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WHAT’S INSIDE Friday 30 October 2020 BZUimSIrNa EmSiSsses Price
target over
NEWS Econet US$1
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Govt intensifies SPORT
opposition Story on Page 10
activists ‘Shunned’
surveillance Pakistan host
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US$7bn asset
forfeitures hit
former ministers,
corrupt bigwigs

ALSO INSIDE ED entangled in Rushwaya gold scandal Gvt intensifies opposition surveillance

Page 2 News NewsHawks
Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020

US$7bn
forfeitures
hit former
ministers,
corrupt
bigwigs

MOSES NGWERE ly with the National Prose-
cuting Authority. I therefore
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Cor- cannot divulge further de-
ruption Commission tails,” Makamure said.
(Zacc), in collaboration
with the National Prose- Hodzi told The New-
cuting Authority (NPA), sHawks: “The Prosecu-
is processing a string of up tor-General has asked for
to 40 applications at the the complete list of all for- Chihuri is also accused of using six private companies fronted by his wife to siphon police funds amounting to US$31.8 million in shady deals.
feiture applications and
High Court for forfeiture files so as to have an ac-
of corruptly acquired as- curate picture. This is be- for personal use, along- UNWTO General Assem- Mzembi and his colleagues Marry.
sets and other proceeds ing worked on, it will take side senior officials and bly by depositing money unlawfully took permanent “We are also working
of corruption worth US$7 sometime. fund-raising consultants. into the Conventions Africa possession of the vehicles,
billion owned by a number ZB Bank account number contrary to government with Zacc on Chihuri’s two
of high-profile individuals, “I can only disclose the Mzembi, documents say, 4168720497080,” one court procedure to surrender the properties in South Africa,
including former ministers. identities of those targeted solicited donations ahead of document says. vehicles to the Ministry of Prisca Mupfumira, Marry
The targets of the sweep- individuals where it doesn’t the United Nations World Tourism and Hospitality Chiwenga nee Mubaiwa and
ing anti-corruption tide in- compromise the integrity Tourism Organisation (UN- “Mbada Diamonds do- industry. The deliberate the Chombo case. These are
clude former cabinet min- of judicial processes and WTO) co-hosted by Zimba- nated US$815 000 which failure by Mzembi to sur- not yet complete dockets,
isters — Ignatius Chombo investigations as well as bwe and Zambia in August was transferred directly render the vehicles to the but we are working with
Prisca Mupfumira and Wal- the rights of apparently un- 2013 and misappropriated into Conventions Africa Ministry of Tourism and them (Zacc) to put together
ter Mzembi, some of whom tainted third parties.” the funds. However, the ZB Bank account number Hospitality and convert- necessary evidentiary mate-
were members of Zanu PF’s funds were deposited into a 4168720497080 towards ing them into personal rial,” an official source said.
subdued G40 faction — as However, information at bank account belonging to the hosting of UNWTO use after UNWTO Gen-
well as government officials hand shows Zacc and the Conventions Africa, a con- General Assembly. On 4 eral Assembly was theft of Asset forfeiture is de-
and parastatal bosses. NPA have filed applications sultancy firm formed for October 2012, Susanna trust property as defined in signed to disincentivise
The assets, some of which at the High Court for war- that specific purpose, which Makombe Kuhudzayi and Section 113 of the Criminal corruption by punishing
are located out of the coun- rants of forfeiture for assets was however not registered Aaron Dzingira Mushori- Law (Codification and re- culprits and making it un-
try, are worth an estimated belonging to exiled former with the Registrar of Com- wa, using the donated form Act) [Chapter 9:23,” profitable for them.
US$7 billion. police commissioner-gen- panies. funds from Conventions the joint application by
Investigations by The eral Augustine Chihuri who Africa ZB Bank account Zacc and the NPA reads. Section 27A (4) of the
NewsHawks, including in- is now living in Johannes- The consultants, identi- number 4168720497080, Money Laundering and Pro-
terviews with top officials in burg South Africa. fied in the docket as Susan- bought three motor vehicles The NPA and Zacc have ceeds of Crime Act [Chapter
the newly-established Asset na Makombe Kuhudzayi from Croco Motors, namely also petitioned the High 9:24] was amended late last
Forfeiture Unit, Zacc and The assets, as listed in and Aaron Dzingira Mush- Ford Ranger T6D Double Court seeking an order to year and provides that the
the NPA, showed dozens of court documents seen this oriwa, allegedly opened a Cab registration number forfeit former Zimbabwe Asset Forfeiture Unit in the
individuals are being target- week by The NewsHawks, ZB Bank account number ACU 7946 valued at US$52 National Road Administra- NPA shall work in cooper-
ed, with the High Court al- include 18 immovable 4168720497080 in the name 493.00; Ford Ranger T6 tion (Zinara) chief execu- ation with Zacc, Zimbabwe
ready processing the initial properties, mainly houses of Conventions Africa, us- Double Cab registration tive officer Frank Chituku- Revenue Authority, Reserve
six applications while more in upmarket Harare sub- ing documents for Stess In- number ACU 2603 valued tuku’s properties valued at Bank of Zimbabwe’s Finan-
warrants for seizures are be- urbs, as well as residential vestments (Private) Limited at US$53 683.00; and Ford more than US$20 million. cial Intelligence Unit and
ing prepared. and commercial stands. where Makombe Kuhudzayi Ranger Double Cab regis- other investigative agencies
The targeted assets in- was a director, and made tration number ACU 6801 The assets in question in- for purposes of facilitat-
clude numerous company They also include a fleet themselves signatories to valued at US$ 44 534.00 clude 10 top-of-the-range ing identification, tracing,
properties, houses, luxury of vehicles and high-value the account. which were solely meant vehicles and five immovable freezing and confiscation of
vehicles as well as residen- farm equipment. for use before and during properties which include a property.
tial stands and vast swathes “Walter Mzembi would the hosting of the UN- house in Harare’s affluent
of commercial land, among In the court application, originate letters on Govern- WTO General Assembly. Borrowdale suburb, a hill- This provision gives the
other valuable things. Chihuri is also accused of ment of Zimbabwe letter- The vehicles were registered top mansion in Glen Lorne Asset Forfeiture Unit the
Both Prosecutor-Gen- using six private compa- head requesting donations in the name of UNWTO and a block of flats in the mandate to facilitate iden-
eral Kumbirai Hodzi and nies fronted by his wife Is- from corporates which Trust which was not regis- same city. NPA sources said tification, tracing, freezing
Zacc spokesperson John abel and children to siphon the consultants, Susanna tered with the Registrar of the authority was process- and confiscation of prop-
Makamure confirmed the police funds amounting to Makombe Kuhudzayi and Deeds.” ing applications for the sei- erty acquired through pro-
swoop on the bigwigs, but US$31.8 million in shady Aaron Dzingira Mushori- zure of assets belonging to ceeds of crime.
declined to disclose identi- business deals. wa used to seek donations Instead of surrendering former long-serving Local
ties of the targeted individ- in cash or kind towards the vehicles to the ministry, Government Chombo, who Efforts to get a comment
uals. A senior NPA official the hosting of UNWTO Zacc further alleges, Mzem- ended up in 2017 as Finance from Chombo were fruit-
“Court applications are said they were collaborating General Assembly. On the bi and his alleged accom- minister, former Public Ser- less as he was neither an-
being processed to forfeit. with their South African strength of the govern- plices illegally took posses- vice minister Mupfumira swering calls on his mobile
We are currently processing counterparts to forfeit two ment letters, the corporate sion of them for personal —currently facing corrup- nor responding to SMS and
about 40 applications at the properties owned by Chi- world responded positively use. Zacc now wants them tion charges at the Harare whatsapp messages.
High Court, working close- huri south of the Limpopo. and made donations to the forfeited to the state. magistrates court — and
Ministry of Tourism and Vice-President Constantino Mzembi referred ques-
Former Tourism and Hospitality Industry, to- “At the end of the UN- Chiwenga’s estranged wife, tions to his lawyer Job
Hospitality minister Walter wards the hosting of the WTO General Assembly, Sikhala who was not reach-
Mzembi, also in self-im- able. Mupfumira was also
posed exile in South Africa, not reachable on her mobile
is being accused of seques- phone.
tering government vehicles

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Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020

NYASHA CHINGONO An aerial view of Chihuri’s
jaw-dropping mansion
FROM a nearby picturesque hill-
top, one has an obscure view of the multimillions. court that the social relationship
white-walled mansion, a massive In papers filed at the High Court, between His Excellency the Presi-
structure in the leafy suburb of dent of the Republic of Zimbabwe
Gletwin, near Chishawasha Hills where he is fighting the seizure of and I has been broken down since
in Harare. his properties, Chihuri claimed he the liberation struggle and it has
was being persecuted because he degenerated to personal hate.
It is a spectacular property. It refused to betray Mugabe.
looks like one of those Beverly “… my wife got pregnant by me
Hills Hollywood mansions. “The number one reason for my (1977). The current president of
persecution is my refusal to partic- Zimbabwe, Mr Emmerson Dam-
Sitting across five hectares, with ipate in the November 2017 coup budzo Mnangagwa, was aware of
greenhouses, pine trees, 200 Is- that toppled the late President this union and pregnancy. Using
raeli-imported olive trees, a small Robert Gabriel Mugabe,” Chihuri his position, he got my then wife
dam inside the vast swathe of its told court. transferred to Shai Shai in Mozam-
sprawling grounds, farmhouse bique where he had a forced affair
and a relatively big dam just on the Chihuri also said he was be- with her as she alleged,” he said.
edges of its long perimeter wall, trayed by his “uneducated” former
it is certainly one of biggest and deputy, Godwin Matanga, now the For all its spectacular beauty, the
most spellbinding mansions in Zimbabwe Republic Police’s Com- house is now becoming a political
Zimbabwe. missioner-General. battlefront between Mnangagwa
and Chihuri.
It makes State House and Zim- He also revealed he had a
babwe House on the edges of long-standing dispute with Presi- Whether or not Chihuri manag-
Harare central business district dent Emmerson Mnangagwa over es to keep the dreamland eldorado
look like some rustic countryside a woman. mansion remains to be seen.
retirement home in a backwater
village. “I wish to put it on record to this

From outside, the house is a vast ushe madzoro (power does not last could easily qualify for a slot on
sight, not allowing a gaze into the forever). The breath-taking land- South Africa’s Top Billing reality
heart of the mansion. Yet inside scape of Chihuri’s house, coupled television show.
this high-walled fortress is a pa- with an expansive garden, a foun-
latial house surrounded by lofty tain and tennis court which dou- Near the high-walled mansion
exotic olive trees—the sort of res- bles as a basketball, reeks of opu- is an Olympic-size looking swim-
idences designed for the rich, fa- lence like the mythical eldorado. ming pool.
mous and powerful.
Surrounding the massive struc- The palatial home is one of
A long driveway from the ture are pine and olive trees im- many jaw-dropping properties
two-gated estate leads to the ported from Israel—that in itself a in the leafy suburb, but its scenic
eye-catching house where the for- sign of extravagance. landscape is a show of opulence
mer police chief, Augustine Chi- that the former police chief must
huri, used to live. From drone footage taken by have savoured.
The NewsHawks as part of the in-
Chihuri was a powerful figure in vestigations today, the expansive From outside, the news crew
the late authoritarian ruler Robert yard looks ill-maintained as some could only imagine the quality of
Mugabe’s regime which lasted 37 of the pine and olive trees are wilt- the furniture, the creature com-
years and was almost a law unto ing, while the grass looks brown- forts and splendid amenities in
himself. ish. there.

He fined the public on the roads Perhaps this is because the own- At the main gate leading to the
at will, mainly for flimsy or imag- er is holed up in Johannesburg, property, a security guard refused
inary wrongdoing, to extortion South Africa, as he fights to keep to open for The NewsHawks team,
money and even resisted court or- the property, while the state claims saying the owners of the place were
ders for police not to collect spot he constructed it from proceeds of not around.
fines, their most efficient activity crime. Drone shots show the mas-
which would have left even the of- sive house could be anywhere in Chihuri, who left Zimbabwe fol-
ficial tax collector, the Zimbabwe Beverly Hills, United States, and lowing the 2017 coup, was touted
Revenue Authority, green with as one of the richest top officials,
envy. with his vast wealth estimated at

However, Chihuri left the coun-
try as a fugitive after the army
seized power from Mugabe in
2007, manifesting the wise Afri-
can saying that ubukhosi amazolo/

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Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020

Mnangagwa family entangled in
Rushwaya gold smuggling scandal

OWEN GAGARE/
BRIDGET MANANAVIRE

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnan- President Emmerson Mnangagwa and wife Auxillia
gagwa is once again entangled
in an illegal gold dealing scan- could not satisfactorily explain,” Upon perusal the charge sheet said. uments say.
dal; this time round through his the state said in the charge sheet. of the bank doc- More than 2 000kg of gold was Mnangagwa’s spokesperson,
wife Auxillia and son Collins uments, police
after one of the accused who Mnangagwa’s name was later discovered that discovered at Burden’s house. In George Charamba, said the
assisted Zimbabwe Miners’ Fed- removed from the charge sheet. the accused had the Rushwaya case, Karanda, President could not speak on the
eration (ZMF) boss Henrietta made Z$8-mil- the third accused person, impli- matter as that may be viewed as
Rushwaya in an attempt to al- Burden was accused of mill- lion cheque cated Auxillia and Collins. interference with court process-
legedly smuggle 6kgs of gold to ing gold ore from other regis- payment to ED es currently underway.
Dubai claimed the contraband tered miners, small-scale min- Mnangagwa on “Accused three is being
belonged to the First Lady and ers and gold panners around September 17, charged for defeating or ob- “If the President is to open his
her son. Kwekwe. 2003. structing the course of justice mouth on the matter, it would
as defined in section 184 (1) of seem as if he is interfering with
Documents say Rushwaya “The accused would then buy the Criminal Law (Codification the judiciary. Remember, there
was allegedly assisted by a mem- gold at parallel market rate after and Reform) Act, Chapter 9:23. is a separation of powers. Why
ber of Mnangagwa’s close secu- milling gold ore from various Facts being that well know- don’t we wait for processes to
rity, Stephen Chenjerai Tserayi people.” ing that accused one (Rush- take place?” Charamba said.
(45) and a Central Intelligence waya) was under arrest, he ap-
Organisation (CIO) operative Detectives had earlier re- proached the security officers Police spokesperson Paul
based at Robert Mugabe Inter- ceived information that Burden alleging that the gold belonged Nyathi said he could not dis-
national Airport, Raphios Mu- was buying gold at a price high- to the First Lady and one Col- cuss the case as it is now before
fandauya as well as Gift Karan- er than the one offered by Fi- lins, son to the First Family who court.
da, from Rushwaya’s ZMF. delity Printers and Refiners, the was supposed to have brought it
sole official buyer of gold, im- but due to other commitments “We gave everything to the
The involvement of Tserayi in plying therefore that he would had requested accused one to court for now, and I can only
the scandal, first broken by The not deliver to Fidelity. transport it on his behalf,” doc- comment when we have some-
NewsHawks, also brought the thing new, of which at this stage
spotlight on Mnangagwa as he “Hence, it was suspected that there is nothing new,” he said.
works at the heart of state secu- he was externalising the gold,”
rity.

Senior police officers, only
identified as Superintendent
Shoko and Detective Chief In-
spector Chimhungu, were also
arrested in connection with the
matter alongside Ali Moham-
med (52), who was implicated
by Rushwaya as the owner of
the gold.

The latest Mnangagwa entan-
glement in a gold scandal comes
after he was also implicated in
another issue 17 years ago. In
2003, Mnangagwa, then Speak-
er of Parliament, was accused of
receiving ZW$8 million from
an illegal gold miner.

The allegations surfaced
when Mark Matthew Burden,
accused of trading in gold with-
out a licence, appeared before
the High Court. Owner of sev-
eral licensed mining opera-
tions, including Ivan Hoe Mine
and eight gold custom mining
plants, he was in court for ille-
gally milling ore from small-
scale miners and panners in
Mnangagwa’s hometown, Kwe-
kwe.

“Upon perusal of the bank
documents, police discovered
that the accused had made the
following cheque payments to
ED Mnangagwa.

“On September 17, 2003 the
accused paid ED Mnangagwa
Z$8-million using bank cheque
693803.

