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Takunda Maodza Senior Reporter
THE negative publicity Zimbabwe has received from Western media and the volatile global political and economic environment have served as wake-up calls and warnings to enhance its security consciousness to survive such assaults, President Mugabe has said.
The Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces made the remarks while commissioning the National Defence College in Harare yesterday.
“The current polarisation of small states and societies, including Zimbabwe, through the adverse and rabid effects of globalisation which seek to impose a new world order under the auspices of neo-liberalism calls us to remain vigilant and alert to the enemy’s tactics.”
The President said Western powers had resorted to using illegal economic sanctions and deliberate manipulation of media resources as tools against weaker states in attempts to reinstate the colonial status quo.
“We in Zimbabwe have received first-hand experience of the West’s hate-filled tactics, dating back to the year 2000.
“At the height of the economic crisis in 2008-2009, Zimbabweans temporarily adopted an alien culture of drawing knives against each other as unusual fights between brothers, sisters, uncles, nieces, husbands and wives became a common phenomenon. This explosion of negative forces and the generous sponsorship they received sought to effect regime change through civil disobedience.
“Indeed, the neo-colonial adventurism went to the extent of seeking a military invasion of Zimbabwe,” President Mugabe said.
PM’s wedding off
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter
HARARE provincial magistrate Mr Munamato Mutevedzi yesterday cancelled a marriage licence he recently issued to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his fiancée Ms Elizabeth Macheka.
High Court judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu dismissed Mr Tsvangirai’s urgent chamber application to suspend the lower court’s decision early this morning.
The application also sought an order allowing the wedding to be held today.
Mr Mutevedzi was convinced that an unregistered customary law marriage existed after watching a video recording showing the PM’s emissaries paying lobola to the Karimatsenga family on November 11 last year.
The PM also had his bid to issue Ms Karimatsenga’s lawyers with a divorce token of US$1 before the magistrate thrown out.
The US$1 note was attached to an affidavit brought before the magistrate during the inquiry.
The PM and Ms Macheka (who is being cited in the magistrate’s ruling as Ms Guma) were set to tie the knot at Raintree Gardens in Umwinsidale, Harare, today.
Mr Mutevedzi issued a marriage licence to the couple on August 27, but cancelled it yesterday after lawyers representing Ms Karimatsenga proved the existence of an unregistered customary law marriage between their client and the PM.
The magistrate said it was criminal for one to enter into a monogamous marriage (Chapter 5:11) when they were already in an unregistered marriage.
He cited Section 104 (1) (c) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, which criminalises the intended marriage, saying he could not allow the PM to commit an offence.
The section reads: “Any person being a party to . . . a potentially polygamous marriage and knowing that the marriage still subsists, intentionally purports to
Full text of Magistrate Mutevedzi’s judgment
On 27/08/12 Mr Morgan Tsvangirai and Ms. Elizabeth Mazvita Guma came before me and made an application for a marriage licence. They both swore to affidavits that there was no lawful impediment why they could not be joined in matrimony. I duly granted them the licence. On 12/9/12 in accordance with the
Can anyone trust Tsvangirai with Zim?
BELLS were supposed to be tolling, vows being exchanged at a plush wedding that was to draw the who-is-who in politics in Zimbabwe and the region at Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s wedding at Raintree Lodge in Umwinsdale, Harare. But that was not to be. The groom was rightly hoist by his own petard in
Pastor comes under fire
Lloyd Gumbo
PASTOR Lazarus Muriritirwa, who is alleged to have introduced a South African woman to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai for a relationship, and availed his house as a love nest, has come under fire from clergymen for putting the Church into disrepute.
Pastor Muriritirwa of the Gospel Assembly Church told The Herald yesterday that he had indeed introduced Ms Nosipho Regina Shilubane for “a courtship” with Mr Tsvangirai but claimed the relationship did not work.
The pastor, who is principal director for policy implementation in the Prime Minister’s Office, said the two terminated their relationship last year, an assertion at variance with what Ms Shilubane says in her court papers.
“I introduced her to the Prime Minister for a courtship but they were never engaged as she claims,” said Pastor Muriritirwa of the Gospel Assembly Church. “They were just dating but she was duly advised in August
last year that the relationship could not work for reasons best known to them.
“When the Prime Minister told me that he had advised her about that, I then counselled her but she is just refusing to accept the reality that the relationship broke down.”
On Ms Shilubane’s claims that they used his house as their love nest, Pastor Muriritirwa said the pair used his house when he was away.
Ms Shilubane said the MDC-T leader would visit her at the pastor’s house where they had their first unprotected sexual encounter on September 19, 2009. Allegations
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Spirit medium challenges Makandiwa
Peter Matambanadzo Senior Reporter
A self-proclaimed spirit medium was manhandled by eight bouncers during a service at the United Family International Church in Chitungwiza after challenging Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa to a demonstration of power before the congregation. Sekuru Lovemore Chiponda who says he is a
Chemical supplier blacklisted
Michael Chideme Municipal ReporterOne of the major water treatment chemical suppliers for Harare City Council has been struck off the suppliers’ list and blacklisted for an unspecified period. MT and N, owned by Mr Alex Mashamhanda, has also been banned from doing business with council on any other matter. The firm is accused