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DUPED INSIDE

I was
swallowed
by a hippo

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Information Ministry loses PAGE
ZW$32m in botched car deal
Supplier previously blacklisted 16
by PRAZ over similar scams
Meet the next
Archbishop of
Canterbury

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Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa

By Mary Taruvinga government vehicle supplier, why the company continues to Authority of Zimbabwe
Senior Reporter Solution Motors, in a $47m win contracts with government (PRAZ) for failing to deliver
deal, a Harare court heard departments. after winning tenders to
THE Ministry of recenStolylu. tion Motors has been The company was, last supply vehicles to government
Information was left involved in similar scandals year, one of three vehicle departments and local He returns
counting its loses after being before, begging the question dealers blacklisted by the authorities. from injury
duped by controversial Procurement Regulatory
to page 2

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New Zimbabwe NEWS

Information Ministry loses ZW$32m in botched car deal...

from page 1 the civil court,” the magistrate not before it by overreaching The parties then signed subjected to scrutiny by the
In the latest case with ruled. into the civil arena. It is not the contract and payment of ministry’s legal team before
“All the three accused for this court to make any ZW$47 379 292 was made. execution, it is highly unlikely
the Information Ministry, persons are accordingly found pronouncement on the nature and not in the least probable,
the company was paid about not guilty and acquitted. This and validity of the contract. Only five vehicles were that they too could have
ZW$47m to supply seven is not to be taken that this court “This should be supplied. The twin cab trucks advised that it was in the
Toyota GD6 double cabs, four has made a pronouncement determined at the appropriate were never delivered although best interests of the Ministry
Datsun Go vehicles and one on the validity or otherwise of forum by a court clothed with they were among the ten to enter into the contract
Renault K-wid. the contract. the appropriate jurisdiction.” vehicles shown to Ministry without satisfying themselves
“The court notes that it Three witnesses, who staffers at the warehouse. that all the nitty-gritties of the
Only supplied four is sitting as a criminal court include permanent secretary, contract had been covered.
Datsun Go and one Renault to determine whether or not Nick Mangwana as well as It would also later “To the Court, that the
K-wid vehicles were delivered, essential elements of fraud Ministry staffers Nyasha emerge that the bonded contract was entered into in
causing the ministry to suffer have been proved. Bwirire and Farai Makuwaza warehouse actually belonged the face of these anomalies
a prejudice of about ZW$33m. “It is not for this court to testified against the car dealer. to government tax collector shows the complainant’s
delve into matters Bwirire was the deputy Zimra. representatives chose to turn a
However, a fraud charge director in charge of the blind eye to the anomalies and
against Solution Motors Ministry’s procurement Said the magistrate; walked into the contract with
owner Patrick Siyawamwaya management unit and advised “The third State witness their eyes fully open.
and two other accused an evaluation committee (Mangwana) stated that he “That being so, the Court
collapsed after Harare chief for the contract which was had concerns on the capacity finds that the State has failed to
magistrate, Faith Mushure, chaired by Makuwaza. of the third accused (Solution discharge this onus as far as the
ruled that the State failed to Court heard that as part Motors) and therefore directed crime of fraud is concerned.”
prove its allegations. of a due diligence process, the evaluation committee to Solution Motors
the Ministry team visited a do due diligence and to obtain has been involved in
Siyawamwaya bonded warehouse in Eastlea a bank guarantee. similar controversies with
consequently walked free with which supposedly belonged government departments
the court telling the parties to to Solution Motors where “Despite such a clear before, resulting in its
pursue civil remedies. they were shown the and unequivocal instruction, blacklisting by PRAZ in 2021.
type of vehicles the the evaluation committee, led Among other cases,
“The relief the company had by the second State witness the company prejudiced the
complainant seeks should be available. (Makuwaza), never bothered government of US$207 540
pursued in to verify the ownership of the after failing to deliver vehicles
vehicles, yet that was the main in 2018.
Nick Mangwana reason they had visited the This was picked up by
bonded warehouse, according the 2018 Auditor-General’s
to him. report, where the department
of irrigation in the Ministry
“It was Mangwana’s of Agriculture bought 10
evidence that after initially vehicles from Solutions
holding out that the bonded Motors worth US$518,850,
warehouse belonged to but the company failed to
Solutions Motors, it later deliver as per the tender
turned out that, in truth awarded.
and actual fact, the bonded
warehouse belonged to
ZIMRA.

“Considering that the
contractual document was

3 girls expelled from school after being forced to
write reports about sex with Zanu PF politician

By Clayton Shereni of NewZimbabwe.com, the lovebirds allegedly had sports days. was said to have left his
Masvingo Correspondent three confirmed visiting sex but the councillor did “We were bought two mobile phone with another
the lodge numerous times buy food as he usually did, unidentified person who
A RULING party between June and July this in a development which boxes of Chicken Inn and said: “He has left his phone,
councillor in Chiredzi has year. reportedly annoyed the one box of Pizza. We went he went to Triangle.”
hogged the limelight for girls. back to the lodge then (the Hippo Valley High
wrong reasons after three The councillor other two girls) locked School Head, Luckson
girls were expelled from reportedly bought them They started telling themselves in a room whilst Gondo, declined to
Hippo Valley High School Chicken and Pizza at a local friends about their escapade I was with Mr Ngwenya in comment saying he was not
following revelations that Chicken Inn and would and the matter spilled to another room,” wrote the allowed to comment in the
he was having an intimate lock himself in a room with school authorities who student. press in terms of education
relationship with one of the claimed girlfriend while interrogated them until ministry protocols.
them. her friends were in another they confessed. “We just kissed and “I am not authorized to
room. when he was about to take speak to the press, you have
The councillor (name When the matter came off his clothes, a maid just to call the District Schools
withheld for legal reasons) All hell broke loose on to light, the councillor came unknowingly. She Inspector (DSI). She is the
would reportedly sneak the June 30, 2022, when one reportedly promised his was like ‘maihwe-ee!’ and one who can comment,”
trio to his lodge where he of the employees at lodge lover US$200 if she did not ran away because (the said Gondo.
would be intimate with a budged into the room and implicate him. councillor) had already Chiredzi DSI,
Form 5 pupil who was said screamed after she saw her taken off his trousers.” Petronella Nyangwe, wasn’t
to be his girlfriend. boss naked and kissing the However, in her report, answering calls when
student. the student confessed to Asked for a comment, reached for comment.
In reports to school having been taken to a fast the councillor hung up his
authorities written by the Sources said the trio food outlet and a lodge phone and further efforts
girls which are in possession returned to the lodge where she would have sex to get his own side of the
on July 1 where the two with the councillor during story hit a brick wall as he

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ZRP Brutality: Man shot by police during
protests granted ZW$3,7m compensation

