CAIRO — A Zimbabwean nurse travelled from Cape Town to Cairo by road enduring visa delays, internet blackouts and revolutionary protests all for the love of football.

Alvin “Aluvah” Zhakata had intended to make it to Egypt for the opening match of the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) on June 21, when Zimbabwe’s Warriors took on the hosts.

But he missed the match because his epic journey took much longer than expected.

Yet thanks to those following his adventures on Twitter, he has now become a celebrity – and the African football boss has presented him with a ticket to
today’s final between Algeria and Senegal.

When the 32-year-old arrived in the Egyptian capital last week, completing his 44-day 10 000km trip, he said it was well worth it despite some nerve-wracking
experiences.

And he says he has learnt a lot about himself and Africa.

“I used to think I was not patient, but my patience was stretched to the maximum – I’ve got a bigger patience threshold than I thought,” he told the BBC.

His other more sobering discovery was that “Africa is not friendly to Africans” – in terms of visas and borders.

Most people visiting from Europe or the United States were treated better, he said.

“And some of the visa fees for African countries, they are actually more expensive than visa fees when you want to go to Europe – and the waiting period takes
too long.

“I believe we need a borderless Africa.”

The journey began on May 27 on a route passing through South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt.

He started off with his friend Botha Msila, a South African football fan, who lives near Cape Town, and they hitched lifts or caught buses.

“We wanted to make history as the first people to make it from Cape to Cairo by road for a sports tournament,” Zhakata said.

The locum nurse, who lives in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, had kept in touch with Msila since meeting him at the Cosafa Cup final in South Africa’s Sun City two
years ago.

He had told him about how he had made a solo road trip in 2016 from Harare to Kigali to support the Warriors at the African Nations Championship in Rwanda.

They then cooked up their plan and raised funds for the journey from well-wishers following the hashtag #CapeToCairo to see their progress across the
continent.

But the two friends were separated when Msila turned back at the Kenya-Ethiopian border as he could not get a visa.

Ethiopia only allows online visa applications for travellers by road.

While they had the fee in cash, they needed help to get the funds electronically into their account. But then their application was further delayed by five
days.

“Unfortunately, their system was down because there was a national internet shutdown to avoid exam cheating,” explained Zhakata.

“I was so dejected that I couldn’t finish my food and my beer.”

Msila, known for his travels across South Africa and beyond to support the Bafana Bafana and his local club Bloemfontein Celtic, was so distraught he threw in
the towel, returning to Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.

A South African broadcaster came to his rescue paying for a flight for him from Nairobi to Cairo.

But Zhakata was determined to stick to his guns.

And that is exactly what he walked into in Sudan where the security forces were out in force as protesters took to the streets of the capital, Khartoum, on
June 30 demanding an end to military rule.

The country has been hit by turmoil since the military ousted President Omar al-Bashir in April, but Zhakata hadn’t a clue what was going on.

He walked directly into the path of the protest as he was making his way to the Egyptian consulate in Khartoum.

“I could tell that something was happening, but I couldn’t tell what,” Zhakata said.

“I saw graffiti on the walls written in Arabic, with the number 30, but I couldn’t understand it. There were soldiers everywhere and people told me it’s not
safe.”

He was detained by police briefly and then released in what he calls a “shaking moment”.

People who were following his journey on social media then became extremely concerned as there was no news from Zhakata for more than a week.

The internet had been shut down in the country since a crackdown on pro-democracy activists on 3 June.

“I did find a place where I could go online for $30 (£24) for an hour. I saw all of these messages on social media with people being worried about me.”

His wry observations about life on the continent have been a subject of debate.

He posted one video as heavy rain turned the streets of Ethiopia’s capital into rivers, saying, “You hear that? These ain’t gunshots. It’s giant hail the size of tennis balls.”

The Kenyan capital does not get a particularly good write-up: “Enter Nairobi, everything changed, traffic congestion unbearable, filthy and muddy streets,
potholes, lots of activity, vendors with megaphones, bikes hooting, and generally dodgy pip.

“Everyone who helped us asked for a tip. Even police officers.”

In central Tanzania he observed that children of school-going age were working as vendors on the highway “selling farm produce, grapes, honey and fish. It
seems education is not a priority in this part of the world”.

