Wife fingered in artiste shooting
THE story of a man who was shot in Emganwini suburb in Bulawayo last week, in an alleged robbery attempt has taken a new and dramatic twist, with the assailant, an umalayitsha cum-businessman being accused of having an illicit affair with his wife.
Sunday News can reveal that the man in question is former Siyaya Arts group member Tawanda “MaPecca” Moyo (43), who has since demanded that his wife must not visit him in hospital, following the confrontation, leading to the shooting. Moyo is admitted at Mpilo Central Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. Moyo was shot and left with a bullet lodged in his abdomen, after confronting his wife and
The President was given a reverberating homecoming in Chinhoyi, with tens of thousands of people turning out for his interface with youths in his birth province of Mashonaland West.
The province showed why it has been dubbed “Mashonaland Best” as people came out in droves for the opportunity to hear the President address them.
Yesterday’s Presidential Youth Interface was the fifth of oversubscribed meetings that have seen ZanuPF’s First Secretary meet and address large crowds in Mashonaland East, Manicaland, Masvingo and Matabeleland North.
The Chinhoyi University of Technology Stadium proved too small a venue for the Presidential juggernaut.
Thousands of people started streaming into the stadium as early as 5am, with long queues the order of the day, as security details continued to screen people long after President Mugabe’s arrival.
When President Mugabe entered and circled the stadium, the atmosphere was charged as he, First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe and Zanu-PF Youth the alleged lover, in the incident that occurred last Tuesday night.
Local artistes have since launched a campaign to raise funds to assist him and have also sought the services of a lawyer to represent him. Narrating the series of events leading to the dramatic shooting, Moyo alleged he was shot in the name of love.
He said on the night in question, he trailed his wife Mrs Jacqueline Chesigelenaso (Banda) Moyo, whose age was not given, from work in the city centre, where she met with her alleged lover Mr Oricious Moyo (38), who is also her employer at a fast food outlet, in Emakhandeni suburb, where they then drove to his house in Emganwini.
“I always suspected that my wife was having an affair but I just wasn’t sure with whom,” said Moyo. He said on Monday he then decided to tail his wife, League Secretary Cde Kudzai Chipanga greeted the crowds.
President Mugabe paid homage to the tens of thousands in attendance, describing the gathering as one of the biggest audiences he had seen since the Presidential Youth Interface Rallies began last month.
Vanotungamirira province, ma- chairman nevamwe vose vari pasi pavo varipano, ndinoda kuvamba nekukutendai nekundimuka kwamaita muchiuya nehuwandu hwakadayi hunobva hwaratidza kuti chokwadi yainzi Mash West iye yava Mash Best,” said the President. seeking to unmask her alleged lover.
“On Monday I tried to tail her but lost her along the way. It was then on Tuesday that fate would have it that I came face to face with the man I believed to be just her employer. She got off work between 9.30pm and 10pm and got a ride from one of her workmates husband’s car. They dropped her off at 6th Avenue, where I then assumed she would catch a kombi home to Gwabalanda but no, she got into a Cowdray Park suburb bound kombi.
“She dropped off in Emakhandeni near the cricket club and got into a small vehicle . . . a Vista. I, in the company of a friend in a vehicle we had hired to tail them, then followed the car to Emganwini, where I was shot,” said Moyo.
He said once the vehicle in which his wife and alleged lover drew to a stop by the house, he asked
“Ndangariro yatinayo pano indangariro yevadiki vedu; Cde Chipanga, vatinopa rukudzo, nevamwe vavo vakavamba vachiti ngatiite imwe interface yekunosangana naPresident, nyika yose.
“Vakakorokodza vanhu kuti vafambe, one million, vachiuya kuHarare kuzonditenda nebasa randakaita ndiri Chairman weAU zvichibatanidza nehuChairman wemuregion yedu yeSadc.
“Saka, iyi yakazova pfungwatsva. Ndozvatinoda kuona musangano wedu uchiita. Pfungwa dzemberi dzinoita kuti musangano wedu urambe his friends to park at a safe location and would confront them himself.
“I don’t want to lie, I was agitated and my nerves were wrecking me. I needed some sort of closure and this was it. I walked up to the car on the passenger side, where my wife was seated. I knocked on the window, which she didn’t open, then I decided to open the rear passenger door. There I then asked him (Oricious) what he was doing with my wife. I turned the question to my wife as well and they were both mum.
“Needing closure I knelt on the ground to ask them what was going on and that is the precise moment he turned the ignition of the car on and shifted the gear . . . I can’t remember to what level but I remember grabbing the door and clinging on it, as they tried to drive off. After that all I remember is hearing a loud crack and a sharp pain in my abdomen, before I fell to the ground. They then sped off and left me for dead,” said Moyo.
He said he then started crying for help and a man
uri musangano wevanhu, urambe uri musangano unobatanidza vanhu pachavo, unobatanidza vanhu nevatungamiriri vavo.
“Tichinzwa pfungwa dzenyu dzamuinadzo dzinoti zvinangwa zvamungadai muinazvo kuti musangano uenderere mberi; nezvichemo zvamungadai muinazvo kuti ah tirikuchema nezvakati mungazviongorora here?”