“When asked about these
payments, which the police sus-
pected to have been related to
gold transactions, the accused

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Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020

Govt intensifies
opposition
activists
surveillance

BRIDGET MANANAVIRE political defiance, met British em- ification and Reform) Act (Chap- “I received security reports as has nothing to hide, except that
bassy officials last Friday, further ter 9:23) that will criminalise soon as I left Chikurubi Maxi- they are breaching his privacy
ZIMBABWE’S state intelli- demonstrating the growing siege “unauthorised communication by mum Prison and the first thing by illegally getting access to inti-
gence services have intensified mentality of President Emmerson private citizens with foreign gov- that I was advised is that the se- mate conversations with his wife,
surveillance on opposition lead- Mnangagwa’s regime. ernments” as well as planned and curity services are monitoring us which have no state security val-
ers, civil society activists and timed protests designed to coin- since our release from prison. The ue, hence no justification at all.
Western embassies in a well-cal- The government wants to use cide with major international and justification is that Job Sikhala is
culated strategy to advance the the information and leads sup- regional events and visits. of unpredictable disposition so “But at the end of the day, their
hard-sell narrative that Western plied by informants at various em- he might proceed to call upon the approach is useless. It won’t fix the
countries are fomenting dissent bassies to hunt and clampdown Relations between the West and people of Zimbabwe to rise and economy or bring development.
and instability in the country, on opposition leaders, according the Harare government improved for defiant campaigns,” he said. This is done by a government that
sources say. to a reliable intelligence source. after the 2017 military coup, with has no consent from the people
The CIO has spies and informants Mnangagwa promising political “That’s why you see that the to govern. People have got genu-
The old trick comes at a time in almost embassies in Harare, the and economic reforms aimed at whole issue about my bail grant- ine grievances on issues relating
government has kick-started pro- source said. putting Zimbabwe back on the ing has put one of the most to how the economy is being run.
cesses to criminalise interaction path to prosperity. fair-minded judges in our coun- People have genuine concerns on
between citizens and officials from Former State Security Minister try in deep trouble. So, when I the looting which is taking place
Western embassies as authoritari- Didymus Mutasa previously said Mnangagwa promised to fight obtained those security reports, in our country, on corruption
an repression and the crackdown the CIO also has informants in corruption and observe human I had to make my own observa- and mismanagement. People are
on democracy activists escalates hotels and restaurants where dip- rights, among other things, but tions, understand what they are so anxious. And they are really
to new levels not previously seen lomats, opposition and civil soci- high-level graft has increased, up to and see what to do. They are concerned about issues of human
in that regard even under the late ety like holding meetings. while cases of state-sponsored ab- monitoring my communication rights, abductions and torture of
president Robert Mugabe’s 37- ductions and torture have explod- and WhatsApp phone 24/7. innocent people,” said Sikhala.
year despotic rule till 2017. Also under heavy surveillance ed, resulting in widespread con-
is MDC Alliance president Nel- demnation at home and abroad. “They now have technology The MDC Alliance deputy
The idea behind this son Chamisa and his vice-presi- to get into our messages, see the chairperson said he has the right
security strategy is dents Tendai Biti and Welshman State security agents say the transmission of messages of in- to meet anyone he willed as he did
to build a case that Ncube. Ncube recently revealed Zanu PF government has reverted dividuals using their WhatsApp not need to be influenced by for-
Western embassies the CIO were using the Thokoza- to its default settings and is seeing numbers. They don’t follow a eigners to speak out against mis-
are in constant touch ni Khupe MDC-T grouping to shadows everywhere, while seek- voice call, but they go on data rule and corruption.
with influential op- divide the main opposition and ing to blame outsiders and every- and make sure all the data trans-
position leaders in push partisan and destructive po- one—except themselves—for the mission happening on my phone “I meet anyone and no one
violation of diplo- litical agendas. country’s problems. is automatically transmitted to has the right to tell me what to
them— cloning our messages. do with my liberties; those civil
matic protocols “The idea behind this securi- Sikhala was at a loss for words They also obtained software from rights are so fundamental. Gov-
ty strategy is to build a case that when The NewsHawks asked him China to monitor WhatsApp. And ernment should know people
Cabinet this week approved Western embassies are in constant about whether he was aware that I have heard that the software was have rights. We have rights to do
a law that will make it illegal for touch with influential opposition the intelligence knew of his secret modified by the Russians for their and act as we feel like as long as it
citizens to meet foreign embassy leaders in violation of diplomatic meeting and movements. use.” is constitutional and legal. This is
officials without government ap- protocols and that they are spon- what really inspires us to fight and
proval. soring anarchy in the country,” a However, he said he had also However, Sikhala said the struggle without fear to liberate
security source said. been informed of the heightened Zanu PF government’s efforts this country and people from this
The move—which brazenly monitoring since his release from were a huge waste of because he oppression,” he said.
infringes on entrenched consti- “Zimbabwean officials have of prison following his arrest for al-
tutional rights—will create a new late been insinuating that. There legedly inciting public violence.
Orwellian environment in Zim- is a list of top opposition targets
babwe where secret and thought who are being monitored close-
police reminiscent of George Or- ly. Chamisa, naturally a target,
well’s writings brazenly seek to is number one, Ngarivhume on
suppress democratic rights. number two, based on the polit-
ical currency he gained leading to
The law, according to a Cabi- the July 31 demos, Wiwa (Sikha-
net resolution this week, will also la) is number three and Biti on
make it illegal for citizens to bad- number four; these are their top
mouth Zimbabwe to foreign offi- targets. They have been placed
cials, further suppressing demo- under close surveillance; even
cratic rights. their mobile phone communica-
tions are being monitored. Not a
Central Intelligence Organisa- single of their movements goes
tion (CIO) sources this week told unchecked.
The NewsHawks the spy agency has
compiled a report revealing MDC “There are also informants at
Alliance legislator Job Sikha- many Western embassies who
la and opposition leader Jacob feed the state with information on
Ngarivhume, recently arrested for diplomats’ meetings with opposi-
tion and civil society leaders. The
idea is to smear them and possibly
level criminal allegations against
them using the new law; in fact,
justify repression.”

Cabinet has approved amend-
ments to the Criminal Law (Cod-

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Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020
How military
intelligence
swooped on
Rushwaya

OWEN GAGARE cused of assisting Rushwaya and The military intelligence has As part of the investigation, the partner, while ZMF would ac-
cohorts to switch off the closed-cir- also been comparing production MID also sought to establish how quire gold buying permits, identify
AN undercover operation by the cuit television system (CCTV) figures with quantities delivered to the criminal syndicates and their agents and establish gold-buying
Military Intelligence Department at the airport – a serious security the state-run Fidelity Refiners and networks operate and smuggle the centres in all mining districts.
(MID) led to the arrest of Zim- breach – to facilitate the smug- Printers, while also examining in- mineral out of the country.
babwe Miners’ Federation (ZMF) gling. voices and payments. CMED committed to assist
president Henrietta Rushwaya as “The investigation revealed that miners with fuel, while Ali Japan,
she attempted to smuggle 6kg of They also expedited her clear- Security sources said the oper- there was rampant gold smuggling which Rushwaya revealed was also
gold to Dubai on Monday – a ance, which took only four min- ation confirmed the existence of to Dubai from Zimbabwe, through a gold buyer, would provide small-
culmination of a monitoring and utes, from the time she entered the cash-rich politically-connected the Robert Mugabe Internation- scale miners with motor vehicles
surveillance mission which threat- airport terminal. gold barons who are smuggling the al Airport using both commercial and mobile mining machinery on
ens to open a Pandora’s Box on precious metal out of the country aircraft and private jets,” a security flexible payment terms.
grand-scale mineral looting and Security sources said what Rush- — particularly to Dubai and South agent told The NewsHawks.
corruption. waya, who is well-connected and Africa — before salting away mil- The Japanese investor commit-
close to President Mnangagwa, not lions of United States dollars to “Rushwaya was naturally one of ted to ship in at least 200 vehicles
Rushwaya was being assisted aware of was that she was already offshore bank accounts. the persons monitored because she for distribution to the small-scale
by state security agents at Rob- under surveillance by MID opera- controls many small-scale miners miners before the end of the year.
ert Gabriel Mugabe International tives before she got to the airport Dubai and Mauritius are some through the Zimbabwe Miners’
Airport, including a member of and while at the departure lounge of their main banking destinations. Federation structures and net- Rushwaya said with ZMF buy-
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s after her accomplices had left, lead- works.” ing gold countrywide from small-
close security unit, when police ing to her arrest. The gold magnates include in- scale miners, leakages would be
swooped in. fluential politicians in the top The Rushwaya-led ZMF this plugged, but the MID believed it
MID worked with the Criminal echelons of power, government month signed three strategic part- was a cover up for smuggling.
Four other persons—Mnangag- Investigation Department (CID)’s officials, ministers, legislators and nerships with the Commercial
wa’s security aide Stephen Tser- Minerals, Flora and Fauna Unit business tycoons. Bank of Zimbabwe (CBZ), Ali In recent years, gold production
ayi, state security operative Rafi- (MFFU) at Robert Gabriel Mug- Japan786, a company in the auto- volumes from artisanal and small-
us Mupandauya, ZMF’s strategic abe International Airport and the The syndicates have modern mobile industry and the state-run scale miners in Zimbabwe have
partner Ali Mohammed who also Civil Aviation Authority (Caaz) equipment for melting gold con- Central Mechanical and Engineer- eclipsed those from large-scale
runs the car dealership Ali Japan to coordinate the monitoring and centrate, purification and elution. ing Department (CMED) aimed miners.
786 and Gift Karanda — have also surveillance operations, leading to They also have gold amalgamation at capacitating small-scale miners
been arrested in connection with her arrest. barrels used for the separation of to ramp up production. Gold delivery data from Fidelity
the matter. bullion from gold concentrate Refiners and Printers shows that,
MID deals with various matters, amalgam. The MID however believes the in 2019, artisanal and small-scale
Tserayi, Mupandauya and ranging from political, economic deal was part of a ploy to facilitate miners accounted for 63% of the
Karanda allegedly assisted the for- to criminal issues. CID is charged Home Affairs minister Kazembe gold smuggling, although some 27 650.26 kilogrammes of gold
mer Zimbabwe Football Associa- with investigating and detecting all Kazembe in September said Zim- of the players may not have been bought by the state entity.
tion boss to circumvent and breach serious crimes in Zimbabwe. babwe was losing US$100 million aware of the sinister motive.
security checks. worth of gold every month through Security agents revealed Rush-
The NewsHawks established smuggling. Mines Minister Winston waya was arrested while going
Rushwaya identified Ali as the this week that in recent weeks the Chitando, who is the ZMF pa- through a “routine exercise” of
owner of the contraband which the MID has been investigating, track- Gold remains the country’s big- tron, attended the ceremony and compromising the airport’s secu-
accused also linked to First Lady ing and profiling gold miners and gest foreign currency earner. Last applauded Rushwaya for the work rity with the help of state security
Auxillia and her son Colins. buyers to establish, among other is- year, the country earned US$946 she was doing. agents and bribing officials man-
sues, their production levels as well million, down from US$1.3 billion ning the facility as they were not
The state security agents are ac- as how and who they sell to. in 2018, from exports of the yellow Under the partnership, CBZ aware MID, CID and other securi-
metal. committed to be ZMF’s banking ty agencies were hot on their heels.

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Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020

Mugabe’s death secures US$1m windfall

BERNARD MPOFU

WHILE some, mainly close The late former president, Robert Mugabe
relatives and cronies, mourned
the death last year of Zimbabwe’s usually die without laying their at the beginning of last year be- business on Mother Earth. Before his death, Mugabe
long-time ruler Robert Mugabe hands on—how much was his fore his death on 6 September But fate had other plans for would frequent his rural home
–which was global news—two net worth and how did he get the 2019. The money had been there over the weekends where he
years after he was ousted in a money when he was earning so for three years—basically forgot- Mugabe. His own loot was loot- would reportedly hold meetings
coup, others celebrated for polit- little and had no known thriving ten at his dusty rural home. ed. in the beautiful African savan-
ical reasons. businesses beyond a struggling na village with his kinsman over
dairy farm and mainly unpro- It emerged in court that Mug- “Mapurisa bought a Toyota various community issues.
Yet there were people for ductive landholdings, including abe had in 2016 packed four Camry... and a house for $20,000
whom Mugabe’s death turned out the now-collapsing Mazowe em- briefcases with books and took after the incident,” state prosecu- His widow, Grace, would usu-
to be a blessing in disguise. For pire run by his shopaholic wife them to where his story, one of tor Teveraishe Zinyemba told the ally remain at the family’s Blue
most of his former employees, it Grace? the most compelling and grip- Chinhoyi magistrate’s court. Roof mansion in Harare when-
was a misfortune to lose an em- ping life histories, had begun in ever the ex-president travelled to
ployer, but for a a few ex-workers By the time of his death, Mug- 1924 when he was born— Kuta- “Saymore Nhetekwa also Kutama village where he is bur-
it was a blessing— abe had US$10 million in his of- ma. bought a Honda... and livestock ied.
ficial local bank account, court which included pigs and cattle
for it secured a US$1 million documents relating to his family In packing his briefcases, for an undisclosed amount.” Before his death, Mugabe had
windfall for the farm labourers estate later showed. which he reportedly did person- shown clearly that he still had
who would never have dreamt of ally without Grace’s knowledge, For Nhetekwa, a Mugabe rel- fire in his belly at 95, making a
seeing, let alone laying their bare He had no known expensive Mugabe had stuffed in the nearly ative, he sadly did not enjoy the last stand in court from Singa-
hands, on such a life-changing properties and the frequently US$1 million for his village re- money for long as he later com- pore to fight his robbers to get
stash of greenbacks. reported billions of dollars, but tirement, anticipating he would mitted suicide after failing to live back his money.
those close to his family still in- go back to his people and lead with the shame which is still a
For Johannes Mapurisa and his sist he had a lot of money inherit- a rustic existence in the twilight village scandal. In the process, he recovered
cohorts, Mugabe’s death was mu- ed by Grace and his children. zone of life. US$37 000, but then death struck,
sic to their ears; it did not only Obey Mudimu, a poultry man- leaving Mapurisa and his cohorts
make a difference between free- Court documents later showed The money was his village ager at Mugabe’s rural home, said smiling all the way to the bank as
dom and jail, but enabled them that Mugabe had specifically pension package for personal the dramatic windfall had made that meant the case would die a
to secure a “pension” through an been robbed of US$922 000 by comfort and use with his relatives some of the suspects lead lavish natural death—like the old po-
audacious cash heist at the late Mapurisa and his accomplices. and community as he reminisced lifestyles in a sea of poverty. litical lion himself— since there
authoritarian ruler’s rural Kuta- This played out before Chinhoyi over his history, winding down would be no complainant any-
ma village in Zvimba. magistrate Tawengwa Chibanda his largely violent and bloody “The last time I checked some more to pursue the case.
of them (the accused) were sell-
After the coup, Mugabe was ing cars and others had bought
confined to his Blue Roof man- assets,” he said.
sion in Harare until he left for
Singapore for medical attention
and recovery.

While he was in the far-flung
First World outpost in South East
Asia, Mugabe’s workers pounced
on a locked and sealed brief-
case at his rural home in Mash-
onaland West province, stealing
US$1 million cash.

Before this dramatic change
of fortune, the farm workers had
survived on barely US$1 a day.
When they stumbled upon the
greenbacks, it did not take long
for them to stick out like a sore
thumb.

The suspects, Constance Mug-
abe (50), Saymore Nheketwa
(47), Andrew Mahumbe (37) and
Mapurisa began living beyond
their means.

They bought expensive per-
sonal items, designer clothes
and shoes, traversed the village
flaunting their newfound fashion
and swag, looking out of place
in their impoverished locality,
while making it easy for fellow
villagers and the police to flush
them out.

After basking in the glory of
their loot and enjoying their
nouveau riche lifestyles, things
changed, at least for a while: they
got arrested for stealing a once-
feared dictator’s money hidden
in a poor village.

