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WHAT’S INSIDE Friday 23 July 2021 BIpUeScIcNoEmSSmends SZPimORbaTbwe in
life assurance rare win to
NEWS firms amid level T20 series
Covid-19 turmoil
Zanu PF’s  Story on Page 40
corrupt election  Story on Page 20
funding exposed

Story on Page 7

Covid-19 dead 
bodies pile up
amid St Anne’s 
Hospital battle

ALSO INSIDE ZNA Chief-of-Staff Major-General Sigauke front-runner

Page 2 News NewsHawks

Issue 40, 23 July 2021

Covid-19 dead bodies pile up
amid St Anne’s Hospital fight

OWEN GAGARE St. Annes Hospital in Avondale, Harare. the capacity is being utilised,
raising questions on what hap-
AS the Covid-19 pandem- locked in a blazing wrangle and former Reserve Bank of the disputed sale. further controversy has arisen pened to the donations.
ic third wave becomes more over a disputed sale of the Zimbabwe governor Gideon The government says in after the Solidarity Trust of
virulent and fatal – with the pharmaceutical company.  Gono, among other people, I Zimbabwe, which Mutanda The protestors say public
month of July being the dead- was basically told that govern- 2015 it acquired majority says includes President funding was secured to re-
liest since March last year – St The issue has sucked in the ment was to buy Caps Hold- 68% shareholding in Caps vamp the hospital, buy equip-
Anne’s Hospital in Harare, Office of the President and ings and I must sell to them. Holdings Ltd and all its sub- Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ment and pay salaries for full
a private health institution Cabinet, Joint Operations It took years because they were sidiaries. The deal, which was son-in-law Gerald Mlotshwa capacity, but the nuns, for
which is one of the treatment Command (Joc) – which reneging on their obligations bankrolled through Treasury and his wife Farai and prom- reasons best known to them-
centres in the country, is en- brings together the police, in- and, when we finally did the Bills (TBs), was approved inent local businesspeople, selves, have not hired the nurs-
gulfed in a fierce ownership telligence service and the army deal, they moved goalposts by cabinet on 19 November entered into a joint-venture es and doctors. This has led to
wrangle among rival parties. – and the Central Intelligence and wanted to pay me in lo- 2015. with LCM on 1 April 2020 to charges that they want to keep
Organisation (CIO). The issue cal currency when the deal was establish a Covid-19 response the money and the renovated
This comes as a medical ex- is before the courts and cur- in US dollars. I have rejected A week later – on 27 No- centre at St Anne’s.  Mutanda hospital while people die.
pert at St Anne’s, Dr Tinashe rently in arbitration.  the money they have sent to vember 2015 – cabinet also says that was an “illegal ar-
Gede – a specialist physician me and will send back more of approved payment of US$45 rangement”. While disputes in this con-
working in the Covid-19 unit Mutanda has raised fears that money when the Treasury million for the equity stake. voluted and complex issue
red zone – this week provided of being killed, saying he had Bills they gave me mature. At another level, Mutanda rage on, people are dying and
horrifying insight into what is already been abducted and It’s my company, not theirs. Mutanda says he has ap- is also challenging Caps Man- Dr Gede brought this to pub-
happening at the hospital and threatened with elimination, Now they want to kill me for proached many senior govern- ufacturing’s debt-to-equity lic attention as he sought to
on the frontline, especially be- apart from what he says is co- that. How can you do that in ment officials to resolve the swap takeover  by the Zimba- encourage people to get vac-
hind the scenes. ercive dispossession.  2021?” issue amicably, but so far in bwe Asset Management Cor- cinated, seek urgent medical
vain. poration (Zamco), arguing intervention and avoid using
In an interview with The “This dispute has been go- As reported by The New- that the government has an concoctions which are not sci-
NewsHawks last night, Gede – ing on for a long time. In sHawks last December, the Further, Mutanda adds he obligation to settle the debt entific and recommended as
who on Tuesday raised alarm, August 2007, I met with Joc CIO has been investigating has rejected the whole deal be- since it owes Caps US$7 mil- that only further complicates
citing “death upon death” at St commanders at CIO head- the explosive commercial dis- cause the government is now lion. the situation.
Anne’s in a chilling video mes- quarters, Chaminuka Build- pute between the government paying in worthless local cur-
sage which went viral – said ing, in Harare, to discuss the and interim trustees of Caps rency when the arrangement The Solidarity Trust has A lot of Zimbabweans are
most people are currently go- issue of Caps Holdings which Pharmaceutical Trust involv- was US dollar-denominated. now been virtually booted out now turning to ivermectin in a
ing to hospital to die.  government bought in the ing a US$45 million deal. Mu- of the messy arrangement. bid to combat Covid-19. 
1980s from its Jewish own- tanda is also involved. While the government
He described the situation ers, then sold to management insists it has brought Caps, While the ownership row Zimbabwe is officially al-
as “high stakes”, “crisis” and and workers, before I bought This came as the High hence it owns St Anne’s which is intensifying, doctors asso- lowing the use of ivermectin
“absolute catastrophe”. shares on the Zimbabwe Stock Court earlier that month ruled was part of its assets, Mutanda ciated with St Anne’s Hospi- to treat Covid-19 as the third
Exchange and from Interfin that the government should says that is fraudulent.  tal – re-opened by Chiwenga wave of infections sets in.
The Zimbabwe and Unit- Holdings,” Mutanbda told The seek arbitration with Caps last month after five years of
ed States-trained doctor said NewsHawks.  Pharmaceutical Trust to ascer- The LCM, run by the Cath- closure – say only part of the Preliminary research find-
people were vulnerable as they tain the shareholding struc- olic nuns, says it has taken facility’s full capacity is oper- ings in the United Kingdom
arrive at hospital sick without “At the meeting, which was ture that emerged after the back the hospital from Mutan- ating despite receiving signif- from a small pilot study on the
vaccination, having been on chaired by the then State Se- purported sale of Caps Hold- da who says he paid the com- icant donations for refurbish- drug, which is used to treat
wrong medication and with curity minister Didymus Mu- ings, the parent company, by pany in Ireland. ment and equipment to make parasitic infections, show that
their immune systems ravaged tasa and attended by high-pro- Mutanda to the state. The ar- it a suitable Covid-19 treat- administering it early to
by the coronavirus. file Joc members, including bitration should also establish Just before the coup, the ment centre.  Covid-19 patients could re-
Vice-President Constantino whether money was paid in hospital was also entangled duce viral load levels.
“The Covid-19 third wave is Chiwenga, then Zimbabwe in another controversy as it Those complaining say
far more virulent and transmis- Defence Forces commander, was in the process of being while there are at least 100 Through a government
sible than the first and second. transferred to former first lady beds at St Anne’s, only half notice, the Medicines Con-
Hospitals are full; only inten- Grace Mugabe. The coup dis- trol Authority of Zimbabwe
sive care unit (ICU) beds are rupted the deal. Now a new (MCAZ) has said: “The secre-
becoming increasingly avail- tary for health and child care
able because of deaths rather has authorised the MCAZ
than recoveries. We don’t have to authorise the importation
surge capacity at hospitals as and use of ivermectin for
our facilities have been chron- Covid-19.”
ically under-funded for a long
time,” he said.  Prior to the interview with
The NewsHawks, Dr Gede had
“Chances of people going raised alarm on Tuesday in a
into ICU and coming out alive recorded video message, which
are very slim. Research shows went viral, saying St Anne’s
in ICU settings in African was full and overwhelmed by
countries, mortality rates are people arriving while in the
very high.”  jaws of death. 

On Friday, there were 91 He spoke of “death upon
deaths and 2 265 new cases. death”.
On Saturday, there were 89
deaths and 1 591 new cases. The medical doctor empha-
Zimbabwe has cumulatively sised that the current situation
recorded 97 277 cases and 3 was a “crisis” and “an absolute
050 deaths since Covid-19 be- catastrophe”. He added: “We
gan. There have been 64 628 are facing on the clinical side
recoveries.  an absolute catastrophe.”

However, experts say offi- “Today has been a very dif-
cial statistics do not reflect the ficult day; literally since morn-
broader reality on the ground ing there had been death upon
at all levels; far more people death…,” he said. “There sim-
have been affected by the pan- ply isn’t any further capacity to
demic than officially recorded. admit more patients. The pa-
tients who are in are very ill, a
While bodies pile up, St good number of them may not
Anne’s is at the centre of a survive, some of them will take
fierce raging ownership wran- long to recover; we are in the
gle. middle of a very, very serious
crisis.”
The battle for the control
of the 164-bed hospital lo- The doctor said the com-
cated on King George Road mon denominator among the
in Harare’s Avondale suburb, casualties was: no vaccination,
pits the government, Little wrong treatment and delays in
Company of Mary (LCM) of going to hospital. He said the
the Roman Catholic Church, “stakes are too high” for people
Caps Holdings and local busi- not to vaccinate, take wrong
nessman Frederick Mutanda, therapy and delay in going to
hospital.

NewsHawks News Page 3

Issue 40, 23 July 2021

BERNARD MPOFU Chief-of-Staff Major-General Sigauke front-runner...

THE battle for the top- Battle for topmost army post
most position of Zimba- escalates ahead of 2023 polls
bwe National Army (ZNA)
commander is intensify- Zimbabwe Defence House in Harare.
ing following the recent
death of Lieutenant-Gen- Mnangagwa and Chi- on subtly ethnic and xe- ing the security forces, if upon retirement, from ac- tary source said. 
eral Edzai Chimonyo, wenga are on a renewed nophobic grounds; Dube you go deep down into the tive service. These included “The President took a bit
as Major-General  David collision course over the won’t make it on ethnic political gutter — it’s trag- Godfrey Chanakira, Than-
Sigauke, currently Chief- appointment, with Ruge- considerations, but also ic, but real.” do Madzvamuse, Evaris- of time searching among
of-Staff (General Staff) in je — who played a critical because he is former Zpra. to Dzihwema, Chanceller the serving and retired se-
the army, emerges as the role in Mnangagwa’s coup Already, the Air Force of The other candidates — Diye, Gerald Gwinji and nior commanders for the
favourite for President ascendancy in November Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe unlikely as they are — in- Sango.  Later, he purged most suitable candidate;
Emmerson Mnangagwa 2017 — at the centre of Defence Forces command- clude Major-General John Major-Generals Chedon- Sigauke is his choice, while
in front of retired Lieu- the row and the attendant ers, Elson Moyo and Philip Chris Mupande, a Chi- do, Douglas Nyikayaram- Chiwenga is dead set on
tenant-General Engelbert power struggle. Military Valerio Sibanda respective- wenga ally, retired Lieu- ba, Anselem Sanyatwe and ensuring Rugeje gets the
Rugeje — Vice-President sources said some of those ly, are Zipra, but ethni- tenant-General Martin Air Vice-Marshal Shebba job. Although it is the
Constantino Chiwenga’s well-positioned to occupy cally they are actually the Chedondo, currently am- Shumbayaonda. The re- commander-in-chief who
political ally — ahead of the ZNA top post which President’s tribesmen. This bassador to China, and Ma- moved commanders were has the final say, the pro-
the 2023 elections. fell vacant following the distortion serves Mnangag- jor-General Thomas Moyo, made ambassadors or sent cess is consultative, hence
death of Chimonyo on 8 wa’s political and ethnic Military Intelligence De- home. clashing designs and ma-
Military sources say even July if things were profes- designs, but I don’t think partment commander. His noeuvres. 
though Sigauke is not well, sionally managed, include we should still have that predecessor Major-Gener- Military sources told The
Mnangagwa wants him Major-Generals Paul Chi- sort of thing in this coun- al Mike Nicholas Sango, NewsHawks this week that “The new commander is
ahead of Rujege. Politics ma and Hlanganani Dube.  try. But then again, partly ambassador to Russia, has the issue of the appoint- supposed to have been ap-
looks certain to trump pro- because of that the new been mentioned. ment of the next ZNA pointed by the time Zim-
fessional military consider- “Chima and Dube ZNA commander will be commander is looming babwe commemorates He-
ations in the process in this should have had a chance, Zanla. The bigger picture After taking over in large in the corridors of roes and Defences Forces
case. but you know these Zim- is power retention and 2017, Mnangagwa purged power amid resurgent in- holidays on 9 August and
babwean things when it consolidation. These are the police, intelligence and fighting between the two 10 August respectively. It’s
Zimbabwe’s past critical comes to power and posi- the underlying currents — army ranks in a sweeping leaders. raising tensions between
elections were always ma- tions of influence, they are meritocracy is always sac- move to clear and control them because it is a critical
nipulated by the military, always mostly unprofes- rificed in the process — in the security forces. Soon “This is a big issue be- appointment with implica-
interfering with the pro- sional and ugly,” a military our rotten body politic and after the coup in 2017, cause the President and his tions for power dynamics
cess behind the scenes or source said.  state institutions, includ- Mnangagwa removed six deputy have different polit- and how the unresolved
directly with boots on the Brigadier-Generals, who ical agendas on who should leadership issue between
ground to bring force to “Chima will be excluded became Major-Generals replace Chimonyo,” a mili- them will be settled.”
bear on the outcome. So
whoever becomes the ZNA
commander will have a
serious impact on Zimba-
bwe’s politics and the 2023
elections outcome — es-
sentially on the power ma-
trix.

Military sources told
The NewsHawks — the
country’s leading investi-
gative journalism network
– that whereas Rugeje is
the overwhelming favou-
rite for Chiwenga to take
over as ZNA commander,
Sigauke is the first choice
for Mnangagwa.

“Given that this is a crit-
ical position in both mili-
tary and political strategic
terms in the Zimbabwean
context, two names stand
out among others: Rugeje
who is supposed to take
over all things being equal
given his qualifications and
experience, and Sigauke,
the well-positioned Pres-
ident’s man,” a military
source said. 

“Politics aside, Rugeje
is supposed to be the next
ZNA commander, but
Mnangagwa doesn’t like
him because he is Chiwen-
ga’s political ally. Mnan-
gagwa prefers Sigauke —
and well Sigauke is most
likely to take over – in fact
he will take over barring
eleventh hour changes. It’s
already decided. If the late
Major-General Trust Mu-
goba was alive; remember
he died while on an African
Union mission, he would
as their peer take over.”

Given their ongoing
political brinkmanship,

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Issue 40, 23 July 2021

OWEN GAGARE Whistle-blowers tackle Zimra
over CABS tax controversy
A TEAM of whistle-blow-
ers led by a tenacious Ha-
rare corporate tax evasion
informant are locked in a
dispute with the tax-collec-
tor over whether the Cen-
tral African Building Soci-
ety (CABS) – the country’s with reference to the law
largest building society and and policy. The case was
a subsidiary of Old Mutu- later referred to Zimra act-
al Zimbabwe which offers a ing head of investigations
wide range of financial ser- at the time Jephat Muruju.
vices – has been paying tax.
Documents obtained by After a series of back-
The NewsHawks show whis- and-forth exchanges, Ny-
tle-blowers, led by Harare abadza wrote to Zimra
tax evasion informant Nor- board chairperson Callis-
man Nyabadza, reported to Jokonya on 26 August
CABS to the Zimbabwe 2019 complaining the tax
Revenue Authority (Zim- collector was protecting
ra) on 28 October 2015, CABS.
claiming that the bank was
not paying its tax obliga- “Subsequent to my letter
tions on various financial dated April 2019 in which
products and services it of- I expressed disgruntlement
fers outside its mortgaging over the manner in which
core business. CABS tax issues are being
The whistle-blowers said handled at Zimra, I now
as a registered building so- reveal to you and the board
ciety, CABS was exempt the intricate influence and
from paying income tax on pressure the bank was ex-
its core activities related to erting on Zimra top man-
mortgaging business, but agement over the case,” the
not on various other finan- letter said.
cial products and services
on which it rakes in mil- “You will recall that in
lions. the same letter, I voiced my
The NewsHawks has re- concerns over two conflict-
ported weeks on end that ing positions of Zimra after
Zimra officials are corrupt- its purported investigation
ly manipulating tax eva- which states that there were
sion cases for self-enrich- no discrepancies found on
ment, especially by looting the one hand, whilst on
millions from the whis- the other hand it said the
tle-blowers funds. case was already under in-
Last week, we report- The CABS issue is still gations boss Charles Jaure realised from other business er building societies was vestigation when the whis-
ed that corruption skele- bothering the whistle-blow- wrote to Nyabadza, saying apart from mortgage which untenable and unsustain- tle-blower reported.”
tons involving a series of ers. CABS was formed in the case had been investi- runs into several million able.
multi-billion-dollar tax September 1954 and is a gated and closed.  dollars,” the letter said. The whistle-blower said
evasion scandals are tum- wholly owned subsidiary Zimra had said CABS it was interesting to note
bling out of the Zimra of Old Mutual Zimbabwe, Jaure, who had become “The building society was not paying tax because that many other tax cases
cupboard amid new revela- in turn controlled by Old commissioner revenue as- is in diversified business in terms of the law, build- that had either being swept
tions involving Chinese di- Mutual PLC.  surance and special projects activities, so it’s common ing societies do not pay, but under the carpet or hi-
amond miner Jinan Mining as the investigations unit sense that it should pay tax whistle-blowers brought jacked by Zimra executives
(Pvt) Ltd’s dodgy US$585 Whistle-blowers said ZB later became known as, re- on income that it is making evidence that others were for self-aggrandisement
million financial transfers Building Society, one of the signed in March 2019 after besides its mortgage financ- paying.  reasons were handled the
across various jurisdictions, oldest mortgage financial a rollercoaster in the eye of ing facilities.” same under a cloud of cor-
including Zimbabwe, with- institutions in the coun- a storm over corruption is- So the informants were ruption.
out paying tax. try owned by Intermarket sues. In another letter to Pasi, questioning discrepancies
Documents show cor- Holdings Limited, held the dated 24 January 2017, in the application of the Nyabadza said after
ruption by Zimra execu- same licence as CABS, but “I refer to the case cited Nyabadza said CABS fi- law. checking why Zimra was
tives who have been loot- was paying tax on income above which was reported nancials showed that it not acting, he discovered
ing the whistle-blower’s from activities other than on 28 October 2015,” Jaure had made a net income of On September 2018, that one of the reasons was
multi-million-dollar fund mortgage facilities. said. “Please be advised that US$20.5 million compared Nyabadza wrote to Zimra that Jonasi Mushosho, who
through corrupt networks the case was audited and fi- BancABC, for instance, saying their responses were was Old Mutual CEO, was
involving its management After Nyabadza’s report, nalised, and it did not re- which had made a US$200 contradictory and raising also at that time a Zimra
and informants, particular- Zimra allocated the CABS sult in any discrepancies. 000 profit.  Pasi resigned suspicions. board member chairing the
ly one whistle-blower Evans case for investigation in Accordingly, I wish to ad- amid corruption charges audit and risk management
Kujinga who has over 300 January 2017 amid com- vise that your section 34B in May 2017 with massive The whistle-blower said committee, presenting a se-
cases and has been paid plaints by whistle-blowers case has been closed.” fraud, poor corporate gov- Zimra was all over the rious conflict of interest for
millions, while compromis- that Zimra officials were ernance and tax evasion place: first it said the case him on the issue. Old Mu-
ing the tax collector’s man- delaying or blocking tax On 5 January 2017, scandals engulfing Zimra, was “audited” and there tual owns CABS.
agement and workers. evasion cases reported in Nyabadza wrote to former including revelations that were no discrepancies in
The NewsHawks also re- terms of section 34B (2) Zimra commissioner-gen- the revenue collector had its 5 December 2017 letter “With Mushosho in
cently reported a storm of the Revenue Authority eral Gershem Pasi enquir- been prejudiced of more and then on 21 May 2018 powerful positions both at
at Zimra over a US$680 Act (Chapter 23:11) either ing on the issue. than US$20 million.  it said the case was already Old Mutual, which owns
million tax evasion inves- because of incompetence, under investigation. He CABS, and at Zimra, it is
tigation involving Ban- bribery and corruption, or “I have noted that CABS Nyabadza said Zimra’s said when he reported the doubtful that Zimra’s find-
cABC-linked  Second a combination of all that. has for a very long time excuse that it would not case it was said it would be ings could pass the test of
Nominees (Pvt) Ltd. been operating as a com- collect tax from CABS due referred to the Zimra tech- conflict of interest, scruti-
In a letter dated 5 De- mercial bank outside its to archaic legislation while nical department and the ny, accountability, trans-
cember 2017, Zimra for- core business of mortgage it was happily levying tax Finance ministry to check parency and fairness,” Ny-
mer commissioner investi- financing, but not remit- obligations on ZB and oth- on whether building soci- abadza said in his letter.
ting income tax to Zimra eties should pay tax or not,
Efforts to get a comment
from CABS and Zimra
failed as it is a weekend.

NewsHawks News Page 5

Issue 40, 23 July 2021

Mohadi still enjoying lavish
taxpayer-funded privileges
year to replace him. This “I am here to learn from Speaking at the same
BERNARD MPOFU has given Mohadi an op- the challenges that our par- occasion, Zanu PF depu-
portunity to rehabilitate ty is facing in Mashonaland ty national political com-
DESPITE resigning in himself and bounce back if East and possibly discuss missar Omega Hungwe
March as state vice-presi- Mnangagwa retains his po- interventions that might be urged district coordinating
dent amid a string of sen- sition as party leader.  required to avert the chal- committee chairpersons to
sational sex scandals, Kem- lenges.” speed up the preparation of
bo Mohadi – who remains Mnangagwa and Chi- cells, which she said were
Zanu PF co-deputy leader wenga are locked in a war Mohadi said Mnangag- the party’s voters’ roll.
with Vice-President Con- of attrition over Zanu PF’s wa wanted the party to be
stantino Chiwenga – is still unresolved succession and united ahead of the polls. “I heard that the prov-
enjoying the trappings of leadership question that ince has 10 000 cells and
his old office and privileges followed Mugabe’s remov- “His Excellency (Mnan- some of you are not yet
of power. al in a coup in November gagwa) wants us to foster starting to register people
Mohadi continues to 2017. unity among our people. in cells. We want that data
have VVIP privileges, in- He wants us to engage in as we want to achieve five
cluding  a motorcade and In a clear demonstration programmes that improve million votes in the 2023
beefed-up residential secu- of the excesses of party-state the livelihood of the gener- elections,” Hungwe said. Former vice-president Kembo Mohadi.
conflation in Zimbabwe, ality of our people,” he said.
Mohadi has in the past few
rity at his upmarket Glen weeks been traversing the
Lorne home in Harare at length and breadth of the
taxpayers’ expense, several country doing Zanu PF po-
months after he was forced litical and electoral duties
to resign in ignominy.  with security personnel on
Information gathered by the public service payroll in PRESS STATEMENT
The NewsHawks shows Mo- tow. 
hadi is enjoying services of
a motorcade, complete with Mohadi has found new
a police car and two motor- relevance and traction in
cycle outriders. Sources said Zanu PF and might regain
he has security from the his lost political ground
Central Intelligence Organ- there.
isation, Presidential Guard
and Police Protection Unit. He is currently leading
“Mohadi may no longer Zanu PF’s “five million
be vice-president, but he votes” campaign for the It has come to our attention that Zimeye Online
remains a VIP. Because of 2023 general elections, Publication and News Pindula Publication
that, he continues to en- which the party desperate- published stories on the 13th July 2021 wherein
joy such privileges as there ly needs to win following they commented that Jah Prayzah and KVG had
are risks associated with his Mnangagwa’s unconvinc- received stands or properties from us on an
previous office and his cur- ing wafer-thin victory in outdated leasehold title. We hereby refute such
rent position in the ruling the 2018 polls against main malicious and untrue allegations. We categorically
party,” a source said. opposition MDC Alliance state that both Jah Prayzah and KVG purchased
“Such arrangements have leader Nelson Chamisa. their properties on freehold title and their title
been done before. If you deeds will be transferred to them in due course.
may recall, although at Mohadi is on a country- The article is thus misleading to our valued
lower level, during the late wide tour — partly using customers and is meant to tarnish our brand. We
former president Robert state resources — to as- reassure our customers and all other stakeholders
Mugabe’s final days, for- sess Zanu PF structures in that their interests remain our priority and they
mer youth leader Kudzanai preparation for the 2023 should check the facts with ourselves before
Chipanga, who at the time general elections at a time making any assumptions or decisions.
was strongly opposing Pres- the government has banned
ident Emmerson Mnan- inter-city travel and pub- Be accordingly advised.
gagwa’s bid for power, at lic gatherings to stem a
one time had PPU (Police rising third-wave surge in BY THIS ORDER OF THE BOARD
Protection Unit) officers Covid-19 infections and WEST PROPERTY COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED
deployed at his home. In deaths. In the process, in-
fact, on the day of the coup siders say Mohadi has ef-
when he was seized from fectively emerged as the de
his home, a police officer facto national commissar of
was grilled why he was de- the ruling party. 
ployed to guard someone
who shouldn’t enjoy VVIP Zanu PF currently does
privileges,” the source said.  not have a substantive com-
Unlike the other past missar after Victor Mate-
vice-presidents, Joice matanda was removed and
Mujuru and Phelekezela posted to Mozambique as
Mphoko, who left govern- ambassador. Matematanda
ment after Mugabe’s fall had replaced retired Lieu-
with thin security arrange- tenant-General Engelbert
ments, Mohadi retains vast Rugeje as commissioner,
privileges as he remains who had taken over the po-
Zanu PF co-deputy leader, sition after the coup. 
a reminder of how the rul-
ing party corruptly siphons In recent remarks at
public resources for its ben- Zanu PF’s provincial offices
efit and to sustain its stay in in Mashonaland East, Mo-
power. hadi said he had visited so
President Emmerson that he could hear the chal-
Mnangagwa has not yet lenges faced by the party
replaced Mohadi as state and find solutions.
vice-president. Sources say
Mnangagwa is waiting for “This is my first leg of
the Zanu PF congress next provincial tours to familia-
rise with the affairs of the
party at grassroots since my
assumption of duty at the
party on 1 June 2021,” Mo-
hadi said.

