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ZANU PF has with immediate effect banned co-options into party organs and also banned the passing of votes of no confidence on elected officials amid reports of major factional fights in provinces over posts.
Internal disputes were also clear in the district coordinating committees (DCCs) elections held last December.
The party&#8217;s acting national political commissar, Patrick Chinamasa wrote to all DCCs nationwide and said the ongoing restructuring within the party would automatically fill vacant posts, therefore, cherry-picking replacements was unnecessary. 
  
He said henceforth, Zanu PF national Commissariat department should grant explicit approvals for co-options and VONC. Reads the circular, dated 3 August 2021:
<blockquote>
It has come to the attention of the department that some provinces are conducting co-options to fill in vacant posts in their branches, districts and provincial executive committees. Provinces are aware that the party is currently conducting a restructuring exercise which should usher in new leadership for the same organs by October 2021.
“This restructuring exercise will naturally redress the issue of vacant posts. Provinces are, therefore, prohibited from carrying out co-options and VONC in any of the above-mentioned party organs. In respect of the above it is directed that all co-options and VONC conducted from April 2021, which marked the commencement of the current restructuring exercise to December 2021 are null and void.
</blockquote>
Zanu PF insiders said the ban was also targeting branch and provincial executive committees, and the district coordinating committees that was posing headaches for the commissariat. 
  
Zanu PF DCCs were recently reintroduced after their disbandment in 2012 at the height of a gruelling succession turf war between former vice president Joice Mujuru and Mnangagwa, who at the time was just a Cabinet minister, as both protagonists angled to succeed Robert Mugabe. 
  
Their reintroduction has fuelled factional fights that in some cases have been chaotic.
More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/jittery-chinamasa-bans-dcc-co-options/">NewZimbabwe</a>

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ZANU PF Bans Votes Of No Confidence, Co-options

ZANU PF acting political commissar Patrick Chinamasa says he is recovering well at a private hospital in Harare after he was involved in an accident on Saturday night.
Chinamasa&#8217;s car crashed into a truck that was carrying scrap metal around 6:45 pm at the 12-kilometre peg after Rusape, before the tollgate.
<a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2021/07/11/chinamasa-hospitalised-after-he-was-involved-in-an-accident/">READ MORE: Chinamasa Hospitalised After He Was Involved In An Accident</a>
Speaking to The Herald from his hospital bed on Monday, Chinamasa said he is feeling much better and could be discharged soon. He said:
<blockquote>The doctor is monitoring my situation to see if I do not have some internal injuries. I am fit and ready to go.
I am only waiting for the doctor to monitor my chest otherwise I might be discharged anytime from now.</blockquote>
The former Justice Minister said he escaped death by the skin of his teeth but urged people not to panic. He added:
<blockquote>I was saved by the airbags, otherwise, we will be talking about something else.</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/chinamasa-survives-accident/">The Herald</a></h4>

"Airbags Saved My Life", Chinamasa Speaks From Hospital

ZANU PF Finance Secretary and Acting Political Commissar, Patrick Chinamasa, was involved in an accident just after Rusape on Saturday after he allegedly rammed into a truck carrying scrap metal.
NewsDay reported ZANU PF sources as saying the accident happened around 6:45 pm at the 12-kilometre peg after Rusape, before the tollgate.
Chinamasa, however, did not incur any serious injury but was reportedly complaining of chest pains.
He was taken to Rusape Hospital but was transferred to a private hospital in Harare. The NewsDay source said:
<blockquote>It’s true comrade Chinamasa was involved in an accident at the 12-kilometre peg after Rusape, before tollgate.
He was rushed to Rusape Hospital and transferred to Harare as he was complaining of chest pains.</blockquote>
ZANU PF Manicaland provincial chairman Mike Madiro was among party officials who rushed to see Chinamasa after the accident.
Efforts by the publication to get a comment from the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) about the accident were fruitless as police declined to comment.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2021/07/chinamasa-involved-in-an-accident/">NewsDay</a></h4>

Chinamasa Hospitalised After He Was Involved In An Accident

The ruling ZANU PF has lashed out at media organisations reporting on Zimbabwean affairs but not controlled by the government.
The party&#8217;s Acting Political Commissar Patrick Chinamasa on Thursday singled out The Voice of America (VOA) station popularly known as Studio 7, as a propaganda mouthpiece for the hostile American government.
He told reporters at the party’s headquarters that ZANU PF viewed broadcasts by VOA in the same light with sanctions imposed on the country by the United States of America. Said Chinamasa:
<blockquote>I want to refer to the specifically targeted propaganda against Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), for example, via hostile broadcasts like the Voice of America’s Studio 7.
ZANU PF views these hostile broadcasts in the same light as illegal sanctions, an illegitimate and unwanted interference in our country’s domestic affairs and as part of the illegal arsenal for regime change. We will resist as we have successfully done since 2000.</blockquote>
Chinamasa also lambasted the country’s Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) he blamed for undermining the country’s political, economic, and judicial systems.
He said the government was ready to deregister any such organisations which tried to interfere with the national affairs.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/chinamasa-blasts-studio-7-for-allegedly-fronting-american-interference/">NewZimbabwe.com</a></h4>

