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Advocate Frank Chirairo who filed for nomination under CCC for Masvingo City ward 2 together with Shantiel Chiwara has withdrawn his candidature to solve the double candidate impasse that has rocked the party.
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TM Pick n Pay Masvingo today prevented a woman with albinism from getting into the shop because her sensitive skin could not be sanitized. Disability Amalgamation Commumity Trust (DACT) is demanding a full apology.
@DeafZimTrust
@DisabilityZim
@rashweatm
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📍Masvingo Urban Ward 4, Runyararo Primary School. “Alec Tabe of
@CCCZimbabwe
duly elected for Ward 4 Masvingo Municipality,” ZEC official.
#ElectionsZW
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A Chivi teenager, Tatenda Mupfurashanga is appealing for financial help to have a tumor that is growing on his face removed at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare. He is in need of at least US$850 for the operation, excluding medication and hospital admission.
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Masvingo Civic Centre Hall A polling station has posted the first V.11 form outside of the polling station.
#ElectionsZW
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Edward Singende who scored 15 points at A level is looking for assistance to go to university.
@CitizenWakura
@ZimMediaReview
@ARTUZ_teachers
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EXCLUSIVE:
@godfreykurauone
narrates prison experiences. "The living conditions there look like they are not meant for human beings but for animals."
Full video:
@ZimMediaReview
@amnesty
@rashweatm
@ZimbabweUpdate
@povonewstv
@ZLHRLawyers
@ZimRightsLIVE
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As schools open today, more than half of learners at Chiredzi Christian High School have been locked outside the school gate over school fees.
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Chiredzi Town Council Ward 4 councilor Charles Njopera of
@ZANUPF_Official
crying after his party lost the council chairmanship seat during the election process.
#ElectionsZW
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#GodfreyKurauone
's supporters celebrate outside court soon after his acquittal.
@ZimMediaReview
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There is a suspected Covid-19 death at Chiredzi District Hospital and police have detained the TellZim journalist who had just visited the hospital to verify. Click link for story.
@misazimbabwe
@SibandaSibbs
@zenzele
@Mathuthu
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Disability Amalgamation Community Trust (DACT) member Henry Chivhanga is marching from his home in Majange to Masvingo town in a one-man demo to advocate for the improvement of the welfare of people with disabilities.
@ZimMediaReview
@crisiscoalition
@ZimRightsLIVE
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A Masvingo VID officer Bhekimpilo Sithole yesterday swallowed bank notes totalling US$60 had allegedly received as a bribe from a prospective driver soon after a road test. Sithole apparently failed to swallow the other US$40 after CID officers approached him.
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📍
#Masvingo
West Ward 2 Shantiel Yeukai Chiwara of
@CCCZimbabwe
declared duly elected by ZEC at Francis Aphiri Primary School.
#ElectionsZW
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In an incident witnessed by TellZim, Masvingo police today assaulted a woman who was on her way to work. The police forced her to go back home after refusing to entertain her attempts to explain her case.
@ZimMediaReview
@PoliceZimbabwe
@ZimAround
@rashweatm
@dewamavhinga
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Mukaro High School head Pauline Dzapasi has died. She got admitted to Gutu Mission Hospital yesterday reportedly suffering Covid-19 symptoms.
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A Chiredzi-based prisons officer who got fired from his job after professing his support
@nelsonchamisa
on Twitter in the run-up to the 2018 elections is now hustling it out on the streets. Joh Mahlabera says he does not regret his actions.
@MdcMasvingo
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Godfrey Kurauone's trial was yet again postponed by over 5hrs this morning. The State said it was yet to get hold of the 2nd witness, a police officer. Here, MDC youth assembly chair Tererai Sithole criticises Govt for persecuting Kurauone, who faces a charge of blocking a road.
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Pamushana High school has 103 pupils who scored in 15 points and above in 2022 exams. 55 learners scored 15 points best of 3 subjects. 171 leaners have 10 points and above while 29 have 20 points and above. Of the 29, Six scored 25 points and above.
@MoPSEZim
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Lawfare: Kurauone's docket not yet ready after 33 days
@ZLHRLawyers
@Jesmunga
@ZimMediaReview
@Wamagaisa
@Mathuthu
@mdczimbabwe
@nelsonchamisa
@ZimRightsLIVE
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A cop at a roadblock in Masvingo today threatened to shoot a TellZim journalist. The police officer had demanded that Upenyu Chaota go back home as 'nobody' was allowed to get into town. The journalist was then detained for an hour & forced to sit on the ground.
