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<span>President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said the people he sends to solve the issue of land barons are also involved in the illegal allocation of state land. </span></p>
<p><span>He made the remarks on Monday 13 February 2023 while officially opening the Aspindale Park and Aspire Heights Development in Harare. <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/local-news/article/200007445/land-barons-are-top-officials-ed">NewsDay</a> cites him as saying:</span></p>
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<p><span><em>I have realized that the people I send to solve the issue of land barons are also involved. They cannot arrest themselves because they are thieves.</em></span></p>
<p><span><em>I have seen some of the settlements when I am flying out of the country. Some of the houses are so small and I wonder if there are any toilets there. I also wonder if they have addresses. I am sure most of the people use their memory to locate them. We do not want such settlements.</em></span></p>
<p><span><em>Trends show that once housing and infrastructure growth are accorded an integral part in development, a nation is better poised to effectively implement its economic production and productivity mix.</em></span></p>
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<p><span>He also vowed that he will wrestle local authorities from the opposition in the general elections later this year. He said:</span></p>
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<p><span><em>Is Jacob Mafume here (Harare Mayor)? This time we are going to take control of the councils in the coming elections. The councils have failed to collect refuse and potholes are everywhere. Local authorities are reminded that the provision of often interlinked and functional facilities remains imperative.</em></span></p>
<p><span><em>To this end, the prioritisation of backbone infrastructure such as water, health, waste management, transport and other related services is critical</em>.</span></p>
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<p><span>Over the years, local government authorities demolished thousands of houses built on illegally-acquired land or on undesignated sites like wetlands.</span></p>
<h2><a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/"><span>More Pindula News</span></a></h2>


Pindula News

"People I Send To Solve The Issue Of Land Barons Are Also Involved" - Mnangagwa

<p><span>The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) this Thursday announced that it was investigating <strong><a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/rbz-investigating-bakers-inn-for-pegging-zimbabwe-dollar-at-zwl200-us1/">reports that Simbisa Brands’ Bakers Inn was pegging US$1: ZWL$200.</a></strong></span></p>
<p><span>The official bank rate is US$1:85. </span></p>
<p><span>The central bank announced the investigations on Twitter and also expressed gratitude to members of the public who circulated the Bakers Inn receipt. Read the tweet:</span></p>
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<p><span>The Financial Intelligence Unit is investigating allegations of currency manipulation and pegging of the ZW$ at 200 to 1 USD circulating on social media. Perpetrators shall be brought to book.</span></p>
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<p><span>Responses to the announcement suggested that some quarters have no confidence in the central bank. Some said RBZ should be investigating the big fish.</span></p>
<p><span>Alex Tawanda Magaisa, a former Chief of Staff in the office of the late Morgan Tsvangirai, the former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, suggested that RBZ was preoccupying itself with small offenders. He said:</span></p>
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<p><span>The Financial Intelligence Unit should be more concerned with the billions of dollars that are shifted to tax havens under the guise of complex corporate transactions as shown by the #PandoraPapers But does the FIU have the guts to investigate big PEPs like Billy Rautenbach?</span></p>
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<p><span>A financial analyst, Peter Katsidzira reiterated Magaisa’s remarks. aid Katsidzira:</span></p>
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<p><span>The alleged perpetrator is Innscor one of the largest beneficiary of the auction system. Untouchable cause they are also one of the largest sponsors of the ruling party. Be that as it may, the billions are the elephant in the room.</span></p>
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<p><span>A medical doctor, Tendai, said the whole saga shows that the RBZ’s Financial Intelligence Unit was not up for the task. Said Tendai:</span></p>
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<p><span>The unit doesn’t seem intelligent at all if they are only realizing now that businesses are not using the interbank rate. A whole intelligence unit reacting to a social media post.</span></p>
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<p><span>Others said the RBZ was just in denial but the rate was around 200 on the parallel market.</span></p>
<p><span>More: <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw">Pindula News</a></span></p>


Responses To "RBZ Investigates Bakers Inn For ZWL$200: US$1 Rate”