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Zanu PF’s Issue 40, 23 July 2021
corrupt
election talise the Joint Venture Com-
funding pany (Mbada Diamonds) to
exposed the tune of USD100 000 000,
until such amount is exhaust-
DUMISANI NYONI Republic of Congo (DRC) Jo- British tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten. ed’. New Reclam went on to
seph Kabila, while Equatorial register a shelf company in
THE ruling Zanu PF mort- Guinea chipped in with US$92 el was not a flash in the fry- Virgin Islands (BVi). volute and obfuscate the deal in Mauritius, Grandwell Hold-
gaged the country’s natural re- million.  ing pan as Zanu PF also used “Zanu PF, through ZMDC, clear attempts aimed at hiding ings, which then entered into
sources in lieu of US$100 mil- mineral resources and external the real beneficiaries, who were a JV (joint venture) with Ma-
lion in financial support ahead Other individuals, Mo- donors to fund its 2008 and benefitted from a quick fire of not the people of Zimbabwe, range Resources to form Mba-
of the country’s 2013 general hamed Mussa (late Harare 2018 elections. In the run- US$100 million from the sale but the Zanu PF party which da Diamonds,” it says.
elections, a new report by a lo- businessman) and British-born up to the 2008 Presidential which they used for the bloody was in need of money to over-
cal watchdog has shown. property mogul Nick Van run-off election, on 10 April June 27 2008 presidential elec- turn an electoral loss through a According to a 2016 lawsuit
Hoogstraten donated US$2 2008, while President Robert tion run-off. 27 June 2008 presidential elec- by Grandwell Holdings, the
Party-state conflation has million and US$3 million, re- Mugabe, backed by the army, tion run-off. cabinet of Zimbabwe endorsed
partly helped Zanu PF main- spectively. was still refusing to release elec- “The same source revealed the deal and wrote to Grandwell
tain its stronghold on national tion results and preparing for that Billy Rautenbach, through As former US ambassador to on 10 February 2010.
politics. The other chunk, the report a bloody presidential election Meryweather Investments Lim- Zimbabwe James McGee not-
shows, was covered in kind run-off on June 27 2008, Zanu ited (BVi), got US$75 million ed, these “shadowy deals” with “This is to confirm that the
The explosive report, titled through donations from Si- PF received a US$100 million from CAMEC in addition to investors “with no experience” Government of Zimbabwe has
Mortgaging the Future in Return no-Zimbabwe’s then chairper- electoral lifeline from a dubi- coking coal mining rights in and “away from public tender” approved and therefore fully
for Power: Zimbabwe’s Natural son Sam Pa, Meikles and the ous deal orchestrated by one Hwange Western Area that he and “scrutiny”, are a preferred supports the joint venture proj-
Resources and the 2018 Election CPC. Pa pledged two million businessman with interests in was given by the government modus operandi by the Zanu ect between Grandwell Hold-
by the Centre for Natural Re- T-shirts and a corresponding farming, the fuel industry and of Zimbabwe for arranging the PF government and its accom- ings Ltd, a company registered
source Governance (CNRG), number of caps and bandanas mining,” it says. deal,” it says. plice, the ZMDC, when there in Mauritius and Marange
a Zimbabwean civil society or- while Meikles and the CPC do- is a need to fund the party for Resources (Pvt) Ltd a ZMDC
ganisation, shows Zanu PF is nated 500 trucks. “An informant privy to the “Within a month of the elections. investment vehicle, currently
using natural resources to retain deal alleged that the money sale of Bokai mine to Camec, carrying on the business of di-
power. “The balance, as shown by was paid by this businessman Camec valued the same mine at The figure of US$100 mil- amond mining under the name
another report from the CIO to Zanu PF through a ‘loan’ US$1 billion. This means that lion constantly pops up in these Mbada Diamonds (Pvt) Ltd.
CNRG said official docu- director-general’s office, was from a company called Lefever the government of Zimbabwe “shadowy deals” as shown in Appropriate Government ap-
ments gleaned by the natural raised through shady sales of Finance Limited (BVi) which was prejudiced of US$825 mil- the Marange diamond deal, the proval was duly obtained both
resources watchdog covering Marange diamonds to mainly had a joint venture operation lion because of the illegal and report say. for the identification of inves-
the 31 July 2013 elections pro- ‘Mr Sam Pa’ and ‘China-So- with ZMDC called Todal Min- desperate sale of the mine.” tor and the subsequent joint
vide a glimpse into how Zanu nangol’,” the report reads. ing (Pvt) Limited which owned While Zanu PF sold Bokai venture agreement,” the letter
PF election funding is sourced Bokai mine,” the report says. According to Henricus Fun- Mine to Camec for US$100 reads.
and the individuals or compa- “The internal document nekotter’s International Mon- million to fund the bloody 27
nies responsible for underwrit- from the CIO director-gen- Lefever Finance Limited etary Fund letter, government June 2008 presidential run-off, According to minutes of the
ing its huge election expenses. eral’s office, ‘Ref/23/13/1432’ had 60% shares in Todal Min- and its Zanu PF functionaries the report notes that a similar ZMDC board select committee
dated 23 May 2013, shows that ing (pvt) Limited, while the who were behind the sale of the arrangement with The New cited in the report, the US$100
For instance, a Joint Op- a total of  16 000  carats were ZMDC owned the other 40%. mine did not care much about Reclamation Group (Pvt) Lim- million was not supposed to
erations Command (Joc) shipped out of Zimbabwe to its actual value. ited (Reclam), a company “not “be used to finance the opera-
“Election Brief Meeting” re- Angola and Hong Kong be- According to the Zanu PF involved in mining” and with- tions” of the joint venture and
port dated 3 June 2013 and tween 04 April 2013 and 10 informant as stated by the re- This was because the govern- out “diamond mining as part of that the “amounts used to capi-
referenced “JOC/RG/SS”, re- May 2013, and a total US$58 port, the money was used to ment had fraudulently acquired their vision,” was entered into talise the Joint Venture Compa-
veals that Zanu PF contracted million was realised from the finance the campaign by the it through arm-twisting mining by the ZMDC to exploit the ny must not be deducted from
Nikuv International Projects illicit sale of the gems. A fur- army to subvert the March 29 giant Anglo American to cede diamond reserves in Marange. cash flow of the company.”
which worked with the Chi- ther 20 000 carats were shipped 2008 election result in favour of 30% of its platinum claims on
nese Communist Party (CPC) out of Zimbabwe to Angola be- Zanu PF through the June  27 the Great Dyke to the govern- This was reflected in the “The informant explained
to strategise on Zanu PF’s 2013 tween 11 and 16 May 2013 for 2008  presidential election ment in an agreement signed minutes of the ZMDC board that part of this US$100 mil-
election campaign. an undisclosed fee,” it said. run-off from which MDC’s on 23 March 2008, days before select committee on the due lion was availed to Zanu PF
late founding leader Morgan the presidential election. diligence investigation exercise in 2010 in preparation for the
Nikuv drew up a US$3 bil- “The same internal CIO Tsvangirai pulled out, citing on the approved strategic in- 2013 elections,” the report says.
lion budget for the 2013 elec- document clearly states that the the murder of more than 200 In return, Funnekotter says vestors for Marange diamond
tions, the report says. money raised was for ‘Special of his supporters by the army. Anglo American was to receive fields conducted in South Afri- A Zanu PF insider quot-
Interest Projects’ (elections) and a special mining lease that al- ca on the 4th and 6th of August ed in the report said Mbada
According to the report, a part of the shipment was taken The Zanu PF informant lowed it to hold offshore for- 2009. funded most of the activities of
great part of the budget, 67%, to Number 88 Queensway, revealed that the Bokai Mine eign exchange earnings from its the party in the run-up to the
which amounted to US$2.01 Hong Kong, on behalf of the (Todal Mining (Pvt) Limited) Unki platinum mine and pro- Reclam, which was not a 2013 elections and most of the
billion, went towards “the Special Interest Projects by “Air deal points to the fact that the tection from any future indi- mining company, got the nod money came from the US$100
presidential campaign”, while Vice-Marshal H(enry) Muche- mine was “sold” for US$175 genisation requirements on top to partner the ZMDC’s Ma- million that Robert Mhlanga
US$990 million went towards na,” who, according to another million to the Central Afri- of the release of its funds that range Resources to form Mba- sourced for the party and the il-
“regional diplomacy” to drum security document, headed the can Mining and Exploration were being held by the Reserve da Diamonds which proceeded legal sale of diamonds to Hong
up “support for poll credibility Zanu PF commissariat together Company (Camec) through Bank of Zimbabwe. to mine the Marange gems in Kong.
before, during and after elec- with retired director of count- an intricate web of shelf com- Manicaland.
tions.” er-intelligence, Sydney Nya- panies registered in the British Funnekotter also reveals that “What is clear from doc-
nungo. The two, according to a series of offshore companies “Part of the deal involved uments is that the Mbada
“The so-called ‘regional di- the report, also presided over registered in the British Virgin Reclam, the investor, to ‘capi- Diamonds deal, just like the
plomacy’ is nothing but a eu- a violent quasi-military oper- Islands (BVi) were used to con- Bokai mine deal that funded
phemism for bribes paid to the ation code-named ‘Operation the 2008 presidential run-off,
Sadc chairperson and liberation Return to Zanu PF’.” was structured in a way that in-
movements in the Sadc region volved a lot of shelf companies
to proclaim legitimacy to the Nyanungo was not CIO di- registered in the British Virgin
elections whose credibility rector counter-intelligence as Islands to obfuscate the owner-
Zanu PF anticipated was going the report says, but CIO direc- ship structures in a way to sug-
to be questioned,” the report tor internal. gest there were a lot of things
says. that ZMDC, the government
According to the Joc inter- of Zimbabwe and Zanu PF
The same Joc meeting report nal document, the operation wanted to conceal,” it says.
revealed that part of the US$3 led by Muchena and Nyanun-
billion came in the form of go was funded to the tune of “In the same way ZMDC,
“US$800 million from Mba- US$800 million from Mbada Zanu-PF and the government
da Diamonds and Anjin (Pvt) Diamonds and Anjin (Pvt) Ltd. of Zimbabwe did with Bokai
Ltd”, US$85 million from then mine, which was sold to Camec
President of the Democratic “The 2013 funding mod- through Lefever owned by Billy
Rautenbach’s Meryweather, 50
percent of Marange Resources
diamond claims were sold for
US$100 million to Reclam
which had no mining experi-
ence.

“Reclam, because it was not
a mining company, immedi-
ately transferred its 50% stake
in Mbada Diamonds to its
subsidiary, Gradwell Holdings
Limited registered in Mau-
ritius which also transferred
part of its stake to a battery of
shelf companies like Transfron-
tier Mining Company (Hong
Kong), Metha Nominees
(Hong Kong), Vibury Nomi-
nees (Hong Kong), Connetty
Nominees (Hong Kong), Ex-

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press Agents (British Virgin Is- Zanu PF headquarters, in Harare. tractive industries find it un-
lands) and Leisure Star (British necessary to pay their tax ob-
Virgin Islands). particular time.” pened? How much was put men then explained to Mnan- cial donations,” it said. ligations to the government as
The source, according to the into Mnangagwa’s election gagwa how they had funded his The recent fallout between they would have already paid
“The eventual ownership campaign which warranted his campaign and how they expect- substantial amounts of money
structure of Mbada became so report, added that the other direct interest in the re-issuance ed Bvute to be appointed dep- Mnangagwa and Moti, report- to Zanu PF.
intricate, but very convenient, US$1 million was paid in on of the raw chrome export li- uty minister of Finance and to ed by online publication  Zim-
for the Zanu PF government to 9 January 2014, but it could cence?,” it says. be protected from prosecution Live on 23 September 2019, A strong patron-client rela-
move millions of United States not be established how it was in the ongoing National Social has provided a window to un- tionship exists between all ex-
dollars, undetected, or at least distributed. In return for the “While the researcher could Security Authority corruption derstanding the extent to which tractive industries and the rul-
concealed, in order to illegally US$2 million, the source re- not establish the figures that saga. Zanu PF sold vast chrome ing Zanu PF, the report adds.
fund its operations leading to- vealed, Mutasa, who was acting Zanu PF got from its 2018 mining concessions to fund its
wards the 2013 elections.”  Minister of Mines, issued Car- election dealings with Carzle Mnangagwa is then report- 2018 election campaign. Recently, the report says, a
zle Investments with a chrome Investments, a senior Zanu PF ed to have promised the busi- Chinese company, Beifa Invest-
The report notes that after export licence, although the official availed figures in the nessmen land and government “Equally, the fall-out be- ments, set out to explore for
each election, Zanu PF usually country had banned the export arrangement that Zanu PF en- partnership in a “command tween Moti and Mnangagwa coal in Dinde communal lands
gets down to working out strat- of raw chrome at the time. tered with businessmen Enock housing scheme in preparation has led to both parties letting in Hwange district. The com-
egies to identify corporate bod- Kamushinda, Ozias Bvute for the 2023 election cam- out details on the deal that saw pany was resisted by the locals
ies and individuals to fund the “The source revealed that the and Rodreck Mlauzi, who the paign”. Moti getting around 300 hect- who argued that the project un-
next elections. export licence was, however, source says provided a total of ares of chrome fields in an area dermines their environmental,
later cancelled by then Minister US$12 million for the Zanu “According to another se- between Shurugwi and Zvisha- cultural, economic and social
“According to an interviewee of Mines, Walter Chidhakwa in PF 2018 election campaign nior official, Zanu PF also used bane, in return for buying the rights.
involved in the deals, barely six February 2014 at the height of in exchange for government the  quid pro quo  strategy to 150 election campaign vehicles
months after the 31 July 2013 Zanu PF internal fights but was contracts, key government po- raise funds for the purchase of for Zanu PF.” Beifa Investments wrote a
elections, in December 2013, re-issued on 18 October 2019 sitions and protection from 60 of the 210 double-cab ve- letter to Zanu PF Hwange Dis-
Zanu PF, through a proxy who after the 2018 elections,” the prosecution. hicles that the party procured The report also says dona- trict, not the government of
runs most Zanu PF companies, report says. for its parliamentary candidates tions from extractive industries Zimbabwe, complaining that
entered into a joint venture “The source added that the in return for the opportunity were an integral part of Zanu a Zanu PF faction, allegedly
operation with Gamstar Hold- “The question arises as to three businessmen’s US$12 to front the party in the Great PF’s election funding architec- linked to the Speaker of Parlia-
ings, Hannam & Partners and what had happened to warrant million was used, among other Dyke Investments (GDI) plati- ture. ment Jacob Mudenda, was in-
Meikles Group to fund Zanu the re-issuing of the licence? things, to pay for all the cam- num project with Afromet JSC citing the community to resist
PF operations in exchange for How much did Carzle share- paign billboards for Mnangag- of Russia. “Because most extractive in- their activity.
a raw chrome export licence holders, Hannam & Partners wa that were dotted around the dustries acquire mining rights
which was the only one of its and the Meikles Group contrib- country and T-shirts (US$7 “The source alleged that Ku- through Zanu PF, they are Equally perplexing is the
kind since the export of raw ute towards the 2018 elections million) that were bought from dakwashe Tagwirei bought the required to pay back in cash case of Anjin Investments. 
chrome was banned at the which warranted the reissuing India.” 60 cars and was rewarded with towards party functions and
time,” it says. of the licence that had been an opportunity to buy into the activities. Fundraising dinners In 2016, the late former
cancelled five years earlier?” The report also reveals GDI platinum project through are frequently held by the par- president Robert Mugabe ac-
“The joint venture company Mnangagwa was not aware his Landela Mining Ventures ty where extractive industries cused diamond mining firms,
Carzle Investments was formed The report says of note was of this huge donation by the which now controls 50% of the are ‘invited’ to donate. They including Anjin Investments,
and immediately issued with a the written instruction in a let- three businessmen which went platinum venture. are also expected to provide of robbing Zimbabwe of an es-
raw chrome export licence. ter from President Emmerson through Local Government transport and food for rallies,” timated US$15 billion.
Mnangagwa to the then Zanu minister July Moyo. “He added that the other it says.
“According to the informant PF secretary of finance Patrick 150 of the 210 double cab ve- Mugabe said of a possible
involved in the deal, Carzle Chinamasa, dated 13 June The informant revealed that hicles were bought by Zunaid “One CEO of a mining US$15 billion, only US$2 bil-
Investments shareholders are 2019, shown to the researcher Mnangagwa only got to know Moti with Zanu PF using the company complained that at lion had been realised.
Meikles Centar Mining (Pvt) by the interviewee on this mat- about the donation when Bvute same approach of fundraising times they are forced to build
Limited 75 %, Cougan Matan- ter, imploring the minister “to and Kamushinda were taken to using the country’s mineral re- classroom blocks far away from However, Mugabe later told
hire 12.5%, and Mnangagwa assist Mr Matanhire with his meet him by a State Residenc- sources, this time, chrome min- their areas of operation because journalists the figure was just a
& Sekeramayi Syndicate (M & licence”. es employee only named as ing fields, that the party availed a provincial political heavy- guestimate without evidence.
S) 12.5%.” Maburutse. to Moti in return for the supply weight is campaigning in that He said he had been told by
“The question that begs for of the cars, among other finan- constituency.” officials.
Meikles Centar Mining an answer is what had hap- The report says the business-
(Pvt) Limited is a Zimbabwe- The CEO added that ex- To cure that haemorrhage,
an-registered company owned Mugabe formed the Zimbabwe
by Meikles Group (51%) and Consolidated Diamond Com-
Hannam & Partners (49%). pany (ZCDC) and unsuccess-
Hannam and Partners is owned fully tried to force the mining
by Polish billionaire Ian Han- companies to merge.
nam and Jan Kulczyk.
When they refused, Mugabe
Hannam and Partners is forced them out of Marange,
represented by Chris Show- claiming that they had “robbed
alter, while Meikles Group is us”.
represented by its group finan-
cial director Thempson Muz- Mugabe’s claims were barely
vagwandoga. Zanu PF, using surprising, given that it was a
M&S Syndicate, is represented public secret that Zimbabwe’s
by Sekai Chikwava. diamond revenues were not
flowing to Treasury.
The report shows that, ac-
cording to the source who was Global Witness, a British
part of the deal, Meikles Cen- not-for-profit natural resourc-
tar Mining (Pvt) Limited paid es watchdog, reported in 2012
US$2 million to Zanu PF and that Zimbabwe’s diamonds
Matanhire before the Carzle were funding a parallel Zanu
Investments deal could even PF government to undermine
materialise. the work of the Inclusive Gov-
ernment.
“The source added that
US$150 million was then mo- Former Finance minister
bilised for actual operations Tendai Biti has repeatedly stat-
which involved the building ed that Anjin Investments was
of a chrome smelting plant. not remitting anything to Trea-
The source also revealed that sury during his tenure in the
the US$2 million was payment Government of National Unity. 
for Zanu-PF’s ‘influence’ and
Matanhire’s claims,” it says. However, barely a year after
he ascended to the presidency,
“The US$2 million was re- Mnangagwa reinstated Anjin
portedly paid in through two Investments in Marange.
US$1 million installments. The
first installment was paid in “Anjin has been secretly
cash on 09 December 2013 and mining and has not declared
distributed as follows: US$450 any statistics or production or
000 cash paid into a Zanu PF revenues generated. It is equally
CBZ account on 12 December unknown where Anjin sells its
2013,  while US$200 000  was diamonds and account to,” the
shared among a trio of Didy- report says.
mus Mutasa, then Acting Min-
ister of Mines, Webster Shamu, From the information gath-
Zanu PF National Political ered, the report says it can be
Commissar and Sekai Chikwa- concluded that funding for
va, the Zanu PF representative Zanu PF election and political
in Carzle. The Joint Venture activities chiefly comes from
Company was then issued with state companies and corpora-
the only licence to export raw tions, private companies, es-
chrome in the country at that pecially in the extractive sector
and organisations linked to
Zanu PF, wealthy individuals
and private entities operating
in Zimbabwe, the region and
further afield.

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LIZWE SEBATA CIO boss lays sustained siege 
on coveted productive farm
CENTRAL Intelligence Or-
ganisation (CIO) co-depu- Madzivanyathi, a Bulawayo CIO co-Deputy Director-General Gatsha Mazithulela. included in Esidakeni Farm
ty director-general Gatsha businessman who is also a lec- project. I must point out that
Mazithulela has for the first turer at Nust where Mazith- habilitating boreholes, main which they intend to utilise as alone and planted eight hect- he is known to the second
time been publicly accused by ulela was partly educated and water reservoir, irrigation sys- their business grows. ares of onions, six hectares of (Malunga) and third (Charles
three local farmers of laying a worked as pro-vice-chancel- tem and homestead. butternut, six hectares of to- Moyo) respondents as well,”
sustained siege on Esidakeni lor. Apart from horticultural matoes (150 000 plants). Dhlamini says in court pa-
Farm in Nyamandlovu, Mata- To do this, the farmers activities, Malunga, Dhlami- pers.
beleland North province, out Mazithulela, who has a obtained two loans of about ni and Charles Moyo have a “Ever since we took occu-
of riotous envy and brazen colourful curriculum vitae, US$230 000 for their hor- commercial beef herd of 150 pation, we have managed to “The untenable request
abuse of office, court papers graduated with a PhD in ge- ticultural project. Due to cattle, 50 goats and 4 000 free turn the farm into the envy that he made still required
say. netic engineering at the age of their productivity, they have range Sasso chickens. They of many. It therefore did that I run it by my fellow
27, and worked in the Unit- already repaid US$110 000. are planning to increase those not surprise me that some- shareholders and directors. I
Mazithulela, a distin- ed Kingdom, United States They started working on numbers significantly. time in December 2019, the did and they took the posi-
guished scientist, was also and South Africa in scientif- five hectares, but quickly in- fourth respondent, Gatsha tion that there was no room
accused of trying to squeeze ic, biotechnology and nuclear creased that to 30ha and this The farm employs 45 per- Mazithulela, who was then for additional shareholders.
himself into the Esidakeni facilities. He also previously year they are going up to manent workers and 250 sea- pro-vice-chancellor at Nust, Gatsha was however awk-
Farm horticultural project worked in the government. 55ha. The total irrigable part sonal employees.  and work colleague, ap- wardly insistent.”
and intimidating its owners of the 530ha farm is 85ha, proached me and asked to be
with arrest or seizure if they The applicants are Dhlami- The farmers have invested After a series of meetings,
did not accommodate him to ni, Moyo and Malunga, as well over US$100 000 this year exchanges and events mark-
offer them political protec- as their company Kershelmar, ing the intensification of the
tion. The farm owners also while the respondents include battle over the farm, Dhlami-
say they hold Mazithulela ac- Lands and Agriculture min- ni says: “On 24 December
countable for the disappear- ister Anxious Masuka, Ma- 2020, I received a call from
ance of some of their docu- tabeleland North chief lands Gatsha who advised me that
ments at the provincial land officer, registrar of deeds, our farm had been acquired
offices in Bulawayo as at one Mazithulela, Madzivanyathi, by the state. I was obviously
time he communicated in the CIO officer Reason Mpofu concerned about the levels
middle of the night with one and minister of State for Ma- of Gatsha’s interest in mat-
of them while in possession of tabeleland North province ters that pertain to the farm.
those missing documents. Richard Moyo – who is spear- I was particularly perplexed
heading the farm seizure. that Gatsha seemed to know
These details emerged af- more about the farm than us
ter shareholders of Kershel- Reason Mpofu, who has the owners.”
mar Farms (Private) Limited, also been allocated a piece
which owns the farm, ap- of land on the farm, is Zanu Malunga also made it clear
proached the High Court this PF administration secretary in a no-holds-barred account
week seeking an order to stop Obert Mpofu’s nephew. Ob- that Mazithulela is behind the
the government from seizing ert Mpofu, a former minister, attempted farm seizure.
their land for redistribution visited the farm in March.
and barring Mazithulela and The farm owners say it
others from illegally interfer- The farm owners say is clear beyond reasonable
ing with their business. Mazithulela, Richard Moyo doubt that Mazithulela is
and Obert Mpofu are the acting out of self-interest and
Kershelmar is co-owned by prime movers behind the at- malice, while abusing his top
businessman Charles Moyo, tempted property seizure. CIO office to grab private
Zephaniah Dhlamini, a sci- They also say the three misled property using government
entist working at the Nation- the minister, Masuka, into departments to facilitate
al University of Science and gazetting the farm through the unlawful seizure of land
Technology (Nust), and Si- falsehoods, including that the from local indigenous people,
phosami Malunga, the Open property had previously been which in itself is illegal.
Society Initiative for South- acquired by the state when it
ern Africa executive director was not and that it was being In a letter to Masuka – who
and son of the late nationalist underutilised when it is high- has distanced himself from
Sydney Malunga. ly productive. the farm seizure, dated 14
June, contesting the property
The court action is a cul- Malunga, Dhlamini and grab, Malunga, Dhlamini and
mination of a series of recent Charles Moyo say they Charles Moyo said they stand
events that characterised the bought the farm from its pre- to lose over ZW$60 million
battle over the farm. vious owner and own it, hence in potential revenue from
they are heavily invested in it. their horticultural project if
The court action by After buying the farm, they the greedy and malicious dis-
Malunga and partners comes invested in infrastructure, re- ruptions do not stop.
after they were issued a 14-
day notice to vacate a portion
of Kershelmar, a productive
farm that has purported-
ly been allocated to, among
other beneficiaries, Dumisani

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BERNARD MPOFU Nine million Zimbabweans
reel from grinding poverty
A DRAMATIC rise in prices of million in rural areas. a poverty update was needed.
basic goods has thrown more “The increase in poverty rates One of the poorest townships in Zimbabwe, Mbare high density suburb in Harare. Zimstats achieved this by con-
Zimbabweans into extreme lev- ducting a household survey,
els of poverty over the past few and the number of extremely noted that within urban areas, poverty estimates for Zimbabwe babwe Poverty Report 2017. the Mini-PICES 2019, from
years, a report jointly released poor and poor people during maize meal subsidies were more for April– May 2019. Zimstats “However, due to the rap- April  15 to May  23, 2019.
by the Zimbabwe National Sta- the period under review can be likely to benefit the middle conducted the Pices in 2017, The survey was supported by
tistics Agency (Zimstats), the attributed to high inflation cou- groups than the poorest groups. and poverty estimates for that id economic changes that oc- funding from the Zimbabwe
country’s statistical agency, and pled with the contraction of the year were published in the Zim- curred in the Zimbabwean Reconstruction Fund (Zimref)
the World Bank says. economy and a poor 2018/19 This report presents updated economy from 2017 to 2019, and technical support from the
rainfall season. These negative World Bank. Sampled house-
Zimbabwe economy, which changes in the economy are holds were a subsample of the
is buffeted by high inflation and likely to have stressed the live- Pices 2017 households covered
price volatility, contracted be- lihoods of many Zimbabweans, in February–June 2017,” the
tween 2019 and 2020 at a time thereby affecting households report says.
the country experienced one in urban areas more in relative
of its worst droughts in living terms compared to households The general poverty rate
memory. in rural areas,” the report says. based on the lower-bound
poverty line remained high.
The situation has further de- Simulations show that the It changed marginally for the
teriorated in 2021. Salaries and rapid price increases that affect- rural population, but in urban
wages for civil servants and av- ed Zimbabwe between April areas it rose sharply, from 16%
erage workers have collapsed to and May 2019 and December to 24% during the same period.
a fraction of what they were in 2019 may have increased ex-
2017 at the time of the survey. treme poverty from 38% to “Consumption expenditure
52%. The study shows that the fell for all welfare groups ex-
Zimbabweans are now far price increases of maize, bread, cept the richest 10%, or decile.
poorer under President Emmer- and cereals had the largest im- The welfare groups in the lower
son Mnangagwa’s government pact on poverty. end of the income distribution
than they were at the time when (lower deciles) had the largest
he removed through a Novem- According to the Poverty proportional declines in con-
ber 2017 coup the late former Income Consumption and Ex- sumption expenditure. Conse-
president Robert Mugabe – a penditure Survey (Pices) 2017 quently, inequality rose as the
disastrous failure himself. data, the share of maize meal in Gini index increased from 44.7
total household consumption in 2017 to 50.4 in 2019. The
According to an updated is three times higher in urban increase in inequality was driv-
Zimbabwe Poverty Report, areas (1.8%) than in rural areas en by a rise in inequality within
which was released on yesterday, (0.3%). urban and within rural areas
the number of extremely poor rather than between urban and
people rose from 4.5 million in Maize meal subsidies thus rural areas,” the report says.
2017 to 6 million during April– benefit urban households more
May 2019, but the number of than rural ones. It was also
poor people measured by the
lower-bound poverty line rose
from 8 million to 8.9 million
during the same period.