•Left paralysed and wheelchair-bound with broken spinal cord

By Mary Taruvinga victim when evidence
Senior Reporter pointed to them as the
perpetrators.
THE government has
been ordered to pay “Plaintiff (Chitongo)
ZW$3 million damages in my view gave credible
to a victim of police evidence which was
brutality from Epworth corroborated by his father
who was shot during Teerai,” said the judge.
protests against a fuel
hike in January 2019. “Teerai gave evidence
This follows a of what he saw and did
successful lawsuit by when he got to where the
the 25 year-old Pardon plaintiff was and saw that
Chitongo against he had been shot. He did
home affairs minister not exaggerate his evidence
Kazembe Kazembe and to support his son’s story.
commissioner general of
police, Godwin Matanga. “His testimony that
Chitongo who was he proceeded to the police
aged 22 when he was shot, station to make a report but
is now paralysed and was barred from entering
wheelchair bound after his rings true.
spinal cord was broken.
His doctors also said “He corroborated the
he will never walk again. plaintiff ’s testimony that
Court heard that, after it was the police who had
the shooting, his liver was firearms. He was not shaken
left bleeding while his right under cross examination,
kidney was raptured. I therefore find his
His right colon was testimony credible.”
perforated by a bullet,
right forearm fractured in During the trial,
addition to sustaining a the police representative
burst fracture and paralysis Mangwende gave four
on the lower limbs. scenarios which could have
The damaged kidney led to Chitongo’s injuries.
has since been removed.
A police He admitted that
representative, Chief civilians had no guns but Pardon Chitongo with his legal representatives
the police did.
inspector P Mangwende,
who was officer-in-charge Mangwende suggested
at ZRP Epworth had that Chitongo could have ZW$3, 7 million high protein diet, assistance civilians and police officers.
been shot elsewhere during compensation which was for morbidity, vocational According to
distanced the police from a criminal activity. broken down as follows; training, catheters and Chitongo, the police tear
the shooting, blaming the
Zimbabwe National Army. He also alleged that ZW$252 302 is for urine bags changed every gassed the public who
he was involved with medical expenses, two weeks. strayed into his uncle’s
However, High Court the military or shot at According to unfenced residence.
judge, Justice Gladys Mhuri Munyuki which is five ZW$471 500 for past
ruled that evidence against kilometers away or shot by loss of earnings, his testimony, he was He said the police
a demonstrator. employed as a kombi driver started firing at the crowd
the ZRP was overwhelming ZW$1 million for loss earning US$65 per week as they drove through the
and glaring. However this was of future earnings,
She said the rejected by the court. and has not been working residential area.
ZW$1 279 520 for since January 14, 2019. In the process he was
police should meet the “The scenarios he gave future medical expenses, Narrating his ordeal, shot by a police officer.
consequences of their cannot be accepted. It was
unprofessional conduct. not stated that the military ZW$600 000 for Chitongo said he left home A bullet went through
was involved in quelling disability and ZW$600 for work on the fateful day. through his body to the
In granting Chitongo’s the commotion,” said the 000 for pain, suffering and ‘Stay away’ back and he fell down.
request, the judge also judge. humiliation.
said it was common cause demonstrations were called He was ferried to a
“Having considered The court heard that on the day disrupting local hospital before being
that there was commotion all the evidence led by Chitongo is still being transport and he decided to transferred to Parirenyatwa
between the police and the witnesses, it is my nursed and some of his
protesters in Epworth on conclusion that plaintiff requirements include a box go to his uncle’s home. where he was admitted in
was unlawfully shot by a of linen savers and latex He said there were an intensive care unit.
January 14, 2019. member of the ZRP and gloves every two weeks, 750 people protesting at a Chitongo was being
The judge said it was this was during the course ml Gel every week, gauze
lame for the police to shift and scope of his or her roll every month, new police station and he stood represented by a top
employment.” wheelchair every two years, under a tree watching the rights lawyer Paidamoyo
blame to the army or the confrontation between Saurombe.
The court granted

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ANGRY, ANGRY HIPPO:

I was swallowed by a hippo that ripped off my
arm… here’s what it’s like inside the beast

By Jacob Bentley-York water and the ripples on However, quick
top looked like a submarine thinking Paul knew he
A SAFARI guide who was torpedo cutting through needed to agitate the animal
savagely attacked by a the water,” he told 7 News. so it would let him go and
hippo has revealed how he spit him out.
survived being swallowed “So I turned towards “I was so far down his
by the huge beast. him (his pal) and tried throat, and I’m not a small
to grab him, and it was guy,” he said.
Paul Templer was like something out of a “So I managed to grab
leading a small safari movie because our fingers a hold of the tusks and push
tour of six people down almost touched and then myself out, and burst to the
the Zambezi river in his everything just went dark. surface.
native Zimbabwe when the However, after the
life changing encounter “It happened so quick, hippo spat Paul out, he
unfolded. I had no idea what the hell quickly swallowed the safari
was going on.” guide again – but this time
Boating near the feet first.
country’s famous Victoria At this point, Paul Despite being armed
Falls in 1996, he jumped to realised that he was stuck in with a handgun – Paul Paul Templer had to have his left arm amputated
attention when the animal the beast’s throat - with no was unable to reach for
knocked one of his pals out means of escape. the weapon during the
of his canoe. relentless attack. dying friend in the water not survive.
He described the He recalled seeing his as he was swallowed for a He said: “I remember
“As I paddle towards hippo’s putrid breath smelt second time.
him, the hippo was coming of “rotting eggs” and his just lying at the bottom of
towards me under the throat and mouth were “His eyes were like the river, looking up and
“warm and slimy.” saucers. He tried to stay I’m waist-deep inside the
afloat but I think adrenalin hippo’s mouth.”
literally overwhelmed him,”
Paul said. “I can see green and
blue and the sunlight on the
“It happened so quick, water surface. And when I
I had no idea what the hell look around, I can see my
was going on.” blood mingling the water.”
LIFE CHANGING
Paul Templer INJURIES
“So I turned and swam
back for him, and just as I’m Paul was eventually
moving in to grab his hand, rescued by one of his
I’m hit from below.” friends, taken to shore
“I’m up to my waist and eventually received
down the hippo’s throat. treatment at hospital.
The hippo is just thrashing
me around,” he said. Tragically, his friend
“This time my head, who was knocked from
neck and shoulders are his canoe by the beast,
outside one side of his drowned.
mouth, and from my waist
down is outside the other,” Looking back, Paul has
he said. described the experience
“He just goes bezerk. I as a “bad day at the office,”
remember at one point he despite incurring life
threw me up into the air changing injuries.
and I did a crazy sort of half
twist. Speaking to The Sun
“And when I fell back in 2018, he recalled how he
and he caught me in his suffered 39 “major” bites
mouth, but so hard that I and was forced to have
thought he was gonna chop his left arm amputated by
me in half,” Paul said. doctors.
“One of the clients
said it was like watching a But despite the
vicious dog trying to rip incident, Paul has used the
apart a ragdoll.” attack to inspire others as a
Paul later recalled motivational speaker living
the moment he was then in the United States.
dragged to the bottom of
the river – knowing he may He has also survived
cancer and is the proud
father to three children.

This article was
initially published by The
Irish Sun

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New Zimbabwe FEATURES
Mutodi makes her money
from mushrooms all year

By Bird Story Agency started with a total of twenty
dollars,” she explained.
It is early morning and
despite the slight chill What you need to know: Starting on small scale
following a touch of Mutodi initially
rain the night before. Mutodi initially planted 30 planted 30 bags in that
Charlotte Ebber Mutodi’s bags in that structure, and structure, and after harvest,
five-year old son is after harvest, she made a she made a profit of $60.
following her as she profit of $60. She used that money to buy
checks on the oyster She used that money to buy more materials and spores.
mushrooms in the more materials and spores. She started on a small scale
growing room. She started on a small scale but today has a number of
but today has a number of structures where she grows
With a tray in her structures where she grows mushrooms, including on a
hands, ready to pick the mushrooms, including on a small plot eight kilometres
mature mushrooms, she small plot eight kilometres away, in Goromonzi. She
inspects the progress on the away, in Goromonzi. hopes to expand her project
new batch she planted three She hopes to expand her further.
weeks ago in a concrete project further For a visitor, they are
cement structure covered an eyesore and intrusion
with plastic and grass- on this orderly and modern
thatched roofing. Once neighbourhood with
she fills the tray, Mutodi houses standing on neatly
empties the mushrooms manicured lawns fenced off
into a bucket. with well-cut green hedges
and brick walls. But soon,
Her son is trying to Mutodi plans to reconstruct
mimic what his mother is the growing rooms into
doing. But Mutodi has her complete cement blocks to
eyes and mind firmly fixed
on the “flowering gold”.

