers and sisters. Zim has a lot of qualified people capable of leading, because one fought in the war is not a qualification to hold an office in government.</span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;"> Pedzisai Ruhanya @PedzisaiRuhanya(opposition MDC Alliance activist)<br/>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Grace Mugabe was correct on Jamwanda, anonyora matoto (he writes nonsense). He was a problem under Mugabe and continues to be problematic today. He gives toxic and unlawful advice to security apparatus against the masses and many people have been killed because of this recklessness</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">They publicly threaten violence, publicly announce they will deploy the armed forces of a country to campaign and protect Zanu PF against the masses, then they say they deserve respect from the masses and their electoral theft should be accepted; really, it’s oxymoronic.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Most genuine liberation fighters are dead. Some of these so called madhara ehondo did not even fire a single shot, very bogus and questionable credentials</span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Professor Jonathan Moyo (exiled former Information Minister)<br/>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Madhara enyu ehondo nemahovhoroso are now the most vulnerable tiny winy segment in the population, in the army, in political parties and even in their families. Be a rational &amp; ethical advisor Cde; tell them the truth, they better go peacefully; or else their exit will be tragic!</span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;">Fadzayi Mahere @advocatemahere (opposition MDC Alliance Spokesperson and law lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe)<br/>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Why did he not say Mwonzora? </span><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Pafungei ipapo [think about it].</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Basa rekunyora zvisina basa rese [you (George Charamba) write nonsense].</span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;">NdebeleMaker @nhlaasto85</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">The More they mention Chamisa’s name on daily basis it gives him more traction… The more they speak of him to a thinking Youth it must ring a bell. It must tell u something is special about this guy.. They are getting scared cause Zambian set a precedence n template to copy</span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;">Garikai Goremusandu@Garikai1Gorey</span></strong></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">I don’t believe in majority rule ever in Rhodesia… not in 1,000 years, Smith once said those words in 1976. It will END.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;">Tawanda Shumba @cas_ts</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Where are the people in this? Surely it is the people, the voters, who decide whether it’s madhara ehondo or Chamisa they want for the highest office. Unless if @Jamwanda2 </span><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">is telling us that elections in Zimbabwe are a farce, a routine that fulfills legality but useless on power?</span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;">MuChikunda @mukorekore4</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Charamba has just confirmed one thing, that without the madhara ehondo Chamisa will beat ED hands down. To the Youths, l say go and register to VOTE for Chamisa to put an end to these threats of war once and for all. You need jobs and not threats.</span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;">Shingi @ShingiChange</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Remember how we all used to fear Robert Mugabe? These people have everything to lose if the Zambian situation is replicated in Zim. Thus they will use every trick in the book but note, if you start seeing them do it so clearly and openly then it means they are afraid, VERY AFRAID</span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;">Arnold SwagNigga.@Anorld_80</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">They’re in panic mode and they’re beginning to play politics of the mind to discourage gullible people who will quickly say we can never win. Zanu wouldn’t pay lobbyists and socialites to solicit for votes if elections didn’t matter. They wouldn’t kill for it either.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: times new roman, times, serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">#RegisterToVoteZw@DocLAWO</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">It seems that all these years taikandwa fear with these statements and we fell for it and believed it. Massive voter mobilisation, massive voter turn out and coordinated protection of the vote-these guys will go packing rakacheka nyika. 2008 the vote wasnt properly protected!</span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;">Leoni Kusanga @LKusanga</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Zambians protected their vote. The military helped them do that! I wonder if our military can do what we saw happen in Zambia – a special unit called the Zebra protected the vote at Mulungushi! They even protected the main opposition leader! Zim let’s do it too!!</span></p>
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<p><strong>More: <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw">Pindula News</a></strong></p>


Responses To "War Veterans Won't Allow Chamisa To Rule" Remarks By Mnangagwa's Spokesperson

<p>President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba said the ruling ZANU PF will not hand over power to MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa no matter what.</p>
<p>In a tweet on Tuesday evening, Charamba said President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his generation did not go to war so that they will hand over the country to Chamisa on a silver platter. <a href="https://twitter.com/Jamwanda2/status/1427681396395479051">Wrote Charamba:</a></p>
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<p><em>Kwaa kufunga kuti madhara ehondo anongopfeka hovhorosi kuti Chamisa agotonga hake??? Imika imi, ityai Mwari!!!!</em></p>
<p>Do you think these war veterans just wear overalls so that Chamisa can govern? Come on, revere God!!!! [laughing emoji]</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="in">Kwaa kufunga kuti madhara ehondo anongopfeka hovhorosi kuti Chamisa agotonga hake??? Imika imi, ityai Mwari!!!!😂😂😂🤣 <a href="https://t.co/xqWv1Rg8go">pic.twitter.com/xqWv1Rg8go</a></p>
<p>— Jamwanda (@Jamwanda2) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jamwanda2/status/1427681396395479051?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>It is not clear what prompted Charamba to make the remarks but MDC Alliance leaders have expressed optimism that the party can win elections in Zimbabwe following veteran Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema’s victory in the presidential election held on Thursday.</p>
<p>Hichilema, who Charamba labelled a sellout before his win, was contesting for the presidency for the sixth time.</p>
<p>Soon after the Electoral Commission of Zambia declared Hichilema the President-Elect, the MDC Alliance was quick to congratulate him, with the party’s Secretary for International Relations, Gladys Kudzaishe Hlatywayo, saying:</p>
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<p>This election victory is a triumph for democracy in light of the growing authoritarian consolidation we have witnessed in countries such as Zimbabwe and Swaziland.</p>
<p>The UPND is our sister party and we have exchanged notes over the years to further the cause of democracy and good governance in our respective nations. We draw many lessons from the Zambian story.</p>
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<p>Responding to Charamba’s tweet, prominent journalist and filmmaker Hopewell Chin’ono said Charamba is not intelligent. <a href="https://twitter.com/daddyhope/status/1427700440070823937">Said Chin’ono:</a></p>
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<p>This tweet by Mnangagwa’s spokesman George Charamba @Jamwanda2 is loaded with fear and intimidation!</p>
<p>Hardly an hour passes without Charamba or his surrogates reminding Zimbabweans who the REAL opposition leader is in Zimbabwe.</p>
<p>It also debunks the falsehood that Joji is smart!</p>
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<h4><strong>More: <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a></strong></h4>