<p>Villagers from Magokova in Chipinge who were evicted from their “ancestral land” are reportedly sleeping in the open since their displacement by Green Fuel.</p>
<p>Nine families have to endure the harsh winter as they have nowhere to go since they were evicted from their custodial land by force.</p>
<p>Headman Phineas Chinyamukwakwa confirmed the development to <em>TellZim News</em>, saying 34 people were left without shelter and have no other option. Said Chief Chinyamukwakwa:</p>
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<p>I can confirm that 34 villagers are sleeping outside in the open spaces as they lost their houses during the eviction.</p>
<p>These nine families have nowhere to go because this is the only place they have known since they were born.</p>
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<p>Director of Platform for Youth and Community Development (PYCD), Claris Madhuku said they were deeply shocked that the government is not acting to resolve the disaster facing locals. Madhuku said:</p>
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<p>The initiative to challenge these evictions by Green Fuel has been taken and the matter is now before courts.</p>
<p>The community in Chinyamukwakwa and Magokova are defiant and ready for all the unfolding events, knowing fully well that the battle shall be won by the people.</p>
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<p>Madhuku also said food and a temporary shelter was being organised for the victims and they are also helping the affected people by interpreting their constitutional rights.</p>
<p>Some of the villagers are reported to have fled to Mozambique after losing their land to business mogul Billy Rautenbach who owns Green Fuel.</p>
<p>Green Fuel security guards destroyed crops of over 1 000 villagers demanding that they vacate the land.</p>
<h4><strong>More: <a href="http://www.tellzim.com/2021/07/displaced-chipinge-families-sleep-in.html">TellZim News</a></strong></h4>


Displaced Chipinge Villagers Sleep In The Open For 2 Weeks

<p><a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Lovemore_Madhuku">Professor Lovemore Madhuku</a> has denounced security guards of Billy Rautenbach’s Greenfuel for destroying houses and unharvested crops in Chipinge describing them as hooligans.</p>
<p>Madhuku is representing the villagers who are being evicted from Chinyamukwakwa Village in Chipinge south constituency by Rautenbach’s energy company.</p>
<p>He speaks amid reports that the security guards on Thursday ploughed down crops and destroyed some houses as the land dispute rages on.</p>
<p>Madhuku accused Greenfuel of dishonouring an agreement to allow villagers to finish their harvests by August before such evictions could take place.</p>
<p>Madhuku said Greenfuel’s behaviour suggested that Rautenbach had the support of political elites. He promised to take legal action against the company. He said:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>_Where would private citizen derive private force because security guards, that is private force, it not like you are sending the Police or the Army. It would be like you have just sent your own hooligans to do that._</em></p>
<p><em>_Those are their own hooligans, they have no power under the law to do what they are doing._</em></p>
<p><em>_We had agreed with Greenfuel that any evictions of villagers must take place after August after villagers have finished harvesting._</em></p>
<p><em>_It is very worrying and I think the company is working with some politicians because ordinarily no citizen could do that._</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Greenfuel which grows sugarcane mainly for the production of fuel wants to expand its fields while the villagers insist that the land belongs to their ancestors.</p>
<p><strong>More: <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw">Pindula News; Chipinge Times</a></strong></p>


Prof Madhuku Denounces Rautenbach's "Hooligans"

<p>Greenfuel security guards reportedly ploughed down villagers’ unharvested crops and destroyed houses in Chinyamukwakwa Village in Chipinge.</p>
<p>Chipinge Times was told that the guards of the company run by multi-millionaire businessman, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Billy_Rautenbach">Billy Rautenbach</a> were armed with guns and they had security dogs.</p>
<p>Headman Chinyamukwakwa confirmed the matter in a telephone interview and saying four villagers had been ordered to bring their property outside the houses so that the buildings could be destroyed.</p>
<p>The boundary dispute has prompted the villagers to engage prominent lawyer Professor Lovemore Madhuku in a bid to resist eviction from their ancestral lands.</p>
<p>Green Fuel spokesperson Merit Rumema said she was not aware of the matter when Chipinge Times reached out to her for a comment.</p>
<p>Greenfuel recently gave the villagers until August to harvest their crops and leave, therefore, the invasion by armed security guards came as a surprise to them.</p>
<p>Chinyamukwakwa villagers recently accused Zanu PF politicians and in particular the local MP Enock Porusingasi of conniving with Greenfuel to evict them.</p>
<p>When Chipinge Times contacted Porusingasi for a comment, he said:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>_How many times do you write that story? Go ahead with your story like before and why would you ask me, am not Green Fuel. Why would you want to verify</em> now when you didn’t include me in the first article._</p></blockquote>
<p>Rautenbach is also embroiled in a land dispute in Harare where he wants to evict residents in Aspindale Park.</p>
<p><strong>More: <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw">Pindula News; Chipinge Times</a></strong></p>