@misazimbabwe
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Shantiel Chiwara of
@CCCZimbabwe
has become the first female Mayor of Masvingo City. The 25-year-old, who is also Ward 2 Cllr is the youngest councilor in Masvingo City Council.
25-year-old Shantiel Yeukai Chiwara of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) recently shrugged off competition from the male contestants to land Masvingo West’s ward 2 council seat in the August 23 harmonized polls.
Chiwara was declared winner after she got 2 287 votes, with
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Masvingo Mayor Collen Maboke has reportedly been disqualified from being CCC parliamentary candidate today at a provincial caucus meeting for candidate selection. Sources say his disqualification stems from his ascension to mayoral office through which he defied party orders.
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What is your MP doing in your area? In Ward 21 Gutu Central (Gonye village) Winston Chitando has installed a solar-powered borehole which is helping 44 families to do gardening.
@mulakazuva
@Parli
@ZANUPF_Official
@mdczimbabwe
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Police have almost completely locked down Masvingo. Very difficult to get to town using the main road linking Mucheke and the CBD. Police say everybody should go back home except those providing 'essential' services.
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📍
#Gutu
CCC candidate for Gutu Central constituency Matthew Takaona accuses ZEC of allowing the ruling party members to campaign outside polling stations.
#ElectionsZW
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Police in Chiredzi have today almost totally locked down the CBD amid alleged talk of planned waves of street demonstrations. Some police details were also seen assaulting civilians on the streets.
@ZimMediaReview
@ZimAround
@rashweatm
@CouncilorMutub1
@ChiviCentral
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Chamisa at Richard Rameck Maposa's grave. Maposa was a political violence victim. Chamisa gave the affected families two heifers each.
#ElectionsZw
@ZimMediaReview
@povozim
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#GodfreyKurauone
arriving at Masvingo Magistrate Courts in leg irons earlier today.
@ZimMediaReview
@ZLHRLawyers
@rashweatm
@PedzisaiRuhanya
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Masvingo commuter omnibus operators contracted by Zupco have gone on strike. Many operators and drivers are demonstrating outside the Zupco depot demanding outstanding payment for their services. They say Zupco hasn't paid them for up to 3 months. No
@zupcobus
kombi on the road.
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A Masvingo police officer stationed at Ngundu police station was today fined US$150 or face 30 days imprisonment for writing a poem against his boss, former Officer Commanding Masvingo Province Ass Comm Taonei Nyazema, likening him to human waste.
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A health worker has reportedly died days after receiving the SinoPharm vaccine in Masvingo. Masvingo PMD Dr A. Shamhu said he was aware of the case where a health worker suffered a stroke after receiving the jab a few days ago.
@ZimMediaReview
@rashweatm
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📍
#Masvingo
Urban Ward 3. Maxwell Madhuna of
@CCCZimbabwe
declared duly elected councilor by ZEC officials.
#ElectionsZW
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The Masvingo High Court has postponed MDC Alliance national organising secretary Godfrey Kurauone's bail hearing to tomorrow, August 13. Kurauone, who is reportedly battling ill-health, has been in remand prison since July 31 on charges of criminal nuisance & blocking traffic.
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It's 2016, Nyaradzo Life Assurance offers to surface a 200m dusty strip of road connecting its new Masvingo offices to Bradburn St at a cost of US$46 000. Masvingo City Council turns down the offer (thread)
@ZimbabweUpdate
@Nyaradzo_Group
@transparencyzim
@Wamagaisa
@povonewstv
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#GodfreyKurauone
's lawyer Martin Mureri speaking on Kurauone's acquittal at Masvingo Magistrate Courts today.
@ZimMediaReview
@povonewstv
@rashweatm
@ZimRightsLIVE
@ZLHRLawyers
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The State is prosecuting seven Chiredzi
@mdczimbabwe
activists based on this picture of a demo which allegedly happened on July 31. The originator of the picture is not known.