It's Blasphemy To Think War Veterans Will Let Chamisa Rule Zimbabwe - Charamba

<p>President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba said Zambia’s President-Elect Hakainde Hichilema and outgoing president, Edgar Lungu have both reached out to Harare “in the spirit of good neighbourliness”.</p>
<p>Posting on Twitter using the @Jamwanda2 handle, Charamba expressed confidence that the incoming Hichilema administration will continue working with Zimbabwe on the Batoka Hydroelectric project. <a href="https://twitter.com/Jamwanda2/status/1427194831579795470">Said Charamba:</a></p>
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<p>REALPOLITICS: As happens in the work-a-day world of politics, both the winning and losing candidate in Zambia’s recent plebiscite have reached out to Zimbabwe in the spirit of good neighbourliness and shared mutual interest.</p>
<p>Apart from geographical contiguity and shared histories and cultures, Zambia is a key market for the Zimbabwean Economy while Zimbabwe is a key gateway for Zambian exports to South Africa and to the wider world through sea gateways.</p>
<p>Both countries are jointly working on the Batoka Hydroelectric project which is set to be a game-changer in the region.</p>
<p>Since the independence of Zimbabwe in 1980, towards which Independence Zambia played a key role, the ruling ZANU-PF party has seen power changing hands between four Presidents in Zambia. These are late President Chiluba, Mwanawasa and Sata, and President Lungu.</p>
<p>The change from former President Lungu to President-Elect Hichilema is the fifth such.</p>
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<p>Charamba is on record dismissing Hichilema, MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and former South Africa’s Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane as sellouts.</p>
<p>Hichilema was declared winner of Zambia’s hotly contested presidential election, defeating incumbent Lungu.</p>
<p>With 155 of 156 constituencies reporting, official results on Monday showed Hichilema had secured 2,810,757 votes against Lungu’s 1,814,201.</p>
<h4><strong>More: <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a></strong></h4>


Zambia's President-Elect Hichilema Reaches Out To Mnangagwa

<p>A South African hospital has engaged debt collectors to recover almost R6 000 (less than US$500) remaining from the late former Zimbabwe Prime Minister and Movement Democratic Change leader, Morgan Tsvangirai’s medical bills.</p>
<p>Tsvangirai died at the age of 65 on 14 February 2018 at the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre (WDGMC) in South Africa after battling colon cancer.</p>
<p>Following Tsvangirai’s death, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who had succeeded the late former president Robert Mugabe through a military coup in November 2017, said the government would assume the hospital bills.</p>
<p>Mnangagwa made the pledge while addressing mourners at Tsvangirai’s home, saying they will fulfil the financial and material promises made to Tsvangirai including settling his hospital bill.</p>
<p>However, on behalf of a South African medical doctor, Dr Liakos, Chantel Grobler of Med-e-Claims engaged officials at the Zimbabwean Consulate in Johannesburg in 2019 over an outstanding bill of R5840. 99 that is yet to be settled.</p>
<p>In an interview with <em>CITE</em>, Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet (Presidential Communications), George Charamba, said the government stands ready to clear the outstanding bill of R5 840. 99, “as long as proper channels are involved.” He said:</p>
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<p>This means some payment was made by the government isn’t, so all they need to do is raise an invoice for the government’s considerations.</p>
<p>We underwrote the medical bill of the late departed, we did that as the Zimbabwean government we don’t expect any intermediation in terms of routing of invoices, do we?</p>
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<p>Charamba said settling this “little” debt was a straightforward matter that would have been dealt with procedurally.</p>
<p>He noted that the outstanding figure was a remnant that indicated some payments had been made previously. Said Charamba:</p>
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<p>We have been clearing for all this time, this is just a remnant amount. Did they have to hop on to the media to get that payment done?</p>
<p>At whatever point were you (the media) ever part of the deal? He knows how to place an invoice to the government of Zimbabwe and must do likewise.</p>
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<h4><strong>More: <a href="https://cite.org.zw/sa-doctor-engages-debt-collector-over-unpaid-tsvangirai-medical-bill/">CITE</a></strong></h4>


