Friday, 30 July 2021
Apparently Caught stealing honey
Jonathan Tsoka, was apparently caught stealing honey and was forced to confess on camera.
Wednesday, 28 July 2021
Zimbabwe's President Mnangagwa (aka Miss Putsai) named in U.S. $500K fraud case
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's name was allegedly used in a botched deal which resulted in a Harare man losing US$488, 000.
According to a Zimbabwean news daily, a suspected fraudster, Eustine Charambira (33) appeared in court accused of duping a Harare man Erasmus Chimbumu of US$488, 000 in a mining chemical deal. The accused is alleged to have told Chimbumu that she could only deliver after he gave her a deposit of US$1 million since the deal included the head of state Mnangagwa and some unnamed army generals who needed their part of the share.
This is not the first time the accused has faced such allegations.
The prosecutors initially consented to $50 000 but made a U-turn on its decision after establishing that Charambira had previous convictions for similar offences according to the Zimbabwean news daily.
It is alleged that last October, Charambira was approached by the complainant, who wanted to buy mining chemicals.
This was after he was referred by one of his suppliers, Ragu Sivaragas.
Charambira told the complainant that, indeed, she had a company that imported the chemicals from the United Kingdom through Durban, South Africa, where they would collect them into the country.
It is alleged that the complainant told the accused person that he had only Zimbabwean dollars Charambira told him that her company only sold the chemicals in United States dollars.
Charambira allegedly phoned the complainant the next day and advised him to send the money in local currency to various bank accounts and suppliers, who would change the money into the US dollars at the black market rate.
"From October to December 2020, the complainant sent money to various accounts supplied by Charambira.She told the complainant that he would get his chemicals in January 2021, but later changed stance and told him that the money had been stolen after failing to meet her deadline," said prosecutors.
The complainant allegedly reported the matter to Borrowdale Police Station and she was summoned, the local wrote.
It is alleged Charambira told the police that she delayed telling the complainant that the money was stolen because the person who stole the money promised to pay back in April this year.
After being further asked, Charambira told the complainant that she was expecting US$1 million from an investor, who is based in the United Kingdom in a deal that involved the President and some army generals.
Charambira again asked for US$100 000 to charter a private jet for the investor from the UK to Zimbabwe so that he could bring the US$1 million, which is part of the deal which she promised to use to pay him back.
The complainant allegedly sent US$50 000 to Chirambira through Sivaragas, but he later on established that there was no investor brought from the UK and that there was no money that was stolen, the paper revealed.
The State alleges the accused person prejudiced the complainant of US$488 000 and nothing was recovered.
According to a Zimbabwean news daily, a suspected fraudster, Eustine Charambira (33) appeared in court accused of duping a Harare man Erasmus Chimbumu of US$488, 000 in a mining chemical deal. The accused is alleged to have told Chimbumu that she could only deliver after he gave her a deposit of US$1 million since the deal included the head of state Mnangagwa and some unnamed army generals who needed their part of the share.
This is not the first time the accused has faced such allegations.
The prosecutors initially consented to $50 000 but made a U-turn on its decision after establishing that Charambira had previous convictions for similar offences according to the Zimbabwean news daily.
It is alleged that last October, Charambira was approached by the complainant, who wanted to buy mining chemicals.
This was after he was referred by one of his suppliers, Ragu Sivaragas.
Charambira told the complainant that, indeed, she had a company that imported the chemicals from the United Kingdom through Durban, South Africa, where they would collect them into the country.
It is alleged that the complainant told the accused person that he had only Zimbabwean dollars Charambira told him that her company only sold the chemicals in United States dollars.
Charambira allegedly phoned the complainant the next day and advised him to send the money in local currency to various bank accounts and suppliers, who would change the money into the US dollars at the black market rate.
"From October to December 2020, the complainant sent money to various accounts supplied by Charambira.She told the complainant that he would get his chemicals in January 2021, but later changed stance and told him that the money had been stolen after failing to meet her deadline," said prosecutors.
The complainant allegedly reported the matter to Borrowdale Police Station and she was summoned, the local wrote.
It is alleged Charambira told the police that she delayed telling the complainant that the money was stolen because the person who stole the money promised to pay back in April this year.