Greenfuel Guards Plough Down Villagers' Unharvested Crops, Destroy Houses

<p>Temba Mliswa has made bold claims that Local Govenment Minister JUly Moyo is trying to repossess land under the Joshua Nkomo Housing Scheme in Kamuzuma Harare with the intention to give it to alleged Zanu Pf benefactor Bill Rautenbach.</p>
<p>In a Twitter threat that was published this afternoon, the outspoken legislator said:</p>
<blockquote><p>This abuse of power in removing legal dwellers from their land is exactly what July Moyo is trying to do to the Joshua Nkomo Co-op members in Aspindale 48 A&amp;B in trying to repossess the land to give it to Billy Rautenbach.</p>
<p>Yet Billy knows the courts have condemned the move so he uses Matanga who abuses his office to deploy police officers there, in the absence of a court order, to frustrate, harass and intimidate the legal residents. People are losing their lives through this pressure.</p>
<p>as stress, witnessing their life’s investment torn from them, overcomes them. It was never their fault, it was a Govt programme where Govt had authorised the setting up of co-ops. There’s no way people could build as far as they’ve gone without complying with council procedures.</p>
<p>We again have the Midlands province which has been destroyed through Mudha’s abuse of power. Mines have been taken with impunity. I’ll list these and publish the list globally just as was done doing Rhodesian times where the world had to know about internal oppression</p>
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<div>Mliswa’s threat comes as news that the government has okayed the eviction of over 1000 families from the ancestral land in Chilonga in Chiredzi. a move that has angered many Zimbabweans on social media.</div>
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<div>Last month when Mliswa was fighting with his ex lover Susan Mutami, Mutami claimed <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2021/02/02/temba-mliswa-is-performing-rituals-against-july-moyo-report/">Temba Mliswa was out to get July Moyo</a> and he was visiting traditional healers to try and get rid of him.</div>
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<div>Source: <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/TembaMliswa/status/1367393317961551872">Temba Mliswa  </a></strong></div>


Temba Mliswa Claims Govt To Repossess Joshua Nkomo Housing Scheme Land & Give It To Rautenbach

<p>Outspoken Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has made sensational claims that the Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Minister July Moyo working with businessman Billy Rautenbach are selling illegal stands. Mliswa claims the land they are selling is state land fraudulently acquired. Using Microblogging site Twitter, Mliswa said:</p>
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<div dir="auto" lang="en">2/ This is state land given to the people. Aspindale 48 &amp; 49, Wadzanai &amp; Takawira Co-ops won court orders to reside on the state land they were given. The corrupt practices &amp; those that engage in such activities must be shamed. Billy, through a fraudulent system forged papers</div>
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<div dir="auto" lang="en">3/ If he did indeed buy the land from Rothmans, where is his proof of payment &amp; a statement from Rothmans confirming the same?</div>
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<div dir="auto" lang="en">A few months ago former Zanu PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu said<a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/06/28/zanu-pf-is-broke-green-fuels-rautenbach-is-paying-zanu-pf-salaries-tsenengamu/"> Rautenbach was untouchable because he was paying salaries for Zanu PF employees. </a></div>
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<div dir="auto" lang="en">Source: <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/TembaMliswa?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Temba Mliswa Twitter</a></strong></div>


July Moyo, Godwin Matanga and Chidawu Working With Billy Rautenbach Are Selling Illegal Stands - Temba Mliswa

<p>Former Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi was reportedly sacked for his efforts to level the playing field in the fuel sector, something which did not go down well with powerful fuel cartels that have captured the State.</p>
<p>Among other things, Chasi wanted to reduce Sakunda Holdings and Green Fuel’s overbearing influence in the fuel industry since he was appointed Minister in May 2019.</p>
<p>Green Fuel, the sole ethanol blending firm in Zimbabwe, is owned by business mogul Billy Rautenbach, while Sakunda is owned by Kuda Tagwirei, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s advisor.</p>
<p>Both Rautenbach and Tagwirei reportedly have significant influence over the ruling ZANU PF’s top brass as they fund the party’s activities.</p>
<p>A Ministry of Energy official who spoke to <em>The Zimbabwe Independent</em> this week said Chasi was fired partly because he wanted to break Sakunda’s monopolistic hold of the NOIC fuel pipeline. The official said;</p>
<blockquote><p>You must understand that at Noic, Chasi was trying to even out the playing field in the fuel sector by ensuring that Sakunda Holdings will not continue to enjoy the monopolistic utilisation of the pipeline while also trying to fully assert Noic’s control over the pipeline. Sadly, this unsettled the interests of powerful fuel cartels.</p>
<p>His plans to revive efforts to build a second fuel pipeline were also met with fierce resistance by the same powerful forces.</p>
<p>He was trying to do many things right at the same time. He could not have prevailed over the combined efforts by the ethanol blending and fuel cartels.</p></blockquote>
<p>Chasi replaced Joram Gumbo, who held the Energy portfolio for less than a year and his tenure was characterised by acute fuel shortages.</p>
<p>Mnangagwa appointed Soda Zhemu, a relatively unknown character to take over from Chasi.</p>
<h4><strong>More: <a href="https://www.theindependent.co.zw/2020/08/28/chasi-a-victim-of-state-capture/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Zimbabwe Independent</a></strong></h4>