Besides the visa headaches, language was the most difficult barrier. In Tanzania he said most people were unwilling to communicate in English, and they were
“even told to learn Swahili at school”.

In Ethiopia when he was ordered off a bus at 4pm because of a transport curfew he tried to find a bar to watch the Warriors’ match that night, but ended up,
after many crossed wires and an expensive taxi ride, at a shop selling sports equipment.

But he was welcomed in some towns by people who were following his journey online – like Firew Asrat in Hawassa in Ethiopoia, who gave him football shirts and
shared a beer with him. He tweeted: “This #Tweethiopian is the walking embodiment of the mantra #AfricaUnite.”

He says he tasted the best beer of his trip in mainly Muslim Egypt – a Stella – perhaps out of relief that his exploits were over. The best food – of roasted
meat and maize meal – was in Zambia.

His one disappointment has been the performance of the Warriors, who crashed out in the first round – amidst rows over pay.

But he says his achievement – which has become one of the biggest stories of this Afcon tournament – shows it pays to “dare to dream”.

“If you have a passion for something, go for it. Pursue it until you get it. It may be delayed, but delay is not denial – be patient and be strong, because the
harder the battle, the sweeter the victory,” he says.

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LIVERPOOL — A few hours before his side claimed an unlikely third World Cup victory over Barbados on Tuesday, Zimbabwe head coach Lloyd Makunde snatched some time for a quick shopping trip in Liverpool city centre. With a meagre sum of £30, he headed for the nearest sports shop to see how far he could stretch his cash.

The objects of his desire were “cones, resistance bands, hurdles” and the type of training equipment that every netball club in Britain has in abundance, but which are so lacking in Zimbabwe. By any standards of elite sport it was a paltry amount, but the crucial fact is this was Makunde’s own money; the coach forced to take cash from his own pocket to try to further Zimbabwean netball’s cause. “I am buying for myself, but doing it for the country,” he tells
Telegraph Sport.

Makunde is cheery as cars whizz past us on the dual carriageway that Zimbabwe’s budget Liverpool hotel sits on. He has good reason to be content. Having
coached the national side for 22 years, he has spent the past few days watching his team take the World Cup by storm on their tournament debut.

Ranked 13th in the world, they are certain to finish no lower than eighth and could yet come fifth – a staggering achievement.

In fact, it is not just their first time at a World Cup, but the first time they have played any of the world’s best teams. Ordinarily consigned to facing only
fellow African opposition, they did once fly out to Hong Kong, where they faced lowly nations who failed to even qualify for this tournament. That is the sum
of their global netball experience.

So the fact they have beaten Sri Lanka, Northern Ireland and Barbados, as well as causing unexpected problems for reigning world champions Australia, is
something of a marvel. Even more so when you consider the hardship they have endured to even be here.

With money hard to come by and sporting funds in an overwhelmingly patriarchal society diverted towards the nation’s male footballers, the netball team were
forced to crowdfund their way to this tournament.

Even then, says Makunde, “we were with our begging bowl and nobody looked at us”. The desperate hope is that success in Liverpool will change that.

“Our game is rising bit by bit,” says Makunde. “But imagine if we had the funding that we want, the equipment, the infrastructure.

“We have only one indoor court in Zimbabwe, but it is being used by basketball and volleyball, so it’s hard for us to use. So we train outdoors. It was only
when we came here that we started practising on the type of court everyone else uses. We need training equipment. We always come up with anything to substitute
equipment, but you can’t substitute something like a resistance band. While I am here I’m going to buy myself some equipment with the little I have, so that
when I get home I can rely on that, lest anything doesn’t change.”

Just two of Zimbabwe’s World Cup squad ply their trade away from their home country – star shooter Joice Takaidza, who lives in Australia, and Adelaide Muskwe,
a student at Nottingham Trent, whose twin brother Admiral plays football for Leicester City.

The hope, says long-term captain Perpetua Siyachitema, is that some of her team might be scouted to join Severn Stars player Muskwe in the English Superleague,
or one of the other major global leagues.

That prospect has gone for Siyachitema – one of a large majority of Zimbabwe players who are also mothers – whose international career will come to an end
after this World Cup.

