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Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmaker Allan Norman “Rusty” Markham (Harare East) has resigned from Parliament.
In a letter dated 02 February 2024, and addressed to the Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda, Markham said his resignation was with immediate effect. He wrote:
<blockquote>
I am currently the sitting Member of Parliament for Harare East constituency, having been elected on the 23rd of August 2023, standing under the Citizens Coalition for Change Party led by President Nelson Chamisa.
I write to tender my resignation from Parliament with immediate effect, as required under by section 129(1)(b) of the constitution of Zimbabwe.
</blockquote>
Markham becomes the second CCC MP after Fadzayi Mahere (Mt Pleasant), to resign from the 10th Parliament following founding president Nelson Chamisa’s decision to walk away from CCC late last month.
In the 2023 general elections, Markham garnered 15 642 votes, more than double those won by ZANU PF candidate Mavis Gumbo who received 7 621 votes.
The other candidates were Malvin Razaru, a CCC double candidate who won 1 027 votes, MDC-T’s Stewart Musarurwa Mutizwa (108 votes), and Garikai Mlambo (UZA), who garnered 84 votes.
Markham has since advised Harare East residents that he has also resigned from CCC, saying the party has been infiltrated and no longer represents what he stands for.
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Harare East MP, Allan Norman Markham, Resigns From Parliament

Allan “Rusty” Markham has left the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party in solidarity with former party leader Nelson Chamisa who resigned recently.
In a message to Harare East residents, Markham, who was elected MP for the constituency in the 23 August 2023 elections, said CCC has been infiltrated and no longer represents what he stands for. Below is Markham’s letter:
<blockquote>
Dear Residents and Stakeholders of Harare East. For a long time now, I have been grappling with the issues pertaining to the shutdown of the democratic space in Zimbabwe.
This has led to a lot of soul-searching pertaining to the future. Recent events within the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party have pushed me to make the firm decision that I no longer represent the CCC in any form whatsoever.
I believe that the party has been infiltrated to the extent that it does not represent what I stand for.
The choreographed support by the Judiciary and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to the self-appointed and unknown Interim Secretary-General is a testament to how desperate the regime wants to shut down the democratic space.
I, therefore, reiterate that I cannot be and will not be associating with anything to do with the CCC from here on.
Further to the above, the democratic space in parliament has been shut down completely. Parliament has been rendered into a “tick the box” institution and has no oversight at all over the Executive (Ministries).
Stakeholders’ engagement on the budget was also a rubber stamp exercise. After consultation with residents and hearing both sides of the argument (to remain or to leave parliament ), I have opted to leave Parliament as my conscience will not allow me to remain as a Member of Parliament.
As a result, my resignation letter was handed in before noon on Friday the 2nd of February. I would like to thank everyone who has supported me, and who has believed in me.
I assure you that I will continue working with the residents and stakeholders as I have in the past for the betterment of our communities and the country. For the sake of clarity and the avoidance of doubt, I stand firmly with Advocate Nelson Chamisa.
</blockquote>
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Allan Markham Quits CCC; "Rusty" Was Elected MP For Harare East In 2023

CCC leader Nelson Chamisa has said those on the party’s nomination list who won’t make it in the final list of 2023 parliamentary and local government candidates will be redeployed in the CCC “Government.”
Addressing a press conference in Harare on Sunday afternoon, Chamisa was asked specifically about what will happen to either <a href="https://pindula.co.zw/Tendai_Biti">Tendai Biti</a> or <a href="https://pindula.co.zw/Allan_Markham">Allan “Rusty” Markham</a>, the Harare East and Harare North MPs, respectively, who were nominated for Harare East, since both cannot be CCC candidates for the constituency. In response, Chamisa said:
<blockquote>
Well, they will be redeployed elsewhere. You know, the citizens’ movement is a big movement. Roles and tasks are given by the citizens.
The one who has been nominated will be the candidate and the one who is not nominated will also be deployed. They will be given other responsibilities.
</blockquote>
Asked if the losing candidates will be coming back to Parliament as Senators or through Proportional Representation, Chamisa said:
<blockquote>
They will come into Government. We are no longer talking about Parliament now. Our eyes are on Government. They will be in Government serving the people of Zimbabwe.
</blockquote>
Following the recent 2023 delimitation exercise by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) which came up with new electoral boundaries for wards and constituencies, Ward 18 which was part of the pre-delimitation Harare North was moved to Harare East constituency.
ZEC dissolved the Harare North constituency and Markham contested in Harare East for a ticket to represent CCC in the 23 August elections.
Unconfirmed reports suggest that Markham will be the CCC candidate for Harare East, which means Biti will either contest as an independent candidate or revive his PDP party to have any chance of retaining his seat.
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Chamisa Pledges To Redeploy Losing Candidate Nominees In CCC Government