SA Doctor Engages Debt Collector Over Unpaid Tsvangirai Medical Bill

<p>Presidential spokesperson George Charamba says the media will not be informed when government deploys soldiers to fight jihadists in neighbouring Mozambique.</p>
<p>Posting on his Twitter handle @Jamwanda2 on Wednesday, Charamba said the army will not be deployed in the full glare of the media. He said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Do not expect images of our men and women in fatigues. It is not the tradition of Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) to deploy in the full glare of the media.</p>
<p>We know well enough what is never done ahead or during operations. I am just saying <em>zvangu</em>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Zimbabwe is set to deploy its contingent of soldiers to the neighbouring country to help quell a crisis fueled by Islamist insurgents in the Northern Cabo Delgado region.</p>
<p><em>NewZimbabwe.com</em> reported military sources as having said soldiers have been on standby for the greater part of the past week.</p>
<p>Charamba’s statement comes after Botswana and South Africa announced plans to deploy hundreds of their troops to Mozambique.</p>
<p>South Africa is set to send 1 495 soldiers to Mozambique, while Botswana sent 296 troops to the country on Monday to join soldiers from other Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Defence and War Veterans Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri spoke on the deployment of soldiers to Mozambique for the first time this week, telling Senate “all was under control”. She said:</p>
<blockquote><p>We are taking a regional posture because of the definition of the threats.</p>
<p>We need to define the rate of threat, in our case, it is not a direct threat …If there is a threat, we will not hesitate, we will definitely come to Parliament to seek your support but as it is, yes there are some threats and we continue to monitor developments in the area.</p>
<p>I cannot divulge much but intelligence has it that there is some movement or manoeuvring. We are monitoring and the nation has to take comfort that we are on top of that situation.</p></blockquote>
<h4><strong>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/charamba-confirms-media-blackout-on-deployment-of-soldiers/">NewZimbabwe.com</a></strong></h4>


Charamba Confirms Media Blackout On Deployment Of Soldiers

<p>ZimFact has said remarks by George Charamba the presidential spokesperson that Chinese, Russian and Indian COVID-19 vaccines registered for use in Zimbabwe have all been approved by the World Health Organisation and are part of the Covax scheme, are misleading.</p>
<p><a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2021/07/20/mdc-alliance-stuck-with-unregistered-vaccines-from-us-embassy-charamba/">In a series of tweets on the country’s COVID-19 vaccination programme,</a> George Charamba – who uses the @Jamwanda2 handle – claimed that all four vaccines which have been registered for use in Zimbabwe had been similarly cleared by the World Health Organisation (WHO). He further claimed that the vaccines were now “part of the Covax menu.”</p>
<h2>Below is ZimFact’s conclusion on the matter.</h2>
<h2>CLAIM:</h2>
<p>Chinese, Russian and Indian COVID-19 vaccines registered for use in Zimbabwe have all been approved by the World Health Organisation and are part of the Covax scheme.</p>
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<p>Presidential spokesperson George Charamba, via Twitter.</p>
<h2>RATING:</h2>
<p>Misleading. Only the two Chinese vaccines – Sinovac and Sinopharm – have received WHO approval. Russia’s Sputnik V and India’s Covaxin, the other vaccines approved by Zimbabwe, are yet to get WHO emergency use listing. Covax has indeed signed a deal to include the two Chinese vaccines in its scheme, but has not done so for Sputnik V and Covaxin.</p>
<p>This is only partly true. According to the latest available WHO information, Sinopharm and Sinovac did receive the global health watchdog’s nod on 7 May 2021 and 1 June 2021, respectively. On 12 July 2021, the Covax scheme, a multilateral facility set up to procure and distribute COVID-19 vaccines equitably to include low-income countries, announced an agreement to procure up to 550 million doses of both Sinopharm and Sinovac between July 2021 and mid-2022.</p>
<p>Neither Sputnik V and India’s Covaxin have been approved for emergency use by the WHO or contracted for purchase by Covax for distribution to participating countries. These two vaccines are at different stages of the WHO evaluation process.</p>
<h2>CONCLUSION:</h2>
<p>The claim that all COVID-19 vaccines approved by Zimbabwe and currently in use in the country have also been cleared by the WHO and signed up for distribution by Covax is misleading. This is only true for the Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines, while Sputnik V and Covaxin still await WHO authorisation and have not been contracted by Covax.</p>
<h2><strong>More: <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw">Pindula News</a>; <a href="https://zimfact.org/charambas-claim-on-vaccines-is-misleading/">ZimFact</a></strong></h2>