Many rightly asked: if Mug-
abe could stash US$1 million
in a remote village—the sort of
money 99.9% of Zimbabweans

Editorial & OpinionPage 8 NewsHawks
Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020

CARTOON

Corrupt leaders simply

worse than sanctions

FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube recently expressed exasper- Rushwaya gold scandal tip of iceberg
ation over systematic gold smuggling, saying he was puzzled
how criminal syndicates routinely evade security scanners at REPORTS President Emmerson Mnan- It’s not just about us having jobs and put Mnangagwa in the spotlight.
Robert Mugabe International Airport to salt away precious gagwa, for the second time in as many earning salaries, which are very small In 2003, Mnangagwa, who was Speak-
minerals and siphon millions so easily. years, has once again been implicated in anyway, but providing community service
a gold scandal after one of the accused and joining hands with progressive citi- er of Parliament at the time, was accused
Not just that, without consequences. In other words, with who assisted Zimbabwe Miners’ Federa- zens to fight the war of corruption. of receiving ZW$8 million from an illegal
impunity. tion (ZMF) boss Henrietta Rushwaya in gold miner.
her bid to smuggle 6kgs to Dubai claimed The idea and hope being that if corrup-
Well, Ncube can now stop scratching his head — that is if he the contraband belonged to the First Lady tion is contained or defeated, Zimbabwe The allegations surfaced when Mark
was indeed confounded by the smuggling syndicates in the first and her son have predictably provoked in- will once again have a chance to be the Matthew Burden, accused of trading in
place. He ought to have known better. terest and outrage. progressive and prosperous country it can gold without a licence, appeared before
be. It once was in a way. the High Court.
The endless heists on Treasury and national resources by his Zimbabweans live in a country with
bosses and their cronies – the kleptocrats (read Hawk Eye on huge national resources, human capital By African standards and even global in On September 17, 2003 Burden “paid
this page about the consequences of kleptocracy) in suits and and great potential, but is desperately some aspects, for instance tobacco farm- ED Mnangagwa Z$8 million using bank
ties, as well as their advisers and enablers - are happening right poor with an economy which has pla- ing (I once visited some Kentucky farms cheque 693803”.
under his nose. teaued and stabilised in crisis for years in the United States and they harped on
without light at the end of the tunnel. for the issue for days), Zimbabwe was a Whether he is involved or not is not the
Henrietta Rushwaya, president of the Zimbabwe Miners’ global player, small as it is. issue. A leader simply can’t afford this.
Federation and former CE of the Zimbabwe Football Associa- It has the second-highest annual in-
tion, was headed for Dubai when she was arrested. flation in the world at 659.4% after Ven- Hawk Eye The fact that Rushwaya and the CIO
ezuela, vast de-industrialisation, over agents are close or under Mnangagwa is
The scandal has sparked national outrage and debate in far- 90% unemployment, endless currency Dumisani damaging, not just to him and his family,
flung lands, including in the House of Lords in Britain. troubles, high informalisation of the Muleya but also to government and the nation.
economy, thriving black market, dwin-
The scandal provided evidence that the politically connected dling production capacity and hence With the second-largest platinum re- This makes Zimbabwe look like a
and those in the corridors of power, in this case exemplified by over-reliance on imports, collapse of so- serves in the world after South Africa, kleptocracy, which actually it is, and
the accused accessory to the crime Steven Tserayi, a Central In- cial services delivery and infrastructure why shouldn’t Zimbabwe matter in some that’s why it is a failed state.
telligence Organisation security aide for President Emmerson dilapidation, among many other prob- aspects of global trade and commerce?
Mnangagwa. lems. The main reason why this is hap- Forget about the technical political
pening is clear: extended periods of lead- Add to that the other over 40 varieties scientific definitions, Zimbabwe is a
Rushwaya is a well-connected individual. She is related to ership, governance and policy failures, as of minerals, the country, with a very small failed state. In terms of smuggling net-
those in power and operates within their social and political well as mismanagement and corruption. economy and population, has no reason works and patterns, there is a reason
networks. Her background is very interesting and revealing. to be a failure. why Rushwaya was heading to Dubai
Rushwaya is a teacher by training and profession, failed am- Talking of corruption, it is one of the with the gold. Dubai is one of the world’s
ateur Zanu PF politician, football administrator and ex-Zifa single biggest destructive forces in the Zimbabwe has huge potential for its largest gold hubs and places to launder
chief executive. She has been linked to a series of corruption Zimbabwean economy and society. We size. If it leverages its resources and hu- artisanally mined gold, especially from
cases relating to extortion, fraud, bribery, theft and match-fix- are talking of industrial scale corruption man capital, it can achieve better purchas- Africa. Ask any informed gold dealer and
ing scandals. in this country. ing power parity and lifestyle than South smuggler they will tell you that.
Africa. Rhodesia was once better than
Tserayi is a senior security aide, having worked with minis- It’s not just about extortion, bribery, South Africa in some areas, for instance it Even if Dubai is relatively new to the
ters and until now with the President. He is highly connected rent-seeking, corrupt procurement deals, had a currency far stronger than the rand game, the United Arab Emirates is ranked
as he worked around Mnangagwa and other senior authorities. tenders and brazen heists on Treasury, it is and more buying power. among the top four gold-importing coun-
His alleged involvement is not merely about corruption by an also about grand-scale smuggling of pre- tries in the world behind the United
individual. It is as much about him as it is about the behaviour cious minerals and illicit financial flows. Now how do you achieve such mile- States, China (Hong Kong) and others.
of people around the president, state security agents and brazen stones with leaders like these? With Zanu
abuse of power and positions, a national security key point like The cumulative impact of this has PF in power, one thing is guaranteed: A report published by a US foreign pol-
the Harare International Airport (which those in power now brought Zimbabwe down to its knees. continued disastrous national failure and icy think-tank, The Carnegie Endowment
call Robert Mugabe International Airport) and the security poverty. for International Peace, dated 7 July 2020,
of the nation. This all in the context of corruption which has Sanctions, which have made a bad situ- titled Dubai’s Role in Facilitating Corrup-
reached catastrophic levels in this country. ation worse really, strictly speaking with- Back to the gold smuggling story: the tion and Global Illicit Financial Flows,
out fear or favour, pale in comparison to involvement of Rushwaya and CIO agents highlights the weaknesses of the emirate’s
Government, while acknowledging gold worth US$100 mil- corruption in its various forms and man- gold-trading practices. It has a huge un-
lion is smuggled out every month, has done precious little to ifestations. derworld gold-trading market.
stem the rot. The reason is simple: people in power and posi-
tions of authority are involved. So they won’t act willingly. Cor- This is one of motivations that drove us That is why Rushwaya was going there
ruption is not only deep rooted in society, but has also become a as The NewsHawks to set up an investiga- and that is where part of Zimbabwe’s min-
national culture. The whole Rushwaya scandal speaks volumes tion journalism centre. eral wealth is disappearing to.
about how rotten society and the system have become.
If only our leaders could stop this, and
For starters, whoever conveniently switched off the CCTV their role in it, Zimbabwe would be a great
during the attempted smuggling process must be arrested. country again.

Secondly, the involvement of security operatives raises the
big question: Why is the President surrounded by this sort of
people? Their audacity shows that what they did is the order of
the day in their circles. It can be first, and probably the not last,
time they are doing it. Their behaviour shows smuggling is their
stock-in-trade. So the rot is around Mnangagwa.

Thirdly, prosecutors behaved in a strange manner when they
initially indicated they were not opposed to the granting of bail.
It beggars belief; raises selective application of the law.

Fourthly, it has not gone unnoticed that the usual gang of
“super patriots” is dead silent as this smuggling scandal unfolds.
They are on mute button waiting to make noise on distractions
and obfuscations like sanctions.

The looting and smuggling of minerals is a serious matter that
threatens the very survival of this nation. We are not talking of
petty pilferage: US$100 million per month totals US$1.2 bil-
lion per year. It’s like someone stealing the whole annual bud-
get of Zimbabwe. Surely that’s almost treasonous; a betrayal of
the whole nation. Corrupt leaders in this country are doing far
more irreparable and incomparable damage to the economy
and people’s lives than sanctions. Phony patriotism of the Zanu
PF corrupt leaders and their supporters variety is a refugee for
scoundrels. Now let’s hear what the patriotic scoundrels have
got to say after this.

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Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020

Budget strategy
paper reveals
misalignment
with Vision 2030

Brett recent past, is marginally low- Minister of Finance Mthuli Ncube /File Pic
Chulu er than GDP. In the absence of
published GNI measurements, an lesser pessimistic view, our econ- 2030. The economic parameter growth to the economy. With our
IN last week’s instalment, a ideal GDP band will be a stretch omy is expected to have shrunken that bares the intended growth overall economic growth for 2023
concern was raised that the 2021 target of about 5%, on average. It by 10,7% over two years. The Bret- strategy is the proportion of the projected at 5,2%, a drag of minus
National Budget, Vision 2030 and seems the upper-middle income ton Woods, impliedly, see a 19,6% contribution to economic growth 1,8 percentage points on economic
the National Development Strategy target is a moving one regularly economic decline in two years. coming from the private sector growth from an expected trade
risk being misaligned. revised by the World Bank. It in terms of investment in capital deficit will, like in the previous
becomes difficult to set a numer- If we take Treasury’s projected assets. year (2022), mean government-led
The Pre-Budget Strategy Paper ical target 10 years in advance. economic growth rates for 2023 capital outlays will be overwhelm-
released by Treasury sets out the The upper-middle income band and 2023 as the expected speeds As per Treasury’s assessment, ingly driving economic growth.
pillars of the yet-to-be-published is significantly wide. It is a big of growth, and a low single-digit the economy is seen growing
National Development Strategy challenge for strategy. Government inflation regime, in 2030, applying 7,4% in 2021. The growth, on an Clearly, the private sector is ex-
One (NDS1)(2021-2025) on which will have to sit down and address the World Bank’s GDPgrowth expenditure basis, will come from pected to take a back seat in terms
the 2021 National Budget will be this challenge. One way to address estimates for 2019 and 2020 , we consumption (both households of driving economic growth. This
based. the conundrum would be to take expect to have an economy with a and government), gross fixed shows Treasury is not expecting
the Sadc macro-economic con- nomimal GDP of US$38 billion. capital formation and exports of meaningful external financial
The logical connection (log vergence annual inflation target of The Agriculture and Food Systems goods/services. Of 7,4% envisaged support to flow in to support pri-
frame) tying the series of forth- 3% and compound the 2021 upper Transformation stratey implies a growth for 2021, gross fixed capital vate-sector investment in produc-
coming annual national budgets middle-income lower bound. US$40 billion economy in 2025. formation is expected to account tive assets, at least up to 2023. It is
with the Transitional Stabilisation The mismatch is concerning. for 78,4%. Gross fixed capital not possible for government-pow-
Programme (TSP) (October 2018 This will give us a target of at Taking into account the current formation is expected to add 5,8% ered economic growth to chalk up
- December 2020), the NDS1, least per capita GNI of US$5 279 natural rate of growth of our popu- to our economic growth in 2021. economic growth rates that can
National Development Strategy in 2030. Better still, we use per lation, in 2030 our per capita GDP Of that expected gross fixed capital take us to Vision 2030. The real
Two(NDS2)(2026-2030) and the capita GDP (nominal) of at least will be about US$2 375. formation, the government is ex- picture is clear: no shape-shifting
Vision 2030 target is laid out im- US$5 279 in 2030. This will give pected to add 5,1% growth to our changes in manufacturing are
peccably by way of a graphic. a good cushion so that we are not If we take the more optimis- economy in 2021.Put more force- expected up to 2023. Exports are
too close to the World Bank’s lower tic view of our Treasury, a per fully, the government’s investment expected to play a very minimal
In principle, the intention to bound of an upper-middle income capita GDP of US$3 750 in 2030 in infrastructure and other capital role in growing the economy.
align the 2021 National Budget economy in 2030 (frankly, we do is expected. This is 7,3% outside projects is expected to drive 70%
with the NDS1 and with the ulti- not know what the World Bank the current upper-middle income of our expected economic growth This leads us to a pertinent
mate goal of growing our national will state as the upper-middle lower bound. in 2020. question: how will the state find
economy to an upper-middle-in- income range in 2030). It will be funds to keep rolling out capital
come group is present in Trea- interesting to see how our Trea- As argued before, the World The private sector’s investment projects to sustain expected eco-
sury’s thinking. sury will tackle the moving target Bank’s 2030 upper-middle income in capital expenditure is expected nomic growth? There is a signif-
conundrum. We need to be sure band will be much higher than the to add 0,7% to our 2021 economic icant risk to economic growth
However, when you scrutinise which goal we are attacking before current (2021) band. Assuming growth. Put differently, private projections, given in the Pre-Bud-
the economic numbers and pa- the match begins. If we do not our GNI will always tail our GDP, sector investment in productive get Strategy Paper. Any averments
rameters spelt out in the Pre-Bud- address this challenge, we will have the economy growth rates pro- assets is expected to drive 9,4% of from planned government capital
get Strategy Paper, there are fun- a strategy built on an intended end jected in the Pre-Budget Strategy our economic growth. expenditures by way of financial
damental misalignments resident we are not pretty sure what it is. Paper, in 2030 we will be a way constraints, delays in progress
therein. This article, hopefully, will Misaligned growth rates off by as much as 70% from the As far as 2021, the first year of and natural disasters will have an
assist Treasury to re-adjust both Based on both the old upper-mid- upper-middle income per capita the NDS1, is concerned, our econ- outsized impact in scaling down
the budget and the NDS1 before dle income target band spelt out in GNI range. omy is expected to be grown by economic growth.
they are published. the Pre-Budget Strategy Paper and government capital expenditure.
Vision 2030 target poser the new one issued by the World As things stand, our prospective Key economic numbers borne
Page 5 of the Pre-Budget Strategy Bank, the real economic growth 2021 National Budget and NDS1 In 2022, our economy, as per in the Pre-Budget Strategy Paper
Paper states the upper-middle rates are too low to take us to the are not built for Vision 2030. Treasury’s figures, is expected to show that we are under-capac-
income economy target as per upper-middle income status. On grow by 5,5%. Gross fixed capital itated to fulfil Vision 2030; our
capita Gross National Income page 33 of the Pre-Budget Strategy There is a window to correct this formation is expected to grow the intended National Development
(GNI) ranging between US$3 Paper, the growth projections for grave misalignment. economy in 2021 by 6,7%, with Strategy is out of kilter with Vision
956 and US$12 235. This target the economy of Zimbabwe are State-led economic growth government-led capital outlays, 2030 and so, too, is our intended
band will be irrelevant in 2021. 7,4% in 2021; 5,5% in 2022 and It was expected that the desire growing the economy by 6,1%, 2021 National Budget.
The World Bank has re-set the 5,2% in 2023. of private sector-led economic with a negative trade balance
upper-middle income for 2021, growth explicitly stated in the dragging the 6,7% growth by 1,9 Brett is a management consul-
the inaugural year of the NDS1, as These three projections are soon-to-be-concluded TSP would percentage points. So in practical tant and a classic grounded theo-
per capita GNI (nominal) of US$4 concerning. The 5,5% and 5,2% for be carried over into the NDS1 terms, in 2022, our econom- ry researcher who has published
046 - US$12 535.There is a 2% 2022 and 2023 respectively are in and beyond. Private sector-led ic growth is expected to come research in an academic peer
difference between the old and the the order of the actual growth rate growth is logical if we hope to spur entirely from government-driven reviewed international journal.
new band. for 2018 (5,5%), achieved without economic growth and sustain the capital programmes. In 2023, a He can be contacted through
the implementation of the TSP. minimum required rates of real similar pattern is expected, with email: brettchuluconsultant@
GNI is a slightly different We should not forget that 2019 economic growth for attaining an government-led gross fixed capital gmail.com
measure from the commonly ref- dragged our economic growth to upper-middle income target by formation expected to add 5,5%
erenced Gross Domestic Product minus 6% (Treasury’s estimate) or
(GDP). GNI is the sum of GDP minus 8,3% (IMF’s estimate). No
and net money received from one at this point in time knows
abroad by Zimbabwean residents exactly how our economy declined
and locally-registered entities. last year.