Self-exiled former ZANU PF Politburo member Jonathan Moyo has claimed that CCC’s candidate selection list in Harare East was rigged against incumbent legislator <a href="https://pindula.co.zw/Tendai_Biti">Tendai Biti</a>.
Unconfirmed reports suggest that Harare North MP, <a href="https://pindula.co.zw/Allan_Markham">Allan “Rusty” Markham</a>, whose constituency was disbanded by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) during the delimitation exercise, won the ticket to represent CCC in Harare East.
Commenting on an image of Markham standing in front of his supporters who were queueing behind him during the CCC candidate selection process, Moyo said, “QUEUING BEHIND THE BOSS: This is a bad optic from CCC’s ‘candidate selection process’ in Harare yesterday!”
Responding to Moyo’s post, CCC official David Coltart accused the former of racism. He wrote: “This – Jonathan – is pathetic and beneath you. Why are you so brazenly racist?”
Moyo felt Coltart had insulted him, and went on to raise the rigging allegations in Harare East. <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfJNMoyo/status/1670681093392019456?s=20">Said Moyo</a>:
<blockquote>
CCC’S CANDIDATE SELECTION IN HARARE EAST RIGGED IN ADVANCE 
I have noted your insult [David Coltart]. You are either paranoid by default or you think you guys are by definition untouchables by virtue of the colour of your skin, hence you reflexively pull the race card whenever blacks challenge your politics. 
Learn to look before you leap. Otherwise, if you cannot stand the heat, just get out of the kitchen. 
Your friend Hon Allan ‘Rusty’ Markham – a 1982 graduate of Gwebi Agricultural College, an enterprising peri-urban farmer and a former Harare councillor who used his City Hall stint between 2013 and 2018 to empower himself – has vested agribusiness, advisory services and land development commercial interests in Harare’s peri-urban areas, including in Harare East and Harare North, where, as a matter of fact, he is indeed a BOSS to many hand-to-mouth labourers whom he employs and underpays. 
It would be a daunting task and a tall order to separate Hon Markham’s commercial interests from his politics in Harare. 
Previously, voters in Harare East’s Ward 9 overwhelmingly supported Hon [Tendai Biti], the current Member of Parliament for the area. 
But following the recent 2023 delimitation exercise which came up with new electoral boundaries for wards and constituencies, Harare East constituency now consists of Ward 9 which was part of the pre-delimitation Harare East, and Ward 18 which was part of the pre-delimitation Harare North, whose current Member of Parliament is Hon Markham. 
So, the new electoral boundaries for Harare East constituency are made of Harare’s wards 9 and 18. Now, the nub of the issue is this. 
In his underhanded campaign to be selected as CCC’s candidate for Harare East with its new electoral boundaries, Hon Markham used dirty tactics, name-dropping and influence peddling, including threatening to dismiss the desperate labourers he employs in Ward 9 if they did not ditch Hon Biti and vote for him. 
Against this backdrop, it was diabolic for Hon Markham to conspire with the powers that be in CCC to conduct a selection process under which selectors or voters – many of them Hon Markham’s labourers – were required to queue behind the same Hon Markham, their BOSS as their ‘preferred’ parliamentary candidate for Harare East. 
It’s a fact that Hon Markham employs cheap labour in Harare East, and elsewhere around Harare. 
And it’s a fact that the labourers he employs in Harare East were coerced to vote for him by queuing behind him, their BOSS, and the explanation for this does not require the interpretive skills of a rocket scientist.
 Only a scoundrel would take this no-brainer explanation as racism against Hon Markham, the scheming politician. 
A candidate selection process for a general election must not only be fair but it must also be seen to be fair. 
It is outrageous that CCC – which has claimed that its candidate selection process is “most innovative and most democratic” – was conducted on the basis of the discredited “queue behind your candidate” voting system or “Bereka Mwana”, as it was called when it was controversially used by ZanuPF before it was discarded ages ago. 
There’s absolutely nothing innovative or democratic about voting by queuing behind a candidate. 
Quite the contrary, that voting method is primitive and crude, that’s why it has been replaced by the secret vote or secret ballot in all modern and innovative democratic voting processes. 
What made the bad “vote by queuing behind your candidate” in CCC’s selection process in Harare East worse, is that Hon Markham was shamelessly and unfairly given the advantage of having his labourers queue behind him, their BOSS, thereby turning the whole process into a self-evident charade and a monumental circus to achieve what was manifestly a predetermined outcome with the following numbers that lacked credibility: 
Hon Rusty Markham 
Ward 9: 228 
Ward 18: 164 
Total: 392
Hon Tendai Biti 
Ward 9: 254 
Ward 18: 84 
Total: 338
Like elsewhere around the country, CCC’s much-touted candidate selection process did not advertise itself well in Harare East, where the selection outcome was clearly rigged in advance. 
In the circumstances, the widely circulated picture of Hon Markham’s labourers cum voters standing behind him, as their BOSS, in CCC’s “vote by queuing behind your candidate” selection process in Harare East cut a terrible optic, and there are no two ways about that Hon, say what you want to say, but the image speaks for itself and what it says to any thinking and rational person is awful and disgraceful!
</blockquote>
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CCC's Candidate Selection In Harare East Was Rigged, Says Jonathan Moyo

