Recently-crowned Miss World Zimbabwe Emily Kachote, 25, says she has no problem with the Miss Zimbabwe Trust’s position that she should have no boyfriend because she is currently unattached.
The boyfriend ban is an attempt by Miss Zimbabwe Trust chairperson Marry Chiwenga to avoid a repeat of last year’s debacle when Thabiso Phiri was forced to relinquish the national beauty title after some of her nude pictures were leaked allegedly by a scorned boyfriend.
“Yes, she (Chiwenga) mentioned it but I was unattached already. If I am to be approached by someone expressing love interest, I will deal with it when it comes. If anyone is that much interested he will wait,” Kachote told the Daily News.
The new national beauty queen also revealed that she has deleted her social media accounts due to the cyber bullying she has fallen victim to since she was crowned over a week ago.
“I had Facebook pages but I deleted them because I was trying to avoid a whole lot of things. People were getting into my accounts and taking pictures and using them for different purposes,” said Kachote.
“I will open another account, but it will be a fresh start. When we got crowned, the chairperson just advised us to stay off social media.”
She added that she was not losing sleep over the adverse criticism that has come her way.
“I have heard what they are saying. Why should I be bothered by other people who have time to text and write all sorts of things?
“One thing I have realised is that even if we have elections to select the country’s president people will still comment, so what’s the difference with me?” She said.
Kachote also gave advice to future models who might receive the harsh criticism she has endured.
“It is not the critics’ dream but yours. Don’t let the world shatter it because at the end of the day you stay at your house and they stay at theirs. It’s just an opinion, I also have opinions and they should not stop me from being myself. Besides, I am a person who doesn’t apologise for who I am or what I want.
“To those that are rallying behind me, I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I will make you proud.”
Kachote, who has previously won Miss Women’s University 2010 and Miss Harare 2011, said she almost failed to participate in the Miss Zimbabwe 2015 finals.
“My friends encouraged me to go and participate. I was not willing but a friend convinced me and in the end I won,” she said.
“I thought I had outgrown pageants. You know beauty pageants have a whole lot of things going on. I have a job so I was considering concentrating more on that, but it always has been a dream to represent my country. Even at work at times people ask me if I am a model, so it’s the other factor.”
She also revealed that her father was initially against her entry into modelling.
“Everyone else did not have a problem with it but you know how our traditional fathers are. They are not too comfortable with the things that are associated with the industry. But when I won Miss Harare, he started getting on board and even began to give me advice and telling me that I was representing the family in all what I was doing.”
In line with Miss World ‘Beauty with a Purpose’ requirements, Kachote is doing a project that seeks to establish the impact of cancer on people living with albinism.
“I am doing a project on albinism, focusing on the people who are affected by cancer.
“As you know cancer has become one of the deadliest diseases and the albino community is mostly affected by skin cancer,” she said.
The lanky model explained how she became a financial advisor despite studying psychology.
“The funny thing about life is that there is no one way of doing things; you might not even work in the exact field you studied,” Kachote said
“My job doesn’t require one to have a strong financial background, but the ability to speak to, study and understand people. I deal with clients on a day-to-day basis and you need to be able to speak to them effectively.”
The beauty queen, who also claims to be a designer and a motivational speaker, revealed plans to resume playing volleyball as part of her preparations for the Miss World pageant.
“I am an athlete, I play volleyball. I used to play at university, right now I only play for charity. But I will get back on track for the Miss World preparations,” she said.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
'Govt ready to reconsider Telecel shutdown'
Government is ready to reconsider its decision to cancel mobile operator Telecel’s operating licence if it makes a formal appeal to the responsible ministry, a government official has said.
Presenting oral evidence before parliamentary portfolio committee on Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services yesterday, the minister Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services Supa Mandiwanzira said his ministry was alive to the effects of government’s decision on its revenue base as well as Telecel employees and would not act recklessly.
Mandiwanzira said this in response to members of the Nelson Chamisa-led committee’s sentiments that there was no economic or national strategic sense in his decision to suspend the licence of a company employing more than 1 000 employees at a time the national unemployment rate stood at over 85 percent.