In Zimbabwe, our GNI, from This year, our Treasury thinks
historical records of the most our economy will shrink further
by 4,5% while the Bretton Woods
see our economy shrinking by
10,4%. If we take the Treasury’s

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USD/CAD 104.81 +0.25 +0.24 *NAT GAS 3.012 -0.011 -0.36
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Zimra misses
tax target by
ZW$1.9bn
over Econet
crackdown

DUMISANI NYONI is the largest among them all as dented measures had been ne- decline by 32.2% in real terms. billion.
it accounts for 94% of all mobile cessitated by the need to protect Major contributors to net rev- She said growth is expected to
TAX collector Zimbabwe Rev- money transactions in the econ- consumers on mobile money plat- enue collections for the quar-
enue Authority (Zimra) missed omy. forms which have been abused ter were individuals at 15.26%, come from increased productiv-
its third quarter target on Inter- by unscrupulous and unpatriotic companies (14.63%), excise duty ity with the opening up of more
mediated Money Transaction Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe individuals as well as other enti- (14.17%), Value-Added-Tax business sectors in the economy
Tax – the controversial 2% charge Limited, a subsidiary of Econet ties to create instability and inef- (VAT) on local sales (13.24%) in the post-Covid-19 environ-
on electronic transactions - after which runs the Ecocash platform, ficiencies in the economy. and VAT on imports (13.08%). ment.
the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe recently said in a trading update “Customs duties, which are
(RBZ) tightened screws on mo- that its mobile money transfer Econet and other platforms usually among the top five con- “In addition, the government’s
bile money platforms in a bid to unit registered an 11% transac- denied the claims. The platforms tributors, only contributed 9.40% strategy to target low hanging
contain a rampant informal for- tional value decline in the face of were also directed to integrate on due to the impact of the lockdown fruits in various sub-sectors of
eign currency trading market. a stricter operating environment the ZimSwitch platform, among on imports: only food, medicines, the manufacturing industry is ex-
imposed by the central bank. other tough measures. protective clothing and machin- pected to attract the much-need-
Official statistics obtained ery were being imported, and ed investment for domestic pro-
from Zimra show revenue per- The nature of transactions RBZ defended the directives, these were mainly either duty free duction,” Matambo said.
formance for the quarter ended processed on the Ecocash plat- saying they were meant to block or subject to duty rebates,” Mat-
30 September plunged due to the form, which are high volume and illegal foreign currency dealers ambo said. “South Africa has opened its
crackdown on Econet and other low value, have seen the value from manipulating the platforms On the outlook, Matambo said borders and cross-border trade
mobile money networks - costing of transactions on the platform by increasing parallel market ex- momentum in revenue collec- is therefore expected to increase
the tax collector $ZW$1.9 billion; going down to about 19% of the change rates and derailing gov- tion was expected to increase in thereby feeding into higher col-
32.2% of the revenue head target. total value on the National Pay- ernment’s efforts to stabilise the the last quarter of the year with lections in import duties. The
ments System, from 30% in 2019. economy. the collection target for the year weather forecasts are projecting
“The intermediated money having been upped to ZW$172 good rains in the coming farming
transfer tax (2%) lost its mo- During the third quarter of But all revenue heads regis- season; this boosts economic ac-
mentum, missing the target of this year, the net revenue collec- tered positive growth in nominal tivity in all sectors as value chains
ZW$5,9 billion by ZW$1,9 bil- tions of ZW$57 billion were how- terms despite the electronic tax can then be easily promoted.”
lion and contributing only 6.86% ever 27.16% above the targeted
to total revenue for the quarter,” ZW$44.83 billion.
Zimra vice-board chairperson Jo-
sephine Matambo, said. Compared to the same period
last year where ZW$6.42 billion
“This was partly due to the was collected, nominal net reve-
monetary policy interventions nue collections grew by 788.16%.
introduced to harness the local
currency depreciation that was On June 27, the central bank
threatening economic stability.” suspended all merchant trans-
actions except for receiving pay-
During the same period last ments for goods and services as
year, the 2% tax registered over a well as payment of utilities - wa-
400% revenue increase, but after ter, power and airtime - which
the crackdown its tax contribu- have been limited up to ZW$5
tion dwindled. 000 per day.

Mobile money networks plat- The bank also said all mobile
forms in Zimbabwe include Eco- money liquidations should be
cash, One Money, MyCash, and done through the banking sys-
Telecash. tem, while bulk payer transac-
tions had been suspended with
Ecocash, a subsidiary of pri- immediate effect.
vately owned Econet Zimbabwe,
The RBZ said these unprece-

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Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020

Zimbabwe in economic state of
radical uncertainty — Hawkins

Finance Minister, Mthuli Ncube Tony Hawkins

ZIMBABWE is in a state of radical change auction covered less than He said the Hawkins said while electron- being collected in United States
uncertainty, economic consultant 20% of imported goods and ser- quality and time- ic transactions were up 400% in dollars.
Tony Hawkins told an Association vices. This was unsustainable un- liness of domestic nominal terms, they were down
of Healthcare Funders of Zimba- less weekly sales increased due economic data 40% (according to latest Zimba- The local currency was a medi-
bwe (AHFoZ) all-stakeholders’ to higher exports, which was un- was deteriorat- bwe Revenue Authority statistics um of exchange only for electronic
webinar on health on Wednesday. likely, or diaspora remittances in- ing. There were it declined 32.2%; see Business transactions, since currency in cir-
creased, which was also unlikely, no meaningful Matters lead story) when inflation culation was just 1.5% of deposits.
“It is impossible to put numer- or there was offshore borrowing budget estimates adjusted. Public sector wages had
ical probabilities to expected out- or a move to mobilise money in and inflation gone up 110% or 160% when the A year ago, a quarter of bank
comes, making forecasting little nostro accounts. The forex auction projections were Covid-19 allowance was included deposits were in nostro accounts
more than a lottery,” Hawkins, a was an auction only in name, an outdated, with but were down 40% in real terms. and three-quarters in Zimdollar
University of Zimbabwe professor allocation system used to ration “goalpost shifting accounts. Now the ratio was 70 to
of economics, said. scarce foreign exchange by curbing to use blended Various data suggested that 30 in favour of nostro accounts.
demand and to control prices. inflation figures”. Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
More than 100 stakeholders in would be down his year by be- However, Hawkins pointed out
the health sector attended the AH- There were two narratives, he tween 10% and 12% at best and that while re-dollarisation would
FoZ webinar, whose theme was said, the official government nar- 15% at worst. Government says it offer some relief, it was not a sus-
“The Healthcare Ecosystem and rative and an alternative narrative would only be down 4.5%, but this tainable permanent solution.
Quality of Life – Covid-19 After- based on World Bank survey data. was because its inflation estimate
math”. They could not both be true, which was an average 134% for the year, He said average wages were cur-
means one is wrong. while the projected estimate was rently well below the poverty da-
Hawkins said the major un- 550%. tum line of ZW$17 500 per month
knowns are: the impact of the The official version was that the for a family of five.
Covid-19 lockdowns and recovery economy, prices and the exchange Hawkins said external debt,
trajectories, rainfall patterns in the rate had stabilised, the balance of which stood at US$8.7 billion in In agriculture the highest mini-
coming season and the precise na- payments and budget had a sur- December 2018, was now estimat- mum wage was less than a third of
ture of the post-Covid new normal plus and that there had been a ed at US$17.5 billion. the poverty datum line.
and its effects. surge in diaspora remittances.
At best, GDP would only begin It was doubtful, he said, that the
He said the quality and timeli- According to the World Bank to recover in the second quarter of current economic strategy would
ness of domestic economic data survey data, monthly sales had next year, though a range of policy work without international re-en-
was deteriorating. There were no declined by 54% since mid-2019, factors would influence the extent gagement and debt relief.
meaningful budget estimates and while 92% of the 600 firms sur- and sustainability of the recovery.
inflation projections were outdat- veyed had reduced working hours Hawkins said that one impor-
ed, with “goalpost shifting to use and 23% had laid off permanent He said re-dollarisation was tant lesson learnt from the Cov-
blended inflation figures”. workers. creeping in, with a growing num- id-19 experience was the need for
ber of official charges and taxes individuals or the nation to have
Hawkins said the foreign ex- health insurance cover.

— STAFF WRITTER/
CORRESPONDENT

Page 12 Companies & Markets NewsHawks
Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020

Miners see 80%, indicated it would take
no light at them less than three months
the end of to go back to pre-Covid-19
the tunnel levels of operation.

BERNARD MPOFU pronouncements such as Govt mining sector in 2021 with Winston Chitando “As was the case for 2020,
unexpected currency policy usually about 80% of respondents survey findings show that
EIGHT out of 10 executives changes instead of reform, changes expressing pessimism on the political situation and most mining executives are
in the mining industry say as well as arbitrary fiscal policy the mining policy environ- country risk, with 80% of pessimistic about the pros-
Zimbabwe’s political situa- and monetary policy moves. without ment for 2021,” the report respondents expressing pes- pects for raising adequate
tion and recovery prospects consulta- says. simism about prospects of capital in 2021, indicating
will not improve next year The concerns of mine tion and an improved situation for that uncompetitive invest-
despite the official bullish managers fly in the face of warning “Respondents cited fre- 2021.” ment environment, high
economic sentiment, the the government’s econom- quent policy reversals that cost of doing business and
Chamber of Mines of Zim- ic diplomacy mantra that characterised the mining The survey further perceived country risk are
babwe reveals in its latest “Zimbabwe is open for busi- operating environment in shows that about 90% of major hindrances to raising
study on the state of the ness”. the greater part of 2020. respondents expected the capital,” the report says.
mining sector. Covid-19 situation to im-
According to the Cham- “As was the case for 2020, prove in 2021, boosting the “As was the case for 2020,
The capital intensive sec- ber’s State of the Mining In- mining executives remained prospects of the mining in- variables such as economic
tor, which employs thou- dustry Survey Report, 80% slightly less confident about dustry in 2021. prospects; investment com-
sands and accounts for of executives who took part petitiveness; access to cap-
more than half of the coun- in the poll said policy in- Most respondents, at ital; consistency of mining
try’s exports, is seen as a key consistencies are retarding policies and political and
driver of Zimbabwe’s eco- growth in the sector. country risk remained in
nomic revival. the negative territory for
The government usually 2021.”
However, executives in changes policy without con-
the industry have expressed sultation and warning. Mines and Mining Devel-
concern over government opment Minister Winston
policy inconsistencies and “Survey findings show Chitando told delegates at-
an unfavourable operat- that mining executives are tending the survey launch
ing environment. They cite slightly less confident about that the setting up of a
payment delays and official prospects for a consistent forex-denominated Victoria
and predictable operating Falls Stock Exchange was
policy environment for the expected to ease funding
constraints.

He said the government
would soon announce some
specific interventions in two
minerals before year-end
to stimulate growth in the
mining sector.

“The introduction of the
Victoria Falls Exchange
marks the beginning of an-
other very important ave-
nue of capital for our coun-
try,” Chitando said.

… despite capacity utilisation increase

THE Zimbabwean mining According to the latest various levels of implemen- be finalised in the medium 80% in 2021.” forward to an improved
sector has welcomed a pro- survey conducted by the tation including JIN-AN term. Zimbabwe’s gold output, payment turnaround peri-
jected increase in capacity Chamber on the state of the underground operation od of not more than seven
utilisation to a five-year mining sector, most nines and Coke Battery Plant, “Survey findings show the report shows, could in- days to achieve their output
high of 80% in 2021, up (90%) are planning to ramp Tsingshan/Afrochine coke that most respondents are crease to 35 tonnes in 2021 target,” the report shows.
from 60% this year, buoyed up production in 2021, battery and coke oven bat- planning to improve capac- from 25 tonnes this year if
by favourable prices on the while 10% expect to remain tery at South Mining. Some ity utilisation in 2021. The access to capital improves. Energy deputy minister
international market and the same. of the projects were com- average capacity utilisation Magna Mudyiwa said the
steady power supply, an missioned in 2020 with for the industry is expect- Mining executives, the resumption of refurbish-
outlook by major mining Of the respondents hop- other projects expected to ed to increase from 61% in report says, are optimistic ment works at Hwange
houses has shown. ing to increase production, 2020 to a 5-year record at about business prospects. thermal power station is
approximately 40% are ex- expected to add 300 mega-
This is despite a pes- pecting to ramp that up by “Miners (are) looking watts to the national grid.
simistic outlook for the more than 30%. About 10% She said the power station
broader economy, precipi- expect to increase output by would generate an addi-
tated by political uncertain- between 10% and 30%. tional 200MW by 2022.
ty, among other factors.
“In the PGMs (Platinum Chamber of Mines of
The outbreak of the Group Metals) industry, Zimbabwe chief executive
Covid-19 has seen the price there is a lot of progress at Isaac Kwesu said mining
of gold firming as most in- new platinum projects in- houses have a daily peak
vestors seek sanctuary in cluding Great Dyke Invest- demand of 3360MW, but
the precious metal as the ment, Karo Resources and this could jump to 420MW
international community Todal which are at various if the sector ramps up pro-
grapples with the devastat- stages of development and duction next year.
ing pandemic. resource quantification
with platinum output ex- The government envis-
Chamber of Mines of pected to exceed 24 tonnes ages the mining sector to
Zimbabwe president Eliz- by 2025,” the report says. nearly double in size and
abeth Nerwande said the become a US$12 billion
industry had not recorded “In the coal industry, industry by 2023, driven
any job losses during the there are also a number of by more investment and a
Covid-19 lockdown which coal and coke battery proj- favourable operating envi-
disrupted business activity. ects in the Hwange area at ronment in the sector.

NewsHawks Companies & Markets Page 13

Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020

New plans to resuscitate Ziscosteel

The defunct ZiscoSteel /File pic.

NOKUTHABA DLAMINI Ziscosteel history timeline: “We are discussing how we are
going to bring in an investor. We
INDUSTRY and Commerce min- Founded in 1942 as the Rhodesian Iron and Steel Commission December 2015, then Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa already have interests from vari-
ister Sekai Nzenza has announced (Riscom) before it changes to Rhodesian Iron and Streel announces workers’ contracts had been terminated on three ous local and international inves-
government’s plans to resusci- Company (Risco) in 1957; months’ notice; tors, we are hoping to get one in
tate the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel 1980 Risco becomes Zisco; February 2016, a total of 1 500 remaining workers sent home collaboration with the Zimbabwe
Company (Zisco) in the next 12 Company at its peaks produces up to one million tonnes on six months’ unpaid leave, sparking protests; Development Association for us
months, more than a decade after annually and employs 8 000 people; 2017, government reportedly secures a US$1 billion investment to start production of local steel.”
the defunct steelmaker came to Exports to Europe and Asia as well as to neighbouring coun from R and F, a Chinese company;
a grinding halt due to extended tries in the region; Apart from steel production,
periods of mismanagement and 2008, Zisco closes down at the height of hyperinflation which 2019 the company pulls out after terms of the deal that had Nzenza said a five-year plan has
corruption. scales billions or worse percentage points; been negotiated with the late Robert Mugabe government been set to resuscitate pharma-
2011, Zimbabwe government and Essar Global sign a US$750 changed under Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration; ceutical, fertiliser and leather pro-
Zisco, once an industrial giant million deal to resuscitate Zisco, but the deal is frustrated March 2020, Ziscosteel board approaches government for duction.
with both vertical and horizontal by self-serving political bickering in the Government of approval to engage a German
linkages, has been on the govern- National Unity; consultant to evaluate its net “Our local fertiliser production
ment’s economic revival agenda Company’s unsustainable debt rises to approximately US$372 worth before seeking an is very small, but what is import-
for a long time. Years of misman- million in 2011; investor; ant to note is that in the next five
agement, economic implosion Employees owed over US$100 million; May 2020, government sets up an inter-ministerial taskforce to years we are going to be produc-
and political interference have spearhead revival of the defunct steelmaker. ing most of the fertiliser through
delayed plans to bring the Mid- Sable Chemicals. We have already
lands-based steel plant back on Zisco, which once employed when you look at the industry, the President has asked me to started work on that,” she said.
stream. over 5 000 people, ceased pro- you will notice that we are im- chair a taskforce to ensure that
duction in 2008 at the height of porting a lot of products that can everything goes accordingly. We “In pharmaceuticals, Caps is
Nzenza told The NewsHawks Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown. be made locally,”Nzenza said. can assure you that we will be re- already producing some of the
that Cabinet recently resolved to Its resuscitation, according to suscitating Ziscosteel in the next key drugs such as vitamin C,
resuscitate the sleeping giant and Nzenza, would enhance Zimba- “Steel is one product which we 12 months.” paracetamol and medicines for
this comes after President Em- bwe’s global competitiveness in need in construction, in agricul- bronchitis so what we intend
merson Mnangagwa froze the industrial research, innovation ture, in motor cars and in many A taskforce, including min- to do is to reduce raw materials
proposed takeover of its assets by and production. other areas. Currently we are im- isters of Finance, Energy and imported by local companies for
Zimcoke pending the finalisation porting US$1.1 billion worth of Mines, was constituted several production.
of a bid by a Chinese investor in “My ministry has a local policy steel products into Zimbabwe yet months ago to deal with the reviv-
the state-owned steelmaker of promoting production in our we have got so much iron ore in al of Zisco and is currently look- “We even import gelatine and
domestic market, but currently this country. So to correct that, ing for an investor. glucose ingredients from South
Nzenza said a Cabinet commit- Africa, China and all over the
tee has been meeting on a weekly place, yet we can produce it local-
basis to discuss financing strat- ly from our cattle. So in the next
egies, refurbishment costs and five years we will be producing
plans to court investors to revive those ingredients to make our
the company. own medication, while we will be
also exporting.”