Harare East legislator <a href="https://pindula.co.zw/Tendai_Biti">Tendai Biti</a>, who is also CCC co-vice president has reportedly lost the internal contest to represent the opposition party in the 23 August elections.
CCC recently finalised its internal election process to select its parliamentary candidate in Harare, with Biti locking horns with Harare North MP <a href="https://pindula.co.zw/Allan_Markham">Allan Markham</a>.
Markham reportedly won the race to represent CCC in Harare East Constituency in national elections due 23 August this year.
It will be the first time in 23 years that the former Minister of Finance will not be part of the country’s legislative house.
Posting on Twitter, journalist Hopewell Chin’ono said Biti’s defeat is a victory for corruption in the country. <a href="https://twitter.com/daddyhope/status/1670382206743633923?s=20">He said</a>:
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The BIGGEST issue that has destroyed Zimbabwe is nothing else but CORRUPTION!
The Zimbabwean opposition has removed from parliament the most effective corruption fighter in parliament in Zimbabwe’s post-colonial history, Tendai Biti.
That is what Joseph de Maistre meant when he said “….every nation gets the government it deserves.”
The looters must be popping champagne in their mansions because CCC managed to do what even Kuda Tagwireyi tried and failed!
The best Finance Minister we have had in 3 decades is gone through a decision made by lining people up behind a candidate.
What a muppet show!
</blockquote>
However, a video of the CCC Harare East’s candidate selection process announced by a party official shows that Biti won over Markham.
The official emphasized that those who garnered more votes were not necessarily the winners as there are criteria that will be used to determine the CCC candidates for the elections.
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Tendai Biti Loses To Markham In Race To Represent CCC In Harare East | Report

CCC co-vice president <a href="https://pindula.co.zw/Tendai_Biti">Tendai Biti</a> has described those who support his competitor <a href="https://pindula.co.zw/Allan_Markham">Allan “Rusty” Markham</a> as snakes who are siding with “vasina mabvi” literally “those without knees”, a derogatory term for white people.
Both Biti and Markham are eyeing the Harare East Parliamentary seat after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) dissolved the latter’s Harare North constituency in its 2023 Delimitation Report.
Addressing his supporters in Harare East, Biti said he has no plans to become a Senator and declared his intentions to run for Parliament. He was quoted by <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/opposition-mp-biti-on-the-offensive-uses-derogatory-vasina-mabvi-term-in-reference-to-white-competitor-rusty-markham/">NewZimbabwe.com</a> as saying:
<blockquote>
I am a legislator and Zanu PF knows what I do in Parliament is unmatched. We are selecting Biti as MP. When I came the other time, I was not mentioning names but today I will.
We do not want snakes in Harare. There are some going around with “vasina mabvi” (white people) but we do not want snakes, we do not want black mambas.
We are going to crush the heads of these snakes. Chamisa for President, Biti for MP.
Send this message across the constituency, to ZIMPHOS, Mukandabhutsu, Kamfinsa, and Greendale.
Do not mention anyone by name, just identify them as snakes.
</blockquote>
Biti, Markham and Murisi Zwizwai are some of the veteran opposition legislators who may fail to return to Parliament on 23 August.
CCC’s Consensus Candidate Selection Programme is currently finalising the party’s list of candidates for the 2023 harmonised elections.
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Tendai Biti In Racial Slur, Brands Supporters Of His White Rival Snakes

