Zimbabwe will soon gazette new road regulation signs in line with an agreement to improve road safety reached by the 15-member Southern African Development Community regional bloc, the country's traffic watchdog said Tuesday.

According to Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) spokesperson Ernest Muchena, the organisation is awaiting gazetting of the new road signs before they become effective later this year.

The TSCZ has since last year embarked on a campaign to raise awareness about the proposed new Highway Code.

Among the changes proposed are new sign codes, warning signs, blue and white colour signs and specific rules for pedestrians, animals and passengers.

The current Highway Code only has rules for drivers and cyclists while the draft one includes regulations for pedestrians.

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A 33 year old apostolic faith sect leader allegedly raped a member of his church after telling her it would save her from becoming a Satanist.

Greatness Tapfuma allegedly told the girl (16) that if she did not consent to sexual healing, her father would die before the end of the year.

He appeared before Western commonage Provincial magistrate Willard Maphios Moyo charged with rape.

Tapfuma was not asked to plead and was remanded out of custody to March 2 on $300 bail.
The prosecutor, Mufaro Mageza said sometime in October last year, Tapfuma invited the girl to his house and proposed love to her.

He said the girl turned down his proposal, but he hatched a plan to get into her panties by preying on her belief in God.

Tapfuma allegedly told the girl that she needed to pray with him as he had been shown in a vision that her father would die before the end of 2014.

The court heard he invited her to his house and told her he needed to use his p*nis to effect sexual healing as she was possessed by a particularly stubborn evil spirit.

The girl refused but Tapfuma allegedly went on to rape her three times.

He allegedly told her sexual healing was needed, claiming he had just seen in another vision that without the healing, the girl would be initiated into Satanism by the end of the same year.

The girl turned him down but he allegedly raped her again saying he was not enjoying it but was doing it to save her father.

Tapfuma allegedly raped the girl a third time saying the stubborn nature of the demons required him to do so.

The girl told her mother after Tapfuma released her and a police report was made leading to his arrest.


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A woman is extremely lucky to be alive after her car drove off a rock wall of a car park and into a harbour and began sinking. The petrified woman was squashed up against the rear window as the front end of the car was submerging in the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland at 3pm on Tuesday.


Fortunately witnesses called emergency services as quick-thinking policemen arrived and sprung straight into action by jumping into the water to save her, one attempting to break the glass with a baton, before the second officer broke the glass with a rock pulled from the water.

The officers and a bystander couldn't open the doors so one officer attempted to smash the window with a baton with no luck.

Once it became clear that it was not going to penetrate through the glass another officer was handed a rock and managed to shatter the rear window.

The relieved woman was then pulled to safety by the two heroic policemen. 

The two officers who saved the woman's life - Paul Watts and Simon Russell - have described the dangerous rescue, and revealed they believe she could have been less than a minute away from drowning.

'When we entered the water, I was talking to one of the (members of the public) who was trying to balance the vehicle and he said he was looking for a rock to try and smash the window,' Mr Russell told the New Zealand Herald.

He said once his baton failed he successfully broke through the window with a rock, but by this time the car was sinking at a rapid rate.

'At that time the car actually started to move very fast into the water. I was trying to hold the car, slowing it down from entering the water,' Mr Russell said. 

Mr Watts and Mr Russell then managed to pull the woman from the car to safety, but said they got her out just in time.

'It was pretty close, probably 30 or 40 seconds after we managed to get the female out of the car, the car was already slipping further into the water,' Mr Watts said.

'I'd say she'd probably only had maximum probably another minute, minute-and-a-half if she hadn't got out,' he told the NZ Herald.

Mr Watts described the dramatic rescue as 'pretty much part of a routine job being a police officer' in another interview, saying the whole operation only took about 40 seconds. The car was fully submerged just a minute after the woman was freed from it.

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A frustrated male traveler shocked airport staff at Russia's Pulkovo Airport in St Petersburg, by stripping completely naked after he was sent back to remove his belt and shoes, while passing through metal detector. And the whole thing was caught on camera.

The frustrated man first removed his trousers, shirt and before anyone knew what was going on, he removed his undergarment, exposing himself to other travelers. Then while naked, he removed his watch. The bewildered security guards, who didn't seem to know how to react, didn't do anything to stop the man. Then the man goes through the scanner, turns to the security men and asked them if they wanted to search his butt...lol. Then he nonchalantly grabs his clothes and walks off leaving airport staff wondering what they'd just witnessed.