Powerful Fuel Cartels Behind Chasi's Sacking

<p>Former Zanu PF Youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu has made sensational claims that Green Fuel mogul Billy Rautenbach is paying Zanu PF salaries and buying party officials cars because the ruling party was now broke and dependent on the businessman to help them out, New Zimbabwe reports.</p>
<p>Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Tsenengamu said, the reason why the ethanol blending was not going to be considered was because of the fact that the Green Fuel boss was the ruling party’s benefactor:</p>
<blockquote><p>They had to act after we said something about him (Rautenbach) because he is the sponsor of the party, he pays salaries for those in the party. The party has no viable companies, they (companies) long collapsed. He (Rautenbach) bought those cars for the party, he provides fuel. So, the party has been captured. None can say anything and expect kindness from the leadership.</p>
<p>Billy released a statement saying ‘no we don’t have a monopoly’ after we named and shamed him and when I said it, people said Tsenengamu is mad. But, where are we today with the ethanol blending. Why mandatory blending when we were told that if they mix with ethanol, it is was going to be cheaper, but the ethanol has pushed the prices of fuel up.</p></blockquote>
<p>Tsengengamu further claimed that Rautenbach is also not treating Chisumbanje people well and he boasts that he is untouchable since he is friends with the leaders:</p>
<blockquote><p>Because Billy is a friend of the leaders, he boasts about it go and ask people in Chisumbanje, they will tell you that .At one point he wanted to evict people from Kambuzuma Joshua Nkomo Housing cooperative because he has political connection to the powers that be. Go and see how he is treating the villagers in Chisumbanje, why, because he enjoys protection from the authorities and that is why they had to chase us from the party because for them, it was about Billy and in a way, we had pointed a finger at them (leaders). They had to act. Billy is one of them in their corrupt ways.</p></blockquote>
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Zanu PF Is Broke, Green Fuel's Rautenbach Is Paying Zanu PF Salaries - Tsenengamu

<p>Ousted ZANU PF Youth League Political Commissar, Godfrey Tsenengamu has said that he is not apologetic in fighting corruption and contrary to reports by The Chronicle, a State-run paper, he had not apologised for “fighting corruption.”</p>
<p>His remarks come after the Chronicle had reported suggesting that the duo had accepted disciplinary measures which the party’s Politburo recommended after they alleged violated the party’s code of conduct.</p>
<p>Responding to the remarks which were allegedly said by Patrick Chinamasa, Tsenengamu posted on Twitter saying:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Please don’t misinform the public. I have not apologised to anyone and l am not going to. I have not wronged the party in any way. I am not apologetic about fighting corruption. I will not trade off my conscience for neither a position nor 30 pieces of silver.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Tsenengamu and Matutu, as well as Pupurai Togarepi, were stripped of their posts after they publicly announced a list of individuals who were bleeding the economy, among them Sakunda boss Kuda Tagwirei and Billy Rautenbach.</p>
<p>The development prompted some to say that the named individuals were enjoying impunity as they were being protected by political elites.</p>
<p><strong>More:</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/GodfreyTsenaz/status/1229283774170615809"><strong>Godfrey Tsenengamu</strong></a></p>
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Tsenengamu Throws Chinamasa Under The Bus Over Reports That He And Matutu Accepted Disciplinary Measures By ZANU PF

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<p class="js-tweet-text tweet-text txt-size-variable--18 margin-b--10 with-linebreaks padding-t--10" lang="en">The development was revealed by Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa who has been fighting in the residents’ corner against local businessman Billy Rautenbach, also known as Muller Conrad Rautenbach.</p>
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<p lang="en">Recently, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga,<a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/01/14/billy-rautenbach-will-be-compensated-if-he-has-title-deeds-to-the-joshua-nkomo-aspindale-residential-area-declares-vp-chiwenga/"> in his capacity as the Acting President, told the residents that Rautenbach would be refunded his money</a> if he had proof that he bought the land as he claimed.</p>
<p lang="en">Some residents earlier told Mliswa that <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2019/06/03/residents-expose-rautenbachs-corruption-he-demands-us85-per-square-metre-2-tax-15-vat-or-we-are-evicted/">Rautenbach was demanding, among other things, US$85 per square metre, 2% tax and 15% VAT from every resident or they get evicted.</a></p>
<p lang="en"><strong>More: </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/TembaMliswa/status/1228979774393110529"><strong>Temba Mliswa</strong></a></p>
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ED Intervenes To Stop Eviction Of Residents By Billy Rautenbach - Mliswa

