Grace Mugabe Ex Husband Stanley Goreraza Clash With Mugabe?
Who is Stanley Goreraza? What does he do? Was Grace Snatched from Him By President Mugabe? What Happened?
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He is Everything you need to Know about Stanley Goreraza
Goreraza was formerly married to Grace Marufu, then secretary to and now the wife of Robert Mugabe.
Stanley Goreraza is an officer in the Air Force of Zimbabwe and the current defence attaché at the Zimbabwean embassy in China.
Goreraza and Grace have one child, a son, Russell Goreraza, who now manages his mother's extensive farm property, Gushungo Dairy Estate
In 2006, Goreraza was honoured for his long service in the Air Force of Zimbabwe, receiving a bar to his long and exemplary service medal
In year 2010 Stanly Goreraza did not attend his sons wedding to keep a low profile, However President Mugabe attended the wedding and gave a wedding gift of 20,000usd and Grace Mgabe gave a gift of 20 cows.
In September 2017 Stanley Goreraza is alleged to have blasted Grace Mugabe for attacking a South African Woman, Grabriella Engels and Said Grace Deserved hell.
He went on to Blast The Zimbabwe Education System saying it produces poor people only.
Goreraza is friend with a lot of Big Names in Zimbabwe, The Likes of Tendai Biti, Morgan Tsvangirai, Alex Magaisa, etc on Facebook.
Stanley Goreras facebook account is rumoured to be a probably fake ghost account whose real owner might not be the real Goreraza considering that Goreraza is still a Govenment Employee and Mugabe Is his Boss
In year 2001 Goreraza was hospitalized in China and he was visited while in hospital by Robert and Grace Mugabe, This Suggests that they maybe in good books after all.
In year 2015 Stanley Goreraza Divoced again, this time his second wife Tamara. Now we have a record that he divorces wives so can we say Mugabe Snatched grace from him?
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Evan Mawarire's this flag is a hit and members of both the ruling party and other failed oppositions are on a nonstop race of dissing and trying to discredit Mawarire.Others call Mawarire's Successful protest a coincident with the Teachers and Nurses strikes.Some founding members of the MDC in Harare say they were surprised to see so many professionals and even some civil servants openly supporting Mawarire.
Evans Mawarire
Some Haters are saying Business owners where threatened not to open their businesses so Malwares protest could become successful.Mawarire himself was arrested and freed after charges were withdrawn. But as one small businessman or vendor said this week: “None of us can afford to stay home for another day. We need every cent we can get.”
Themba Mliswa, once a loyal Zanu-PF executive and former MP, who now runs the increasingly popular youth movement YARD, said the stayaway and Mawarire deserved support and congratulations. But he questioned how this new opposition force could be sustained until the elections in 2018.
“Unfortunately the people who responded to the stayaway were largely urban and 72 percent of voters come from the rural areas, which are Zanu-PF strongholds, maintained through fear and violence.”
Mliswa said people in the rural areas were so poor they didn’t have smartphones: “They can’t afford data bundles, and they don’t know there was a stayaway run by Pastor Mawarire.”
Unemployment woes seen to have crippled our country. Students have lost motivation in knowing that there are no jobs for them after they finish their degree programs. Students have left school entirely for small deals that may make it seem to them that they no longer need to finish their degrees and schooling's.
Everyday the message of innovation, self employment and job creation is intensively preached. Its shocking that the monies set aside for the nations development and employment creation always goes to the same peoples year by year. These people no longer use the funds for purpose of employment creation and profit generation. The money was being abused with zero investments made.The ordinary citizen who has no connection whatsoever is suffering.
I am appealing to the government or the responsible authorities to look into all this economic havoc's. I personally think that all the money that Zimbabwe gets from donors, or any other avenues like loans and business deals should be distributed among Unemployed Zimbabwes so they can enjoy what will be called the national debt in the future. This national debt will be pain by the ordinary mans Tax.
Zimbabwe has an external debt of 8 Billion Dollars, Imagine if all that money was not used for what is being it was used for. If all that money was distributed equally to each and every Zimbabwean, HOW MUCH WOULD EVERY ZIMBABWEAN GET?
Lets do the math
$8,000,000,000,000us divided by the Zimbabwe Population of $14,000,000,00us, Every Zimbabwean, i mean every from Kids to our Elderly. Every Zimbabwean would get $570,000,00us. Imagine what every Zimbabwe would do with their share?
The easiest would be to buy Public Stocks and earn 57,000,00us per month for their lifetime, In less than a year the money would have doubled to over a million. Communities would build their own self sustaining power plants thereby creating employment for their own children. or individually buy windmills for electricity, etc.