The ICT minister, however, told the committee that the cancellation of the licence was not cast in stone as the company could either appeal against it through him or approach the courts.
“Telecel has an opportunity to activate the Potraz Act provisions which allow them to appeal against the cancellation and as government, we are ready to engage them as long as they put across a strong argument,” Mandiwanzira said.
He revealed that Telecel’s foreign directors had since requested for a meeting with him, pencilled for today, with a view to finding an amicable solution to the problem.
“I received a letter from the directors requesting for a meeting on May 5 in order to find a solution,” Mandiwanzira said.
“I am waiting to hear what they have to say because that is what will either result in a reversal or sustenance of the cancellation.”
Legislators across the political divide including MDC’s Sesel Zvidzai and Zanu PF’s Paradzai Chakona queried the logic of government using a “sledge hammer approach” to the matter.
The MPs suggested that government purchases the shares and let the company continue to operate to save jobs and subscribers’ money held up in Telecash accounts.
“By cancelling the licence, are you not punishing the indigenous people? There does not seem to be desire on your part to bail out the workers,” asked Zvidzai.
Mandiwanzira said as a minister, he was merely applying the law. He called on MPs to craft laws that are more rationale.
He said as a minister he was guided by the law “not by all other senses that you are talking about but we are worried about the legal sense”.
“Emotionally, I probably agree with the issues you are raising but we have to abide by the law of the land and the law is not emotional so that is why we are saying they still have a chance,” Mandiwanzira said.
“It is up to them to appeal but for now they have not.”
Presenting oral evidence before parliamentary portfolio committee on Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services yesterday, the minister Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services Supa Mandiwanzira said his ministry was alive to the effects of government’s decision on its revenue base as well as Telecel employees and would not act recklessly.
Mandiwanzira said this in response to members of the Nelson Chamisa-led committee’s sentiments that there was no economic or national strategic sense in his decision to suspend the licence of a company employing more than 1 000 employees at a time the national unemployment rate stood at over 85 percent.
The ICT minister, however, told the committee that the cancellation of the licence was not cast in stone as the company could either appeal against it through him or approach the courts.
“Telecel has an opportunity to activate the Potraz Act provisions which allow them to appeal against the cancellation and as government, we are ready to engage them as long as they put across a strong argument,” Mandiwanzira said.
He revealed that Telecel’s foreign directors had since requested for a meeting with him, pencilled for today, with a view to finding an amicable solution to the problem.
“I received a letter from the directors requesting for a meeting on May 5 in order to find a solution,” Mandiwanzira said.
“I am waiting to hear what they have to say because that is what will either result in a reversal or sustenance of the cancellation.”
Legislators across the political divide including MDC’s Sesel Zvidzai and Zanu PF’s Paradzai Chakona queried the logic of government using a “sledge hammer approach” to the matter.
The MPs suggested that government purchases the shares and let the company continue to operate to save jobs and subscribers’ money held up in Telecash accounts.
“By cancelling the licence, are you not punishing the indigenous people? There does not seem to be desire on your part to bail out the workers,” asked Zvidzai.
Mandiwanzira said as a minister, he was merely applying the law. He called on MPs to craft laws that are more rationale.
He said as a minister he was guided by the law “not by all other senses that you are talking about but we are worried about the legal sense”.
“Emotionally, I probably agree with the issues you are raising but we have to abide by the law of the land and the law is not emotional so that is why we are saying they still have a chance,” Mandiwanzira said.
“It is up to them to appeal but for now they have not.”
MISS WORLD ZIMBABWE TRUST WILL NOT DETHRONE THE NEWLY CROWNED MISS ZIMBABWE, OVER MERE ALLEGATIONS ABOUT NUDE PHOTOS WITHOUT A FULL INVESTIGATION
Addressing a media conference at their offices yesterday, Miss Zimbabwe Trust spokesperson Tendai Chirau said they would investigate the allegations before taking any steps. T...his follows the publication of a story in H-Metro yesterday saying that an ex-boyfriend of the recently crowned pageant queen had leaked the pictures into the public domain on social media.