<p>Green Fuel Private Limited has denied allegations by former Zanu-PF secretary for the commissariat <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Godfrey_Tsenengamu" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Godfrey Tsenengamu</a> that it was part of a cartel monopolising ethanol blending in the country.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Billy_Rautenbach" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Billy Rautenbach</a>-owned company issued a statement on Wednesday saying contrary to Tsenengamu’s false, malicious, irresponsible and defamatory utterances, it had a competitor since 2017. The statement read in part:</p>
<blockquote><p>Green Fuel does not have a monopoly in ethanol production or blending. It is common knowledge that any entity who meets the necessary statutory requirements detailed within the Petroleum (Mandatory Blending of Anhydrous Ethanol with Unleaded Petrol) Regulations, 2013, can apply and obtain a licence for the purpose of supplying ethanol for mandatory blending.</p>
<p>To this effect, it is a well-known fact that a joint venture established between Triangle Limited and the National Oil Infrastructural Company (NOIC) has also been supplying ethanol for mandatory blending purposes since 2017.</p></blockquote>
<p>Tsenengamu and deputy party secretary for youth, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Lewis_Matutu" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lewis Matutu</a> were last week suspended by the ZANU PF politburo for indiscipline after they violated party procedure by convening a Press conference accusing Rautenbach and other businessmen of corruption.</p>
<h4><strong>More: <a href="https://www.chronicle.co.zw/green-fuel-dismisses-corruption-allegations/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chronicle</a></strong></h4>


Rautenbach Denies Tsenengamu's Corruption Allegations

<p>Faith Zara writing for The Zimbabwe Independent said corruption was politicians’ bedrock. Basing her argument on the events that happened this week that saw Matutu and Tsenengamu being suspended for naming alleged cartel leaders and Togarepi being demoted for supporting them, Zaba said the administration needed to implement reforms to deter corruption and cartelisation of the economy.</p>
<p>in the lengthy article Zaba opined:</p>
<blockquote><p>ZANU PF youth leaders, Lewis Matutu and Godfrey Tsenengamu, this week hogged the headlines after accusing prominent businessmen Kudakwashe Tagwirei, Billy Rautenbach and Tafadzwa Musarara of allegedly engaging in corrupt dealings and creating cartels.<span id="more-72537"></span></p>
<p>The ruling party’s politburo removed Matutu and Tsenengamu from their positions as deputy youth secretary and youth commissar for a year, while youth league boss Pupurai Togarepi was booted out of the politburo for gross indiscipline.</p>
<p>Their line of defence was that they were assisting President Emmerson Mnangagwa in his anti-corruption crusade. Mnangagwa has been consistent in his message against corruption since he assumed power in November 2017.</p>
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<div class="adsbyvli" data-ad-slot="vi_19644910">The President, in his inauguration address in 2017, said: “Acts of corruption must stop forthwith.”However, the theory set out in the book Politics and Markets by Charles Lindblom, a celebrated and highly acclaimed political economy scholar, is at play in the corruption saga and the consequent ructions within the ruling party.</div>
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<p>According to Lindblom, political leaders at any level must acquire resources in order to exercise and sustain their authority. In a country like Zimbabwe, most politicians lack business and entrepreneurial acumen. They are forced to leverage on their election and appointments to gather resources.</p>
<p>That is how businesspeople end up controlling politicians. In Zimbabwe, corruption becomes the politician’s bedrock.The second theory linking corruption and economic development is the one postulated in the book Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty by Clayton Christensen, a top management philosopher and his fellow co-authors, based on field research. The three authors show that national prosperity is related to low levels of corruption.</p>
<p>They argue that prosperous nations such as the United States once experienced serious levels of corruption akin to those registered in nations ranking lowly in the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index. They argue that rising prosperity shared widely as a result of successive innovations that enable the majority to access affordable goods and services, engineered sustained economic growth that led to a concomitant fall in corruption levels.</p>
<p>Based on these theories, it is vital for Zimbabwe, to implement political and economic reforms in order to deal with corruption and cartelisation of the economy.</p>
<p>The reforms must provide provision in the constitution that allow for an open market economy, include anti-competition legislation and independent competition regulatory bodies.</p>
<p>The central bank, the judiciary and sector-specific regulatory bodies must be allowed to operate independently and constitutionalism must be entrenched through an independent judiciary.</p>
<p>The country needs to produce both new and improved goods and services, spurring sustained economic growth. This will greatly bolster opportunities for economic prosperity for the majority, thereby minimising the attractiveness of corruption.</p>
<p>To deal with corruption, it is also critical to improve the Ease of Doing Business. It is a scientific fact that the higher the Ease of Doing Business, the lower the national corruption levels (as measured by the Corruption Perception Index).</p>
<p>As we all know, politicians need resources to exercise their influence. The selection criteria of those who hold political positions should then include a track record of financial independence or self-reliance. Meritocracy must be embraced as a Zimbabwean culture.</p>
<p>Cartels are the source of income for politicians needed for them to exercise political power. There is a school of thought that the call by other politicians to dismantle cartels is a convenient opportunity to leverage on a legitimate issue.</p>
<p>It goes further to say that the true motive for the call to dismantle cartels is the fear that the massive financial power derived from the cartels is in the hands of their rivals. They may as well want to dislodge and replace those rivals controlling cartels — hence the solution to cartels is both political and economic reforms— not arrests.</p></blockquote>