So would it pain ZImbabwe if we give our school leavers a 10,000,00us loan each?
Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda has told legislators that do not take Parliament business seriously to resign from their seats. He said he will issue a statement next week outlining measures to be taken against those that continue to absent themselves from the House’s business. Advocate Mudenda said this during a pre-budget briefing in Harare today.
CDE Mudenda
“On Tuesday (next week) I am going to make a statement on attendance in the House,” he said. “We have to take parliamentary business seriously because of the mandate we have from the electorate. So, if there is going to be a pinch or a bite do not cry. “If you have so many things to do, please resign from your Parliament seat.”
On Thursday last week the National Assembly had to adjourn early after the number of legislators present failed to reach a quorum. At least 70 MPs should be present at any given time to make up the quorum. The adjournment happened during debate on the General Laws Amendment Bill presented by Vice President and Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa.
The Bill was at the committee stage and the debate was only concluded on Tuesday this week. On Wednesday, debate had to be stopped briefly after the legislators present were below the quorum. Last year, Advocate Mudenda warned parliamentarians that were in the habit of attending Parliament briefly for the purposes of having their names registered and leave to do their personal businesses.
Parliamentarians are supposed to give a notice if they are not available for business, while those who absent themselves without leave from the Speaker for 21 consecutive days risk losing their seats.
Chipinge is reported to have becomes the First District In Zimbabwe to open its own University without any form Of assistance from the government.
The name of the University is in rememberance of the Gaza State established by the late Ngungunyane (Soshangane most trusted induna ) along the South Eastern Border and Save Valley in the 1860s . Gazaland University set to begin enrolling early January 2016 .
Officials have reported that this follows deliberate failure by Mugabe gvt to construct a single University in Manicaland Province yet Manicaland has the highest number of Professors and Doctors in the country . "Since 1980 Manicaland Province has been ignored by Mugabe . In fact as am writing here Manicaland is the biggest Province and the most richest Province with 25 % of World Diamonds but it only has one Teacher's College (Mutare Teachers College ) and has no State University except the one private and most expensive Africa University in the country Mugabe deliberately ignored Manicaland , Chipinge in particular , because we were the only People who refused a one Party State soon after the Unity accord in 1987," reads the statement posted on Facebook.
"In fact we threatened to Join Mozambique. We told Mugabe right in his face that we don't owe him anything and to us , he did not liberate us. All the other Districts in the country endorsed his idea of one Party state but we refused."
Authorities said even in Parliament Ndabaning Sithole told Mugabe that he will not endorse a One Party state and told Mugabe that if he goes ahead with the Plan to erase Political parties then the Ndau people will be left with no choice but to go back to their original country (Mozambique ).
"let facts be known by everybody that Chipinge and Chimanimani are not Zimbabwean Districts and no wonder why there is no Boundary between the two places ," reads the statement.
"The only Boundary between Zimbabwe and Mozambique is through Mutare . Our Ndau people actually have families in both Zimbabwe side and Mozambican side and nobody dares put a Boundary between the two countries."
Fidelis Munyoro and Samantha Chigogo Opposition MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday admitted he was in discussions with expelled former Vice President Dr Joice Mujuru for a possibility of working together in a bid to dislodge President Mugabe and Zanu-PF from power in 2018.
Working with the opposition to undermine Zanu-PF was one of the charges Dr Mujuru faced as she was fired from Zanu-PF and Government.
However, Mr Tsvangirai said they had not reached a point of negotiating for a coalition given that Dr Mujuru was still to form a political party. “How is it a coalition when the people involved have not even discussed the issue . . . discussions about discussions are not coalitions, any coalition is based on institutional relations not individuals,” said Mr Tsvangirai in an interview with ZiFM last night.
“Mai Mujuru has not launched a party. You can’t talk of a coalition of Mujuru and Tsvangirai when she has no party.”
Mr Tsvangirai did not rule out the coalition with Dr Mujuru saying: “It is not cast in stone. We are open to discussion. We are open to converse about what are the possibilities for the country . . .”
On whether he was ready to deputise Dr Mujuru in the event of an opposition coalition winning the election, Mr Tsvangirai was evasive, pointing to a potential leadership tussle should westerners who are believed to be trying to get Tsvangirai and Mujuru together have their way.
He said coalition partners would have the mandate to decide who among them should be the leader of the country.
Turning to the presidential term limits, Mr Tsvangirai said he was not prepared to stand down as long as his supporters showed confidence by retaining him.
Mr Tsvangirai has been at the helm of the MDC-T for 16 years now after tinkering with his party’s constitution. The party holds congresses every five years to choose their leadership and Mr Tsvangirai has always manipulated his way to stay in power.