Chinamasa Castigates Studio 7 For Alleged Biased Reporting On Zimbabwe

The ruling ZANU PF party said it would continue relying on the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) for political survival because the two are tied together by the liberation struggle.
The party&#8217;s Acting Political Commissar Patrick Chinamasa told journalists at a Press conference in Harare on Thursday that there was an unbreakable continuity between the ruling party and its military wings during the liberation struggle.
<a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2021/05/01/zaka-2008-election-terror-leader-dies/">READ MORE: Zaka 2008 Election Terror Leader Dies</a>
The Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) and the Zimbabwe People&#8217;s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) Chinamasa said, remain at the heart of the ZNA.
Chinamasa, who was flanked by former Zanu PF political commissars Victor Matemadanda, Webster Shamu and Engelbert Rugeje, said:
<blockquote>Always be mindful that there is this unbreakable continuity between the liberation struggle and ZANU PF, between the armies of liberation ZIPRA and ZANLA and the national army of independence.
Any notion which seeks to break this bond should be rejected outright.</blockquote>
Chinamasa, who is also ZANU PF Secretary for Finance, said that the composition of the ZNA leadership also told a story of the link between the ruling party and the military. He said:
<blockquote>It speaks for itself who are the commanders of the army, who is the CDF [Commander Defence Forces], Cde Valerio Sibanda. Who was he? He was a leading general in ZIPRA.
Who is the commander of the national army, Cde Edzayi Chimonyo? Who was he? He was a leading commander in ZANLA.
That culture of defending the sovereignty of this country will continue.</blockquote>
The military played a major role in denying the late former MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai victory in the 2008 presidential election runoff which forced him to pull out of the race as thousands of his supporters were forced to flee from their homes.
In November 2017, the military settled internal power struggles in ZANU PF by leading a coup which led to the ouster of the long-time ruler, the late former President Robert Mugabe.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was installed in Mugabe&#8217;s place.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2021/06/zanu-pf-army-inseparable/">NewsDay</a></h4>

ZANU PF, Army Inseparable - Chinamasa

Zanu PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa has claimed that a large number of MDC Alliance members have applied to join the ruling party after realising that the Nelson Chamisa-led party lacks direction.
Chinamasa made the remarks on Sunday at Rukweza, Makoni South constituency during the official handover of 44 bicycles to Nyazura Police Station by Makoni South MP Misheck Mataranyika through the assistance of Nyaradzo Group. He said:
<blockquote>At the moment, we are receiving applications from several MDC Alliance members seeking to join our party and we are overwhelmed, and some of those members are doing it for the first time, while others are re-joining because they have been previously Zanu PF members.</blockquote>
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere dismissed Chinamasa&#8217;s remarks as cheap propaganda meant to distract people from Zanu PF&#8217;s failures. Mahere said:
<blockquote>The regime continues to neglect matters of governance but is fixated with the abuse of State institutions in its toxic attempt to create a one-party state.
The MDC Alliance remains unshaken by the few who have chosen to pursue politics of the stomach.
As highlighted by Chamisa recently, Zanu PF is very comfortable with spent forces whose energy has been sapped.
The party is unmoved. The people know who their leaders are. Political power lies in the people.</blockquote>
This comes after top MDC Alliance officials, Lillian Timveous and James Makore, and former party bigwigs who had already left the party, among them Blessing Chebundo and Obert Gutu, joined Zanu PF in recent weeks.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2021/03/more-mdc-activists-flocking-to-zanu-pf-chinamasa/">NewsDay</a></h4>

More MDC-A Members Flocking To Zanu PF - Chinamasa

After many government officials including Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo, succumbed to COVID-19, many speculated that even more political elites, including Patrick Chinamasa, had died. There is no proof that he is dead, actually, ZBC reporter, Reuben Barwe recorded a video in which he claims to be speaking to Chinamasa over the phone, suggesting he is still alive.
Here is some information about former Zimbabwe finance minister, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Patrick_Chinamasa">Patrick Chinamasa</a>.
<h2>1. As Finance Minister</h2>
He is the former Minister of Finance and Economic Planning. Chinamasa was appointed the minister by the late <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Robert_Mugabe">Robert Mugabe</a> and he served in the ministry from 10 September 2013 to 9 September 2017. On 9 September 2017 Mugabe through the Office of the President and Cabinet announced changes to his then cabinet. Chinamasa was moved to a newly created Ministry of Cyber Security, Threat Detection and Mitigation. This portfolio became effective on 9 October 2017 in a cabinet reshuffle which was speculated to be a measure adopted to stop factional fighting in Zanu-PF.
However, when Emmerson Mnangagwa became President of Zimbabwe in November 2017 (following a <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/November_2017_Military_Coup">military coup the ousted Mugabe</a>) Chinamasa was reappointed to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning. He was however removed from the ministry after Mnangagwa secured the presidency in August 2018. He now serves as Zanu-PF Secretary of Finance.