OPINION: Corruption Is Politicians’ Bedrock

<p>Villagers in 2018 spoke to <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Bustop_TV">Bustop TV</a> about losing their land to pave way for businessmen <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Billy_Rautenbach">Billy Rautenbach</a>‘s Green Fuels. Most of them complained that they are struggling because they survived through farming prior to losing their land.</p>
<p>Watch the video below as posted by Bustop TV:</p>
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WATCH: Manicaland Villagers Complain About Losing Their Land To Pave Way For Billy Rauternbach's Green Fuel

<p>The Zanu PF Youth League held a press conference in Harare on Monday afternoon, with its officials taking turns to “expose” corrupt cartels working with ZANU PF officials and captains of industry to sabotage the economy. Youth League vice-chairperson Lewis Matutu had this to say:</p>
<blockquote><p>The majority of our problems come from this one person called <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Kudakwashe_Tagwirei" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kudakwashe Tagwirei</a>, he’s the source of our problems.</p>
<p>This has nothing to do with politics. It’s an issue of young people taking charge of their future.</p>
<p>There’s a second person called <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Tafadzwa_Musarara" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tafadzwa Musarara</a> (Grain Millers Association). He and a clique of old people that he’s working with are looting (through the mealie meal subsidy).</p>
<p>Our judiciary system is on holiday. When this whole corruption fight started, we have not had more than three convictions. If they don’t want to work anymore they must resign from their jobs.</p>
<p>… We expect people to react, but we don’t expect the voice of reason to be silenced. If it so happens that we have been incapacitated or whatever, do not keep quiet about this. We have prepared ourselves, we know what might happen.</p>
<p>The President is definitely not captured. There’s no-one, right now, who has the capacity to capture that man. Tagwirei has no capacity to capture that man.</p></blockquote>
<p>Youth League national political commissar, Godfrey Tsenengamu weighed in, accusing businessmen Billy Rautenbach and Kuda Tagwirei of being at the centre of the cartels. He said:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Billy_Rautenbach" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Billy Rautenbach</a> (Green Fuel), why him alone enjoying a monopoly of fuel blending and selling ethanol at high prices?</p>
<p>Tagwirei has bought mines at Shamva, Mazowe, Freda, Bindura through one of his companies (he can’t recall the name readily).</p>
<p>Tagwirei has a car import company (name not audible). He works with a guy called Brighton. When the government needs 40 cars, he imports 100 and the others come in duty-free.</p>
<p>Kudakwashe Tagwirei uses a Congolese woman called Dalia (not sure on spelling), for illegal forex trade. Let him deny, and we will bring out the V11s.</p>
<p>If you go to Tagwirei’s car sales, he has top of the range vehicles he brought in under corrupt Command Agriculture schemes. He has done this because leaders have allowed it. Our leaders must now choose whether they want to stand with Tagwirei or the people.</p>
<p>Justice system has failed – the police, prosecutors and judiciary are all trading accusations and you wonder who’s failing the public. This is a generational fight. We have created a platform, a citizen anti-corruption taskforce.</p></blockquote>
<h4><strong>More: <a href="https://twitter.com/zimlive/status/1224312622771834885" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@zimlive</a></strong></h4>