After being further asked, Charambira told the complainant that she was expecting US$1 million from an investor, who is based in the United Kingdom in a deal that involved the President and some army generals.
Charambira again asked for US$100 000 to charter a private jet for the investor from the UK to Zimbabwe so that he could bring the US$1 million, which is part of the deal which she promised to use to pay him back.
The complainant allegedly sent US$50 000 to Chirambira through Sivaragas, but he later on established that there was no investor brought from the UK and that there was no money that was stolen, the paper revealed.
The State alleges the accused person prejudiced the complainant of US$488 000 and nothing was recovered.
Source:- Africa News
https://www.africanews.com/2021/07/27/zimbabwe-s-president-mnangagwa-named-in-u-s-500k-fraud-case/
Tuesday, 27 July 2021
Zimbabwean with football dreams to be kicked out of UK
Zimbabwean with football dreams to be kicked out of UK
Christopher Arundell, who grew up in the UK and once dreamt of playing professional football, is set to be deported to Zimbabwe, despite a cross-party appeal to the home secretary to stop his removal - and those of others in his position.
"This is the only place I've had a life. What do you remember from when you're five?" said the 26-year-old, who was born in Zimbabwe and lived there until the age of five.
"I don't know anything but the UK. I went to school here, all my friends are here, all my family is here," he explained to the BBC over the phone from Brook House detention centre, near Gatwick Airport, where he has been held since late last month.
"If I have to go back - I'm basically dead."
Chris's family have become British citizens, including his two younger siblings.
But his father kept putting off paying the money to sort out his citizenship so he dropped out of the football academy that had accepted him after leaving school and ended up getting into trouble and going to prison for drug offences.
The Arundells left Zimbabwe after they experienced three frightening burglaries - moving house after each incident. The last one in particular was brutal.
"I was taken out by a maid to go to the shops and then thieves came to the house, tied my mum up, and held her hostage and pepper-sprayed her and my six-month-old sister, while they removed goods from our house and took our car."
Chris is not clear if the family were being specifically targeted - but for his mother he says it proved too much and she left with her two young children first to Botswana, then the UK - where her architect husband later joined her in 2001.
He is of mixed heritage: his mother is half Indian and his father grew up as an orphan in Zimbabwe.
Chris speaks English but neither of Zimbabwe's two main local languages, Shona or Ndebele.
Any relatives the family left behind have long since gone during what have been a turbulent two decades in Zimbabwe.
Amid an economic meltdown under the rule of late President Robert Mugabe and political oppression, it is estimated more than three million people fled.
Times are still difficult and last week a across-party group of 75 British MPs wrote to Home Secretary Priti Patel urging her to stop the deportation of 50 Zimbabweans because of the country's "deteriorating" political and human rights situation.
Ms Patel replied to say that she was required by law to send back foreign offenders when it was safe to do so: "My key objective is to protect the public."
In a statement to the BBC, the Home Office said about Chris's case: "We only ever return those who we and, where applicable, the courts are satisfied do not need our protection and have no legal basis to remain in the UK."
Since January 2019, the Home Office says it has removed more than 7,900 foreign national offenders.
An online petition supporting the Zimbabweans has more than 21,000 signatures.
"Many of the people [facing deportation] have fled persecution, or they came [to the UK] as small children but families couldn't afford the fees to regularise their stay," Zita Holbourne, from human rights group BARAC UK, told the BBC.
Zimbabwe's government spokesman Nick Mangwana says those returning have nothing to fear.
"As long as you are Zimbabweans you are welcome home," he told the BBC.
However, numerous legal appeals have been filed - and last Wednesday's chartered flight left for Zimbabwe with only 14 people.
Chris was not on board because of a Covid outbreak in his section of Brook House - and he is desperately still trying to fight his case, which is complicated.
'Opportunity of a lifetime'
Unhappy family dynamics appear to come into play.
The Arundells had been granted a 10-year limited leave to remain, which Chris says expired when he turned 17.
"My dad was quite controlling - he was in control of the finances. For him to continue working, he had to regularise his status," he says.
"After he and my mother were granted indefinite leave to remain he kept promising, 'I'll sort out the kids next', but he never did. He says it was about money."
Unlike all his schoolfriends, who all got national insurance (NI) numbers before their 16th birthday - Chris's did not arrive - and efforts to fix this then became impossible by 2011 when his legal status needed sorting out.
