Pupurai Togarepi

School / Education

No information was found on his Junior or High School, or any tertiary education.

Service / Career

• Former Secretary for Youth Affairs in Zanu PF.
• Zanu PF Chief Whip in Parliament.
• December 2017, replaced by Kudzai Chipanga as the youth league boss and he was suspended during a politburo meeting on 5 February 2020 for indiscipline.^[1] Pupurai Togarepi is also head of prudential services at Insurance and Pension Commission (IPEC).^[2].
  

Togarepi has vast knowledge and experience in the financial sector as well as insurance and pension industry regulation.
In the 2018 elections he was elected as Member of Parliament for Gutu South.

2016 Suspension

Togarepi was suspended from Zanu PF which resulted in him losing the position of Youth league Secretary to Kudzai Chipanga in 2016. Togarepi said that he respected Robert Mugabe’s decision to replace him with his former deputy Kudzanayi Chipanga (sic). ^[3].

Events

Warning G.40 members

Pupurai Togarepi was reported to have warned G40 Faction members that while the party was going to forgive them as per the President’s instructions, they were not going to forget their conduct.

The President said we will forgive, but we will not forget. We heard the G40 cabal is telling people that they are invincible because they have survived the chop. We do not want to hear that at all. If you are forgiven do not mistake that for a weakness. We will deal with you

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Warning Former President Mugabe

In March 2018 after it had been reported that former President Robert Mugabe had endorsed the New Patriotic Front, Togarepi was reported to have warned Mugabe in a statement that read,

As the youth league. we view this as child play and we are ready for them. To us, it’s a bunch of failures trying to come back into politics, but that they are failures is their problem, not ours.

What Mugabe should know is … we respect him only if he respects us. If he decides to rock the boat and then his actions affect the stability of the party … he should be ready for the storm to come…we will not be soft with him.^[4]

Norman Mawungwa suicide

In October 2023, Norman Mawungwa, described as notorious, hanged himself from a tree after leaving a suicide audio message. He was alleged to be a FAZ associate.

It is was not reported here why he hanged himself. However his note did say he had no funeral policy and pleaded for a decent burial, a plea made to party members and relatives.

• He also specified his preferred resting place was at a hill but family elders buried him at his homestead.
• Mawungwa’s body was not allowed in the homestead after being removed from the tree where he hung, as per local customs. The body was dumped and spent day and night in a field covered with tree branches and only collected in the morning and taken straight to the grave for burial. Women at the funeral reportedly refused to give undertakers their MaZambia (wrapping cloths), to be used to lower the coffin into the grave.
• The MP for the area, Pupurai Togarepi, whom Mawungwa worked for during the August 2023 election campaigns, and the reason he made so many enemies, did not turn up or deliver an official condolence message.
• There was no Zanu PF official at the funeral of the man who was accused of killing and brutalising perceived opposition supporters for the sake of the party.
• All of Mawungwa’s clothes were thrown into the grave and family members resolved not to take any souvenir from the deceased.
• Zanu PF, which was expected to take over funeral costs, did not provide a beast to be slaughtered at the funeral, and as a result, mourners were served sadza with cabbages.
• FAZ member Mugove Mubaiwa claimed that Zanu PF donated US$1 000 towards the funeral, however Mawungwa was laid to rest in a coffin priced at US$90. It was said that It’s either the US$1 000 was stolen within Zanu PF ranks or people were lied to that there was a donation otherwise how does one explain such a pauper burial where mourners could not even get a decent meal?

A local teacher reportedly tortured by Mawungwa in 2008 said: I came all the way from Mpandawana just to see for myself that this evil man was gone. God exists, the man has been buried like a rat. They buried him like they were burying a rat. ^[5]

Farm Mechanisation Scheme

In July 2020, Pupurai Togarepi was listed, in the BSR of 18 July 2020, as a beneficiary in the 2007 RBZ Farm Mechanisation Scheme, as a result of the Fast Track Land Reform Programme.

The data is analysed by recipients origin:.

• Mashonaland provinces had the most beneficiaries, both in terms of numbers and value.
  

Mashonaland East got US$47,5 million,
Mashonaland West US$44,7 million
Mashonaland Central had US$34,2 million.

• Two Matebeleland provinces had a combined total of US$13,9 million.
• Masvingo US$26,4 million,
• Manicaland US$18 million
• Midlands US$14 million.

Pupurai Togarepi, of New Brookline Farm No. 1, near Ngezi River is listed under the thematic group “Politically Exposed Persons”. According to the list, he is owing US$72,547.00. ^[6]

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