Inspiration strengthen and expand the
This has been the
27-year-old’s daily routine structures. However, her
for the last five years, ever venture is paying off.
since she graduated from
Zimbabwe’s Midlands Charlot te Ebber Mutodi Market
“My desire has always
State University with an 2020. Yet unemployment this offered a way of life that and now, living with her
Agricultural Economics husband, Mutodi pursued been that one day I would
degree, in 2016. rates are sky-high and she had always dreamed her dream, planting oyster run a successful farming
opportunities for young of. “Mushroom farming mushrooms right in the business,” Mutodi said.
Unlike other young graduates are few. Having has enabled me to be self- backyard at her new home.
graduates, Mutodi never She started her mushroom Mutodi supplies local
even attempted to send out seen those who had sufficient; I run my own project with growing supermarkets and is in the
graduated before her get business and have managed structures made of black process of making mobile
a resume. After graduation, stuck in limbo after seeking to employ three other plastic sheeting at her vegetable carts. These will
she decided not to put home in Ruwa, about 25 be moving around suburbs
herself through the tedium formal employment, people,” Mutodi said. kilometres from Harare. selling mushrooms as ice
Mutodi chose not to Oyster mushrooms She has been steadily cream vendors do.
of trying to find a job. become a statistic. are scientifically referred improving her growing
“Most of my former rooms with every harvest. Currently, she supplies
classmates are still looking Her dream to as Pleurotus ostreatus. 200-300 punnets of
Mutodi had fallen in They are usually white, but “I did not have mushrooms a week with
for employment five love with oyster mushroom some can be grey or tan, enough capital to start the intention of scaling up
years after graduating. this project, so I gathered to 900 punnets weekly.
Those formally employed farming during a student with oyster or fan-shaped maize stalks and bought
work-related learning caps. They grow in clusters spore and mushroom
complain daily because attachment. She got an of small mushrooms or seed for $10. I then went Spotting an opportunity
they get paid in our local around collecting plastic Mutodi has not only
currency. It is not stable opportunity to do her individually as larger paper bags from people;
industrial attachment at the mushrooms. I basically recycled bread been successful because of
because of high inflation,” Department of Agricultural Their growing bags. I built my mushroom her agricultural training.
she explained. growing structure from She also spotted an
According to Technical and Extension requirements offer a black sheeting and started opportunity, mushrooms
Services (AGRITEX), a business opportunity for growing mushrooms. I thrive during the rainy
Education Statistics Report government department anyone who can reproduce season and are a delicacy in
released by the Zimbabwe Zimbabwe. But the prices
National Statistics Agency that mobilises and provides the mushroom’s optimum spike when out of season
advisory services to growing conditions, even due to low supply and high
in December 2021, 62,629 farmers. During this time, in a small space. demand.
female and 53,699 male
students enrolled at Mutodi was taught how to A back-yard business
grow mushrooms. For her, After university
Zimbabwe’s universities in to page 7

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Mutodi makes her money
from mushrooms all year...
from page 6

Mushrooms are so popular in bed can produce 6.55 pounds of
Zimbabwe that when in season, it is mushrooms.
common to see families out in the
deep woods picking mushrooms, “Mushroom produce can also
which grow wild. They say the rains be used in the production of a
are the equaliser as both the low- variety of products, such as dried
income earners and the elite can all mushrooms, soups, seasoning,
afford the treasured dish. fresh and canned,” William said.

But the mushroom season Growth in Africa
is now unpredictable because of In Zimbabwe, mushroom
erratic rainfall patterns caused by
climate change–and this threatens farming is still in its infancy, with
to relegate mushrooms to the elite women such as Mutodi leading
tables only. Even those who can in establishing Zimbabwe as a
afford the pricey delicacy are never mushroom farming hub. According
assured of its availability. to reports, Zambia is the largest
All-season supply dried mushroom supplier in Africa,
comprising 81 percent of total
Which is where Mutodi exports; followed by Egypt, with a
comes in - to keep a constant, all- 4.5 percent share of total exports.
season supply using smart farming Senegal comes in third with a 2.7
techniques where the oyster percent share.
mushrooms, which take 21 days
to flower, can be harvested all year Hazel Munatswa, who heads
round. the Research and Development
department for the Zimbabwe
She has found a way to bring Mushroom Farmers Association,
this luxury to the dining table of says that there is room for
every family that not only desires mushroom farmers to increase
it but can afford it, in and out of their production scale until they
season. can tap into the export market.
A healthy alternative
“We target the markets that
Sandra Garwe, a Global Health we have here in Zimbabwe because
Professional, says mushrooms are mushrooms are highly perishable;
known for their low fat and high you have to know where you will
protein content. The Zimbabwean take your product before you
diet is primarily based on cereals produce it,” Munatswa explained.
(maize), and there is an increased
chance of protein deficiency. “I chose mushrooms because
“Proteins and amino acids are it is easier to grow. When growing
fundamental to optimal nutrition. mushrooms, the monitoring and
They also play a central role in supervision is minimal and simple
biological processes. These oyster compared to someone growing
mushrooms are a healthier and onions or tomatoes on a hectare.
cheaper alternative source of
protein. Plenty of challenges
But running the business has
Also, with challenges in non- not been without its fair share of
communicable diseases such as challenges. Mutodi had to rebuild
diabetes, there is a need to rethink her growing rooms in February
our diet, and mushroom is a good this year after a hailstorm destroyed
substitute because of its low fat,” them, and she lost all the spores she
Garwe explained. had.
Apart from growing and
In addition, William selling mushrooms, Mutodi offers
Rumbidzai Mukori, a registered training to people who want to
nutritionist and certified health start mushroom farming under
and weight management coach, her company Ebber Mushrooms. But with me, they get it all year her growing rooms in February
said that mushrooms are the only They also sell kits; these are round,” Munhande says. this year after a hailstorm destroyed
vegan, non-fortified dietary source already-prepared implements them, and she lost all the spores she
of vitamin D and provide vegans compromising of spores and feed Mutodi agrees. On the day we had.
with micronutrients that are not that are ready for the growing room. visit her operation, she is with one Apart from growing and
available from other foods. These kits will only take seven days of her employees getting ready to selling mushrooms, Mutodi offers
to start fruiting. take a fresh batch to a local vegetable training to people who want to
According to Mukodi, Natasha Munhande, 30, a market, located a few kilometres start mushroom farming under
mushroom farming promotes resident of Midlands province in from her home. She hopes to make her company Ebber Mushrooms.
food security as it does not occupy Gweru, learnt all about mushroom more money there because it has They also sell kits; these are
a large space and can be grown farming from Mutodi. “There is a become the primary mushroom already-prepared implements
irrespective of weather patterns. big market for mushrooms this side market. compromising of spores and feed
Mushrooms are grown year-round because not many people are doing Challenges that are ready for the growing
across the nation. On average, one it. People are dependent on wild room.
square foot of space in a mushroom mushrooms that grow seasonally. Running a mushroom business
has not been without its fair share of
challenges. Mutodi had to rebuild

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‘Electricity can go anytime here’
How Zimbabwe’s iron men ran out of steam

Livelihoods are on the line with outages of up to 17 hours
a day as the country’s ageing power plants struggle to cope

Main Picture: Tafadzwa Nyakurewa rents two
ironing tables, but because of the lack of power
is having to offer his services carrying loads and
mending shoes to make ends meet. Photograph:
Nyasha Chingono
Inset: Student Ruvimbo Makombe reads by
candlelight during power cut in Harare, 28 July
2022. Photograph: Aaron Ufumeli/EPA