Furthermore, whereas the
number of extremely poor peo-
ple in urban areas increased by
about 327 000, it rose by 1.1

OWEN GAGARE Sadc trade routes now safe and suppliers, farmers, and
after South African turmoil Agri-businesses to ensure the
SOUTH African acting min- along the major routes to en- stability of the food supply
ister in the presidency Khum- sure the secure passage of the South African Acting Presidency minister Khumbudzo Ntshaveni, who is also Small Businesses Development minister. chain.  Importantly, gov-
budzo Ntshavheni says Preto- long-haul logistics trucks and ernment and social partners
ria has put security measures the rail network.  We were in- community in general that the munity and the international sures which we put in place to secured the logistics centres
to ensure infrastructure and formed by the South African situation in our country is now community in general for sup- address the concerns of food where communities can easily
trade routes linking the coun- National Road Agency Lim- stable and economic activities porting South Africa through security in KwaZulu-Natal access food. As I speak today,
try’s main ports and the region ited that over nine thousand have returned to normal. We this difficult time,” she said. and Gauteng, Government the security of food supplies
are secured following the re- trucks were moving on the N3 want to thank the Sadc com- has engaged food processors has been normalised mainly
cent unrest. per day without any incidents “Regarding additional mea- across the affected provinces:
against logistic trucks.
Countries in the region, in- “All the shopping malls,
cluding Zimbabwe, depend on “In addition, we have re- supermarkets and spaza shops
trade and imports from and ported on the full operation that have not been affected by
through South Africa. Zim- of the two ports of Durban unrests were operational since
babwe imports about 50% of and Richards Bay – and the Saturday 17th of July 2021.
its needs from South Africa, other ports were never affects Bakeries have also been oper-
while it exports 40% of its by the unrests. All activities ational and bread which was
products to its powerful south- at the port of Durban, specif- in short supply in KZN has
ern neighbour. ically agricultural ones, have been on the shelves since the
normalised and were in entire weekend.
In a media briefing during operation since the start of this
the week, Ntshavheni said week. The only delays at the “Milk supplies are now
normalcy has been largely ports are due to the backlogs available, and depots have
restored and trade corridors that were caused by the clo- been collecting from farmers.
were now open as South Af- sure during the period of the
rican security forces continue unrests. Sugar Mills has been oper-
to get on top of the situation ational since Saturday 17th
which threatened to spiral out “Furthermore, our border of July 2021, and the farmers
of control and morph into an posts are also working around have been able to move their
anti-government uprising. the clock to process the logis- cane to the Mills.
tics trucks so that they reach
“Since the unrest of the last their destination safely and on “In KZN, where damage
two weeks, concerns have also time.” to retail infrastructure is most
been raised about food secu- severe, municipalities have
rity in the (Southern African Ntshavheni said her govern- been working together with
Development Community) ment was restoring order and their business communities to
region as a number of our calm across the country. ensure that food availability is
neighbouring countries also maintained.
rely on the South African ports “We want to reassure all
for their imports of food and South Africans, the Sadc re- “Where necessary, munici-
critical supplies,” Ntshaveni gion and the international palities have made their facil-
said.   ities part of the value chain.
Other shop owners in certain
“We want to reassure the rural towns have converted ad-
region of SADC that law en- ditional facilities to ensure that
forcement agencies have post- these are made grocery shops
ed extra security personnel to address the food availabili-
ty.”

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Issue 40, 23 July 2021

Chiredzi people denied
right to national IDs

MORRIS BISHI for menial jobs. Government access these services,” said sorghum at US$200 instead Chiredzi South MP Kallisto Gwanetsa.
should quickly embark on a Mtombeni. of RTGS$38 000 being paid
MORE than half of the peo- mobile exercise and relax the by the GMB.
ple in Chiredzi South are requirements to allow my The NewsHawks estab-
finding it difficult to partic- people to get identification lished that most people in A traditional leader from
ipate in economic develop- particulars.”  areas like Chilonga, Chi- Malipati area told The News-
ment programmes due to lack kombedzi, Malipati and Sen- Hawks that the requirements
of national identity cards and “You can count four gen- gwe who survive mainly on for acquiring national identi-
birth certificates, resulting in erations within a family who sorgum farming are unable ty documents that are stipu-
youths from the area crossing do not have IDs. There is a to supply their produce to lated by the registry office are
illegally into South Africa to village in Limpopo Valley the Grain Marketing Board alienating locals.
look for menial jobs.  called Madzanga, the whole (GMB) due to a lack of IDs
village including the village which are needed for one to When locals travel 200
The constituency, located head does not have IDs and open a bank account. This is kilometres to Chiredzi, it
in the middle of the Limpo- this was worsened by officials forcing farmers to sell their becomes difficult for them
po, Runde, Sengwe and Bubi from the registry depart- grain to unregistered dealers to travel again after failing
rivers, borders Mozambique ment who were demanding who are buying a tonne of to acquire an ID on the first
and South Africa. More than bribes from the people,” said attempt.
80% of the people come Gwanetsa.
from the Shangani commu- CONFERENCE
nity. Chiredzi district develop- ROOM
ment coordinator Lovemore AVAILABLE
The Shangani have been Chisema told The News-
under-represented in Zim- Hawks that it is true that Executive Conference Room for Package Includes
babwe as a minority group most locals do not have iden- -Private Meetings -Wi-Fi
inhabiting the remotest parts tity documents, but he was
of the south-east lowveld not sure of the numbers. He -Investment Meetings -Projector
with their culture and val- however said the government -Workshops -Flip Chart/Whiteboard
ues having been criticised as is working to reduce the -Stationery (Pen & Notepad
backward and conservative. number. -Product Launches
-Media or Financial Briengs
The area neither has prop- “The issue is not affecting
er roads nor mobile network Chiredzi South only, but the Training
coverage and locals are re- whole district. I am not sure Strategic Planning
lying on Mozambican and of the actual figures of people
South African telecommuni- who are yet to get the iden-
cations service providers. Lo- tity cards, but government is
cal radio and television trans- working to reduce that num-
mission also not accessible. ber,” said Chisema.

Chiredzi South legislator Masvingo Centre for
Kallisto Gwanetsa told The Research and Develop-
NewsHawks that half of the ment (MACRAD) director
people in his constituency Ephraim Mtombeni told The
do not have identity cards, NewsHawks that his organi-
depriving them of econom- sation is concerned about the
ic opportunities while many high number of people with-
children are failing to write out proper documentation,
examinations. particularly national identity
cards and birth certificates,
“I have been raising this is- saying it is an infringement
sue for many years, but there of constitutional rights. 
is no improvement. Half of
the people in my constitu- “We noted that issue
ency do not have identity during meetings in the
cards and birth certificates. Chilonga area of Chiredzi,
They are unable to access there are many people who
government programmes do not have identification
like social grants and school particulars. It is an infringe-
children are unable to write ment of the people’s con-
examinations and many of stitutional rights. Our gov-
them end up illegally cross- ernment should make sure
ing to South Africa to look that all its people are able to

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BRIDGET MANANAVIRE Madzokere cries foul Issue 40, 23 July 2021
over access to children
MDC Alliance activist Tun- had stayed in prison for a long
gamirai Madzokere, who was acts as a go-between, and she MDC Alliance activist Tungamirai Madzokere. time,” Madzokere said.
recently freed after 10 years is the one who deals with any-
of wrongful incarceration, has thing to do with the children,” in 2018 through Presidential at the house. He said he was had to go back. I do not want Together with Maenga-
been clashing with his ex-wife’s he said. amnesty) were sentenced to 20 trying to talk to the in-laws any conflict, so I am working hama, Madzokere is con-
family over access to his chil- years. so that they address any issues on something amicable. I need templating on how to get
dren, who are in the care of Silizani told The NewsHawks that might be involved in him to meet with the in-laws, be- compensation for wrongful
their aunt. that she only does what she Madzokere said he is un- getting the children full time. cause I understand they are incarceration.
would have been told by the happy with the environment the ones who came to take
Madzokere was released mother of the children. She in which his children live, al- “There are still issues that them from the house, seeing I He also said he would be
from prison in early June only said in view of Madzokere’s ac- leging that there is a shebeen need to be discussed so they engaging human rights lawyers
to find that his wife had left tions, they will deal with him to get people in prison to enjoy
their home in November 2020 decisively. their conjugal rights so as to
and had awarded her young protect their relationships and
sister custody of the two chil- “I cannot talk to you about marriages.
dren, after moving in with an- this because I am only a go-be-
other man. tween. But if this is the route The two will undergo coun-
that he (Madzokere) has de- selling to help them deal with
According to Madzokere, cided to take, we are going the trauma of their wrongful
his former wife’s younger sister, to show him. Call me tomor- incarceration.
Precious Silizani, is now giv- row  topedza masports acho
ing him a hard time when he (we will deal with him).” Madzokere does not blame
wants to see the children. his wife for leaving as he says
Follow-up calls to Silizani they were in love but blames
“I am only allowed to see were however not answered. the system which leaves part-
my children on Saturdays, but ners and families of those in-
even on those Saturdays, my Madzokere and his col- carcerated as victims.
ex’s sister can just say it is no league Last Maengahama were
longer possible because the freed early June after spending “It’s something that I have
mother has plans with them, 10 years in both remand prison accepted that it happens and
or they just give me a hard time and serving their sentence at my wife was very young. I have
telling me not to bother them Chikurubi Maximum Security reflected on the issue and I
when I try and make plans to Prison. want to engage human rights
visit my children,” Madzokere lawyers for an application for
told The NewsHawks. The two were part of a conjugal rights for inmates.
group of 29 mainly MDC Because these are consequenc-
He showed The NewsHawks members, dubbed The Glen es of the system,” Madzokere
unpleasant exchanges between View 29, arrested in connec- said.
the two, where Silizani would tion with policeman Petros
threaten to block him and oc- Mutedza’s death in May 2011. “It is good to reflect, and
casions where she would stop The rest were released while my wife was very young and
him from seeing the children. Madzokere, Maengahama and she had waited for a very long
Yvonne Musarurwa (released time. So for me the problem
The former councillor said is the system. Other countries
he had not taken any legal now have conjugal rights in
route as he first wants to find prison because if someone has
an amicable solution in dealing been arrested, the partner and
with the matter, for the sake of the family become victims.
the children. When I look at it, I must strike
a balance. With my wife we
“I do not talk to my ex, I were in love for a long time.
talk to her young sister and she We really understood each
other, but I guess something
happened.”

NewsHawks News Page 13

Issue 40, 23 July 2021

STEPHEN CHADENGA Gweru residents fume over
$1.7 million stands scam
A 2019 report by Auditor-Gen- the same councillors who were addressed.”
eral Mildred Chiri which un- the murky land sales. Town House recovers fair value City of Gweru. refusing to reduce rates for the Makombe said corruption
earthed malpractices in the sale Gweru Residents and Rate- for the stands, if not the stands struggling residents were the
of stands at Gweru City Coun- themselves. Another civic group, the same people who were failing in the local authority was one
cil has caused chaos in the payers Development Associ- Gweru Residents and Ratepay- to pay for their stands. of the key reasons the devel-
Midlands capital with residents ation Trust executive director “Council should also furnish ers Association, said the cul- opment of the new Mkoba 21
demanding that those involved David Chikore said there is the number of councillors fin- prits must be prosecuted. “Whoever did not pay residential stands had failed to
in the illicit deals be brought a need to employ a more “ag- gered in the report.” during their term of office take off.
to justice, The Newshawks can gressive approach” in bringing The association’s director, should have stands repossessed
report. to book those involved in the Chikore added: “The in- Cornelia Selipiwe, said the Au- and sold to those who can pay He said the money for the
corrupt land deals. formation is critical in that it ditor-General’s report exposed so that our city can go for- sold stands should have been
According to Chiri’s report, reveals the level of either com- bad governance practices in the ward,” he said. used to service the area, a re-
stands valued at over ZW$1.7 “There is need to engage an- pliance or impunity in those local authority. sponsibility he said the previous
million were sold but the lo- ti-corruption agencies so that we entrust with the affairs of Mayor Josiah Makombe ac- council failed to discharge. But
cal authority failed to provide they follow the paper trail in our city.” “These challenges highlight- knowledged the existence of speaking last week at a Zim-
supporting documents for all those ‘sub-rosa’ transactions ed by the report point to lack of dodgy land deals at council, babwe Coalition on Debt and
stands sold, the beneficiaries with a view of identifying the He said it was unfortunate proper governance at council. but distanced his current crop Development virtual indaba
and receipts of the transactions. persons involved,” Chikore that councillors who advocated We don’t have proper systems of councillors from the rot. on public finance management
Chiri also revealed that some told The Newshawks. the prosecution of defaulting in place and this obviously and governance, Gweru Urban
councillors whose term of of- ratepayers were themselves “de- erodes the confidence residents He said his council invited legislator Brian Dube said there
fice has since expired were yet “The paper trail will lead faulting kingpins who take up have in the local authority,” central government to institute was a need for council to assert
to pay for stands sold at con- council to the culprits so that office solely for looting.” said Selipiwe. a forensic land audit after not- its role in ensuring accountabil-
cessionary rates on the under- ing anomalies in the way land ity in the local authority.
standing that they should pay He said it was surprising that was parcelled out by previous
up in full before the expiry of councils. “There should be no sacred
their term of office. cows, we bank on you (the
“That is why some of our mayor and his councillors) that
“I was not availed with sup- managers have been suspended the anomalies in the allocation
porting documents to show and are going through disci- of stands are addressed. We call
that the council has a record plinary action for that,” he said. upon the acting town clerk and
of all stands sold, their pur- his management to cooperate
chase price, the beneficiaries, “As for the issue of stands, we with councillors in addressing
amounts paid to date and have said those former coun- these issues,” Dube said.
outstanding balance on each cillors who have not paid will
stand,” Chiri said in her report. have the stands repossessed. A 2019 land audit commis-
We acknowledge there were a sioned by central government
“During the current year lot of leakages, especially in the revealed that from 2009 to
the listing provided to audit finance department.” 2019, council disposed of com-
showed that stands worth $1 mercial, residential, institution-
714 784 were sold, however the He added: “As Gweru City al and industrial stands with
amount could not be traced to Council, we are trying our best an estimated value of ZW$21
the financial reports. to make sure that all the issues million. According to the re-
raised by the Auditor-General port, council only received half
“Councillors did not fill in are responded to. We want to the value of the land due to
stop order forms neither did make sure that when the next dodgy deals by corrupt council
they make any payment ar- audit comes most of the is- officials.
rangement towards the pur- sues highlighted by the Audi-
chase of stands allocated to tor-General would have been
them.”

The local residents’ associa-
tion this week said it was not
“amused” by the “lackadaisical
approach” taken by council in
dealing with those involved in

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Zimbabwean Issue 40, 23 July 2021
automotive
entrepreneur
makes history

RUVIMBO MUSKWE Another group that has trou- Tatenda Mungofa’s Mureza Auto Co has rolled out its first 100 vehicles into the market.
ble accepting what we are
GROWING up in Hara- working to achieve with our “A lot of design work is Mureza (which means flag in Tatenda Mungofa capital is accessible and also
re’s high-density suburb of vision is some of our local being done by the team for Shona),” he said.   vations and launching them the market. If you are going
Warren Park, young Tatenda people. It has taken time for other entities as well as of- from abroad. One example is to go into manufacturing, it
Mungofa would see oil leaks, them to warm up to us as a fering consultancy services Mungofa he said  the Takwana Tyaranini, a Zim- would make sense to do it in
engines and car fumes daily. brand,’’ he said. while production was idle,” Mureza Prim8 is the com- babwean based in the Unit- a place where there is a large
he added. pany’s entry model at an ap- ed Kingdom who launched a domestic market before you
His father was a respected “People have doubts and pealing retail price of US$13 digital money transfer plat- even look at export. So those
mechanic and, as fate would problems accepting that Mungofa said he ventured 500 in Zimbabwe and R196 form called Sendtoo. Send- are some of the limitations of
have it, Mungofa (32) devel- something big can come out into the motoring industry 000 in South Africa. too was launched in March our environment where our
oped a passion for the auto- from scratch and worse com- due to passion and the idea 2016 as an airtime transfer market is relatively small,”
motive industry. ing from someone they don’t of problem solving.  “The vehicle is equipped network comprising about said Ruzvidzo. He added
expect because there are usu- with all the modern-day 400 mobile operators with a that our financial service sec-
His is a story of an ordi- ally comparisons with other “The only continent with- tech like Bluetooth, adaptive reach of 4.5 billion prepaid tor has been unable to offer
nary Zimbabwean who de- companies that have done out a commercially success- cruise control, satellite navi- phone users in more than long-term financing and this
fied all odds and dared to be- well and usually non-African ful brand of vehicles is Africa gation, reverse camera, steer- 140 countries with 40 of affects green field projects.
lieve in his dreams. Mungofa companies.”  because it mostly serves as ing controls and dual airbags. those in Africa.
founded Mureza, a car-man- a market for raw materials There is a choice of either au- Mungofa said that it was
ufacturing company whose “On the other hand, the and a human resource sup- tomatic or manual transmis- Confederation of Zim- difficult for the locals to em-
first model, the Prim8, has benchmark has been set high plier for most global OEMs sion and two engine choices babwe Industries president brace the idea of a locally
just been launched. and we are usually compared (original equipment man- (1.5 litre and 1.3 litre) and Henry Ruzvidzo said the made car due to the fact that
with other brands that have ufacturers). We saw an op- an electric version (EV) is in problem is usually lack of there was comparison with
The journey has been been in existence for over portunity to be the flagship the pipeline”, he said. capital. The market for big big foreign companies in the
bumpy. 100 years. The expectation of the automotive industry projects is relatively small as automotive industry.
from officials processing pa- in Africa, hence the name Many Zimbabweans have well. “People tend to go where
The South African-based perwork, a fund manager resorted to taking their inno- However, Ruzvidzo said
Zimbabwean’s company has you are lobbying for invest- it is not only a Zimbabwean
become Africa’s  first black- ment or a potential client problem but human nature
owned car manufacturer af- – they mostly think Mureza for people to think some-
ter overcoming challenges should start with a high pro- thing that comes from be-
in securing a manufacturing duction capacity and have a yong the borders is always
licence as well as in gaining five-model line-up”. better. “It’s not necessarily
acceptance from sceptical true, but what is needed
people.  Nyasha Kaseke, an inde- is for our local companies
pendent economist, said the to market and profile their
Mureza Auto Co has rolled reason why people are of- products better so that peo-
out its first 100 vehicles into ten reluctant to accept local ple understand that they are
the market with a pre-order products is due to percep- as good, if not better, than
facility available for buyers in tions and uncertainties over imported products.”
South Africa and Zimbabwe, back-up and quality.
starting this week. Economics professor Gift
“People prefer to have Mugano said the Zimbabwe-
Mungofa hit the headlines brands that are actually more an environment is toxic for
in November 2020 when he common for issues to do business.
promised to launch the first with spare parts and reputa-
car in two months. However, tion,” Kaseke said. “If you go into a business
the company has rolled out in Zimbabwe, you are com-
its first car on 14 July due to Mungofa also said mitting suicide because you
challenges in clinching the Covid-19 has also played its lose money due to the poor
licence. part because most govern- policy framework. How do
ment departments are under you do business when there
“At the time of that an- lockdown, making physical is no policy clarity, poli-
nouncement, there was hope inspections, for instance, dif- cy predictability and policy
that the process would be ficult. However, this has not consistency?” Mugano asked.
swift. stopped him from fulfilling
his dream. Mureza says it seeks to
The reality however solve transport problems on
showed us that we needed to “It is the nature of an en- the continent and is posi-
re-adjust our timelines and trepreneur to face the likes tioning itself as a flag bearer
focus on the process to en- of Covid-19 with a positive of Africa’s promising auto-
sure success. This meant we attitude. While the environ- motive industry.
had to re-do a lot of things to ment is very unpredictable
align to the safety and quali- and there is great risk and
ty standards that come with delays owing to the lock-
licensing,” Mungofa said. downs, we decided to look at
a long-term strategy of get-
Besides the licensing hic- ting ourselves through this
cup, Mungofa said he also period one day at a time and
faced resistance from car sup- we managed to coordinate
pliers and other local people with our major suppliers and
who had trouble accepting a partners to get our business
car brand from one of their moving,” Mungofa said.
own.
He had to reduce pace in
“Acceptance is the major entering the market in order
challenge which we deal with to conserve energy and re-
on a regular basis. When we sources and also to focus on
create a design for a car and other aspects of the business
approach component suppli- to generate income.
ers to make for us, they usu-
ally just look the other way
and think we are not serious.

NewsHawks Feature Page 15

Issue 40, 23 July 2021

Long walk to female participation in govt

WILLIAM MILASI Zimbabwe Gender Commission chief executive officer Virginia Muwanigwa. policies and laws,” Sheila Fashu,
a lawyer with the Legal Resourc-
IT is a case of so near yet so far of funding or enough financial amplified voices,” she said. that affect women are better the magnitude of the problem es Foundation in Gweru, said.
when it comes to the participa- support for those with political The Midlands provincial understood by fellow women. will never be the same. Having
tion of women in the country’s ambitions as opposed to our Although we may explain to women in decision making po- The ZGC boss said women
governance system. male counterparts. This is not- chairperson for the Women men that a woman in her pe- sitions therefore helps amplify can play an important role in
withstanding the fact that gov- in Local Governance Forum riods needs adequate water to issues affecting women which, governance.
Gender experts in the coun- ernment supports the participa- (WILGF), councillor Idiraishe bath, the level of understanding in turn, helps us get favourable
try have said while the govern- tion of women in politics,” she Dongo, said the challenge is “By women participating
ment has made strides to address said. the lack of political will to cre- equally within our governance
matters of gender equity, the ate an enabling environment for sector, it means that we have a
participation of women in gov- There is a need for mindset women in governance, especially shared vision of what is required
ernance remains a thorny issue change, according to the coun- those in grassroots structures. in our country. We will also be
in Zimbabwe’s highly patriar- try director of the Women’s In- able to address problems specifi-
chal society. Female participa- ternational League for Peace and “In December 2020, we en- cally felt by women and will also
tion in governance is generally Freedom, Edwick Madzimure. gaged the President of the Re- be informed by the lived realities
not being actively prioritised public of Zimbabwe, ED Mnan- of not just the men and boys but
notwithstanding the fact that a “On our part, we educate gagwa, at the Great Women women and girls. It is important
progressive Bill on the consti- both the local men and wom- Councillors Indaba, the first if its that women participate in gov-
tutional amendment has since en through awareness raising kind, in Victoria Falls, over the ernance starting not just from
sailed through the National As- on the need for gender equality.  under-representation of wom- party political governance but
sembly and the Senate. First, men must do away with en at local level both in the law even the local governance. We
the patriarchal system which re- makers and implementors. And have traditional situations where
According to Zimbabwe served the place of women to the I am glad to inform you that, currently the traditional decision
Gender Commission (ZGC) kitchen and child bearing. Sec- the listening President heard makers are men. In elections
chief executive officer Virginia ondly, on women and girls we our concerns and awarded us a we have low participation as
Muwanigwa, the country has educate them that they need to 30% quota system at local au- not more than 14% of women
come of age in terms of gender start stepping up for leadership thority. And to us women, that’s participate and there is need for
equality, although more still positions and they also need to a plus and if we add the 10% an increase in that figure. The
needs to be done. start supporting fellow women we have, it may accumulate to low participation of women in
in governance,” she said. 40% women’s representation at governance arises from the gov-
“As a country we have done local level. To me the challenge ernance system, particularly par-
very well in terms of our legis- Madzimure added that wom- is more about the political will ty-political system which tends
lative framework or in terms of en also have a critical role to play to have women in positions of to have some violence and wom-
ensuring that our constitution is towards the promotion of peace influence and implementation en will shy away from participat-
very clear on the need for gen- in governance. of the legal frameworks because ing because they want to avoid
der equality and non-discrimi- the constitution of Zimbabwe becoming targeted. In addition,
nation. We have also done very “As women, the first role is provides for it,” Dongo said. women don’t have resources
well in terms of setting up what participation. Let’s participate which are required by our kind
is referred to as the gender ma- in all peace processes. For in- Although the road to gender of politics. It can also be noted
chinery, basically meaning that stance, the UN Security Coun- reform seems long, a legal expert that our society has not prepared
we have set up some institutions cil Resolution 1325 calls for said the participation of women women to be leaders, and there
to ensure what our constitution the meaningful participation of in issues of governance cannot are also issues of responsibilities
says on gender equality and women in peace and security. be understated. at household level,” Muwanigwa
non-discrimination become a We must make our voices heard said.
reality.  We have a Zimbabwe and the only way to do that is “Women constitute more
Gender Commission and the if we participate, politically and than 50% of the population
Anti-Domestic Violence Coun- economically because the oth- of Zimbabwe and the impor-
cil, Ministry of Women’s Affairs er challenge limiting women’s tance of their participation in
and the Zimbabwe Microfi- participation in politics is lack governance and peace cannot
nance Bank. There are so many of financial resources, hence if be over-emphasised. Women in
other institutions that have been there’s economic empowerment leadership influence other pol-
set up whose role is to address women can participate in pol- icymakers to view things from
the gender equality issues,” Mu- itics hence they can speak with a gender perspective. Issues
wanigwa said.

However, the road to reform
is still arduous.