@ZLHRLawyers
@philllip_c
@CouncilorMutub1
@ZimAround
@ZimMediaReview
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At Masvingo North Ward 10 ward Command Centre, only one agent, from Zanu PF signed all three v.23A forms that were displayed at the centre. There have been reports that
@CCCZimbabwe
agents refused to sign in protest of alleged anomalies they said they witnessed during
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Police in Mwenezi are currently throwing teargas to disperse CCC supporters who are waiting for party president
@nelsonchamisa
to address them. The police is saying the rally was supposed to end at 4pm so people have to disperse despite the fact that Chamisa had not arrived.
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Gweru Urban Ward 4 Cllr Martin Chivhoko of
@CCCZimbabwe
has been elected Mayor of Gweru City uncontested.
#ElectionsZW
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19 years on, pupils still learning under trees in Mwenezi!
A thread.
@actionaid
@IMSforfreemedia
@UNICEFZIMBABWE
@MoPSEZim
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Police has granted CCC permission to hold a campaign rally at an open Ground near Nyajena Primary School in Masvingo South.
The permission comes with strict orders.
1.Bussing people to venue is prohibited.
2.Chanting of party slogans, singing and shouting is not allowed.
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Vice President Chiwenga has disapproved the Kilimanjaro Sugarcane Plot beneficiary list which was compiled by the office of the Minister of State for Masvingo Ezra Chadzamira. Chiwenga ordered a new list which benefits the local Shangani people.
@ZimMediaReview
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Police officers who were not wearing masks properly attracted public anger in Masvingo CBD today after they tried to arrest a civilian who had dropped his mask while reportedly eating. A crowd gathered around the police car demanding the release of the alleged offender.
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📍
#Masvingo
Urban Ward 5, Daniel Mberikunashe of
@CCCZimbabwe
declared duly elected councilor by ZEC at Ndarama High Ward Command Centre.
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Charles Manyuchi has just won the match against Ugandan Muhammad Sebyala at Flamboyant Hotel in Masvingo.
@ZimMediaReview
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ZANU PF 2nd Secretary Kembo Mohadi is in Masvingo for a council event that has been boycotted by
@CCCZimbabwe
councilors who are saying the event has been turned into a Zanu PF campaign rally. The 7
@CCCMasvingo
councilors said they were not going to attend the “Zanu PF rally”.
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The govt has approved the removal of over 1 000 families from the Sengwe Communal lands in Chiredzi paving way for the multi-million dollar lucerne grass project by Dendairy company. The order was gazetted in Statutory Instrument 50 of 2021.
@ZimMediaReview
@ZLHRLawyers
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Chamisa: People will have the power to recall their MPs and Councillors.
No ministers will seek medical care outside the country, they must fix health system in the country.
Says will decentralise authority..
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#GodfreyKurauone
Update: State says it does not have the authority to prosecute the case as the Prosecutor General has not yet granted the authority. State says the case should be postponed to Sept 24 while it seeks the authority from PG's office
@PedzisaiRuhanya
@ZimMediaReview
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Masvingo High Court Judge Justice Neville Wamambo has turned down MDC national youth organiser Godfrey Kurauone's bail application on the basis that he allegedly committed a similar crime while on bail. Kurauone has been in remand for 14 days.
@ZLHRLawyers
@cazawaty
@ZimAround
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9 Masvingo Residents Forum (MRF) members, including Prosper Tiringindi, have been arrested for taking their empty buckets to council offices to demonstrate against water shortages. The city has been experiencing severe shortages for the past several weeks.
@ZimMediaReview
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📍Zaka Central, ward 19, Jerera Satelite Clinic Polling Station
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📍Masvingo Province as it stands:
National Assembly Results as provided by the ZEC Masvingo Provincial Command Centre:
Bikita East:
Mudzingwa Bornface (CCC) 7544
Zevezayi Court (Zanu PF) 9880
#ElectionsZW
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A croc got into a males' ward at Chiredzi Gen Hospital today and people are waiting for the Zimparks team. The croc is understood to have followed the waterway from Ward 4 & got to the hospital in Ward 2. Heavy rains have caused a lot of flooding in the proorly-drained town.
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This is Masvingo Provincial Hospital last night, August 14. The only referral hospital in the province. Nurses and patients now have to bring candles. 'When power is cut, incubators switch off and premature babies die'.
@InfoMinZW
@MoHCCZim
@rashweatm
@UNICEFZIMBABWE
@citezw
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#ZanuPFprimaries
People in Zaka East constituency protesting after discovering that all their preferred ZANU PF candidates for MP were not on the ballot paper today.