<h2>2. Bribery Accusations</h2>
In 2006 he allegedly wanted to bribe James Kaunye after the latter filed a court application to sue<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Didymus_Mutasa"> Didymus Mutasa</a>‘s supporters who had insulted him. Kaunye told the court that the Minister called on him at his Yorkshire Farm in Headlands and offered him bribes so that he could drop his complaint against 23 of Mutasa’s supporters who had earlier attacked and left him wounded.
Early in Patrick Chinamasa’s trial, proceedings were adjourned for a week when magistrates <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5313366.stm">complained of intimidation</a> and refused to preside over the issue. Kaunye and Mutasa were contesting against each other for the Makoni North Constituency in Zanu PF primary elections. He was later acquitted after inconsistencies and evasiveness in the witness’ evidence for the charge.

<h2>3. Benefiting from a gov loan he never repaid</h2>
In July 2020, Patrick Chinamasa was revealed by Alex Magaisa’s <a href="https://www.bigsr.co.uk/single-post/2020/07/18/bsr-exclusive-beneficiaries-of-the-rbz-farm-mechanisation-scheme">BSR publication</a> to be one of the Zanu-PF senior members that benefited unfairly from the 2007 RBZ Farm Mechanisation Scheme. Chinamasa (Tsukumai Farm) was listed in a leaked document as having benefited equipment worth US$350,463.00 which he did not pay for.
Other Zanu-PF officials listed then include Obert Mpofu, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Phelekezela Mphoko, Joice Mujuru, Joseph Msika, Oppah Muchinguri and Didymus Mutasa.

<h2>4. Calling the US Ambassador a “thug”</h2>
On 27 July 2020, as acting Zanu PF spokesperson, Chinamasa accused the US ambassador to Zimbabwe of meddling in local affairs and labelled him a ‘thug’ in a press statement. Chinamasa also claimed that US ambassador Brian Nichols was an Uncle Tom being used to propagate values the US itself did not practice on its people. He also warned that Zanu PF was aware of a “coterie of gangsters and mercenaries disguised as diplomats” in Zimbabwe.
The attacked on the Ambassador followed plans of what would be nationwide protests against the government slated for 31 July.

<h2>5. Chinamasa’s personal information</h2>
Born Patrick Antony Chinamasa on 25 January 1947, Chinamasa turns 74 in 2021. Chinamasa is married to Monica Chinamasa. His children include Chengetai and Gamuchirai. Chengetai died in November 2007.

<h2>6. Notable positions held by Patrick Chinamasa</h2>
In addition to the Finance Minister position, Chinamasa also served as Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs from July 2000 – September 2013.

<h2>7 Preasuring judges to resign</h2>
Following his appointment as Justice Minister in 2000, many Zimbabwean judges, (especially European-African Judges) resigned, complaining of political pressure.
On 9 February 2001 after <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Anthony_Gubbay">Chief Justice Anthony Gubbay</a> took early retirement at his suggestion, Chinamasa reportedly held meetings with senior Justices Ahmed Ebrahim and Nicholas McNally and told them for their own safety to leave.

7 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Patrick Chinamasa

The ruling ZANU PF has accused nurses of having “a broad opposition agenda” saying the periodic salary protests they have embarked on since last year are meant to destabilise President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration.
Nurses affiliated to the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) have since last year embarked on a series of protests demanding better salaries and working conditions.
Speaking to reporters at the ZANU PF Politburo held Wednesday in the capital, the party’s acting secretary of information, Patrick Chinamasa applauded other nurses who returned to work. He said:
<blockquote>We also took note as politburo of the positive gesture by nurses at Sally Mugabe Hospital who bravely broke ranks with the opposition-aligned Zina and returned to work.
That is the kind of patriotism we want to see from civil servants.</blockquote>
Responding to Chinamasa’s assertions, Zina president, Enoch Dongo, said it was shameful for Zanu PF to use threats and lies to silence nurses. He said:
<blockquote>That is cheap politics. We are there for the welfare of nurses and that has nothing to do with politics. Ours is a labour issue and not politics.
Clearly, the statement by Chinamasa is misleading. Why has it ended up to that level? The issue with government spilled into the courts and we have two judgments in our favour. Does that mean the High Court is also working with the opposition?</blockquote>
This comes after nurses were recently “forced” to apologise for embarking on industrial action meant for the restoration of their 2018 salaries and to ensure they have a safe working environment.
More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2020/12/zanu-pf-goes-after-nurses/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NewsDay</a>

ZANU PF Accuses Nurses Of Having "Broad Opposition Agenda"

The ZANU PF DCC polls being <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/zanu-pf-to-hold-dcc-polls-at-1248-poling-stations-this-weekend/">conducted this weekend at 1248 polling stations</a> will look for their own ballot boxes because the ruling party is not able to provide all polling stations with ballot boxes, New Zimbabwe reports.
This was revealed in a memo from the ruling part addressed to all districts holding DCC polls that read in part:
<blockquote>All district chairpersons are requested to improvise and make their own ballot boxes at their respective districts. There should be 23 boxes at each polling station. Look for any small cardboard boxes to use</blockquote>
Events leading to the DCC Polls that include violence and or allegation of cheating and irregularities and allegations that members of the G40 were paying people to vote for candidates affiliated to Zanu PF have headlined for the past few weeks. The ruling party even warned party members that they <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/we-will-expel-anyone-who-commits-any-acts-of-indiscipline-chinamasa-warns-zanu-pf-members-ahead-of-dcc-polls/">risk getting expelled if they conduct</a> any acts of misconduct during the polls.
More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/shortage-of-ballot-boxes-hits-zanu-pf-dcc-elections/">New Zimbabwe </a>

