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Self-exiled former Foreign Affairs Minister Walter Mzembi has rubbished claims by the Government that the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has blocked more ZANU PF gatherings compared to those of its main rival, CCC.
Mzembi, who is working closely with the presidential aspirant Saviour Kasukuwere, said only the devil will believe the claim.
Commenting on the claims, which were reported by The Herald, Mzembi said State media has always been the Government’s propaganda mouthpiece since the Federation period. He said:
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Only Satan will believe this… Even during Charles Coghlan, Ian Smith’s Rhodesia, Sir Roy Welensky ‘s Federation of Rhodesia &amp; Nyasaland [The Herald] was like this young man, it will be like this even under a democratic govt. Its default setting is propaganda.
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On Monday, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage, Gerald Gwinji said between January 1 and July 10 this year, police have blocked 86 ZANU PF gatherings and 65 CCC public events.
He said political gatherings in the country were governed by the Constitution and the Maintenance of Peace and Security Act. Said Gwinji:
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Some of the requirements of these laws are that these gatherings are notified to the police to avoid clashes and any other public disorders that might inconvenience members of the public or other parties. All political players are required to comply with these provisions.
Since January 2023 operational districts across the country are maintaining registers of all notifications to hold public meetings made by political parties.
Different political parties have notified police of their gatherings and some have met legal requirements while some did not meet the legal requirements.
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Gwinji was briefing observers and diplomatic missions on the Government’s state of preparedness ahead of next month’s harmonised elections.
The meeting was convened by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
CCC has since disputed the statistics, with the party’s spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere on Tuesday saying the police and ZANU PF have blocked or disrupted 101 gatherings organised by the country’s main opposition.
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"Only Satan Will Believe This", Mzembi Scoffs At Report On Banning Of ZANU PF Rallies

Saviour Kasukuwere’s campaign team has castigated President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government following a ruling by High Court judge Justice David Mangota delivered on Wednesday morning, which barred the self-exiled former Cabinet Minister from running for the presidency in the upcoming elections.
In a statement released on Wednesday, 12 July, the chairman of Kasukuwere’s campaign team, Walter Mzembi, said Mnangagwa cannot choose his own competitors. He said:
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Today’s judgement by the High Court prohibiting our independent candidate Honourable Saviour Kasukuwere has been received and noted by our Legal Team in Harare who are now seized with it and taking the necessary responsive action. 
The judgement does not deter our ground activation, which is running full steam on our constitutional rights and freedom of choice in this election, and nothing has changed.
We remain focused on our pursuit of a new united and prosperous Zimbabwe, A ZIMBABWE FOR US ALL. Our campaign is against elitism and family capture of the state.
Removing Kasukuwere from the ballot does not translate into ballots for ED. He cannot choose his own competitors. He remains unelectable.
In fact, it is an own goal by the Mnangagwa regime and will not assist them in any way.
You cannot continuously use lawfare to disenfranchise a suffering people who desperately need leadership change.
People now want to know why Emmerson Mnangagwa is so hell-bent on stopping Saviour Kasukuwere from participating in the forthcoming election.
On reflection, the judgement is doing a splendid job of campaigning for our candidate, on and off the ballot. For us, this is a generational fight which no one can stop.
This judgement is not only against Kasukuwere but against all Zimbabweans whose birthright to vote and be voted for is being violated. It takes away the right of choice of the candidate.
No amount of judgements and threats will stop an idea whose time has come.
</blockquote>
Justice Mangota ruled that Kasukuwere was out of the country for over 18 months and therefore ceased to be a registered voter.
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Kasukuwere Vows To Continue Electoral Campaign Despite High Court Ruling

Dr Walter Mzembi, a former Tourism Minister who is currently in self-imposed exile, has criticised President Emmerson Mnangagwa for purportedly attempting to impede Saviour Kasukuwere’s candidacy for the presidency in the upcoming elections.
This follows an application filed by a <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">ZANU PF activist</a> named Lovedale Mangwana, which requested the court <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/2023/06/28/zanu-pf-activist-moves-to-bar-kasukuwere-from-contesting-in-the-presidential-election/">to prevent Kasukuwere from running</a> on the grounds that he is no longer a registered voter in his constituency, having been absent from it for a period exceeding 18 consecutive months.
Mangwana argued that the acceptance of Kasukuwere’s nomination papers by the <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">Nomination court</a> was unconstitutional, citing the provisions of the <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">Electoral Act</a> which stipulate that a voter who has not resided in a constituency for an uninterrupted span of 18 months cannot have their name retained on the voters’ roll for that constituency. He said:
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I submit that the decision to accept the first respondent’s nomination paper is in breach of section 91(1)(d) of the Constitution and invalid.
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I was convinced that this circumstance meant that he is no longer a registered voter for any constituency in the republic and consequently, he does not qualify for candidacy for election to the office of President.
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Saviour Kasukuwere has been in self-imposed exile in South Africa since 2017. He skipped the country when the late former President, Robert Mugabe, was ousted from power. In response to the application, Mzembi said:
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This is the zenith of electoral cowardice and fear of Kasukuwere by the President of Zim ED Mnangagwa. If you cant manage internal party divisions and diversity and you resort to expulsions you reap rebellion and dissent. You had 6 years to fix this!
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Saviour Kasukuwere, who registered as an independent candidate for the upcoming presidential election, will know his eligibility to contest on Thursday, June 29th when the <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">High Court</a> convenes to adjudicate the matter. His spokesperson and chief election agent, Jacqueline Sande, has confirmed that the legal team is preparing a response and will fight the case in court. Sande has expressed confidence that Kasukuwere will succeed in his bid to contest the presidential election, stating that there is no sustainable case to prevent him from running.
Some observers have suggested that the clause in the <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">Electoral Act</a> which disqualifies individuals who have been out of their constituencies for a specific period from participating in an election should be abolished. They argue that this will affect many Zimbabweans living abroad who return home to vote during elections. There are many Zimbabweans living in exile or working in neighbouring countries who are still listed on the voters’ roll, and it is uncertain if they will be prevented from returning home to vote.
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Mzembi Criticizes Mnangagwa For Allegedly Blocking Kasukuwere's Presidential Candidacy