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Mwenezi East MP Joosbi Omar has passed on. He died a few moments ago at Makurira Memorial Clinic in Masvingo reportedly from a diabetes-related complication.
@nickmangwana
@MasvingoB
@ZANUPF_Official
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Zanu PF Masvingo provincial secretary for Information, Ronald Ndava has died of Covid-19. This was confirmed by
@ZANUPF_Official
Masvingo provincial commissar Jevas Masosota. Ndava died last night at Chiredzi General Hospital, becoming possibly the province's 38th fatality.
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@CCCMasvingoUrba
Candidate Advocate Martin Mureri speaks on Mamutse Stadium incident where police threw teargas to disperse
@CCCMasvingo
,
@CCCZimbabwe
supporters.
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Some villagers in Zaka have claimed that they are being denied access to free agricultural inputs under the pfumvudza programme on the basis that they are opposition MDC supporters.
@HealZim
@mdczimbabwe
@zanupf_patriots
@MasvingoMedia
@sentinelzim
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CCC president Nelson Chamisa has arrived at Muchakata B/C in Masvingo Central constituency for the rally.
#ElectionsZW
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BREAKING NEWS: A plane crash has reportedly happened in Zvamahande area in Masvingo, reliable sources from police have confirmed. The sources however said that authorities are in the process of establishing the number of casualties. More details to follow.
@ZimMediaReview
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Several buildings in Masvingo CBD this morning were found scribbled with graffiti, which was probably sprayed overnight.
@ZimMediaReview
@MACRADTrust
@murramasvingo
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📍
#Masvingo
Out and About: A Zanu PF Cowdray Park vehicle spotted in Masvingo yesterday evening.
#ElectionsZW
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Zanu PF provincial youth elections that were supposed to be held yesterday (July 30) had to be abandoned after violence erupted on who is eligible to vote. Riot police had to be called to control order.
@ZimMediaReview
@zanupf_patriots
@daddyhope
@nickmangwana
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Heavy riot police presence in Masvingo. Sources say the police expect protests ahead of opposition youth leader Makomborero Haruzivishe's sentencing in Hre today. On March 19, the city woke up to grafitti sprays on many buildings, some of which called for Haruzivishe's freedom.
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Some inmates quarantined at Magamba Training Centre are choosing to sleep in the open and not get mixed with new arrivals who haven't been tested. There is no system to separate old inmates from new arrivals.
@tinashechirape
@ZimMediaReview
@ZimAround
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A picture of an old woman hard at work using her bare hands to build a hut recently circulated on social media and many people dismissed the picture as fake news.
TellZim, however, investigated the issue and found that the woman actually exists.
@ZimMediaReview
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BREAKING: 📍Masvingo West National Assembly, Ezra Ruvai Chadzamira of
@ZANUPF_Official
declared duly elected-ZEC.
#ElectionsZW
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Patricia Mahinzu(78),whose picture circulated on social media while using her bare hands to build her hut in Sept 2020 is still to get proper shelter, but her grandchildren are now enrolled at Ratidzo Primary School courtesy of well-wishers
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MDC-A national organising secretary & Masvingo Urban Ward 4 Cllr Godfrey Kurauone to spend weekend in remand after Magistrate Madondo postponed his bail hearing to Mon, Aug 03. He was arrested yesterday while reporting to 'Law and Order' as part of current bail conditions.
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A total of 15 tonnes of rice meant for Chivi South food relief 'goes missing'. Chivi South MP Killer Zivhu expresses outrage, says some people went behind his back and collected it to an unknown destination.
@zanupf_patriots
@mdczimbabwe
@ZimMediaReview
@PedzisaiRuhanya
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Our reporter
@TanyahCourage
was assaulted by alleged CCC security for taking pictures at the Rujeko grounds rally. He says he had taken a photo of a collapsed Thokozile Muchuchuti when he was approached and slapped in the face by the security, who further threatened him.
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📍
#Masvingo
In 2013 National Assembly elections, out of the 26 Masvingo seats, opposition got 0 seats. In 2018, then
@nelsonchamisa
led MDC-Alliance got one seat. In 2023, two
@CCCZimbabwe
National Assembly members have been declared duly elected by ZEC so far.
#ElectionsZW
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MDC supporters waiting for
@nelsonchamisa
at Mucheke Stadium where he will address a star rally this afternoon.