Charamba's Remarks On Vaccines In Zimbabwe Misleading - ZimFact

<p>President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s top aide on Wednesday said the government will unleash security agencies and the Zimbabwe Anti-corruption Commission (ZACC) to probe some law firms that are allegedly being used as conduits to channel money to opposition parties as part of the West’s regime change agenda.</p>
<p>Posting on Twitter yesterday, presidential spokesperson George Charamba claimed some white-run law firms affiliated with the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) are working against the government. He said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Why does this racially fastidious auditor of professional conduct of lawyers so wilfully blind to this yelling anomaly which has persisted for decades?</p>
<p>Shouldn’t ZACC move in to ask basic questions to both the society and the firm in question? Or higher bodies, now that State security is involved?</p>
<p>Here we go: There’s a prominent white law firm whose books have gone unchecked for donkey years, including by the falsely punctilious Law Society of Zimbabwe which busily harasses indigenous law firms ironically in the name of protecting them.</p>
<p>We have mechanisms for detecting such subterfuges. What I can’t suffer or countenance is a statutory body purporting to represent officers of the court turning the same members who make it up — or should — into vicarious subversives.</p></blockquote>
<p>Charamba’s remarks come a few weeks after Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi accused some of the High Court judges of taking orders from hostile foreign nations to pass judgments against the government.</p>
<p>Asked by <em>NewsDay</em> to clarify his tweets, Charamba curtly said: “Wait, my friend. I have a serious assignment to do.”</p>
<p><a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/law-society-of-zimbabwe-responds-to-mischievous-attacks-full-statement/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>READ MORE: Law Society of Zimbabwe Responds To ‘Mischievous’ Attacks – Full Statement</strong></a></p>
<p>LSZ spokesperson Richard Chidza declined to comment on Charamba’s latest allegations saying the statement issued on Saturday should suffice. The Saturday statement read in part:</p>
<blockquote><p>Attacks have further been aimed at the Law Society’s disciplinary processes and regulatory functions which are also provided for by law.</p>
<p>There seems to be a clearly constructed narrative to create a schism or rift within the profession establishing opposing camps along racial or political lines.</p>
<p>This we believe is aimed at weakening the unity of the profession and tarnishing the Law Society’s reputation and public standing as an independent professional body.</p></blockquote>
<h4><strong>More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2021/06/govt-goes-after-lawyers/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">NewsDay</a></strong></h4>


Govt Unleashes State Security Agencies On Lawyers

<p>United Nations (UN) Watch executive director Hillel Neue yesterday assured “oppressed” Zimbabweans they were not alone adding that human rights violations in the country will be put on the UN agenda.</p>
<p>Addressing a virtual meeting of the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy 2021, Neue said:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>_Our responsibility is to ensure that those who are oppressed and those that have risked everything to speak out the truth from prison cell, Harare, Havana and Hong Kong know that they are not alone_</em></p>
<p><em>_Our responsibility is to raise global awareness and ensure that this translates to change on the ground including by the release of political prisoners._</em></p>
<p><em>_Our responsibility is to ensure the fight for democracy is a constant commitment. Our responsibility is to ensure that the appalling human rights situations that we have learnt about over the last two days are put squarely on the UN agenda._</em></p></blockquote>
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<p>His message coincides with the release of MDC activists, Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere who served eight years in prison for a 2011 murder of a police officer for which they were acquitted last week by the Supreme Court.</p>
<p>Critics described their incarceration as political persecution by the Zanu-PF government.</p>
<p>Addressing the same summit, #ThisFlag founder Evan Mawarire took a swipe at the government, accusing it of destroying the lives of citizens.</p>
<p>Mawarire said it was disappointing that the same people who fought colonialism were now the perpetrators of human rights violations in independent Zimbabwe.</p>
<p>Mawarire said the ruling party was killing the future of many youths through human rights abuses and misgovernance.</p>
<p>President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson, George Charamba, however, said the government would not be moved by views of a “freaky” opinion by an individual at a summit adding they will wait for the summit resolution.</p>
<p>Zimbabwe denies allegations of human rights violations.</p>
<p><strong>More: <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw">Pindula News;</a> <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2021/06/suffering-zimbabweans-not-alone-un-watch/">NewsDay</a></strong></p>

UN Tells "Oppressed Zimbabweans They're Not Alone"

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<p class="js-tweet-text tweet-text with-linebreaks" lang="en">With the 2023 general election drawing closer, the government will need massive funding.</p>
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<p>Commenting on the banks’ protests, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/George_Charamba">George Charamba</a>, a Press Secretary in the Office of President Emmerson Mnangagwa suggested that the banks were also not giving interest to depositors.</p>
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<p lang="en">Responding to a post by The NewsHawks on Friday, Charamba said:</p>
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<p class="js-tweet-text tweet-text with-linebreaks" lang="en">Today it fortifies its sovereignty through support and solidarity of pretty much the same countries which supported its freedom struggle. Opposed to that struggle and thus to the advent of 18th were western Govts who mobilized mercenaries, covertly supplied weapons and opposed sanctions against Rhodesia. They also bolstered the busting of sanctions by Rhodesia, while winking their eyes as Rhodesians accessed their markets for earnings which contributed to the Rhodesian war effort.</p>
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<div class="margin-b--5">Those who claim to have liberated a few acres of our borderlands should be reminded quiet, progressive Nations helped liberate our whole territory for no loans or moralizing. They are quiet; continue to support us; they don’t impose sanctions on us.</div>
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"Zimbabwe Was Liberated By Zimbabweans" - Charamba

