Simba Kanyonde & wife Lucia Dzimba got into a canoe on Sunday to cross a flooded Sanyati River in Gokwe & head to Chidamoyo Hospital. Their week-old child was ill. The boat capsized, & the three were swept away.
Lucia & her baby were found floating dead. Simba is still missing.
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A total of 270 121 candidates sat for the examinations in November, a 3.1% drop from the previous year’s figures. Zimsec board chairperson Eddy Mwenje said the overall pass rate for 2023 is 30.19%
Results should be accessible at 3:00 pm today on their online results portal.
To check for the current zimsec Odinary level results, do the following
Head over to the Zimsec Results Portal by going to https://www.zimsec.co.zw/.
You will get the following page.
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Navigate to the “View Results” section on the portal.
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Choose the region of your school to proceed.
You will get the following page.
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Click on “Register as a New User”.
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Enter your centre number followed by your candidate number.
Make sure to select “November” for the session and “O-Level” for the level as well as the “Year” 2024. Follow the specified format when entering your candidate name.
When entering your candidate name, follow this format: start with the surname, followed by the first name, and, if applicable, include the initial of your second name.
Note that entering the first name before the last name will result in an error message stating, “Candidate details not found.”
Create a unique username and password, ensuring it contains at least one capital letter and one number. Remember these credentials for future access.
Click on the “Register” button to complete the registration process.
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After registration, log in using your username and password.
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View your 2023 ZIMSEC Ordinary O Level results.
Recent floods which hit parts of Gokwe has left a trail of destruction.
High Court judge, Siyabona Musithu has removed from the roll the matter in which cousins, Martin Masuka and Mafioni Rikonda are fighting for Gokwe chieftainship.
This is the second time the case was removed from the roll, having been struck off by another High Court judge, Amy Tsanga citing it was not urgent.
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Masuka argued that he was the heir apparent according to the royal lineage.
In his court application, he cited his cousin Mafioni Rikonda, Local government minister, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Midlands provincial assembly of Chiefs the district development coordinator, Gokwe South as first to 6th respondents respectively.
Masuka sought the review of the minister and Mnangagwa to nominate, recommend and approve the appointment of Rikonda as Chief Masuka.
“The applicant’s contention is that the appointment of the first respondent as Chief Masuka in Gokwe South District, in the Midlands Province was not done in terms of the prevailing traditional practices of the Masuka people as he was not from the senior generation of fathers of the Rikonda house.
“The applicant further contents that the elevation of the first respondent to the chieftainship infringed sections 3(2)(a)(i) and 3(2)(b) of the Traditional Leaders Act[ [Chapter 29:17]], in that the said first respondent was not the person nominated by the appropriate persons in the Masuka tribe.
“The applicant claims that his constitutional rights to nominate a person in the course of the appointment of a substantive chief Masuka were also infringed,” the court heard.
Masuka traced the history of the Masuka chieftainship to the 1950s, asserting that at some point the chieftainship was downgraded to the position of headman.
He said this was done by the colonial settlers who had invaded their ancestral land in the Bikita area of Masvingo Province.
He said the Masuka people were then moved to Gokwe where their chieftainship was to be restored.
According to Masuka, the person who was next in line to be chief was one Ndaedzwa Jimu in line with the collateral succession method.
He said upon the relocation of the Masuka people to Gokwe, Ndaedzwa Jimu was never installed as substantive chief but remained a headman till his death.
The court heard the Masuka chieftainship was only revived in July 2020.
The Council of Chiefs was then ordered to determine which house within the Masuka clan was entitled to the chieftainship.
He said the Rikonda family resolved to follow their traditional succession principles which dictated that the eldest surviving person in the Rikonda House automatically assumed the chieftainship.
This was the procedure that had always been followed even when Ndaedzwa Jimu became headman.
It was his submission that as the eldest person in the Rikonda House, he was supposed to assume the Chieftainship at the expense of the other royal households which are Nemaringa and Gwenjera.
According to Masuka what made Rikonda’s position even more untenable was that his father was still alive.
“There was no way that he could have been installed in his father’s stead,” he said.
Rikonda however denied that his appointment was made in contravention of the law.
He cited s 283 of the Constitution which essentially provides that the appointment of a chief must be done by the President of Zimbabwe on the recommendations of the Provincial Assembly of Chiefs through the National Council of Chiefs and the Minister responsible for traditional leader
Rikonda also said the prevailing tradition of succession within the Masuka clan was collateral.
He said the chieftainship rotated amongst three eligible houses that is Gwenjera, Nemaringa and Rikonda.