“Our biggest challenge re-
mains that in practice among
the citizens of Zimbabwe gender
equality still remains a thorny
issue with men believing that
when we talk about gender
equality we want to fight men,
yet basically what gender equal-
ity says is that we need a society
that is inclusive. And when we
have structure in the society, the
structures need to be inclusive,”
she said.

In terms of governance is-
sues, women in politics are still
dogged by traditional problems,
with no respite in sight.

A councillor in Redcliff,
Makanyara Piki, one of the two
female councillors in the town,
says although the government is
in support of gender equality the
situation on the ground is not
reflective of this official posture.

“We have to applaud gov-
ernment for supporting gender
equality issues. However, the
situation on the ground remains
a challenge for women in gov-
ernance. The major challenge
that we face as women is lack

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Issue 40, 23 July 2021

Zim children cars to earn a living.
plunged into ‘‘My parents are not
untold misery
working, they cannot af-
NYARADZO MUSHANYUKI spend days without eating ing goods on the streets of place. ZW$500 per day which is ford the online education,
and during school days the Harare and cleaning cars They also narrated not enough for me to look and there us no money for
MEMORY Dauka (12) situation becomes worse for survival. after my young sisters,’’ learning materials. The
is clad in a grey top and because l have to balance frightening encounters Murwira said. pandemic which forced
white skirt and on her the school work and work Faith Maigwei (9) looks with older street children learners to stay at home
back she carries her young for the family for us to after her mother who has who come threatening In a normal society, for long. It has worsened
sister after many hours of survive,’’ Dauka told The been suffering from a them, sometimes snatch- young boys and girls the crisis. I’m now coming
washing people’s cars in NewsHawks. heart ailment for several ing away the money they would not be scrounging here to town to wash cars.
Harare’s central business years. She is now the fam- would have earned from in the streets for surviv-
district. Sociologists often re- ily’s breadwinner at a ten- washing cars. al, but these are not nor- If l stay at home, the sit-
mark that children who der age. mal times. Even before uation remains the same,
Despite the difficulties spend too much time in Shantel Murwira (11), the Covid-19 pandemic, as l may not get money,’’
associated with entering the streets are at risk of “My mother is no longer an orphan, looks after her the economy was far from Tapfuma told The News-
the city centre every morn- losing a sense of childhood able to work due to heart two young sisters who also normal. Hawks.
ing owing to Covid-19 re- that can never be regained. problems. I am the one spend hours in town. She
strictions, she never gives who came here to wash washes cars in the streets Even those children Education experts are
up. They miss out on edu- cars in the streets so that to earn a living. whose parents are some- yet to fully unpack the
cation, playtime and oth- l get money to buy food how managing to pay long-term impact of pro-
The orphaned young er childhood activities, and pay my school fees. ‘‘Every day l come to school fees are stranded longed lockdowns and too
girl, from Epworth near and this has far-reaching wash cars and also look during the lockdown. On- much idle time on chil-
Harare, has become the effects on their develop- “During this lockdown for help from people in line learning is impossible dren. However, teen preg-
bread winner in her fami- ment. some children are learning the streets so that l get for them. nancy is on the rise and
ly. She cannot afford a pair online and I’ve been left money to take care of my thousands of girls under
of shoes, so moves around Samuel Chamunorwa behind, but I cannot learn two young sisters. They They need gadgets, elec- 18 are being married off.
barefoot. (10) stays with his grand- online due to economic are still young so I am the tricity, internet connectiv-
mother who is blind. He hardships. I cannot buy a one who is looking after ity and money for data. According to the Zim-
Her plight typifies that washes cars in the streets cellphone or a laptop and them, the other one is five This is widening inequal- babwe Vulnerable Assess-
of millions of Zimbabwe- to fend for her. also money to buy bun- and the last one is eight. ity, with education now a ment Committee Rural
ans who are trying to eke dles. The major objective We stay in Epworth. My preserve of the well off. Livelihoods Assessment
out a living as the econ- “My mother died when is to source food with the parents died, and I am Report 2021, children
omy wobbles. According l was six and l don’t know little money l get,’’ Maig- now the breadwinner of Tadiwa Tapfuma (12) aged between six to 13
to the World Bank, nearly where my father is. I stay wei told The NewsHawks. my young sisters. We are said she is also struggling are at risk. Those between
half of all Zimbabweans with my grandmother in not going to school due to to attend online lessons four to six years were out
are wallowing in extreme Epworth so l came here These children are stuck economic hardships. l get and spends most of her of school mainly they are
poverty. in town looking for help between a rock and a hard time in the streets washing considered too young and
from people. Whilst she aged 14 to 17 years were
“I came here in town is looking for help from out of school due to preg-
at 9am to wash people’s people, l wash cars in the nancy.
cars in the streets so that streets so that we get food.
l get money for food and I am no longer going to The coronavirus pan-
school fees. I stay with my school, we don’t have demic, which has forced
grandmother. She is now money for school fees. The learners to stay at home
90, suffering from hyper- money l get from washing for long periods, has wors-
tension and, because of cars is for buying food. ened the crisis as learners
her age, she can no longer On normal days l earn engaged in sexual activity,
work. ZW$400 per day, which leading to teen pregnancy
is not enough to buy food and early marriage.
“I’m the one who is now and to cater for transport
taking care of her and my to come here in town and Children are not being
young sister. I earn ZW$10 go back home,’’ Chamu- adequately protected from
for each car l wash, some- norwa said. child labour and the risks
times l don’t earn any- they face, including ex-
thing. It’s very hard for The legal working age in ploitation and abuse.
me to get enough money Zimbabwe is 16, but chil-
to buy food or even to pay dren as young as 10 and The phenomenon of
for school. Sometimes we 12 years old are seen sell- child vendors has been
topical for some time but
there is no solution in
sight.

The Covid-19 pandemic
and worsening economic
hardships have had dev-
astating consequences for
children.

Young people are vul-
nerable to abuse, poor nu-
trition and exploitation.

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Issue 40, 23 July 2021

Special Covid-19

PANDEMIC coverage

GOVERNMENT is scal- Govt seeks to scale up risk allowances will be re-
ing up bed capacity at the hospital bed capacity viewed.
country’s hospitals in an-
ticipation of an increase in briefing revealed. tor participation, improv- Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals. Cumulatively, Zimba-
Covid-19 admissions, as The plan also includes ing conditions of service bwe had 93 421 cases and
the third wave continues for health workers and operationalising virtual response team to attend 2870 deaths as at 22 July.
to hit Zimbabwe. strengthening private sec- hospitals in which every to cases of acute Covid-19
district will have a rapid clinical distress. Covid-19 Cabinet also announced
Some health facilities that it had approved the
including Parirenyatwa decongesting of both
Group of Hospitals have public and private sec-
stopped accepting elective tor workplaces in light
surgery patients and are of the continued rise in
discharging people at the Covid-19 cases
earliest possible time so
as to increase bed capacity “Government has fur-
for Covid-19 admissions. ther reduced its workforce
to 25%, on a two-week ro-
Parirenyatwa has capaci- tational interval. Priority
ty for more than 400 beds. will be given to the vacci-
nated personnel,” cabinet
As at 21 July, there were said.
882 hospitalised cases,
with 112 being new ad- “That the Courts of
missions. Of these, 71 Law be opened only for
were severe and 30 in in- remand and urgent cas-
tensive care. es; that all civil servants
should be vaccinated and
Cabinet did not specify those that fall ill, without
how much bed capacity having been vaccinated
would be created but said will not be entitled to the
the move was part of the COVID-19 insurance.”
third wave containment
plan. “That all civil servants
should be tested for
“Increasing the bed ca- COVID-19 at the com-
pacity at Mpilo and Sally mencement and end of the
Mugabe central hospitals; two week rotational inter-
designation of Beatrice val; that a locum-based
Road Infectious Diseas- Covid-19 risk allowance
es Hospital and Ekusileni payment model will be
Hospital as Covid-19 dis- adopted for the health
trict hospitals for Harare personnel in the red zone
and Bulawayo, respective- as part of the incentive
ly;” this week’s cabinet schemes.” –STAFF WRITER.

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CHIPA GONDITII Money-chasing bottle are taken aside, as hap-
store operators risk lives pened, it means that
GENERATORS hum- they were bribed and
ming, people’s low in- as business owners,” he Beerhalls and nightclubs not even bother creating ers; they were never seen they go away. They usu-
audible voices and un- said. will remain closed whilst the “backroom chan- again. Less than 10 min- ally come back after a
characteristically toned bottle stores will operate nel” to facilitate secret utes later, people were couple of days for their
down speakers playing “For us to make a from 10am to 4pm,” he drinking like their coun- seen trickling back into ‘patrol’ so that is why
Zimdancehall. These are profit, we have no op- said. terparts in Kuwadzana the joint. here at Chillaz we do
the three sounds that tion but to operate in and Chitungwiza. At the not have frequent police
characterise Kuwadza- secret as we are doing According to World weekend, people could A reveller who iden- raids,” he said.
na 2 shopping centre in because for us our cus- Health Organisation be seen drinking open- tified himself as a regu-
Harare at 8pm. tomers usually frequent (WHO) regulations, ly with the majority not lar at Chillaz explained Chikwanha, a popu-
our bars at night so we people are advised to even wearing face masks. what was happening. lar Chitungwiza enter-
The 6.30pm curfew are compelled to sell to maintain a distance of tainment joint, has also
which was announced them so as to make ends at least one metre be- However, the fun was “This usually hap- joined the bandwagon
by the authorities to meet. tween each other so as to spoilt by the arrival of a pens here. When the of pubs that are selling
slow down the spread reduce the risk of infec- two-man police patrol police come, if they are alcohol during curfew.
of Covid-19 has necessi- “So it is not that tion when they cough, that left people scurry- on foot, then we know
tated the volume on the we do not care about sneeze or speak. ing for cover, but some that ‘something will be However, here the sale
usually loud speakers to Covid-19, we know it is hardened imbibers re- done’ to ensure that we of beer is tactfully con-
be lowered to normal killing people out there, Also at Chillaz com- fused to part ways with carry on drinking, but cealed. During the day,
levels. but if we do not do what plex, which is Rugare’s their beer in the face of if they come by car then alcohol is sold as usual
we are doing now we will unofficial leisure centre, the cops. we know we must run in line with the regula-
However, lockdown or die of hunger,” he said. there is always entertain- away because when they tions, but at night beer
no lockdown, Kuwadza- ment galore. However, The officers were come by car they will be is sold discreetly from a
na 2 shopping centre, Zimbabwe is currently minus the speakers, bot- quickly shunted aside serious. dilapidated window.
popularly known as K2, experiencing a vicious tle store owners here do by one of the store own-
as well as at bottle stores third wave of Covid-19 “So when the officers The bar was selling
around Taita Shopping infections resulting in beer through a broken
Centre (Unit O, Seke), high fatalities. window patched up us-
Pasi Bottle Store in Unit ing a cardboard box.
A, popularly known The authorities say the
as Pamaruza, PaNyota deaths have been spurred To be served, one has
Bottle Store in Unit F, on by the Delta variant to stand by the broken
Humba Bottle Store also of the coronavirus first window and call for at-
in Unit F, among oth- detected in India. tention.
ers in Chitungwiza, still
draw huge crowds. Announcing the new A reveller who fre-
lockdown measures last quents the spot told
People still flock to month, Vice-President The NewsHawks that at
these drinking holes as Constantino Chiwen- Chikwanha it was usual-
if an unseen force with ga, who also doubles as ly the small bottle stores
a serious disregard for Health minister, said that were remaininh
Covid-19 regulations is bottle stores could only open until late as the
drawing them towards open during the day and bigger establishments
alcohol. that social distancing feared retaliation from
must be maintained. the police.
Everyone who arrives
at these places is quick- “They should also “Here at Chikwanha
ly met with eyeballs of ensure that they limit it is usually the small
suspicion; those who the number of clients bottle stores that open at
run the show will feign in their shops to main- night, the bigger estab-
friendliness so that it be- tain physical distancing. lishments will be closed
comes easier for them to because they are afraid
quickly vet all newcom- that people will start
ers. taking pictures and cir-
culating them on social
Once they are satis- media,” said the imbib-
fied, the newcomer is er.
then escorted to the bar
through a backdoor by He also revealed that
someone who specifical- some of the larger es-
ly serves this purpose. tablishments were sup-
plying the small bottle
Inside the pub, the stores with beer so that
scene shocks the senses: they could sell on their
there are plenty of im- behalf.
bibers, beer bottles in
hand, not observing any “What the big estab-
social distancing. lishments do here is that
they supply their beer to
Minus the music smaller establishments
speakers, this just looks who then proceed to sell
like a normal day at the beer for them. The
these places. The News- smaller bottle stores are
Hawks caught up with then paid for their effort
one owner of K2 bar, by the bigger establish-
who chose anonymity, ments,” the reveller said.
who said bottle store
owners were left with July 2021 is already
no option but to oper- Zimbabwe’s deadliest
ate clandestinely so as to month since the begin-
make ends meet. ning of the pandemic
in March last year, with
“Yes, we know that well over 1 000 people
there is Covid-19 out dead this month alone.
there and people think
that it only affects peo- There were a cumula-
ple who are going to tive  88 415  confirmed
work every day, but the cases and 2 747 deaths as
reality is it affects us also of 21 July 2021 with 58
155 having recovered so
far.

NewsHawks Editorial & Opinion Page 19

Issue 40, 23 July 2021 CARTOON

Zim economy is
totally captured

FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube is scheduled to pres- Poverty sign of governance failure
ent the 2021 mid-term budget and economic review on
29 July, but most Zimbabweans will not be holding their WHEN government and its political sion and absence of implementation lucky that the opposition is as inert and
breath. leadership fails to do its job properly, matrices beyond rhetoric and transla- unimaginative as they also are. Other-
deliver and fulfill its electoral man- tion of vision into policies and pro- wise, they will be doomed, well which
Inequality has worsened, with the gap between the date, that inevitably has devastating grammes. they are anyway, through self-destruc-
haves and the have-nots widening to dangerous levels. consequences on the ordinary people. tion via corruption and incompetence.
As former Finance minister Tendai Biti has correctly ob- That also suggestss lack of capacity
served, the cartelisation of the economy is now posing an Most of the times people often for- at political, administrative and tech- Evidence of failure is there for all to
existential threat to the very survival of the republic. get to or can’t directly link leadership, nical levels to implement programmes see.
governance and policy failures to their that can change people’s lives.
The World Bank says 7.9 million citizens are living in social conditions, especially poverty. A dramatic rise in prices of basic
extreme poverty, surviving on less than US$1.90 per day. As a corollary of these failures, gov- goods has thrown more Zimbabweans
This tragic state of affairs is happening in a country where Although the origins and dynamics ernments have surrendered ownership into extreme levels of poverty over the
corruption-induced economic hardships have spiralled of poverty are complex, its prevalence and direction of national policy agen- past few years, a report jointly released
out of control, creating filthy-rich oligarchs and cartels. and persistence, particularly in coun- das in the field of poverty to interna- by the Zimbabwe National Statistics
tries like Zimbabwe, is less due to lack tional donors, Non-Government Or- Agency, the country’s statistical agency,
Only a few politically connected individuals and their of resources for alleviation than gover- ganisations and civil society – which and the World Bank says.
privileged cronies are enjoying the fat of the land while nance failures. they love to hate when it suits them.
the overwhelming majority is wallowing in deprivation. Zimbabwe’s economy, buffeted by
It stinks to high heaven. Zimbabwe has vast mineral resourc- Furthermore, different areas of pol- high inflation and price volatility, con-
es, human capital and basic infrastruc- icy-making have been appropriated by tracted between 2019 and 2020 at a
You do not have to be a forensic auditor to realise that ture to succeed, but it is practically a time the country experienced one of
political elites and their surrogates have captured the failed state. To call Zanu PF leaders Hawk Eye its worst droughts in living memory.
Zimbabwean state. As a direct consequence, the econo- and their government serious stewards
my is serving the narrow interests of those who exploit of the country is not just a travesty, Dumisani The situation has further deteriorat-
their proximity to power to the exclusion of the masses. but entirely ridiculous. Muleya ed in 2021. Salaries and wages for civil
servants and average workers have col-
It is scandalous that Zimbabwe, 41 years after Indepen- For they can’t do the basics: feed the special interest groups pursuing sec- lapsed to a fraction of what they were
dence, is now a fully fledged authoritarian kleptocracy. nation and provide social services. Any tarian concerns. This has led to state in 2017 at the time of the survey.
Instead of building an inclusive economy that gives every serious and respectable government capture in Zimbabwe which enriches
citizen a fair opportunity at attaining prosperity, Zanu and leadership anywhere in the world a small greedy circle, but impoverishes Zimbabweans are now far more
PF has presided over an extractive mafia-like polity that knows that its first responsibility is to the majority. poorer under Mnangagwa’s govern-
serves the interests of political elites and their cronies. provide its people with basics: food, ment than they were at the time when
shelter, water, health and security. While Mnangagwa and his cronies he removed through a November 2017
The ordinary citizen’s existence has become a nev- are thriving, literally making lots of coup the late former president Robert
er-ending struggle against the man-made calamities di- At a higher level: the Maslow’s hier- money without working beyond just Mugabe – a disastrous failure himself.
rectly caused by bad governance. archy of needs states that five categories corruptly manipulating the system and
of human needs dictate an individual’s seizing low-hanging fruits, the majori- According to an updated Zimbabwe
What is urgently needed is a public-focused socio-eco- behaviour. These include physiological ty are sinking into poverty. Poverty Report, which was released on
nomic order anchored on constitutional democracy. Re- needs, safety, love and belonging, es- yesterday, the number of extremely
building public trust in politics will take a herculean ef- teem, and self-actualisation. Politicians may not care about peo- poor people rose from 4.5 million in
fort. People are not only seeing the rot every day but also ple’s complaints, but in the end people 2017 to six million during April–May
suffering the consequences. Government doesn’t have to babysit always win. 2019, but the number of poor people
citizens, that is give them free food, measured by the lower-bound poverty
The threat posed by systematic corruption and state housing, water, health and other ser- Evidence that Mnangagwa’s regime line rose from eight million to 8.9 mil-
capture goes beyond President Emmerson Mnangagwa vices, but create an enabling environ- has been a disastrous failure in a short lion during the same period.
as a politician. Although it has been amplified by his glar- ment for them to work and fend for space of time abounds. They are just
ing leadership deficiencies, it is also the logical outcome themselves – provide equal opportuni- Furthermore, whereas the number
of Zanu PF’s decline as a serious political organisation. ty and safety nets in other words. of extremely poor people in urban ar-
The party of Herbert Wiltshire Pfumaindini Chitepo and eas increased by about 327 000, it rose
Eddison Jonasi Mudadirwa Zvobgo has regressed from Bad governance implies lack of lead- by 1.1 million in rural areas.
a glorious liberation movement to a refuge of latter-day ership, shortsighted developmental vi-
scoundrels defined by corruption, economic failure and Need we say more?
national vandalism.

Today, there is no big defining idea at the heart of a
party that has been reduced to an empty shell which only
survives on account of brute force, intimidation and fear.

The end result is a country that is now sharply divided
between the impoverished majority and the self-serving
elites. A clueless Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF minions
have squandered an opportunity to address corrup-
tion-induced poverty. The Finance minister’s mid-term
budget and economic review next week is not expected
to depart from that script.

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Ipec commends life assurance
firms amid Covid-19 turmoil

DUMISANI NYONI Ipec commissioner Grace Muradzikwa. One of the key projects
included the asset sepa-
THE Insurance and Pen- In nominal terms, new tense pressure and competi- nuity plans in response to funds to ensure fair treat- ration exercise, which is
sions Commission (Ipec) business accounted for the tion from life assurers writ- the lockdown measures. ment of customers. aimed at ensuring that
has commended funeral major increase in GWP ing funeral business. “The commission noted assets belonging to poli-
and life assurance compa- increasing by 349% to “The regulator also facili- an increase in the num- cyholders are not unfairly
nies for managing to meet ZW$4.3m. For the quarter under tated that the insurance and ber of suspended pension- transferred to shareholders.
policyholders’ claims de- review, life assurers wrote pensions industry be ac- ers since the onset of the
spite constrained resources The increase in GWP inflation-adjusted funeral corded the essential service Covid-19 pandemic be- “Together with key
caused by Covid-19-related was also on account of pre- assurance business worth status by the government. cause of their failure to sub- stakeholders in the insur-
deaths. mium increases as funer- ZW$852.56m which was To entrench consumer pro- mit certificates of existence ance and pensions industry,
al assurers sought to align 14 times more than the tection in the insurance and to prove that they are still the commission is spear-
Zimbabwe, which is in both the premiums and ZW$56.9m written by the pensions industry, the com- alive,” she said. heading the development
the grip of the third wave policyholder benefits to the dedicated funeral players. mission continued to issue One reason could be of relevant and appropriate
of infections driven by the dynamic macro-economic instruments to insurance that pensioners were un- mortality tables for Zimba-
spread of the Delta and environment in response to Driven by the need to en- companies and pension able to travel due to the bwe. The tables will help in
Beta variants of the vi- inflation trends. sure that the industry con- funds,” she said. Covid-19-related regula- accurate and fair pricing of
rus, suffered significantly tinues to settle claims and tions, Muradzikwa said. life and pension products.
during the second wave All the players recorded pay benefits even during In particular, the com- She said they were also You can read more on this,
of the pandemic which significant growth of above the Covid-19-induced mission issued a “treating implementing various in the article in this edi-
wreaked havoc, increasing 100% in GWP and none of lockdown, Muradzikwa customers fairly” frame- projects that are meant to tion,” she said.
Covid-19 fatalities. the players recorded nega- said they issued “circular work, which provides key enhance consumer protec-
tive growth. one” of 2021 in January principles and outcomes to tion. She said the commission
As of 19 July, Zim- calling on industry players be observed by all insurance was also seized with imple-
babwe has recorded  85 The sector, according to to activate business conti- companies and pension mentation of the revalua-
732  Covid-19 cases,  55 Ipec, continues to face in- tion guideline for the Insur-
714  recoveries and 2 697 ance and Pensions Industry
deaths, according to official on adjusting insurance and
figures. pension values in response
to the 2019 currency re-
The pandemic has forms.
brought about many chal-
lenges that resulted in busi- “Whilst regulated enti-
nesses being challenged to ties are at various stages of
revamp their operations compliance, I am happy to
and adapt to the new nor- advise that in compliance
mal. with the requirements of
the Revaluation Guidance,
In its latest consumer some pension funds have
education newsletter, Ipec declared bonuses that are as
applauded assurers for high as 800%,” Muradzik-
managing to meet policy- wa said.
holders’ claims under diffi-
cult circumstances. She said Ipec is working
closely with key stakehold-
“While the Covid-19-re- ers on securing compensa-
lated deaths stretched the tion for policyholders and
resources of funeral and life pension scheme members
assurance companies, it is whose policies lost value
gratifying to note that the following the 2009 adop-
sector weathered the storm tion of the multi-currency
as assurers managed to meet regime.
policyholders’ claims,” Ipec
commissioner Grace Mu- “A compensation road-
radzikwa said. map is being developed and
is expected to be imple-
During the first quarter mented this year. The com-
of 2021, the funeral assur- mission fully understands
ance sector’s inflation-ad- the anxiety from stakehold-
justed gross written pre- ers, particularly pensioners
mium (GWP) increased who have been patient for
by 158.28% to ZW$56.90 too long,” she said.
million.

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BERNARD MPOFU Debt-ridden govt seeks financial institutions is af-
fresh talks with creditors fecting its ability to access
THE debt-ridden Zimba- billion) and India (US$70 more from a multi-bil-
bwean government is now Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa. million). Information lion-dollar facility organ-
pushing for fresh negotia- minister Monica Mutsvan- ised by multilateral cred-
tions with its creditors to to other multilateral cred- lion owed to Paris Club (US$416 million) and gwa this week said the itors to help developing
reduce interest on debt as itors.  bilateral creditors main- USA (US$285  million). government will be chang- countries to deal with the
Treasury seeks to extricate ly comprising Germany The Non-Paris Club cred- ing its policy on debt in socio-economic impact of
the country from the debt On the other hand, bi- (US$1.02 billion),  France itors are owed US$1.67 the coming year. the Covid-19.
burden which has become lateral PPG external debt (US$724 million), Japan billion, which comprise
an albatross. amounted to US$5.75 (US$435 million), UK mainly  China (US$1.57 “In the 2022 National Zimbabwe defaulted on
billion, with US$3.79 bil- Budget, government will arrears payments at the
Following several failed prioritise to sustain mac- turn of the century, re-
attempts to settle arrears ro-economic stability, to sulting in it failing to ac-
with international finan- create a conducive envi- cess long-term funding for
cial institutions such as ronment for business in- multilateral lenders such
the World Bank, Inter- vestment and to improve as the World Bank and
national Monetary Fund the living standards of the International Monetary
and the African Devel- majority,” Mutsvangwa Fund (IMF).
opment Bank, which all said. 
enjoy preferred creditor “The government’s abil-
status, Zimbabwe, which “As such, the priority ar- ity to respond to the pan-
has been struggling to ac- eas of 2022 are the follow- demic is constrained by
cess long-term concession- ing: effective institution limited access to conces-
al capital, is considering a building and governance; sional sources of financ-
change in tack.   and engagement and ing,” the World Bank said
re-engagement and debt in its update.
Official figures show restructuring.”
that as at December, Zim- “External debt arrears
babwe’s total public and Previously, the country that reached 78% of ex-
publicly guaranteed (PPG) has tried pursuing several ternal public debt in 2020
debt stood at US$10.7 paths such as the Zimba- have prevented Zimbabwe
billion. This represents bwe Accelerated Arrears from benefitting from
72.6% of the country’s and Debt Strategy and the international financial
gross domestic product. Lima Plan of 2015. De- institutions (IFIs) and
spite making token pay- global initiatives, such
PPG external debt owed ments to creditors, arrears as the global Debt Ser-
to the multilateral credi- have continued to balloon. vice Suspension Initiative
tors, as at the end Decem- (DSSI).  The DSSI is in-
ber 2020, amounted to Last month, the World tended to suspend debt
US$2.68 billion, of which Bank said Zimbabwe’s payments from the poor-
US$1.53 billion is owed failure to settle debt ar- est countries to official
to the World Bank Group, rears with international bilateral creditors based
US$729 million to the on countries’ requests for
African Development forbearance, with a view
Bank, US$356 million to to providing immediate li-
the  European Investment quidity to tackle challeng-
Bank and US$68 million es posed by Covid-19”.