Zanu PF DCC Polls: Polling Stations To Create Their Own Ballot Boxes

During a press conference in Harare last week, Zanu PF spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa made sensational claims that the opposition will not rule this country because according to him, the opposition undermines the gains that came through the liberation struggle, the Daily News reports.
Addressing the media, a tough-talking Chinamasa said:
<blockquote>Zimbabwe is a liberated country. It did not come through democracy, there was no vote to say Zimbabwe 
now wants to become independent.
It was fought for. Those who oppose its liberation should never dream of ruling this country, those who oppose the independence of this country and those who oppose the land redistribution programme should never dream of ruling this country with their masters.Those who oppose the redistribution of the land… have no right to rule this country because by opposing it, they became sell-outs.
Right now, they talk about human rights. During the colonial period, there were no human rights to talk about. “The colonial masters only started to talk about human rights, democracy in 1980 when they were handing over power. Right now, they are talking about freedom of expression.
That is a digression, it’s important, but it’s a digression. The important narrative is how Zimbabweans get empowered until you do that, you spend the next 200 years exercising freedom of expression without eating. Those who go to America to ask for sanctions have no rights to rule this country.</blockquote>
Zanu Pf Political commissar Victor Matemadanda said something similar<a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2019/12/15/if-elections-fail-well-use-any-other-means-necessary-zanu-pf/"> to what Chinamasa said in 2018 when he said elections will never remove Zanu PF from power</a> because he said if they don&#8217;t work Zanu PF will use other means.
Chinamasa in July at a press conference attacked the American ambassador and called him a thug right before he threatened to expel him from Zimbabwe. During the same month, he also urged Zanu PF supporters to defend themselves from people who were planning to protest the government&#8217;s maladministration and corruption.
More: <a href="https://dailynews.co.zw/opposition-will-never-rule-zimbabwe/">Daily News </a>

The Opposition Will Never Rule Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Did Not Come By Votes - Chinamasa

The ruling party Zanu PF spokeperson Patrick Chinamasa has said they will continue to hold primary by-elections in all vacant constituencies and councils despite their party&#8217;s top executive Constantino Chiwenga who is the country&#8217;s Vice President and doubles as the <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/10/02/vp-chiwenga-bans-holding-of-by-elections/">Health Minister&#8217;s ban on all by-elections</a> using SI 225A of 2020. New Zimbabwe reports.
While addresing journalist, tough talking Chinamasa said he wants to make it clear that they are ready for the by-elections :
<blockquote>I want to make this clear, as far as Zanu PF is concerned, we are ready for elections.</blockquote>
Chinamasa was then asked why the ruling party was holding by-elections when ZEC and the government suspended them and he responded and said anyone with a problem with that must take it up with the government:
<blockquote>We have been observing all the Covid-19 regulations, whether we go to our 2020 conference, these will be observed. If it does not, we will have to hold it as a virtual conference.
To my knowledge, as Zanu PF, we have already started preparing for our primaries. The postponement of by-elections came because of Covid-19. If you are querying whether it was proper or not, put that to government.
Regulations are issued by government. I do not see any double standards myself. When the situation is considered appropriate, the regulations will be relaxed to allow for primary by-elections to take place.
Let me be clear, Zanu PF is ready today for any by-elections. We are ready any day. We will proceed and continue with our primary elections.
The numbers were very small and the party had complied with the regulations of not having a gathering of not more than 100 people.</blockquote>
Meanwhile Zanu PF <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/10/05/zanu-pf-suspends-kwekwe-primary-elections-because-of-suspected-makorokozas-violence/">indefinitely suspended Kwekwe primary by-elections</a> after they turned blody when rival groups clashed and ZRP officers had to be called to difuse the violence.
More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/zanu-pf-ready-for-by-elections-chinamasa/">New Zimbabwe </a>

Zanu PF Proceeding With Primary By-Elections Despite Chiwenga's Ban

The late Brigadier General Rhufus Chigudu who succumbed to an undisclosed illness on 24 September will be buried at the National Shrine tomorrow, The Sunday News reports.
The development was communicated by Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage permanent secretary Mr Aaron Nhepera who told the publication that:
<blockquote>The burial will take place on Monday. The body will leave Charles Gumbo Barracks (formerly One Commando Barracks) around 7am and will be taken to Stodart Hall for the traditional body viewing rites. From there it will be transported to the national shrine where the remains will be interred. There will be limited attendance because of the Covid-19 pandemic.</blockquote>
Meanwhile, Zanu PF acting Spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa released a statement that said the ruling party applauded the president&#8217;s decision to confer recently promoted <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/10/02/rhufus-chigudu-declared-national-hero/">Rhufus Chigudu with the national hero status</a>:
<blockquote>Zanu- PF joins His Excellency Cde ED Mnangagwa in mourning the passing of Brigadier-General Ruphus Chigudu who died on Thursday, 24 September 2020. Brigadier General Chigudu was born on 11 December 1955 and joined the liberation struggle under Zanla forces in 1975 in Mozambique.
He later joined the ZNA (Zimbabwe National Army) during the integration exercise in 1980. He rose through the ranks to become Brigadier-General and is survived by his wife (Vimbai) and three children. We applaud the decision taken by the party to confer him the status of national hero</blockquote>
More: <a href="https://www.sundaynews.co.zw/national-hero-chigudu-burial-tomorrow/">The Sunday News </a>

