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President Emmerson Mnangagwa remains firm in his position that he will not extend his term beyond 2028, despite proposals from the ruling party’s 10 provinces to extend it to 2030.
This announcement was made at the 21st ZANU PF Annual National People’s Conference in Bulawayo, on Saturday.
ZANU PF Secretary for Legal Affairs, Patrick Chinamasa, confirmed that Mnangagwa had no desire to extend his mandate beyond the constitutional limits. Said Chinamasa:
<blockquote>
His Excellency’s hand was involved in the drafting of the current Constitution. He is a constitutionalist and has made it clear that he will abide by the Constitution, which limits Presidential terms. He has no intention of serving beyond 2028.
</blockquote>
Chinamasa said the topic of extending Mnangagwa’s term has been discussed multiple times since August 2024, with the President remaining consistent in his stance.
All provinces voted in favour of extending Mnangagwa’s term as President of Zimbabwe and First Secretary of ZANU PF until 2030.
Chinamasa explained that extending the term would require two separate amendments: one to remove the fixed presidential term from the Constitution and another to eliminate the restrictions preventing Mnangagwa from serving beyond 2028.
Chinamasa said throughout his consultations with the President, sought clarity on this matter. He said:
<blockquote>
I was not satisfied with the initial responses, but after repeated discussions, the President remained resolute in his position. He is committed to adhering to the Constitution and will not seek an extension beyond 2028.
I was granted a meeting in August where I raised the issue to find out what his position was. I was given an answer. I was not satisfied.
I asked again for a meeting in mid-September to seek an answer. I was given the same answer that I was given in August.
But just to be sure whether I was in the right direction, I called and asked for another meeting which His Excellency granted me which was on Tuesday and this time I had a witness, I was not alone fortunately.
I was given the same answer that I was given in August, September and Tuesday. Just before I took to the podium, I whispered in the ear of the President “Is what you told me at the three meetings still standing” and he was emphatic, it still stands.
</blockquote>
Chinamasa told the Conference that the President has consistently demonstrated a firm and unwavering stance on the issue of extending his term. He said:
<blockquote>
I must say each time I went to ask him, I got the impression that he was angry with me for raising issues where he made pronouncements locally, and while he was in the People’s Republic of China.
Given my position, I should always heed what the leadership says but I wanted to get it from the horse’s mouth.
I want to repeat what he said on Tuesday. He said he is a constitutionalist and for certain, he is one.
Furthermore, His Excellency’s hand was involved in the drafting of the current Constitution.
</blockquote>
However, some political observers believe Chinamasa’s statements about Mnangagwa being a constitutionalist were a calculated move after Mnangagwa noticed growing resistance to his 2030 campaign.
They argue that if Mnangagwa truly opposed the 2030 campaign, the resolution would not have been included at the conference’s conclusion, as he must approve all resolutions before they are passed and announced.
Thus, the inclusion of the resolution suggests that Mnangagwa may actually desire the extension of his term.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he will not stay in power beyond 2028, even though his party wanted him to stay until 2030. He made this clear at a conference in Bulawayo. His party's legal affairs head confirmed that Mnangagwa will follow the rules and not extend his term. The topic of extending his term has been discussed since 2024, but Mnangagwa has stayed firm. Some think he actually wants to stay longer, despite what he says. Overall, Mnangagwa is sticking to the rules and will not extend his term past 2028.