Self-exiled former ZANU PF Political Commissar <a href="https://pindula.co.zw/Saviour_Kasukuwere">Saviour Kasukuwere</a> said that threats of arrest will not deter him from coming back home to contest for the presidency in the upcoming elections.
Kasukuwere responded to State media reports on Saturday, that he is a fugitive, through the chairperson and convenor of his presidential campaign, <a href="https://pindula.co.zw/Walter_Mzembi">Walter Mzembi</a>, who is also in exile.
Speaking on Saturday evening, Mzembi, who is a former Minister of Foreign Affairs said:
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No amount of threats or intimidation will deter him from his impending travel to Harare.
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Mzembi rejected claims by Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Permanent Secretary Virginia Mabhiza that there are two arrest warrants hanging over Kasukuwere’s head. He was quoted by <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/https-www-newzimbabwe-com-defiant-kasukuwere-dares-mnangagwa-says-not-intimidated-by-arrest-threats/">NewZimbabwe.com</a> as saying:
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For the avoidance of doubt, the charges related to the warrants of arrest against president Kasukuwere were quashed by the High Court in its judgement No. HH562/19 which the State has not appealed against.
We call upon all Zimbabweans to ignore these attempts to weaponise the criminal justice system by creating a public perception that president Kasukuwere is a fugitive from justice.
After his charges were quashed president Kasukuwere’s bail conditions fell away.
His bail deposit was reimbursed and the High Court ordered the state to release his title deeds which order the state is in contempt up to this day.
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Mzembi said the passport that Mabhiza told the state media about expired and was renewed by the same state with no challenges at all confirming that all was in order.
Mabhiza said Kasukuwere should submit himself before the law and seek cancellation of the warrants. She said:
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When someone is issued with a warrant of arrest, they should submit himself before the law.
What he should do is submit himself before the law and seek cancellation of the warrants.
He has his lawyers, so they should advise him on what he should do. His submission to the law is standard procedure.
</blockquote>
Kasukuwere is among 11 candidates that successfully filed their nomination papers to contest the presidential elections.
The other ten candidates are Joseph Busha (Free Zim Congress), Nelson Chamisa (CCC), Trust Chikohora (ZCPD), Blessing Kasiyamhuru (ZIPP), Lovemore Madhuku (NCA), Douglas Mwonzora (MDC), Emmerson Mnangagwa (ZANU PF), Wilbert Mubaiwa (NPC), Gwinyai Henry Muzorewa (UANC), and Harry Peter Wilson (DOP).
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Kasukuwere Says Not Intimidated By Arrest Threats

Self-exiled former Tourism Minister, Dr <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Walter_Mzembi">Walter Mzembi</a>, has said it is madness for the ruling ZANU PF to blame the late former President <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Robert_Mugabe">Robert Mugabe</a> for the current power crisis.
He made the remarks after ZANU PF spokesperson, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Christopher_Mutsvangwa">Christopher Mutsvangwa</a> claimed that the <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/zanu-pf-blames-mugabe-for-electricity-crisis/">power crisis that the southern African country is facing is a product of years of neglect</a> within Zimbabwe in particular. Mutsvangwa said:
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The mismanagement, the arm-fisted mismanagement of the last two decades of Mugabe and his G40s obviously has a negative pull.
It is retarding the speed of recovery, but you can’t doubt that recovery is going on.
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Mutsvangwa’s remarks attracted Mzembi’s wrath. He responded:
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Mugabe ndiye wakakutumai kundotenga maSolar 5KVa Generators eUSD $14 500 iwo achiita USD $3500. Mugabe ndiye wakakutumai kupanana maLoan edzimba USD$500 000 kubva muhomwe yenyika Nyika isina magetsi? HuSpokesperson hwemuBedroom hunonetsa Kwanai Cde! [Is Mugabe the one who told you to buy solar panels 5KVa Generators at US$14 500 when they can be bought at US$3 500? Is he the one giving (Ministers) US$500 000 housing loans from the national purse when there is a power crisis?
(The solar deal is) A ponzi scheme! USD $10 000 profit per installation × 500 000 Civil Servants! Stop this madness, profiteering from a Crisis!
His wife Monica got $500 000 and he also got $500 000 asi Zimbabwe soooo kaaaa.
USD$1million for the Mutsvangwas, 2× 5kva solar Generators, every government freeby they get a double portion moti munhu angasapenga! Uku maComrades he represents varikutatarika nePfumvudza! Nyarara Cde Chris!
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Zimbabwe is facing a huge power deficit that has seen ZESA, the local power utility, rolling out a crippling load-shedding schedule that left most parts of the country without power for at least 18 hours daily.
According to a power update by the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), a ZESA subsidiary, Zimbabwe is producing a total of 582MW against a peak demand of 2 200MW.
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Mzembi Says It's Madness To Blame Mugabe For Zimbabwe's Power Crisis