“I can’t stand up there and say because some people feel that I have stayed long when my own congress feel they have confidence in me,” he said. “It flies in the face of democratic principles of subjecting yourself to the voice of the people.”
This resulted in some listeners slamming Mr Tsvangirai that if he could not run his party democratically, how would people expect him to run the country democratically.
Mr Tsvangirai in the interview also denied links with the US saying his party had roots in Zimbabwe.
But there was time when Mr Tsvangirai was forced to participate in the elections by the US government, arguing that would he expect to rule the country if he boycotted elections. In what appeared to be confirmation of the US’ growing displeasure at Mr Tsvangirai’s leadership style, Mr Gregory Simpkins, a director in the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organisations, said local opposition parties could not criticise a system that they were not part of.
Mr Tsvangirai had vowed his party would not participate in any polls without electoral reforms amid reports that the former trade unionists had fallen out of favour with most of his party Western funders.
“Often times we have heard the opposition saying it is tough to compete, they have to find a way of being effective rather than just saying it is too tough to compete so we are not going to take part. If you do not take part in an election process, how can you criticise something that you did not even test?” Mr Simpkins queried
At the time Mr Simpkins made the remarks, he was in the country as part of a two-man US Congress delegation on an investigatory mission to find ways of mending relations between Harare and Washington
Tsvangirai was battling to ward off criticism of his decision with accusation he literally donated 16 parliamentary seats to Zanu-PF in June by-elections triggered by his recall of “rebels MPs”
HARARE – Pressure is mounting on the Ministry of Energy and Power Development to probe alleged irregularities in the ZESA Holdings tender for prepaid electricity tokens amid claims the system used by its unit, Powertel, is failing to cope with demand.
Powertel (Pic by TechnoMag)
Powertel was appointed by the ministry as the sole aggregator for the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company’s prepaid electricity tokens, but the arrangement is failing to adequately address the needs of consumers.
Long queues in ZETDC banking halls and other appointed private vendors are often the order of the day while more inconveniences for users of electricity stem from the fact that purchase of the tokens is restricted to working or business hours. The system is often times off-line at selected retail outlets while consumers are set to suffer more inconvenience when maintenance work is done.
Yesterday ZESA put out a notice that there would be an interruption of the prepayment vending system from today at 1000hrs to 1000hrs tomorrow in order to carry out maintenance work.
As such, fears abound that delays in the implementation of an efficient prepaid electricity vending model could create risks that might jeopardise revenue collection for ZETDC which desperately needs the funds to provide a key commodity.
IT experts have questioned the logic of having a single aggregator for prepaid electricity at a time the Powertel system is failing to cope with customer demands while creating a crisis in terms of access to power each time the system goes down.
“We believe that some of the impending risks faced by ZETDC include, but are not limited to bypassing electricity meters leading to revenue leakage . . . and customers continually seeking loopholes to exploit.
“In that regard, it is rather shortsighted of ZETDC to continue installing prepaid meters without implementing corresponding related projects to ensure demand for prepaid electricity tokens is addressed,” said a source that requested anonymity.
A snap survey revealed that the OK Supermarkets system was down for the better part of the weekend, while Athienitis Spar (Fife Avenue) was offline.
Powertel does not have a wide distribution network and its sales are restricted to business hours. ZESA, on the other hand, recently stopped selling electricity tokens during the weekend. This together with constant technical faults deprives customers of electricity.
Other sources said because experts spent time and resources on solutions and preparations for implementing alternative vending models, frustrating them through the Powertel monopoly could worsen the wave of brain drain in the country.
Bidders participated in earlier tenders to become aggregators but the tender was cancelled under unclear circumstances until Powertel was appointed by the ministry of Energy and Power Development as the sole aggregator.
The Ministry of Energy and Power Development is on record as insisting that Government had made Powertel the sole authorised aggregator for the prepaid electricity tokens with mostly its institutions allowed to be engaged as vendors. The Herald
President Mugabe's popularity continues to grow
President Robert Mugabe’s popularity continues to grow at continental level where his Pan-Africanist stance has earned him respect and adoration.
The welcome and reception that the African Union (AU) and SADC Chairman received on his recent visit to Mali is a clear demonstration that he indeed is a revered and iconic statesman in Africa.
The signing ceremony for the Mali Peace and Reconciliation Agreement was attended by various heads of state and government from the West African region, as well as senior United Nations (AU), AU and ECOWAS officials.
From the moment President Mugabe set foot on the West African nation, his Malian counterpart, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was on hand to give the AU Chairman a befitting welcome.
