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Feb 20

The late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s son
Robert Tinotenda Mugabe Jnr's arrest and Harare magistrate's court appearance on allegations of malicious damage to property demonstrates the problem and cost of impunity which the Mugabe family kids grew up accustomed to.

Even the incident that led to his fit of range and vandalism of property worth US$12 000, shows Robert Jr was acting with impunity.
He destroyed the property after a heated argument with his friend Sindiso Nkatazo's gardener who had allegedly urinated on his car's wheel.

"Complainant (Nkatazo) and accused are friends. On 19 February 2023 at around 0030 hours, complainant and accused
proceeded to complainant’s house and slept there," a police memo on the incident that happened at Strathaven in Harare says.

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Feb 20

United States President Joe Biden has made a surprise visit
to Kyiv, Ukraine, on the eve of Russia's invasion of its neighbour, raising the stakes in the conflict.
Russia invaded Ukriane on 24 February 2022, a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014.

This was the first time in modern history a US President President visited a war zone where there are no American forces on the ground, making the trip to Kyiv unprecedented.

Biden reiterated US support for Ukraine, announcing new military assistance and incoming Russian sanctions, while meeting with host President Volodymyr Zelensky as air raid sirens enveloped the capital city.

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Feb 20

In a dramatic political development which
confirms President Emmerson Mnangagwa has brazenly subverted the constitution, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission deputy chair Rodney Simukai Kiwa told reporters at the UNDP offices in Harare the delimitation report will be gazetted today.

Kiwa was speaking at an event where Japan donated US$1.44 million through the UNDP to support Zec capacity building.
UN Resident coordinator Edward Kallon and Japanese ambassador Satoshi Tanaka attended the function.

“This financial support will assist the commission to fulfil its constitutional mandate which is critical in consolidating democracy in the country," Kiwa said.
"I can say to you the GAZETTE will be coming out THIS AFTERNOON ... on delimitation."

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Feb 20

Political tensions are building up between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chair Priscilla Chigumba over the messy delimitation report drama as the process gets mired in a quagmire, discrediting elections even before campaigns start in earnest.

While Mnangagwa and his close allies say the report is not final, and are unconstitutionally in the process of altering it to suit their political agenda, Chigumba is certain it is final as she told the President at State House on 3 February 2023 in terms of the constitution.

Whereas Mnangagwa is currently busy rewriting the controversial delimitation report, Chigumba is clear that is unconstitutional, but does not want a political fight she won't win.
Mnangagwa and his clique think they have a political right to do so, but legally they are wrong.

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Feb 19

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba has now been whipped into line by his boss' subversive clique plotting to subvert the constitution on the delimitation process to illegally alter the final report to suit their political designs ahead of crucial elections.

Charamba was initially on the right side of the law when he said officially Mnangagwa was on 3 February 2023 given the FINAL delimitation report by Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chair Priscilla Chigumba at State House. Charamba's Presidential Communications Department posted it.

However, soon after Charamba had posted an official message that Mnangagwa has been given the final report, government spokesman Nick Mangwana posted a message, saying that was wrong and purported to be correcting media reports and others on that, acting if he is a ZEC spokesman.

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Feb 18

In a renewed spirited campaign packed with political chicanery to subvert the constitution and help President Emmerson Mnangagwa ahead of elections, government spokesman Nick Mangwana continues to mislead people on the delimitation process, raising the spectre of poll rigging.

As uproar around Mnangagwa violating the constitution by wilfully failing to gazette the final delimitation report he received on 3 February erupts, Mangwana is back in the battlefield of public opinion to mislead the nation, saying the President hasn't received the final report.

Mangwana says the President will gazette the final delimitation report once he gets it, suggesting he doesn't have it.
However, the President has the final report which he has been busy secretly fiddling with to suit his political designs; another offence under the constitution.

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