Opposition MP Allan “Rusty” Markham, who took the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to court demanding that it releases the electronic Voters’ Roll but lost, has said he disagrees with the ruling by the High Court.
Justice Never Katiyo sitting at the Harare High Court ruled that the application by Markham was premature.
In a statement issued on Thursday, 09 March 2023, Markham said he has instructed his lawyers to file an appeal. Pindula News is publishing Markham’s statement below:
<blockquote>
On the 7th of March 2023, the High Court heard and decided my application for the provision, forthwith, of a consolidated national voters roll in electronic form by the ZEC.
The court dismissed the application. The operative part of the court’s judgment delivered ex-tempore read that:
“This case lacks merit, is prematurely before the courts and that (sic) ZEC should make sure that it protects voters roll into consideration the Cyber and Data Protection Act”.
The background of the application is as follows: –
After analyzing the voters’ roll as at 1st February 2022, I noted a number of material breaches of the Electoral Act, and a direct failure by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to fulfill its obligations regarding the voters’ roll.
I therefore, on 27th July 2022, through my legal practitioners, wrote a detailed letter to Zimbabwe Electoral Commission outlining these breaches and demanding they rectify them.
The ZEC responded on 19th August 2022. It advised that it was in the process of producing an updated voters roll which would take into account some of the queries I had raised and implored that I wait for the new roll to establish whether there was still a need to pursue the queries.
On 9th October 2022, I made a follow-up, and on 20th of October, was advised that the roll was ready.
However, ZEC advised that it could, within thirty (30) days of the payment of the US$187,000.00 fee, only provide me with a hard copy of the consolidated national voters roll.
It could not provide me with an electronic roll as “it was currently working on enhancing the security of the electronic voters roll“. It undertook to avail the electronic roll on a platform at a date to be advised.
I disagreed with the ZEC’s proposal to delay the provision of the voters’ roll in electronic form to me for an open-ended period.
This is because the Electoral Act gives citizens a choice to get the voters’ roll either in hard copy or electronic form and the ZEC is obliged to provide it in the form requested.
The electronic voters’ roll of my choice should have been provided in a searchable and analysable form within a reasonable time.
My choice to get the voters roll in an electronic form was instructed by among other things the fact that the electronic roll is easy to analyze and review compared to the bulky hard copy (more than 187 000 pages) and that it costs an affordable US$200 as opposed to the expensive and prohibitive US$187,000.00.
A lot of money is spent on the preparation of the voters’ roll. Citizens must have an opportunity to satisfy themselves that it has integrity.
With a total of over 185 000 pages containing more than 35 million words, no person can carry out an integrity analysis of a physical copy even if they dedicate a decade of their lives to it. Let alone compare it with earlier versions.
The provision of an electronic copy is not only financially cheaper, but it is the best chance at an effective search and analysis of this important document.
At the time of my request, apart from the need to follow up on the original queries, there was an urgent need on my part to review and analyze the voters’ roll for the purpose of contributing to the public consultations regarding delimitation which was ongoing.
The failure by ZEC to indicate a time within which the electronic roll was to be provided was unreasonable and tantamount to a refusal.
I therefore, on the 2nd of November 2022, gave ZEC an ultimatum that they either provide me with an electronic voters roll within seven (7) days, or I will approach the court.
They did not respond to my letter. I accordingly instituted the application on 23rd November 2022.
At the time of the hearing, a period of 145 days had lapsed since my request and Zimbabwe Electoral Commission had not indicated when they will be able to provide the roll.
The ZEC has no right to do anything or make any discretionary decisions that will lead to my right to get an electronic roll negated.
If the ZEC decides to format the roll for protection against alteration and tampering, it must know what this process entails and communicate to me how long it will take, and when thereafter it will be able to provide the electronic roll to me.
The ZEC cannot adopt a course where it says, we intend to format the roll but have no idea how to achieve it and how long it will take us to do so, so go home, wait until we figure out how this is going to happen.
If this is a good excuse now, it can be a good excuse, with disastrous consequences, on the eve of an election.
As the voters’ roll can legally be supplied without being formatted, the decision by the ZEC to try and format it, cannot justify their refusal to provide the roll.
The process of securing the electronic roll against alteration and tampering must neither delay nor negate my right to receive the roll in an electronic form.
The alleged fear of alteration or tampering of an electronic roll given to me, is to me irrational, considering ZEC retain the original “master” copy of the roll on their system and in physical form.
I disagree with the court’s reasoning that we approached it prematurely. Once the ZEC refused to provide the electronic roll and or indicate when it was going to do so, we were entitled to seek redress from the courts.
I disagree with the court that a period of 145 days which has lapsed since my request, is a reasonable time to keep a citizen waiting for a roll that is already available.
The very failure by the ZEC on the date of the request to indicate when it was to provide the voters roll in electronic form was unreasonable and amounted to a refusal to give me the roll which should have moved the court to order its provision.
I disagree with the court that the tweets by ‘Team Pachedu’, which were made well after our request for the voters’ roll and its rejection by the ZEC, are proof that the electronic voters’ roll was tampered with, nor that they justify the ZEC’s refusal to release the electronic roll to me.
These tweets were irrelevant and should not have been considered as they came after my demand, some even came after I had already filed the application.
If a genuine case of alteration and tampering had occurred the ZEC would have shown proof of their police report and the alleged perpetrators would have been facing prosecution.
I have instructed my lawyers to file an appeal and hope to get the necessary redress from the superior court.
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Allan Markham (MP) Set To Appeal High Court Ruling On Electronic Voters' Roll