Securities depository to improve market access: ZSE

THE Zimbabwe Stock A CSD is an institution ZSE chief executive officer Justin Bgoni. “The overall objective is sulted. 
Exchange (ZSE) has ex- that keeps custody of fi- to improve operational Bgoni said investors who
pressed optimism that nancial securities (debt, improve operational ef- participants and facilitate and cost efficiencies in participate on the ZSE
the recently incepted equities, exchange-trad- ficiencies in the market, the introduction of new the market. The norm or Victoria Falls Stock
Central Securities De- ed funds) in electronic reduce market costs to all products,” he said. with most exchanges is Exchange (VFEX) are re-
pository (CSD) will go form and also offers oth- that both trading and quired to have a CSD ac-
a long way in improving er related services such settlement are handled count and the securities
market access for retail as securities clearing and by the exchange - which purchased by an investor
investors while enhanc- settlement, securities was not the case in our on an exchange are then
ing operational efficien- transfer and pledges that market. The CSD was in- credited into their CSD
cies. are related to securities dependent, had its own account which is regu-
Last month, the ZSE transactions. operating structure and larly updated, depending
was  granted a licence to Speaking to  The News- own systems and this on related transactional
operate a CSD   by the Hawks Business this week, meant additional costs activities.
Securities and Exchange ZSE chief executive offi- that had to be borne by “By operating both the
Commission of Zimba- cer Justin Bgoni said the market participants and Depository and the trad-
bwe in accordance with development will go a investors.” ing function, the ZSE
the Securities and Ex- long way to improve the He said the previous ar- will be able to reduce
change Act, (Chapter ease of doing business for rangement also proved the listing fees and offer
24:25) and the Securities investors.  difficult when it came to more flexibility to the is-
(Registration, Licensing “The launch of the ZSE managing changes that suers. For the Investors,
and Corporate Gover- Depository will make it required system upgrades ZSE will reduce the set-
nance Rules, Statutory easier for retail investors or changes as two system tlement fees,” he added.
Instrument 100 of 2010. to access the market, vendors had to be con-
— STAFF WRITER.

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Cement makers buck economic trend
THE cement-manufacturing DA) went down 32%. transport, energy and accom-
sector in Zimbabwe has re- “The economic environ- indicated there was strong sales with a 115% increase in While the business envi- modation infrastructure. This
mained resilient despite the demand although volumes sales volumes compared to the ronment remains uncertain is in addition to individual res-
Covid-19-induced economic ment in Zimbabwe was great- growth was limited by capaci- prior year. This followed the for many businesses due to idential projects being carried
slowdown. ly affected by the Covid-19 ty constraints owing to the loss relaunch of its SupaGrow and Covid-19, cement makers are out across the country.
pandemic. The resulting of production during the April SupaFix range supported by upbeat about maintaining a
Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe lockdowns increased unem- 2020 lockdown. active market sensitisation of growth trajectory driven by For Lafarge, the firm is al-
and PPC Zimbabwe both re- ployment and impacted oper- the products, which has led to various government construc- ready forecasting to double
ported stable performance, ations, negatively influencing However, its dry mortar wider product adoption. tion projects ranging from production following the com-
with demand for cement re- volumes in full-year 2021.  business more than doubled pletion of its three-pronged
maining firm as the construc- US$25 million capital ex-
tion sector is operational as an “Nevertheless, PPC Zimba- pansion project with the final
essential service provider. bwe recovered from the slow phase being the installation of
start to trade slightly above a vertical cement mill. 
Overall cement sales in- planned volumes for most of
creased by between 10% and the year. The 75% deprecia- “The third investment
15% for the full financial year tion of the Zimbabwean dollar project is the installation of
to 31 March 2021 as compared against the South African rand the Vertical Cement Mill
to full-year 2020. Despite reduced PPC Zimbabwe’s (VCM), earmarked to double
Covid-19, imports remained contribution to group profit- cement milling capacity,” said
flat at 9% of total industry ability,” said PPC. Katsande in a statement ac-
sales while the informal sector companying financials for the
contributed more to foreign PPC’s competitor, Lafarge, year to 31 December 2020.
currency sales although the reported earnings growth for
segment was heavily impacted the year to 30 December 2020 “Civil works for the VCM
by the pandemic.  driven by volumes growth. have since started and expect-
ed completion date for the
PPC, the country’s largest Chairperson Kumbirai project is February 2022,” he
cement manufacturer with Katsande said revenue for said.
annual capacity of 1.4 million the year jumped 68.5% to
metric tonnes, cement sales in ZW$6.9 billion from ZW$4.1 This comes as the company
foreign currency allowed the billion driven by volume also installed alternative pow-
company to remain self-suffi- growth in the dry mortars er infrastructure in 2019 and
cient.  business.  He also attributed completion of the automated
the growth to a market shift dry mortar plant in 2021. 
In an operational review, towards high-strength cement,
the group, with operations in which influenced a significant Already, production capac-
South Africa, Botswana and change in the cement product ity for the dry mortar busi-
Rwanda among other coun- mix. The business lost a full ness effectively increased by
tries, indicated sales volumes month of April 2020 as the 1 300% to 100 000 tonnes
in Zimbabwe went up by ap- country implemented strict from 7 000 tonnes per annum,
proximately 10% from the lockdown restrictions. How- making Lafarge the biggest
prior year.  ever, cement volumes recov- producer of dry mortar prod-
ered in subsequent months, ucts in Zimbabwe. 
Revenue rose 251% in with particularly strong per-
Zimbabwean currency terms. formance in the third quarter “Significant volume growth
However, in rand terms, rev- closing the full year cement is therefore foreseen in the dry
enue fell 13% while earnings volume performance at 6% mortar business following the
before interest, taxes, deprecia- below prior year.  Katsande plant commissioning in April
tion and amortisation (EBIT- 2021,” said Katsande.

—STAFF WRITER.

WHILE people are largely Emirates SkyCargo keeps Zim ment,” Bahlooq said.
grounded due to the Covid-19 economy running under Covid “Since the Covid-19 cri-
pandemic, economies have to
keep on running in the midst cial distance have become the Emirates Zimbabwe country manager Nasser Balooq. sis began, Emirates SkyCargo
of the crisis – to combat the buzzwords of the last year, the has also been a vital partner in
virus there has got to be de- situation we find ourselves in cals, medical equipment, PPE, to avoid the worst of the pan- we live and work is part of our delivering much-needed med-
liveries of personal protection has also emphasised the im- food and other essential goods demic’s economic impact. For DNA. Offering strong sup- icines, medical equipment (in-
equipment (PPE), essential portance of connections and as well as maintaining continu- the year to 31 March 2021, ply chain solutions during the cluding spare parts and repair
medical supplies and vaccines. global supply chains more than ity of supply chains for interna- Emirates SkyCargo transport- Covid-19 pandemic through components), and in keeping
ever,” he said. tional trade. ed 1.9 million tonnes of cargo Emirates SkyCargo has given global supply chains function-
In Zimbabwe, Emirates Sky- across our global network. us an opportunity to provide ing for the most time-sensi-
Cargo, among other aviation “And while passenger move- Emirates’ cargo-diversified the support our customers tell tive materials. This has been
carriers, has kept the country ments remain constrained, revenue streams beyond tra- As one of the world’s largest us they need during this un- done through dedicated cargo
going. It has kept it connect- particularly in markets such as ditional passenger-related in- airlines, serving our customers precedented business environ- freighter operations, use of
ed to the outside world, thus Zimbabwe, the international come have enabled the airline and the communities where cargo capacity in passenger air-
maintaining global supply movement of goods remains a craft, and relief flights to affect-
chains between Zimbabwe and vital lifeline. ed areas.
the world.
“During the initial months “Emirates and Emirates Sky-
“With Covid-19-related of the pandemic, there was a Cargo place the highest level of
border closures rendering many huge surge in the demand for emphasis on safety and high
flights challenging, Emirates air cargo capacity for the trans- quality standards in service de-
SkyCargo has maintained crit- portation of Personal Protec- livery. This is a key differenti-
ical transport links for people tion Equipment (PPE) such ating factor for our customers
and for goods – including es- as facemasks and gloves in ad- in addition to our other value
sential medical supplies. We dition to medical equipment propositions such as having a
continue to ship cargo into and such as ventilators as well as modern all wide-body aircraft
out of Zimbabwe,” says Nass- other pharmaceutical supplies. fleet, an extensive global net-
er Bahlooq, Emirates country work covering six continents
manager for Zimbabwe. “More recently, other com- as well as state-of-the-art in-
modities for industries and frastructure in Dubai. We
“Zimbabwe’s economy still manufacturing opened up have one of the highest levels
needs to function; mines still as manufacturing activity re- of “Delivered as Promised” for
need to operate and farmers turned. We also saw increased cargo in the industry.”
still need to export their fresh volumes of e-commerce ship-
produce. Jobs and foreign ex- ments as more people shopped Currently, Emirates Sky-
change earnings are at stake. online.” Cargo flies to 136 destinations
around the world and trans-
“It’s a commitment that we Through its cargo flights to ports cargo through about
take very seriously as we export more than 135 destinations 2000 flights weekly - this is a
fresh fruit and vegetables and across six continents, Emirates mix of cargo transported on
bring in mining equipment SkyCargo continues to play an passenger flights, cargo only
and components, as well as all important role globally in the flights on passenger aircraft
the other exports and imports transportation of pharmaceuti- and full freighter flights. For
that keep our economy tick- Zimbabwe, Emirates SkyCar-
ing.” go offers cargo capacity on five
weekly flights to/from Harare
Bahlooq says his airline on our Boeing 777-300ER air-
has provided a critical service craft. —STAFF WRITER.
during difficult times.

“While isolation and so-

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Issue 40, 23 July 2021

Price Sheet

Friday, 23 July 2021 A MEMBER OF FINSEC & THE ZIMBABWE STOCK EXCHANGE

Company Sector Bloomberg Previous Last VWAP (cents) Total Total Price Price YTD Market
Traded Traded Traded Change Change (%) Cap
Ticker Price (cents) 7100.00 Volume Value ($) (cents) ($m)
Price 820.48 (%)
850.00 300
AFDIS Consumer Goods AFDIS: ZH 6900.00 7100.00 347.80 3,100 21,300.00 200.00 2.90 195.83 8,328.73
African Sun Consumer Services ASUN: ZH 815.00 815.00 2535.07 25,435.00 5.48 0.67 382.64 7,070.67
ART ARTD: ZH 798.75 850.00 507.00 100 51.25 6.42 78.08 3,714.31
Ariston Industrials ARISTON: ZH 343.82 345.00 96000.00 726,000 850.00 3.98 1.16 159.55 5,660.08
Axia Consumer Services AXIA: ZH 2649.88 2300.00 17500.00 2,525,000.00 -4.33 176.75 13,813.45
BNC BIND: ZH 509.70 507.00 1500.00 29,300 -114.81 -0.53 33.42 6,336.77
BAT Consumer Goods 96000.00 9506.43 42,400 742,775.00 -2.70 74.55 19,808.18
CAFCA Basic Materials BAT: ZH 17500.00 - 3491.39 214,967.00 - - 94.66 1,528.64
Cassava CAFCA: ZH 1505.52 17500.00 8241.74 - - - 130.77 38,858.66
CBZ Consumer Goods 9500.00 1500.00 2860.09 400 - -5.52 -0.37 11.24 65,331.20
Dairibord Industrials CSZL: ZH 3500.00 9505.00 450.00 101,100 70,000.00 6.43 0.07 166.52 12,499.21
Delta CBZ: ZH 8159.77 3300.00 3100.00 6,300 1,516,500.00 -8.61 -0.25 262.26 105,861.95
Econet Technology DZL: ZH 2857.45 8250.00 1150.00 41,400 598,905.00 81.97 1.00 202.66 74,092.83
Edgars Banking 450.28 2900.00 300.07 542,800 1,445,435.00 2.64 0.09 275.00 1,471.46
FBC DLTA: ZH 3100.00 2875.00 1,749,600 44,736,150.00 -0.28 -0.06 106.48 20,830.45
Fidelity Consumer Goods ECO: ZH 1150.00 450.00 1500.00 13,800 50,040,140.00 - - 503.04 1,252.62
First Capital Consumer Goods EDGR: ZH 300.22 - 230.01 62,100.00 - - 172.79 6,471.67
FML Telecommunications FBC: ZH 2909.56 - 580.00 - -0.15 -0.05 173.81 19,841.61
FMP Consumer Services FIDL: ZH 1540.00 16400.00 - - -34.56 -1.19 362.96 18,572.36
GBH FCA: ZH 230.00 300.00 9900.79 270,200 - -40.00 -2.60 858.38 1,234.21
Getbucks Banking FMHL: ZH 697.60 2800.00 9360.00 200 810,799.00 0.01 0.00 4540.00 6,746.09
Hippo Financial Services FMP: ZH 16400.00 1500.00 351.00 3,400 5,750.00 -16.86 82.22 31,655.37
Innscor GBH: ZH 9510.87 230.00 4146.97 28,000 51,000.00 -117.60 - 167.38 55,917.33
Lafarge Banking GBFS: ZH 9360.00 560.00 35.66 1,300 64,402.00 - 4.10 875.00 7,488.00
Mash Financial Services HIPO: ZH 350.43 9445.11 - 7,540.00 - 277.42 6,525.35
Masimba INN: ZH 4190.51 - 1300.00 18,900 - 389.92 0.16 270.27 10,021.31
Medtech Real Estate LACZ: ZH 38.02 9925.00 55000.00 - 1,871,250.00 - -1.04 351.39 1,083.98
Meikles Industrials MASH: ZH 9303.04 1044.60 18,400 - -6.21 329.23 23,862.70
Nampak MSHL: ZH 1295.02 - 1610.87 6,600 64,584.00 0.57 1.53 469.55 9,823.43
NatFoods Financial Services MMDZ: ZH 55000.00 351.00 1600.35 1,417,400 273,700.00 -43.54 0.38 815.14 37,620.06
NTS Consumer Goods MEIK: ZH 1044.60 4150.00 2777.10 45,000 505,390.65 -2.36 - 3705.46 2,651.95
NMBZ NPKZ: ZH 1700.00 35.00 439.61 700 4,250,300.00 142.07 - 302.67 6,510.68
OK Zim Industrials NTFD: ZH 1597.13 9450.00 2800.00 - 9,100.00 4.98 -5.24 77.82 19,953.37
Proplastics Industrials NTS: ZH 2790.00 1300.00 6896.95 - - 0.20 222.55 6,996.50
RTG Real Estate NMB: ZH 387.29 4155.40 2,300 - - -0.46 129.26 10,970.45
RioZim Industrials OKZ: ZH 2800.00 - 276.56 605,500 37,050.00 - 13.51 87.27 3,416.83
SeedCo Healthcare PROL: ZH 6896.95 - 239.40 3,100 9,690,100.00 -89.13 - 199.87 16,933.95
Simbisa Industrials 4153.30 1600.00 4400.00 12,800 86,090.00 3.22 - 245.77 23,361.03
Star Africa Industrials RTG: ZH 278.80 1600.00 410.00 - 56,270.00 -12.90 0.05 924.30 13,040.04
Truworths Consumer Goods RIOZ: ZH 240.00 2790.00 3000.00 - - 52.32 -0.80 711.53
TSL Industrials SEED: ZH 4400.00 450.00 328.72 184,600 - - -0.25 155.07 919.46
Turnall 410.00 - 7700.00 765,200 7,670,865.00 - - 340.86 15,712.51
Unifreight Banking SIM: ZH 2992.86 - 20,100 2,116,217.00 2.10 - 16029.03
Willdale Consumer Services SACL: ZH 332.87 4150.00 0.03 - 48,119.00 -2.24 0.24 927.25 2,021.47
ZB TRUW: ZH 7700.00 265.00 350.00 - - -0.60 -1.25 220.83 3,194.23
Zeco Industrials 240.00 1515.65 6,100 - - - 50.00 5,844.65
Zimpapers Consumer Services TSL: ZH 0.03 - 411.79 30,900 183,000.00 - - 257.14 13,489.68
Zimplow TURN: ZH 373.89 - - 101,573.00 7.14 -6.39 203.13
ZHL Basic Materials UNIF: ZH 1537.69 3000.00 - - -4.15 -1.43 31.36 0.14
TOTAL Consumer Goods WILD: ZH 424.54 330.00 17,200 - - -3.00 2,016.00
Consumer Goods ZBFH: ZH - 53,100 60,200.00 - 3,613.02
Consumer Goods ZECO: ZH - 87,600 804,810.00 -23.89 7,489.04
Consumer Services ZIMP: ZH 350.00 6,855,200 360,730.00 -22.04 781,457.63
Consumer Goods ZIMPLOW: ZH 1540.00 131,128,396.65 -12.75
410.00
Industrials ZHL: ZH
Industrials
Industrials

Banking
Industrials
Consumer Services
Industrials
Financial Services

ETFs OMTT.zw 195.34 195.00 194.93 1,680,182 3,275,150.00 -0.41 -0.21 94.50 155.94

Old Mutual ZSE Top 10 ETF

FINSEC Financial Services OMZIL 4800.00 4800.00 5000.00 1,378 68,900.00 200.00 4.17 88.68 4,150.59

Old Mutual Zimbabwe

VFEX (US cents) Consumer Goods PHL:VX 19.00 18.10 18.10 9,600 1,737.60 -0.90 -0.05 -49.72 US$m
Consumer Goods SCIL:VX 25.20 - 25.20 - -- - 40.00 98.03
Padenga 60.76
SeedCo International

Index Close Change (%) Open YTD % Top 5 Risers Price Change % YTD %
ZSE All Share 6,618.23 +0.21 6,604.26 +151.70 RTG 439.61c +52.32c +13.51 +129.26
Top 10 3,473.03 +0.76 3,446.71 +109.91 ART 850.00c +51.25c +6.42 +78.08
Top 15 4,012.87 +0.65 3,987.07 +105.99 Innscor 9900.79c +4.10 +167.38
Small Cap -1.49 247,656.04 +1954.22 AFDIS 7100.00c +389.92c +2.90 +195.83
Medium Cap 243,963.15 -0.44 17,660.17 +215.98 Meikles 9445.11c +200.00c +1.53 +329.23
17,581.91 +142.07c

Top 5 Fallers Price Change % YTD %
Getbucks 580.00c -117.60c -16.86 +4540.00
Zimpapers 350.00c -23.89c -6.39 +257.14
Medtech -2.36c -6.21 +351.39
NMBZ 35.66c -89.13c -5.24 +302.67
Axia 1610.87c -114.81c -4.33 +176.75
2535.07c

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Issue 40, 23 July 2021

NYASHA CHINGONO Chaos in South Africa exposes
vulnerable Zimbabwe economy
MASS looting that almost
brought South Africa to a ciated with these are strains
halt last week, subsequently on household income and
causing widespread delays in the national budget, they
supplies of critical raw mate- will have the biggest cost on
rials for industry around the the Zimbabwean economy.
country, is a wake-up call for To counter this, government
Zimbabwe to stop relying on would do well to increase
its neighbour, analysts have imports of packaged medica-
said. ments from other partners to
counter the predicted short-
Zimbabwe, a key gateway age,” Mutambasere added.
for South Africa’s exports to The South African cri-
the rest of the continent, re- sis has claimed dozens of
lies on the regional economic lives while property worth
powerhouse for throughput millions of dollars was de-
after years of bad governance stroyed, with unquanti-
disrupted supply chains. fied merchandise looted by
mobs.  
Experts and critics concur Independent econo-
that it is now apparent that mist John Robertson said
when South Africa sneezes, the spectre of higher prices
Zimbabwe catches a cold looms large.
and that has been proven re- “The most threatening
peatedly. short-term cost could be
higher prices due to scarci-
But the Zimbabwean au- ties and uncertainties over
thorities continue to sit back immediate supplies. In the
and enjoy the tag “South Af- longer term, if the problems
rica’s supermarket”. persist in South Africa, in-
vestment inflows could dry
According to industrialist up for all southern African
Busisa Moyo, Zimbabwe im- countries. If all countries are
ports 75% of raw materials, forced to remain backward
finished products and fuel by being shunned by inves-
from South Africa. tors, every one of these coun-
tries will become dumping
Last week’s riots that grounds for cheap Chinese
rocked the country follow- products and unemploy-
ing the arrest of former Pres- ment plus poverty will deep-
ident Jacob Zuma exposed en,” Robertson warned.
Zimbabwe’s unhealthy reli- To end Zimbabwe’s
ance on South Africa. over-reliance on South Af-
rica, Robertson urged the
With Durban, which is authorities to encourage in-
arguably Zimbabwe’s major vestment to ensure import
channel of portable and in- substitution.
dustrial goods, under siege “Zimbabwe’s government
from riotous mobs who should be working hard to
stormed the port, the coun- remove all barriers to in-
try was left with no reliable creased investment spend-
source of imported goods. South African people chaotically and violently expressing themselves across the country, mainly Johannesburg and Durban recently. ing on manufacturing pro-

What made the situation dependence on South Africa thousands seen looting gro- Zimbabwe would have faced addition to raw materials duction. At present, many
worse is that the N1 and for trade routes, raw material ceries, furniture, plunder- critical shortages. through innovation,” she investments are being held
N3 roads, which are ma- supply and services in gener- ing warehouses while others said. up by the lengthy proce-
jor routes for trucks, were al as a risk management tool stole goods from containers “Our raw material im- dures involved in getting
blockaded by the violent to protect the resilience of in transit at Durban port. port cover for critical com- She urged the authorities licences and permits, and
looters. This led to panic our economy. The answer is modities is about one to to invest in innovation to in getting approvals from
in the manufacturing sec- switching to rail, establish- With South Africa already two weeks, but disruptions lower the cost of production. the many new authorities in
tor as suppliers sent notices ing dry ports, progressing showing signs of critical longer than one business Zimbabwe that can demand
of delay in the delivery of the port area that we have shortages of groceries, as cit- week can start to be felt “Innovation means cheap- compliance with application
raw materials. Some suppli- been given for development izens of that country joined very quickly and show up er local products and in- procedures. Large fees are in-
ers declared force majeure, in Walvis Bay, re-engaging long queues for basic grocer- in shortages. The issue can creased employment,” Mu- volved in many of these, and
freeing themselves from the Beira as an option, expand- ies, the impact on Zimbabwe quickly spiral out of control tambasere added. they serve no purpose oth-
fulfillment of commercial ing Forbes Border Post and was expected to be severe. if not planned for according- er than funding the salaries
contracts. Plumtree, among other in- ly. The saving grace is that Mutambasere said Zim- of government inspectors
frastructures solutions,” South Africa’s economy is we are coming off a bumper babwe will pay a heavy eco- who run pointless regula-
Dozens of trucks were Moyo said. the engine room of south- harvest and secure of critical nomic and social cost for tory authorities. By easing
stuck in South Africa with ern Africa. The economies basics,” Moyo said. over-reliance on South Afri- the investment procedures,
no goods for delivery, lead- Zimbabwe spends US$3 of Lesotho, Swaziland, Na- ca.   more factories would be re-
ing to panic among their billion annually on imports mibia, Zambia and Malawi Economist Chenayi Mu- stored or built to provide
customers in Zimbabwe. from South Africa. are expected to suffer from tambasere said Zimbabwe “My biggest concerns are Zimbabweans with home-
the backlash of the riotous must shake off its dependen- the health and social care made goods that would
Moyo, who is also the South Africa plunged into looting. cy on South Africa. costs. With Zimbabwe go- make imports unnecessary.
chief executive officer of chaos this week, with mass ing through the third wave Thousands of factories that
Bulawayo-based cooking oil looting happening in Kwa- Moyo said Zimbabwe’s “Zimbabwe needs to of Covid-19, with an an- used to supply most domes-
bottler United Refineries Zulu-Natal and Gauteng raw material import cover is put in place policies that ticipated fourth wave on its tic needs were forced out of
Limited largely dependent following Zuma’s arrest. between one and two weeks build local resilience. Our way, the biggest risks are the business. Government must
on South Africa for raw ma- and any further disruptions domestic market is weak, mortality rate and long-term remove the problems that
terials, said while most sup- What began as an osten- to supplies would have local products are more ex- illness. Not having access to caused these manufacturers
pliers did not cancel orders, sibly innocent campaign to choked an already struggling pensive than South African medicines will also result in a to lose their ability to func-
logistics were difficult last overturn the court’s decision economy, which is heavily products. Zimbabwe needs prolonged lockdown period tion,” Robertson said.
week. to jail Zuma degenerated dependent on imports. to strengthen local supply as it becomes more difficult
into chaotic scenes, with chains encouraging value to reduce infection. The so-
He said the over-reliance If the riots had continued, cio-economic impacts asso-
on South Africa as the major
supplier of critical commod-
ities was detrimental, not
only to Zimbabwe but also
other economies in southern
African. Critical supply lines
are disrupted whenever dis-
turbances rock that country.