Members of the Malian cabinet also turned out in full force at Senou International Airport where various traditional groups performed.
While the presence of leaders like President Mugabe’s predecessor at the AU, the President of Mauritania Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana, President Allasane Quattara of Cote d’Ivoire, President Alpha Conde of Guinea Conakry, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan and former Burundi president Pierre Buyoya, among others at the signing ceremony was acknowledged, it was President Mugabe who stole the limelight.
After a passionate speech encouraging Africa to be united and to cherish and emulate the values of peace and unity as espoused by Africa’s founding fathers, Cde Mugabe capped the night’s proceedings with a powerful message that saw the delegates including representatives of the armed groups giving the statesman a standing ovation.
When Mali’s President Mohamed Keita paid a courtesy call on President Mugabe, the elated leader acknowledged that indeed Cde Mugabe is an iconic statesman.
A recent survey conducted by a South African-based group called Afrobarometer and titled ‘Public Perceptions on Corruption,’ revealed that 63% of Zimbabweans who participated in the survey gave President Mugabe the thumbs up.
Even on his recent state visit to South Africa, President Mugabe mesmerised even the usually hostile media in that country. ZBC
Innocent Ruwende Senior Reporter
Government has hiked Ordinary Level examination fees with immediate effect from $13 to $15 per subject. In a move likely to bring reprieve to parents and guardians, Government also approved that candidates in both examination and non-examination classes be allowed to do part payment of their fees.
Government has, however, not adjusted examination fees for all Advanced Level subjects that have remained at $26 per subject.
Addressing journalists in Harare yesterday, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora, said Cabinet’s decision, which came after ‘a thorough process of consideration,’ would enable the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) to put in place a watertight examination security system.
Government last set examination fees in 2013 and there was a two year moratorium.
Practical subjects and oral subjects fees have also been increased to $15 from $13.
“This Cabinet decision on the examination fees always comes after a thorough process of consideration. I am happy to state that it was a necessary process, which led to a decision with a balance on affordability and the need to secure system credibility.
“At Ordinary Level, there is a modest rise in examination fees. This upward review of Ordinary Level examination fees comes on the back of two years of a moratorium when the fees remained pegged at $13 per subject. The years concerned were 2013 and 2014,” he said.
Minister Dokora said Government policy had been always to make education accessible to all and it was in that regard that Cabinet approved the principle of allowing candidates from both examination and non-examination classes to do part payment towards their examination fees. He said this would be done at specified rates per subject, while spreading payments until they were fully paid up by the beginning of the second term of every examination year.
Minister Dokora said that Cabinet also approved a contribution by parents towards the cost of Grade Seven examinations and modalities were being worked out on how this could be achieved.
“While examination costs are unavoidable, the desire is that Zimsec maintains (fees) within manageable limits so that the disadvantaged of our society are not unduly penalised. Our system of education is one of the best in the world.
“Our qualifications are internationally recognised and Zimbabweans enrol at institutions of higher learning with the greatest ease. Unfortunately, the excellence of our system has attracted the attention of criminals who seek to reap where they did not sow,” he said.
Dr Dokora said many have sought to fraudulently obtain the O-Level Certificate and people were prepared to pay huge amounts to obtain knowledge of the content of question papers and unduly increase their chances of passing.
He said school heads, particularly the acting ones have leaked question papers to prospective candidates or in some way given them undue assistance.
THE name Oscar Munyoro might not ring a bell in the minds of many, but the 119-year old man yesterday stole the show at Kutama Mission when he met President Mugabe, one of his students at Murombedzi School in 1931.
The two met on the sidelines of Kutama Mission Centenary Celebrations.
Presdent Mugabe greets his former teacher, Mr Oscar Munyoro, during celebrations to mark Kutama Mission’s centenary in Zvimba yesterday.
Proceedings came to a standstill as President Mugabe took time to chat with his former teacher, reliving memories of the good old days.
Perched in his wheelchair and neatly dressed in a black striped suit, Mr Munyoro could hardly recognise the President.
“Ko VaMugabe vacho ndevapi?” he asked while holding the President’s hand.
President Mugabe cheerfully responded: “VaMugabe ndivo vano vamuri kutaura navo.”
With a wide smile on his face, Mr Munyoro could not hide his joy as he thanked God for giving him a long life to see one of his students excelling to become the Head of State and Government.
Mr Munyoro described President Mugabe and the late Cde James Chikerema as brilliant students.
“He was very intelligent together with (James) Chikerema,” he said. “He was committed to his studies and it was clear from the beginning that he was destined for greater things in life.”
From Murombedzi School, President Mugabe enrolled at Kutama Mission, which has to date produced several icons and luminaries in Zimbabwe.