Page 14 Executive Chat NewsHawks
Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020

Girl child who escaped polygamy to greatness

ETHEL Mupambwa nee Chiwara would cry if a boy would take num- It used to put me off (Laughs….) is when I realised I had to put my Our dream is to be the become the
grew up in rural Gokwe-Nem- ber one. If l wasn’t number one that hardworking hat on. It has been a leading player in the development
budziya in a polygamous family. particular term, I would not mind BM: How did you feel then and very long journey and I have real- of innovative and inclusive finan-
if it was a girl. My mentality was how do you feel now being the ly worked hard, been diligent and cial solutions to our clients. We
After completing her Ordinary just to fight the recognition men CEO of MoneyMart? patient to get here. It’s been lots of value people, innovation, positive
Level studies, she escaped a plan and boys always had, yet we were sleepless nights for us because they transformation to all our stake-
by her father to marry her off to a also human beings in the set up. EM: Then, I felt so devastated. I really need you to prove yourself; holders and operational efficiency.
polygamous man and pursued her Whilst on that note, it was also be- remember when my father told you really need to work hard to get
dreams. Now she is the chief exec- cause of the fact that my father was me he was marrying me off, I cried to the next stage. You have to prove BM: How has the Zimbabwe
utive and founder of MoneyMart, a businessman and his shops were so hard, I do not think that I have your worth. You have to prove that economy affected MoneyMart
a financial solutions company. She written Chiwara and Sons. My ever cried that much. In a way, I am you are the next African business operations?
was recently shortlisted among the biggest question was why not and grateful it happened because for hero.
top 50 of the Jack Ma Foundations’ wives, and we as daughters, where the first time in my life I stood up EM: To be honest, we at Mon-
Africa’s Business Hero awards. were we in the equation of all this? to my father and I really feel hum- BM: What is your vision and what eyMart Finance as a team, have
bled that I have managed to come do you stand for? decided to look at the glass as half
The NewsHawks’ Bridget Ma- this far, not only the CEO, but the full instead of half empty. We have
nanavire (BM) had a conversation founder of such an organisation EM: As a business, we call our- decided to look at the opportuni-
with Mupambwa (EM) about her which listens to women and tries selves financial architects. We are ties that the Zimbabwean economy
dramatic journey and running her by all means to financially empow- passionate about financial empow- has offered instead of looking at the
business in the current volatile eco- er them. It can only be God. erment especially that of women. problems. The economy has man-
nomic environment. aged to make room for the infor-
BM: You were shortlisted for the mal sector and that is the bulk of
BM: Let’s start with the part Jack Ma foundation’s Africa’s our clientele. And the informal sec-
where you ran away from home Business Heroes Awards. Can tor is contributing 60% and 45% to
after your father tried to marry you describe the journey to that GDP and employment, respective-
you off. Could you tell us that sto- achievement? ly, and they deserve an opportunity
ry? to grow by easy access to finance.
EM: When I applied, I really did
EM: My father had four wives, my not think that I would come this BM: How have been able to over-
mom being the first wife, and l am far. I just applied and I was like, re- come the challenges?
the last born to my mother. When ally, what have I to lose? And when
I completed my O Level, having I was nominated to be in the top EM: By being innovative and ag-
passed with flying colours, my fa- 50, I still could not believe it. That ile. We listen to the challenges of
ther told me that he had no money our clientele and are ready to meet
to further my education. He had their needs by giving them sustain-
already arranged my marriage to able solutions.
his friend and l was going to be
in a polygamous marriage. This BM: What policy changes do you
prompted me to run away from think can improve the situation?
home with the help of my mother
who helped me to board me a bus EM: I am passionate about women
around 2am destined for Harare, and youth empowerment, coming
where my older sister was already from the background I am coming
married. I went on to go to A level from and being still youthful my-
and then to university, support- self. I feel that if these two groups
ed by my sister and her husband. are given access to financial solu-
I could not return home as I was tions such as financial literacy pro-
afraid of my father for two years grammes, credits which speak to
since the incident. I had to be cou- them as they have no collateral and
rageous and fight for my life. cultural barriers; our economic is-
sues would soon be a thing of the
BM: Did you have any plan when past.
that happened?
BM: What would be your message
EM: Not really. It happened so sud- to the girl child?
denly and, to avoid the marriage
taking place, I had to leave imme- EM: If Ethel from Nembudzi-
diately, which meant on that same ya-Gokwe can do it, then you can
night when it was announced. The do it too. Stand up and be coura-
foremost thing on my mind was geous, you are just as good as the
that I should proceed with my boy child, the difference is only in
education because l knew l could the making of the body.
make it. During my primary level l
BM: And what would be your last
word?

EM: Thank you so much, Zimba-
bwe, and everyone who has sup-
ported me in this journey. I really
appreciate it and I do not take it for
granted. Please keep telling my sto-
ry so that someone who finds her-
self in a situation similar to mine,
they can listen to my story and
have the strength to stand up for
themselves. To the businesswomen
and youths out there, it is time to
deliver and produce results, keep
dreaming and dream big, the sky is
not even the limit.

NewsHawks Taking Stock Page 15

Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020

Price Sheet

Friday, 30 October 20 20 A MEMBER OF FINSEC & THE ZIMBA BW E STOCK EXCHA NGE

Company Sector Bloomberg Previous Last VWAP (cents) Total Total Price Price YTD Market
Traded Traded Traded Change Change (%) Cap
Ticker Price (cents) 1700.00 Volume Value ($) (cents) (%) ($m)
Price 163.00
AFDIS Consumer Goods AFDIS: ZH 1700.00 230.00 - - - - 432.92 1,994.20
African Sun Consumer Services ASUN: ZH 168.44 - 133.97 2,400 3,912.00 -5.44 -3.23 552.00 1,404.69
ART ARTD: ZH 230.00 163.00 373.67 1669.23 1,005.05
Ariston Industrials ARISTON: ZH 133.97 383.52 - - - - 606.97 2,180.22
Axia Consumer Services 376.00 - 21900.00 - - - - 520.71 2,036.11
BNC AXIA: ZH 360.00 - 6087.50 20,300 75,855.50 -2.33 -0.62 2270.33 4,793.45
BAT Consumer Goods BIND: ZH 21900.00 360.00 400.01 517,800 1,985,870.00 23.52 6.53 358.64 4,518.74
CAFCA Basic Materials BAT: ZH 6087.50 399.75 3995.28 - - - - 3319.56
Cassava CAFCA: ZH 404.79 - 900.00 - - - - 185.72 531.75
CBZ Consumer Goods CSZL: ZH 3995.28 - 70.00 55,400 221,605.00 -4.78 -1.18 5631.29 10,362.57
Dairibord Industrials CBZ: ZH 900.00 390.00 1482.78 - - - - 2005.26 27,456.83
Dawn DZL: ZH 70.00 - 395.75 200 1,800.00 - - 858.90
Delta Technology DAWN: ZH 1491.75 900.00 94.00 - - - - 335.15 3,222.01
Econet Banking DLTA: ZH 400.24 - 1380.00 154,200 2,286,440.00 -8.97 -0.60 164.82 1,720.02
Edgars ECO: ZH 95.00 1480.00 145.00 3,671,900 14,531,490.00 -4.49 -1.12 347.62 19,045.73
FBC Consumer Goods EDGR: ZH 1380.00 395.00 50.00 600 564.00 -1.00 -1.05 2014.94 10,252.21
Fidelity Real Estate FBC: ZH 145.00 94.00 408.00 - - - - 1486.43
First Capital FIDL: ZH 50.16 - 230.00 - - - - 459.91 307.37
FML Consumer Goods FCA: ZH 408.00 - 17.00 800 400.00 -0.16 -0.32 1136.36 9,272.91
FMP Telecommunications FMHL: ZH 235.00 50.00 12.50 - - - - 1252.94
GBH Consumer Services FMP: ZH 15.00 - 1394.26 1,000 2,300.00 -5.00 -2.13 608.33 157.94
Getbucks GBH: ZH 12.50 230.00 1881.20 3,400 578.00 2.00 13.33 1,078.36
Hippo Banking GBFS: ZH 1404.85 17.00 610.00 - - - - 4.17 2,815.78
Innscor Financial Services HIPO: ZH 1894.19 - 60.04 6,100 85,050.00 -10.59 -0.75 615.01 2,847.76
Lafarge 610.00 1350.00 255.19 484,000 9,105,020.00 -12.99 -0.69 431.05
Mash Banking INN: ZH 60.04 1890.00 - - - - 238.89 91.22
Masimba Financial Services LACZ: ZH 255.00 - 8.00 - - - - 669.74 145.39
Medtech MASH: ZH - 1515.00 23,200 59,205.00 0.19 0.07 1313.80 2,691.21
Meikles Real Estate MSHL: ZH 8.05 255.00 1,282,600 102,608.00 -0.05 -0.62 426.32 10,624.57
Nampak Industrials MMDZ: ZH 1520.00 8.00 74.75 2,000 30,300.00 -5.00 -0.33 496.46 488.00
NatFoods MEIK: ZH 1515.00 5000.00 454,900 340,037.75 -0.25 -0.33 1,116.19
NTS Financial Services NPKZ: ZH 75.00 74.75 - - - - 3.82 616.68
NMBZ Consumer Goods NTFD: ZH 5000.00 - 22.90 - - - - 454.94 243.18
OK Zim - 300.00 - - - - 965.12 3,827.59
Padenga Industrials NTS: ZH 22.90 - 450.17 73,500 330,874.00 -2.34 -0.52 631.71 564.85
Powerspeed Industrials NMB: ZH 300.00 452.00 1300.93 285,400 3,712,840.00 -59.79 -4.39 714.93 3,420.01
Proplastics Real Estate OKZ: ZH 452.51 1300.00 190.00 - - - - 413.69
RTG Industrials PHL: ZH 1360.71 - 571.00 - - - - 850.00 58.14
RioZim Healthcare PWS: ZH 190.00 - 190.00 700 1,330.00 - - 596.34 1,212.52
SeedCo Industrials PROL: ZH 571.00 190.00 975.00 - - - - 1210.34 5,612.78
Simbisa Industrials RTG: ZH 190.00 - 1650.05 32,800 541,215.00 0.05 0.00 315.60 7,045.75
Star Africa Consumer Goods RIOZ: ZH 975.00 1650.00 618.02 40,700 251,533.00 -0.68 -0.11 931.28
Truworths Industrials SEED: ZH 1650.00 618.00 19.00 923,400 175,446.00 - - 391.98 711.06
TSL SIM: ZH 618.70 19.00 15.41 - - - - 435.21 1,438.55
Turnall Banking SACL: ZH 19.00 - 535.00 - - - - 711.05 4,741.44
Unifreight Consumer Services TRUW: ZH 15.41 - 57.00 - - - - 606.27 1,189.79
Willdale TSL: ZH 535.00 - 12.95 - - - - 418.18 4,051.34
ZB Consumer Goods TURN: ZH 57.00 - 25.00 2,200 550.00 - - 43.89 3,474.41
Zeco Industrials UNIF: ZH 12.95 25.00 1700.00 7,000 119,000.00 -71.86 -4.06 614.29
Zimpapers Industrials WILD: ZH 25.00 1700.00 - - - - 2261.11 895.87
Zimplow ZBFH: ZH 1771.86 - 0.02 2,000 1,360.00 - - 59.18
ZHL Consumer Services ZECO: ZH 68.00 68.00 1,000 4,900.00 - - -
ZPI Basic Materials ZIMP: ZH 0.02 490.00 490.00 - - - - 407.46 1,910.50
ZIMPLOW: ZH 68.00 - 290.00 - - - - 709.92 281.03
TOTAL Consumer Goods ZHL: ZH 490.00 - 70.00 1833.33 13.79
Consumer Goods 290.00 8,049,500 33,972,083.25 1128.07 444.50
Consumer Goods ZPI: ZH 70.00
Consumer Services 2,978.24
Consumer Goods 0.09

Industrials 391.68
Industrials 1,168.07
Industrials 4,446.68
1,201.67
Banking
Industrials 174,159.65
Consumer Services
Industrials
Financial Services
Real Estate

FINSEC Open (cents) Close (cents) Change (%) YTD (%) Mkt Cap ($m) Top 5 Risers Price Change % YTD %
OMZIL
3550.00 3550.00 - 195.83 2,946.92 GBH 17.00c +2.00c +13.33 +608.33
Index BNC +6.53 +2270.33
Change (%) Open YTD % Masimba 383.52c +23.52c +0.07 +1313.80
ZSE All Share SeedCo +0.00 +931.28
Top 10 Close -0.43 1,483.18 +541.87 - 255.19c +0.19c
Top 15 -0.70 943.89 +360.22 - -
Small Cap 1,476.87 -0.36 +447.11 1650.05c +0.05c
Medium Cap 937.28 +0.12 1,126.94 +862.58
+0.01 6,126.94 +983.59 --
1,122.83 3,083.13
6,134.03 Top 5 Fallers Price Change % YTD %
3,083.35
Padenga 1300.93c -59.79c -4.39 +413.69
ZB 1700.00c -71.86c -4.06 +2261.11
African Sun -3.23 +552.00
FMP 163.00c -5.44c -2.13 +1252.94
Cassava 230.00c -5.00c -1.18 +185.72
400.01c -4.78c

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Page 16 News Analysis NewsHawks
Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020

Mnangagwa’s goes back to factory settings:
Sanctions now a political mobilisation tool