<p>President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson, George Charamba, has said the imprisonment of MDC Alliance activist, Makomborero Haruzivishe should be a lesson to other “hooligans in the country.</p>
<p>He said there was no place for lawlessness and anarchy in Zimbabwe warning that everyone found on the wrong side of the law will face the consequences.</p>
<p>Makomborero was arrested, charged and convicted of inciting public violence after he demonstrating the release of the Zimbabwe National Students’ Union (ZINASU) president Takudzwa Ngadziore.</p>
<p>The MDC activist <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2021/04/06/haruzivishe-sentenced-to-20-months-in-prison/">was sentenced to 14 effective months in prison this Tuesday</a> when he appeared before Harare Magistrate  Judith Taruvinga. Responding to the imprisonment of the pro-democracy activist, <a href="https://twitter.com/Jamwanda2/status/1379472876630315014">Mnangagwa’s spokesperson said</a>:</p>
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<p class="js-tweet-text tweet-text txt-size-variable--18 margin-b--10 with-linebreaks padding-t--10" lang="en">Check what became of Trump’s hooligans early this year, most of whom have been put away.</p>
<p class="js-tweet-text tweet-text txt-size-variable--18 margin-b--10 with-linebreaks padding-t--10" lang="en">The courts have been quite considerate actually and the misguided young man has his kind Lord and compassionate law to thank. To those still lingering out of prison, look and learn.</p>
<p class="js-tweet-text tweet-text txt-size-variable--18 margin-b--10 with-linebreaks padding-t--10" lang="en">This is a law-and-order dispensation. You try dicing with the law, with order, we turn you in inexorably. Those who cheer and egg you own in breaking the law fade into inaudible, restless shuffle on judgment day, salving their forgetful consciences with occasional tweets of impotent, plaintive protests and ornate digital banners that bring no comfort in lonely gaol to which the law commits you in these nippy times!!</p>
<p class="js-tweet-text tweet-text txt-size-variable--18 margin-b--10 with-linebreaks padding-t--10" lang="en">And the Family which struggled to raise fees for your higher education in the hope of a better future won’t understand what you hoped to get by taunting &amp; breaking the law on behalf of a politician who will never govern, but will always incite &amp; mislead.</p>
<p class="js-tweet-text tweet-text txt-size-variable--18 margin-b--10 with-linebreaks padding-t--10" lang="en">After your time, you have lost times to count, with them missed opportunities suffered to an indifferent, un-garlanded homecoming.</p>
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<p class="js-tweet-text tweet-text with-linebreaks" lang="en">A number of government critics including opposition members, human rights defenders and public workers have in the past been arrested or assaulted while some anti-government protests have been banned.</p>
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Mnangagwa's Spokesperson Remarks On Imprisonment Of MDC Activist

<p>Former Vice President Kembo Mohadi announced his resignation from the post on Monday after media reports claimed that the 71-year-old was having illicit affairs with his married aides.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, George Charamba, the Deputy Chief Secretary-Presidential Communications in the Office of the President, claims Mohadi had tendered his resignation letter to the president a week before he made the announcement.</p>
<p>Ironically, President Mnangagwa and his deputy, Constantino Chiwenga, addressed him as Vice President at a recent Zanu PF rally. The event came amid reports that Mohadi had resigned and the president’s remarks were used to dismiss the reports.</p>
<p>Posting on Twitter on Tuesday, George Charamba <a href="https://twitter.com/Jamwanda2/status/1366635020262268928">said when one resigns,</a> they have two documents, one for the appointing authority and the other for the public. He said:</p>
<blockquote><p>CONTRARY TO DOMINANT NARRATIVES IN THE MEDIA, former Vice President K.C.D. Mohadi, handed in his resignation letter to the appointing authority, His Excellency the President, Cde ED Mnangagwa, A WEEK AGO. Let history record this statement of fact.</p>
<p>The day you offer to resign is quite apart from the day you announce your resignation!!</p></blockquote>
<p>In his speech, Mohadi said he “was resigning because of the recurring dis-information and virilization of my alleged immoral unions, dispensed through awkward slacktivism”.</p>
<p>Section 96 (2) of the Zimbabwean Constitution states that a Vice-President may leave his or her office by written notice to the President, who must give public notice of the resignation as soon as it is possible to do so and in any event within twenty-four hours.</p>
<p><strong>More: <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/George_Charamba">George Charamba Biography</a></strong></p>


More Details Emerge On Mohadi Resignation

<p>Despite the government’s ban on large gatherings, a large crown which was described by President Mnangagwa’s press secretary George Charamba as “thousands of supporters” was seen in the following pictures waiting for President Mnangagwa to address them at a rally in Chivi.</p>
<p>The photos was shared by Charamba who uses the handle Jamwanda on Twitter when he shared the following information:</p>
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<div dir="auto" lang="en">After an inspiring drama on Mbuya Nehanda’s death sentence by Justice Watermayer in 1896/7, the President urged for a concerted fight against ravages of sanctions through enhanced Agricultural production.</div>
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<p>— Nick Mangwana (@nickmangwana) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickmangwana/status/1341743995073032194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 23, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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PICTURES: "Thousands" Of Zanu PF Supporters Gather At A Rally In Chivi

<p>President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s problems are being compounded by paranoid hangers-on like the spokesperson for the presidency George Charamba.</p>
<p>This was said by investigative journalist Hopewell Chin’ino through a post on his Facebook page.</p>
<p>Chin’ono asserted that the likes of Charamba try to create relevance by creating false alarm within the ruling establishment.</p>
<p>Oblivious to the fact that they are being lied to, the country’s leaders then respond irrationally embarrassing themselves internationally. Said Chin’ono:</p>
<blockquote><p>People like George Charamba create their relevance to the regime by inducing false alarm, panic, paranoia and fear to the “system.”</p>
<p>Sadly they are listened to by their bosses who at times are oblivious to how they are being played.</p>
<p>This has contributed to Mnangagwa’s problems and authored many of his failures.</p>
<p>They hate a normal country because it takes away their importance and because they can’t thrive in a merit-based society.</p>
<p>They rely on CHAOS to perpetuate their false importance to the political elites!</p>
<p>They create false narratives that induce fear into their bosses who are then pushed to respond irrationally embarrassing themselves internationally!</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/petina-gappah-speaks-on-where-it-went-wrong-for-president-mnangagwa/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Speaking during an interview with media mogul Trevor Ncube</a> in 2019 on the programme, “In Conversation With Trevor”,  international lawyer and investment expert, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Petina_Gappah" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Petina Gappah </strong></a>said though Mnangagwa is an engaging individual, the protocol makes him distant from the people. She attributed this to the Mugabe ‘Big Man” syndrome.</p>