By Nyasha Chingono hours a day. started his ironing business for traders, rather than parliament. Hwange coal
INSIDE a grimy flat in The shortages have hit when he lost his job eight ironing them. power station, a leading
the heart of Mbare, one Mbare’s ironing businesses, years ago, now earns just supplier, has been under
of Zimbabwe’s oldest which are becoming a $3 a day – hardly enough to “Power cuts have made repair for more than a year.
townships, steam billows popular hustle in the buy a loaf of bread and some us redundant. Business Two new units are being
from a hissing iron. suburb as unemployment milk. was good before this mess,” built to increase output, but
and inflation rates soar Nyakurewa says. they are unlikely to be in
It is 7am and Nhamo across the country. “Things are tough. operation until the end of
Chari, 42, is racing to finish Almost 60 people run Electricity is our biggest “This is where we the year at the earliest.
ironing a client’s clothes their businesses from the problem here as it comes survive and if power is Zimbabwe recently
before the power cuts out. Matapi block of flats in and goes, with no actual switched off every day signed a deal with Zambia’s
Mbarel before the power timetable. But during the we are stuck. I have three state energy company Zesco
“Electricity can go cuts they were earning few hours where electricity children to feed.” to supply 100 megawatts of
anytime here. We are lucky up to $100 (£83) a week. is there, I try to work as hard power each month over the
that today power is still They support a booming as I can so that I feed my Japhet Moyo, secretary next three to five years at a
available around 7am. It secondhand clothing family,” says Chari, adding general of the Zimbabwe cost of $6.3m a month.
normally goes at 5am and industry in the area. Chari that the money he has Congress of Trade Unions According to the
is restored in the evening,” and his colleagues are earned from the business (ZCTU), urged the Zimbabwe National
Chari says. inundated with orders from has helped him put his two government to act. Statistics Agency (Zimstat),
used clothing dealers who children through school. more than 2.8 million
Zimbabwe has been want their goods ironed “People in the informal people work in the informal
reeling under crippling before selling them on. To make his income sector are hard hit. They sector in Zimbabwe,
power shortages since “Individual traders stretch, Chari runs a pool have nothing to earn compared with 495,000 in
the start of winter in May. and companies come to table where he charges 150 because their businesses formal employment.
Some of the country’s give us work, especially Zimbabwe dollars (about rely heavily on electricity. Nyakurewa used to
ageing power plants are those who manufacture 34p) for a game. Something needs to be earn about $25 a day. Now
being repaired and the rest school uniforms. But done,” he says. “if I get $6, I would have
are struggling to cope with mostly individuals selling “At least it is something, worked very hard”, he says.
growing demand. secondhand clothes are our I can supplement the little I Energy minister Soda “I spend my time
biggest business. I got at get when the electricity is Zhemu couldn’t say when mending shoes now
The country has the least $20 a day, depending back,” he says. the crisis would be over. “We because during the day,
capacity to generate about on how much work I get,” would not know … because we do not have power. It
2,240 megawatts of power, he says. Tafadzwa Nyakurewa, currently we are working is a side job to make ends
but is producing just 1,300 However, due to the 35, rents two ironing tables on aged equipment. We can meet.”
megawatts. power cuts, Chari, who inside a warehouse in the only give assurance when
township, but because of the Hwange power station is
People in Mbare, in the power challenges spends up and running … That
south of the capital, Harare, most of his day carrying is when we will have self-
regularly go without loads of clothes and goods sufficiency from internal
electricity for more than 17 generation,” he recently told

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New Zimbabwe EDITORIAL
Marry Mubaiwa; When MUPONDA
enough becomes enough
WEEKLY
By Leopold Munhende said to have been an ‘order.’ Having been diagnosed
Chief Correspondent Besides all this, prison over two years ago, during her Zimbabwe Diaspora
‘tenure’ as ‘second lady,’ time is expertise shouldn’t be lost
doctors Moses Kadhau not on Mubaiwa’s side.
DESPITE his sickness not and Itayi Macheka’s report Although the Kansas By Gilbert Muponda
being as clear, seemingly surprisingly argued she was
made up and definitely not mentally ill and should University Cancer Centre THE ZIMBABWEAN Diaspora made up of Non Resident
stand trial. (KUCS) argues this type Zimbabweans (NRZs) has steadily grown over the years to
posited as a way to flee of cancer can take years to current estimates of at least 4 million according to IOM
President Emmerson “When she came to court UN Immigration.
Mnangagwa’s post-2017 last week, she was too unwell develop, due to its slow-
to get upstairs, that led to a growing nature, some experts This is a significant number considering that the recent
purge, former tourism warrant of arrest being issued argue at stage four, Mubaiwa population census puts Zimbabwe’s at 15.1 million, excluding
minister Walter Mzembi did to her. Today she came to court the Diaspora. This translates to a total population of at least
get his passport and ‘got’ his in an ambulance to cancel that has less than two years. 20 million, showing that 26 % of Zimbabwe’s population is in
warrant, however when she “As untreated the Diaspora.
‘much-needed’ treatment in arrived the ambulance was lymphedema prolongs,
South Africa even as charges denied entry and we were Such a number represents a significant part of the
wereHlaeid haagdainbsteehnima. rrested told it was a directive,” said it can develop into population which needs to be properly engaged and involved
by the Zimbabwe Anti- Douglas Coltart, her lawyer. lymphangiosarcoma – a in the national development agenda as it can contribute much
lymph-related cancer more than its current levels.
Corruption Commission “She was meant to be that limits a patient’s life
(ZACC) on January 6, 2018, taken into court, she was on expectancy from a few months A clear and coherent strategy is required to ensure that
alongside former energy a stretcher, they refused to to two years. Untreated or the NRZs are an integral part of the national socio economic
minister Samuel Undenge allow her, they said the only mismanaged lymphedema set up if the nation is to achieve its true potential.
on allegations of abuse of grounds that she could come can also lead to sepsis, a
office during their tenure in in was if she would be put in a scary, potentially terminable In the 2021 financial year the NRZs contributed more
government. wheelchair. We then had to run infection that rapidly spreads than $1 billion in remittances to Zimbabwe. The amount was
around to make arrangements throughout the entire body,” well over $1 billion as these statistics are mostly from formal
Although their alleged for a wheelchair.” reads a Total Lipedema Care sources which ignore informal and unregulated forms of
fraud involved millions of communique on the ailment. remittances.
taxpayers’ money, some of it Mubaiwa, who is None of this was proved
from philanthropists, their facing allegations of assault when Mzembi was given back This played a critical role during the Covid 19 induced
bail was surprisingly granted and attempted murder, economic downturn as it helped the Country achieve a
in hours; $400 and $300 is now on stage four of his passport. positive current account balance.
respectively. lymphangiosarcoma, a result Even Citizens Coalition
of untreated lymphedema, for Change (CCC) vice NRZs have settled across the world and a significant
Mzembi’s lawyer Job according to the Johns president Tendai Biti’s number are considered well educated and middle or upper
Sikhala told magistrate Elisha Hopkins Medicine. condition was not as evident class. Many have become Global citizens and are at least
Singano he was sick after as Mubaiwa’s, when he was dual citizens. Whilst statistics vary, significant numbers
skipping bail and making a Stage four is characterised given back his passport are permanently based in South Africa, the UK, the USA,
run for it; Zimbabwe later by large, deformed limbs, skin Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Botswana, China.
learnt he had been diagnosed thickening with ‘wart-like’ in December 2018 to seek
with gastric intestinal cancer. growth and extensive scarring. medical attention in South A number have achieved climbed high on the corporate
Africa. ladder in these Countries. Some have become well established
He was said to need Images and videos of “Marry Mubaiwa lawyers, Doctors, Accountants, Artists, Musicians, and
urgent attention and for a Mubaiwa’s arm are evident of Entrepreneurs whilst many have built careers in the medical
while, before he became as this. has suffered enough! The field with the NHS in the UK being one of the biggest
active as he now is on Twitter, inhumane and insensitive employers of NRZs.
everyone was made to believe Her options for treatment treatment to her condition is
he was battling for his life. in Zimbabwe have become totally unacceptable. Soko, In various sporting fields we have seen NRZs being part
limited, hence her request to VP Chiwenga, no-matter of World Champions in sports such as Rugby, whilst cricket
Marry Mubaiwa, ex-wife seek better healthcare outside what wrong she did to you, has seen a number of Zimbabwean Diasporans do very well.
to Vice President Constantino the country, like every other Marry remains the mother In soccer there’s probably enough NRZs to field several
Chiwenga, was wheeled top government official has Warriors teams, assuming ZIFA and SRC stop their circus
into court last Wednesday, been doing since before late of your children. Forgive her and gets their house in order.
bandaged and frail, her President Robert Mugabe and allow her to heal. This
sickness did not ‘seem’ there, it opted for Singapore instead is too much!” said Labour Such talent cannot be lost to foreign lands when ways
was clear; it still is. of Parirenyatwa Group of Economists & African can be found to tap into their expertise and resources to create
Hospitals. Democrats (LEAD). mutually beneficial systems which allow NRZs to contribute
She had been taken to She is not the only one locally whilst based abroad.
court in an ambulance, as has The only surgical option who believes Mubaiwa has
become usual, after having Mubaiwa has is a lymphatic The sheer number and background diversity of the NRZs
been admitted at a private bypass procedure where her had enough, many have call for greater formalization of structures to engage the NRZs
clinic in Harare after her right lymph nodes are harvested bemoaned the decision by and assist on improving their already significant contribution
arm was declared gangrenous. from one part of her body and Chiwenga to bar her from to the Economy and national development.
Mubaiwa has been in and surgically implanted in the seeing her children, and the
out of court for the past three affected area to rebuild her iron fist attitude towards a Such structures can conceivably include direct and
years. Unlike Mzembi she has system. woman he shared his bed indirect incentives to visit Zimbabwe more frequently, invest
been denied her passport. Marry Mubaiwa in wheelchair with for years. in Zimbabwe and bring investment partners into the various
sectors of the Economy. The financial contribution through
She might not get it, remittances and investments justifies creation of a whole
meaning her mortified arm Ministry to adequately handle Diaspora interests and issues.
might either fall off or she
might have to give in, accept Zimbabwe can draw lessons from several other
that she will not be going countries which have strong vibrant Diaspora communities
anywhere as has been her that play a meaningful well-structured role in their home
hope and get it amputated. Nations. Leading examples include Nigeria, Israel, India,
China, Italy and Pakistan whose nationals have flourished
On Wednesday she abroad yet remain very involved in their national economic
moaned throughout her development and progress.
court hearing, visibly in pain,
Mubaiwa was forced up to Gilbert Muponda is an Investment Banker, Economist
Court 18 where she had to and Entrepreneur. He holds a B. Comm (Finance) and an
endure the pain of being MBA. He is also a PhD Candidate and can be reached at
pulled up Rotten Row Court gilbertmupondagmail.com
steps.
A directive to bar her