Most of the students who passed through Kutama Mission are now leaders in various disciplines.
One of the students, Cde Walter Chidhakwa, who is now the Mines and Mining Development Minister said Kutama Mission was the foundation of his intellectual ex- ploits. Herald
Haters give Magaya Hardtimes, again!!!?? HIS CAR CONFISTICATED
Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter
Prophetic Healing Deliverance Ministries leader Prophet Walter Magaya’s wife Tendai, lost her vehicle, a Landrover Discovery valued at $116 000 after it was seized by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority on allegations of evading duty.
The vehicle had been given to Magaya’s wife as a gift by Admire Mango who is a senior overseer at PHD Ministries for Chitungwiza area.
Mango bought the car through a local car dealer, Upenyu Prosper Mashangwa (35), the managing director of Oceane Perfumes.
Mashangwa allegedly evaded duty by manufacturing fake documents for the vehicle despite being paid the entire amount required to import the car from South Africa. Mashangwa today appeared in court before magistrate Mr Tendai Mahwe charged with fraud.
SOUTH AFRICA – An estimated 400 bodies of dead Zimbabweans are repatriated into the country every month from South Africa, with most of the deaths being a result of murder, the Financial Gazette can report.
Horror stories are told of Zimbabweans dying in gruesome deaths in neighbouring South Africa, a situation government said was a cause for concern.
Although Zimbabweans also die in many parts of the Diaspora, their deaths south of the Limpopo River are way more than in other countries.
Last month, a Zimbabwean woman from Bikita was shot and killed after being caught in a crossfire as armed robbers led a heist at a Standard Bank branch in Musina.
Deaths by knife stabbings and shootings are routinely reported, particularly of Zimbabweans staying in South African townships.
In March last year, 23 Zimbabweans died at a disused South African mine after inhaling high levels of carbon monoxide underground.
HIV-related deaths are also quite common as are suicides (jumping off high rise buildings), shootings and other causes.
There are also a few murders by burning, particularly in xenophobic inflamed incidences.
Although the Zimbabwean government could not provide an overall figure of repatriated bodies, sources said Beitbridge, which is the largest border into Zimbabwe from South Africa, processed the repatriation of 100 bodies a week, which translates to 400 a month.
Funeral parlours across the country confirmed handling the repatriation and burials of about 400 Zimbabweans who are dying in South Africa every month.
Kings and Queens funeral parlour, headquartered in Bulawayo, said they were handling the repatriation of at least 120 bodies monthly, at an average of 30 bodies per week through the Beitbridge border post.
Reuben Phiri, chief executive of Kings and Queens, said the bulk of its clientele were Zimbabweans, although they now provided services to Mozambican and Nigerian nationals.
“The bulk of the corpses which we handle according to distribution; nearly 70 percent are going to the Mashonaland provinces, while the rest are destined for the Matabeleland provinces,” said Phiri.
Auxillia Dzenga, the public relations and marketing manager at Moonlight Funeral Services head office in Harare said most of the repatriations they handled were from South Africa, with murder topping the list for the cause of death.
“I would say on a weekly basis we receive an average of five bodies and monthly about plus or minus 20 cases. The causes may vary, but the biggest number is murder,” Dzenga said in an e-mailed response to questions.
Francis Mabika, the assistant regional immigration officer, said official statistics of corpses being repatriated into the country were tabulated by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA). The Financial Gazette was, however, unable to verify the figures with ZIMRA at the time of going to press.
But Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi admitted that violence and instability in South Africa was a cause for concern, as many Zimbabweans were being killed in the neighbouring country.
“It’s just not Zimbabweans only who are being killed, but many other nationalities as well,” said Mohadi. The Home Affairs Ministry, Mohadi said, did not have any records of the deaths.
“I don’t have numbers of the repatriations we receive in the country, but as you well know that the incidents of crime are too high in South Africa. In South Africa when it comes to things like these (crime and violence) they are common place…and are always high, but we unfortunately do not have documented figures,” he said.
It is estimated that between two to three million Zimbabweans live in South Africa. It costs anything between R10 000 (US$857) and R23 000 (US$1 973) to repatriate a corpse back to the country from South Africa.
Hard pressed relatives of the deceased loved ones normally choose the cheapest option to cut down on costs.
The US$857 package which includes a coffin and basic transport to accompany the corpse by relatives is the most preferred.
South Africa with its allure of flashy cars and the promise of a better life has been the destination of many locals seeking a better life.