“South Africa’s domi-
nance is a key concern to the
region, and this is a wake-up
call that we should reduce

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Issue 40, 23 July 2021

NIC CHEESEMAN Racism cannot be defeated
without decolonisation
IT has been a depressing
month to be English. The de- was quickly covered by hun- that  only 67% of white re- the UK at a greater danger of failings) of white people. Photo by Joel Goodman/LNP/Shutterstock
feat to Italy in the final of the dreds of messages of love and spondents  would be “happy sexual attack. When we went to university,
UEFA European Champion- solidarity.  This response was if people from another race the eminent figures honoured In turn, these subconscious
ship was the latest in a string something to be proud of, and moved in next door”. Racism is also fostered in through statues, paintings and expectations can distort how
of famous losses. something to build on moving much less obvious ways. A buildings were all white. we interpret the news and the
forwards. In the same study, only white school friend of mine behaviour of others – even for
Worse still, three black En- 46% of white respondents said once wrote an essay on preju- Meanwhile, a  2011 report those who think they are not
glish players who missed pen- But the defacing of mu- they would marry or have a dice that began with the sen- found that the “dominant prejudiced  – creating a fertile
alties in the decisive shoot-out rals and the sending of racist relationship with someone of tence “I may be subtly racist discourse surrounding black ground for the emergence of
suffered  racist abuse.  Almost messages on social media is a different race. Things have but I wish not to be”. young men and boys in the racist beliefs.
as soon as the final whistle only the tip of the iceberg. changed for the better since news media links them with
was blown, pride at what the These are high profile actions then. What he meant was that violent crime”. As  Kehinde Andrews  has
players had accomplished that come with a risk of be- although his parents were argued, defeating racism re-
– not just in reaching the fi- ing caught and prosecuted. To An Ipsos-MORI poll  in avowedly anti-racist, the cul- The notion of white supe- quires a multipronged ap-
nal, but also by  taking the use Instagram messages and 2020 found that “the British tural environment in which riority was reinforced from proach over many years.
knee and building a team that the defacing of murals as a way public have become avowedly we grew up  actively fostered multiple directions. Charity Changing the misleading way
anti-racist citizens of all back- to measure English racism is more open-minded in their at- racist assumptions,  and this fundraising and British gov- in which we currently depict
grounds could believe in – was to overlook the everyday expe- titudes towards race”. process was especially perni- ernment  aid to countries in the world is only one element
combined with sadness, anger rience of non-white members cious because it was often sub- Africa,  while well-meaning, of this fight but is nonetheless
and, for many people I know, of our community. Yet despite this improve- conscious. were shot through with im- a crucial one. It is therefore
a deep sense of shame. ment, 7% did not disagree that ages that emphasised the dis- vitally important to continue
What about the people who “to be truly British you have White people were the he- parity between white wealth the work that has been done in
Shame that people in our suffered racist comments from to be white”. Just to put that roes in movies, saving the and black poverty. In doing so recent years to challenge racial
community hold such ab- strangers during the Brexit in context, 7% of the British world. White people dominat- they played into false imagi- assumptions and bias in our
horrent views. Shame at the referendum, when police re- adult population is 3,775,134 ed the front pages of newspa- naries of the achievements and media,  education  system, and
offence caused to our friends, ported a  fivefold increase  in people. That is a minority, but pers, running the planet. legacy  of the British empire entertainment.
not just in the UK, but also in hate crimes? What about the it is far from a tiny one. that elide both  human rights
Africa, and around the world. sportspeople who regular- The need for decolonisation According to most of abuses  and the  achievements Understood in this way,
ly receive  racist abuse  from The persistence of racist views the “best of ” lists of the of other civilizations. Through decolonisation is not a form
In the past, I have tend- the crowd while doing their should not be surprising. time, white people had written this process, colonial myths of  anti-white discrimina-
ed not to write about racism jobs? What about the teenag- Homa Khaleeli has document- pretty much all of the most are not left in the past but con- tion,  as  sensationalist tab-
myself and instead to share ers who  experience racism at ed how some political leaders important books and directed stantly brought life for new loids  would have it. Rather,
the work of colleagues such school from both other pupils played on popular fears of mi- the “must-see” movies. generations. it is a process of undoing the
as Simukai Chigudu who have and teachers? gration to advance their own harm that centuries of misrep-
greater knowledge and deeper careers while rallying support Our school and its bril- The cumulative effect of resenting ourselves and others
insights. As a straight white The reality is that there are for Brexit. In 2016, Nigel liant teachers did a great job these mutually reinforcing has done to society.
man, I have not experienced still a lot of white English Farage – whose party was at of encouraging us to question messages, together with sus-
prejudice and it felt more ap- men and women who hold one point supported by 9% of who wrote history, and what tained  economic inequali- —The Africa Report.
propriate to support the analy- racist beliefs and assump- the British people – suggested viewpoint they did so from. ties  between ethnic groups, is *About the writer: Nic
sis of those who have. tions. A survey conducted for that migrants put women in But most of what my gener- to foster the assumption that Cheeseman is professor of de-
the BBC back in 2002 found ation was taught was written non-white people are inferior. mocracy at the University of
I changed my mind when a by white people about the Birmingham and Author of
Twitter follower asked why I achievements (and sometimes “How to Rig an Election”.
had not written about English
racism when so many of my
readers are black Africans. His
question made me realise that
such an approach could all too
easily be interpreted as indif-
ference.

My anonymous correspon-
dent also offered a suggestion
of what to write about: “Why
don’t you tell us why your peo-
ple are still racist in 2021?”

This was good advice, I
decided. The one thing I can
claim to have some insight into
is the  thoughts and beliefs of
white English men.  And that
experience suggests that  Al-
cinda Honwana  is completely
right to argue that we cannot
successfully combat racism
without taking seriously the
need for decolonisation.

It’s not just a tiny minority
Let’s get one thing straight
from the start.
As much as it may comfort
celebrities to think so, the
problem isn’t a  “tiny minori-
ty”.  Framing things in this
way is problematic because it
plays into the hands of  right-
wing commentators who want
to downplay the issue and
encourage everyone to simply
“move on”.
You cannot overcome a
problem if you routinely un-
derestimate how big it is. It is
true that the number of racist
messages sent to English play-
ers was dwarfed by the positive
messages sent in the days that
followed. And it is true that
the graffiti defacing a mural
celebrating Marcus Rashford

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Issue 40, 23 July 2021

After Chidyausiku’s succession battle
Chief Justice Luke Malaba takes over

Tererai Having meticulously traced the history of the Rhodesian judiciary, focusing on the haved unconstitutionally. The
Mafukidze chief justices, South African-based Zimbabwean lawyer Advocate Tererai Mafukidze court order in Sibanda’s case is
this week covers the rise of Chief Justice Luke Malaba whose succession is also now a therefore not effective unless the
ON 27 March 2017, a month messy affair as he desperately seeks to extend his tenure beyond 70 years. Constitutional Court had deter-
after the late chief justice God- mined the issue. The chief jus-
frey Chidyausiku retired, the President Emmerson Mnangagwa (left) with Chief Justice Luke Malaba who is currently battling to tice committed an error of law
late former president Robert extend his tenure by five years. by recognising the High Court
Mugabe appointed Luke Mal- order. 
aba as Zimbabwe’s new chief presidential election petition in stitutional Court.  It is in the Court…The applicants can- be decided by the Constitution-
justice.  August 2018 following the dis- course of this consideration that not seek to have the question al Court. Alternatively, if the The second case is the con-
puted presidential election the the chief justice concluded that of the constitutionality of the High Court had jurisdiction, tested presidential petition.
Later during the year, in No- month before.  Mugabe had resigned of his free military action enquired into the court order of the Judge Malaba and his colleagues con-
vember 2017, Mugabe was to be will.  He held that the resigna- by the court whilst the order of President had no effect unless firmed that Mnangagwa had
removed from power through a The essence of the first case tion of Mugabe was voluntary as the High Court determining the confirmed by the Constitution- been duly elected president
military coup.  brought by applicants was that evidenced by the letter of resig- same issue is extant.”  al Court.  during the 2018 election. 
Mugabe’s resignation on 21 No- nation and the communication
On 24 November 2017, vember 2017 had not been free with the Speaker of Parliament On the question whether the However, the decision must Both these matters were cru-
President Emmerson Mnangag- and voluntary. They alleged that on the day.   impeachment proceedings were have found favour with the cial for Mnangagwa’s legitimacy
wa took over as the new leader it was a direct result of the mil- at the behest of the military, the powers-that-be. and political survival. 
following his two-week exile in itary action of 14-15 Novem- The chief justice decided the chief justice narrates in detail
South Africa following dismissal ber 2017 and the “presence of legality of the military action the events at the sitting of par- The order of the Judge Pres- Malaba has come under the
by Mugabe as vice-president of military vehicles in the streets relying on the court order is- liament. He makes no specific ident was not confirmed by the spotlight in relation to two oth-
the country and co-second sec- of Harare between 14 and 21 sued without reasons by Chi- reference to the military in dis- Constitutional Court. A court er issues concerning judicial in-
retary of the ruling Zanu PF. November 2017.”  They also weshe, Judge President of the missing this allegation.  order which is not confirmed dependence. One of those issues
alleged that the impeachment High Court, in the case Joseph cannot be extant.  The order in is his memorandum on handing
So when he took over, Mnan- proceedings were “intended to Evurath Sibanda and Leonard On the question whether Sibanda was neither made by down judgments which threat-
gagwa now had a man he re- aid and abet takeover of pow- Chikomba v President of The assumption of office by Mnan- the Constitutional Court nor ened the independence of the
portedly did not want to be er by the military.” They also Republic of Zimbabwe, Robert gagwa was constitutional, the confirmed by it.  individual judges. After com-
chief justice at the helm of the challenged the lawfulness of the Gabriel Mugabe N.O. and Min- chief justice states that it was as plaints by the profession and
judiciary. At the time, media assumption of power by Mnan- ister of Defence and Command- the President assumed power re- At the heart of the Sibanda other judges, Malaba relented
reports indicated that the mil- gagwa on 24 November 2017.   er Of Defence Forces of Zimba- placing a Zanu PF person who application was the allegation and amended his memoran-
itarised Mnangagwa faction bwe and Attorney-General of had voluntarily resigned.   that Mugabe had abdicated his dum.  
in Zanu PF battling for power The applicants were in de- Zimbabwe (HC 10820/2017) constitutional role to his wife
wanted the then Judge Presi- fault on the date of the hear- on 24 November 2017.   However, the chief justice Grace Mugabe and the G40 The second issue concerned
dent George Chiweshe, a retired ing. No one appeared on their made a fundamental error of Zanu PF faction. That alleged alleged interference in matters
army commander and former behalf.  In order for the chief Malaba came to the conclu- law in recognising a High Court conduct resulted in the order pending before another judge.
elections chief.  justice to decide whether direct sion that: “The question of the judgment in Sibanda’s case that made by Chiweshe.  The Judicial Service Commis-
access should be granted, he had lawfulness of the military action has no legal effect.   sion recommended to Mnan-
The constitutional amend- to consider the applicants’ pros- of 14 and 15 November 2017 The order effectively meant gagwa that he appoint a tribunal
ment that Mnangagwa had ear- pects of success before the Con- was determined by the High Firstly, the High Court that Mugabe had either failed in terms of the constitution to
lier mooted dealing with judi- had no jurisdiction as the case to fulfil his constitutional obli- inquire into whether or not Jus-
cial issues, including  give power brought by Sibanda could only gations as President or had be- tice Erica Ndewere – who has
to the President to choose the been found guilty and dismissed
chief justice without any inter- – should remain in the office of
views, was passed after Malaba High Court judge. 
had taken office. 
Ndewere then approached
However, the amendment the High Court to challenge
was declared unlawfully passed this recommendation and the
as it did not have a two-thirds decision of the President to in-
majority in Senate. After the stitute the tribunal. She made
Constitutional Court had de- very serious allegations against
clared the law null and avoid, Malaba and Chiweshe. If these
Senate was given two chances to allegations are true, both the
rectify the problem, which it has chief justice and the judge pres-
now done. ident would face removal from
office for committing some of
But there is a problem that the most egregious of judicial
after the Senate legislative pro- offences — interference with
cess, the President did not sign the impartiality and indepen-
Constitutional Amendment Bill dence of courts and the fair trial
(No.1) into law as it was deemed rights of accused persons.  
to have already been assented to
by Mugabe, which is a problem- Ndewere alleged that Malaba
atic legal proposition. and Chiweshe issued instruc-
tions on how she should decide
Malaba entered office with- the bail cases of ex-minister Pri-
out much support from the sca Mupfumira and main oppo-
new government as it reportedly sition MDC leader Jacob Sikha-
wanted Chiweshe. This lack of la.  The two cases would have
support naturally would both- the interest of the political lead-
er the new chief justice. It was ership. If the tribunal had found
unexpected on his appointment Ndewere’s claims credible, this
in 2017 that Malaba would be would have had to result in an
supported by Mnangagwa in the inquiry into the conduct of the
quest to move the retirement two senior judges. 
age of the chief justice and other
senior judges from 70 years to Ndewere was found guilty on
75 years.   two counts of misconduct by
the tribunal, appointed in No-
So what did Malaba do to vember last year, which recom-
earn this?  mended her removal as a judge.

Two crucial cases stand out *About the writer: Advo-
for him. The first was his con- cate Tererai Mafukidze is a
troversial court judgement that member of the Johannesburg
Mugabe had resigned voluntari- Bar. He practises with Group
ly. The second was the decision One Sandown Chambers in
in Mnangagwa’s favour on the Sandton, Johannesburg. His
practice areas at the Bar are:
general commercial law, com-
petition law, human rights,
administrative and constitu-
tional law.

NewsHawks The Big Debate Page 27

Issue 40, 23 July 2021

What is to be done?: Mr President, this
is the moment to rebuild South Africa
And now, Mr President, Planet at the centre, especially
it falls on your shoulders From left to right, the late popular South African Communist Party leader and MK commander Chris Hani, prominent trade unionist and the economically disenfran-
to lead with courage and ex-minister Jay Naidoo and Cyril Ramaphosa, former trade union leader and now South African President, during a march in 1992. chised youth. Demands have
inspiration. We cannot been growing for a universal
any longer allow the We cannot any longer allow the vitriolic hate-driven calls The clearest leadership we above the law, especially those basic income grant that prior-
factionalism of the Af- the factionalism of the African for violence on social media by have seen in the country in who are in public service.  itises skills training and social
rican National Congress National Congress to take pri- known actors; even the blatant the past two weeks has not entrepreneurship, which I fully
(ANC) to take priority ority over the interests of our mobilisation of paramilitary come from the South African There must be zero toler- support. We need to pierce the
over the interests of our country, its citizens and the forces to criminally break the government and its millions ance.  glass ceiling that prevents the
country, its citizens and Constitution.  law and the lockdown restric- of employees we pay to help economic transformation of
the constitution, writes tions you announced just days us, but from the ground and More importantly, we need our country and to combine
Jay Naidoo, former an- There are many questions before. We cannot paper over largely outside the purview of an unambiguous endorse- efforts at land reform that cre-
ti-apartheid activist, that I, like many other citizens, these omissions. They led to the state or even civil society. ment of the rule of law and ates opportunities for young
ex-minister and senior have about the events of the massive destruction and its Millions of citizens mobilised unconditional support for the people to become successful
ANC official. past two weeks. Why were we dire consequences for an eco- to defend their communities, Zondo Commission, followed smallholder farmers, creates
so unprepared for what you nomic recovery, a damaged to stop the haters and looters by full legal action. We need livelihoods and addresses
JAY NAIDOO describe as an attack on our investor sentiment and the full and prevented this becoming those who have been com- hunger and food security at a
democracy? Why were our in- obliteration of whatever confi- a national conflagration that plicit in looting the astronom- household level.  
MR President, telligence agencies missing in dence our people had left for would have taken us back to ical amount of R57-billion,
I write this letter with a heavy action? Why were the securi- their government.  the precipice of our burning through State Capture that These issues cannot be post-
heart. Along with the majori- ty forces so overwhelmed and past. They proclaimed with brought our economy to its poned any longer. We need
ty of my fellow citizens, I have under-resourced?  South Africa is at a cross- great courage: NOT IN MY knees, to be prosecuted and calm heads and steady hands
been shocked and traumatised roads, Mr President. One path NAME. This is the moment to held to account without delay.  at the tiller of state and society.
by the turmoil that rocked It was this vacuum that led is leading us to a failed state rebuild our country from the We need a unity of purpose not
our country in the past weeks. to citizens taking the law into that muddles along the track of bottom up and support this The impunity at the highest just derived from corporatist
What have we missed, I ask their own hands and stoking self-destruction and warlord- grassroots activism that de- levels of state and broader soci- deals at the top between gov-
myself? Where have we gone even greater violence.  ism in Congolese style. Anoth- fended our democracy better ety can no longer be tolerated. ernment, labour and business,
wrong? What is to be done?  er path is towards a reassertion than anyone.  Not just the foot soldiers, but but also an acceptance of grass-
This is not the first time we of what it means to be South also, no,  especially  those who roots leadership as a co-creator
The chaos and violence faced violent threats against African and what we need to I know that you face chal- orchestrated this thuggery. We of our way forward. We have
struck at the heart of our de- our people. We know, from as do to heal the wounds of our lenges on all sides that are must also take decisive action in the past convened broad-
mocracy in the midst of us cel- early as the 1980s, where the past and build a  nation  of in- aimed at battering your lead- against those in the highest based efforts to reach a social
ebrating 27 years of freedom flashpoints are and where the clusive and shared prosperity.  ership. But the country calls on positions of the public and consensus that represented the
and the international celebra- orchestration of violence is fo- inspiring leadership from you, private sector who facilitated will of the people. We need that
tion of the unifying values of mented. Why the delayed reac- Almost everyone, especially Mr President, and your gov- the looting orgy, even includ- urgently today. 
social justice and human dig- tion in mobilising the SANDF you Mr President, wants the ernment. We need decisive ac- ing the CEOs of multinational
nity that our founding father, to support the SAPS in the latter. The majority of South tion to arrest those hateful in- companies like KPMG, Bain & And above all, we need a
Tata Nelson Mandela, sacri- moment of greatest threat our Africans refuse to be held stigators, who used the digital Company, McKinsey, SAP and servant leadership and ethical
ficed 27 years of his life for.  democracy ever faced?  hostage to demagogic and an- media and streets of our bru- all others involved.   governance.
ti-democratic forces whose talised communities, and hold
The seeds of this crisis did Even a cursory reading of the continued plundering of pub- them fully to account, regard- Simultaneously we need Now.  Mr President, I have
not come overnight. They have signals would have informed lic resources necessitates a dys- less of who they are. No one is a refresh of what  binds us  as stood alongside you in the
been incubating for decades. us – what the media was re- functional state.  a nation and how do we co-cre- past. We never flinched as we
And even before the Covid-19 porting, what activists on the ate a vibrant ecological econo- stared down the face of the en-
pandemic, our economy was ground were saying, or noting my that puts our People and emy behind the barrel of a gun.
in recession with a frighten- Once again, we stand in front
ing rate of joblessness, hunger of the enemy of South African
and poverty. Tragically, it was people – and yet again we can-
spawned out of the belly of the not afford to flinch. 
once-principled president of
the liberation movement that We, the overwhelming ma-
you now lead and that holds jority of people, are exhausted
the reins of political power. It’s by the broken promises and
a shocking betrayal of what broken leadership we face day
you, I and millions from suc- to day. There are many out-
cessive generations of South standing leaders and workers
Africans fought for and for in the civil service, in our se-
which many paid the ultimate curity forces and our citizenry
sacrifice. We cannot any lon- who strive to embrace  Batho
ger gold-coat this reality with Pele  ( Public Service Code of
money spent on spin doctors.  Conduct) and serve the Con-
stitution and country. They
The lived experience of the also cry out for leadership so
vast majority creates a ground- that they can do their work
swell of discontent and legit- with pride, unhampered by
imate grievances which the the sinister agendas of vested
haters, opportunists and dem- interests above them which de-
agogues used to fuel the rise of molished the rules of humani-
a spectre of racial and ethnic ty, ethics and good governance. 
conflict, toxic nationalism and
narrow tribalism. We have the Let us reunite around a
pariah recognition as the most new chapter in our country.
unequal society in the world. Let us heal our differences by
Toxic patriarchy wages a war acknowledging our wound-
against women and children ed past and reach out to each
in all segments of our socie- other with acts of kindness
tal strata. The vast majority of and reparation, so that we may
youth are alienated and disillu- bequeath a legacy of a nation
sioned with a governance and working on its healing in a way
leadership that continues to that delivers that better life we
exclude them. They ask, right- promised our people in 1994. 
ly, where is the democratic
dividend that we promised our As our founding father, Tata
people in 1994?  Mandela, once sagely said, “It
always seems impossible, until
And now, Mr President, it it is done.” 
falls on your shoulders to lead
with courage and inspiration. We cannot fail now.

Yours 

sincerely,
Jay Naidoo,
Citizen.
– Daily Maverick.

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NASSER BALOOQ Issue 40, 23 July 2021

WHILE isolation and so- How key global supply chains are 
cial distance have become sustaining Zimbabwe’s economy
the buzzwords of the last
year, the situation we find the pandemic, freight
ourselves in has also em- movement through our
phasised the importance Dubai hub was also
of connections and global boosted.
supply chains more than
ever. Emirates SkyCargo flight. Covid-19 vaccines hub
Emirates SkyCargo has
And while passenger border closures rendering much-needed medicines, cargo in the industry. aircraft and full freighter vast expertise in trans-
movements remain con- many flights challenging, medical equipment (in- Our commitment to flights. For Zimbabwe, porting temperature sen-
strained, particularly in Emirates SkyCargo has cluding spare parts and Emirates SkyCargo of- sitive pharmaceuticals
markets such as Zimba- maintained critical trans- repair components), and quality is also a result of fers cargo capacity on five and vaccines across our
bwe, the international port links for people and in keeping global supply the fact that the cargo weekly flights to/from network. Recognising the
movement of goods re- for goods – including es- chains functioning for the that we transport in our Harare on our Boeing scale of the response that
mains a vital lifeline. sential medical supplies. most time-sensitive mate- aircraft often have a di- 777-300ER aircraft. would be required to co-
We continue to ship cargo rials. This has been done rect impact on the lives of Embracing digitisation  ordinate the logistics of
During the initial into and out of Zimba- through dedicated cargo people across the globe. Although the Covid-19 global COVID-19 vac-
months of the pandemic, bwe. freighter operations, use For example, we trans- crisis has brought a spot- cine distribution, our fa-
there was a huge surge in of cargo capacity in pas- port temperature-sensi- light on air cargo despite cilities at Dubai Airport
the demand for air cargo Zimbabwe’s economy senger aircraft, and relief tive pharmaceuticals on the global lockdown, the are already supporting
capacity for the transpor- still needs to function; flights to affected areas. our aircraft every day. global pandemic has also cold chain storage and
tation of personal pro- mines still need to oper- Importance of quality  Without strict adherence highlighted the urgent distribution of the vac-
tection equipment (PPE) ate and farmers still need Emirates and Emirates to quality standards and need for us to accelerate cine at our GDP certified
such as facemasks and to export their fresh pro- SkyCargo place the high- compliance to European our digital and sustainable SkyPharma facility. This is
gloves in addition to med- duce. Jobs and foreign est level of emphasis on Union GDP norms, there transformation, to de- one of the world’s largest
ical equipment such as exchange earnings are at safety and high quality is a risk that the quality velop collaborative busi- dedicated airside hubs for
ventilators as well as other stake. It’s a commitment standards in service deliv- of the medicine can be ness models with various storing and distributing
pharmaceutical supplies. that we take very serious- ery. This is a key differen- compromised which can stakeholders. Covid-19 vaccines. 
ly as we export fresh fruit tiating factor for our cus- directly affect the wellbe-
More recently, other and vegetables and bring tomers in addition to our ing of the person waiting We have seen a has- The Dubai hub’s ad-
commodities for indus- in mining equipment and other value propositions to receive it. tened global transition vantageous location al-
tries and manufacturing components, as well as all such as having a mod- Size of transportation  to e-commerce in a way lows us to fly in vaccines
opened up as manufac- the other exports and im- ern all wide-body aircraft Currently, Emirates Sky- that is designed to bene- from manufacturing sites
turing activity returned. ports that keep our econ- fleet, an extensive global Cargo flies to 136 des- fit customers, businesses globally, store and prepare
We also saw increased omy ticking. network covering six con- tinations around the and industries as a whole. shipments for regional
volumes of e-commerce Shipping Covid-19 tinents as well as state-of- world and transports car- Emirates SkyCargo has and global distribution.
shipments as more people supplies  the-art infrastructure in go through about 2000 positioned itself as a mar-
shopped online. Since the Covid-19 cri- Dubai.  We have one of flights weekly - this is a ket leader, and took ad- Our dedicated
sis began, Emirates Sky- the highest levels of “De- mix of cargo transported vantage of this market Covid-19 vaccine hub has
Through its cargo Cargo has also been a livered as Promised”  for on passenger flights, cargo shift; as e-commerce vol- over 4 000 square metres
flights to more than 135 vital partner in delivering only flights on passenger umes accelerated during of temperature controlled
destinations across six GDP certified dedicat-
continents, Emirates Sky- ed pharma storage area
Cargo continues to play allowing for large scale
an important role glob- storage and distribution
ally in the transporta- of the potential Covid-19
tion of pharmaceuticals, vaccines. 
medical equipment, PPE,
food and other essential Overall, it is estimated
goods as well as maintain- that the facility can hold
ing continuity of supply around 10 million vials
chains for international of vaccine at a 2-8 degrees
trade. Celsius temperature range
at any one point of time.
Emirates’ cargo-diver-
sified revenue streams Our state-of-the-art
beyond traditional pas- infrastructure at Dubai
senger-related income is also complemented by
have enabled the airline one of the world’s largest
to avoid the worst of the fleet of Cool Dollys help-
pandemic’s economic im- ing protect temperature
pact. For the year to 31 sensitive cargo during
March 2021, Emirates transit between the air-
SkyCargo transported 1.9 craft and cargo terminal.
million tonnes of cargo
across our global network. Nasser Bahlooq is coun-
try manager for Emirates
As one of the world’s in Zimbabwe. He previ-
largest airlines, serving ously managed the Dubai-
our customers and the based airline’s commercial
communities where we activities in Yinchuan,
live and work is part China, and most recent-
of our DNA. Offering ly, Yangon, Myanmar,
strong supply chain solu- where he helped support
tions during the Covid-19 the launch of flights to
pandemic through Emir- Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
ates SkyCargo has given
us an opportunity to pro- Emirates flies to 157
vide the support our cus- destinations across the
tomers tell us they need world and has a fleet of
during this unprecedent- 270 state-of-the-art air-
ed business environment. craft.
Supporting local busi-
nesses 
With Covid-19-related