NYASHA CHINGONO dimentary re-engagement process Emmerson Mnangagwa interests of the people of Zim- when the then Minister for Africa,
was inevitable— babwe,” Nichols told The News- Hyarriet Baldwin declared that
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnan- campaign. Hawks ahead of the anti-sanctions the UK would no longer support
gagwa, who in 2018 told Zim- part of which saw the gov- True to the ethos of African gala. Zimbabwe’s bid to rejoin the
babweans to stop whining over ernment expending energy and Commonwealth without reforms.
Western sanctions as his prede- millions of dollars on recruiting brotherhood and solidarity even International relations expert
cessor Robert Mugabe and his technocrats like Finance Minister in the face of wrongdoing, the AU and University of Zimbabwe This was after security forces
cronies did, should by the con- Mthuli Ncube and trade adviser and Sadc joined in the crusade lecturer Tawanda Zinyama said killed at least 17 people in the
sistency of his own rationale stop Petinah Gappah—Mnangagwa against sanctions, with the then the anti-sanctions campaign streets during protests over fuel
using the restrictive measures as a would later appoint a virtually chair of the Southern African re- would not yield positive results if hikes in January 2019. The crack-
catch-all justification for leader- moribund Cabinet-size presiden- gional bloc, Tanzanian President Zimbabwe does not reform and down came after six people had
ship, governance and policy fail- tial advisory council fronted by John Magufuli claiming restric- fulfil the demands outlined in the been killed by security forces in
ures, as well as incompetence and the likes of Joe Mtizwa, Edwin tions had crippled the Zimbabwe- Zimbabwe Democracy Economic August 2018 again on the streets
corruption, analysts have said. Manikai and Trevor Ncube. an economy. Recovery Act (Zidera) to enable of Harare over elections.
Mnangagwa travelled around the the lifting of the measures.
After failing to fulfil electoral world and also hired public rela- As usual, no evidence was Political analyst Piers Pigou
promises and commitments made tions firms to spruce up the coun- provided to back the contentious “We need to look at why sanc- said government’s return to a
during his inaugural speech in try’s battered image. Eventually, assertions. Last Sunday, Mnan- tions were imposed in the first hardline policy stance was as a
November 2017 and in the run-up the Zanu PF leader threw caution gagwa was also basking in the place. Have these conditions been result of growing criticism on
to the 2018 elections, Mnangag- to the wind and allowed his true glory of solidarity platitudes. met? If sanctions were imposed human rights abuses, and the
wa, like Mugabe, has resorted to political colours to emerge. for human rights violations, the sanctions campaign was now a
the anti-sanctions crusade to fight Yet an online anti-sanctions international community needs to diversionary tactic.
Western powers, further under- He has now nailed his co- gala failed to take off, after it see change in that,” Zinyama said.
mining his own international lours to the mast of running an attracted only a few viewers “One is left with the impres-
re-engagement process and alien- unreconstructed regime hostile to although it was also beamed live “The international community sion that they actually want these
ating Zimbabwe from community reform. on ZTV. cannot lift sanctions when there is measures to remain: they know
of nations. rampant corruption. Even if lines bleating from the sidelines will
Gross human rights abuses On its Facebook page, the of credit or grants come, they will have no impact, but they have
Despite calling on Zimbabwe- and the sanctions mantra now ruling Zanu PF attracted only 14 just benefit a few.” spurned opportunities to have a
ans to stop moaning about sanc- symbolise the harking back to the viewers—a sign of public rejection real dialogue about these issues,”
tions and deal with real issues at Mugabe era, with worse repres- of the sanctions narrative. Even Britain, which supported Pigou said.
a time he was still basking in the sion and corruption in some Mnangagwa’s coup, has expressed
glory of the coup which brought aspects. Western diplomats launched dismay at his leadership fiasco, Pigou said the anti-sanctions
him to power and enjoying inter- a major assault on the sanctions especially his failure to reform. campaign was feeding on crude
national goodwill on the back of As part of the regime’s dis- story and turned the tables on misinformation and cheap propa-
promises to reform, Mnangagwa traction strategy, Mnangagwa official propaganda. On Sunday, the US, European ganda that sanctions are respon-
has gone to his original Zanu PF last year rallied Sadc heads of Union and Western embassies sible for the country’s problems,
factory settings, a big departure state and the African Union to US Ambassador to Zimbabwe came out in joint attack of gov- yet people know only too well that
from his initial view of sanctions. participate in an anti-sanctions Brain Nichols said sanctions were ernment’s narrative on sanctions, their leaders largely are.
a poor distraction from the real saying, among other things,
“If we are going to cry because causes of Zimbabwe’s problems. corruption was doing far more However, Zimbabwe gas its
some capital elsewhere is im- damage to Zimbabwe than the own supporters on the interna-
posing sanctions, then we will “I think this is a hollow exercise so-called sanctions. tional stage.
fail our nation. We must look at which does not serve the greater
the resources which we have and Western embassies confronted However, only the Chinese
utilise those resources that we and called out the government for openly stood in solidarity with the
have to the maximum benefit of misinforming the public through Harare regime.
our country,” Mnangagwa said in the sanctions posturing charade
August 2018 on the sidelines of and cheap propaganda. Chinese ambassador to Zimba-
the Sadc summit in Windhoek, bwe Guo Shaochun tweeted.
Namibia. “What needs to be said:
#itsnotsanctions, it’s #corruption “Injustices in internation-
“Number 2, we are enjoying that drives away investors and al relations forced developing
support from Sadc and we must leaves teachers, doctors, nurses countries into subjugation and
cooperate with Sadc. Number 3, and services struggling. Sanctions poverty and still hold them back
we enjoy support from the AU. don’t hurt ordinary citizens. Zim- in independently choosing a path
Again, we must exploit that sup- babweans must be free to expose of development. #ZimSanctions-
port from the continent and suc- corruption, rights abuses and see MustGo.”
ceed. Number 4, we enjoy support perpetrators face justice,” British
from other countries other than ambassador to Zimbabwe Melanie Stephen Chan, Professor of
(United States of) America”. Robinson said on Twitter. World Politics at SOAS University
of London, however, said sanc-
In January 2018, while address- Mnangagwa’s failure to deal tions are not the problem.
ing chiefs in Gweru, Mnangag- decisively with corruption has
wa urged Zimbabweans to stop put off investors who have either “This campaign will bear no
complaining about the impact of shelved investment plans or taken fruitful results. Everyone knows,
Western sanctions on the country their money elsewhere. including the AU and SADC, that
and instead focus on creatively sanctions are not the problem.
leveraging on available human The new British sentiments on Even without any sanctions at
capital and natural resources to Mnangagwa’s leadership signify all, and we’re only looking at the
steer recovery and development. a dramatic shift in Western and US sanctions as meaningful - the
to large extent world opinion on European and British ones having
Realising the stalling of his ru- him. been reduced to symbolic signif-
icance only - the problem would
Britain was Zimbabwe’s biggest remain that Zimbabwe is simply
cheerleader after the coup and not an attractive investment desti-
remained so until January 2019 nation right now,” Chan said.

NewsHawks Opinion/Analysis Page 17

Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020

#ZimbabweanLivesMatter: Can the
democratic struggle be digitalised?

THE advent and growth of the emerge as the last line of defence in suffix their Twitter and Facebook Johannesburg, South Africa. of Mnangagwa`s government.
internet revolutionarised the way the increasingly shrinking demo- postings with the #ZanuPFMustGo This neo-apartheid style of de- Accordingly, the regime did not
we communicate, interact, socialise cratic space in Zimbabwe. hashtag. anticipate the global appeal of
and network. tention without trial of pro-dem- #ZimbabweanLivesMatter.
Dialectics of hashtagism The symbiotic conflation of ocratic forces in the aftermath of
Accordingly, information com- The historical trajectory of #ZanuPFMustGo with the 31 July 31 July peaceful protests, had the The regime was immediately put
munication technologies (ICT) has insurgent citizenship in Zimbabwe anti-corruption march was a re- domino effect of galvanising the on the back foot as it lost the battle
become a fundamental tool and can be traced back to the #ThisFlag flection of the fact that the endem- freedom-loving progressive global for hearts and minds.
oxygen for the highly globalised movement which was spearheaded ic and cancerous plunder of state constituent against the repressive
and information-saturated 21st by Pastor Evan Mawarire. resources is inextricably linked government of Zimbabwe. Thus, #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
century. In that brief four-month period to the dirigiste extractive systems managed to become the pro-
when #ThisFlag was hogging the of the Zanu PF government. Accordingly, Mmusi Maimane, methean searchlight that placed
Some of the areas in which limelight, the de-institutionalised Therefore, #ZanuPFMustGo was the erstwhile Democratic Alliance the spotlight on the democratic
ICT has had transformative and subalterns of Zimbabwe had an an indictment of this entrenched leader, invoking the letter and the deficit, breakdown of rule of law
far-reaching changes, are in the epiphany: there was an oppor- neopatrimonial system, wherein spirit of global appeal and tapping and human rights violations in
sphere of civic and grassroots tunity to grasp the potential and the patrimonial profits of grand into the resonance of #BlackLives- Zimbabwe.
engagements and civic republican- power of smartphone and social sleaze are distributed and priva- Matter, especially in light of the
ism. Therefore, the internet and its media platforms as a form of tised within the Zanu PF prebendal public lynching of George Floyd by Having detained Ngarivhume
software and hardware artefacts accountability technology. elite food chain, to the detriment of racist police officers in Minnesota, and Chin`ono, the regime thought
such as mobile smartphones, social In the absence of tradition- the national economy and ordinary opined and tweeted that #Zimba- that it had managed to contain and
media platforms such as Face- ally organised opposition, the taxpayer. bweanLivesMatter was a call that neutralise dissent without attract-
book, Twitter and WhatsApp have #ThisFlag movement became the the progressive and freedom-lov- ing international condemnation to
spawned what is called “liberation people’s parliament as it was able Thus, #ZanuPFMustGo was the ing world could not afford to its autocratic heavy handedness.
technology”. to hold to account the increasingly apt metaphor of netizens using ignore given the plight of long-suf-
aloof and arrogant government of liberatory technology demanding fering Zimbabweans. Nonetheless, #Zimbabwean-
Liberation technologies have the late Robert Mugabe. the institutional overthrow of an LivesMatter outflanked the regime
become platforms for bottom-up Despite the slackening of the irredeemable corrosive kleptocratic That single tweet from Maimane in the battle of the wits and man-
vertical accountability whereby the #ThisFlag movement after its system of government. went viral on social media and aged to put it in fire-fighting mode
citizens(netizens) democratically figurehead Pastor Mawarire went became a global rallying cry for is it attempted to do some damage
expose electoral malpractices, into self-imposed exile after having As the zero hour of the 31 July the fight against state- sanctioned control .
governance shenanigans and com- faced substantial threats to his anti-corruption protest slowly injustices and violations of human
missions and omissions by their life, it had nonetheless opened the approached, true to its modus rights in Zimbabwe. The global trending of #Zim-
governments. floodgates of online activism or operandi, the tinpot autocratic babweanLivesMatter became a
hashtagism. brinkmanship, the Zanu PF gov- Thus, prominent international thorn in the flesh of the regime.
Some of the key issues that have This was demonstrated by the ernment immediately launched a figures such as the rapper Ice Cube, The regime was confronted with
been mostly exposed by citizens to proliferation of insurgent netizens pre-emptive attack on the organ- international reggae group Morgan an invisible foe which it could not
date include corruption, electoral in the form of the #ThisGown iser of the 31 July anti-corruption Heritage, former Liberian presi- brutalise with truncheons or tear-
theft and other decays in govern- movement, #ThisFlower move- protest movement and one of its dent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, actress- gas. This for was exerting tremen-
mental operations. ment and #BeatThePot campaign. ardent supporters. es Thandie Newton, Pearl Thusi dous pressure on the repressive
#ZimbabweLivesMatter and South African radical left-wing state apparatus.
More so, liberation technology Corruption is endemic and Ngarivhume and journalist opposition party solidarizstood in
has provided a distinct platform institutionalised within the so- Hopewell Chin`ono were both solidarity with the #Zimbabwe- Accordingly, the repressive state
for netizens to express opinions, cio-economic and political fabric arrested on trumped up and anLivesMatter movement. This apparatus became overstretched.
organise and mobilise protests, of Zimbabwe. frivolous charges of attempting to unprecedented multi-dimension- They could not deny bail to the
liberalise governments, entrench The kleptocratic regime of Em- overthrow the government. al global pushback against the first lot of pro-democratic actors
participation and enlarge the merson Mnangagwa has conspired authoritarian excesses of the crypto such as Fadzayi Mahere, Tsitsi
boundaries of freedom. to preside over unprecedented The arrest of these two set the fascist regime of Mnangagwa Dangarembga and others.
state-sanctioned venality and tone of a blitzkrieg of fascist-like demonstrated the fact that despite
Therefore, it is within this con- grand sleaze of public resources arrests and detention of pro-demo- the regime in Harare having Furthermore, during the 45
text that the freedom-starved Zim- and state coffers. cratic forces, who in their individ- contracted the democratic space days both Ngarivhume and
babweans have decided to utilise Unsurprisingly, when Jacob ual capacities decided to carry out by preventing peaceful demonstra- Chin’ono were remanded in
the power of liberation technology Ngarivhume organised the 31 individual protests on 31 July. tions to take place across Zimba- custody awaiting the much-elusive
in their elusive quest to push back July anti-corruption march and bwe on 31 July, the global outreach bail. #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
against entrenched dictatorship. protests, the netizens began to This callous mass incarceration and resonance of #ZimbabweL- remained an effective liberatory
of pro-democratic forces was rem- ivesMatter had massively delivered hashtag that continued to amplify,
Accordingly, Zimbabweans are iniscent of the infamous mass de- some devastating blows against propagate and continue to shine
not new converts to liberation tention without trial of anti-apart- the authoritarian Frankenstein the light on the plight of prisoners
technology. Their first experience heid activists at the infamous John of conscience whose fundamental
with serious online activism or Vorster Square police station in rights were under siege and were
clickitvism was with the #ThisFlag increasingly trampled upon.
campaign which was spearheaded
by Pastor Evan Mawarire between Despite being politically
April 2016 and August 2016. charged, hashtags are by their very
nature afflicted by short-termism
However, in August 2020 the and slacktivism. Nonetheless,
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter hashtag #ZimbabweanLivesMatter, con-
announced its entry as a mobilis- trary to conventional wisdom on
ing, organising and accountability the reservation around the effec-
movement against the author- tiveness of online activism, indeed
itarian excesses of the Zanu PF effected visible change.
government. #ZimbabweanLives-
Matter spread like a wildfire in the The #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
dry savannah and attracted global movement demonstrated that lib-
attention and prominence. There- eration technologies are an equally
fore, this opinion piece attempts to effective means of exercising
analyse the efficacy or lack thereof vertical democratic accountability
of #ZimbabweLivesMatter as a on authoritarian regimes. It proved
dialectical voluntarist digitalised that the insurgent netizens could
instrument of confronting the also be as effective as insurrec-
entrenched crypto fascist autocracy tional street power in executing
in Zimbabwe. the democratic fightback against
entrenched autocratic systems.
That is, whether liberation Thus, the de-territorialisation and
technology can be a potent dem- the trans-nationalisation of #Zim-
ocratic weapon in confronting the babweanLivesMatter demonstrate
intolerant and paranoid illiberal that insurgent netizens are an
tyrannical regime in Harare. More- indispensable ally of democratic
over, liberation technology could resistance.

Page 18 Africa News NewsHawks
Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020

Opposition toral commission (NEC), which is
leaders allege supposed to be impartial.
fraud in
Tanzanian The United States said there
elections were “serious doubts” about the
credibility of Tanzania’s presiden-
OPPOSITION leaders in Tanzania filled in before the vote. One bag said. Zitto Kabwe tial, with results showing that Pres-
have accused authorities of stuff- was seized when it fell off a lorry. John Magufuli, one of Africa’s reported that it had seen “some ident John Magufuli and his Cha-
ing ballot boxes to ensure victory blocking and throttling” of its ser- ma Cha Mapenduzi (CCM) party
for the ruling party in simultane- “It was not an election, and the most controversial leaders, is seek- vice before the election. “Internet had won.
ous presidential and parliamenta- people of Tanzania will pay the ing a second term as president. shutdowns are hugely harmful and
ry elections. price. The international commu- His brand of populist politics and violate basic human rights,” the The main opposition Chadema
nity should not recognise this promises of economic develop- company said. party has denounced the polls as
Despite sporadic violence in the election or the legitimacy of the ment have gained him a solid sup- fraudulent.
run-up to the poll, tens of millions government,” Kabwe told the port base, especially in Tanzania’s There were also reports of dis-
of people filed into polling stations Guardian. vast rural areas. But the 60-year- ruption to WhatsApp, Instagram The president has won around
without incident on Wednesday to old has been accused of misman- and Google, and efforts to block 85% of the 32 constituency results
cast their votes. Tundu Lissu, the principal op- agement of the Covid-19 pandem- the use of VPN services too. announced by the Tanzania elec-
position candidate, issued a state- ic and repression of dissent. tion commission, out of 264, the
w, the leader of the opposition ment alleging “widespread irreg- The government has denied AFP news agency reports.
Alliance for Change and Transpar- ularities in the form of preventing International campaign groups clamping down on critics, and its
ency (ACT-Wazalendo), said there our polling agents from accessing have raised concerns about me- spokesman, Hassan Abbasi, said The US embassy said on Thurs-
were reports of fraud from constit- polling stations” and “stuffed bal- dia freedoms in Tanzania. Twitter the elections were held under the day that there were “credible alle-
uencies across Tanzania, and party lot boxes seized” in Dar es Salaam, supervision of the national elec- gations of significant election-re-
workers had found thousands of the commercial capital. “If this lated fraud and intimidation”.
ballot papers and large numbers continues, mass democratic action
of returning officers’ statements of will be the only option to protect The vote was marred by allega-
results that appeared to have been the integrity of the election,” Lissu tions of repeat voting, pre-filling
of ballots, detentions of candidates
and protesters, restrictions on po-
litical parties’ representatives to
access polling stations and block-
ing of social media platforms, the
embassy said.