Self-exiled former Tourism Minister, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Walter_Mzembi">Walter Mzembi</a>, says he legally and technically remains a member of the ruling ZANU PF.
Mzembi is among several former senior government officials who skipped the country’s borders in <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/November_2017_Military_Coup">2017 following the ouster</a> of the late veteran leader <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Robert_Mugabe">Robert Mugabe</a>. 
He said he is part of the ZANU PF leadership despite the party electing new Central Committee and Politburo members at last month’s elective Congress, <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/exiled-former-minister-mzembi-insists-he-is-still-a-zanu-pf-member-and-promises-surprises/">New Zimbabwe</a> reported. Mzembi is cited as saying:
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Legally and technically, I am still a Zanu-PF Central Committee member, in party audits my cell location is Rupike township, Masvingo.
I don’t think my standing in the party is urgent business to them, they are focused on elections. It won’t be anytime soon, l am busy with other things too.
I have never recognised my other comrades’ expulsion, it was by all accounts an illegality, null and void to the extent that Zanu-PF did not follow due process or its own Constitution.
In its summary dismissal of party members, only made known to me under duress resulting in loss of office in both party and government, it is only Zanu-PF which can correct its illegality, not the victim.
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Mzembi’s remarks come as other self-exiled former ministers, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Jonathan_Moyo">Jonathan Moyo</a> and <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Patrick_Zhuwao">Patrick Zhuwao</a> have written to ZANU PF <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/full-text-zhuwao-and-jonathan-moyo-apologise-to-zanu-pf-for-association-with-the-opposition/">apologising for their association with the opposition.</a>
Analysts say they could be planning to rejoin the ruling party.
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Exiled Former Tourism Minister Mzembi Says He's Still A ZANU PF Member

Self-exiled former Tourism minister, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Walter_Mzembi">Walter Mzembi</a>, has disputed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s claims that only three airlines were flying into the country in 2017 against 17 currently jetting in courtesy of the new dispensation.
Responding to a Twitter post by Information Secretary, Nick Mangwana, Mzembi warned departments against abusing President Mnangagwa by giving him fake statistics. 
Mnangagwa told the <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/7th-zanu-pf-national-peoples-congress-today/">7th ZANU PF National People’s Congress</a> that things had improved under his leadership, <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/ex-tourism-minister-challenges-mnangagwas-fake-airlines-statistics-at-zanu-pf-congress/">NewZimbabwe.com</a> reported. He said:
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The number of airlines flying into our beautiful country has grown from three in 2017, to the present 17 airlines,” said the 80-year-old leader to wild applause from delegates at the party’s 7th congress.
We have moved from a state of isolation to an active member within the community of nations and a favourable tourist destination.”
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In response, Mzembi said Mnangagwa who was endorsed as the party’s candidate at next year’s polls, was not being factual. He said:
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For the record there were 14 international airlines servicing Zimbabwe in 2017.
For the avoidance of doubt get the record from CAAZ (Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe). We can also list them here. Departments should not abuse the President like this with false statistics.
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Mzembi shared a 2012 screenshot of an article by the Mail &amp; Guardian detailing the arrival of Kenya’s KLM and Fly Emirates, to support his claim.
He argued Mnangagwa was at the event.
During the last days in office of the late former President Robert Mugabe, there were claims that some government officials were feeding the veteran leader with wrong information to expose his incapacitation to lead the nation.
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Former Tourism Minister Disputes President Mnangagwa's Airlines Statistics

Self-exiled former Foreign Affairs Minister Walter Mzembi has warned opposition leaders against being lured into high-speed challenges by ZANU PF activists and suspected State agents saying they may become victims of “accident traps.”
Posting on Twitter, Mzembi advised opposition activists to emulate war of liberation era nationalists who did not publicise their movements but rather operated secretively. Wrote Mzembi:
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A security precaution and alert in this campaign season!
Don’t answer High-Speed Chase Challenges or be frightened or prompted into them, those are accidents and death traps, even some of the best movie actors succumbed to these Rural Roads death traps.
Cut out the drama. If you are being sought don’t be anticipated or do the obvious, this is the guerrilla response of “banned” movements.
This is how the Nationalists themselves responded. The system wants to see your “structures” but instead, do underground cells.
I was forever threatened in Masvingo politics, sometimes with the assistance of CDF Chiwenga himself for which I thank him.
I changed routes, jumped into buses arrived in Harare through Mutare or Gweru, if you do peacock arrivals you are game!
Early Nationalists like Joshua Nkomo had the fame “yekunyangarika“, do you really think it was that mysterious? No!
It was a product of secretive and elaborate planning of movement and sudden appearances and disappearances. You have to change your approach.
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Mzembi’s remarks come after CCC leader Nelson Chamisa’s convoy was reportedly attacked by suspected ZANU PF supporters in Mashonaland East province early this week.
Chamisa’s convoy was reportedly attacked when he made a surprise visit to Uzumba Maramba Pfungwe (UMP), traditionally known as a ZANU PF stronghold.
The CCC leader’s convoy was also reportedly involved in a high-speed chase with ZANU PF activists during a recent visit to Gokwe-Kabuyuni.