The High Court has turned down an application by Citizens Coalition for Change MP, Allan Markham, to compel the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to give him a copy of the electronic voters’ roll that he requested last year, reported <a href="https://www.zimlive.com/court-rejects-mps-challenge-for-release-of-electronic-voters-roll/">ZimLive</a>.
Makharm said that he wanted the voters’ roll to track trends in the delimitation report and also, as a sitting legislator, his interest in the document was pertinent.
He also said an electronic copy was ideal as a printed one would be inconvenient and too expensive for him.
In response, ZEC said the release of the electronic voters’ roll would expose the document to manipulation.
In his ruling, Justice Never Katiyo sitting at the Harare High Court said the application was premature.
The judge urged Makharm to pursue other remedies than suing the commission. He said:
<blockquote>
Applicant said he wanted an electronic voters roll; further applicant qualifies as a person to get that voters roll. He argues hard copy is tantamount to giving him a mountain.
Courts are there to protect citizens as mandated, judicial officers that they discharge the duty without fear or favour.
The law gives ZEC control over the voters’ roll. This was done with a purpose in mind that in this time, with social media, can brew disaster hence mandating ZEC to ensure the security of the electronic voters roll is secure.
It is wise that it (the voters’ roll) is guarded jealously so that it’s given to individuals when it’s right.
The 58 days which have lapsed since this application was launched cannot be said to be too long and taking into consideration that this case came to court prematurely.
It is his (Makharm’s) right to request but in the same vein, ZEC is obliged to speedily come out with a voters roll with all security features.
</blockquote>
Justice Katiyo said full reasons will be provided in due course.
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High Court Rejects MP’s Challenge For ZEC To Release Electronic Voters' Roll

