WATCH LIVE as Gambakwe looks at the failure by the Mnangagwa deadline to meet today’s deadline to complete the Mbudzi interchange. The Mbudzi interchange is made up of 15 bridges and 8 off ramps and on ramps. The project has stopped dur to corruption and court cases over compensation of land owners.

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Key events for today

Lawyers of the Avondale 78 have applied for all charges to be dismissed as the charges being leveled against the activists do not exist in Zimbabwean law. Judgement will be delivered today. Mnangagwa’s government desperately trying to proceed with the trial using the wrong charges. Jeremiah bamu and Agency Gumbo are some of the lawyers.

Mnangagwa to officially open the SADC Industrialisation week

Topics

The Mbudzi interchange project was supposed to be finished in July 2024.
Money for compensating property owners has ran out
– Terforma consortium was given the contract to develop the interchange
– The interchange was now set to cost USD88 millions
-Tagwirei struggling to supply cement
– Property owners have taken the contractors to court

Controversy has broken out over Miss South Africa 2024 contestant Chidimma Vanessa Adetshina
Chidimma was born in Soweto to a Mozambican Mother and a Nigerian Father
– Chidimma is from Cape Town and is 23 years old netball player
– A petition to remove her from Miss South Africa has already been signed by thousands of South Africans

Tariro Gezi speaks of her journey
ZIFM presenter, Socialite and MC
Born in Bulawayo Queenspark suburb
– She reveled that she was a sales assistant at Edgars in Harare after she did not do well in her A levels in Chiredzi
– At 21 she said she had her first child married in Mt Pleasant
– After her divorce she started selling ice lollies on the streets and moved back to Kuwadzana
– Becky Kay, a Media influencer rescued her from life as a vendor
– She appeared in Jah Prayzah;s video Murder

USA and South Africa have revived Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA).
– The TIFA agreement was first signed in 1999 and was revived in 2012.
– This comes after South Africa sent a delegation to Washington to discuss the continuation of AGOA.
– Minister Gayton Mackenzie says she can not contest as Miss SA if she is Nigerian

DSTV has removed four channels of eMedia from its platforms
– The removed channels are ETV extra, etoonz, EMovies and EMovies extra
– The competition commission has ruled that the removal of the channels did not represent anti-competitive behaviour.
– This represents a loss of access to the 12 million viewers on the DSTV platform