Rhufus Chigudu Burial Tomorrow

The ruling party&#8217;s acting spokesperson former cabinet minister Patrick Chinamasa has taken the time to remind former Zanu PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere that he is not a Zanu PF member because he was expelled in 2017, New Zimbabwe reports.
Chinamasa was responding to Kasukuwere who had said that he is a Zanu PF card carrying member when he said:
<blockquote>Anyone can be a card-carrying member of the party, but Kasukuwere was constitutionally expelled from the party. If he says (he is Zanu PF member), so then he must be out of his mind. This is wishful thinking of the worst kind; he is not a Zanu PF member.</blockquote>
Chinamasa went on to take a swipe at the exiled politician and said if Kasukuwere understood the constitution he would be ashamed to speak about it:
<blockquote>If he understands what constitutionality really means, he should be ashamed to even mention the word. In 2015, it got worse when Kasukuwere and his G40 group, in a very brazen manner, made a deliberate, sustained and determined onslaught against the national Constitution.
They (him and other former G40 cabinet ministers) decided to take advantage of the advancement in age of the former President (Robert Mugabe) and were reporting directly to the former first lady in Mazowe. That was a serious onslaught on the Constitution. Kasukuwere employed all of his cronies ignoring the right procedure.</blockquote>
Chinamasa also made sensational claims that Kasukuwere is a CIA agent who is working against the government:
<blockquote>He is a double agent who was a member of the CIO and now he is working for the CIA, turning against his own government.</blockquote>
More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/kasukuwere-day-dreaming-no-longer-zanu-pf-chinamasa/">New Zimbabwe </a>

CIA Agent Kasukuwere Was Expelled From Zanu PF, He Is Not A Member Of Our Party - Chinamasa

The ruling ZANU PF party has accused civic rights groups, the United States of America, the opposition MDC and &#8220;ghost&#8221; social media accounts of spreading &#8220;fake news&#8221; claiming that there is a crisis in Zimbabwe.
ZANU PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa on Tuesday told reporters that sections of the local media have also been recruited to spread &#8220;malice&#8221; about the country.
Chinamasa challenged foreign countries to seek clarity on what is happening in Zimbabwe from the government instead of relying on &#8220;faceless&#8221; organisations. Chinamasa said:
<blockquote>We have noted the desire to present Zimbabwe as being in a crisis that is sponsored by civic rights groups working with the US and its allies to spread malicious fake news that Zimbabwe is in a crisis of human rights violations.
Working with the MDC and ghost social media accounts and trolls created by one person, these groups are taking every opportunity they get to spread lies against the situation in our country.
They also have recruited some sections of the local media to spread the malice, some who we know are paid to do that.
While we reiterate that there is no crisis in Zimbabwe, we call upon concerned countries to seek clarity from the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Information Ministry or ourselves or visit Zimbabwe and experience the beauty, love, unity, peace and stability of our nation rather than relying on faceless organisations like Tajamuka.</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/dialogue-door-wide-open/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Herald</a></h4>

Reports Of Crisis & Human Rights Abuses Are Fake News - ZANU PF

The ruling ZANU PF party has accused some senior officials of &#8220;burning mid-night candle&#8221; in an attempt to cause disharmony between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Vice Presidents, Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi.
Reading a statement after a politburo meeting held at the party&#8217;s headquarters in Harare on Wednesday, acting national spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa singled out Claveria Chizema for allegedly keeping fliers in her home carrying a message purporting that there was an impending coup in the party. Said Chinamasa:
<blockquote>The posters had a message that there was a coup coming and had the names of the people who were behind the coup, but these posters had false information.
She failed in her duties as a senior member of the party when she did not report this to the party security or national security and, therefore, she has been suspended to pave way for investigations.</blockquote>
Chizema was suspended from the politburo yesterday because of the fliers.
In the statement, Chinamasa warned party officials reportedly colluding with outsiders to divide the party that they will be dealt with in line with the standing rules of the party’s supreme constitution.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2020/07/zanu-pf-chefs-plotting-against-ed-chiwenga/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NewsDay</a></h4>