She can retire content having played the best teams in the world, in front of a spectacular troop of Zimbabwean fans who have lit up the M&S Bank Arena every
day.

“I was so excited when I saw we were in a group with Australia and New Zealand because it has always been my dream to play them,” she says. “We really wanted
to prove how good we are. We only play other African teams so we aren’t out there on the netball map. People don’t know us.”

For any progress to be made, that must change immediately, says Makunde. He has a simple plea to the world’s leading netball nations: “Let us play you.”

He says: “Imagine if we had come here after playing a friendly with England, Jamaica or New Zealand. Then we could sit down and learn from where we went wrong.

Think how much better we would be now. Even for tournaments in Africa, teams like South Africa, Uganda and Malawi don’t come because they are low profile
tournaments. So we are only able to play teams ranked lower than us.

“We have abundant talent in Zimbabwe. If we can get exposure and financial resource I know we can go far. If we get that, I assure you come the next World Cup
we will be a force to be reckoned with.” — Telegraph

BY MTHANDAZO NYONI

PLATINUM miner, Mimosa Mining Company, is spending US$3 million annually on infrastructural and community-based projects in the country as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR), an official has said.

The company’s general manager, Alex Mushonhiwa, told Southern Eye on the sidelines of the tour by Parliamentary Committee on Mines and Energy this week that the Zvishavane-based mining concern was committed to developing local communities.

“Basically, our corporate social responsibility is guided by our company policy, which really looks at infrastructure as a main area. It also looks at
education, health, and sustainable projects. Over the years, I don’t have the specific figures, but we have on average pumped in US$3 million. That’s the
budget we have put aside every year for projects,” Mushonhiwa said.

“And how then do we arrive at the projects? We look at the national projects by engaging the government and seeing areas of need in terms of national need.
That is in terms of education, health, water and all those infrastructural issues.”

Mushonhiwa said they had done a lot of work at Mpilo Central Hospital, Harare Central Hospital, Masvingo General Hospital, Zvishavane District Hospital and
Chitungwiza General Hospital.

In education, they took their CSR initiative to the University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe School of Mines, Great Zimbabwe University as well as Midlands State
University “to try and make sure that the quality of graduates that come out there are of the right quality, because those are the same graduates that we
absorb in our work streams”.

“At a local level, we look at projects that will uplift and sustain the community. At the moment, we are doing a lot of boreholes and community gardens that
will ensure that there is good nutrition for the communities. So, those are the sort of infrastructural and community-based projects that we do as a company,”
he said.

The company’s CSR programmes started to take a strategic perspective in the 1990s, substantially contributing to community development.

It values community engagement in its approach to CSR and holds liaison meetings on a quarterly basis in order to enable community leaders to take the lead in
defining CSR initiatives that respond to their priorities.

BY SILAS NKALA

A SOUTH AFRICA-BASED man has been taken to Beitbridge Regional Magistrates’ Courts, facing armed robbery charges involving ZAR567 000, mobile phones and a Toyota Allex vehicle.

Enock Nyamani (35) from Mberengwa, who is currently based in Polokwane, also faces an attempted murder charge after he shot his victim eight times.

Nyamani pleaded not guilty to armed robbery when he appeared before Beitbridge Regional magistrate Crispen Mberewere on Tuesday and was remanded in custody to
July 23 for trial.

Prosecutor Munyonga Kuvarega told the court that on June 9, the complainant, Muchineripi Hlaringo (40), a self-employed Beitbridge resident, retired to bed at around midnight, having secured his residence.

It is the State’s case that at around 2am, Nyamani, acting in connivance with his accomplices, who are still at large, went to Hlaringo’s house, with one of
them armed with a pistol.

They allegedly cut the electric fence erected on top of the security wall in order to gain access into the yard.

Kuvarega said the gang forced open the screen door to the house before breaking into Hlaringo’s bedroom, awakening him and his wife Loveness Mhike. They shot
Hlaringo twice on the right thigh, once on the left calf, once on the right arm, thrice on the left arm and once on the lower abdomen.

Hlaringo fell to the ground and Nyamani and his accomplices demanded money from him, at the same time threatening to kill him. Hlaringo told them the money was
in a satchel under the bed.