“These irregularities and the
overwhelming margins of victo-
ry raise serious doubts about the
credibility of the results,” it said in
a statement.

The result of presidential elec-
tions cannot be contested in Tan-
zania.

The ruling CCM party has been
in power since its formation in
1977.

CCM was a successor to the
Tanganyika African National
Union, which governed Tanzania
from 1961 to 1977.

– Guardian/BBC

Seychelles: How a priest rose to become president

On his sixth attempt Wavel Ram- for what he called a return to civili- “A winner is a dreamer who never who died or disappeared during cy, Mr Ramkalawan’s party, Linyon
kalawan, an Anglican cleric, has ty, to a society where everyone says gives up.” the one-party era that lasted from Demokratik Seselwa (LDS), has
become Seychelles’ president end- good morning to one another and 1977 to 1991. also won a convincing majority in
ing decades in opposition, but as where racial and social differences In spite of the positive messages the islands’ national assembly.
Tim Ecott reports from the Indian are put aside. in his inaugural address, there is Many of the crimes committed
Ocean archipelago - he now has to no doubting the divisions within during that period were exposed They will have 25 seats to the
bring the country together. “Seychelles,” said the new pres- Seychellois society. publicly during recent Truth and United Seychelles’ 10. However,
ident, “should be an example of Reconciliation hearings in Sey- the president warned his parlia-
“After 43 years we have regained tolerance for the whole world. We It is precisely 43 years since the chelles. There is no doubt that mentarians not to become com-
democracy. The road has been long are 115 small islands in the Indian islands were subjected to a violent those revelations harmed the placent.
and now we will reap its rewards.” Ocean, but we are not insular. coup by Albert René, who over- chances of Mr Faure and his Unit-
threw the democratically elected ed Seychelles party in these elec- “Just because we have won, we
There was only the merest hint “We will maintain friendly re- government of James Mancham, tions. can’t sit back,” he said. “We need to
of triumphalism in President lations with all nations, and wel- the man who had led the islands carry on working hard, delivering
Wavel Ramkalawan’s acceptance come help and assistance from our to independence from the UK in United Seychelles is the current what our people deserve.”
speech as he addressed an audience international allies whomsoever 1976. name of the former Seychelles
of invited dignitaries assembled in they may be.” People’s Progressive Front, which One of the subtexts of Mr Ram-
the manicured grounds of State Wavel Ramkalawan was in power when René so ruth- kalawan’s inaugural address is that
House. His election marks a seis- Behind the Christian senti- lessly imprisoned and persecuted the LDS will need to unravel de-
mic change for the islands, where ments expressed by the new presi- Amid his appeals for peace and his political opponents. cades of inefficiency, corruption
the presidency has been dominat- dent there is also political steel. harmony, President Ramkalawan and cronyism within the civil ser-
ed by one party since 1977. ‘Pulpit politician’ pointedly paid homage to Gerard For all its convoluted political vice and public administration of
This was his sixth attempt at the Hoarau, an opponent of René as- history in the decades since inde- Seychelles. He has promised that
In front of the grand Victorian presidency, a journey that began sassinated in London in 1985, pendence, the 97,000-strong pop- under his presidency “no-one will
colonial mansion and accompa- when he first contested the role in and whose killers have never been ulation of Seychelles now faces be above the law”.
nied by a military guard of honour, 1998. identified. very big challenges.
the 58-year-old was sworn in by Even though the one-party state
the chief justice on Monday. He had entered politics sever- Hoarau was not the only person The economy is heavily reliant was dismantled more than 25 years
al years earlier, and was criticised on tourism, with around 350,000 ago, a small number of educated
The new president is an or- by the government for making annual visitors accounting for 65% Seychellois have tended to occupy
dained Anglican minister, and not what they saw as political state- of GDP. key positions and appointments
surprisingly his overall message ments from the pulpit during the have been handed out based on
was one of peace, tolerance and an one-party state era. Covid-19 has reduced tourist party loyalty rather than compe-
appeal for all Seychellois to work arrivals to a tiny trickle, and the tence.
together for national unity, and to He had come tantalising close economy has already shrunk by
overcome the divisions of so many to winning the presidency several around 14%. Internationally, the new presi-
years of political wrangling. times, and in 2015 lost to James dent is likely to also face challenges
Michel by only 193 votes in a sec- In addition, local non-govern- negotiating the tricky geopolitical
Thanking outgoing President ond round of voting. mental organisations estimate that order of the Indian Ocean.
Danny Faure for keeping political approximately 10% of the working
dialogue open over the past few Referring to the years in oppo- population, some 6,000 people, are Just a day before the elections he
years, Mr Ramkalawan stressed sition, and his five previous defeats addicted to heroin, and many are reiterated that the islands’ sover-
the need for tolerance among the in presidential elections Mr Ram- reliant on the government’s meth- eignty was not for sale.
Seychellois people and appealed kalawan quoted Nelson Mandela: adone rehabilitation programme.
– BBC
As well as winning the presiden-

NewsHawks World News Page 19

Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020

With improved leverage, N. Korea
leader awaits winner of U.S. vote

SEOUL - North Korea’s Kim Jong Donald Trump boasts of having prevented war and exchanged “beautiful letters” with Kim Jong Un
Un awaits the winner of next
week’s U.S. presidential election effect” that Biden did not rule out as well as engines potentially de- North offered a glimpse of a large tiations where he had left off with
armed with greater leverage in a summit with Kim, even as the signed for ICBMs and new mo- submarine, believed to be capa- Trump, or return to confrontation
high-stakes nuclear diplomacy, Democratic challenger called the bile launchers, while building its ble of carrying multiple subma- by resuming advanced weapons
thanks to a more powerful and North Korean leader a “thug” and nuclear weapons-grade stockpile, rine-launched ballistic missiles tests, said Lee Soo-seok, a senior
versatile arsenal of weapons than said a meeting is possible only if experts say. (SLBM). It was seen by military fellow at the Institute for National
at the start of the Trump presiden- Pyongyang rolls back its nuclear experts as another game chang- Security Strategy.
cy. capability. While the United States’ far er, just as the Hwasong-15 ICBM
greater military might could swift- launch in 2017 was. “Nuclear development isn’t
While Donald Trump boasts “Whoever wins the election, he ly inflict critical damage on North something they can stop doing but
of having prevented war and ex- has to solve the question of how Korea, Pyongyang now poses a A military parade here this if there was some kind of a deal,
changed “beautiful letters” with to derive substantive denucleari- threat with its nuclear missiles ca- month highlighted how the North they might have adjusted its pace
Kim, the U.S. president has not sation under an agreed roadmap pable of striking the U.S. mainland. has beefed up its strategic weap- and gone more low-key, instead of
wrested a single significant com- that clarifies an end state of the Expert assessment of the North’s ons. It featured a new SLBM and showcasing the ICBM,” Lee said.
mitment from the North to roll programmes,” another Seoul offi- new multiple rocket launchers and a previously unseen ICBM de- “Trump might now be regretting
back its weapons of mass destruc- cial said. surface-to-surface missiles also signed to carry multiple warheads not giving whatever half-baked
tion programme, according to rate them highly effective in any - dubbed by experts as a “monster” deal and being unable to sell it as
Seoul officials and analysts. Although the North has largely conflict on the peninsula. and rolled out on an 11-axle trans- his legacy.”
kept to a moratorium on nuclear porter. The display was intended
For Kim, Joe Biden poses a and long-range missile tests, it has Days after Kim’s third meet- to show Kim could take up nego- – Reuters
more challenging negotiating continued to develop new missiles, ing with Trump last year, the
partner, more likely to pen a “Dear
Jong” letter than engage with him
in person - even though the bar for
summit diplomacy is lower due to
the precedent set by Trump, the of-
ficials say.

Pyongyang embarked on an un-
precedented series here of weap-
ons tests in 2017, declaring itself
a nuclear power after undertaking
its biggest nuclear blast and lon-
gest-range intercontinental ballis-
tic missile (ICBM) launches.

After months of tightening
sanctions and trading threats,
Trump then became the first sit-
ting U.S. president to meet with a
North Korean leader at a summit
in Singapore in 2018.

“Kim Jong Un has been doing
what he needs to stay in power,
and nuclear weapons are the most
powerful means of survival,” a
South Korean official who is famil-
iar with the diplomacy said, asking
not to be named because of the
sensitivity of the issue.

The official called it a “Trump

UK Labour suspends ex-leader on anti-Semitism ‘day of shame’

LONDON - Britain’s Labour oppo- Starmer has been trying to Jeremy Corbyn had been blocked by “obstructive “His shameless comments today
make a clean break from the hard- party bureaucracy”. showed that he remains part of the
sition suspended its former leader left Corbyn era as he seeks to turn problem and is an obstruction to
Jeremy Corbyn on Thursday after around Labour’s fortunes after Labour suspended him over the the resolution of the issue,” Presi-
he downplayed a report that de- four successive general election comments, a move Corbyn de- dent Marie van der Zyl said.
tailed serious failings in the party’s defeats since 2010. nounced as a political intervention
handling of persistent anti-Semi- which he said he would strongly A veteran campaigner for Pales-
tism complaints during his 2015- But the ruling Conservatives contest. Corbyn’s suspension is tinian rights who spent decades as
2019 leadership. were quick to attack Starmer on likely to complicate Starmer’s job an obscure lawmaker on the left-
Thursday, pointing out that as La- as leader by reigniting factional- wing fringes of the party, Corbyn
The Equality and Human Rights bour’s Brexit policy chief under ism in the party. Labour is deeply shocked the establishment by win-
Commission (EHRC) said it had Corbyn, he had worked closely divided among those who pas- ning the Labour leadership contest
found evidence of failure to ade- with him and campaigned for him sionately favour Corbyn’s left-wing in 2015.
quately train people investigating to be prime minister. agenda and those who yearn for
alleged anti-Semitism, political a return to a more centrist stance But critics said his ascent led to
interference in the processing of “Many people will rightly worry as seen from 1997 to 2010, when a surge of anti-Semitic abuse with-
complaints, and harassment of in- about your failure to speak out and Labour was in government under in the party, with the lines between
dividuals. Corbyn’s successor, Keir challenge the Labour leadership at Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. opposition to Israel and anti-Jew-
Starmer, said he accepted the find- the time,” senior minister Michael ish prejudice becoming blurred.
ings in full. Gove wrote in an open letter to Former Labour lawmakers who
Starmer. had left the party after suffering Corbyn resigned after Labour
“It is a day of shame for the La- anti-Semitic abuse during the Cor- suffered a heavy defeat by Prime
bour Party. We have failed Jewish Corbyn, 71, reacted to the byn years welcomed the ex-lead- Minister Boris Johnson’s Conser-
people... I am truly sorry for all EHRC report by saying the scale er’s suspension, as did the Board vatives in last year’s December
the pain and grief that has been of Labour’s anti-Semitism problem of Deputies of British Jews, an or- general election, with Starmer tak-
caused,” he said. “Never again will had been overstated by the media ganisation representing the Jewish ing over earlier this year.
we fail to tackle anti-Semitism and and his political opponents, and community.
never again will we lose your trust.” his attempts to deal with the issue – Reuters

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ADDY KUDITA Fire in the soul: The tragic death
of an iconoclastic musical genius
OKAY, so Cal_Vin aka King
Kong aka Dat Luveve Boy Above: Scene of Calvin’s death in his street of residence in Luveve Township in crime who happen to be his Police action
passed away in what looks Bulawayo and Below: Babongile Sikhonjwa on Tuesday evening recounting his girlfriend and drinking bud- “The police only showed up
like a case of homicide and times with Calvin dies. to Vin’s crime scene yester-
the country is rightly abuzz day at 1713hours after having
with the news of his death. On the morning of 26 Oc- cousin. Bukhosi “Biko” Ma- blood stain remains in place. We say there is a prima fa- been provided with trans-
tober when The NewsHawks phosa once embarked on a Conjecture cie crime because of the fact port otherwise they would
If you have not heard visited what is now essen- one-man protest walk to Ha- But there are stories circu- that Cal_Vin was dragged not have been there. I am
about the tragedy, you are tially the crime scene, there rare to highlight the plight of lating in the township about under the car, according to not an expert or anything,
most likely tone deaf about were skid marks in front of Bulawayo artistes. “I came the manner Cal_Vin died, some accounts, for 20 me- but how much evidence had
the state of our popular cul- Cal_Vin’s home. here thinking it was one of which tend to cloud the real tres, a harrowing revelation been tampered with? People
ture or plain indifferent as Cal¬_Vin’s pranks and had narrative of what transpired. which suggests intent and (may have poured) water to
there may be more “press- A couple of his friends a mind to thump him,” said People will speculate unless, therefore culpability. An es- wash away the blood, swept
ing and important” matters and peers such as Thorne, a Thorne, his voice almost of course, the driver of the sential element in the defini- the joint plus the wind…
which preoccupy your mind. hip hop pioneer and radio choking with grief. car and its occupants own up tion of murder is intent. and there they were picking
DJ with Khulumani FM, and give their side of the sto- up small little glass particles.
I would tell you that art is M.U.S.E., Mzoe 7 and Skai- “We had to clean the pool ry. So far, the suspects have It is a reasonable surmise Again I’m not an expert but
as important as any political va were huddled silently, of blood. Man it was bad!” not been identified. that one should be able to damn,” wrote one Michael
or economic happenings of mourning their fallen com- The artistes had however consider the possibility that “Prozac” Ndebele on Twit-
a society. Art humanises and rade. cordoned off the scene of What we have so far are continuing to drive a vehicle ter. Ndebele is one of the pi-
calls upon all of us to listen the incident with stones. It three eye witnesses to the with someone atop the bon- oneers of Bulawayo hip hop
to our better or even darker Biko Maximus was fu- remains cordoned off but the net is dangerous and can be and worked with Cal_Vin on
angels. rious over the loss of his potentially injurious to that several projects in the close-
person. knit Bulawayo hip hop scene.
It has the power to evoke
emotion, to agitate, to pro- The reasonable thing to On Tuesday, the Bulawayo
voke thought, lift a people do in such circumstances is Resident Minister, Judith
and enable them to see their to stop the vehicle to avoid Ncube, visited the home of
potential for greatness. injuring or even killing the Cal_Vin alongside senior
person atop the vehicle. police officers who took
You may care to read up statements from witnesses.
on the impact of, say, a Pi- Now in the Calvin case, ei-
casso, a Michelangelo or a ther way you look at it, there Normally, that would have
Marley on their respective is an aspect of blameworthi- been done on the day of the
communities and, indeed, ness that is inescapable: that crime or shortly upon the
the rest of the world. the driver of the car braked filing of a police report. Ar-
his car and drove over the tistes are rooting for the po-
Closer to home, some ar- deceased before speeding off. lice to nab the culprits.
tistes have left an indelible
mark. The likes of Thomas Part of the car’s bumper We know in Zimbabwe
Mapfumo, Lovemore Ma- remained at the scene as the police always get their
jaivana and, recently, Mg- Cal_Vin must have clung man, especially in homicide
cini Cal_Vin Nhliziyo, the on to it whilst attempting to cases!
Zimbabwean hip hop king free himself. Up to now, the
and multi award-winning culprits have not been iden- Read full story on www.
urban artiste. His demise on tified. newshawks.com
the night of 25 October was
tragic.
AHtispdreesaetnht, the pieces of in-
formation surrounding his
death are sketchy. What we
know as The NewsHawks so
far is that had just watched
Liverpool Football Club’s
late-night clash with Shef-
field United at a bar called
Cricket Club in Luveve sub-
urb, Bulawayo. Afterwards,
Cal_Vin began walking
home with his girlfriend and
two other boys.

Just about 20 metres away
from home, a white Mazda
Familiar without number
plates drove up and hit him
slightly.

What is baffling is what
provoked the artiste into
jumping onto the vehicle’s
bonnet. Also baffling is the
fact that the driver continued
driving, with Cal_Vin on
the bonnet, before applying
emergency brakes and caus-
ing the artiste to fall off. The
driver proceeded to run over
him, crushing his face and
speeding off.