ZANU PF Suspends Politburo Member Over 'Coup' Fliers

<blockquote>ZIMRIGHTS MEMBERS MAKE POLICE REPORTS AGAINST MR PATRICK CHINAMASA FOR INCITING VIOLENCE
Today [29 July 2020], peace-loving ZimRights members across the country flooded various police stations to make reports against Mr Patrick Chinamasa for inciting violence.
On 27 July 2020, Mr Chinamasa addressed a Press Conference at ZANU PF Headquarters where he called upon ZANU PF supporters to attack anti-corruption protestors.
ZimRights members say that these statements are a threat to peace in their communities and are an attack on the right to protest as enshrined in section 59 of the Constitution.
In reports that have been filed in Matebeleland North, Mashonaland West, East, Central and in Chitungwiza, ZimRights members state that Mr Chinamasa&#8217;s statements are a criminal offence in terms of section 187 of the Criminal Codification Act (incitement to violence).
They are therefore asking for the prosecution of Mr Chinamasa for this crime. In other provinces including Harare and Masvingo, the police refused to receive the reports.
On 28 July 2020, ZimRights filed formal complaints against Mr Chinamasa with the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission and the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission.
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FULL TEXT: ZimRights Members Report Chinamasa To Police 'For Inciting Violence'

MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has slammed ZANU PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa for labelling the opposition party a terrorist organisation.
Addressing journalists in Harare this Wednesday afternoon, Biti said ZANU PF is was the ruling party that deserved the “terrorist organisation” tag and it has to account for the whereabouts of political activist Itai Dzamara, who was abducted by gunmen in broad daylight several years ago.
Biti asserted that the opposition party has, since its formation in 1999, eschewed violence and sought peaceful democratic change in Zimbabwe. He said:
<blockquote>We are concerned about the deepening human rights crisis and the labelling of our party as a terrorist organisation by Chinamasa.
The attempt by Zanu PF to liquidate our party is regrettable. We’ve remained loyal to the value of democratic change.
If anything, it is Zanu PF that has conducted itself as a terrorist organisation that hounds and abducted citizens including Itai Dzamara, the MDCT trio and others. We remain loyal to the value of peaceful transformation of our nation.
We remain committed to the need for sincere dialogue to restore the social contract despite the increased temperature. We remain loyal to peaceful, constitutional change.</blockquote>
Biti said the MDC Alliance fully supports citizens who have planned anti-corruption protests for July 31st, saying it is a constitutional right for Zimbabweans to demonstrate peacefully.
He also demanded the release of prominent journalist Hopewell Chin’ono and opposition activist Jacob Ngarivhume who were both denied bail on charges of inciting public violence.

'MDC-A Is Not A Terrorist Organisation', Biti Hits Back At Chinamasa

The ruling ZANU PF has warned the citizenry against violating the lockdown regulations saying they will be responsible for unspecified consequences that will befall them.
The party&#8217;s acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa made the remarks on Wednesday during a press conference during which he applauded President Emmerson Mnangagwa for tightening lockdown restrictions. He said:
<blockquote>We applaud our president and our government, for this noble and informed decision of tightening lockdown regulations. We implore Zimbabweans to desist from being misinformed by merchants of propaganda, fake news peddlers who have suddenly gone overdrive to misinform our people by insinuating that we have a military curfew. We do not have a military curfew but a lockdown curfew which the president has declared and those who violate it will have themselves to blame.</blockquote>
Chinamasa added that Zanu PF will respond accordingly to anti-government protests adding that there was &#8220;neither vacuum nor vacancy at any level of those authorities from the lowest level of authority to the presidency.&#8221;
He speaks amid allegations by some that the regulations were meant to stop opposition protests &#8211; #ZANUPFMustGo and #31_July slated for later this month.
Mnangagwa cited the surge in the number of coronavirus cases as justification for tightening lockdown regulations.
More: <a href="https://www.zbcnews.co.zw/zanu-pf-endorses-covid-19-lockdown-curfew/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ZBC News</a>

"They Will Have Themselves To Blame," - ZANU PF Warns Lockdown Violators

The ruling party will hold an ordinary politburo meeting today, The Herald reports. The party will discuss a number of issues chief among them how the government responded to the COVID-19 pandemic gripping the whole world right now.
The meeting was confirmed in a statement by Patrick Chinamasa who said;
<blockquote>The Secretary for Administration, Cde Dr OM Mpofu wishes to advise all members that there shall be a Politburo meeting to be held on Wednesday 10 June, 2020 at the party headquarters commencing 1000hrs. All members are expected to be seated by 0945hours.</blockquote>
The ruling party will also discuss the state of the party after the country sustained diplomatic onslaught from some countries according to the publication.
More: <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/politburo-meets-7/">The Herald </a>

Politburo Meeting On Today

Zanu PF acting Information Secretary, Patrick Chinamasa described the aborted party&#8217;s protest at the United States Embassy against the brutal killing of George Floyd as unnecessary at the time of fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
The march had been organised by the party&#8217;s Political Commissar Victor Matemadanda. In a statement released Wednesday night, Chinamasa said:
<blockquote>Zanu PF wishes to announce that the purported event organised by the office of the Party’s National Political Commissar Cde Victor Matemadanda to petition the US Embassy following the brutal killing of George Floyd has been aborted.
This is in line with the President and government directive for all Zimbabweans to abide by the national lockdown regulations in so far as the country is fighting to contain the spread of Covid19 pandemic. Needless political gatherings are, therefore, contrary to this directive and the nation must stand guided.</blockquote>
The Zimbabwe Republic Police had already blocked the demonstration and notified the party through a letter which observed that &#8220;gatherings of whatever purpose, are prohibited during this period save for those exempted in the statutory instrument.&#8221;
Observers had criticised the party&#8217;s purported event saying it should be demonstrating against rampant human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.
More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/matemadanda-left-with-egg-on-face-as-zanu-pf-disowns-george-floyd-demo/">New Zimbabwe</a>