<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Tendai_Biti">Tendai Biti,</a> a Member of Parliament for Harare East, has condemned the Insurance Bill, saying it does not protect insurers against insurance companies.
Biti said insurers suffered huge losses in 2008 when the Zimbabwe dollar collapsed and in 2019 when their insurance assets were unilaterally converted from the multicurrency regime to the Zimbabwean dollar.  
While speaking in Parliament, Biti condemned the Insurance Bill saying it did not address the losses incurred by insurers. <a href="https://openparly.com/insurance-bill-the-poor-zimbabwean-ndiye-ari-kumorwa-naana-old-mutual-naana-first-mutual-life/">Open Parly</a> cites him as saying:
<blockquote>
I wish that these three Bills, one of them is an Act, the Insurance Bill that we are discussing today, the Pension and Provident Fund now an Act and the IPEC Bill that we just parked in Committee Stage. I wish that we have had an opportunity of synchronised debate by the National Assembly because there is interconnectivity between the three Bills.
We have a crisis of the loss of values. We have the crisis of an insurance industry that is undisciplined that is extractive, that is greedy. We know this as a statement of fact Madam Speaker, because of the findings of the Justice Smith Commission of Inquiry Report that was published in March 2017. That Commission of inquiry report is an indictment against the insurance industry. It accused and found against the insurance industry, particularly two houses, the <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Old_Mutual_Zimbabwe">Old Mutual</a> and the <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/First_Mutual_Holdings_Limited">First Mutual</a>, rampant excessive aggrandisement, consumerism and conspicuous consumption. They live in Borrowdale in houses where engineering has said you cannot build a house but they will excavate. They drive Lamborghinis and other fancy cars parked at Sam Levy’s Village at the expense of insured individuals.
Thousands and thousands of insured workers have been pauperised by the insatiable greed of insurance actors in the insurance sector. The question that then arises Madam Speaker, is that, does this Bill that we are considering address and deal with the mischief that is there in Zimbabwe? Does an insured person who lost his value or her value as a result of the shenanigans, the omissions and the commissions of these players have her question answered?
I submit Madam Speaker that her question is not answered. The mischief of the collapse of the insurance industry has not been answered in this particular sector. <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Dexter_Nduna">Hon. Nduna</a> is here. He will tell you that there are over two million vehicles in Zimbabwe and of those, each one of them is obliged by operational flaw to pay compulsory third-party insurance. Millions and millions of dollars of third-party insurance are collected but the economy has nothing to show for it except expensive houses in Borrowdale, in Ward 18, represented by <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Allan_Markham">Hon. Rusty Markham</a>. It is not good enough. So we need radical comprehensive transformative reform of our insurance sector. 
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<h2>He proposed the following: </h2>
<blockquote>
i). The creation of structures of good governance inside the insurance sector. It should not be easy to own an insurance house.
ii). The strong role of the regulator considering that the Justice Smith Commission of Enquiry Report found that 19% of the loss was due to a weak regulatory framework. He said the insurance sector must give regular reports to the regulator. 
iii). The conduct of insurance. Insurance companies have been allowed to create wealth which should not have passed to the owners of policies. They have been allowed to form and hedge against inflation through the formation of property companies. He said all assets made and created by pension insurance contributions must fall into the pot and the insured person must benefit. This must have a retrospective application. 
iv). Insurance companies’ expenses must meet a certain minimum threshold, say not more than 3% to avoid a situation where they use the money for personal enrichment. 
v). Biti also said the Act gives too much excessive power to the Minister instead of giving it to the regulator, IPEC. 
vi). He also said the Act in Sections 80, 81 and 82, speaks about married persons but the Act does not define what a marriage is. He said the silence creates a problem for wives/women or partners in unregistered customary law unions since the normal definition of a marriage is a general law marriage which is now section 5.1 of the Marriages Act.
vii). He also said the insurance policy must be honoured in the currency that it was being paid considering that Zimbabwe has a currency that is very volatile. 
viii). He proposed that there should be a personal liability on bankers because they are handling millions of people’s money.  
ix). <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Insurance_and_Pensions_Commission">Insurance Pensions Commission (IPEC)</a> must be empowered to make Insurance Companies disclose investments that they have made to avoid a situation where they invest in risky businesses. 
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Tendai Biti Has Condemned The Insurance Bill

Harare North lawmaker <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Allan_Markham">Allan Norman Markham</a> has demanded that the ministers of agriculture and finance give reasons behind the delayed payment of wheat farmers two months after delivering produce.
He made the remarks while raising a point of national interest last Thursday in parliament, according to Open Parly.
Markham said delayed payment may affect preparation for next season. He said:
<blockquote>
My point of national interest is requesting a statement from the Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement and the Minister of Finance and Economic Development. 
Currently, we are aware that the Government has yielded and received 255.000 tonnes of wheat. 
That has been in stock now for nearly two months and no wheat farmer that I am aware of has been paid anything yet. 
Wheat farmers are due to receive $200 to $220 per tonne and also ZWL 255.000 but none of this has been paid.
I think it is a matter of national importance that this House asks for a statement from the Minister as to the delay in payment.
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Furthermore, Markham expressed concern over reports that farmers were expected to pay for storage and marketing of the produce because the Government cannot pay them. 
Wheat is among the grain on the controlled produce list that restricts farmers to sell the produce to the <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Grain_Marketing_Board">Grain Marketing Board</a> or contractor who has financed production.
Earlier in the year the government complained about side marketing by farmers insisting it would cause food insecurity.
The further payment delays to  wheat farmers may result into a shortage of the produce or a rise in price especially considering that there is wheat shortage on the global market due to the <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/ukraines-foreign-minister-putin-launched-full-scale-invasion-well-defend-and-win/">Russia-Ukraine war which began in February this year. </a>
Markham added that the delay will push the farmer to borrow in the financial sector with the highest lending rate in the world.
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MP Demands Answers On Why "No Wheat Farmer Has Been Paid Anything Yet"