Added the President: “Tauya kuMashonaland Best, vana vedu ma- youth edu ahh, kuti vazoronga kuita gungano rakadai rinondimuka, richiuya kuChinhoyi ibasa rekushinga, kushinga nechido. Hongu, rubatsiro runovapo kubva kumadzimai, kubva kuvakuru, kubva kushamwari dzedu. Kubatanidzwa ikono, humwechete ihoho ipfungwa dzevana vedu. Tinovatenda. Varoverei maoko! Varoverei maoko!
“Hapasi pano chete, ndinofunga gungano rino rave rechingani, rechishanu. Vanoda kupedza ma- province ose vachidai, tovanekugutsikana kuti nyika yose, ma- province ose varishure kwemusangano. Hatina kumboita pfungwa yakadai kana isu vakuru. Kwatakabva, taiita zvedu ma- rally asi kana isu vakuru, hatina kumboita pfungwa dzakadai, dzekusimudza kuti province yose ibva yati ndimu.
“Vana varipo, vamwe nevana kumusana. Ah, izvi zvinofadza; zvinobayawo moyo zvakare. Ini semukuru wenyu, makada kuti ndive ndichifamba ma- province ose kune sangano iri revanhu naPresident. Ndozvinoreva interface. Muchiona kuti takasimba sei; muchinzwawo President kuti angave aine mashoko akadii.
“Ndinoda, pamashoko iwayo, kuti ndivambe ndichiti Zanu-PF ndiwo musangano wakarwira, ndiwo musangano wakafirwa nemagamba edu. Nhasi uno wava kutonga.”
President Mugabe pointed out that the revolution was informed by sound values, and the quest for total liberation was a continuous process.
“Ndanga ndichitaura kwatabva ku- centre yedu ye- communication ndichiti hatingave vanhu vane tsika yemusangano, hatingave zvakare ma- revolutionaries vane gwara nekuti revolution haisi yezuva rimwe chete,” he said.
“Revolution i- continuous process, inoramba ichifamba isu tatakura nyaya yekuzvipira, nyaya yekurwira nyika yedu, tichitarisa shure kwedu kuti vakuru vedu ndezvipi zvavakaita.
“Saka, tine mazita evakafira nyika. Tinongoramba tichiti Mbuya Nehanda naanaSekuru Kaguvi naanaLobengula vakashandira nyika. Pfungwa dzavo dzaiva dzakafanana nedzedu kuti vatorwa, vatorwa, hativabvumire kuti vatore nyika vagotigara matumba; vagotiita varanda. Kwete. Saka, vakabata mapfumo.
“Hongu, pfumo nepfuti zvakasiyana. Ane pfuti anokurira anepfumo, ndozvakaitika, asi isuwo mukunzwa nhorondo yezvakaitika, takati vakuru vedu vakakurirwa nenzira yekuti vakarwisa nemapfumo. Vakanga vasina zvombo zvinesimba.
“Takatarira kuti iye muvengi chakamusimbaradza chii? Tikaona kuti hapana chimwe kunze kwepfuti. Wakasimba pamusana pekuti wakanga wakazendamira pfuti.
“Dai asina kuzendamira pfuti zviri zvibhakera tainge takamunakura kare kare. Dai akanga asina pfuti aine mapfumowo wainga akabaiwa kare kare akashaya.
“Ane pfuti; hatingazvikwanisewo here? Tikaona tinozvikwanisa sezvakanga zvaitwa kune dzimwe nyika. KuAlgeria kwakanga kwarwiswa maFrench.”
President Mugabe went on, “Vauyi. Saka takarongawo hurongwa hwaida kuti tive nemusangano wakasimba. Hongu, takazoita musangano tikaparadzana Zanu neZapu, asi takazobatana zvakare.
“Muvengi wakarohwa kuno uku. Tine chiyeuchidzo chakakosha, chegazi. Vakomana vanomwe vatakatanga navo vakahwandirwa nemuvengi asi vakamira dzikadandaura pfuti pamhiri apo dakara zuva rakuda kudoka.
“Muvengi akati rikadoka hatozovakwanisa. Vanozoenda tisingavaone. Ngatikurumidzei. Ndopavakazouya nendege, zvino, kuzobhomba. Ndokukurirwa kwakaita the seven gallant sons, revolutionary sons of Zimbabwe.
“They shed their blood. They left us, therefore, a legend and that legend meant that we, too, must be prepared to fight to the end for our country.
“If it meant sacrificing ourselves in the same way, shedding our blood, let it be. If it meant being thrust into prison and being tortured, let it be.
“If it meant being in detention, let it be. Makaiswa mumakeep semhuka, kutenherwa mumakeep, asi hamuna kudzokera shure. Makati vana vedu, muri mumakeep imomo, maikwanisa vana vedu muchiverevedza, muchiti muvengi aripo endai. Mumisha maikwanisa, zvakare, kuvapa kudya nekuvapa mazano.’’