"Needless Political Gatherings Are Contrary To President's Directive," - ZANU PF On Aborted Demo

A ZANU PF official said that the ruling party is the only party that is people-centred, listens to people&#8217;s concerns and is interested in meeting them.
ZANU PF acting secretary for Administration <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Patrick_Chinamasa" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Patrick Chinamasa</a> told The Herald that the main challenger, MDC leader <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Nelson_Chamisa" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nelson Chamisa</a>, spends his time organising disruption demonstrations and lobbying for more sanctions to be imposed on the country. He said:
<blockquote>It is like Zanu PF is the only party interested in meeting the people.
I do not see any other party which seems interested in meeting the people, addressing their concerns, listening to them and seeking to find solutions to their concerns.
Currently, no other party in Zimbabwe is people-centred, except Zanu PF. The main challenger is a party which spends most of its times organising demonstrations, travelling all over the world lobbying for the imposition of sanctions.</blockquote>
Chinamasa urged Chamisa to abandon his &#8216;antics&#8217; and participate in meaningful dialogue under the <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/POLAD_(Political_Actors_Dialogue)" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD).</a>
The ZANU PF politburo member added that although sanctions had caused untold suffering to the people since their imposition two decades ago, the ruling party would not tire until their effects were mitigated.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/anti-sanctions-day-to-stay/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Herald</a></h4>

'ZANU PF Is The Only Party Interested In Meeting The People'

Former Finance Minister, Patrick Anthony Chinamasa, (P.A.C) has said that continued use of the United States dollar kills the confidence of Zimbabweans in the local currency. Speaking in an interview with The Sunday Mail Deputy Editor, Lovemore Ranga Mataire, (L.R.M), Chinamasa said that foreign currency was only good for imports. Below are excerpts from the interview.
<blockquote>L.R.M: All that you said Cde Chinamasa could be right but you are aware that the success of any policy is dependent on confidence. How do we build confidence for the public’s acceptance of our local currency given the history of the 2008-2009 hyperinflation?
P.A.C: You cannot build confidence by doing the wrong things. The wrong thing is to continue using US dollars for transacting in domestic business; that is wrong. It came about because of necessities but cannot grow our economy. For our economy to grow, we need to use foreign currency only to import essential commodities that drive growth in the economy.
In this country, we are not an oil producer, so we need foreign currency to buy fuel, which currently is being used to buy “mazhanje”. You can’t have an economy of that nature. We need electricity because we are not producing it sufficiently.
Ultimately, take this from me; as a country we earn more foreign currency than a lot of other countries. I understand that we were hovering around US$2-3 billion in terms of our foreign exchange earnings but the figures that came out last year put it around US$5 billion, which indicates that there has been an increase in production.
So the issue is about how do we use that foreign currency. We cannot allow it to be in people’s pockets. We must do like what other countries do. Foreign currency belongs to the Central Bank and must be apportioned to sectors according to their importing needs- like mining, manufacturing where most of the equipment is obsolete. We need to completely retool and for that we need foreign currency.
Similarly, for agriculture to thrive, we need mechanisation and all that needs foreign currency. That is where our foreign currency should go and not to buy non-essential things. We need proper management of that resource because it is hard earned. Which are the industries earning it/ essentially, there are five or six commodities which earn foreign currency. Gold, tobacco, platinum, chrome ore, nickel, diamonds, all hard earned. Everybody selling in the streets has some foreign currency in his pocket; what is it doing there? Individually, it sounds as if it is insignificant but collectively, it is what can basically save this economy and spur it to greater growth.</blockquote>

"Continued Use Of US$ For Domestic Transactions Kills Confidence," Chinamasa

Former Finance Minister, Patrick Chinamasa has revealed that the restructuring process in ZANU PF that is ongoing would need some more time to be completed.
The restructuring follows a dissolution of Harare and Bulawayo party provinces by president Mnangagwa to address factionalism in the party. Unlike in Bulawayo, Harare has failed to meet the set timeframes.
Speaking to the Daily News, Chinamasa, one of the politburo members deployed in Harare said:
<blockquote>We are not going to rush because our main focus is to come up with genuinely existent structures so the fact that we are still at cell level does not matter.
We will need more time and we are happy with the progress we are making, slow as it is. Some of us have not been around and this has also affected our progress to some extent but you must also understand that we have only been establishing membership and not the leadership so now we are going to elect the cell leaders and move to the branches, the district and the provinces.
We cannot be compared with Bulawayo because we are talking about smaller structures there as compared to Harare where the districts are too many..</blockquote>
The Daily News was informed by some insiders that some G40 remnants in the party were sabotaging the process.
More: <a href="https://www.dailynews.co.zw/articles/2019/05/16/zanu-pf-harare-restructuring-needs-more-time" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Daily News</a>