Nyamani and his alleged accomplices took the satchel containing the ZAR567 000. They allegedly ransacked the room, searching for more money, taking two mobile
phones before tying Mhike’s hands with a string and getting away in Hlaringo’s Toyota Allex .

A report made to the police leading to Nyamani’s arrest.

BY RICHARD MUPONDE

GWANDA’S chronic water problems, which were largely attributed to obsolete infrastructure, are now a thing of the past after the rehabilitation of the water works.

However, residents bemoaned the ongoing water rationing exercise, which the mayor said was induced by power outages affecting pumping.

The town has perennially experienced critical water shortages, which have seen residents go for weeks without the precious liquid.

But over the past year, the municipality has been seized with addressing the water shortages problem as part of its drive that Gwanda attains city status by
next year.

This has seen the town fathers embarking on projects to revamp the water piping system and valves to ease the water problems.

They also built a multi-million mega 5-litre reservoir, which has been completed and is awaiting a test run.

Gwanda mayor Jastone Mazhale yesterday acknowledged the water shortages.

“It’s not bad. Every suburb gets some water every day, though rationed. This is solely because of power outages. The moment power is restored, water will be
supplied normally. It’s the problem of electricity which is affecting pumping, hence rationing. But it’s not as dire as other cities and towns,” Mazhale said.

The almost 15 hours of daily load shedding has reduced council’s water pumping time from the usual 36 hours, resulting in erratic water supplies.

Efforts to get a comment from ZETDC Gwanda manager, Todd Ntombi, hit a brick wall, with the official said to be out of his office. His mobile phone was also
unreachable.

The erratic power supplies have also not spared critical institutions and service providers such as clinics, hospitals and schools.

BY Nkululeko Sibanda

Government officials and politicians have allegedly grabbed gold milling centres set up by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and have turned them into private operations, it has emerged.

Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president, Henrietta Rushwaya told delegates at the third Women in Mining (WIM) 2019 conference held at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) grounds in Bulawayo on Wednesday that officials had hijacked the facilities.

“Women are known to behave better compared to their male counterparts,” Rushwaya said.

“But we have some amongst our women folk, especially those in positions of authority in government, who have let their fellow women folk down. We have some who
have grabbed milling centres that the RBZ set up to improve gold deliveries to Fidelity Printers and Refineries and turned them into personal property. That is
not the way we, as women, should behave, especially when we are complaining about the manner our male folk have been treating us.”

“We also have some who are also letting us down by failing to pay back loans that were given to them by banks, especially the People’s Own Savings Bank.

“I am saying this practice should come to an end because such behaviour puts other women in bad spaces. How are other women going to access these loans if we
fail to pay back what we have borrowed?” she asked.

Rushwaya challenged government to act on complaints from women miners in Shurugwi where Zanu PF youths are allegedly grabbing mines from women.

“Honourable minister, I appeal to your office to get our word out there to the leadership that we are worried about the surfacing of people all over the shore
holding mining offer letters of mines that are in the (hands) of women.”

“What is worrisome is that some of these places had been shunned and were only revived by women and these women have made these places viable to such an extent
that they are now able to feed their families from the resources they derive from their activities,” Rushwaya said.

Permanent secretary in the ministry of mines and mining development Onesimo Moyo, who was present at the meeting pledged to resolve the disputes.

“I would like to advise the questioner that we shall be in the Shurugwi area on the 24th of this month so that we can deal with issues that have been raised.
We are aware of the issues and challenges thereof.”

“Myself, the minister and deputy minister of Mines, will host a meeting with all those affected where we shall seek to put an end to any challenges as alluded to by the questioner. We hope that we will have a fruitful meeting,” Moyo said.

BY OBEY MANAYITI/ PHYLLIS MBANJE

MDC secretary-general Charlton Hwende has written to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), raising concern over the politicisation of State institutions after Zanu PF instructed NatPham to disburse medicine in Lupane East constituency ahead of the upcoming by-election.

Early this month, Zanu PF commissar Victor Matemadanda wrote to Health minister Obediah Moyo asking for medicines to beef up their campaign in Lupane East. In turn, Moyo instructed his permanent secretary to act on the request with NatPham.

The move has drawn widespread condemnation among various stakeholders, who felt the abuse of State institutions must not have a place in modern times.

Yesterday, the MDC raised the matter with Zec, saying the move also borders on criminal abuse of office.