WHEN Zimbabwean fashion designer Farai Simoyi first moved to New York City, she was hired as a senior denim designer for House of Dereon, the clothing line by mega-artiste, Beyoncé and her mother, Tina Knowles.
Simoyi recalls one day, standing on the 17th floor of a building in Times Square, the heart of Manhattan and having an epiphany, “Look at how far I have come and how much I have accomplished; I am a Zimbabwean designer on the design team for Beyoncé’s clothing line and my parents were raised in huts in Zimbabwe, Africa,” she said, awed by the trajectory of her life.

Fast forward to today, the London-born, Zimbabwean-raised and American-educated fashion prodigy is the senior designer for Nicki Minaj’s fashion collection, which is available exclusively through K-Mart.

Much like her boss Nicki Minaj, the only woman on the Forbes’ Hip-Hop Cash Kings list (since 2011) who once told a Forbes contributor: “I am not going to fall back from something because it’s never been done before by a woman.”

Simoyi’s foray into fashion took the same tone and tenacity.

“Building my own fashion label from scratch has been a major challenge on its own, but building a brand in one of the most unstable industries is even tougher,” said the Zimbabwean fashion designer.

“But I don’t see myself doing anything else,” she emphasised, resolutely.

— Forbes.com

LOW-COST airline flyAfrica Zimbabwe will start accepting bookings for its Bulawayo-Johannesburg flight set to commence on March 2.


The budget airline’s Bulawayo-Johannesburg flights will cost $178 return compared to national carrier, Air Zimbabwe’s $380 for the same route.
The airline was licensed by the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe in August 2014 and introduced its first aircraft – Z-FAA – in the same month to service the Victoria Falls-Johannesburg route, flying three times a week on Sunday, Wednesday and Friday.
In November, flyAfrica launched an inaugural Harare-Johannesburg flight and charges $89 (including taxes) for one way.
In a statement, the budget airline said the introduction of a daily Bulawayo-Johannesburg service was aimed at bringing low-cost flying to the industry.
“With fares from $39, the launch of Bulawayo links all main Zimbabwean cities to Johannesburg with our special brand of low fares and great service,” the statement read.
“Finally, Victoria Falls moves from our current Monday, Wednesday and Sunday flights and becomes a daily flight from July 1 – meaning you can enjoy fares from $39 every day of the week.”
According to the airline, plans are underway to expand the business into Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania and Malawi after being granted three more licences to service the routes last year.
The airline said flyAfrica Namibia would take to the skies on March 2. This would be the second airline in the flyAfrica.com family.
Windhoek to Johannesburg flights start on March 2 with fares ranging from R799. Windhoek to Cape Town would start on March 16 with fares from R899.
The airline operates in partnership with the Karase family’s Fresh Air and Mike Bond of the now defunct 1Time Airlines of South Africa.

                                        MDC-Renewal secretary-general Tendai Biti

UNDER fire MDC secretary-general Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga has with immediate effect resigned from her party post although she remains a legislator, the party announced yesterday.

In a statement, MDC deputy president Edwin Mushoriwa announced that Misihairabwi-Mushonga had handed her resignation to party leader Welshman Ncube and it had been accepted.

“The presidency has accepted this resignation and hopes that Misihairabwi-Mushonga will continue in her other roles in which she was deployed by the party, such as her role in Parliament,” Mushoriwa said.

Misihairabwi-Mushonga is the MDC women’s quota representative for Matabeleland South, a position that threatened to tear the party apart, as some members protested heavily against her inclusion.

The tough-talking legislator’s position had increasingly become untenable, but a fallout with the party accelerated when the MDC signed a unification deal with MDC-Renewal.

Misihairabwi-Mushonga reportedly supported MDC-Renewal secretary-general Tendai Biti for the presidency of the unified party ahead of her leader Ncube.

The fallout between the legislator and the party deepened in recent weeks, with senior members taking to social media to express their anger at her.

A month ago, Misihairabwi-Mushonga was quoted saying within a period of a few weeks, she would make a decision as to whether she would continue playing a central role within the party.

“It is with regret that we advise members of the party and the general public that on Thursday February 12 2015, Priscila Misihairabwi-Mushonga tendered to the president of the party, Welshman Ncube, her written resignation from the position of secretary-general with immediate effect,” Mushoriwa said.

“On behalf of the leadership and membership of the party, we sincerely thank Misihairabwi-Mushonga for the outstanding and committed service that she rendered to the party in her capacity as secretary-general since her election to that position in February 2011.”

Misihairabwi-Mushonga could not be reached for comment late last night.

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