ZANU PF Youths Name "Looters" Wreaking Havoc On The Economy

<p>Acting President of Zimbabwe, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has said that Billy Rautenbach will be compensated if he has title deeds to the Joshua Nkomo Aspindale 48-49 which has been a bone of contention for long.</p>
<p>The declaration was revealed by Norton legislator (independent), Temba Mliswa who said that he had approached the former army boss over the issue. Mliswa tweeted:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>I’ve just met Acting President Chiwenga and briefed him on the Joshua Nkomo Aspindale 48-49 issue and he says you must stay put and Billy Rautenbach will be compensated if he has the title deeds to the land. Ministers July Moyo and Chidawu you are complicit in this issue.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Earlier, Mliswa reported that <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2019/06/03/residents-expose-rautenbachs-corruption-he-demands-us85-per-square-metre-2-tax-15-vat-or-we-are-evicted/">Rautenbach who is believed to have connections in the ruling ZANU PF has been demanding taxes from residents threatening them with eviction.</a></p>
<p>A resident who spoke to Mliswa said that Rautenbach was demanding US$85 per square metre, 2% tax and 15% VAT from every resident or they get evicted.</p>
<p>The resident also claimed that the Ministry of Local government was constantly telling them to engage Rautenbach for the regularisation of the land.</p>
<p><strong>More: </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/TembaMliswa/status/1217015028479557633"><strong>Temba Mliswa</strong></a></p>
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"Billy Rautenbach Will Be Compensated If He Has Title Deeds To The Joshua Nkomo Aspindale Residential Area," Declares VP Chiwenga

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<p>In a show hosted by ZTN about the ongoing political dialogue, Linda Masarira, the leader of the newly formed LEAD party, said that Zimbabwean entrepreneurs Billy Rautenbach, Kudakwashe Tagwirei and others, have caused suffering in Zimbabwe. She also said that the cartel leaders are unfortunately protected by Zanu-PF because they fund the party.</p>
<p>During the discussion Zanu-PF senior member and Minister of State for Mashonaland East Provincial Affairs, Apolonia Munzverengi had said that there are cartels and corrupt people who are disrespectful and indisciplined. She mentioned that fuel entrepreneurs use foreign currency to deal on the black market instead of providing the fuel. She appealed to Zimbabweans to boycott bread and other products by unethical business people.</p>
<p>Masarira responded:</p>
<blockquote><p>Let me speak in Shona. We should speak frankly. Apolonia (Munzverengi of Zanu-PF) here was saying ‘these people are disrespecting…’ We should not say ‘these people’ when we know who these people are. It is Billy Rautenbach, It’s Kuda Tagwirei and etc…</p>
<p>These people are just being protected because they also come and fund in political parties. But at the end of the day, we cannot let the children of Zimbabwe suffer because of a few individuals. So this decision has to be made at the highest level. How are we going to deal with these people?</p>
<p>Zimbabweans have suffered enough. We cannot continue like this.</p></blockquote>


WATCH: "Cartel Leaders Billy Rautenbach & Kuda Tagwirei Have Caused Suffering In Zimbabwe But Are Protected By Zanu-PF" - Linda Masarira

<p>Billy Rautenbach, a business tycoon who has close links with the ruling ZANU PF is reported to be paying only RTGS$0.10 as unit tax per hectare to the Mwenezi Rural District Council. He runs a 229 000 hectare multi-million dollar wildlife sanctuary at the sprawling Nuanetsi Ranch in the Lowveld.</p>
<p>New Zimbabwe reports that the council charged Rautenbach unit tax at $1 per hectare and his company, Zimbabwe Bio-Energy (ZBE) has ignored its tax obligations since 2009.</p>
<p>The Council’s chief executive officer, Albert Chivanga revealed that the local authority has since sought President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s help to recover some $1.9 million owed by Rautenbach. Chivanga said:</p>
<blockquote><p>ZBE should pay Mwenezi RDC $229 000 per year but they have only been paying a paltry $22 900 which they have pegged without the RDC’s approval,</p>
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<p>We have since notified Masvingo Resident Minister, (Ezra Chadzamira) to see if he could assist in notifying the President over this impasse and maybe he would be able to intervene and help us as council recover what is owed to us.</p></blockquote>
<p>Statistics suggest that Nuanetsi Ranch has over 40 000 cattle, 150 000 crocodiles among other animals.</p>
<p>The safari operated by Rautenbach is reported to consist of all types of wild animals where tourists from across the world come to see as well as hunt and pay a premium for.</p>
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<p><strong>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/zanu-pf-benefactor-pays-10-cents-tax-for-229-000-hectare-ranch-owes-1-9-millon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New Zimbabwe</a></strong></p>


Billy Rautenbach Pays 10 Cents Tax Per Hectare For 229000 Hectare Ranch

<p>Norton Legislator, Temba Mliswa has posted on Twitter a mail he got from a Resident residing in Aspindale Park, commonly known as Joshua Nkomo Cooperative. The resident claims that the Ministry of Lands has claimed that the land they are occupying belongs to Billy Rautenbach. It also urged residents to engage Rautenbach in regularising it. The resident claims they did, but, Rautenbach now has further demands including US$85 per square metre, 2% tax and 15% VAT from every resident or they get evicted. Read the mail below which Mliswa posted.</p>
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<p><strong>More:<a href="https://twitter.com/TembaMliswa/status/1135228950001704967" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Temba Mliswa</a></strong></p>