"Don't Answer High-Speed Chase Challenges", Mzembi Warns CCC

Self-exiled former Foreign Affairs Minister Walter Mzembi has said Statutory Instrument (SI) 144 of 2022 (1) has disenfranchised the poor.
On Friday, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) gazetted SI 144 of 2022 (1) on candidate nomination fees which will see an aspiring presidential candidate paying US$20 000.
An aspiring member of parliament will pay a candidate fee of US$1 000 while local authority and Senate aspiring candidates will now pay a sum of US$200.
The fees are payable in cash or at the prevailing official rate equivalent. Part of the regulations read:
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It is hereby notified that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, in terms of section 192 of the Electoral Act (Chapter 2:13) has, with the approval of the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs made the following regulations: These regulations may be cited as the electoral (nomination of candidates) (Amendment) Regulations, 2022 (1).
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Posting on Twitter, Mzembi <a href="https://twitter.com/waltermzembi/status/1561251231317778433?s=20&amp;t=2dtlI5pGx9HlsIYhSKCVQQ">said</a> ZEC is using money as a prequalification for citizens to vote or for aspiring candidates to be nominated as was the case during the Rhodesia era. Said Mzembi:
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SI 144 of 2022 express boomerang to Rhodesia. The poor have been disenfranchised!
Ama 2000s going by monikers ED Believed this and that should read 1961 and 1970 electoral laws outlined here to understand WHY Money and Means should not be a prequalification for voting or being voted.
This is where we came from, don’t take us back @ZECzim.
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Under the 1970 Rhodesian Constitution, European, Asian and mixed citizens had to be earning an annual income of 1,800 dollars or more for the past two years or immovable property worth 3,600 dollars or more, among other things to be eligible to vote.
Black Rhodesians were supposed to earn an annual income of 600 dollars or more for the two past years or immovable property worth 1,200 dollars or more, to be eligible to register as voters.
Meanwhile, ZEC also pegged at US$10 for an electronic copy of the voters’ roll with data on one polling station voters, US$15 for the ward level voters’ roll, US$50 for the constituency voters’ roll, US$150 for the provincial voters’ roll and US$200 for the national voters’ roll.

"ZEC Taking Zimbabwe Back To Rhodesia"

Former Foreign Affairs Minister Walter Mzembi has claimed that Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, John Mangudya, and then Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa undermined his proposal for Zimbabwe to join the Rand Monetary Union (RMU) in 2015, which he believes could have stabilised the economy.
The Rand Union, formally referred to as the Common Monetary Area (CMA), is a monetary agreement with South Africa in which the rand is legal tender in all states, but the other member states (Namibia, Lesotho and Eswatini) issue their own currencies.
Posting on Twitter, Mzembi claimed Mangudya and Chinamasa misled then President Robert Mugabe into thinking that the plan was a scheme to sell the country to Americans. Said Mzembi:
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From 2015, I took it upon myself to win over Cabinet, to Zimbabwe joining Rand Monetary Union. Cabinet received my papers on this. I failed.
Later on, Mugabe told me “Chinamasa and Mangudya are saying you want to sell the country to the Americans!”
In 2017 Mugabe asked the two “Do we go with the Mzembi proposal or not, does he make sense?”.
Answer from the two “Yes Your Excellency, he makes sense but he lives well ahead of his time, we will get there eventually”. Subject closed.
End of September 2017, Mugabe discussed the option of redeployment to finance or foreign affairs.
I argued vigorously for the latter pressing that in finance I would struggle to get Cabinet support for a new economic direction – RMU. End of story!
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In 2019, President Emmerson Mnangagwa abandoned the multi-currency system that had stabilised Zimbabwe’s economy between 2009 and 2019 and reintroduced the Zimbabwean dollar.
However, the local unit has been in free-fall, forcing Mnangagwa to reintroduce the multi-currency system in 2022.

Mzembi Claims Mangudya, Chinamasa Misled Mugabe Over His Proposal To Join Rand Union

Exiled former Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi has warned ZANU PF that the low turnout membership turnout witnessed during yesterday’s cell audits is a harbinger of impending catastrophe at the polls.
Reports suggest that few people turned up for the cell verification process of the faction-riddled ruling party while in some places it failed to take place at all.
In some districts, the cell audit meetings were reportedly cancelled after people stayed away in their hundreds.
Posting on Twitter, Mzembi said ZANU PF’s popularity has plummeted to below 2008 levels when the party lost its parliamentary majority for the first time since independence. Said Mzembi:
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ZANU PF National Cell Day verdict! Hazvina kufamba mushe (I didn’t go well), the biggest problem being apathy. The cells are also becoming fishing ponds for everyone opposed to the GOP, data is all over Virtual Cells for food distribution more than Party mobilisation.
Cell Audits are more accurate than Afrobarometer poll surveys that gave ED a 51% popularity rating recently.
A turnout yesterday of less than a million ( ZANU PF sources) out of a possible 2.5m based on 50000 cells and 50 members per cell is damning. 
Party popularity is now below 2008 levels, be warned Two things are militating against the Party, an Economy that is serving none except leadership and its families and gross factionalism combined with a failure to unite the Party. Take heed!
I sign off by saying Party leadership should avoid going down with the Party, a suicidal trait that I even counselled RG against in persuading him to seek reintegration of G40 with the mainstream, 5 years later you are behaving the same.
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ZANU PF Popularity Is Now Below 2008 Levels - Mzembi

