Government has dispatched military doctors to assist in public hospitals after medical doctors and nurses this week staged a protest and downed tools demanding the release of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors’ Association (ZHDA) acting president, Peter Magombeyi, who was allegedly been abducted. 

Unconfirmed reports state that he is detained at Kabrit Baracks along Chitungwiza Road, a claim government has scoffed at.
Health minister Obadiah Moyo said investigations are afoot as security agents have been deployed and he encouraged doctors to pick up tools.
“In hospitals right now, we have few workers but we have requested doctors from Zimbabwe Defence Forces, Police, and Prisons to come and assist.“I want to as usual encourage our workers to come back to work while investigations are taking place.“We are all looking forward to the support we are getting from the security agents. It is very clear they want to give us as much assistance as possible.We want our doctor back, its straight forward,” he said.
In a statement released by Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister, Sibusiso Moyo, government said it had deployed security agents to search for Magombeyi.
Moyo insisted that government’s hands were clean, but expressed reservations over the timing of the abduction.
 “Following this barbaric act, the government immediately activated its security agencies to make sure that Dr. Magombeyi is found and safely returned to his home,” Moyo said.
Magombeyi was allegedly kidnapped by unknown assailants from his Budiro home on Saturday. His family filed an urgent chamber application with the High Court on Sunday, seeking an order compelling the State to account for the whereabouts of the union leader.
High Court Judge Justice Edith Mushore on Monday 16 September 2019 ordered whoever is holding the leader of ZHDA to immediately release him or bring him to the High Court within 48 hours and for Home Affairs and State Security Ministers to determine his whereabouts and set up a team of investigators to search for him at all places in Zimbabwe.
Justice Mushore granted the order after hearing arguments from lawyers representing Magombeyi’s family.
Meanwhile, medical doctors and nurses on Monday staged a protest in Harare and served a petition of President Emmerson Mnangagwa expressing concern about the abduction of Magombeyi and advised him that they had withdrawn their services in protest against the ill-treatment of the ZHDA leader.

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TWO Kadoma gold dealers have been arraigned before the court facing charges of hoodwinking a business partner of mining equipment valued at US$150 000.

The pair is also in trouble for misleading government on the true value of a mine sale. 

Sebastian Magodo, 46, and Kelvin Magwaza, 38, appeared before Kadoma magistrate Shane Kubonera on Wednesday last week who rolled over their matter to September 19.

According to the state outline, Magodo caused the Mines and Mining Development ministry to suffer a financial prejudice of US$1 070. 

The State also alleges that trouble began when complainant Spencer Tshuma and accused, Magodo, entered into a five-year joint venture agreement in respect of Etina Gold Mine before Magodo allegedly duped Tshuma.

In the agreement, Tshuma would supply all the mining equipment requirements while Magodo was supposed to ensure that all the mining ore realised from the mine was sent to the Tshuma’s milling company for processing.

It was further said that the said signing ceremony was presided over by a Kadoma-based lawyer, Dyson Robert Chirairo of Dyson Robert Chirairo Legal practitioners.

Tshuma is said to have invested US$150 000 to buy mining equipment from the period stretching from October 5, 2016 and November 20 2016.

The court heard that the mining equipment bought included 50 kilowatts transformer, head-gear, hoist, perimeter fence and constructed two cabins.

Tshuma also sunk a 120 metre shaft at the mine and paid salaries to the mine workers.

On March 19 this year, Magodo, without the knowledge and consent of Tshuma, sold the mine and all the mining equipment on site for $110 000 to Magwaza.

Magodo and Magwaza’s actions, caused Tshuma to suffer a loss of US$150 000 and nothing was recovered, the state added. 

Magodo is also facing a second count of having caused Dyson Robert Chirairo Legal practitioners to suffer prejudice to its good administration. 

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Source: Zimbabwe’s forex inflows fall just when they are needed most | Fin24

Zimbabwe’s foreign currency inflows fell 24% for the six months to June 2019, at a time when the country is needing to pay for key imports from fertilizers and maize to electricity.

According to the latest figures published by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, foreign currency receipts for the first half of the year fell 24% to US$2.58bn, compared to US$3.40bn during same period in 2018.

The proceeds include exports, remittances, offshore loan proceeds, income receipts and foreign investment proceeds.

Receipts from the important mining sector fell by 19.6% to US$1.2bn, despite increases in the price of gold and palladium.

Gold deliveries between January and June 2019 fell sharply by 40.6% to 12.3 tonnes, compared to 17.3 tonnes in the first six months of 2018.

The central bank blamed the decrease on the exchange rate, pricing and payment issues that have bedevilled the mining sector. The bank claimed the issues have been resolved under recent monetary policy measures.

Other double digit declines were recorded

in the tourism sector, which fell 30.5% to US$62m; in the remittances sector, which was down 13.2% to US$504.7m; and in manufacturing, which fell 13.9% to US$80.5m.

Access to external loans, meanwhile, fell by 63.9% to US$207.4m, down from US$574.5m.

Forex slump 

The slump in forex receipts comes at a time when Zimbabwe is in need of foreign currency for critical imports.

Following a drought-induced poor harvest, the country needs to import approximately 800 000 tonnes of maize to feed an estimated 5.5 million people who are food insecure. In addition, Zimbabwe will also need to import wheat and soya beans which are in short supply and have resulted in bread and cooking oil shortages.

It also needs foreign currency to import fertilisers ahead of the agricultural planting season, and for electricity and fuel, both of which are in critical short supply.

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