"As a Trust if we hear such information we have to sit down, look at the allegations, investigate further and come up with a position," he said. He said but if they should find out that the allegations are true then the trust has no choice but to dethrone the queen.
"When the girls toured the country's provinces, we told them that if they had posed indecent anywhere they were not supposed to participate in the pageant and those who qualified for the finals assured us that they do not have any unrobed pictures anywhere.
"We have rules and regulations that govern the trust," he said.
He added that beside the verbal commitment the girls also signed written statements declaring that they had never posed unclothed.
Chirau said that chairperson of the trust, Mrs Marry Chiwenga, is not in the country and is expected back on Friday after which the trust would sit with the queen.
Chirau revealed that Thabiso Phiri who was crowned Miss Zimbabwe 2014 was not dethroned over leaked indecent pictures as has been generally believed by the public.
"Thabiso Phiri was not dethroned, she resigned and the reasons why she decided to resign were best known to her and up to now we do not know why she resigned," he said.
"We never saw the pictures and even now if you go on internet you will find photo-shopped pictures not original pictures," he said.
With that in mind Chirau said that the trust would take any alleged photos of the queen to graphics experts to determine if they are real or forgeries
In an interview with The Herald Entertainment over the alleged matter, Emily Kachote did not have much to say.
"I don't know what this is all about. That is all I can say for now," she said.Source: herald
photo-Re: Emily Tatanga Kachote, Miss Zimbabwe
"When the girls toured the country's provinces, we told them that if they had posed indecent anywhere they were not supposed to participate in the pageant and those who qualified for the finals assured us that they do not have any unrobed pictures anywhere.
"We have rules and regulations that govern the trust," he said.
He added that beside the verbal commitment the girls also signed written statements declaring that they had never posed unclothed.
Chirau said that chairperson of the trust, Mrs Marry Chiwenga, is not in the country and is expected back on Friday after which the trust would sit with the queen.
Chirau revealed that Thabiso Phiri who was crowned Miss Zimbabwe 2014 was not dethroned over leaked indecent pictures as has been generally believed by the public.
"Thabiso Phiri was not dethroned, she resigned and the reasons why she decided to resign were best known to her and up to now we do not know why she resigned," he said.
"We never saw the pictures and even now if you go on internet you will find photo-shopped pictures not original pictures," he said.
With that in mind Chirau said that the trust would take any alleged photos of the queen to graphics experts to determine if they are real or forgeries
In an interview with The Herald Entertainment over the alleged matter, Emily Kachote did not have much to say.
"I don't know what this is all about. That is all I can say for now," she said.Source: herald
photo-Re: Emily Tatanga Kachote, Miss Zimbabwe
Ex-Lover Leaks Miss Zim Emily Kachote’s Naked Pics
Kachote said she was photographed naked at the unnamed ex-lover’s house while she was drunk during a party.
She said she expected the ex-boyfriend to have deleted the photos after they broke up but he did not do so.
The photos were published on the notorious Whatsapp group Boyz Dzepatonaz after two men claiming to be Kachote’s lovers clashed. One of them then published the naked photos to ‘prove’ that he had bedded her.
The Miss Zimbabwe Trust said it would meet Kachote on Friday to question her about the naked pictures. If it was proven that she had posed naked, she would be stripped of her crown, an official said.
Netone to buy Telecel Zimbabwe?
When TechnoMag called the ICT minister for the outcome of the meeting, Hon Supa Mandiwanzira could not be drawn to comment further but insisted that he would rather tweet the outcome in the next few minutes.
A follow up on the social network only indicated that the minister was happy and the future was bright for the company but as as smart as the minister is, he decided to make a few leads towards the future.
“Just finished a very positive meeting with Vimpelcom. It would appear the future of TZ (Telecel Zimbabwe) is orange, it’s bright”
Wait a minute! Telecel Zimbabwe is definitely not Orange, its red and the minister is not colour blind.