This all had a devastating impact on him - he had just been accepted into Staines Town Football Club's Academy after finishing his GCSEs, the UK's school-leaving qualifications, and had started studying sports science at Kingston College.
"Football was my dream," says Chris, a left winger who has long been an Arsenal fan.
But he spiralled into depression because without an NI number he could not get any part-time work, like his friends had.
The tipping point was when he was unable to go on a college trip to Spain to play football as he did not have to the correct papers.
"I'd been offered the opportunity of a lifetime - I went and told my Dad and he didn't do anything about it, so I left."
'My mum's traumatised'
Things took a turn for the worse when he was sentenced in 2015 for drug trafficking and assault, for which he was given a six-year sentence.
"I pleaded guilty to the drugs charge but the allegation about the assault is not true," he says.
During the four years he served he got various qualifications, including one to be a fitness instructor and various others for the building trade.
Since his release, he has started a serious relationship, joined a football club for a season - Sleaford Rangers - and taken part in community work in Lincoln.
As part of his bail conditions he had been staying with his mother, who left his father in 2016 with the help of a women's refuge.
She was then able to sort the paperwork for her other children herself - and they are now British citizens.
"My mum's been left traumatised by this as well because she blames herself," Chris says.
Conditions at the immigration detention centres are "prison-like", he says - something you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy.
"I have been in prison with better facilities, there are no windows in our rooms, the AC is not on because of Covid, it's just hot and stuffy, the only difference is they allow us to use phones."
Since the coronavirus cases were reported, the detainees have been kept in their wings and access to computers, gyms and the library has been restricted.
Yet his possible removal to Zimbabwe is what really distresses him.
All he knows about what to expect on arrival is a PCR test, 10 days in quarantine and then a lift to somewhere of his choosing.
But he hasn't got a clue where to go.
Source BBC
Zimbabwean Government Elites don’t take COVID-19 Seriously
Luke Malaba eating a Lemon SMILE
In what is a clear sign of a show of power, New Zimbabwe has shown the swearing in of the new Judge President of Zimbabwe.
Sadly in a country where the opposition can not gather for a rally, footballers can not play freely, the elites show that indeed they are a cut above the rest in terms of likely immunity and health outcomes.
This time it is the courts that would send people to jail and or prison for breaching the COVID-19 restrictions that have done just that. Who will prosecute the judges and judge them as they obviously can not judge themselves.
May God help Zimbabwe. May God help Zimbabweans.
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Is Madam Boss Harvesting Phone numbers for ZANU PF?
Is Madam Boss harvesting phone numbers?
In these days of SIM swapping, identify theft and sophisticated cyber crime, your phone number is more than a string of digits; it can reveal more personal information than you think.
On Saturday, popular comedienne Madam Boss asked her followers to write in their phone numbers in her Facebook comments section so she could send a few lucky ones data bundles or airtime.
The comments section was flooded and attracted over three thousand phone numbers in just 25 minutes. Madam Boss is an influencer and may do anything to keep engagements on her platforms high, but what she did is reckless and irresponsible to her 1 million-plus Facebook followers.
Being followed by over a million Facebook subscribers should come with a high sense of responsibility to the safety of the followers, and a desire to not straddle the ethical boundaries for more fame.
What she did is like asking her followers to one day sleep with all doors unlocked, and they oblige!
I'm not an expert in cyber security issues, but I know that jackers, identity thieves and scammers can use your phone number to find out where you are (and where you’ll be), impersonate you, hijack your phone, or use your accounts.
Hackers can also use your phone number for SIM swapping: your phone number account is installed on the hacker’s phone, who can use it to trick automated services — such as your bank — into believing the hacker is you.
In short, if you shared your phone number online, you’re open to lots of horrible stuff and may want to go back there and delete your phone number. Besides, your didn't even get the promised data bundles 🙄🤣😆.
Source
Felix Chiroro
Zimbabwean Man caught with what seems to be human remains
It is astonishing that he he clearly heard saying what seems to be, “ I don’t beat people up,” or, “I don’t do which craft on people.”
The crowd seems to want him to explain himself.
If you have more information regarding this video, please do get in touch with your local police station.
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