Resident's Message To Mliswa Exposes Rautenbach's Corruption As He Demands US$85 Per Square Metre, 2% Tax & 15%  VAT Or He Evicts Them

<p>Greenfuel has moved in earth-moving machinery that is working round the clock to repair the damaged Tanganda-Chipinge road. The ethanol producer intends to make the road navigable today.</p>
<p>Speaking from Rutengeni along the Chipinge-Tanganda road on Tuesday, Greenfuel owner, Mr Billy Rautenbach said:</p>
<blockquote><p>I came here to assess the extent of damage and as we speak, machinery and other resources needed to repair the roads are on their way.</p>
<p>We will be able to fix this damaged part of the road in a day or two. The damage was a result of poor drainage, and we only need to remove the debris and replace it with stones and soil. We will then move to other areas, especially in Chimanimani.</p></blockquote>
<p>Tropical Cyclone Idai destroyed roads and washed away bridges over the past weekend in three provinces. It also killed 98 people through rockfalls, mudflows and drowning.</p>
<p><strong>Related:</strong></p>
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<li class="entry-title"><a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2019/03/19/fuel-supply-wont-be-interrupted-by-cyclone-idai-energy-minister/"><strong>Fuel Supply Won’t Be Interrupted By Cyclone Idai – Energy Minister</strong></a></li>
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<p><strong>More: <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/just-in-rautenbach-pledges-speedy-repair-of-damaged-roads/">The Herald</a></strong></p>


Ethanol Boss Deploys Heavy Machinery To Repair Chipinge-Tanganda Road

<p>President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered business mogul Billy Rautenbach come to his office to explain on allegations that he is refusing villagers access to fresh water.</p>
<p>Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Ezra Chadzamira raised the allegations against Rautenbauch on Saturday during a rally at Rutenga Primary School in Mwenezi. Said Chadzamira:</p>
<blockquote><p>We have some whites who have wildlife conservancies. They are enjoying selling trophies outside and slaughtering the wildlife for butcheries without doing corporate social responsibility programmes.</p>
<p>They actually ill-treat the neighbouring communities like in Chingwizi where they established boom gates to give a curfew and fenced-off water sources and grazing lands for the villagers. He who does not respect people, therefore, has no place in the new dispensation.</p></blockquote>
<p>In response to Chadzamira, Mnangagwa said Rautenbach should be brought to his office either on Monday or Tuesday;</p>
<blockquote><p>There are some whites with big farms and yet deny people drinking water. Am told villagers to get salty water and yet fresh water goes to animals. I say to Chadzamira, bring the culprit to me on Monday or Tuesday and repeat what you said while he is there and sees how he leaves my office.</p></blockquote>
<p>Rautenbach owns vast tracks of land in the southeast lowveld and is believed to have strong business links to ZANU PF top brass.</p>
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<h4><a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2018/05/29/mliswa-accuses-govt-officials-of-taking-bribes-to-maintain-rautenbachs-monopoly-on-ethanol/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>Mliswa Accuses Govt Officials Of Taking Bribes To Maintain Rautenbach’s Monopoly On Ethanol</strong></a></h4>
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<p><strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Raleway, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem;">More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2019/02/president-summons-billy-rautenbach/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Newsday</a></strong></p>


Mnangagwa Orders Billy Rautenbach To Come To His Office

<p>Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy, Temba Mliswa has accused government officials of taking bribes from businessman Billy Rautenbach. Mliswa said that this was being done to ensure Rautenbach’s Green Fuel monopoly on ethanol. Said Mliswa,</p>
<blockquote><p>One person also controls ethanol in the country because you are all getting bribes from Billy Rautenbach because of corruption – and we cannot work like that. Ethanol from Chisumbanje is also very expensive than that of Triangle Limited because you are getting bribes and now we have shortages of fuel because a person has personalised ethanol; why are you still in office?</p></blockquote>
<p>Permanent Secretary in the ministry of Energy Partson Mbiriri denied the charges:</p>
<p>More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2018/05/govt-officials-accused-of-taking-bribes/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">NewsDay</a></p>


Mliswa Accuses Govt Officials Of Taking Bribes To Maintain Rautenbach's Monopoly On Ethanol


<p>The documentary looks at how villagers were dispossessed of their land in order to make way for Chisumbunje Green Fuel Ethanol Project.  The villagers claim that they were not compensated for their land.</p>
<p>More: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnMIJQ5aOLp4s9pPEh9Qv2w">TI Zimbabwe</a></p>


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