Villagers in Masvingo are beginning to speak the only language Zanu (PF) seems to understand.

They assaulted Chiredzi district administrator Clara Muzenda and police officer commanding Chiredzi District, Chief Superintendent Patson Nyabadza, for trying to enforce unpopular land decisions which they have been complaining about to no avail.

According to Newsday 10 other members of the Masvingo provincial lands committee were also beaten up by the villagers last Thursday at Nuanetsi Ranch.

The DA and the police were trying to evict the villagers to make way for a biodiesel project run by Mugabe financier and fixer Billy Rautenbach.

Rautenbach took over Nuanetsi Ranch, displacing black cattle ranchers, for a project that was initially billed as a venture by Mugabe, Emmerson Mnangangagwa and Rautenbach.

But this has since been denied, but only after Mugabe and Mnangagwa's names had been used, with their apparent consent, to frighten villagers to not object to the project as we reported here.

Considering the millions of dollars that Rautenbach stands to make from the project, it does not surprise that the top Zanu (PF) chefs gained materially from lending their names to Rautenbach.

But now the villagers have since discovered that while the government talks about taking land for the people, in this case they are the ones who are being moved to make way for one white, just because the Zanu (PF) bosses have been paid.

They have taken out their frustration on the government officials who come and tell them one thing, when they mean another.

The story is still developing.

The suggestion by Vice President Joice Mujuru at a rally in Mash West that Zimbabwe should seriously consider including the Chinese Yuan among currencies in use in Zimbabwe, has been shot down by a UK-based academic.

It is was not immediately clear whether the suggestion was new policy by her party or whether it had been discussed by government economists or departments responsible for economic planning and finance.

Mai Mujuru's idea drew wild applause among Mash West Zanu (PF) supporters. Dr Mandla says it does not work.  

African Consolidated Resources' (ACR) extended legal battle over ownership rights to the Marange diamond concessions ended yesterday with the Zimbabwe High Court predictably reversing its earlier judgment, nullifying ACR's license claims on the Chiadzwa diamond fields in Marange.

Justice Charles Hungwe's judgement which he reversed himself on the grounds that the company fraudulently acquired the rights, had been ignored by the Minister of Mines and the companies which continued to mine and sell diamonds from the Marange claims. It gives the all clear for Robert Mhlanga (l) and his Zanu (PF) partners to exploit Marange diamonds legally. 

A Zanu (PF) participant at a Constitution Parliamentary Committee (Copac) outreach meeting in Mashonaland East prayed for the Copac team to have an accident on their way back.

This has led to a ban on prayers by non-Copac members at the start of their meetings.

Copac is a multi-party committee that was charged with ascertaining Zimbabwean's views to be incorporated in th new constitution, and has been holding outreach meetings throughout the country.

In many parts of the country, the team has complained of prayers which Zanu (PF) participants were using to tell people in the meetings what to say in their contributions.

Even some MP's have been accused of the practice. The Zanu PF Senator for Uzumba Maramba Pfungwe, Oriah Kabayanjiri, and Monica Mutsvangwa, senator for Chimanimani, who are COPAC team members were named last month for abusing the process to harass and intimidate MDC supporters.

They were giving Zanu PF supporters platforms to say long prayers which highlighting the 15 Zanu (PF) party positions explicitly in the prayers.

But last weeks prayer at Nyamayaruka Business Centre in Mudzi takes the cake..

The unnamed participant prayed that the Copac team members should have an accident on their way back because they were "serving the interest of white people in black skin" and were therefore sell-outs, according to official observers.

The Mashonaland East Team 9 leader, Mbare MP Piniel Denga, had to interrupt the prayer and tell the participant to stop.

When the ten teams from Mashonaland East met yesterday they agreed that they would no longer allow prayers by participants who are not in the Copac team so as to reduce hostility in the meetings.

Meetings in Manicaland are now said to be going well, though there are still some disturbances, like on Tuesday and Wednesday at Zuwa Weaving Centre, Nyanga, at Nyanga Country Club and at Ruchera Primary School.

The intimidation is all by Zanu (PF) supporters and Zanu (PF) agents who are trying to impose a constitution favourable to them or to disrupt the whole process and allow the old constitution that needs to be amended to continue.

Defending The Indefensible

George Charamba cannot fool us with his pseudo Marxist rhetoric, espoused in this Saturday's Manheru column, published in full here.

Charamba - If he is a Zanu (PF) and Mugabe spokesman, then the Ministry of Information should have a separate Permanent Secretary who is  chief public relations officer for the inclusive government. Chicken To Change Video

It seems Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has become the latest victim of Nigerian trickster, "Prophet” TB Joshua who uses claims to have helped people in high places to "prove" his supernatural powers.

The Pastor has reportedly also played similar tricks on the Ghanaian Under 20 football team (the Satellites) and on Premiership footballer Nwankwo Kanu, according to The Ghanaian Journal, which, also claims that he is holding the Ghanain Presidency in his supernatural hands. PM stung by trickster Pastor?