ambulance and force her onto
a stretcher or wheelchair was

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New Zimbabwe OPINION

Thin line between being anti-
crime and being xenophobic

It’s true illegal immigrants commit crime,
but rape is synonymous with locals

By Malaika Mahlatsi rape, you die every day but these are breeding grounds has long known about the It is true that illegal
The story of the gang are forced to go on with the for economic crimes such effects of illegal mining, not immigrants do commit
rapes of 10 women, by motions of being alive. as corruption, tax evasion only on the economy but on crime, especially in areas
zama-zamas, at a disused and fraud. Additionally, the safety of communities. where they operate as zama
mine in Krugersdorp is Days after the story they are a festering ground As recently as 2018, zamas. But the narrative
gut-wrenching. Though broke, the ANC staged for gross human rights violence erupted in the that is finding expression
it has been weeks since a march against illegal abuses, as we see in eastern City of Ekurhuleni metro now seeks to conflate
the story broke, I find mining and zama zamas. Democratic Republic of in Gauteng, between rival subjective issues with an
myself thinking about it On the surface, this was Congo and in Zimbabwe. zama zama gangs. overall argument that illegal
on a daily basis. It haunts a progressive protest The discovery of diamonds This has been a immigrants are criminals
me. The helplessness that against illegal mining, in Chiadzwa, a district in common occurrence and are the perpetrators of
those women endured, at which is not just a national the Mutare province of across the country and rape in particular.
the hands of balaclava- issue but an issue of Zimbabwe, led to atrocious the government has done
clad men brandishing international concern. The human rights violations by nothing about the situation This narrative must
weapons, is unthinkable. United Nations has long the government, including despite communities never be accepted, because
noted that illegal mining the killings of illegal miners constantly raising the rape in particular is a crime
The thought of 20 men and trafficking precious by government forces. alarm. Today, when there’s synonymous with locals.
taking turns on each of minerals is a global calamity There can be no doubt that a headline about women Statistics are the evidence.
those women is paralysing. that sets parameters for illegal mining is a serious being gang raped, those About 80% of women
And while for so many of violence, war and economic problem that needs urgent in power feign shock. But are raped by men known
us, it is this abstract idea of decline. The organisation intervention. perhaps worse than this is to them – usually family
gang rape that traumatises has also often argued that that the gang rape has set members, intimate partners
us, for those women, it is illegal mining undermines The problem comes parameters for another or neighbours.
the visceral reality that will the rule of law and the when a serious issue such opportunistic narrative –
be with them for the rest development of affected as this one is used for one that seeks to suggest Rarely are we raped by
of their lives. I remember nations. opportunistic posturing. that illegal miners, who are strangers. So, in our calls
a line from a Jodi Picoult For starters, the issue of largely illegal immigrants, for illegal miners to be
book I read when I was We have seen in zama zamas is not new. The are the cause of crime in our held accountable, we must
younger, which said that countries where illegal ANC as an organisation communities. be careful that we are not
rape is worse than murder, mining and mineral and a governing party venturing into xenophobic
because with murder you trafficking happen that sentiments.
only die once, while with

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Main Picture: Michelle Maisvoreva says she has struggled with obsessive
compulsive disorder and has attempted to take her own life several times.
Inset: Dr. Fungi Mazhandu, a psychiatrist who is also the chairperson of
the Zimbabwe College of Psychiatry

SYSMTEENMTALOHVEEARLTLHO: AD
As Zimbabweans abandon traditional beliefs, more
are seeking mental health services, overwhelming
an already underfunded and understaffed system