The <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Zimbabwe_Electoral_Commission">Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)</a> has been sued over recently-gazetted fees to be paid by candidates intending to run for election, <a href="https://www.zimlive.com/2022/09/dzinemunhenzva-3-others-sue-zec-over-unlawful-nomination-fees/">ZimLive.com</a> reports.
Former presidential candidate <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Egypt_Dzinemunhenzva">Egypt Dzinemunhenzva</a> and three others who filed an application at the High Court on Monday said the new fees are “grossly unreasonable, unlawful.
They said the fees would deprive citizens of their legal right to participate in government directly or through freely chosen representatives without distinction on the ground of race, ethnicity, gender, language, political or religious belief, education, physical appearance or disability or economic or social condition as pronounced in section 3(b) of the Electoral Act.
<h2>The fees:</h2>
ZEC last month raised fees for presidential, parliamentary and council aspirants who wish to contest in next year’s general elections.
Contained in statutory instrument 144 of 2022, the fees are:
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i). USD$20,000 to run for president, 
ii). US$1,000 to stand as MP candidate and 
iii). US$200 to file nomination papers for local authority elections.
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<h2>What they want:</h2>
Dzinemunhenzva, joined by Harare North MP Allan Markham and activists Tapiwanashe Chiriga and Vongai Zimudzi, previously wrote to ZEC giving it 72 hours to scrap the fees, but the ultimatum was ignored.
The quartet is asking the High Court to declare the statutory instrument unconstitutional. 
They say it infringes section 67 of the Zimbabwe constitution which gives every Zimbabwean citizen who is of or over eighteen years of age the right to stand for election for public office and, if elected, to hold such office.
They also want Statutory Instrument 144 of 2022 to be repealed.
The matter is yet to be heard. 
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ZEC Sued Over "Grossly Unreasonable, Unlawful” Election Fees

The Minister of Local Government and Public Works, July Moyo, has defended the controversial Pomona dumpsite deal despite admitting that they did not follow tender procedures.
This comes after Harare North legislator Allan Markham (MDC Alliance), approached the High Court seeking a review of the Pomona dumpsite deal between the Harare City Council and Netherlands-based Geogenix BV.
Under the deal, the City of Harare pays US$22 000 per day or US$8 million annually to dump waste at its Pomona dumpsite.
In his opposing affidavit filed at the High Court, Moyo said the deal will benefit Harare residents. He said:
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In this instant case, an unsolicited bid was made to first respondent (Harare City Council) by the Geogenix BV, and the first respondent submitted it to ZIDA (Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency) as is required by the law.
…. It [the deal] will also reduce the amount of pollution which is being experienced by residents in Harare, especially those who stay in and around the area of Pomona, taking into consideration the hazardous incidents which have occurred there in the previous years.
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Markham has cited the Harare City Council, Moyo, Harare deputy mayor Stewart Mutizwa, suspended Harare mayor Jacob Mafume, acting town clerk Phakamile Moyo and Geogenix BV as respondents.
Delish Nguwaya, who represents the Netherlands-based Geogenix BV, said that due diligence was done before the company was given the contract. Said Nguwaya:
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First respondent’s officials, particularly engineers together with officials from the second respondent visited Italy and Tirana in Albania as part of the due diligence exercise.
The officials managed to see other projects carried out by the sixth respondent similar to the one proposed at Pomona dumpsite.
Post this visit through the Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency, engagements continued resulting in parties coming up with a draft joint venture.
The draft agreement was negotiated with City of Harare officials, the Attorney-General of the Republic of Zimbabwe, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development and the Ministry of Local Government.
Government and Public Works officials and the Geogenix BV and the process was transparently done.
Cabinet rendered an oversight role as the project was of national interest.
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<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2022/05/july-moyo-defends-pomona-deal/">NewsDay</a></h4>

July Moyo Defends Pomona Dumpsite Deal

West Property Zimbabwe, a Harare-headquartered property development company, has responded to allegations levelled against its Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Sharpe by former Finance Minister Tendai Biti and Harare North MP Allan Markham (MDC Alliance). The company said in a statement:
<blockquote>We have noted, with concern, the false and malicious attacks on social media including Twitter and YouTube, and other public platforms by Mr Tendai Biti against our company Chief Executive Officer Mr Kenneth Sharpe’s persona and reputation.
Whilst we reserve our right to pursue further legal recourse and remedies available to us, we hereby inform members of the public that Mr Tendai Biti’s statements are not true.
Contrary to what Mr Tendai Biti and his political allies, in particular, Honourable Allan Markham (MP Harare North Constituency) baselessly allege, Mr Kenneth Sharpe’s business dealings are 100% above board and that the land we are currently developing was legally obtained.
Without any breach of the sub-judice rule in respect of matters already in court wherein we are suing Mr Tendai Biti for US$1 million in defamation damages, we wish to advise the public that he has his own agenda for his uncouth behaviour that goes against the sub-judice rules.
We hereby inform members of the public to disregard the malicious and vile attacks upon our brand and that of our Chief Executive Officer Mr Kenneth Sharpe.
As a company, we are firmly behind our Chief Executive Officer’s vision to build exceptional homes and properties and improve the lives of Zimbabweans.
Be accordingly advised.</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a></h4>

