CHIEFS Council president Fortune Charumbira s alleged sexual assault victim has written a letter of complaint against the police for failing to act on her earl.
The married teacher based in Masvingo, claims she was reportedly sexually abused in Harare while on her way to Mazowe on school business on March 31 this year.
Charumbira shoo-in for Pap presidency
BY SILENCE MUGADZAWETA
PRESIDENT of the Chiefs Council, Senator Fortune Charumbira is among three contenders for the Pan-African Parliament (Pap) presidency after he was announced the sole candidate to represent southern Africa.
He will face a stiff challenge from Haidara Aichata Cisse from Mali and Albino Mathom Ayuel Aboug of South Sudan.
Pap clerk Vipya Harawa said the three candidates from southern Africa, west Africa and east Africa would contest for the institution’s presidency.
“We received three nominations competing for the presidential role. The three candidates are Hon Haidara Aichata Cisse (Mrs) from Mali, Hon Albino Mathom Ayuel Aboug from South Sudan and Hon Chief Fortune Charumbira from Zimbabwe,” Harawa said.
The Pan-African Parliament (Pap) has seen no small amount of disgraceful misbehaviour among some of its members over the past several days. Much of it has provoked
schadenfreude, and mischievous giggles, with the customary Afro-pessimism. The main line is the old canard that “Africans can’t govern themselves”.
The apparent malfunctions of the Pap are caused by several problems; ideational, cultural, power, size, sequencing and policy. The latter two belong together.
The ideational – the founding concepts – of the Pap is problematic. For what may seem politically the right idea, Pan-Africanism is based at the outset on race. It was based on the idea that “black,” “coloured” and “native” African people – from the Tuareg and Berbers, to the Xhosa and Khoisan, necessarily shared some kind of harmony of interests. This is evident in the work of one of the outstanding thinkers and earliest protagonists of Pan-Africanism, WEB Du Bois (1868-1963), from Boston, U