ED's Paranoid Sycophants Have Worsened His Problems - Chin'ono

<p>Former leader of a South African opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), <strong><a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/08/05/full-text-mmusi-maimane-asks-the-south-african-minister-of-international-relations-to-get-an-explanation-from-the-zim-govt-about-human-rights-abuses/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mmusi Maimane was on Friday involved in a heated exchange with two top Zimbabwean government officials.</a></strong></p>
<p>Maimane initially reacted to an excerpt of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s statement at the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly that was posted on Twitter by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Ndavaningi Mangwana. The extract read:</p>
<blockquote><p>There is no better way of achieving a peaceful and stable world than through mutual respect, genuine multilateralism buttressed by much-needed reforms and respect for international law.</p></blockquote>
<p>In response, Maimane told Mangwana that Mnangagwa has no moral high ground to lecture the United Nations (UN) and should stop abusing citizens. He said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Tell him to stop violating human rights, to stop abusing his citizens. ED has no moral high ground to lecture the United Nations. In fact, Zimbabwe should be on the UNSC agenda.</p></blockquote>
<p>Maimane’s comments seemingly angered Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba, who called the former a “Quisling”, a term which refers to a traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country. Maimane responded:</p>
<blockquote><p>Did Nick dial a friend? Is that the strong comeback? The point is clear and the global community is watching.</p>
<p>Respect the human rights of citizens, stop being allergic to the constitution.</p>
<p>… Because you arrest and abduct those who speak honestly about the brutal and corrupt regime.</p>
<p>Your comebacks are as good as the Zimbabwean economy under Zanu PF.</p>
<p>Stop abusing citizens. Stop abusing journalists. Stop terrorizing opposition politicians. Very simple.</p></blockquote>


Mmusi Maimane Takes On Charamba, Mangwana

<p>After a circular from the Public Services Commission announcing that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had resorted to restoring the retirement/pensionable age to 65 years for all civil servants, Chief Cabinet Secretary Misheck Sibanda is set to be retired because he has reached his retirement age, ZimLive reports.</p>
<p>Sibanda is reportedly over 65 and he took over from Charles Utete in 2003, and his imminent exit has reportedly triggered rumours of who is going to replace him.</p>
<p>According to the publication:</p>
<blockquote><p>Justice ministry permanent secretary Virginia Mabhiza and former tourism ministry secretary Sylvester Maunganidze are being touted as the frontrunners.</p>
<p>Currently deputizing Sibanda are George Charamba (Presidential Communications) and Martin Rushwaya (Administration and Finance) who will both fancy a step up.</p></blockquote>
<p>Sibanda was reportedly supposed to have retired in 2017 but was asked by Mnangagwa to stay on.</p>
<p>More: <a href="https://www.zimlive.com/2020/09/14/chief-cabinet-secretary-misheck-sibanda-set-for-exit-in-retirement-age-shake-up/"><strong>Zimlive </strong></a></p>


Misheck Sibanda Set To Retire Following ED's Retirement Age Shakeup

<p>In a statement that was released this afternoon, South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) has asked Charamba and Mangwana to stop attacking their two senior journalists Peter Ndoro and Sophie Mokwena saying their constant attacks constitutes intimidation and they are a direct attack on freedom of expression, New Zimbabwe reports.</p>
<p>Part of the statement from SANEF chairperson Sbu Ngwala reads:</p>
<blockquote><p>Those behind the abuse are intimidating, sowing disinformation and discrediting the integrity of news media outlets that report on Zimbabwe’s political crises. SANEF notes, in particular, the tweets by George Charamba, the press secretary in the Office of the President of Zimbabwe who is behind the attacks on the two SABC staffers, assisted by Nick Mangwana, secretary for information in Zimbabwe are creating significant professional harm. We are saying this must stop, SANEF believes that this hostile environment is a direct attack on freedom of expression</p></blockquote>
<p>Charamba using his Twitter handle Jamwanda2 last week attacked Sophie Mokoena in a tweet that even insulted her womanhood and drew widespread criticism from Twimbos and people beyond the borders.</p>
<p>More: <strong><a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/sa-editors-call-charamba-mangwana-to-order-over-harassment-of-sabc-journalists/">New Zimbabwe </a></strong></p>


South African National Editors’ Forum Castigates Mangwana & Charamba Over Harrasing Journos