According to their family tree, there were three sub-houses which are Machiri, Ndaedzwa and Tozoona.
The Machiri and Ndaedzwa sub-houses had already utilised their turn, and the next in line was the Tozoona sub-house.
He said Masuka was from the Ndaedzwa sub-house so he could not have been nominated to be substantive chief Masuka.
The judge concurred with Rikonda ruling that only the President was privileged to appoint chiefs.
“The President only appoints someone who has been nominated.
“From my reading of the law, the nomination and the appointment of a chief are two different processes.
“The President, as the appointing authority, is only involved in the later process.
“However, when a dispute arises following the appointment of a chief, that dispute must be resolved by the President, after recommendations by the provincial assembly of chiefs through the Local government minister.
“The applicant cannot approach the court based on complaints that were made in the process of challenging the nomination of the first respondent,” the judge ruled before striking the matter off the roll.
Police in the Midlands have launched an operation named ‘Mushikashika Wapera’ targeting pirating and unroadworthy vehicles.
The operation which started on the 15th of January has seen 429 pirate vehicles, mostly Honda Fit cars, being impounded so far.
Midlands provincial police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko said the operation involved the police, Zimra and Vehicle Inspection Department(VID) officials.
A 27-YEAR-OLD man from Mandigo, Nembudziya area in Gokwe, Midlands province, has appeared in court facing a charge of copper cable theft.
Ashely Maramba pleaded guilty when he appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Gamuchirai Gore on Wednesday.
The total value of the stolen property is US$5 000.
He was remanded in custody to today for bail consideration.
The complainant in the matter is the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) represented by Garikai Chimonyo, a security officer.
According to court papers, on December 23 at around 10am, Chimonyo caught Maramba and his accomplice, who is still at large, in possession of two sacks containing NRZ cables at the rail parastatal’s yard.
Some Gweru suburbs including the Central Business District CBD, were yesterday and today hit by flash floods, exposing the local authority’s poor drainage system.
Residents in affected suburbs of Ascot and Mambo had their properties drenched in water and endured sleepless nights trying to flush out water from their houses using buckets.
Gweru Mayor, Clr Martin Chivoko said the local authority was working on clearing drain ways to avoid floods
POLICE in Gokwe, Midlands province, have launched a manhunt for a suspect who raped and killed a woman before dumping her body in a sewage pond.Provincial police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko yesterday said a herdboy discovered the deceased’s body floating in the pond at Gokwe centre.
“ZRP (Zimbabwe Republic Police) confirms a suspected murder case in which the body of an approximately 18-21-year-old woman was found floating in a sewage pond at Gokwe centre on January 9 at around 6pm,” Mahoko said.
According to police, a 17-year-old boy from Dzavo village under Chief Njelele in Gokwe who was herding cattle discovered the body and rushed home to inform other villagers who subsequently made a report to police.
Mahoko said after the body was retrieved from the pond police observed fresh bruises on the waist and back.“The body was naked and the clothes could not be found, except for a torn undergarment which was (floating) near the deceased,” he said.
“It is suspected the victim might have been sexually abused before being killed.”
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Pope Francis has appointed Fr. Eusebius Jelous Nyathi, the Rector of Chishawasha National Major Seminary of Sts. John Fisher and Thomas More as the Bishop of Gokwe Diocese. Fr. Nyathi comes from Hwange Diocese.
A statement released by the Apostolic Nunciature in Zimbabwe on 23 June 2023 details that: “The Holy Father has appointed the Rev. Eusabius Jelous Nyathi, of the clergy of Hwange, until now Rector of the National Major Seminary Sts. John Fisher and Thomas More, as Bishop of Gokwe.”
Bishop Elect Nyathi takes over from Bishop Rudolf Nyandoro who was transferred to take charge of Gweru Diocese in September 2020.
Fr. Nyathi was appointed as Rector of the national major seminary in 2022 replacing Fr. Joseph Mugara. Before that, he was serving as the Vice Rector in the department of Theology.
He studied Pastoral Theology in Spain.
ONE person died on the spot while two were injured after a truck veered off the road and overturned along Chirape-Masemo Road in Gokwe North District.
Confirming the incident, National Police Spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the injured were rushed to Gokwe North Hospital where they are admitted.
“The ZRP confirms a fatal road traffic accident in which one person died while two others were injured when a Nissan UD truck with three passengers on board veered off the road to the right where it subsequently rolled before landing on its wheels, at the 6 km peg along Chirape-Masemo Road, Gokwe. The body of the victim was taken to Gokwe North Hospital Mortuary for post mortem while the injured are admitted at the same hospital,” he said.
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