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Issue 40, 23 July 2021 said to be operating in
Brisbane.
Rwandans
have long Officially, Rwanda de-
been used to nies using NSO’s Peg-
Pegasus-style asus software, but for-
surveillance mer intelligence chief
and RNC co-founder
IT was a silver Black- and alleged fellow plot- Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Kayumba Nyamwasa –
Berry, surprisingly heavy ter Alex Sugira, yet to be who has survived repeat-
in the hand, belonging extradited from Rwanda. na, Russia and Turkey. tius Pilate. At home, Kagame ed attempts on his life
to a businessman who Officially, Karegeya’s for- “The commitment to When the Ugandan has maintained nyumba in South Africa – notes
had flown from Kigali to mer boss, President Paul controlling Rwandans kumi, run by politically that the RPF has enjoyed
South Africa to visit the Kagame, denies involve- abroad and the resourc- capital, Kampala, fell sensitised RPF cadres, as extremely close military
exiled former Rwandan ment. But his message to es devoted to the effort to the NRM in 1986, a highly effective instru- and intelligence ties with
intelligence chief Patrick a prayer breakfast soon are stunning when con- Kagame was given a job ment of social control. Israel since the genocide,
Karegeya. The business- afterwards was nakedly sidering that Rwanda is in military intelligence “The entire country is a and that the line between
man, Apollo Kiririsi Ga- triumphalist: “You can- a country of 13 million and played a key role spying machine,” David Israel’s military and spin-
faranga, boasted that he not betray Rwanda and people where roughly a in the formation of the Himbara, former eco- off firms selling intelli-
had bought it in Qatar. get away with it,” he third of the population Rwandan Patriotic Front nomic adviser to Kag- gence equipment is dis-
crowed. lives below the poverty (RPF), a secret force ame, told me while I was tinctly blurred.
“It cost me $10 000,” line,” it said. nestling within Uganda’s researching my book.
a friend of Karegeya’s The revelation this armed forces. After the “The army, the police, Kayumba, who was
remembers the business- week that Carine Ka- Information-gathering RPF’s charismatic lead- they come to his office already notified by
man telling them. “It’s nimba, daughter of the has always been some- er was killed invading to tell him things. He WhatsApp in 2019 that
a model you can only former “Hotel Rwanda” thing of a Kagame spe- Rwanda in 1990, Kag- doesn’t govern, he col- he was one of 1 400 us-
buy in the Middle East, manager Paul Rusesaba- ciality; modern technol- ame nervously took the lects rumours.” ers targeted by Pegasus,
a phone you can’t be gina, had her phone re- ogy has simply extended lead, relying on a person- recalls becoming aware
tracked on.” Karegeya peatedly infiltrated, with the range of his curiosity. al network of informants Abroad, Rwanda’s net- his phone had been com-
picked it up, weighed it, evidence found of mul- A Rwandan refugee who to double check on com- work of embassies and promised. “When I left
and put it back down on tiple attacks using NSO had grown up in west- manders whose loyalty he high commissions has Rwanda I thought I was
the counter where it was Group spyware while ern Uganda, Kagame doubted. been used to track down, probably being moni-
charging. “You’ve been campaigning for her fa- was sent by Yoweri Mu- intimidate and in some tored by Rwanda’s state
robbed,” the ex-spy chief ther’s release after he was seveni – today Uganda’s When the RPF cap- cases even kill journal- telecoms system and pri-
joked. abducted in Dubai and president – to be trained tured Kigali after the ists, human rights activ- vate telecoms firms in
then jailed in Kigali, has in Dar es Salaam by Tan- 1994 genocide, during ists and opposition par- South Africa,” he told
Looking back, Kare- come as no surprise to zanian military intelli- which 500 000 to 1 mil- ty members: challengers me. “But in 2018 I was
geya’s friend thinks the Rwanda’s exiled journal- gence. lion people were killed increasingly emanating told the details of a con-
phone was just one in a ists, dissidents and hu- by Rwandan soldiers and not from the ranks of the versation someone close
series of clues that they man rights activists. Joining Museveni’s Hutu extremists, it won Hutu majority but from to me had had with a
failed to spot. “I’ve never rebel National Resistance control of a tiny former Kagame’s own Tutsi elite. friend, I checked back,
seen a BlackBerry like it – Few African societies Movement (NRM) in the monarchy where the those details were cor-
that colour, that weight,” are more closely moni- Luwero Triangle, his al- state’s hand always rested In the past the Metro- rect, and I sensed a high-
he recalled. “There was tored, and critics of the lotted task was to collect heavy on its citizens. The politan police has formal- er system of surveillance
something very suspi- government have been incriminating informa- late president Juvénal ly warned several RNC was involved.”
cious about it.” He is repeatedly made aware tion on fighters suspected Habyarimana had run a activists based in London
convinced that the phone that the arm of the state of failing in their duties: system of domestic mon- of an “imminent threat” Aware they are likely
was actually a recording extends well beyond its falling asleep on sentry itoring in which local of- to their lives from Kiga- to be tracked, Rwandans
device to tape the con- borders – with Kagame duty, showing cowardice ficials reported back on li; in Belgium, a former abroad try to remain un-
versations that Karegeya seemingly determined on patrol. 10-house clusters (nyum- Rwandan prime minister der the radar by chang-
– who fled Rwanda in to track down dissidents ba kumi), while the in- was placed under armed ing handsets and num-
2007 and co-founded the as far afield as Australia, His role in the resulting telligence services kept guard; while Australian bers, using anonymous
Rwanda National Con- Canada, the US, the UK courts martial – which careful lists of citizens police have advised dis- “handles”, and migrating
gress (RNC) opposition and mainland Europe. could result in execution judged either subversive sidents in exile to steer from one platform to
party – was having with – won Kagame the nick- or slavishly loyal. clear of Rwandan agents another. WhatsApp has
fellow exiled activists If Rwanda is a client of name “Pilato”, after Pon- been largely jettisoned
during Gafaranga’s visit. the NSO Group, as the in favour of Signal and
Pegasus project suggests, Telegram, but many users
By New Year’s Eve it presents a frightening don’t trust either, timing
in 2013, Karegeya was picture of what a gov- messages to automatical-
dead. On another trip to ernment determined to ly disappear after set pe-
Johannesburg, Gafaran- hunt down “enemies of riods. It’s an uphill battle,
ga allegedly lured him the state” could do with though, activists say, as
to a room in Sandton’s cyberweapons of this new numbers and hand-
five-star Michelangelo sort. In February, the US sets can soon be iden-
hotel, where Karegeya advocacy group Freedom tified and locked on to
was jumped on by a four- House cited Rwanda as via targets’ conversations
man team and throttled one of the world’s most with existing contacts.
to death. In September prolific practitioners of
2019, a South African “transnational repres- Many Rwandans are so
magistrate issued arrest sion”, ranking along- intensely suspicious of all
warrants for Gafaranga side Saudi Arabia, Chi- modes of electronic com-
munication they will only
stray beyond the prosaic
and banal when sitting
face to face. In that way,
the mere knowledge of
Pegasus’s existence has
had a chilling effect on
freedom of thought in
this small but influential
central African nation.

—The Guardian

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Issue 40, 23 July 2021

Top army general responds to reports he feared
Trump would use military after losing election

AMERICA’S top gener- Former US president Donald Trump (left) with US army officer, General Mark Milley. notorious photo opportu-
al on Wednesday spoke nity.
publicly for the first time were then, we are now -- and our allels between the political turmoil Milley told aides. ‘The gospel of
about whether he feared oath is to the Constitution, not to in the United States and the rise of the Führer,’” Rucker and Leonnig “I should not have been
then-President  Don- any individual at all,” he said. “And the Nazi party in Germany, accord- wrote. there,” Milley said in a
ald Trump  would try the military did not and will not ing to “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald prerecorded video com-
to involve the military and should not ever get involved J. Trump’s Final Catastrophic Year,” The authors say that Milley be- mencement address to
in the aftermath of the in domestic politics. We don’t arbi- by Washington Post reporters Philip lieved Trump was stoking unrest af- National Defence Uni-
2020 election, as reported trate elections. That’s the job of the Rucker and Carol Leonnig. ter the election, and decried what he versity. “My presence in
in a newly-released book. judiciary and the legislature and the called “brownshirts in the streets,” that moment and in that
American people. It is not the job “He had earlier described to although an official told ABC News environment created a
While Joint Chiefs of the US military. We stayed out of aides that he kept having a stom- the comment was in reference to the perception of the military
chairperson Mark Milley, politics, we’re an apolitical institu- ach-churning feeling that some radical members of the Oath Keep- involved in domestic pol-
at a rare Pentagon news tion.” Austin went out of his way to of the worrisome early stages of ers and so-called “boogaloo boys,” itics.”
conference, declined to defend Milley. 20th-century fascism in Germa- not Trump supporters in general.
comment on specific ny were replaying in 21st-century In August 2020, Mil-
claims made in the book, “We fought together, we served a America. An early sign of unease between ley told Congress there is
he and Defence Secretary couple of times in the same units,” Trump and Milley came last July no role for the US military
Lloyd Austin Wednesday Austin said. “I’m not guessing at his He saw parallels between Trump’s amid Black Lives Matter protests in in elections.
were emphatic that the character — he doesn’t have politi- rhetoric about election fraud and Washington DC when Milley apol-
military is and ought to cal bone in his body.” Adolf Hitler’s insistence to his fol- ogised  for taking part in Trump’s Then in January 2021,
remain a strictly “apoliti- lowers at the Nuremberg rallies that controversial walk from the White after the Capitol riot,
cal” institution. Before the 6 January riot at the he was both a victim and their sav- House to St John’s Church, though Milley and the seven oth-
Capitol, Milley saw ominous par- ior. ‘This is a Reichstag moment,’ he peeled off before the president’s er members of the Joint
“I, the other members Chiefs of Staff signed an
of the Joint Chiefs, and internal memo to service
all of us in uniform, we members saying “the vi-
take an oath, an oath to olent riot in Washington
a document, an oath to DC on January 6, 2021
the Constitution of the was a direct assault on
United States, and not the US Capitol building,
one time do we violate and our Constitutional
that,” Milley told report- process,” warning them
ers asking about the book that any act to disrupt the
excerpts. “The entire time, constitutional process is
from time of commis- against the law.
sioning to today, I can say
with certainty that every Milley said Wednes-
one of us maintained our day that he and the oth-
oath of allegiance to that er members of the Joint
document, the Consti- Chiefs always gave the
tution, everything that’s “best military professional
contained within it,” he advice” to Trump and any
said, referring to the Joint other president they’ve
Chiefs. served under.

“I want you to know, “We always adhered
and I want everyone to to providing best pro-
know, I want America fessional military advice,
to know, that the United bar none. It was candid,
States military is an apo- honest, in every single oc-
litical institution — we casion. We do that all the
time every time,” he said.

—ABC News.

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Maskiri’s controversial hit banned!

JONATHAN MBIRIYAMVEKA refer to Tapiwa Makore Sr en off air by the powers- U Get There and Maskiri’s Maskiri. with his 2003 release Mu-
and not the slain boy. that-be at ZBC’s Pockets version is largely inspired viri Wese, which topped
CONTROVERSY stalks Hill because Maskiri also by the Covid-19 pandemic likes of Ti Gonzi and Holy the charts. The song Dha-
Maskiri, but the popular In Shona idiom, being mentions Zanu Ndon- in almost every verse. Ten, two hip-hop artistes ra Rangu was later banned
rapper seems unfazed. “headless” can mean being ga, an opposition party who have been running on national radio stations
thoughtless or foolish. formed by the late veter- In one punchline, he the game of late. for its controversial lyrics
He recently emerged an nationalist Ndabaningi says he has been well-re- wherein Maskiri makes
from hibernation with a However, so contro- Sithole. ceived by both hands like Typical of Zimbabwe- reference to God as his
hit track whose lyrics have versial are the lyrics that a person using “sanitiser” an hip-hop where every homeboy.
torched yet another storm. the song caused quite an The 41-year-old Ma- while in another line he other rapper lays claim to
uproar on social media, skiri, on the other hand, says he is making a quick the throne, Maskiri is no His sophomore album –
The song,  Mbinga from with some users saying insists there is nothing comeback like “lockdown” exception as he raps that Blue Movie – released in
Binga, has been deemed the lyrics were insensitive wrong with his lyrics, since there is a “curfew”. other rappers have tried in 2005, caused quite a stir
inappropriate and insen- while others said it was in which he says are based on vain to dethrone him. on the music scene and
sitive for making oblique bad taste. Oddly enough, metaphor. Mbinga from He takes aim at new was condemned in some
reference to Tapiwa Mako- while ZBC has banned the Binga, which is off Maski- rappers, saying they were Maskiri first rose to circles for its explicit sexu-
re, a young boy from Mu- song, it appears on the play ri’s 10th studio album of discovered last year like prominence during the al content. However, it put
toko who was beheaded at lists of other urban radio the same title, is not the zumbani, a fever-tree urban grooves era around Maskiri in the spotlight,
the behest of his uncle last stations. Meanwhile,  The first track to be banned. herb used by people who 2000s when the urban with other contemporary
year for ritual purposes. NewsHawks  understands claim it protects against grooves henee took off artistes gunning for his
that while the reference to Mbinga from Binga sam- Covid-19, but fans argued largely as a result of the crown as he maintained
One of Zimbabwe’s Tapiwa was controversial, ples Coolio’s yesteryear that he was making dis- 75% local content drive his pole position.
leading radio stations, the track was, in fact, tak- anthemic hit C U When paraging references to the on radio.
Power FM, has swiftly re- While the Blue Mov-
acted by cutting the song He debuted on the ie album created a lot of
off air in a move seen by mainstream music scene hype and reached com-
fans as stifling creative ex- mercial success for Ma-
pression. skiri, it never made it on
radio, thanks to national
Power FM falls under galas at the time where he
the state-controlled Zim- performed songs on the
babwe Broadcasting Cor- album.
poration (ZBC).
His follow-up album
The station is the first was Tapinda Tapinda,
to publicly announce a which was a buzzword in
ban on the song, which the streets at the time.
has garnered nearly 200
000 views on YouTube. He came back with
Ndotaundi Yacho in 2009
“Power FM respects and maintained his dom-
artistic freedom and ac- inance on the scene but
knowledges the lyrical not without stirring up
prowess that Maskiri has,” controversy.
Rumbie Moyo, the ZBC
head of public relations, Maskiri’s love life was
said. messy after he was alleged-
ly involved in a scuffle over
“However, the station a woman. He broke his leg
cannot ignore the refer- after he fell off from third
ence to Tapiwa Makore in floor apartment in the Av-
the song. We cannot use enues in Harare.  He still
our station to make light limps to this day.
of a painful event that left
a family broken hearted 2011 was a good year
and shocked the entire na- for Maskiri after he moved
tion.” to South Africa where he
teamed up with a Zim-
Seven-year-old Tapiwa babwean super producer
was killed in a horrific of the urban grooves era,
premeditated murder for Sipho Mkhuhlani, known
ritual purposes in a case as TBA. The album fea-
that shocked the country. tured the hit song Wenera,
The uncle who hired the a collaboration with Nox
cold-blood killers is also Guni.
called Tapiwa Makore, a
brother of the deceased Wenera was his first-ev-
boy’s father. er music video and it was
voted Video of The Year
In the track, Maskiri in the 2012 edition of
sings in Shona: “…han- the National Art Mer-
dina musoro saTapiwa it Awards. The track also
Makore! (I’m headless like made it to number two
Tapiwa Makore!)” But in on the Power FM top 100
defence of his song, the chart the same year.
ever-controversial Maskiri
has argued that his lyrics

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JONATHAN MBIRIYAMVEKA

MUSIC producer DJ Anu- Zimbabwean music suffers DJ Anusa.
sa says Zimbabwean music identity crisis: DJ Anusa
is suffering from an iden- price of data so that the ma- they have to work with us. opened up doors for me,” was the year I sat my Or- DJ Anusa later joined
tity crisis largely because jority of people have access However, I appreciate that he said. dinary Level exams and I the group Born Free Crew
musicians have not learnt to internet. Data is expen- money is also an issue be- passed, but I couldn’t go where he doubled as the
how to fuse traditional in- sive so much so that people cause after making good His career took shape further because my father producer and singer.
struments such as mbira or cannot go on YouTube and music we still want to mar- while he was studying could not afford to pay fees
marimba. view music videos or listen ket the music. That said, we Form Two at Seke One for A Level. In 2013, there was trou-
and instead they would also need good studios for High in 2002 although he ble in paradise after DJ
The 34-year-old, who share on WhatsApp or via us to create good sound,” was not involved in the “And in 2005 that’s when Anusa parted with his
produced hits for popular Shareit app. he said. school choir. I got my first job as an as- wife with whom he had a
musicians including Ma- sistant sound engineer and daughter named Chanelle
skiri, “And because of that, DJ Anusa said his jour- “It was my classmates Al- producer at Intelligent Re- Makanakaishe Dulana.
our music will not reach far ney has not been smooth len Nezandoyi, Ceril Tsiga cords, that’s where I learnt
Trevor Dongo, Car- because the international sailing. The hitmaker start- and I who came together to a lot about music produc- “So from 2013 up to
los Green, Juntal and Jah market also considers You- ed out in his hometown, form a group. Ceril was the tion and sound engineering 2020 things took a nose
Prayzah’s song Gochi Go- Tube views. Chitungwiza, before mov- producer at that time since from a guy called Trojan. dive and I wasn’t producing
chi, among others, said ing to Harare’s Waterfalls he had studio equipment at While there, I produced any music.
three aspects come to mind “But the big issue here suburb where he estab- home. my first hit song called Ice
in creating a Zimbabwean is we don’t have our own lished his own studio. Lolo,” he explained. “And this year, I’m back
sound. sound because we always “I used to see Ceril mak- and I want to focus on mu-
copy from others and there “Well, I was born in a ing beats and recording dif- The song went viral be- sic production. We have a
“First and foremost, we is no way we can be better family of seven, that is six ferent artistes and I was like fore he established his stu- new record label called Sky
need to accept who we are than Nigerians or South boys and one girl and I’m wow I would love to do this dio in Chitungwiza where Records (Vanhu Vanorira
because we are still stuck Africans when it comes to the only musician in the one day. So in 2003 when I he met Jah Prayzah during Mundege).
in the past where we think their own music.” family. was in Form Three we used his formative years.
everything that’s from out- to bunk lessons and go to “I’m scouting for new
side of Zimbabwe is best,” According to DJ Anu- “Convincing my family the studio to learn how to “Jah Prayzah and I come talent because really there
he said. sa, Zimbabwean musicians that I wanted to do music, make beats. a long way and our first re- is nothing I can offer to
have to create their own especially my late dad Frank cord was Kidiga. That same established musicians but I
“We end up sounding unique sound. Dulana, was almost impos- “I remember we used year, I met Maskiri and we feel like I can help out new
like foreign artistes in Ni- sible because back in the to bunk the last three les- did a track by Swaqizzy. I artistes and that’s why I
geria, Tanzania, South Afri- “So I am saying that day music was considered a sons so that we could have also recorded Juntal and have signed a lot of new ar-
ca and America because we let’s try to create our own pastime for non-achievers. enough time to be in stu- Carlos Green, to mention tistes and in a few months
think they are the best. sound. Anybody who dio. In 2004, I was focus- but a few,” he said. you will get to hear them,”
wants Zimbabwean music, “But I thank God he ing on school because that he said.
“The only way is for us is
to fuse mbira and marimba His upcoming riddim,
with modern instruments titled Vash Riddi, is ex-
so that we create a sound pected to feature 20 artistes
that’s uniquely Zimbabwe- from all corners of Zimba-
an. bwe, including Van Choga,
Uncle Epatan, Jah Master,
“Imagine if Jah Prayzah Ndunge Yut and Chipoko.
had fused mbira and hosho
on his song with Davido
and if Maskiri had made
Keisha White sing to mbi-
ra. Trust me, it would’ve
sounded differently, but
now Zimbabwean music is
currently facing an identity
crisis because we don’t have
a sound that defines us,
we’re always copying this
and that, be it amapiano,
Afro-pop and stuff.”

DJ Anusa, whose real
name is Anusa Dulana, fur-
ther explained the impor-
tance of creating a market
for Zimbabwean sound.

“We all know mbira is
a unique instrument and
with that instrument we
can put an identity to our
music. And people will
know that the sound is
only found in Zimbabwe,”
he added.

“Let’s try to push songs
like Goto Rinehwema by
Jah Prayzah on the interna-
tional market. There is no
sound which is better than
our own sound.

“Secondly, we do not
have big record labels like
Universal or Sony in Zim-
babwe. Those are big re-
cording labels that can
market music worldwide
and yet they are in South
Africa and Nigeria.

“Thirdly, we need to stop
piracy and I think govern-
ment should look at the

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Don’t undermine the City of Kings

Addy
Kudita

IT was Chimamanda ning. products, building ma- tion of the city and in to what went before to his disciples about
Ngozi Adichie who I The City of Kings terials, electronic prod- no small part assisted in this case; the Rozwi what people were say-
know first highlighted The caption above is ucts, textiles, furniture, by the beloved moniker under their Mambos. ing about him. Some
what she calls the dan- one of the loftier narra- and food products. Bul- City of Kings speaks say you are a prophet
ger of a single narrative. tives about Bulawayo, a awayo is also the hub of to lost glory, to histo- But that is the trou- and some say you are
Indeed, as she puts it, city founded as it were Zimbabwe’s rail network ry and a lapsed epoch ble of history, memory Elijah, retorted some
our lives are composed by Mzilikazi, King of and the headquarters of which however remains and politics, is it not? of the disciples.
of overlapping stories. the Ndebele in 1840, the National Railways etched in the collective Consensus over histor-
a former Zulu king- of Zimbabwe. imagination of a peo- ical events and the way Then Jesus posed
The idea she pro- dom chief who ran Courtesy of Britannica ple and perhaps even they must be interpret- the question to them:
pounded in a Ted Talk away from King Tsha- denotes a desire for a ed is a contentious ex- What do you say that
presentation of years ka. He was succeeded Place of slaughter return to kingdom. ercise. It is, to use the I am? I say that you
ago, 2009 to be ex- by his son Lobengula The original site was old adage, in the eye of are the Christ, the son
act, found a certain in the 1860s till it was the kraal (headquarters) Yes indeed, there the beholder. of the living God! The
resonance this week captured by the British of Lobengula, king of have been those efforts answer came from Pe-
on Zimbabwe’s social South Africa Company the Ndebele, who fought to restore the kingdom But the point I make ter at which Christ ac-
media streets concern- in the First Matebele a major battle against and why not for a peo- with this digression knowledged the answer
ing creatives from Bu- War. Thus, the moni- his rivals there; Bula- ple whose very exis- really is that the per- as a correct description
lawayo, the country’s ker: city of kings. But wayo means “place of tence owes itself to a ception of a place or a of him. But why is
second largest city. there is more… slaughter.” Occupied by maverick adventurer of people owes much to this narrative import-
the British in 1893, the unusual sagacity. the history and per- ant? Personally, I be-
The matter really was What Google says? settlement was moved vasive influence of the lieve one of the ways in
triggered by the artistes Courtesy of Wikipedia in 1894 to its present There are those who storyteller and cascades which to catalyse posi-
who have been invit- Historically, Bula- location 3 miles (5 km) will, of course, raise the to the manner in which tive change is to have as
ed to perform at the wayo has been the prin- south and declared a point that Mzilikazi’s individuals are per- close and as factual an
upcoming Zimfest in cipal industrial centre of town. kingdom was predated ceived by others from understanding of social
the United Kingdom. Zimbabwe; its factories The brand by the Rozwi, under afar. phenomena as possible.
None is coming from produce cars and car The brand or percep- Changamire Dombo What I say
Bulawayo despite the and that any talk of re- It was Jesus Christ who That out of the way,
city’s billing as a cultur- vival of kingdoms must once posed a question my own objective and
al hub. As a result, the have a reference point subjective reflections
furore has been over
the status of the city’s
creatives; the matter
about their bankability
and ability to draw the
crowds.

A question has been
posed indeed about
whether it actually
makes business sense
for a promoter to go
through the financial
trouble of booking
a “Bulawayo” artiste
for shows overseas. I
propose that though
numbers do not lie in
the greater scheme of
business, numbers are
facts that can change. I
propose that regarding
the value of, and val-
ue propositions about
creatives, we must start
with the very notion of
how they are perceived
by the beholders. Let
us start with the begin-

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of the city of Bulawayo trate themselves before vin, Djembe Monks, Other literary lumi- it is a hackneyed nar- companies that are
are that it is a cosmo- tycoons who throw Asaph, Msizkay, Mzoe naries are the likes of rative. The city now headquartered in Ha-
politan, multi-cultural crumbs at people in 7, Vusa Mkhaya and NoViolet Bulawayo, needs a counter nar- rare but taking money
and multi-ethnic city. return for sycophantic Awakhiwe (based in and Sue Nyathi both rative highlighting the out of the community.
praise. Germany). Even Oski- award-winning con- innovative spirit of the That would be the ra-
The one city in the The art of the city do, Zwesta, Berita and temporary authors of sector and its resilience tionale.
country where all tribes When it comes to Bekezela who are based world-beating pedi- that has seen it contin-
and races are fully rep- the creative arts of in South Africa can gree. In showbiz, the ue to survive beyond It is not farfetched to
resented. It is our own the city, the quality also be appropriated in likes of Makho Ndlovu the gloom of the eco- suggest that the time
rainbow nation within is world beating. Let the reckoning of who is grace famous stages nomic downturn and has come for corpo-
a nation.  Brand Bu- me cite groups such as from Bulawayo or may and hobnob with Hol- absolute lack of fund- rates to stop reaping
lawayo, is a place of Nobuntu, a five-mem- constitute Brand Bula- lywood icons. ing. where they have not
more than just history ber all-female ensem- wayo. sown and start giv-
and mythical evocative ble which is one of the Iyasa has done its bit Only a few have ing back by ploughing
stories. It is the hub of very few artistic prop- The list goes on and in dance and music, benefitted from the back into the cultural
Matabeleland which erties that can claim when it comes to music also traversing interna- largesse of the patron- output of a community
some have referred to to have actually toured producers, the likes of tional stages. age of the regime, one that has since the days
as the south but which the world rather than Murphy Cubic are si- Negativity bias no perhaps more than all of August Musarurwa,
strictly speaking lies in merely attend a couple lently going platinum more others. She is on the Dorothy Masuku and
the south-western part of gigs organised and with their productions Now how does the im- record. The rest must the Cool Four been
of the country. attended by Zimbos in across the border. Per- age of weakness and fend for themselves churning out quali-
the Diaspora.  taining literature, the neediness manifest and without so much as ty that captures the
The people are warm, late Yvonne Vera blazed rear its ugly head time corporate support for world’s imagination.
loyal to their symbols The group Mokoom- a path of international and again? In whose in- their brands (and it is Parting shot
(Highlanders Football ba is also cited as a glory, winning a num- terests is it to push the not for a lack of talent “Stories matter. Many
Club, for example, is group from “here” al- ber of awards in her il- single story of poverty or artistic product. stories matter. Stories
a cherished one) and though strictly speak- lustrious writing career. and lack of ambition have been used to dis-
proud of their history. ing they are from Vic- and success? The “numbers do possess and to malign,
The people do not in toria Falls. Still, they I recall interviewing not lie” argument does but stories can also be
general bow easily to are culturally more her for a local weekly Unwittingly, even not always fly in their used to empower and
the god of mammon as closely identified with around 2001 during some of the Bulawayo case because numbers to humanise. Stories
I have seen others from Brand Bulawayo. But her tenure as director artistes are on the re- are produced by a col- can break the dignity
Bambazonke do. the music has spawned of the National Art cord for self-criticism lusion of many factors of a people, but sto-
the likes of Lovemore Gallery in Bulawayo. and listing the plethora such as historical prej- ries can also repair that
You may be tempted Majaivana, Sandra She was an elegant lady of problems that be- udice, the solution to broken dignity.”
to think that is a sign Ndebele, Otis Ngwabi, of towering intellect. devil the artistes from which can be as sim- - Chimamanda Ngozi
of their lack of ambi- Novuyo Seagirl, Cal_ The city birthed her the city. ple as affirmative ac- Adicihie
tion. No, they are not and she was proud of tion decisions at board
motivated, it seems, it with equal fervour. But I now think that level by some of these some socio-political frus-
by the desire to pros- trations.” Taking a glance
Young Zimbabwean writer at his thought-provoking
LIKHWA SITHOLE poised for literary award treatise, he questions hu-
manity with hard hitting
IT has been 24 months Anthea Ambursley, the will serve the phenome- Mthulisi Ndlovu. osity, specifically with rhetorical questions that
since the release of the founding president of the nal poet Mthulisi Ndlovu regards to the source of leave one contemplating.
masterpiece titled Ubun- awards, could not con- for the longest acclaimed of ubuntu in southern his inspiration, Ndlovu Refusing to meekly ac-
tu (The Raw Truth Un- tain her overwhelming poem Ubuntu (The Raw Africa,” remarked Am- emphasised that litera- cept society’s beliefs and
ravelled) was launched in excitement after perusing Truth Uuravelled) as the bursley on her Facebook ture is the greatest yet ideas, he questions on
the heart of the City of Ndlovu’s masterpiece. “I longest poetic assertion page.   silent revolution that he page 21 of his book: 
Kings. strongly believes will re-
When questioned store normalcy and make “What are we?
Mthulisi Ndlovu, oth- about his work of virtu- this world a better place Who are we?
erwise known as Khulu- for everyone.  Coming For whom are we for?
Gatsheni or KingKG, is from a mostly marginal- Where from?
living in a constant state ised community, he be- Where to?
of euphoria after having lieves that he is a humble With whom from
been shortlisted for the leader and is the mouth- where?”
Global Accolade. The piece through which oth- “These enquiries, if well
book has garnered respect erwise voiceless members answered, are enough to
and continues to entice of society find resonance. unravel the true meaning
acclaimed international Another way of putting it of humanity and self-val-
literary institutions. As is that he is the leader of ue,” Ndlovu asserts.  
the great literary icon the new school but gifted The sun is already shin-
William Shakespeare af- with the qualities of an ing for the lad as he is set
firms, “Some are born old soul.  to receive his debut hon-
great, some achieve great- orary literary award on 31
ness in life, and some have In that connection, July 2021 in the Africa’s
greatness thrust upon Ndlovu emphasised that, richest square mile, Sand-
them”. Ndlovu’s aptitude “Writing is a divine en- ton, in Johannesburg.
is echoed in Shakespeare’s counter which is also As a man thinketh so is
revered sentiments.  therapeutic in nature”. he and as he continues to
He added: “I write a lot think so he remains, Ndl-
Ndlovu, a Plumtree when I feel spiritually, ovu’s strides are the result
native, has finally prov- morally or sometimes of his optimism and de-
en beyond doubt that when I am experiencing termination to defy the
talent, hard work and odds as he now sets his
persistence are pivotal to sights on penetrating the
reaching greater heights European literary market.
after having his book
nominated to receive a
prestigious Global Af-
rican Authors Award.