With the xenophobic tensions persistently rising up in South Africa and tougher immigration laws in place, political observers say engagement by authorities in Pretoria with their counterparts in Zimbabwe is the best way to avoid a bloodbath ensuing, from which Zimbabweans are likely to bear the biggest brunt of. Financial Gazette
My Turn with Tichaona Zindoga
You may be wondering what kind of dance this is. Well — and this is a bit of education for many of us — the whirligig beetle is the now infamous hard-to-catch, whirling water beetle called nyungururwi.
It is the same nyungururwi, the whirligig beetle, which we are told has been one of the main ingredients of witchcraft former Vice President Joice Mujuru allegedly dabbled in, in a plot to topple President Mugabe.
And whirligigs come in many colours, shapes and sizes.
Which makes it possible to have two whirligigs distinguishable in a mortal combat.
Those that come from the rural areas, if they happen to be women who at some point in their lives thought the forming of hard, little breasts had taken a wee too long and the bite would induce such growth, may attest to the sharp bites of these little beetles.
So myths around whirligigs abound.
While some of these myths, like the magical powers to grow breasts, are innocent enough, the stuff that President Mugabe has been telling us makes one cringe.
Or laugh at the utter foolishness of Mujuru’s efforts.
But then, in these parts you don’t laugh off witchcraft all that easily.
It is a lesson that some student at college, who scoffed at the idea of witchcraft and how people could be used to work in other people’s fields, learnt very well when, one day, he woke up with mud right up to his knees!
He had been working in the paddy, rice fields, when his foolish educated head thought he was sleeping in some dormitory.
This is Africa.
This is our own patented science — whatever the reasons we cannot deploy it to the best means.
Like injecting cash into the economy.
Now, President Mugabe, during his birthday commemorations over the weekend dished out more on the shenanigans of his former deputy Joice Mujuru.
We thought we had heard the worst of her nocturnal activities including making tea for some American Ambassador, but the latest revelations paint a picture of the archetypal African woman who “wakes up”.
Hence, the moniker “Zimuroyi reDotito”.
And added to that the corruption allegations levelled against her, this has given rise to new nomenclature in town.
Anyone who is corrupt and solicits for a kickback or “share” is now called a Zimuroyi.
So, a corrupt guy from Mbare would be “Zimuroyi reMbare”; or for someone coming from Chitungwiza, “Zimuroyi reChitungwiza”; and so on.
This is how Zimbabweans learn so fast and laugh away their troubles.
The new revelations that the former Number Two outsourced Nigerian expertise in witchcraft are shocking, but not surprising.
We all have been watching Nigerian movies and, boy, the stuff they purport witches and wizards and sorcerers do!
There are also extraordinary prophets, too, whose services some Zimbabweans, plebeian and otherwise, have sought.
President Mugabe told of the shocking and macabre rituals: the beheading of chickens and sheep.
The earmarking of people for death.
If that had come to pass, President Mugabe would be a goner; so would be his wife, Amai Mugabe, and Emmerson Mnangagwa and Ignatius Chombo, and so on.
The road would be clear for Dr Mujuru to take over.
To have the country of Zimbabwe under her mighty spell.
That all sounds surreal.
Best of all, the alleged nocturnal activities have not yielded fruit.
Nay, they have yielded bitter fruit for the restless hand.
It is said that witchcraft is dangerous business because if you do not do things properly, the whole thing may backfire spectacularly.
Or is a caveat, a proviso, a way out by the unscrupulous sangomas and fake prophets, to mask their own trickery?
Look, we have the Nigerians in this saga. We hope that the former VP does indeed not have such a simple mind as to be affected by what we see in “African movies”.
Women like them, believe them, generally, don’t they?
But that is as far as the foolish drama goes.
Back to the real, realistic, issues.
We notice that the disgraced former VP is fancying herself as some kind of martyr and even believes hers is a kind of golden silence.
She broke the same on Monday issuing a statement to the private media.
Before venturing into the contents of the statement — and there is precious little of content — it will be useful to ask what has happened to allegations of corruption that have been levelled against her, a dossier for which is understood to have been in preparation? Her infamous whirligig dance must come to an end.
The members of her cabal, including Didymus Mutasa and Temba Mliswa, have been fingered in criminal activities against persons and the State.
Some of these allegations are not very hard to prove and a lot of aggrieved persons are waiting by the gate, having been cowed by the assumed and certainly borrowed powers of the members of the cabal.
We have perfect candidates for jail and the prisons would do well to have alumni like Mutasa and Temba and Mai Mujuru.
That is, on top of other notable contemporaries like Robert Martin Gumbura.
She cannot feign honour, which she has been doing in her statements to her private media mouthpieces.
She has close to none.
She tells us that she “fought for the liberation of this country and hold the ideals of the liberation struggle and Zanu-PF close to my heart.”
