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Mbonisi MabhenaTEAM Zimbabwe was last night looking closer to lifting the standard division of the African Practical Pistol Shooting Championships at the Donnington Shooting Range in Bulawayo.
Khaya Moyo warns ex-DCC members
Harare Bureau
Zanu-PF national chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo says the party will discipline ex-district coordinating committee members who are reportedly assigning themselves roles in their areas without the knowledge of the party.
Some members are reportedly forming “mobilisation taskforces”, insisting they are still in charge of the districts and party activities.
Addressing Zanu-PF political commissars at a workshop in Harare yesterday, Cde Khaya Moyo said what the members were doing was unconstitutional and should stop.
The workshop, the third one to be held this year, was aimed at discussing party activities and programmes in all the 10 provinces.
“Your meeting is coming against a backdrop of the disbandment of the DCCs and we are hearing some of you are transforming what was destroyed into mobilisation taskforces.Concern over delays in building border post
Beitbridge ReporterTHE Co-Minister of Home Affairs, Kembo Mohadi, has expressed concern over delays in the construction of the proposed Mapungubwe Border Post at Maramani area in Beitbridge District.
Ritual murder trial postponed
Court ReporterTHE trial of three men from Stanmore area of Gwanda who are facing charges of the chilling murder of four people including a seven-month-old baby girl for ritual purposes has been postponed indefinitely.
President commissions National Defence College
Harare Bureau
The negative publicity Zimbabwe has received from Western media and the current volatile global political and economic environment has served as a wake up call and warning for the country to enhance its security consciousness to survive such assaults, President Mugabe said yesterday.
The Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces made the remarks yesterday while commissioning the National Defence College in Harare.
“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 neoliberalism calls us to remain vigilant and alert to the enemy’s tactics,” President Mugabe said.
Clashes intensify near US embassy in Cairo
Protesters in Egypt, angry at a video they say insults Prophet Mohammad, have hurled stones on a police force that prevented them from marching towards the US embassy in Cairo.
Lupane shooting suspect remanded
Court ReporterTHE man who on Monday shot and killed a Lupane woman who had ditched him before turning the gun on a policeman has appeared in court.
President officially opens National Defence College
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