By Linda Mujuru continued and so did the until the age of 19, and I got been further weakened by “One of the major
suicide attempts. It was challenges we face is that of
HARARE, ZIMBABWE sheer luck that through called names for that even at more than two years of the poor rehabilitation services
a psychiatric evaluation home.” coronavirus pandemic. It’s for abuse of alcohol and
— When Michelle during a job interview at the Maisvoreva says yet another setback for a other substances,” Dhire
Maisvoreva was an Zimbabwe OCD Trust, she says.
adolescent, she couldn’t got the correct diagnosis: the diagnosis helped country that in the 1980s
understand why she began obsessive-compulsive her understand that had one of the strongest Although Zimbabwe’s
feeling like her life wasn’t disorder (OCD). It was spending on health care
worth living. The feeling then she learned that her her condition required health care systems in increased during the
childhood trauma had a lot medical attention. As southern Africa. pandemic to 13% of
became so intense that at to do with the way she felt. more Zimbabweans learn Linos Dhire, head the national budget —
the age of 15 she made the pushing it closer to the
first attempt to take her “I was bullied a lot at about mental health of public relations at 15% recommended by the
own life. school and at home because and abandon traditional Parirenyatwa Group 2001 Abuja Declaration
She went to three I was a slow child in a by African Union member
traditional healers. number of areas, including myths and beliefs about of Hospitals, says states — spending on
eating, bathing and getting it, they are increasingly Parirenyatwa Annexe noncommunicable diseases
Although one finally told things done,” Maisvoreva seeking services at medical Psychiatric Unit, which fell steeply from 1.9%
her that she was suffering says. “I was also a bedwetter in 2020 to 0.3% in 2021,
from a mental illness, facilities. But the rising can admit up to 80 patients,
demand has strained a relies entirely on recurrent to page 12
Maisvoreva, now 23, says critically underfunded and grants from the treasury
she didn’t fully understand
the cause, or how to get understaffed area of the because it doesn’t have
health care system that has direct budget allocation.
treatment. The feelings

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Mental health: system overload...

from page 11

according to an analysis launched the National a psychiatrist who is also a
of the country’s public Strategic Plan for Mental lecturer at the University
health spending by the Health Services 2019-2023 of Zimbabwe. He says an
United Nations Children’s to strengthen mental health average of four students a
Fund, known as UNICEF. laws, increase financing year enroll in postgraduate
It’s unclear how much of for primary care facilities, studies, a requirement to
that was spent on mental expand access to outpatient practice psychiatry.
health, but Dr. Patience services and raise the “People do not venture
Mavunganidze, the deputy number and quality of much into psychiatry
director of the mental health mental health professionals. because of the stigma
department in the Ministry attached to it,” Mangezi ABOUT US
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New Zimbabwe BUSINESS

Zimbabwean businessman uses Zim’s clean technology
cows to create wealth for working use rises to 38,7%
class in the face of high inflation By Alois Vinga Harare, Bulawayo

ZIMBABWE’s clean and Matabeleland South
Provinces had 450,068;
technology usage has 158,896 and 36,693
risen to 38, 7% signifying
By Stephen Nartey to settle on cows as an received from the customers. a huge shift from the households using grid
investment vehicle was The insurance company
Kelvin Chamunorwa, inspired by his mother’s use of fossils recorded electricity respectively.
has a large swathe of land in the past years, a
UK-trained actuary and sad story after working for and ranch where it keeps the preliminary report on The number of households
founder of Nhaka Life 25 years with a pittance in herd of cattle under the strict using off grid electricity
Assurance, was recently her account as a pension. supervision of veterinary staff. housing characteristics were 1,079,785.
adjudged one of the top According to him, her mother, and living conditions
three performers in the The investors are given by the Zimbabwe “The distribution of
the opportunity to make National Statistics households by main source
Zimbabwean insurance who was a middle manager at periodic visits to the ranch to Agency (ZIMSTAT) has
industry. a bank in Zimbabwe, had her take a look at how the animals of lighting indicates that
Six years ago, he gave savings reduced in value by are doing. established. nationally, households
The data shows that of
up a lucrative career as an the high inflation that hit the He said the only way to the surveyed populace 1,4 use clean fuels for lighting
actuary in London to start country in 2008. sustain hope of Zimbabweans
a life insurance company, “My mum didn’t see is to give them an investment million Zimbabweans were (91%).
according to his LinkedIn they could see and touch “These include
page. A space that was plagued it fit to even go for her adding that, “this is how I using clean technology for electricity, solar lanterns,
with high rising inflation in a pensions. This pathetic have managed to bring trust cooking making up 38,7% .
failed economy. story brought me to the into a sector that doesn’t have battery powered flashlights
any.” The use of fossils in the and LPG lamps. Eight
He did not falter in realization that I can improve country has also registered
the face of the prevailing the working conditions of percent of the households
reality, but, rather opted for ordinary Zimbabweans with a huge decline from a high use polluting fuels
an unconventional business of 45% as a percentage of
model that ordinarily does this business model,” he total energy stock recorded for lighting including
not conform to the everyday recounted.
product on the market. He jokingly pointed in the 1980s to the current firewood, paraffin lamps,
grass and oil lamps,” the
The idea was to get out that, the value of cows national averages of 27%, report said.
Zimbabweans who wanted to cannot be touched by according to the World
invest in insurance to put their the downgrade of the In terms of dwelling
savings on cows. Bank. units, nationally, 83% of
Zimbabwean currency or The report also
By this strategy, Nhaka liquidated by forces from the dwelling units were
Life Insurance secured the international market. shows that the majority modern with just About
investment of its clientele of Zimbabweans at 60,7%
against inflation and other Chamunorwa are however still using 16% of the dwelling units
economic shocks. said he has gotten
many Zimbabweans firewood for cooking. were traditional old style
“Storing wealth in herd family settlements in which
of cattle or oxen has been smiling and restored While the majority buildings are made of pole
an age-old tradition among business confidence 38% of the households
Zimbabweans. What I did by bullet-proofing their and dagga.
differently was to give it a did not have any source “The predominant
modern touch,” he added. monies. of electricity at 34% of
Giving further materials for walls observed
The business model, insights into his business, households indicated that nationally were finished
according to Chamunorwa, they used grid electricity
does not require patrons to he explained that the with the remaining walls, burnt bricks, cement,
company purchases
cattle with the 28% used off grid cement blocks and shingles
which constituted 91, 4%.
funds electricity. Natural walls made of

invest in a full cow but place mud, pole and dagga, cane/
their monies on the kilos trunks, no walls constituted
of the animal they could
afford. In that regard, just 5, 5%.
The majority 81,4% of
several working households had dwelling
Zimbabweans can
put their savings in units with finished roofs
metal, tiles, asbestos,
a single cow and cement, shingles about 18%
share the profits
when it’s sold. of households had dwelling
He said units with natural roofs
the motivation Kelvin Chamunorwa thatch, no roof.

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New Zimbabwe
ARTS I CULTURE
ENTERTAINMENT

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami in her London studio

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami Wants the
Choice to Reveal Herself—or Not

By Kay Hopps large-scale work in acrylic figure is obstructed by a emblematic of the London- supposed inescapability
and oil on canvas, The cluster of dashes, a bluish based, Zimbabwean artist’s of identity when you are
WARM, gray tones convey wedding of the astronauts bull layered atop the two reckoning with what it a minority, especially if
3, 2022, which is currently children conceal them means to construct and you are making figurative
the delicate features of on view in the 59th Venice from view and the lines and present an identity, both in painting.
Biennale. labels of a map around the painting and in the world at
a child’s face—tightly periphery of the painting large. Hwami develops her
Dark skin is are veiled by red and tan fragmented picture planes
pursed lips, beady eyes— accentuated by contrast bands of paint that leave the Hwami problematizes as a form of collage. “To
with the neck of a beige text mostly indecipherable. identity-driven painting, me, painting is a practice
while also drawing garment and vibrant attempting to frustrate its that allows me to remain
swathes of red behind. This play with expectations by fracturing curious,” she says, “and
attention to their own the friction between a her picture planes and the act of using collage is
The rest of the declarative presence and employing visual markers helpful as a reminder of
materiality, as thick composition enacts forms forms of concealment of censorship—taking on the fragility of the human
of obscuring: as the face and indeterminacy is what she has called the condition.”
brushstrokes construct an of another similarly clad to page 15

arresting visage.
The figure’s opaque
expression functions
like a point of entry into
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami’s

