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Source: Drama as women’s league holds ‘secretive’ elections | The Standard

BY JAIROS SAUNYAMA

The Zanu PF women’s league in Mashonaland East on Friday held a “secretive” election that saw provincial chairlady Nyarai Tsvuura being replaced by her deputy Lyn Gororo as factional wars in the province intensify.

Both the media and intelligence officers were chucked out of the meeting as the women’s league members said that they were conducting their “private businesses”.

The election of Gororo came after the Zanu PF politburo recently cleared and reinstated Tsvuura as the provincial women’s league boss after she was suspended on trumped-up charges, among them, gossiping.

Tsvuura, also a Mutoko legislator, was officially reinstated at a provincial coordinating committee (PCC) meeting after several weeks of resistance from a section of both the national and provincial women’s league leadership who were also refusing to release a party vehicle meant for her use.

The vehicle was later released following the intervention of provincial chairperson Joel Biggie Matiza.

But Tsvuura never used it after reports that some other party members openly told her that “she would not touch” the party vehicle.

Tsvuura attended the election but refused to contest resulting in Gororo taking over.

According to sources who attended the highly-charged meeting, some women’s league members said Tsvuura was co-opted as their boss in the new dispensation.

“They are saying Tsvuura was co-opted, hence the need for elections,” sources said.

“It is confusing as she was reinstated by the politburo a few months ago, but today we are being instructed to conduct elections.

“We are not sure whether it is a politburo directive as well. Tsvuura attended the meeting but she didn’t contest resulting in her deputy Lyn Gororo taking over. We have some members who were co-opted into positions and we do not know when the elections for them will be held.”

The elective meeting was reportedly led by a national women’s league member.

Matiza yesterday said he was aware of the meeting.

“I am aware that they held a meeting in Marondera to discuss issues concerning them. However, I am yet to receive the report on what transpired on the day. The
women’s league has the power to solve burning issues if need arises but like I said, I am ye to be apprised,” he said.

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Prominent investigative journalist Hopewell Chin’ono on Monday dismissed social media claims that MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa had been arrested. Open Space had, without giving details, posted on microblogging site Twitter that Chamisa had been arrested. The post read, “MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa arrested. More to follow.” However, Chin’ono refuted the claim, saying the […]

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Source: Minister faces $500 000 lawsuit over bungled abortion | The Standard

By Cliff Chiduku

A HARARE woman is claiming $500 000 damages from Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe in respect of non-patrimonial loss suffered as a result of failure by the police to carry out their constitutional duty over a case of forced abortion.

Kazembe is cited as the first respondent while police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga is the second respondent and officer-in-charge (OIC) Machipisa CID (third) and one Constable Dzingarwi (fourth).

In summons filed at the High Court through her lawyers, Tendai Biti Law, Beauty Chiroodza of Hatcliffe Extension said sometime in November 2019, she went to Machipisa Police Station to register a complainant concerning medical practitioner Tawanda Zinyowera, who had performed an abortion on her without her consent.

“Sometime in November 2019, plaintiff approached Machipisa Police Station in the presence of her legal practitioners, laying a complaint concerning Dr Tawanda Zinyowera, who was practicing, without a valid medical certificate issued by the Medical and Dental Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe (MDPCZ), within the third defendant (OIC)’s jurisdiction,” the summons read.

“Plaintiff became aware of this fact through its legal practitioners, who wrote a letter to the MDPCZ on the plaintiff’s behalf enquiring whether Zinyowera was a duly registered medical doctor in terms of the Health Service Act.

“In its response, the MDPCZ informed the plaintiff that Zinyowera was last registered with the authority in 2007 and was deregistered over non-payment of fees.”

Chiroodza added: “Plaintiff, in the company of her lawyers, approached the third defendant’s office and left a copy of such a letter in the care of the third defendant, and caused to have this issue investigated as part of a complaint she had lodged under CR150/7/17.”

It is also alleged that the OIC sent investigators, who included fourth respondent (Dzingarwi), to look into the matter. She said the defendants had not arrested Zinyowera despite evidence that he had been practicing illegally.

“Despite this information, the third defendant chose not to or neglected to effectively investigate this matter in terms of section 2I9 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe.

“The failures that can be attributed to the defendants in this regard, include but are not limited to the following: (a) failure to apprehend the accused or question the accused person; (b) failure to attend to the crime scene/or place of operation expeditiously and attend to the scene for the purposes of gathering evidence to establish whether or not illegal medical practice was taking place; as provided for and empowered in terms of section 49 and 51 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act (Chapter 9:04),” she said, adding that she made numerous follow-ups, but got no satisfactory answers.”

Chiroodza says her summons is meant to commence action for constitutional damages against the defendants’ failure to effectively investigate in terms of section 219 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe. She is, therefore, demanding $500 000 in damages.

The defendants have since entered an appearance to defend, but the case has not been set down for hearing.

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MDC Harare Province Youth Assembly Monday 28 September 2020 We the young people of the Movement for Democratic Change (Harare province) united together to finish the people’s democratic revolution. As the first line of defence of the party, the vanguards of democracy and the custodians of the party and its future, we have assumed all […]

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