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Poet: Sithembinkosi Ncube Poet: Aries Rage Poet: Curt Masango
Poem: The African Dream Poem: The Rabbit Hole Poem: Imposter

The African dream is a river It is_ Incongruent be the word
Like the Nile it cuts across deserts Soul consuming fire, Blindfolded by darkness
Through rises and lows cold like a glacier lake Confusion simmering
In search of the sea gnawing at your feeble self. Averse ahead behind
Ever trickling waters to eternity Nauseating slime_ gooey and icky In bold capital printed
It has no choice smells like a hagfish waiting IMPOSTER, IMPOSTER
But to fight on the traps of regret to bore into your dying flesh Who cherish life
The African dream is a beating drum poked by your demons, Who dishonour life
Thundering in the country side mocking and taunting your thoughts. Who earns in strife
Alongside the crowing cocks It is_ Who miff with a fife
Spreading the will of a people A never-ending bullying session, Who bleeds the knife
It is a promise of a destination not so far wedges to your tush, IMPOSTER, IMPOSTER
An observation against chains of bondage and barf in your food. Fanaticism for terrorism
The African dream is a breeze Schizophrenic moments. Evangelism for exorcism
Pushing Africa ashore Alzheimer’s_ you wish you had. The blood in the exocarp
Ruffling and soothing Total blackout_ is just a dream The gene that became the epicarp
It is both a struggle and a dance that never comes; The DNA of epical farce on the wall
Like a dog that has just got the scent Constant replays of nightmares IMPOSTER, IMPOSTER
It is both a sound and its echoes and repeated rides on the terror train. Trail guns, statutory bans
Rocking deep into the intricacies Closing your eyes is a free ticket to the boogie ill police, statuette policies
Blossom my people man’s concert. Hunched honcho on macho
Children of the hunters, herders and fishermen It is_ So be the poet and his poem
Blossom my people An obsessive lover’s grip IMPOSTER, IMPOSTER
Mothers of the human race, math and science holding you tight so you
Blossom my people don’t slip away. Light at the end of the tunnel? Poet: Homunculus
Our destination is no longer abroad but here. it’s just a spark of your fairytales Poem: Carry Me
going up in flames; Let’s face it!
Poet: Sydney Nyagato it feeds on your tortured soul Carry me my burdens,
Title: The Green-bereted Bandit just like vultures I’ve carried you enough times
feed on a wounded prey. Piggyback to and fro,
I’ve paid the dues for my crimes
Hell broke loose one gloomy day. Poet: Andy Kahari Bulls eye on my forehead,
It was a fateful fall in the 80s, Poets: Modern Gadgets I’ve failed to grow with the times
When the afro bandit descended, So carry me my burdens,
Green-bereted and all; Modern day gadgets all part of a budget. I’ll wither just fine.
Taking chances in an Afro Windsor castle, Ceremoniously revered by all
Rebuking the sleeping sentries, In worship of the widget. Title: Blue collar
Heckling some imaginary knights, Demanding devoted submission to all Poet: Homunculus
Marking gory puckers with indelible, violet ink, Willing to endlessly fidget.
Using some unique franking machine, Hypnotizing restless wrists blindly draining the Empty drawers
To make some 8th-day - creation of flame pocket. Full of silver spoons
tattoos. The pocket and love they restlessly strangle I count my days
The green-bereted bandit of Afro Windsor, Bringing chaos at midnight; Watching cows jump over the moon
The envy of every nobleman in the Royal En- With an undesirable love triangle. “Soon, “ they say twill be better...
glish family; Applauding a threesome; I still clean the jizz off the carpet
The prowess of which every Jivaro warrior Forbidden in this bed. Of some young boastful tycoon...
of Latin America might choke in the witching Where finger and mind perversion is all but Damn can’t you see?
slime, very bad. Subjecting finger perverts to cyber My path is riddled with cryptic runes
Not far from Gandavaroyi and the treacherous cults. Where they finger pokes buttons How can I sing when I don’t know your
thickets of Mwenezi.. And never nipple buttons. tune?
The green-bereted bandit who pulls up every All to dally and climax Instinct says to run away
stop, In cyber frenzy ecstasy. But society sees a toony loon
Wielding those blunt weapons, To let off drained pockets and strained rela- Weaving my future on its loom
Ready to decapitate every living soul deserv- tionships! How can I escape my dusky doom?
ing death in cold blood..

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WHEN England played Italy in Why it seems like everyone
the Euros 2020 soccer final on 11 hates the English abroad
July, the images went around the
world. English tourists are known for their thirst for alcohol.

Not just of the Italian team — police in 2015 when, returning shouted “f**k Greece,” though his but very rarely French, Italians, berfest? Northeastern Europeans tourist.”
who eventually won the game on from a vacation in Turkey, she got lawyer denied it, adding, “They Spanish or Portuguese. They don’t and Russians get drunk under the Another annoying thing about
penalties — and not just of the a little too merry, allegedly swig- love the country and are keen on seem to destroy themselves quite table.”
devastated England team. But of ging from her own bottle of vod- the ancient Greek culture.” so regularly.” the English? Brits in general don’t
the scenes at Wembley, in Lon- ka onboard and calling the pilot a Jenkins thinks the main issue is spend as much on their vacations.
don, where the game was being “basic bitch.” For London-based psychother- Jenkins, however, thinks the that Brits are more conspicuous. Not least because, since there are
held. apist Andy Cottom, much of the English get a bad rap for drunk- so many of them, they can com-
Former singer and reality TV problem boils down to drink. enness. English is the world’s lingua mand the best rates.
Some fans booed the Italian star Kerry Katona was  photo- franca, so thugs hurling drunken
national anthem; others broke graphed rolling around on the tar- “The English have a very un- “Everyone is perfectly capa- abuse in English are more likely to “Are we the most desirable
into the stadium. Some whiled mac at Gran Canaria airport, with healthy relationship with alco- ble of behaving disgracefully be recognised, he says. tourists? Obviously not, but a lot
away the hours before the match her trousers pulled down, in 2016 hol,” he says. — if you’re talking about public of that undesirability is a byprod-
by getting drunk, trashing Leices- — something she later blamed on drunkenness, I think go to Scan- What’s more, he claims, “the uct of success,” he says.
ter Square and, in the case of nerves from the flight interacting “For some reason, continental dinavia and you’d be surprised UK is the biggest market for
one apparently intoxicated fel- with alcohol consumption, plus Europeans have a better under- by what they manage to achieve. most destinations in Europe, and “If you’re the people bringing
low,  putting an ignited flare up “wanting to sunbathe” the mo- standing of what it can do. I’ve Have you ever hung out at Okto- if you’re the largest group, you’re the highest volumes into a desti-
their butt. ment she arrived. seen Germans similarly drunk, likely to be the most detested nation, you’re in the position to
control rates and terms. So tour-
The global outrage was pal- Two years later, she defended ists who don’t have that spending
pable — these England fans be- the  peculiarly English activity power are more desired than the
haved appallingly, thank goodness of airport drinking, early in the English.
Italy won. morning, when Ryanair — exas-
perated by the Brits’ drunken ear- “Destinations don’t say, ‘We
It’s an extreme version of the ly-morning antics — was calling want high volumes of people who
same story that plays out wher- for a ban on early opening hours pay cheap,’ -- they say, ‘We want
ever the English go en masse on for UK airport bars. people who pay rack rate’.”
vacation.
Even Harry Maguire, part of An industry’s silence
While the image of the “ugly the squeaky clean England soc- Finding people in En-
American” is known across the cer team, which has been highly glish-heavy holiday destinations
world, many countries, particu- praised for its new clean-cut im- who will talk about how the En-
larly in Europe, experience the age, with stars who give back to glish behave on holiday is diffi-
brunt of the “boozy Brit.” the community rather than flaunt cult.
their wealth, fell foul of the En- The mayor of Mykonos, where
The stereotypical English per- glish abroad curse in summer Harry Maguire had his brawl, de-
son abroad speaks English — 2020. clined to speak to CNN about the
slowly, loudly and deliberately English, while the government
— instead of learning the local Maguire was found guilty of of the Balearic islands, home to
language, searches out English aggravated assault, resisting arrest, hotspots like Magaluf and San
restaurants as they don’t trust and bribery attempts after a brawl Antonio in Ibiza, agreed to take
“foreign food,” and obliterates in Mykonos, allegedly sparked questions by email -- but then de-
themselves with booze by the af- when his sister was stabbed.
ternoon.
Greek police reportedly said he
By the evening, their boorish
behavior is on full display.

But are they really that bad?
Or do people just love to hate the
English?

Tom Jenkins — who’s keen to
specify that he’s Welsh — thinks
it’s a bit of both.

“There is a kind of myth of the
English tourist which is out there,
and means people have a fantasy
of the perfect tourist,” says the
CEO of the  European Tourism
Organisation (ETOA), the trade
body for inbound tourism to Eu-
rope.

“The perfect [fantasy] En-
glish tourist is probably a cross
between  Frederick Hervey, the
fourth earl of Bristol, and David
Niven in ‘Around the World in 80
Days.”

What [destinations] get never
matches up to that ideal.”

There’s no denying, though,
that the English do get in trouble
abroad.

Every summer, stories of bad
behavior — usually linked to
drinking, brawling and general
licentious antics — abound.

Magaluf, on the Spanish island
of Mallorca, is nicknamed “Shag-
aluf” thanks to the tendency of
young Brits to fly in for a week of
debauchery.

Things can get so bad there
that in 2018 the local authorities
had to  start a campaign begging
them not to get undressed or def-
ecate in public.

Meanwhile Benidorm, on
Spain’s Costa Blanca, is the heart
of another type of English tour-
ism.

The people who come here
tend to be a little older, but they’re
looking for a taste of home.
Hence the proliferation of bars
and restaurants offering fry-ups of
bacon, toast, egg, baked beans for
a traditional “full English” break-
fast — all day long. Oh, and good
old English beer.

Not even celebs are immune to
the werewolf-like transformation
that seems to occur to the English
abroad.

Supermodel Kate Moss was
escorted off an easyJet plane by

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clined to answer them. recover financially, several plac- “We haven’t really established inadequacies,” he says, of the peo- the English aren’t the only ones their unshaven pasty face drink-
The mayor of Benidorm did es are adopting Goyal’s attitude. an identity since the loss of em- ple frequenting all those English who cleave to home comforts ing [English] beer. We shouldn’t
“I find that now everyone loves pire. There’s confusion -- are we enclaves on the Costa de Sol. “So when abroad. And, in fact, he ar- get too lost in that generalization.”
not respond to a request for inter- English tourists because they are European, English, British, from many Spanish can speak perfect gues that “this is what drives the
view. Neither did the Ciudadanos desperate for money,” he says. the UK -- so we tend to follow a English but very few English can tourism industry forward.” For Cottom, going right back
Benidorm party, which has pre- very primitive concept of ‘split- speak Spanish. to England’s roots could change
viously criticized the overbearing One thing that the English ting’ [where we ‘split’ off parts of “The English were the found- tourists’ behavior.
English presence in the town. are renowned for while abroad is ourselves that are unbearable to “Unfortunately, they hide that ing fathers of the industry -- a
their “little Englanderness.” us, and imagine that others are embarrassment by being loud and network of clean, well-run hotels “The history I was taught and
Perhaps criticising the English displaying them]. obnoxious and drinking them- throughout Europe was estab- that Mr Johnson [the UK prime
at a time when destinations are The same urge that makes selves into oblivion. lished thanks to them,” he says. minister] talks about was all about
desperate to recover from the eco- them sit down for good old En- “We can’t recognize our flaws British victories. He likes to pre-
nomic carnage of the pandemic is glish fry-ups instead of trying the as easily as we should. The idea “But the general hatred of ‘the “Then, after World War II, the tend he’s Churchill and Nelson,
a no-go. But hotelier Ajay Goyal, local delicacies also, says Jenkins, [propagated during the empire] foreigner’ goes back to how we Americans insisted they should be he’ll be doing a Wellington im-
founder of Zening Resorts in Cy- makes many of them adopt a kind that we were supposed to be a accept our own internal flaws,” he equipped with bathrooms. pression next.
prus, tells CNN that the English of uniform while they’re on holi- ‘superior race’ is embarrassing, says, comparing it to people who
“are hated a lot, even in countries day. and that brings us shame, which crash into the back of the car in “From the Japanese we started “How many British people
where there wouldn’t be any econ- brings bad behavior. front of them -- and call them an to understand that the interest know about the French victories
omy without them.” “I remember being in Orlan- idiot for stopping too quickly. of the customer has to sit center in the Hundred Years War? We
do in late September, when some “When an individual can’t ac- stage -- in America, the customer only know about Crécy, Poitiers
He puts it down to several families will take their kids out of cept their flaws, they defend quite Of course, hatred of “the for- is king, but in Japan, they are god. and Agincourt.
factors: “Loutish drunken behav- school to access low-season rates,” viciously against that. And the eigner” cuts both ways -- as do
ior by young tourists; [the idea he says. behavior we see with hooligan- preconceptions. The England “So the influence of people “We don’t know much Ger-
that] ‘You were barbarians before ism is almost giving themselves soccer fans were reviled around coming in and demanding home man history either -- we know
we civilized you but you are un- “You’d see entire families wear- permission to be an animal,” says the world for booing the Italian comforts is quite profound on the about two World Wars, and con-
changed,” by many older people; ing England football strips to go Cottom. national anthem -- but Italian industry.” stantly go on about them every
and an overbearing superiority off to the Orlando attractions, in fans had booed the Spanish na- time we play them [in soccer].”
complex.” uniform. “Putting on an England shirt tional anthem in the Italy-Spain Although he is quick to de-
seems to be a kind of protection, semi-final just days before. plore the football hooliganism Learning other languages in
He says that older English “There’s a real misplacement of or uniform, that says ‘I’m allowed and the racism which has been schools would also “help enor-
tourists have a nasty habit of “tell- pride, and it’s also very self-defen- to be a hooligan, to get drunk, be- In the same way, Cottom talks on ugly display since England’s mously”, says Cottom, referring
ing people what civility is -- obvi- sive. It’s not a particularly attrac- cause I can’t really look in the mir- of attending a soccer match in defeat, Jenkins thinks that general to the “arrogance that, ‘Of course
ously when not drunk.” tive phenomenon.” ror and accept that I’m a drunken Barcelona, where “there was a lot English abroad behavior is differ- everyone speaks English’.”
violent, frequently racist and xe- of aggression aimed at [English] ent. And he insists that the peo-
Even more infuriatingly for Psychotherapist Andy Cottom nophobic person.. Chelsea fans -- it was incredibly ple who are most offended by the And going back to what travel
destinations, the English “have says that this English pride stems overpoliced, with policemen hit- boorish English abroad are their is really about could also help the
less money than the Germans, from something deeply unpleas- “Rather than accept I have dif- ting fans with batons and setting fellow English. English clean up their game.
Russians and Chinese, and always ant. ficulty accepting others, I lash out dogs on them. There was a preju-
use cards instead of cash unlike and use any receptacle to project dice there, and they were obvious- “Coming across your com- “The whole purpose of travel-
those above,” says Goyal. “There’s this island mentality the bad parts of myself into.” ly taking it out on England fans.” patriots abroad is like hearing a ing is to broaden the mind,” says
that we seem to be very proud of recording of your own voice -- a Cottom.
However, he says, they do have -- we’re only a little nation yet we When the English are abroad, And he says we all like to ste- deeply disturbing phenomenon.
redeeming features. had a huge empire,” he says. that “receptacle” can too easily be- reotype -- in the same way that So the people who are most of- “The purpose of going abroad
come “foreign people.” Especially, we all think of Americans as loud, fended by English tourists tend to and not talking to a foreigner
“They tend to be the most “This goes back to our is- says Cottom, when we feel em- and how New Yorkers refer to the be English tourists, and I think it’s rather defeats the object. I believe
friendly, humorous and charming sues about shame. We’re deeply barrassed that we don’t speak the “bridge and tunnel” crowd that wrong to exaggerate,” he says. you travel to meet foreigners, un-
-- and in my experience, they are ashamed of not being who we local language. comes into the city at weekends. derstand them and get rid of your
also the least racist of the Europe- used to be.” “Not everyone looks like an prejudice.”
ans.” “It’s a defense against their own Jenkins, meanwhile, says that overweight person without a shirt
Yes -- unconsciously, he thinks, on, with a red cross smeared over On that count, it’s not only the
And as destinations struggle to the English are ashamed that they English who could take his ad-
don’t have their empire anymore. vice. — CNN.

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Zdravko Logarušić. Lalchand Rajput.

BOTH men come from Lal & Loga, Siamese twins mat, when Zimbabwe lost
countries whose names walking a tightrope in Zim 2-1 in Pakistan late 2020,
are synonymous with the Rajput was not there after
sports they coach – foot- this blog when I felt, at cifically for that purpose the heat on him yet. We – who reportedly earns a he was barred from travel-
ball and cricket – arguably the time, that he was be- make decisions based on a laughed, but it was not handsome salary and perks ing by the Indian govern-
the two biggest team codes ing subjected to unfair variety of factors. funny. Under Rajput’s – will be allowed to take ment.
in the world.    criticism. But the decisions ought stewardship, the skill, in- the team to the peripheries
to make sense, of world cricket.   Nonetheless, his disas-
Zdravko Logarušić ar- I still do hope that Loga should they not? trous record in previous
rived in Zimbabwe in can surprise us. Surprise And even if the At this rate, it is ex- ODI series – never mind
January 2020 to become us he may.  people at Zifa felt HawkZone tremely hard to see Zim- the other two formats –
the under-achieving Afri- that Antipas or babwe making a quick cannot be camouflaged. 
can team’s football coach, But you cannot say that any other coach return to the World Cup,
18 months after his own those early skeptics who was not what they Enock following the disaster of Under Rajput, Zimba-
country, Croatia, had be- questioned Loga’s ap- were looking for, 2018 which led to Ra- bwe have never tasted an
come the smallest nation- pointment 19 months ago their gut instinct Muchinjo jput’s appointment amidst ODI win against a team –
al since 1950 to reach the do not have good reason.  and wisdom, sure- the wreckage of disap- in 14 matches – that is not
World Cup final. ly, would have told pointment and blame. lowly United Arab Emir-
I have shared this here them that Loga- ates. It is a pathetic record
While the Croat’s curric- before and, I repeat, Zifa’s rušić was not Vincente tensity and game-level of Rajput’s mentally dis- that anyone else, includ-
ulum vitae was questioned decision not to offer the Del Bosque. our team have continued integrated team has just ing Rajput’s most recent
by the more meticulous Warriors job to Joey Anti- We had a hearty chuckle to plunge. The players are been meekly whitewashed international employers,
Zimbabwean football pas, a talented local coach, last week when a colleague also to blame, the senior 3-0 by Bangladesh in an Afghanistan, would not
fans amongst us, you felt was a total shocker. in the Press box suggested ones in particular, but Ra- ODI series that forms part stand.   
that benefit of doubt was that Zimbabwe’s crick- jput and his inept coach- of the ICC Cricket World
generally given to Loga at What more did our et coach, Lalchand Ra- ing staff do not offer any Super League. The Super Even Netherlands and
first, given his background federation need from an jput, must be personally direction and hope. League is serving as part of Ireland have completed
of hailing from a small interim coach who had shocked that after his ap- Stephen Mangongo the 2023 World Cup qual- emphatic series white-
European nation that con- collected four points from palling record in charge so and Dav Whatmore were ification process. washes on Rajput’s watch. 
tinually punches above the first two Africa Cup of far – presiding over a team sacked with their staff de- If this does not activate
its weight in the world’s Nations qualifiers, includ- that has made losing part spite having records far It is the first time that visiting performance con-
number one sport. ing a famous away win to of its culture – us guys in better than Rajput’s. One Rajput has been in charge tract clauses, we may as
old nemesis Zambia? the media have not turned wonders how long Rajput of Zimbabwe under the well prepare ourselves for
It was a generous newly-introduced Super more misery as Lal and his
amount of goodwill that Of course, deci- League. The first time the boys head to Ireland next.
was thrown in the direc- sion-making is not a free- team played under the for-
tion of a man who prob- for-all process. Leaders, Meanwhile, Lal’s fel-
ably deserved deeper scru- who are put there spe- low underfire expat across
tiny.  suburban Harare – Loga
– will have some breath-
I’m not one to kick a ing space, at least for now,
man who is down, and I until his own World Cup
confess to have once de- qualification bid begins in
fended Loga’s record on September. 

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out to KhupeTHEY turned up on the day in an unfamiliar red strip, but that
was the only similarity with another Zimbabwe national team
that traditionally dons the same colours and often disappoints. 
Yes, that one that was being routinely pummelled on the
same day in another international match, two northern Harare
neighbourhoods away. 
Zimbabwe’s rugby team on Thursday shrugged off any re-
Unofficial president calls for emergelation with their beleaguered cricket counterparts, hammering
minnows Burkina Faso 95-5 at Old Georgians in the second
of two Rugby World Cup qualifiers between the two first-time
opponents.
With both teams progressing automatically to next year’s fi-
nal phase of qualifiers, what an opportunity it was for Zimba-
bwe’s head coach Brendan Dawson – over a rare two-match Test
series – to continue working on combinations ahead of next
year’s business end of the World Cup quest. 
Before Thursday, the Sables had walloped the Burkinabe 103-
3 in the first Test last Sunday, leaving Dawson and his technical
staff searching for takeaways outside the results.
“Look, obviously any game time is good time,” Dawson said.
Rower Peter Purcell-Gilpin (left) and swimmer Donata Katai were Zimbabwe’s joint flag-bearers at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olym- “The opposition wasn’t great but, on our part, we managed to
pics Games on Friday. 17-year-old Katai, the first black Zimbabwean swimmer to represent the African country at the Olympics, will make play to our structure. Guys struck to our structure, even if the
her debut on Sunday in her only event, the 100m backstroke. Male swimmer Peter Wetzlar is the other swimmer in the Zimbabwe team, which opposition was disjointed. We did it for ourselves and stuck to
also has golfer Scott Vincent and sprinter Ngoni Makusha. our game plan. I felt sorry for them (Burkina Faso). But it’s for

us, it’s good to be able to do what we wanted to do, so we’re
very happy.”
Zim in rare win to Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that the Sables will play

Côte d’Ivoire in a quarter-final tie of the World Cup qualifiers
next year.

If they progress past this tricky tie against the unpredictable
West Africans, Zimbabwe will likely play in the semis against
old nemesis Namibia, who will have the easiest of tasks in the
level T20 series last-eight against Burkina Faso.

Kenya, who are leaving no stone unturned in their bid to
qualify for their first World Cup, are favourites to set up a
blockbuster final between either Namibia or Zimbabwe for Af-
rica’s sole qualification slot to France 2023. 

ENOCK MUCHINJO batter Ryan Burl was Zimbabwe’s sec- Left-arm spinner Wellington Masakad-
at Harare Sports Club ond-highest scorer with an unbeaten 34. za took a career-best 3-20 for Zimbabwe
Shoriful Islam took 3-33 for Bangla- while seaming all-rounder Luke Jongwe
OPENING batsman Wessly Madhereve desh with his left-arm seam bowling. also grabbed three wickets.
and the bowlers starred for Zimbabwe as In response, Zimbabwe’s pace spear- Bangladesh were eventually bowled out
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ries 1-1 ahead of the decider on Sunday.
score, removing Bangladesh openers Mo- bwe were well set for victory.
Zimbabwe totalled 166-6 in their 20 hammad Naim for five and Soumya Sark- It is the first time that Bangladesh has
overs, riding on man-of-the-match Mad- ar (8) early. lost a match on tour of the southern Af-
hevere’s measured innings that later took Wickets then fell regularly, with Afif rican country. The Tigers defeated Zim-
an attacking dimension. The 20-year-old Hossain (24) and Shamim Hossain (29) babwe by 220 in the one-off Test before
right-hander faced 57 balls and hit five the only other ones to put up some sort completing a 3-0 whitewash in the one-
fours and three sixes on his way to his of resistance. day series.
highest T20I score of 73. Number six Zimbabwe’s head coach Brendan Dawson.

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