@ZimMediaReview
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📍
#Masvingo
Two youths first time voters who are excited after casting their vote for the first time.
#ElectionsZW
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CCC has the plan-
CCC national youth taskforce coordinator Takudzwa Ngadziore yesterday in Masvingo said the party has the plans to change Zimbabwe and they are focusing on youth mobilization.
@ZimMediaReview
@advocatemahere
@ngadziore
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Eight teachers' unions including
@ARTUZ_teachers
, PTUZ, Zimta and Zinatu have issued a joint statement warning Govt that they won't be bullied. 'No amount of force or threat can capacitate teachers who have all tested
positive to poverty. The employer should swallow her pride.'
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A Masvingo resident has threatened to empty bucketfuls of raw sewer water into the offices of the mayor, town clerk, health and finance directors to protest poor service delivery.
@MACRADTrust
@FidelNyams
@ZimMediaReview
@TChivese
@clayton_shereni
@ZimbabweUpdate
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The police today arrested 5 members of Masvingo Residents Forum who had gathered at Civic Centre to submit a petition to Acting Town Clerk Edward Mukaratirwa. The petition mainstreamed service delivery issues chief among them the poor state of roads and water shortages.
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Gweru Urban Constituency Elections Officer, Mr Nelson Kusosa announced:
@CCCZimbabwe
's Josiah Makombe has been duly elected member of the National Assembly for Gweru Urban Constituency.
He had 12450 votes against Brian Dube of MDC-T who had 672 votes and Alex Mukwembi of ZANU
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Returning final year students started arriving at GZU Mashava Campus today. In the picture, university medical staff help the students through the
#Covid
-19 screening process.
@MinOfInfoZW
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A Covid-19 positive woman isolated at Rujeko Isolation Centre in Masvingo last night gave birth to a healthy baby boy.
@ZimMediaReview
@MoHCCZim
@WCOZIMBABWE
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MDC Alliance national youth organizing secretary Godfrey Kurauone, who spent 42 days in remand prison on charges of criminal nuisance and obstructing free movement of traffic, has filled a $2.4 million lawsuit against the State.
@PKuzipa
@mdczimbabwe
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Alderman Doug Hill, who served as Mayor of the then Fort Victoria before retiring to focus on his business and theate arts, has died. He died in Masvingo yesterday. He founded Masvingo Star and Masvingo Mirror newspapers.
@tinashechirape
@ForumMasvingo
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As Minister Moyo speaks, a group of doctors (23) stage a demo; lying down in front of the high table of. They are holding a banner written 'Communities Need Doctors and Drugs!"
@InfoMinZW
@zimlive
@bustoptv
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Today,
@ZRP_Zim
Officer Commanding Masvingo Province, Ass Com Taoneyi Nyazema summoned TellZim directors Golden Maunganidze and Passmore Kuzipa to his office where he intimidated them before kicking them out of his office.
@misazimbabwe
@ZUJOfficial
@rashweatm
@PedzisaiRuhanya
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Police in Chiredzi blocked CCC supporters from entering Tshovani Stadium where party president Nelson Chamisa was expected to address. Its not clear whether the police had cleared the gathering or not.
@ZimMediaReview
,
@CCCZimbabwe
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Gweru is one of the worst cities with regards to municipal services; heavily potholed roads, poor drainage systems, uncollected garbage etc. However, that didn't stop council from buying top-of-the range cars for management; including a Landcruiser VX.
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Biti on stage, endorses Chamisa as president of both party and Alliance.
@ZimMediaReview
@263Chat
@usembassyharare
@PactWorld
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Breaking: The Chiadzwa community under Chief Marange in Manicaland has reportedly shut down Anjin Mine operations, and have reportedly promised to set camp at the mine until their demands are met.
@ZimMediaReview
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In 2012, City of Masvingo starts a multi-million US$ project to construct a new sewer trunk connecting high density suburbs to the sewer pump stations along Mucheke River. Over US$2 million dollars is budgeted for and spent, but nothing comes out of it.
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#GodfreyKurauone
is being charged with undermining the authority of President Mnangagwa. The defense argues that Kurauone should be removed from remand since the state does not have the authority to prosecute.
@ZimMediaReview
@ZimbabweUpdate
@rashweatm
@Sizzle76
@dewamavhinga
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