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from page 14 The latter informed her Henry Taylor, Kerry James Zimbabwe Pavilion in 2019, nod to Afrofuturism for
She is particularly repeated depiction of men Marshall and Michael and was included in this her series of paintings
without penises, a body she Armitage during her year’s “The Milk of Dreams” called “The Wedding of
motivated by parsing her initially conceived as a form studies in England. edition as one of the four the Astronauts,” which
own heritage—born in of self-portrait, in works recipients of the inaugural comprised her installation
Zimbabwe, she moved to like Jonga 1, 2021, and The Robert Biennale College Arte grant in the 2022 Biennale.
South Africa at the age Trauma Pond 3, 2022. Rauschenberg exhibition and residency. She likens the title to
of nine and to the UK Other recurrent motifs at the Tate Modern in 2017 a train of thought: a kind
in her late teens—as her are also present in Hwami’s was a particular watershed Hwami’s installation of reflection upon something
painting becomes a mode work, including banana moment for Hwami. paintings, floor-to-ceiling personal and familiar that
of staging a formal dialogue leaves and yellow, devilish She graduated from the photographs and a sound might drift off and begin
between her diasporic and horns, which she employed Wimbledon College of piece for the latter was to change, as if entering
digital experience. Like as a kind of signature detail Arts that year and recently inspired by Zimbabwean another atmosphere.
looking back to her native in her earlier work. received her MFA at the artist Henry Munyaradzi’s Transmuting memory
Zimbabwe, by referencing While Hwami Ruskin School of Art in stone sculpture The towards something
its Shona Sculpture continues to draw Oxford. Wedding of the Astronauts mutable—or perhaps
tradition or taking old inspiration from memories, (1983–1994), which she was tapping into this open
family photos as a starting as well as research trips The city of Venice has drawn to for its intriguing endedness as its essential
point, Hwami also culls to southern Africa, her also played a significant title. quality—is something like
images from the internet, painting has also been role in Hwami’s emerging what her paintings do.
as well as allusions to indelibly shaped by career, as she was one of Taking a cue from
subcultures she initially the youngest artists to Munyaradzi, her use of This article was
accessed there, from emo ever participate in the the title was similarly
culture to Trans and queer encounters with the work Biennale, as part of a four- opaque, as she drew out originally published by
porn. artist presentation in the what may have been its
of artists like Jenny Saville, The Culture Magazine

‘Family Portrait’ by Kudzanai-Violet Hwami

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New Zimbabwe DIASPOR A

Rev Cathrine Ngangira: Her
journey

from
Zimbabwe
the next Archbishop of Canterbury to rural
Kent

By Leo Devine her speak and preach during contemplation at Lambeth “Everyone kept saying to “It’s very exciting.” More than
Despite the growing number seven extraordinary days in Palace. me, ‘you should think about anything, she loves speaking
of women bishops across Canterbury? “That was where I learnt ordination’, but I said no, we to the children in the local
the Anglican Communion to be still and in the moment, don’t do that in this part of infants’ school. “There is
– 123 have been consecrated From her first outing doing nothing but waiting the world. But they planted something authentic about
worldwide since 1998 – the on day one of the conference, upon the Lord … I wouldn’t be something in me that became their expression of faith … it’s
Lambeth Conference is still sitting alongside Archbishop where I am, had it not been for hard to ignore.” a humbling opportunity for
very much a male affair. Justin Welby at the press that experience.” growth,” she says.
Women priests are also briefing, attendees were struck Back in Zimbabwe, The conference opened
thin on the ground in some by her calm composure, Cathrine was raised in a up the opportunity for her to Humble is a word she
places, even prohibited in coupled with a quiet and Christian family. She says she leave Zimbabwe to spend that uses a lot. She won’t be drawn
others. prayerful voice: a sharp was a shy child, and not as crucial year in St Anselm, and on anything that smacks of
contrast to those who felt fluent in English. She credits from there to St John’s College, self-praise. Even when I quiz
In the face of these odds compelled to speak out a little her mum for gently pushing Durham. her about her elevated role
against, it was good to see a more loudly last week. her into youth services at at Lambeth, her response is
woman priest from Africa church, where she learnt to Knowing that being typically self-effacing: “I think
assuming an extremely visible Let’s not forget, this pray and to continue to grow ordained a priest might not God has a sense of humour, or
and prominent role at the was not an easy conference: in faith. be fully accepted back home, maybe people saw something
Conference last week. controversy, anger and At the same time, life Cathrine says she drew in me that I can’t see.”
condemnation all played in Zimbabwe was hard. strength from the story in
The Rev Cathrine their part, as liberals and The economic crash, the Genesis of Abraham being What she does say with
Ngangira has been on the conservatives ripped chunks disintegration of society called away from his people passion is that the role of
Lambeth design committee out of each other over same- and the lack of food under and family to go to a new land. women in the church is still
since 2020. Consequently, she sex marriage. President Robert Mugabe She saw huge parallels in her unfolding and will become
became a high-profile regular was difficult for everyone, own life and what God was much bigger and even more
at many of the briefings When I finally caught up especially her family. And calling her to do. significant in the near future.
during the eleven days of the with Cathrine for an interview, yet: “Zimbabweans are always
conference, where her quiet she was quick to diminish the full of hope. People don’t stop She describes the As for her own future,
and charismatic confidence praise being heaped on her being prayerful. People don’t moment of ordination as which some already
quickly earned her admiration shoulders. stop being positive. And that’s extremely emotional. “At see as marked down for
and respect. what kept us going.” first, I was filled with doubt advancement, the most you’ll
“It’s an honour to hear After university, about my worthiness, my get from this wonderfully
“There goes the next people in leadership saying Cathrine became active in weaknesses too, and all the gentle and deeply spiritual
Archbishop of Canterbury,” things like that, but it’s also youth ministry at a national things I couldn’t do. And then person is: “I don’t know where
said one older male bishop, scary,” she said. She attributes level, an important factor in I realised this isn’t about what I my future lies. I’m just happy
as she walked by him. Some her prayerful demeanour to her journey to ordination. can do, it’s about what God can to go wherever the Lord sends
were just as effusive, proudly “God’s grace”, adding: “I’ve Another key moment came do through you”. me.”
proclaiming her a rising star of become more comfortable in in 2016 when she attended
the church. it, that’s all.” the Anglican Consultative Cathrine, now working As for that bishop’s lofty
Conference in Lusaka, the as a full-time priest, is a curate predictions for her future,
So, what was it about Cathrine first came capital of Zambia. at Bearsted, a rural parish in we’ll have to wait and see
this young priest, aged 30, to England to join the Kent. Metaphorically and in whether Lambeth has more to
originally from Zimbabwe, Community of St Anselm, reality, she’s thousands of miles hear from Cathrine Ngangira.
that captivated those who saw Archbishop Welby’s monastic from where she started. Watch this space.
gathering of young people,
who live for a year in prayerful “I’m enjoying it,” she says.