“This amounts to breach of principle 6 (1) of the electoral code of conduct, which proscribes procurement of support or assistance of any official or public
servant to act in a partisan manner or further the interests of any political party or cause,” Hwende wrote.

“This is a clear act of collusion and coordination between Zanu PF and the minister. At the minimum, it is collusion at the level of the minister and at
worst, it involves the highest offices in the State.

“We hope you take this matter with the seriousness it deserves, considering the level of confidence in Zimbabwean elections by citizens. Your handling of this
matter will determine whether that confidence is restored or not,” added the letter.

Hwende said the issue of abuse of State resources in favour of Zanu PF has also been widely raised by international observers, including during the last
harmonised elections.

The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has also castigated Zanu PF for the partisan distribution of medicines to drum up support in the
by-election.

The doctors said the party’s conduct must be investigated.

ZADHR said the conduct was inconsistent with the right to health for all.

“Partisan distribution of medical goods and services is an affront to health for all, and the right of everyone to the highest attainable standard of physical
and mental health,” ZADHR said.

“The move reveals deep-seated structural barriers to health for all in Zimbabwe. Apart from just exposing the Health ministry from dabbling in political party
electoral agendas, it raises questions on the criterion used by the ministry in the distribution of drugs and medical sundries. As ZADHR, we believe the
distribution of drugs and services must be based on population, disease-burden and current stocking levels, and not on parochial partisan political agenda.”

ZADHR said Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) must investigate the conduct by Zanu PF and the Health ministry

“ZADHR calls upon all stakeholders, including the Zacc, to investigate the minister on criminal abuse of office and bring him to account on the move,” added
the statement.

They also reminded the government that health centres must be properly equipped at all times through increased funding into the sector, and that health
services and goods must not be distributed on partisan political lines as it was discriminatory, adding the practice lacked the basic tenants of drug and
medical consumables distribution criterion.

Meanwhile, the Health ministry has denied politicising healthcare services.

“I would like to assure the general public, our donors and technical partners that our [Ministry of Health and Child Care] MoHCC teams are there to provide
equitable and quality healthcare services, including medicines to all citizens regardless of any activities taking place in the communities served. No one is
favoured,” Health secretary, Agnes Mahomva, said in a statement.

MoHCC said the action that was taken through the Provincial Medical Director and District Medical Officer‘s offices, on the instruction provided, was to
establish through reports if the normal and usual drug supply chain management was working well for all clinics in the said district, including the mentioned
clinics.

Mahomva said the teams established that a NatPham team was already on the ground, doing its normal and routine quarterly medicines supply-runs to the clinics
in the district through the MoHCC recommended Zimbabwe Assisted Pull System (ZAPS).

“No additional or extraordinary action was, therefore, needed or taken. Let me, therefore, once again reassure you the public, our donors and technical
partners that the MoHCC teams are there to simply do their work in a professional and efficient way. guided by good governance principles and nothing else.
This is done for the good of all Zimbabweans, regardless of gender creed or affiliation,” Mahomva said.

BY Everson Mushava

Tourism minister Priscah Mupfumira has urged Zimbabweans living in the diaspora to invest back home or risk losing out to foreign companies “stampeding” to set up investments in the country.

Mupfumira said this on Wednesday while addressing Zimbabweans based in Birmingham on the ninth day of her roadshow in the United Kingdom.

The Birmingham event coincided with the official launch of Zimthrive 2020, an ambitious project led by a Zimbabwean national Mike Tashaya, aimed at giving
those in the diaspora an opportunity to engage the government and find ways of contributing to national development.

“We are all Zimbabweans and don’t miss the opportunity to come and invest back home. A person should be measured with what she or he does for her or his own
country,” Mupfumira said.

“We don’t want you to repeat what happened during the land reform programme when most people started realising they needed land when it was already taken up by
others. Right now, while we are here, Russians, Chinese, Europeans and others are flocking to Zimbabwe to invest in energy, tourism, agriculture and other
areas.”

Mupfumira added: “Don’t be left out. The moment you realise you want to invest, all opportunities will be gone. A lot of foreign investors are coming to the
country in response to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zimbabwe is open for business mantra.”