<p>Former Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi, who is now living in self-imposed exile in South Africa, has said MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa avoided taking tea during cabinet meetings during the GNU era for fear of being poisoned.</p>
<p>Chamisa and Mzembi were cabinet ministers during the all-inclusive government between 2009 and 2013.</p>
<p>Mzembi suggested that opposition political activists, and even ruling party bigwigs who have succumbed to cancer may have been poisoned, therefore, jailed activists should be wary. Mzembi posted on Twitter:</p>
<blockquote><p>I sat next to Nelson Chamisa in Cabinet, he drank Fanta while we guggled tea for the 5 years and explained to me his poison fears. However, his reference to Mugabe may mean the System and its targets, look where I am, happy he pronounced himself on this!</p>
<p>Casper Tsvangirayi, Dr Patson Dzamara phoned me apprehensive about these cancers which only attack you after incarceration, I have warned Job Sikhala of the same, no food, water etc from prison and asked him to warn his colleagues inside.</p>
<p>This issue of biological agents and other suspicions may sound like a myth but it’s real, in the last two years of my Cabinet sitting I had stopped teas as well, it may have been too late, the Silver Jug of ice-cold water for each member was suspect too!</p>
<p>One sitting I exclaimed in horror when I opened my Silver Jug and found a thick bed of dead black cockroaches at the base, fumed at Mapingire and staff how this could be, but it was my first hint Chamisa could have been right.</p>
<p>Take stock since 1980 causes of death of Cabinet Members, gastrointestinal disorders and accidents, Zanu PF is cannibalistic, before we even go to Opposition, isinjonjo as they say it amongst themselves, a game of elimination!</p></blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson, George Charamba, has laughed off Sikhala and Chamisa, saying they are in a competition for victimhood. He said:</p>
<blockquote><p>There is an uncanny competition for victimhood between one Jobho-drops-from-ceiling-Sarowiwa, and one partyless-Nelson-Wamba-Chamisa, for victimhood.</p>
<p>The one purports to write – in bad English – from Chikurubi, hoping for incarceration fame; the other claims he never tested any tea during the MUGABE days!</p>
<p>Both hope the internally competing acts within their sharded MDC brings fame and recognition!</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the rest of Zimbabweans know them for what they truly are: little men pimping and trawling for undeserved fame!</p></blockquote>


Chamisa Drank Fanta Only During His Time In Government - Mzembi

<p>President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson, George Charamba, has hit back at the African National Congress international relations committee chairperson Lindiwe Zulu following her recent comments on the Zimbabwe crisis.</p>
<p>Posting on Twitter, Charamba accused Zulu of ignoring protocol by speaking publicly against the ZANU PF-led government during an interview with South African television channel, eNCA.</p>
<p>During the interview, Zulu said there is a political crisis in Zimbabwe, and there is a need to be frank and honest about the situation.</p>
<p>Charamba accused Zulu of trying to use Zimbabwe’s challenges, which he argued are caused by sanctions, to build her personal profile and name for international appointments. Charamba said:</p>
<blockquote><p>CDE LINDIWE ZULU, Chairperson of the ANC’s international relations committee, is quoted in today’s press as calling for “honest and frank” discussion on the situation in Zimbabwe.</p>
<p>I will ignore her breach of protocol by pronouncing herself on the situation in Zimbabwe ahead of a report back by Special Envoys of the two Heads of State and Govt, odd even though that is, so we engage on substantive issues on the situation in Zimbabwe.</p>
<p>Cde Lindiwe Zulu has been long enough in Govt to know the provenance of Zimbabwe’s woes, namely woes related to Western illegal Sanctions against Zimbabwe over Land Reforms.</p>
<p>I am sure she knows that those sanctions, far from being dismantled, are in fact being tightened yearly. Sadc has taken a position against those sanctions, a position which now has been adopted by the African Union.</p>
<p>Even the UN Secretary-General recently spoke against those illegal sanctions. All these developments are within the purview of the committee she chairs.</p>
<p>Secondly, there were various initiatives between Zimbabwe and South Africa meant to help Zimbabwe neutralise the impact of illegal western sanctions against Zimbabwe.</p>
<p>Such initiatives trace back to days of First Republic. The sad truth is that all those initiatives fell flat on the floor as vested interests in South Africa would not allow solidarity between Zimbabwe and South Africa.</p>
<p>One is thus hard-pressed to understand what assistance South Africa can render to Zimbabwe now, more so given her own challenges presently, when she could not assist Zimbabwe when she had the capacity to do so.</p>
<p>Third, Cde Zulu knows about the Victoria Falls Sadc Summit held on balanced sub-regional spatial development to reverse the age-old trend where South Africa emerges as the sole manufacturing hub of the whole region while the rest of Sadc countries become mere trading warehouses.</p>
<p>A follow-up extraordinary summit was held at which all Sadc countries implored South Africa to share opportunities for industrialization for balanced growth and development.</p>
<p>Again, vested interests in South Africa vetoed that sub-regional call, with the result that the colonial development model of 19th Century Southern Africa where rest of Sadc countries become labour Dormitories for South Africa thus perpetuating skewed development persist to this day.</p>
<p>In the interest of frank and honest discussion, Cde Zulu should acknowledge that the phenomenon of migrant labour is not a bilateral one between Zimbabwe and South Africa.</p>
<p>To the contrary, it is a deeply embedded structural defect involving all Sadc countries and nationals who gravitate towards where raw materials from their countries end up!!</p>
<p>Again, I am not sure the ANC govt can do anything about that. Or to imagine that creating a GNU in Zimbabwe – a very foolish proposition which is entertained by some elements in the ANC – will change that structural deformity.</p>
<p>Not even an ouster of Zanu-PF would change that. Relatively speaking, Zimbabwe is a lot better by way of the level of industrialization in relation to other SADC countries.</p>
<p>And with projects which are underway, very soon Zimbabwe should be able to peep at South Africa as an alternative industrial hub. The western world is aware of this and is doing its damndest to stop that from happening. Of course, they will fail.</p>
<p>What Zimbabwe will not countenance are career politicians from elsewhere who seek to use Zimbabwe and her sanctions-related challenges to build personal profiles and names for international appointments. That would be blatantly cynical and very unfriendly.</p></blockquote>
<h4><strong>More: <a href="https://twitter.com/Jamwanda2/status/1293470264622276609" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Twitter</em></a></strong></h4>