FULL TEXT: West Property Responds To Biti, Markham

Over 100 City Of Harare Nurses have resigned over the last few months as they protest the nonpayment of their COVID-19 allowances by the government. New Zimbabwe reports. The mass resignations have reportedly crippled the City of Harare’s local clinics as their resignations ignited a shortage of manpower.
The mass resignations were confirmed by the Harare North MP <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Allan_Markham">Allan Markham</a> in Parliament last week when he said:
<blockquote>I would like to clarify on Covid allowances.  The Covid allowance for nurses in urban areas as well is not being received. Harare and Bulawayo have both not received at the local government level.
This has led to approximately 100 nurses resigning from the local authority here in Harare. Could the Minister give us assurance that the US$75 is being paid to frontline workers in the medical profession</blockquote>
The government through the Health Deputy Minister Dr. Mangwiro however denied the allegations and said all allowances to frontline workers have been paid religiously:
<blockquote>Payments are being directed to the individual’s accounts. If there are any specific problematic accounts or anything, I will be glad to entertain that together with my team at the ministry.
However, some of the VHWs are facing challenges in opening bank accounts.The Covid-19 risk allowance for VHWs is $1.500 RTGs per month and US$75 per month on top of the usual US$45 per quarter</blockquote>
Meanwhile frontline workers are among the first group of people who are supposed to receive the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine that was donated by China a fortnight ago.
More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/100-harare-city-nurses-resign-over-non-payment-of-covid-19-allowance/">New Zimbabwe </a>

Hundreds Of Harare City Council Nurses Have Resigned Over COVID- Allowances - Report

<blockquote>JUDGE SUMMONS AG MACHAYA TO COURT OVER DEVOLUTION
ATTORNEY-GENERAL (AG) Advocate Prince Machaya has been summoned to appear in court on Tuesday 15 September 2020 and explain himself on government’s delays in acceding to a court application filed by water rights campaigners, a residents association and an opposition legislator demanding the enactment of devolution laws.
High Court Judge Justice Edith Mushore issued the order on Thursday 10 September 2020 while presiding over the hearing of a court application filed by Community Water Alliance Trust (CWAT), Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) and Harare North constituency legislator Hon. Allan Markham seeking an order to compel Local Government, Rural and Urban Development Minister Hon. July Moyo, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Hon Ziyambi Ziyambi and Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube to enact laws that are necessary to actualise provisions of Chapter 14 of the Constitution, which provides for the enactment of devolution laws.
In court, the respondents, who were represented by a law officer in the AG’s Office only identified as Sigora, had failed to make a commitment to settle for the order sought by CWAT, CHRA and Hon. Markham leaving Justice Mushore to note that the law officer had been unfairly exposed by Advocate Machaya.
Although the respondents had attempted to argue that it is not the government’s duty to enact laws but the duty of Parliament, CWAT, CHRA and Hon. Markham argued that the constitutional obligation of initiating laws lies with government through Cabinet as spelt out in the Constitution.
In their application, CWAT, CHRA and Markham, who are represented by Tendai Biti of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, want the High Court to compel the respondents to enact the laws envisaged in Chapter 14 of the Constitution and Section 301 of the Constitution actualising and bringing in devolution.
CWAT, CHRA and Markham argued that the respondents have got powers of bringing one omnibus Bill or they can split their obligations into two or three Bills and within four months of the granting of a court order they should cause the gazetting of the Bill or Bills necessary to give effect to provisions of Chapter 14 of the Constitution and Section 301 of the Constitution.
CWAT, CHRA and Hon. Markham also want the High Court to declare the actions of Hon. Moyo in allocating ZW$400 million in 2019 and ZW$6 billion in 2020 using a formula only known to himself to different local authorities in Zimbabwe to be declared unlawful and in breach of the Constitution.
The applicants want the allocations by Hon. Moyo to be declared a nullity because they were done in the absence of a legal framework to set up devolution and in the absence of metropolitan and provincial councils.
CWAT, CHRA and Hon. Markham argued that the High Court has a right to enforce compliance and performance with the constitutional obligation as provided in Section 324 of the Constitution, which provides that all constitutional obligations must be performed diligently and without delay.
<h4>Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights</h4>
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Full Text: High Court Summons Attorney General Over Devolution - ZLHR

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