The Tourism minister, who was basking in glory after her ministry landed the 2019 Sustainable Green Award gong for Parks and Wildlife Management’s role in
wildlife conservation in Berlin, Germany three days ago, said the Mnangagwa administration was spearheading reforms to ensure ease of doing business in the
country.

Mupfumira said it was only Zimbabweans working with government who could turn around the economic challenges facing the country. She welcomed government’s
decision compelling hotels in Victoria Falls to pay for electricity in US dollars to reduce load shedding.

Zimbabwe Tourism Authority acting chief executive officer Rita Likukuma said the organisation would work tirelessly to make sure that tourism continued to grow
and increase its contribution to the gross domestic product.

The roadshow will be in London today.

BY RICHARD MUPONDE

THREE Chipinge men landed themselves in trouble after being found in possession of suspected Cyclone Idai loot worth over ZW$1 000, which they claimed was given to them by soldiers for safe keeping.

The trio, Joseph Mtetwa, a mechanic, Macdonald Jamburu, a taxi driver and Panganai Simango, who is not employed, appeared before Chipinge magistrate Joshua Nembaware yesterday.

They pleaded not guilty to possession of property reasonably suspected to be stolen as defined by section 125(1)(a) of the Criminal Codification and Reform
Act.

The prosecution, however, saved them after it implored the court to acquit and discharge them, submitting that the trio were, in fact, witnesses in the matter
as the culprits, Anymore Matata, Talkmore Collins Mavudzi and Admire Munonyara, who are soldiers had been arrested and put on remand.

In their defence, the trio had submitted, through their lawyer, Mhungu and Associates, that they did not steal the property, but acted in good faith after
being given for safe-keeping by the soldiers.

“The accused persons believe that they are witnesses against the soldiers for their conduct. They have been forthright to the police, leading to the arrest of
the soldiers and their explanation is consistent even to the present day in court. Simply, their explanation is that the property was delivered to them by the
soldiers, thus is satisfactory and truthful explanation. Consequently, they each pray that they be found not guilty and acquitted,” their lawyer submitted.

Charges are that on April 1, they were intercepted by the police at Joppa turn-off in Chipinge carrying groceries, clothes, fuel and linen believed to have
been stolen Cyclone Idai relief.

They were coming from collecting the goods from Mtetwa’s residence at Silver Streams Wattle Company Estate.

Upon their arrest, they implicated the soldiers and the property recovered was worth ZW$1 740.

BY NQOBANI NDLOVU

INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday said government is ploughing through with media and other legal reforms, with a view to move away from toxic politics and democratise Zimbabwe.

Mutsvangwa made the remarks yesterday at the two-day National University of Science and Technology (Nust) media summit.

The Nust Department of Journalism and Media Studies is co-hosting the media summit with the Zimbabwe Centre for Media and Information Literacy (ZCMIL) under
the theme New Media and Democracy: Beyond Fake News, Disinformation and Misinformation.

The conference is jointly sponsored by the United States embassy and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Zimbabwe.

Mutsvangwa said efforts to replace the widely-condemned harsh Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) under media reforms were a
confirmation of the government’s commitment to democratise Zimbabwe.

“The topic (Media Reform Bill) strives to paint AIPPA and related POSA Bills as a hatchet job of the new dispensation. As the minister on the steering wheel, I
hasten to dismiss that accusation. By principle, your President, the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, means exactly what he says. The
new media reform Bill is meant to overhaul the reactionary legislation of the former regime . . .” Mutsvangwa said.

Mutsvangwa’s ministry is spearheading efforts to replace AIPPA with the Freedom of Information Act, the Protection of Personal Information Act, and the
Zimbabwe Media Commission Act.

AIPPA has always been criticised as contradictory to the principles of access to information, privacy, and media freedoms as guaranteed in the constitution.

“What the new dispensation wants is a free and vibrant Press to underpin and propel the vision of a new and prosperous Zimbabwe. The second republic that began
in November 2017, under the visionary leadership of President Mnangagwa, committed itself to broaden and deepen democracy in the country. To that end,
government committed itself to improve governance. The media is one such governance sector,” she said.

“Government has embarked on a wide range of legal reforms to align the existing laws to the Constitution and introduce laws that will make Zimbabwe a better
country for its citizens.”