The late former President Robert Mugabe reportedly decided to support the then MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s presidential bid in 2018 to spite his former deputy, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
According to a document titled “Proposed Framework for the Reunification of ZANU PF”, authored by former Tourism minister Walter Mzembi and his G40 colleagues, after the 2017 military coup, Mugabe wanted to engage Mnangagwa but was shunned.
Speaking to NewsDay on Wednesday, Mzembi said that Mugabe wanted G40 members to be reinstated to the party and the Government and for their victimisation to end. Said Mzembi:
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Read the document which I was authorised by Mugabe to take to Mnangagwa after protracted discussions and meetings between us.
This is how he envisaged reunification in the party: rapprochement and peace-building, and not this razz-mataz approach of fishing unsuspecting political juveniles on the back of granting them individual and family security.
This was not Mugabe’s approach; he was not selfish to the extent of wanting to cut a deal for himself back into ZANU PF to the exclusion of comrades who had sacrificed for him, standing with him on principle until the last.
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Mnangagwa is said to have demanded that Mugabe endorses his candidature ahead of the 2018 elections.
In return, Mugabe wanted some decisions of the 19 November 2017 ZANU PF central committee meeting, which included his sacking from the party, to be re-visited.
Some of the G40 members who lost their positions after the military coup include former ministers Mandiitawepi Chimene (Manicaland provincial), Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwao (Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare), Sydney Sekeramai (Defence), who lost his job soon after the coup, Walter Chidakwa (Mines), Jonathan Moyo (Higher and Tertiary Education), Ignatius Chombo (Finance) and Samuel Undenge (Energy).
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2022/05/why-mugabe-supported-chamisa/">NewsDay</a></h4>

"Mugabe Supported Chamisa To Spite Mnangagwa"

The late president Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s son, Robert Tinotenda, was reportedly hospitalised at a private hospital in Singapore on Saturday after experiencing chest pains.
According to <a href="https://iharare.com/pics-robert-mugabe-junior-hospitalised-in-singapore/">a report</a>, Mugabe was alone when he suffered a collapsed right lung a few hours after he landed in Singapore.
He was reportedly ferried to an unnamed Singapore private hospital where he was admitted.
In an apparent reference to Robert Jr, exiled former Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi said he was careless to trust his father’s persecutors and cosy up with them so soon. <a href="https://twitter.com/waltermzembi/status/1525938516877889537?s=20&amp;t=O6mzugE8tpOYnA0EycjXcg">Tweeted Mzembi:</a>
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Preserve the family lineage and cut [scissors emoji] the political adolescence! We pray for wisdom.
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Robert Jr attended a ZANU PF rally in Chitungwiza in the run-up to the 26 March by-elections where he met President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his son, Emmerson Jr.
He was also pictured eating ice cream at the rally while seating alongside ZANU PF-linked preacher Passion Java.
The late Mugabe died in Singapore “a bitter man” according to his nephew Walter Chidhakwa after he was ousted in a military coup in November 2017.
Below are pictures of a bedridden Robert Mugabe Jr:
 
<h4>More: <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a></h4>

PICTURES: Robert Mugabe's Son Hospitalised In Singapore

Exiled former Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi has urged the Government to bring back executive mayors to address service delivery failures across the country.
Mzembi was responding to a video of uncollected rubbish in Mbare shared on Twitter by former Minister of Energy and Power Development, Fortune Chasi.
Chasi had blamed the Harare City Council for the uncollected garbage at Mbare’s produce market.
But Mzembi argued that interference in the affairs of local authorities by the Minister of Local Government and Public Works has negatively affected service delivery. He said:
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(The) Harare mayor, after republic President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is the second most powerful measurable public service deployment.
Its budget is equivalent to 50% of all ministries combined. It has suffered from interference and lack of vision, Chasi.
Bring back an executive mayor, who is protected from the ministry of local government politics and interference, for functionality and supervision of Town House bureaucracy.
His authority should be checkmated by elected councillors only, not politicians!
Executive mayors must be a direct appointment or elected into office by bona fide ratepayers after satisfying them with their vision and suitability for office through an evaluated Statement of Policy Intent &amp; Management of the City.
If we do not reassert the role and power of ratepayers, cities will continue to be blackmailed by our toxic politics, where the central government under ZANU PF and local authorities under opposition turn them into turf and political battlegrounds!
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The Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo has been accused of meddling with the running of affairs at Harare Town House.
Moyo has suspended two mayors in succession (Herbert Gomba and Jacob Mafume) and imposed one Steward Mutizwa.
Last week, Moyo also nullified the election of CCC councillor Enock Mupamawonde as Harare mayor and reimposed Mutizwa.
In recent years, the central Government has interfered with several local authorities among them Harare, Chitungwiza, Bulawayo, Victoria Falls, Gweru, Kariba and Kwekwe.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/bring-back-executive-mayors-to-end-mess-exiled-mzembi-urges-government/">NewZimbabwe.com</a></h4>