We have strong reasons to believe that the Vimplecom team which already has been selling its stake may have resolved to solve the indeginisation impasse by selling their stake to noone else but the same government which has been pushing for the regularization of the imbalance.
When we called other sources close to the matter they showed shock and panic about how we got wind of the transaction and preferred to distance themselves from commenting on this hot matter completely.
They could not deny or confirm the matter but preferred absolute separation from the matter as this is considered highly confidential.
It is however not clear what percentage the government is going to buy from the stake if the statement is anything to go buy and how will Telecel Zimbabwe continue to operate under such an arrangement but since it was already wiling to sell both its local and international stake, it may just be business as usual.
The government in this position is the only player who is likely comfortable about buying such a stake which already requires $137.5 million licence pending regularization of the empowerment law, a risk only the government can do without completely.
This follows recently after the $20million Brainworks offer was frustrated and immediately collapsed.
Netone`s licence is also expiring soon, (or has already technically expired) and this is one thing which will not bother the government as we have not yet heard of any renewal plans or commitments made so far.This move may even override the latest order to close down Telecel business in 30days.
So the Telecel closure businesss is now going under the carpet, or maybe as we guessed it was nothing but a smoke screen to create room for the big brother!
If this deal is anything to go by Supa Mandiwanzira will be the biggest hero and winner here and certainly will be paid handsomely for brokering such a deal in few months after joining the government, probably outdoing the supersonic minister, Hon Nelson Chamisa.
It may obviously sound like the Econet anti competition at face value but this would be better than killing Telecel Zimbabwe which was now finding it difficult to operate in Zimbabwe, worse off being bought as it is already priced at x-$137,5 million.
This will only look like Facebook buying Whatsapp, allowing the two entities in strong social media competition to compete separately, although this time the thin line is very difficult to separate.
SOURCE: TECHNOMAG
Zim to list struggling parastatals
Zimbabwe is planning to list its struggling parastatals on the stock exchange in an effort to raise capital and unlock value, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has said.
Chinamasa said parastatals were sitting on idle assets whose potential and value could be unlocked through listing on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE).
“It is my strong view that the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange can play a role in adding value to these assets if we go the route of listing a substantial part of the assets of these enterprises on the stock exchange for local participation,” he said.
Zimbabwe’s parastatals, such as the Cold Storage Company, Industrial Development Corporation, Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, Grain Marketing Board and many others, used to contribute 40 percent of the country’s gross domestic product in the 1990s. However, they are now weighing down Treasury by constantly drawing money from government.
Recent reports by auditor-general Mildred Chiri indicate that State-owned enterprises and government departments operate in the red, continuously bleeding the fiscus and in most instances failing to adequately provide the service for which they were set up for.
Parastatals are grappling with high overheads, inter-parastatal debts, mal-administration, under-capitalisation, corruption and lack of good corporate governance which have negatively impacted on their operations.
Chinamasa said in an effort to plug the holes that have hindered State-owned entities from operating viably, solutions lie in reforms and public listing.
“In principle I do not see any policy objection to listing on the stock exchange 49 percent of State enterprises which are sitting on idle assets.
“So my invitation to you today is to ask you to proffer us ideas about it and what we need to do to achieve that objective,” he said.
Government once came up with strategies to restructure and dispose shareholding in some State-owned enterprises, but has failed to implement these measures over the years.
Once, several entities were earmarked for restructuring or privatisation and these included the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ), Zesa Holdings, Air Zimbabwe, Agriculture Development Bank of Zimbabwe, the GMB, Zimre, POSB, Zimbabwe Grain Bag, NetOne and TelOne.
NRZ requires in excess of $2 billion to turnaround its fortunes by replacing antiquated infrastructure, including railway tracks, telecommunication signals and wagons, which have outlived their lifespan.
Its resuscitation would increase the movement of goods by rail within Zimbabwe and in the region, earning significant revenue in the process and helping in efforts to grow the economy.
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