Somebody educate us, was it part of the liberation ethos to demand bribes, bringing in foreigners to loot minerals and working with the foreign funded quislings such as those she got into bed with in the MDC?
Is undermining the national economy by bringing into the country banned products part of the liberation ethos.
Is using undue political influence and not paying up debts part of the instructions of Chairman Mao?
Is that “national building” she touts herself to do?
And she should be reminded that Bhora Musango and working with the opposition are the ones doing “unnecessary the destruction” of the revolutionary party, Zanu-PF.
All this makes her current dance with freedom, all too long drawn-out and need for halt.
Telecel has only paid a fraction of its licence renewal fee to allow it to operate for the next 20 years
Business Reporters SOME shareholders of the Empowerment Corporation, a 40 percent shareholder in Telecel Zimbabwe, say there was no agreement between EC and Brainworks Capital regarding the sale of EC’s stake in the country’s second biggest mobile phone company.
As the shareholding saga deepens, Dr Jane Mutasa, a significant founding shareholder in EC, said that she was not part of the purported meeting that is said to have approved the transaction to sell the stake to the locally registered private equity firm.
Magamba Echimurenga, another founding EC shareholder, said the planned disposal of EC’s shareholding in Telecel was illegal as it was being pushed through illegitimate structures in an elaborate scheme designed to swindle them out of their shares.
Magamba Echimurenga chairman Mr Andrew Ndlovu said exiled businessman James Makamba’s Kestrel Corporation, Dr Mutasa-led women’s group IBWO, her investment vehicle Selpon Investments and Magamba Echimurenga were the only fully paid up members of EC with legal authority to make decisions on behalf of the entity.
“We were never part of that meeting (which allegedly approved the sale of EC’s stake in Telecel). Only fully paid up members have the legal authority to decide on that in a legal procedure and according to the Companies Act,” Mr Ndlovu said yesterday.
Mr Ndlovu said other original prospective shareholders in EC, namely Zimbabwe Farmers’ Union, National Liberation War Veterans’ Association of Zimbabwe, Integrated Engineering Group (fronted by Leo Mugabe) failed to pay for their allocation.
He added that there were illegal attempts to sneak back in beneficiary groups that failed to pay for their shares and legalise their entitlement while at the same time booting out legitimate shareholders.
“They may think that this is the end of the story, but what they do not know is that it could be the beginning of unending legal battles in Empowerment Corporation,” he said. Mr Patrick Zhuwao, whose role as chief executive of EC is being contested, told this paper last Friday that shareholders had accepted the offer after taking into account that the company was operating without a licence after failing to pay for its renewal.
He said the meeting also resolved to revert to the original shareholding structure that prevailed when the Government issued Telecel with a licence in 1998 to empower locals.
Dr Mutasa said she was never part of the meeting that approved the sale and that whatever was agreed at the purported extraordinary general meeting was illegal.
“We were not part of that meeting and whatever was agreed on is null and void,” said Dr Mutasa.
“We were given the licence by His Excellency President Mugabe to empower Zimbabweans and why the talk about selling the shares? I don’t even know who Brainworks is and someone is now claiming that I have agreed to sell my shares.
“Someone is playing games and it’s not fair. It is not in the best interest of indigenisation.
“After all, if any partner decides to sell their shareholding, the first right of refusal should be offered to existing shareholders. We want the right procedures to be followed,” she said.
Dr Mutasa said there was nothing wrong with accommodating other supposed beneficiaries who failed to pay for their shares, but it should be done properly.
Dr Phillip Chiyangwa, another founding shareholder who later sold his stake, said any actions on Telecel should be co-ordinated between the Government and EC. He said the licence was given to EC primarily as a way of empowering indigenous Zimbabweans.
“So any move to reverse that arrangement should be dismissed with the contempt it de- serves.
“What should be happening in Telecel is reconstitution of the shareholding of the foreign partner who has failed to pay for licence renewal. This does not make sense at all,” said Dr Chiyangwa.
“What Brainworks needs to understand is that the licence was issued as a way of broad-based empowerment of Zimbabweans and that arrangement should be maintained,” he said.
Dr Chiyangwa added that although there were shareholding wrangles in EC, any measures to resolve them should be taken in the spirit of maintaining that objective.
Efforts to get a comment from Mr Zhuwao were fruitless by the time of going to press.
Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa speaks to The Sunday Mail last week. – Picture: Believe Nyakudjara
Mabasa Sasa – Acting Editor
Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has for the first time spoken about his sacked predecessor Dr Joice Mujuru, describing her spectacular fall from grace as a self-induced decline that was unimaginable just six months before her demise.