Mzembi Urges Government To Bring Back Executive Mayors

Exiled former Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi said that the majority of top ZANU PF officials are so old they will be dead by 2028.
The South African-based former G40 kingpin suggested that the demise of “old things” will result in the emergence of a new system that rewards merit not entitlement.
Mzembi made the remarks while contributing to a heated Twitter conversation over the weekend.
A ZANU PF sympathiser had declared that the new parliament building under construction in Mt Hampden will not accommodate opposition members when it is finally commissioned. In response, Mzembi said:
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Zimbabweans shall redefine a new value system not based on entitlement but on merit and only the people’s choices will make laws from this building.
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Mzembi said by “old things”, he was referring to the older generation in government, adding that older generations would have died.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is 79 years old and will be 85 in 2028 while his deputy Constantino Chiwenga will be 71.
ZANU PF vice president and second secretary Kembo Mohadi would be 78 in 2028.
Mzembi left the country at the height of the 2017 military coup that deposed Robert Mugabe before Mnangagwa eventually took over the reins.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/exiled-mzembi-says-zanu-pf-oligarchs-will-all-be-dead-by-2028/">New Zimbabwe</a></h4>

Top ZANU PF Officials Will All Be Dead By 2028 - Mzembi

<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Nelson_Chamisa">Nelson Chamisa</a> who leads the newly-formed <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Citizens%27_Coalition_for_Change">Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC)</a> has criticised vindictive politics by the ruling ZANU PF which he claimed forced former cabinet ministers including <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Saviour_Kasukuwere">Saviour Kasukuwere</a> and Professor <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Jonathan_Moyo">Jonathan Moyo</a> to skip the country’s borders.
Chamisa made the remarks while speaking to dozens of CCC supporters who attended the party’s rally held at Mkoba, Gweru to mobilise for votes ahead for the 26 March by-elections and 2023 harmonised elections.
Chamisa said when he is in power, he will make sure that Zimbabweans in the diaspora come back “and enjoy in the new Zimbabwe.” He added:
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I don’t agree with Kasukuwere on many issues, but he should not be scared to come back home. Jonathan Moyo is now in Kenya. They should not be scared for their lives.
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Many former government officials including Kasukuwere (former Local Government Minister), Moyo (former Information Minister), <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Walter_Mzembi">Walter Mzembi</a> (former Tourism Minister), and <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Patrick_Zhuwao">Patrick Zhuwao</a> (former Youth Minister) fled the country following the ouster of the late former President <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Robert_Mugabe">Robert Mugabe</a>.
They feared retribution from President Emmerson Mnangagwa whom they had “fought with” for years as factional wars in the ruling party reached their climax.
Mnangagwa led the <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Lacoste,_Zanu-PF_Faction">Lacoste faction</a> whilst the individuals above belonged to the <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/G40_(Zanu-PF_Faction)">Generation 40 (G40)</a> allegedly led by former first lady, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Grace_Mugabe">Grace Mugabe</a>. The factions wrangled in Mugabe’s last days in office as they sought to assert their control of the party.
<h2>More: <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a></h2>

Kasukuwere, Jonathan Moyo, Zimbabweans Abroad Must Be Free To Come Home - Chamisa

Exiled former Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Walter Mzembi is not planning to return to Zimbabwe any time soon in spite of a recent High Court judgment that acquitted him of corruption charges.
Mzembi who was arrested after the late former President Robert Mugabe was deposed in a military coup in November 2017, is now living in South Africa.
He said he went into exile on health and political grounds and as long the same political environment continues to exist he will not be coming back any time soon. Mzembi said:
<blockquote>One day I will be back but I will not be prompted to come back soon, not by man, certainly not by acquittals.
The reasons for my being out are still valid, they are political in addition administratively I am here by the permission of the Courts on medical grounds notwithstanding the banter you may read from time to time.</blockquote>
Mzembi believes the charges against him were politically motivated and concocted by his erstwhile colleagues who had triumphed through the coup. He said:
<blockquote>All my accomplices were acquitted by the lower courts for the other case and charges withdrawn because the charges were extremely frivolous, they were framed in the heat of the moment in November 2017 when comrades were bloodthirsty.
My charges are absolutely political, how I can be arrested for donating TVs to churches yet there was a cabinet directive that was put in place to promote religious tourism and that directive is still in place.</blockquote>
In a judgement made available this week, Justice David Mangota of the Harare High Court cleared Mzembi on charges of abuse of office and stealing funds during the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) conference which was co-hosted by Zimbabwe and Zambia in 2013.
However, he still faces charges of donating four television sets to churches during his tenure.
<h4>More: <a href="https://zimmorningpost.com/court-acquittal-wont-make-me-comeback-home-mzembi/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Zim Morning Post</a></h4>

'I'm Not Coming Back Any Time Soon' - Mzembi

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Walter Mzembi, Zimbabwe’s former Minister of Tourism has claimed that the governing ZANU PF is being run by the military since 2017 when the late former president Robert Mugabe was removed from office.
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Zanu PF iParty yemasoja who usurped a civilian-led Party in Nov 2017 &amp; defaulted to High Command Military ZANLA politics of the 1970s! There is NO political formation that can answer it’s current Military construct!
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Following a Chinese script they are now creating” loyal opposition ” whose presence in Parliament they are now facilitating. Communist China unbeknown to many has Opposition Parties but vetted as loyal to the State. Polad is the Zim version of this model.
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I anticipated that commentators would be immediately tempted to compare pre and post Coup Zanu PF leadership models and condemn them as the same but clearly the gun is now leading politics in broad daylight and that is the curse in our midst!
<div class="js-card-container">I attach evidence of contestations for the control of Zanu PF btwn Civilians &amp; the Military – Joint Operations Command Minutes on 2013 Parliamentary Candidates, this is well before the advent of G40 as you know it! Read carefully</div>
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Why didn’t you disclose all these? Because you are no longer part of the system? Apologise!!!!
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Because I had no access to the minutes and what should I be apologising for, I have paid a much greater price than most of you for opposing the man you all cried for to come back and rule! Who should be apologising for lack of judgement and foresight?
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"Here Is Proof ZANU PF Was Usurped By The Army," - Former Tourism Minister