Calvin was rushed by his
girlfriend to Mpilo Central
Hospital in a hired car. He
was dead upon arrival.

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Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020

BRIDGET MANANAVIRE

ZIMBABWE’S capital, Ha- Good vibes at
rare, generally offers fine Queen of Hearts
dining experiences, which
give travellers and residents Covid-19 period. ite hangout venue for many ment. good outdoor ambience. mented Covid-19 protocols
the much-needed break Queen of Hearts has as it offers great outdoor It also has a variety of It has a playground for where patrons go through
from the hustle and bustle dining in a serene environ- a security gate asthey have
of busy life. turned out to be a favour- dishes on offer from burg- children, making even fam- their hands sanitised and
ers, pasta, sushi, pizza, ily outings manageable ad temperature checked before
After the Covid-19 liter- steak and chicken to a good more enjoyable. entry.
ally shut down everything, choice of drinks from milk-
including lives in some shakes , smoothies, cock- On busy days, such as Social distancing mea-
circumstances, shops and tails and a wide range of Saturday, some stations are sures arr observed at the
restaurants are reopening; alcohol. self-service to make it faster ordering stations and in the
some carrying from where to get orders through, while sitting areas, making Queen
they had left, others on the The restaurant, which the waiters go on to serve of Hearts one of the best
slump and yet some with a has a four-star rating on the food that you would outing places you can find
fresh start. Trip Advisor, is surround- have ordered. in Harare.
ed by beautiful gardens and
Restaurants have the po- lovely décor, which give The restaurant has imple-
tential to always reinvent
themselves year-round and
cater for ever-changing
needs and interests – new
taste buds – through dy-
namic menus and market-
ing strategies

The secret to attracting
and keeping valuable cus-
tomers in this business is
serving quality meals, com-
fortable environment and a
side of good times.

One of such places in Ha-
rare is Queen of Hearts in
Highlands suburb, which is
always abuzz with activity,
including last weekend as
places continue to open up
to public dining and events
post-Covid-19.

The coffee bar and café,
which shares 1 Hurworth
Road complex with Little
Eataly and OHSO Sushi as
well as Cottage Bites, was,
for instabcr last weekend,
fully booked for lunch on
Saturday, while it also host-
ed a well-attended market
event on Sunday.

On Saturday, a live band
was serenading people,
while they enjoyed their
food and drinks.

Those who had not
booked and failed to get a
free table had to queue and
wait for some tables to clear
up for them to have lunch.

This was now a rare
sight, especially during the

Property
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MERLIN GARWE Real estate has leverage potential away from monetary to real
but form of effective dead capital assets to hedge against loss of
THE pension industry’s value.
property investments sur- companies control 42.09% ‘it was manufacturing
passed both listed and un- of the industrial sector’s total and agriculture that Zimbabwe’s official annu-
listed equity combined in the assets. The funds’ value of in- sustained an economic al inflation rate is 659.40%
first half of 2020, but market vestments in equities and in- growth not services.’ for September
analysts say this cannot be vestment property has been
seen as positive for the econ- increasing in absolute terms. – Gibson Mapfidza While there have been
omy as sustained growth some notable new stock in-
cannot be achieved through Meanwhile, the property vestments in commercial
services. market has benefited from property by the industry,
the high inflationary envi- growth is mainly attribut-
The 2020 half-year Insur- ronment as investors move ed to the periodic fair-value
ance and Pensions Commis- adjustments performed by
sion pension report shows property investment compa-
the sector is heavily invested nies.
in property and quoted eq-
uities (totalling ZW$50.89 “This is in line with the
billion) which are viewed as requirements of Interna-
value preserving and a hedge tional Financial Reporting
against inflation. Standards. Because of the
hyperinflationary environ-
The nature of commercial ment, the property values in
real estate in Zimbabwe is ZW$ have been going up,
that it is mainly within the nominally, due to the regu-
services sector, with the share lar upward rent reviews by
of Gross Domestic Product property owners. However,
(GDP) showing the economy in real terms, investment
is skewed to 8% agriculture, portfolios have shed on aver-
21% manufacturing and 71% age between 10%-20% from
services. 2018 to the current period,”
Mapfidza said.
While the investments
come as a vote of confidence He said the loss of value
for the real estate sector, loss reflects the GDP trend
Mashonaland Holdings MD for this period and the de-
Gibson Mapfidza this week teriorating investment mar-
told The Newshawks that it is ket, further confirming the
manufacturing and agricul- strong correlation between
ture that sustain economic economic performance and
growth, not services. property investment returns.

“Unlike services, invari- Real estate has been tout-
ably buying and selling, ed as a hedge against infla-
manufacturing has huge tion. While capital and rental
backwards and forwards values have been nominally
linkages and trickle-down going up, they have failed to
effects across the entire pro- fully compensate for infla-
duction value chain. Build- tion.
ings are, if you want, a form
of dead capital notwithstand- The inflation hedging at-
ing their leverage potential. tribute of real estate invest-
If you look around, you see ments is due to the nature of
a lot of these idle assets that, the income flows.
for years, have not been de-
livering any sensible returns “Unlike dividends and
to their owners. Most of coupons, rental income is
them are owned by the in- contractual and it can be
surance and pension indus- varied through upward rent
try members. We need to reviews in hyperinflationary
see more investments from environments. The embed-
the largest savings industry ded assumption is that ten-
being directed towards man- ants’ revenues will increase
ufacturing, agriculture and at the same level with infla-
real estate infrastructure like tion and support the tenants’
roads, bulky water, sewer and rent-paying capacity. This
solar plants,” Mapfidza aid. was the case in 2008, but not
now as the country has been
However, there has not experiencing cost-push in-
been much investment in flation mainly triggered by
these areas. exchange-rate depreciation.
This, as a result, compressed
Insurance and pension consumption and business
revenues,” Mapfidza said.

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Issue 3, 30 Oct 2020

Chavhanga a hero of mine: Pocock

ENOCK MUCHINJO role in July due to pressing Midlands Christian College
commitments elsewhere. in Gweru and represent-
DAVID Pocock, former However, the ex-Storm- ed his home province at
Australia rugby captain, says ers and Lions speedster has schoolboy level.
he idolises record-break- continued to profess un-
ing Springbok Tonderai dying love for his country “I am so grateful for the
Chavhanga who, like him, of birth, just like his good start Zimbabwe school rug-
rose from down in Zimba- friend and former on-field by gave me,” Pocock said.
bwe to play international rival Pocock. “Whether it’s ambassadori-
rugby for one of the domi- Open-side flanker Poco- al or skills support, I hope
nant powers in the sport in ck, who played at his first retirement gives me more
the world. Rugby World Cup in 2011, time to find ways to contrib-
was considered one of the ute.
Pocock — born and ini- best players of his era in that
tially raised in the Zim- position. “It’s not just rugby. I’ve
babwean Midlands cap- Pocock went on to play also been working on an ag-
ital Gweru —last week in two more World Cup riculture and conservation
announced his retirement editions for Australia, in project near Beitbridge for
from professional rugby af- 2015 and 2019, but seeing the last few years. I’m look-
ter a 15-year career. his native Zimbabwe return ing forward to being able to
to the game’s greatest stage contribute more.
The 32-year-old, who ex- for the first time since 1991
ited the international arena is something the Wallabies “I had never imagined
after 83 Tests following the legend will savour. leaving Zimbabwe and have
World Cup last year, also “I have really enjoyed many fond memories of the
opted against completing catching up with fellow country, including playing
his contract with Japa- Zimbabweans at the three rugby at school and repre-
nese side Panasonic Wild World Cups I have played senting Midlands.”
Knights. in but, more than anything,
I’d love to see the Sables at Playing 83 Test caps for
While he had a longer a World Cup,” Pocock said. one of the greatest rugby
and more successful in- The other Zimbabwe- nations on the planet is no
ternational career than his an-born players referred to small feat, but for Pocock
injury-ravaged fellow coun- by Pocock are Takudzwa his one great desire is to
tryman Chavhanga, Poco- Ngwenya, Tendai “Beast” help Zimbabwe keep some
ck spoke of his great ad- Mtawarira and Sebastian of its world-class players in
miration for the four-time Negri. The three have over the local system.
capped South Africa winger. the past four World Cup
tournaments featured for “There have obviously
Chavhanga made his the United States, South Af- been some very challenging
Springbok debut under Jake David Pocock (right) meets fellow Zimbabwean-born ex-star Tonderai Chavhanga in South Africa last year. rica and Italy respectively. times for all Zimbabweans,
White against Uruguay in In his retirement, the not just rugby. A lot of tal-
2005 before Pocock — four “I have met with various bwe’s head coach) Brendan lucky enough to get to play Australia great — who also ent has been lost as players
years his junior — was coaches and administrators Dawson,” Pocock told The against him and we have works with conservation seek professional contracts
capped for the first time by over the years when I have NewsHawks this week after developed a friendship over charities in Zimbabwe — elsewhere and go on to play
Australia in 2008. been back in Zimbabwe, announcing his retirement. the years.” has pledged to help uplift for other countries,” he said.
but I have mainly stayed “Tondies was a hero of Chavhanga was Zimba- the standards of rugby in his
Pocock, who had moved in touch with Tonderai mine, watching him play for bwe’s assistant coach for a birthplace. “There are a number of
from Zimbabwe to Austra- Chavhanga and (Zimba- the Springboks, and I was brief period until leaving the Pocock played rugby at players from Zimbabwe
lia in 2002 at the height of playing overseas. I would
land seizures, watched on love to see more being re-
television as a 21-year-old tained and playing for the
Chavhanga scored six tries national team or finding
on debut — a Bok record to ways to contribute to Zim-
this day — in a 134-3 win. babwe’s success.”

For Adama Traore, choosing Where the heart is must be the way system. At 22—quite a ripe
Spain as option for an inter- age in football—he really
national football career was Alec Mudimu, who moved contention for places in the should already be there-
a no-brainer. to the UK at the age of five, England team. abouts if he harbours any
have brought a semblance of Had that been the case, no ambitions of playing for En-
Mali, where his parents stability to Zimbabwe’s line- reasonable argument could gland.
hail from, had also made an up since they both answered fault them, because mak-
offer for the muscular Bar- their African motherland’s ing important life choices So, somebody like him
celona-born Wolverhamp- call a couple of years back. is part of being an adult. will be looking at Zimba-
ton Wanderers winger. Whenever these two de- When people have to make bwe as the more realistic
choices based opportunity for an interna-
While Mali was a realis- on their right tional career. But things can
tic option for the 24-year- to weigh op- change quickly in football.
old Wolves star, that route, HawkZone tions, like
frankly speaking, was never selecting Ipswich-born Macaulay
going to be the first choice the football Bonne appears drifting away
for Traore. team to play from Zimbabwe before he
Enock for, nobody has even played, nearly a
Spain is one of the best should claim year after being granted a lo-
national teams on the plan- Muchinjo monopoly cal passport by the Southern
et, World Cup winners in over feelings African country.
2010. The decision was not of allegiance.
rocket science, really: only if fenders are in the side, it is I say this particularly in At 25, the free-scoring
La Roja were not interested quite easy—for somebody the wake of developments Queens Park Rangers for-
in Traore was he going to go with a good taste in foot- this week that Kundai ward—now with another
the Mali way. more Spanish than any- Macaulay Bonne ball—to detect the kind of Benyu, a 22-year-old En- opportunity to prove his
thing. professional footballing up- glish-born midfielder, was worth at a level at competi-
Traore is a world-class notion insofar as enticing bringing that Darikwa and at the Zimbabwean embassy tive as England’s second-tier
footballer, a player that can You do not get to choose foreign-born footballers is Mudimu were exposed to. in London this week to reg- league—might be feeling he
walk into any internation- where you are born, and concerned. Let us be frank, though, ularise his documents for a still has time on his side to
al team these days. All due people’s loyalty is based on and acknowledge the fact of possible Warriors call-up. aim even higher.
respect to the land of his these factors and reality of For Zimbabwe, this has the matter that both players Benyu currently plays for
forefathers, it would be ri- life. Zimbabwe, like Mali been a painstaking process were probably never going Wealdstone, a semi-pro- Didn’t Leicester City
diculously unreasonable to and other African nations that has been slightly re- to go the Warriors route had fessional outfit in the lower hitman Jamie Vardy, who
expect Traore to turn down with a strong Diaspora com- warding as it has been frus- they been anywhere near ranks of the English football Bonne was once flatteringly
a call-up from Spain, world munity, can testify to this trating. compared to, make his En-
champions 10 years ago. gland debut at the age of 28?
Tendayi Darikwa, who
Besides, let us not for- was born in England, and England, or Zimbabwe,
get that Traore is Span- is a choice Bonne is entire-
ish-born—raised in that ly entitled by birthright and
culture—and probably feels ancestry.

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of mine’
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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ed in more than a decade. the third host of international just four defeats, two no-results to shine.
Zimbabwe, West Indies and cricket since the coronavirus pan- and one match tied. Apart from
PAKISTAN take a further step out Bangladesh have all toured Paki- demic. Zimbabwe’s off-field problems – SQUADS
of the wilderness as international stan since the attack, and last year England have hosted West In- the International Cricket Council Pakistan: Babar Azam (capt),
cricket hosts when they welcome Sri Lanka ended their decade-long dies, Ireland, Pakistan and Aus- suspended them for three months Haider Ali, Abdullah Shafique,
Zimbabwe for their first ODI in absence with a limited-overs tour. tralia, while Australia wrapped up last year over political interference Imam-ul-Haq, Haris Sohail, Abid
a year today, with England and Those games turned out to be a women’s series against visitors – the team are on an eight-match Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad
South Africa both lining up tours. Pakistan’s last ODIs for a year and New Zealand earlier this month. losing streak in ODIs. Hafeez, Khushdil Shah, Moham-
they return in Rawalpindi under Azam, who called it an “hon- They have lost 2-0 to the Neth- mad Rizwan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Fa-
The three one-day internation- new captain Azam, also the T20 our” to lead Pakistan, said Paki- erlands, 3-0 against Ireland and heem Ashraf, Imad Wasim, Rohail
als, when Babar Azam will debut skipper, hoping to take their first stan won’t underestimate Zimba- 3-0 to Bangladesh since their last Nazir, Shaheen Afridi, Moham-
as ODI captain, are also Pakistan’s step towards the 2023 World Cup bwe despite the apparent disparity ODI victory, at home against UAE mad Hasnain, Haris Rauf, Musa
first in the new World Cup Super in India. between the two teams. in April 2019. Khan, Wahab Riaz, Usman Qadir,
League, the qualification process In the 13-team World Cup Su- “We won’t be taking Zimba- “It’s very crucial for us to play Zafar Gohar.
for the 50-over World Cup in per League, seven sides plus hosts bwe lightly at all,” he said. “For us, really well,” said new skipper Cha-
2023. India will qualify for the World each and every point matters and mu Chibhabha, who has captained Zimbabwe: Chamu Chibhabha
Cup. All teams will play four a convincing victory against Zim- Zimbabwe in just one match earli- (capt), Faraz Akram, Ryan Burl,
The rehabilitation of Pakistan, home and four away series, with babwe will hold us in good stead er this year.” Super League games Brian Chari, Tendai Chatara, El-
largely shunned by foreign sides each match worth 10 points. for future series.” are very important because we ton Chigumbura, Tendai Chisoro,
after a deadly attack on Sri Lanka’s Pakistan’s three ODIs and three Pakistan, sixth in the ODI have to qualify for the World Cup, Craig Ervine, Tinashe Kamunhu-
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of the coronavirus pandemic. in a bio-secure “bubble”. All play- strong bowling, despite resting toured Pakistan in 2015, will hope Muzarabani, Richard Ngarava,
ers have tested negative for the spearhead Mohammad Amir. for experienced all-rounders El- Sikandar Raza, Milton Shumba,
After Pakistan toured England coronavirus. They have won 52 of their 59 ton Chigumbura, Sean Williams, Brendan Taylor, Donald Tiripano,
and agreed to visit South Africa The series makes Pakistan just ODIs against Zimbabwe with Brendon Taylor and Craig Ervine Sean Williams.
– both hard-hit by Covid-19 – the
two heavyweights were moved to
show their gratitude by studying
reciprocal trips. Neither has visit-

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