We're Not Going To Rush The Restructuring Process - Chinamasa

Patrick Chinamasa, ZANU PF Politburo member and former Minister of Finance has endorsed president Mnangagwa as the ZANU PF presidential candidate for the 2023 Presidential elections.
Chinamasa said that looking for a candidate each and every election is time consuming. He also said that it is important for president Mnangagwa to retain his post for the purposes of continuing the work he started.
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Reports suggest that there is factionalism within the ruling party.
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WATCH: Chinamasa Endorses ED For 2023 Presidential Elections

Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Patrick Chinamasa today officially handed over dumpsters to the Rusape community  after commisioning refuse collection equipment and opening a sports club. The garbage bins were donated to help the communities to combat typhoid.    This comes a few weeks after the City of Harare held an elaborate ceremony to officially open new elevators.
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Pictures: Minister Chinamasa Officially Hands Over Garbage Bins

Speaking to Daily News, Deputy Finance Minister Terence Mukupe dismissed speculation that there he does not enjoy a good working relationship with his boss Patrick Chinamasa.
This follows instances were Mukupe and Chinamasa have contradicted each other in terms of policy. Said Mukupe:
<blockquote>In fact, my boss and I work very well. Our relationship is excellent to the extent that he treats me like I am his own son. Those who are saying we do not see eye to eye are creating a non-existent feud. All is well at the ministry and I have never sought to undermine my boss.</blockquote>
More: <a href="https://www.dailynews.co.zw/articles/2018/05/27/no-bad-blood-with-chinamasa-mukupe">Daily News</a>

Chinamasa Treats Me Like His Own Son: Mukupe

Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Terrence Mukupe has claimed that Zimbabwe&#8217;s economic problems have been partly caused by incompetent Ministers of Finance with no background in finance. Mukupe inadvertently fired a broadside at his boss, Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa. Speaking at Transparency International Zimbabwe event last week, Mukupe said,
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The problem we have in Zimbabwe is we have Ministers who are non-finance people making decisions on financial matters hence the country is in such a situation. The problem that we have had in Zimbabwe is we had a proper guy running the Finance Ministry and that was the late Bernard Chidzero and I think that was the last time our country had a surplus.
And then when you look at the decisions that the Finance Ministers have always been making whenever they have the issues with the budget, their default has always been to increase taxes. That is all you need to tell there has been limited capacity of thinking.</blockquote>
More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/mukupe-apart-from-chidzero-zim-finance-ministers-have-been-clueless-with-no-idea-how-to-run-an-economy-hence-the-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Zimbabwe</a>
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Bernard Chidzero Was The Only Competent Minister of Finance in Zim: Minister Mukupe

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Parliament today approved the $153m China-Exim Bank Loan facility for the development and upgrading of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport. It was one of the deals sealed when President Emmerson Mnangagwa went to China.
Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa said the loan will attract an interest of  2% per annum with a 7 year grace period and a tenure of 20 years. Chinamasa said the project is expected to yield the following benefits:
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<li lang="en">Increased passenger and aircraft processing areas through the expansion of the international terminal building;</li>
<li lang="en">Improved passenger processing through introduction of state of the art passenger processing and facilitation equipment and systems;</li>
<li lang="en">Runway safety assurance through completion of the runway rehabilitation and airfield ground lighting project;</li>
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Parliament Approves $153 Million Chinese Loan To Upgrade Robert Mugabe Airport

Minister of Finance Patrick Chinamasa has said that it would have been shameful for Zanu-PF to have a 94-year presidential candidate at this year&#8217;s elections. This is despite the fact that the whole Zanu-PF had endorsed former president Robert Mugabe to be their presidential candidate until he was forced to resign when the military intervened in Zanu-PF politics in November. Said Chinamasa
<blockquote>We are in a better position now as a party. It was a shame for the party to go to elections with a 94-year-old leader as our candidate.
Unity should now prevail in the party because these men did a great job,” said the chief of the national treasury.
If we lose (the forthcoming) elections, then it’s our case of disunity. If we had worked together like we are doing today, the country would have achieved much more.</blockquote>
Mugabe has endorsed the new political party, the National Patriotic Front, which has vowed to return constitutionalism in Zimbabwe.
More: <a href="http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-46965-Mugabe+an+electoral+shame+Chinamasa/news.aspx">New Zimbabwe</a>
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Chinamasa Says It Would Have Been Shameful To Go For Elections With A 94-Year Candidate

Responding to questions raised at a recent business meeting in Harare over the purchase of cars for traditional chiefs in light of tight fiscal measures unveiled in the 2018 national budget, Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa said it is fulfilling a promise made a few years ago.
Said Chinamasa:
<blockquote>The issue of cars for traditional chiefs is also in line with the new government’s initiative to ensure it can have a concerted stakeholder input on the implementation of key socio- economic developmental policies.</blockquote>
This however against Chinamasa&#8217;s pronouncement that there were no funds to procure vehicles for chiefs which amounted to US$14 million. Said Chinamasa:
<blockquote>Hence, the 2018 Budget took account of value for money and affordability as guiding principles in the allocation of resources, and is unable to provide for the above vehicle requests.</blockquote>
More: <a href="http://www.zbc.co.zw/?p=72647">ZBC</a>

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