Former Minister of Tourism, <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/01/30/member-of-mzembis-newly-formed-party-resigns-citing-huge-risk/">Dr Walter Mzembi who now leads the People First political party</a> has claimed that ZANU PF does not rig elections on the voting day or after.
Posting on Twitter, Mzembi said that he, in an article he is writing, intends to reveal how ZANU PF wins elections. He said:
<blockquote>I am doing an article on what happens inside a Zanu PF cell from pre-independence to date which keeps our people voting for Zanu PF. There is no rigging on voting day or after. The minds of our people have been rigged for over 40 years, get it?</blockquote>
His remarks come when there is a standoff between the opposition MDC led by Nelson Chamisa and ZANU PF over the disputed 2018 election which the former claims was manipulated in favour of ZANU PF presidential candidate, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Another former Cabinet Minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo has since released a book, <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/01/02/diagrams-in-excelgate-show-how-zec-created-an-illegal-route-to-transmit-presidential-election-results-to-harare/">EXCELGATE</a>, in which he ‘reveals’ how the 2018 elections were manipulated in favour of the ruling party.
More: <a href="https://twitter.com/waltermzembi/status/1228214124963721220">Walter Mzembi</a>

"There Is No Rigging On Voting Day Or After," Mzembi Intends To Explain How ZANU PF Wins Elections

Mail and Telegraph reports that former Cabinet minister, Walter Mzembi  is battling cancer of the colon since June and is in South Africa receiving treatment.
This was revealed on Monday in a court application that Mzembi’s lawyer, Job Sikhala made seeking for an administrative warrant of arrest. An administrative warrant of arrest will be easy to remove before court when Mzembi does appear after his chemotherapy treatments.
All his matters have been remanded to December 4 and in the meantime an administrative warrant of arrest has been issued while they wait for the State to furnish them with State papers to prepare for trial. Mzembi was last week issued with another administrative warrant of arrest in another case where he is accused of criminal abuse of office.
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More: <a href="https://mailandtelegraph.com/2018/11/29/mzembi-battles-with-cancer-in-sa/">Mail and Telegraph</a>

Mzembi Suffering From Colon Cancer, In South Africa Receiving Treatment

Former Foreign Affairs Minister Walter Mzembi has appealed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to ensure that his right to privacy is protected after reports on his health.
Mzembi is in South Africa where he is recovering from a surgery and has appealed to Mnangagwa to ensure that his privacy is protected. There have been reports that a warrant of arrest has been issued for Mzembi after he violated his bail conditions. Mzembi said he harbours no political ambition and appeals to Mnangagwa for assistance. Part of Mzembi’s appeal reads:
<blockquote>That notwithstanding I have and still renew the assurances of my highest consideration for the office of Head of State and Government, and President of Zanu PF, my party of birth. I am fully conscious that this is not my political season and am equally not in a hurry to find relevance in the current political space. My family and I do not desire to be mixed up in any of the goings on in Zimbabwe’s political landscape and I am hoping my constitutional rights for privacy and wishes for a civil nonpartisan life will be respected and reciprocated, especially my recuperation from such delicate surgery and post b treatment.</blockquote>
More: <a href="https://263chat.com/mzembi-appeals-to-president-mnangagwa/">263Chat</a>

Walter Mzembi Responds To Reports On His Health, Appeals To Mnangagwa To Protect Right To Privacy

Former Tourism minister Walter Mzembi yesterday challenged the $1,8 million fraud charge levelled him stating that the State misdirected the court to believe that the permanent secretary in the Tourism ministry was the complainant instead of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO).
Through his lawyer Job Sikhala, Mzembi filed his application challenging placement on remand when he appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa yesterday. Mzembi is alleged to have defrauded the government of $1,8 million when he co-hosted the UNWTO conference in Victoria Falls last year together with his Zambian counterpart. Sikhala said if there was any misconduct against Mzembi, there was supposed to be a resolution by the UNWTO General Assembly to have him investigated. He said that the State misdirected itself by charging Mzembi who is not a signatory in  Aaron Mushoriwa and Sussana Makombe Kuhudzayi’s company called Africa Conventions.
Sikhala also argued that the theft of motor vehicle charge against Mzembi does not hold water as the said stolen motor vehicle was currently in the hands of the Tourism ministry. The State, represented by Michael Reza, opposed the application challenging placement on remand, saying Mzembi must go to trial and answer questions relating to why he authorised funds to be deposited into an unregistered company. The matter was remanded to February 19 for ruling.
More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2018/02/mzembi-claims-graft-charges-politically-motivated/">NewsDay</a>

