Opinion / Columnist
ZANU PF keeping all thou vintage
19 Jun 2014 at 07:42hrs | Views
The timing couldn't be better. People still debating Jonathan Moyo's 'dislodging' from a seemingly sinecure position by being branded a weevil by the Zanu PF leader, the President of Zimbabwe, the Commander-In- Chief of the Defence Forces, among other titles, Cde R.G Mugabe. While soccer fans wonder if ZEDTC or Zesa as people like to call them, are not going to sabotage the viewership of the 2014 World Cup, Mutasa making absurd statements in Mutare.
Obert Mpofu making loud pronouncements over kombis, and the Ministry of Health and their arts and culture counterparts turning a blind eye on a controversial move by Zim Punked. Obert Mpofu sneaks in Goodwills Masimirembwa to CMED.
Now these two are thick as thieves. This is the same Masimirembwa who was de-registered by the Law Society of Zimbabwe in 1997 for abusing trust funds. The same Masimirembwa who was in the middle of a storm involving Gye Nyame Resources, for allegedly swindling the Ghanian investor 6 million American dollars. 10 months ago Mugabe publicly castigated him and vowed to have all corrupt individuals brought to book.
This is the same Masimirembwa who went on to contest in the elections and lost to MDC-T candidate James Maridadi. But ofcourse, we would have been naive to expect Masimirembwa to disappear without a trace. We know for a fact that Masimirembwa was the chairman of the National Incomes and Pricing Commision, a price control enforcer during Obert Mpofu's turnure as Minister of Industry and International Trade.
When Mpofu was handed the mining portfolio Mpofu took Masimirimbwa with him and made him chairman of the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corperation. And now, this one. This shouldn't really raise eyebrows, should it? Zanu PF take care of their own. It's an old boys club. Remember Kumbirai Kangai? That one, yes. And recently Murerwa. He has been appointed to the sole eletricity company, Zesa. They all bounce back. After all, they need places to syphon tax payers' money into their pockets from. Maybe they fear that once the 90 year-old president is gone they will be reduced to paucity if they do not make hay while the sun shines. That which they have been doing for the past 34 years.
A minister appoints and Mugabe approves without batting an eyelid. And what makes it all the more interesting is his first job is to recover US $2.7 million from First Oil for failure to deliver fuel to CMED. I wonder where that money will go. These appointments are commonplace. Chombo notoriously reinstates individuals who have been booted out of councils nationwide.
Any individual can note that they take the nation as their playing field, where none-else matters than them. They are able to speak lofty policies penned by connivers such as Moyo and Chinamasa, but know full well that they do not intend to carry them out. Of late there have been choruses of the ZIMASSET song. That is a mystery that no one in this land can unravel. What is ZIMASSET? I do not know. Zanu PF revels in the use of that word, or rather acronym. It does make them pause the use of the word 'sanctions'. They have a tendency to act like broken records, or infants after learning a new word.
I noticed that even Mrs Chiwenga, the powers that be at Miss Zimbabwe decided, or maybe was advised, to use it on the Miss Zimbabwe 2014: Miss Zimbabwe 2014 taking ZIMASSET to greater heights. What heights are these?
How are they going to take it there? It is all rather amusing when one looks at it. They must laugh at the populace for buying their schemes, after all they delude themselves that the people of Zimbabwe do buy it.
From independence to now they rebrand the same policy. Recently it is paraded with the catch phrase Indeginise. Empower. Employ. Develop.
In another time we shall interrogate this fully, after all we have been running under the same banner for 34 years and all we have learnt is that they do Indeginise: take from others and appropriate amongst themselves. Many white Zimbabwean commercial farmers and even Mutumwa Mawere knows this.
Empower: they empower each other with unlimited power and wealth at the expense of millions.
Employ: they employ all manner of dirty tricks to sideline those who are not in their immediate circle. And they Develop: they develop their fiefdoms, business empires using the taxpayers' money without a touch of conscience. And Mr Masimirembwa is enjoying all the fruits of their schemes. He is one of the boys, after all.
Obert Mpofu making loud pronouncements over kombis, and the Ministry of Health and their arts and culture counterparts turning a blind eye on a controversial move by Zim Punked. Obert Mpofu sneaks in Goodwills Masimirembwa to CMED.
Now these two are thick as thieves. This is the same Masimirembwa who was de-registered by the Law Society of Zimbabwe in 1997 for abusing trust funds. The same Masimirembwa who was in the middle of a storm involving Gye Nyame Resources, for allegedly swindling the Ghanian investor 6 million American dollars. 10 months ago Mugabe publicly castigated him and vowed to have all corrupt individuals brought to book.
This is the same Masimirembwa who went on to contest in the elections and lost to MDC-T candidate James Maridadi. But ofcourse, we would have been naive to expect Masimirembwa to disappear without a trace. We know for a fact that Masimirembwa was the chairman of the National Incomes and Pricing Commision, a price control enforcer during Obert Mpofu's turnure as Minister of Industry and International Trade.
When Mpofu was handed the mining portfolio Mpofu took Masimirimbwa with him and made him chairman of the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corperation. And now, this one. This shouldn't really raise eyebrows, should it? Zanu PF take care of their own. It's an old boys club. Remember Kumbirai Kangai? That one, yes. And recently Murerwa. He has been appointed to the sole eletricity company, Zesa. They all bounce back. After all, they need places to syphon tax payers' money into their pockets from. Maybe they fear that once the 90 year-old president is gone they will be reduced to paucity if they do not make hay while the sun shines. That which they have been doing for the past 34 years.
A minister appoints and Mugabe approves without batting an eyelid. And what makes it all the more interesting is his first job is to recover US $2.7 million from First Oil for failure to deliver fuel to CMED. I wonder where that money will go. These appointments are commonplace. Chombo notoriously reinstates individuals who have been booted out of councils nationwide.
Any individual can note that they take the nation as their playing field, where none-else matters than them. They are able to speak lofty policies penned by connivers such as Moyo and Chinamasa, but know full well that they do not intend to carry them out. Of late there have been choruses of the ZIMASSET song. That is a mystery that no one in this land can unravel. What is ZIMASSET? I do not know. Zanu PF revels in the use of that word, or rather acronym. It does make them pause the use of the word 'sanctions'. They have a tendency to act like broken records, or infants after learning a new word.
I noticed that even Mrs Chiwenga, the powers that be at Miss Zimbabwe decided, or maybe was advised, to use it on the Miss Zimbabwe 2014: Miss Zimbabwe 2014 taking ZIMASSET to greater heights. What heights are these?
How are they going to take it there? It is all rather amusing when one looks at it. They must laugh at the populace for buying their schemes, after all they delude themselves that the people of Zimbabwe do buy it.
From independence to now they rebrand the same policy. Recently it is paraded with the catch phrase Indeginise. Empower. Employ. Develop.
In another time we shall interrogate this fully, after all we have been running under the same banner for 34 years and all we have learnt is that they do Indeginise: take from others and appropriate amongst themselves. Many white Zimbabwean commercial farmers and even Mutumwa Mawere knows this.
Empower: they empower each other with unlimited power and wealth at the expense of millions.
Employ: they employ all manner of dirty tricks to sideline those who are not in their immediate circle. And they Develop: they develop their fiefdoms, business empires using the taxpayers' money without a touch of conscience. And Mr Masimirembwa is enjoying all the fruits of their schemes. He is one of the boys, after all.
Source - Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere
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