George Charamba Responds To Lindiwe Zulu's Negative Comments On Zimbabwe

<p>George Charamba, who is the Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet (Presidential Communications), said MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has an aversion to risk-taking, hence his recent appointment of Welshman Ncube as acting party president, while mourning his mother, ahead of the planned 31 July protests.</p>
<p>Using his Twitter handle <span class="username txt-mute"><em>@Jamwanda2</em>, Charamba claimed that Americans had intended to use Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume after dumping the idea of using Shingi Munyeza, to relaunch their bid to have Tendai Biti and Job Sikhala take over control of the MDC Alliance. Charamba tweeted:</span></p>
<blockquote><p>Ever wondered why Nelson Chamisa chose to hand over reigns to the insipid WELSHMAN NCUBE as he grieved over the loss of his dear mother? Or why the WELSH man got mired in TRUST FUNDS controversy soon after that appointment??</p>
<p>Unfortunately, our media are not always adept of showing us the world in a grain of sand!!! Here we go: The US Embassy in Harare whose govt has always rooted for Tendai Biti as a safe bet for American interests here had hoped to use Ngarivhume and his pseudo-leadership of July 31 disturbances to re-launch Tendai Biti as the new leader of MDC-Alliance, with the impulsive Jobho Sikhala as the TONG for handling hot pieces.</p>
<p>Both men are America’s centurions, Biti designated to play the Philosopher-King, while Sikhala is the Hotspur of the equation.</p>
<p>The choice of Ngarivhume – another of America’s men whose roots are in Chipinge – was the right face for that operation which would have consigned Nelson Chamisa to the dustbin.</p>
<p>Previous to Ngarivhume, Americans had hoped for the Malawian cleric, Shingi Munyeza, who was later dropped for being inorganic and tainted after hopes of washing him clean by goading ED to fire him from PAC failed.</p>
<p>The key calculation was to ensure that the well-healed insurrection is led by a political nearly-man who would not prove a runaway, thus securing Tendai Biti’s take-over.</p>
<p>Nelson Chamisa got wind of it, forcing him to counter that by appointing the man from Wales while dodging brickbats of violent demonstrations under the plausible cover of “in mourning”.</p>
<p>The young man doesn’t want risks, which is what riles Americans whose wish is confrontational politics in Zimbabwe. Soon after, and to checkmate this counter, the Biti group used a wing of G-40 hoping to stop the man from Wales in his tracks!! Unfortunately, both sides misread the macroenvironment and scenario-build on a hesitant State. How wrong!!!</p>
<p>It’s now back to the drawing board, banking on international pressure and nursing of different projects of inspiring opposition and dissent, a fraction of which has been subcontracted to Dumisani Muleya and his Beverley Court project which will not take off <em>zvayo</em>!!!</p></blockquote>
<h4><strong>More: <a href="https://twitter.com/Jamwanda2/status/1286919777076809729" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Jamwanda on Twitter</em></a></strong></h4>


Americans Prefer Biti, Sikhala Over 'Risk Averse' Chamisa And Ncube - Charamba {Full Thread}

<p>George Charamba, who is the Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet (Presidential Communications), has hinted that the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa will soon be interdicted from using the “MDC ” brand by the MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe.</p>
<p>Charamba made the stunning revelations on Sunday during an exchange with MDC Alliance secretary for elections Jacob Mafume.</p>
<p>Mafume had mocked ZANU PF and its leaders for allegedly trying to create a coalition government with Khupe’s MDC-T. Mafume had <a href="https://twitter.com/JMafume/status/1284835470330011651?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Organised represents what you are! You cannot take a defeated ruling party, a defeated quisling opposition. And hope to create something. As your VP said a bottle store and bus operator cannot run a government, without a lecture from the white men…</p></blockquote>
<p>Charamba, in typically abrasive fashion, hit back at Mafume, telling him that Khupe has taken over the opposition party and very soon, Chamisa will lose even the name of the party. Charamba <a href="https://twitter.com/Jamwanda2/status/1284825257866665985?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">retorted</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Except you have no party while pretending to be in organized opposition!!! Khupe <em>amhanya nechinhu!!</em> (she is now in the driving seat). Very soon you will be interdicted from using MDC-Anything!!! Watch the space!!!</p></blockquote>
<p>Since the controversial March Supreme Court ruling which declared that Chamisa was illegitimate, Khupe has become the darling of State media and her party has since won a string of court cases against Chamisa.</p>
<p>Khupe has been able to seize the party headquarters, the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House or Harvest House with the assistance of state security, and she has also fired several MDC Alliance MPs and councillors despite the fact that her party lost heavily to Chamisa during the 2018 elections.</p>


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