Walter Mzembi Challenges $1,8 Million Fraud Charge

Former Foreign Affairs Minister, Walter Mzembi has dismissed rumours that he applied for political asylum at the Cuban Embassy after the military takeover. When the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) launched Operation Restore Legacy,<a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2017/11/19/disgraced-foreign-affairs-minister-seeks-asylum-cuban-embassy-claims-mnangagwa-ally/"> Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Mayor Justice Wadyajena claimed that Mzembi was seeking asylum from the Cubans.</a> However, Mzembi dismissed this claim as false, saying that his family checked into a hotel in order to protect themselves. Mzembi also stated that his home had not been attacked by ZDF soldiers like what happened to <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2017/11/15/images-ignatius-chombos-house-guards-exchanged-fire-soldiers/">former Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo</a> and <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2017/11/28/jonathan-moyo-claims-25-sas-snipers-attacked-kasukuweres-home-firing-indiscriminately/">former Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere.</a>
In an Interview, with the Daily News, Mzembi said:
<blockquote>I am hoping this interview can lay to rest the many falsehoods and fake news that have been generated and disseminated by my name and whereabouts in the most recent past, amounting to hate speech! Thank you for the opportunity to set the record straight. Now back to your first question, we were of course in bed at that wee hour but had been kept wide awake by anxiety over the statement by the military and its implications and also queries from the region on what was going on, remember on the night in question I had missed a flight to South Africa, where I had been granted an appointment with the South African Foreign Affairs minister in Pretoria in the morning of the 15th and later a meeting with President (Jacob) Zuma at 6 pm in Cape Town as part of my regional diplomatic tour but also as the ex-president’s special envoy. I had just completed a similar assignment in Zambia the previous day, where I had met both the Foreign Affairs minister and President Lungu. So my colleagues in the region were equally anxious. As to our reaction as a family, we stayed on and only moved into a hotel around 6 am, as we were now responding to various messages on the insecurity of Cabinet ministers getting to us from various sources.
We never were visited by the military contrary to falsehoods peddled by social media, and some of my colleagues in government who have been authoritatively peddling lies about my whereabouts and supposed fugitive status. I never left Zimbabwe nor sought sanctuary anywhere including the Cuban Embassy as asserted by some. My immigration and passport records can confirm this, including checking with the said embassies that are clearly irritated by these falsehoods. It’s just malice!</blockquote>
Mzembi went on to say that he was willing to take a break from politics if it was in the best interests of Zanu-PF. Said Mzembi:
<blockquote>I am yet to meet my constituency to sound them out on this, but if it’s not Zanu PF representation as predicated by my expulsion from the party, it’s time for a sabbatical. I will lend my support to any Zanu PF cadre nominated by the Party and I hope they can support me in my private life trajectory as well.</blockquote>
More: <a href="https://www.dailynews.co.zw/articles/2017/12/04/it-s-time-for-a-political-sabbatical-says-mzembi">Daily News</a>

I Never Claimed Asylum At The Cuban Embassy: Mzembi

Foreign Affairs Minister Walter Mzembi has said that he is going to engage Western countries after years of frosty relationships. Mzembi wants to establish robust commercial diplomacy. speaking at the United Nations Day commemorations on Monday, Mzembi said:
<blockquote>I also intend, going forward, to pursue a thrust on rapprochement, we need to get back together with many of our friends that have gone away.
…We need to convert our political relations now into economics so that we can uplift the lives of our people.
My desire is to keep the flame burning around old friendships and we have many of them, they are manifest in this room.
It will be marked by my own deployment in this sector, which in itself is very symbolic of the regeneration of our government. I am arguably the youngest Foreign Affairs minister to be deployed in this portfolio and in itself it is a signal from the President on how we are going to engage together.</blockquote>
More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2017/10/mzembi-vows-engage-zim-detractors/">NewsDay</a>

Mzembi To Mend Diplomatic Relations With Western Countries

The government of Zimbabwe through Minister of Foreign Affairs, Walter Mzembi has said that it respect’s the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) decision to rescind President Robert Mugabe’s appointment as the goodwill ambassador for non-communicable diseases. According to Mzembi, WHO had more to gain from Mugabe’s appointment than Mugabe himself.
Said Mzembi
<blockquote>We respect the WHO decision as much as we respected their initial decision to honour our President
The inordinate noise around the designation of the President [Mugabe] as WHO Global Ambassador for Africa does not assist the cause in the first place. If anything it is WHO that has benefited tremendously from its decision in nominating President Mugabe to lead the fight against NCDs through media amplification of WHO itself, and curiosity by the general public on what really are NCDs, by tagging the name Mugabe to the debate. On a name recognition scale, this name beats them all, but it is our business to protect its brand equity from unnecessary besmirching
So on the balance, it is wiser to let go, and help WHO focus on its mandate while we focus Zimbabwe on its membership obligations. That notwithstanding, the President will carry on with his passion for NCDs which are killing over 40 million people per annum with 80% of them from the developing world.</blockquote>
More: <a href="http://www.zbc.co.zw/2017/10/22/who-biggest-loser-after-pres-mugabe-decision/">ZBC</a>

Govt responds to WHO decision to rescind Mugabe's ambassadorship

Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry Walter Mzembi explains why they banned South African dancer and socialite Zodwa Wabantu.  Mzembi was justifying why the government had barred the dancer from performing at the  Harare International Carnival.
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