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Former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan, chairperson of the joint African Union and Comesa observer mission to Zimbabwe's elections, presents a preliminary report. The mission says the elections were generally peaceful, although concerns were raised: Stakeholders raised concerns over:
1.Maintenance of Peace and Order Act;the Act was being used to violate fundamental freedoms,for example by scuttling opposition rallies
2.Women's right to participate in politics must be upheld
3.Unequal access to state media by parties

The chief investment & projects officer for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's envoy and ambassador-at-large Uebert Angel, Dr Sobona Mtisi, has tied himself in knots in a long-winded, incoherent and deceptive response to Al Jazeera's investigation on gold smuggling and corruption. Failing to take advantage of his right to remain silent when he has been caught pants down with his boss and others in a corruption sting operation by undercover journalists, Mtisi tried to deny the res ipsa loquitor investigation (a situation where facts speak for themselves).

As the industrial scale looting of gold sinks in, it is now clear that Zimbabwe is a kleptocracy; a system based on grand corruption coupled with, in the words of American academic Andrew Wedeman, impunity for those authorised to loot by the "Thief-in-Chief" – the Head of State. In a kleptocracy, criminal activity on behalf of government officials is either ignored, allowing corrupt funds to flow out of the country, or ruled legal by a corrupted legal system – "legalised" illicit financial flows.

#NationalYouthDay
Despite leaving Zimbabwe in ruins due to leadership, policy and governance failures, as
well as mismanagement and corruption, and stealing the youths' future, the late former president Robert Mugabe is still celebrated - ironically by those who removed him! Today Zimbabwe commemorates Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day, observed annually on 21 February, his birthday, to honour the late authoritarian ruler's birthday.
Official celebrations led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be in Lupane, Matabeleland North province.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has brazenly breached the constitution - an impeachable offence - after failing yesterday to gazette the final delimitation report he received from ZEC chair Priscilla Chigumba on 3 February ahead of crucial general elections in August. After violating the constitution amid calculated confusion on whether or not the 3 February report was a final, Mnangagwa and his government are now hiding behind a badly flawed
and a conveniently self-serving interpretation of the law mixing up calendar days and court days.

In a landmark judgment, High Court Justice Joseph Mafusire has ruled in favour of local businessman Richard Harold Stuart Beattie and his wife Penelope Douglas Stone against CABS, ordering the bank to pay them US$142 000 it converted
to bonds or RTGS due monetary policy changes. Beattie and Stone were the joint applicants, while the respondents were CABS, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and Minister of Finance.
The applicants were represented by Advocate Tererai Mafukidze instructed by Tendai Biti Law, while CABS was represented by Adv. Thembinkosi Magwaliba.

Zimbabwe Institute of Strategic Thinking Country Director Dr Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo has published a new book titled OIL - Organisations, Institutions and Leadership - launched in Harare last night at a glithering function attended by top business leaders and professionals. Two years ago, Muzamhindo published anotrhr book, Try New Spanners, whichbhe said it was set to make significant inroads in the market with personal life-changing experiences that relate to Zimbabwe's own situation as a nation going through difficulties.

#DelimitationD-Day
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa must today gazette the controversial final delimitation report on deadline day since its submission on 3 February 2023 or breach the constitution, which is an impeachable offence with dramatic political consequences. Delimitation is the process of dividing the country into wards constituencies for the purposes of elections of Members of Parliament and councillors.
The process is carried out in terms of sections 160 and 161 of the current constitution which came to force in 2013.

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's political mantra, which he presents as a philosophy when it's a slogan, Nyika Inovakwa Nevene Vayo (A nation is built by its owners), has raised serious public debate as people evaluate its form, content and utility amid fierce criticism. Since coming to power through a coup in 2017, Mnangagwa has been trying to craft his own vision like statesmen who think beyond political programmes do, after the late former president Robert Mugabe in what he calls a Second Republic amid different political and economic slogans.

A volcanic political uproar has erupted among high-profile figures surrounding President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi fighting over the controversial FINAL delimitation report, following a divisive revolt within the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). The furore over the report handed over to Mnangagwa on Friday follows a revolt within Zec.
New divisions exploded, with clashes between Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba saying the last report is FINAL, while government mouthpiece Nick Mangwana and state media said it's not.

After the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission submitted its final delimitation report to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, which he must publish within 14 days in the government gazette, elections are now almost certainly going to be held around 26 August, meaning between 17-25 August. All thing considered, the practical elections window is between 17-25 August.
The constitutional window is between 28 July and 26 August, but the delimitation process has changed that, meaning elections are coming around the third to the last week of August.

There are straws in the air that President Emmerson Mnangagwa might be pondering early general elections in Zimbabwe, but what would need to happen for that to be possible?
The starting point is parliament must be dissolved first and then a pathway to the polls can be found. Veritas, a grouping of lawyers dealing with legislative issues and processes, explains the matter.
"Possibility of An Early Election?
In our Election Watch 5/2022 of the 17th November 2022, we looked at the circumstances in which general elections can be held early," it says.

While the Murehwa political violence case has been widely condemned by various voices - ironically including Zanu PF - the opposition CCC is preventing journalists from interviewing victims of the brutality to expose perpetrators. Victims want to talk, but CCC claims it's unsafe. Since the beginning of the week, CCC brought the elderly victims to Harare for medical attention, but has been stonewalling journalists, implausibly claiming security and other dubious reasons. They claim if they are interviewed and expose the perpetrators, they would be at risk.

After destroying the health sector, now just an empty shell without critical X-ray and Linac machines, and basic drugs, the Zanu PF government is coming up with a law to jail doctors and nurses who protest against that and poor salaries and working conditions - for six months. Extracts from the Health Service Act (Amendment) Bill.

When a country is ruined through mismanagement, corruption and incompetence, as well as brazen misgovernance and looting, its citizens end up fleeing consequences of misrule.
This is the story of Zimbabwe, a country maladministered and looted by the Zanu PF regime for 43 years. While South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ANC government put emphasis on the removal of Western sanctions on Zimbabwe imposed over policy clashes, human rights abuses and electoral theft, the reality is Zimbabwe was destroyed by Zanu PF leadership and policy failures.