Mujuru lost her number two post in Government and Zanu-PF in December 2014 for allegedly being at the centre of a plot to unseat and or assassinate President Mugabe.
In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Mail at his New Government Complex offices in Harare last week, VP Mnangagwa said up until August 2014, the consensus in Zanu-PF was that Dr Mujuru should be retained.
However, Dr Mujuru’s career quickly came unstuck when First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe lifted the lid on her alleged treason, corruption and greed.
VP Mnangagwa said, “Until Amai Mugabe began those rallies, I think everybody was accepting that when we go to Congress, Mai Mujuru will be confirmed as Vice-President.
“The area we had doubt as to who was going to come (as the other VP) was that of the Zapu element. We didn’t know who was going to come.
“But then when the First Lady began doing those rallies and revelations which were now coming out; we were taken by storm and this was done within a period of less than four eeks, five weeks, thereabout.
“The revelations that came out showed that our Vice-President was not fit to lead the country; (we) would easily have our revolution sold that way.
“We didn’t know how the President was going to resolve that one. But we were satisfied (with the outcome) individually, I think: not that there was any meeting which sat together and said no, no.”
VP Mnangagwa said as Zanu-PF members discussed the revelations, they were repulsed.
“Like those things where she would go with the American Ambassador at night and you are Vice-President of a country, and serve tea in a dark house. So, all those things put together and now the things which were being revealed about corruption and so on, we all felt that this country would go into problems if she took over the reins of this country.”
VP Mnangagwa said given the circumstances, it was impossible for Mujuru and her acolytes, including then Zanu-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa — who was expelled from the party last week — to continue in their roles.
“We worked through the Congress with Mutasa and everybody. I was the legal advisor. We all put our heads together. Now I’m reading in the paper that he is not a Makoni, he is not even a Nyathi! So the truth comes, but comes very slowly. This guy may not be Zimbabwean, perhaps (laughing). “We worked together. Then by the time we went to Congress itself, the entire country was so agitated against these revelations. But for Mutasa, of course, he fell ill and he was allowed by the President to go to South Africa. That’s how he did not come to Congress as far as I am concerned. But for the former VP, she was afraid to come; kuti kwahi ndosvereredzwa and so on. She didn’t come to the Congress, which meant she felt the guilt. As a revolutionary, it doesn’t matter what. You go. If your people would want to sacrifice or kill you, you go; that’s it, you must die. That’s the revolution. Zvakanzi VaMnangagwa mukaenda munourawa, ndinoti: ‘Ibva, ndinoyenda ndozviwonera ipapa’.
“If I die, I die, but the revolution continues, which means I have remained consistent. That’s what it means. So that’s what happened.”
VP Mnangagwa said President Mugabe never revealed his plan to fire Mujuru and appoint him in her stead.
“Until the last minute, he never confided in me to say he wants to make me Vice-President. Never. He just announced. I didn’t know whether to jump or sit. So, it took everybody by surprise.”
The VP also spoke on his close working relationship with President Mugabe, which dates back to 1977.
“As it is, I have never worked for mumwe ‘murungu’. From the day I was 18, I have just been in the revolution. I have just been in the party.
“I am now 71; I am turning 72 just now. Throughout, I have just been in the revolution and I have worked with the President, these 35 years plus the other 14, all these years.
“So I understand the President and I believe he understands me, too. But the most important thing is he wants honesty and commitment. Honesty, commitment and loyalty: Those are the three things. If you have those three, you are together.”
He said President Mugabe had over the decades faced much betrayal and had dealt with it quite admirably.
“We know and understand that no revolution in history has been smooth. You will always have people who fail to toe the correct line of the revolution. That happens.
“As Mao Tse Tung says, when that happens, you remove them from the main core of the revolution and rehabilitate them back into the revolution if you feel they can be rehabilitated.
“However, never allow them to take positions of leadership because they have already shown a weakness by failing to toe the correct line of the revolution. But I think because the President is a very kind person, he had allowed even those who had erred during the course of the revolution also to come back and take leading roles in advancing the revolution and they have betrayed us again.”
Turning to claims that President Mugabe is a dictator and does not take advice, VP Mnangagwa said: “He doesn’t take counsel? He doesn’t take stupid counsel! That I’ll agree with you. If you report to him, he will interrogate you. And don’t go to him with half-baked decisions because he can prick holes into your argument. Now I am so used that when I go to him, I know I must prepare myself and I must argue my case. And he enjoys somebody who argues . . . But if you go there with a stupid thing, of course he will say ‘no’. But he is very tolerant, even where we, as the general leadership, want to be very harsh.”
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