‘We were the only African start-up in the final of global
student entrepreneur awards’ — Dzinotyiwei

• Languages ace honoured to represent the continent

By Times Live also complicated by Covid-19 languages, realising they are have been about 680 lessons
since she couldn’t visit people’s the gateway to understanding since the launch in 2021.
MANDELA Rhodes scholar homes. identity, as well as the
Chido Dzinotyiwei is using community. Vambo Academy “We have also managed
her love for language to try “It became difficult to was born out of this realisation. to create different kinds of Chido Dzinotyiwei
to preserve and promote drive to people’s houses and employment for people. We Dzinotyiwei finished in
indigenous African offer lessons, so we decided to “I have always been very have content creators for the
languages. introduce technology into the interested in languages because different languages we offer the top 6 during the final round
Zimbabwe-born business. We took our offering I had to learn languages to and a lot are based in their of the EO Global Student
online and the rest is history,” navigate the places where I was provinces of origin,” she said. Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA)
Dzinotyiwei, who was raised in Dzinotyiwei said. moving. I learnt isiZulu when 2022.
SA, is the co-founder of Vambo I was younger and became One student, Nobuhle
Academy, a specialised online However, this came with quite fluent in it and also had Khanyile, who used the Out of the many
teaching platform that teaches its own challenges. to do Afrikaans and other platform to learn isiZulu in candidates from more than 25
African languages. languages such as French. I was 2021, said it was something she SA institutions who submitted
“We had a skills gap. We always fascinated by African had been waiting for. their businesses this year, she
When Dzinotyiwei took were not technical people. We languages, especially how represented the continent
a gap year in 2019, she found had to learn about technology similar they are and how they “I did a Zulu course, the through several rounds,
herself unemployed and and understand what it would are used on the continent and basics of Zulu, and I opted making it through to the last
needed money for petrol to require for us to build a website in the country I live in,” said for the one-on-one sessions. stage.
attend interviews. that would do what we wanted Dzinotyiwei. Once you have booked your
it to do.” appointment online and the “For us, it’s a major
“I started teaching The platform offers 12 payment goes through you achievement. It’s the biggest
language to children in the The chiShona native languages available to study get a Zoom link and you are competition we have
neighbourhood and from there speaker said her love for through virtual lessons and contacted by a teacher,” she competed in and it was on a
I went from one student to languages began in early is continually growing its said. global level. We were the only
three to eight and it grew,” she childhood when she was offering through a self-learning African start-up in the final.
said. exposed to different linguistic tools, tutors, informative blogs, “I enjoyed the process. It is We felt so honoured, not only
scenarios. When she regular podcasts and more. something I had been looking to represent SA, but Africa as a
Dzinotyiwei soon realised reconnected with her mother for because even though I am whole,” she said.
she wouldn’t be able to serve tongue a decade ago, she Dzinotyiwei said there Zulu I was never taught Zulu,”
everyone in person. This was began a love story with African she said.

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“I am a conduit between generations,”
says youthful Highlanders CEO:

places faith in club’s junior players

Ronald Moyo

By Leopold Munhende particular, is run by old people the Highlanders culture in the clubs grow. RM: When we employed
Chief Correspondent who don’t tolerate young younger players, especially LM: Your club was Brito we were hovering just
people and modern approach those who come through the above relegation. Our squad’s
On March, 22, 2022 to football administration. system, than trying to instil described as brave in many average age was around 27,
premiership giants I think my appointment is a the Highlanders culture to circles after it promoted but results were not coming.
Highlanders, Bosso, bold statement by the club a player who has played for young Prince Ndlovu; There was little hope of selling
appointed 30 year-old on its willingness to cover eight premier league clubs in a 16 year old graduate players because very few were
Ronald Moyo (RM) as generational gaps. the past ten seasons. of your Bosso 90 squad. young enough for business.
its chief executive officer He was barely known
(CEO). LM: The big three, I think the club has also before exploding at the Fans were no longer
The move was lauded Bosso, Caps and DeMbare been let down by the lack of MNF tournament. What coming to the stadium. So his
as brave but the right way to have a combined 30 years continuity. That’s why we are happened to the culture of immediate task was to play a
go for one of the country’s without winning the title. now trying to tie down these these squads curtain-raising productive beautiful brand
top three clubs that have What has been Bosso’s youngsters for longer periods. PSL matches? of football so that we bring
traditionally been led by old challenge and how are you fans back into the stadium.
tech. trying to address it? LM: What investments RM: We have been We also expect him to start
His first major decision are you looking at as a club engaging stakeholders, that building a formidable side
was to hire two time UEFA RM: I think the club’s in the short and long term? is, the premier soccer league that will mount a meaningful
champions league winner failure to win the league in (PSL) and Bulawayo city title challenge next season.
Baltemor Brito, who worked the past 13 seasons has been a RM: We are currently council with the aim of having
under former Chelsea gaffer result of a number issues. seized with the mining claim our developmental side Bosso They have also
Jose Mourinho. we got from government. We 90 curtain raising our home introduced a few youngsters
NewZimbabwe.com With a bit of luck, we want it to be operational as matches. into the team and we hope to
chief correspondent Leopold could have won the league soon as possible because we start selling players in the next
Munhende (LM), had a sit in 2012 and 2013, but we are seeing a lot of potential in The objective is to try few years, because that is the
down with Moyo (RM) to went on to lose the title to mining. Some other projects and give the fan value for main business in football.
get an understanding of why Dynamos on both occasions. will announced as we roll their money. Our matchday
the club chose him, where his But most importantly, eras are them out. activities are limited, that is LM: Highlanders is
club is headed and his view on cyclical. That’s the nature of one of the major reasons why turning a hundred and three
the extended period the club the sport. In any competitive LM: Your main sponsor the numbers at our stadia years from now. Do you
has failed to finish top of the league any team will have its Sakunda has reportedly keeps going down. think the club is where it is
log. epoch. It happens world over. secured Rufaro stadium for supposed to be?
Below is an excerpt of the You just need to pay attention rivals Dynamos which they Fans want to ‘buy
interview. to every detail of the game to also oil; are there any similar experience’, not just 90 RM: We are proud of
remain competitive. discussions with you for minutes. It also plays a pivotal the milestone ahead of us.
LM: As the youngest Barbourfields? role in the development of The club has stood the test
We previously a player as they get used to of time. Many clubs have
CEO in the topflight what do dominated Zimbabwean RM: We take one step playing in front of crowds at been formed in between
football because of a brilliant at a time. The project that we a tender age. It however, has and they are now defunct,
you bring to the table? recruitment policy. This is are currently focusing on is got its own disadvantages, but Highlanders is still
RM: I see myself what we are trying to do now. the Office renovation which for instance, it poses a lot competing. We are obviously
Talent and skill are not enough should be commencing in a of stadium maintenance not satisfied with what we
as a conduit between to play for Highlanders. A few months’ time. By the way, challenges. have achieved so far. We hope
generations. There has player needs to understand it is outside the sponsorship to do better both on and off
been a misconception that the culture of the club. That package, it is a ‘donation’ LM: What expectations the pitch in the next three
Zimbabwean football in is very key. It’s easier to instil from Sakunda. That is how have you laid on new coach years and beyond.
general, and Highlanders in committed they are to helping Brito?

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‘MASSIVE POSITIVE’

Galloway’s return from injury
delights Plymouth boss

Brendan Galloway

By Sports Reporter dislocating his kneecap last best players until he got injured. The former Everton and
ENGLAND: Plymouth Argyle November - an injury that saw “He’s had a real tough Luton Town player moved to
boss Steven Schumacher says him miss the Africa Cup of Argyle ahead of last season and
it is a “massive positive” that Nations. journey to get back, and to have played 16 times before his injury.
Zimbabwe defender Brendan him on the pitch tonight - the
Galloway has returned after a “He’s such such a good fans appreciated him being back “He knows how important
serious knee injury. player when he’s fit, and we’re on - and for him to get to 70 he is for us, he knows what he
just made up to have him back,” minutes as well, at that level, he’s brings, the attributes that he’s
Galloway, 26, played 70 Schumacher told BBC Radio done brilliant.” got,” added Schumacher.
minutes in his side’s 2-0 Carabao Devon.
Cup loss to Peterborough United Galloway signed a new “He’s a great lad, you want
on Wednesday. “He was outstanding for us 18-month contract in January him to do so well because he’s
at the start of last season, he was to keep him at the Pilgrims as he a brilliant professional, so I’m
He had not played since one of our most consistent and recovered from his injury. made up that he’s back.”