I Will Not Extend My Term Beyond 2028 - Mnangagwa

American economist Professor <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Steve_H._Hanke">Steve Hanke</a> has declared Zimbabwe’s currency as the weakest in the world adding that the southern African nation has the highest inflation rate globally. According to Hanke’s currency watchlist, on January 12, 2024, the Zimbabwe dollar traded at ZWL$12,500 per US$1 and had lost 92% of its value since January 1, 2023.
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Journalist <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Hopewell_Chin'ono/">Hopewell Chin’ono</a> responded to Hanke’s report, stating that it vindicates his previous statements about the poor state of the Zimbabwean currency. Chin’ono argued that Zimbabwe has become the riskiest place to invest in Africa, with an unemployment rate of 95%. He emphasised that the significant depreciation of the Zimbabwean dollar is an undeniable economic fact, reflecting the country’s overall economic performance.
Chin’ono attributed the economic challenges to corruption, incompetence, inconsistent policies, lack of the rule of law, misuse of state institutions, and failure to attract investment. Consequently, Zimbabweans have lost trust in the government, leading them to bank their savings in other countries or keep them hidden to protect against institutional corruption. He said:
<blockquote>
The Zimbabwean dollar lost 92% of its buying power in the last 12 months making it the weakest currency in the world, this is not an opinion, this is an economic fact backed up by data. A currency is a direct reflection of how a country’s economy is performing, as the Ghanaian Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia famously said; “…when in doubt (of how the economy is performing), check the currency.” We can’t run away from the fact that economic indicators such as inflation rates and currency strength or weakness are critical reflections of a country’s economic performance. So naturally the economic challenges faced by Zimbabwe as reflected in the weakening currency and high inflation indicate deep underlying economic issues…
This explains why Zimbabweans mostly bank their savings in South Africa and those who can in Europe and America, they have correctly lost trust in the Government. Those who can’t travel bank it under the pillow to avoid losing it to institutional corruption. Our country is now in the top ten worst governed countries, it is also now officially the riskiest country to invest in Africa according to global risk assessment economic organisations, even riskier than African countries at war. The average Zimbabwean doesn’t keep their hard currency in the bank for fear of losing it simply because the trust between the governing authorities and the citizens broke down after two cycles of citizens losing their savings and pensions in Zimbabwean banks due to corrupt government policies.
</blockquote>
In addition to economic challenges, Zimbabwe struggles with issues such as cholera outbreaks, inadequate healthcare facilities, and the imprisonment of critics and political opponents. Chin’ono highlights the government’s tendency to deflect blame onto external factors like sanctions while ignoring internal issues such as the smuggling of gold by ZANU PF elites and their associates. He says Zimbabwe has transformed into a “mafia state” and unless fundamental changes occur, economic recovery will remain elusive.
The Zimbabwe dollar has a turbulent history. It replaced the Rhodesian dollar when Zimbabwe gained independence in 1980. Initially, it had a similar value to the US dollar. However, economic problems led to excessive money printing and high inflation. In 2008, hyperinflation hit, making the Zimbabwe dollar almost worthless. To stabilise the economy, then-Finance Minister <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Patrick_Chinamasa/">Patrick Chinamasa</a> introduced the multi-currency regime in 2009. However, in June 2019, the Zimbabwe dollar returned as the main currency. The government stated that it was equivalent to the United States dollar. Yet, it faced ongoing challenges, with high inflation and loss of value. Today, it’s considered the weakest currency globally, struggling to regain stability and trust.
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Zimbabwe Has The Weakest Currency And Highest Inflation In The World - Professor Hanke

ZANU PF Treasurer General <a href="https://pindula.co.zw/Patrick_Chinamasa">Patrick Chinamasa</a> has described Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) self-styled Interim Secretary-General <a href="https://pindula.co.zw/Sengezo_Tshabangu">Sengezo Tshabangu</a> as “a real man”.
Posting on X, Chinamasa said Tshabangu exhibited bravery when he recalled 30 CCC public office bearers without the approval of the party’s Change Champion in Chief, Nelson Chamisa. Said Chinamasa:
<blockquote>
I think Sengenzo Tshabangu is what the late President Mugabe would call amadoda sibili. Murume chaiye.
Without a shadow of a doubt, Tshabangu has balls, the sort of balls you see so prominently, arrogantly, and shamelessly displayed by those 2 metal bulls locked in mortal combat at a Trek Service Station to the approving stare and scrutiny of both customers and passersby alike.
</blockquote>
In recalling CCC MPs and Councillors mainly from Bulawayo and Matabeleland where he comes from, Tshabangu effectively wrestled control of the party from Chamisa.
Chinamasa believes Tshabangu is working for senior CCC officials, among them Tendai Biti and Professor Welshman Ncube, who were MDC Alliance vice presidents, and Charlton Hwende, who was MDC Alliance secretary general. He said:
<blockquote>
But when I say Tshabangu has balls, don’t be impressed too soon. He is indeed a very brave man, but this must be qualified.
To be honest, Me-Thinks Sengenzo Tshabangu is a Cat’s paw, meaning that he is a person used by another to undertake a dangerous or unpleasant task (“cat’s paw” is derived from the tale of a clever monkey who used a cat’s foot to rake chestnuts from the fire).
Looking into my crystal ball, I see clearly 3, perhaps 4, 5, or 6 monkeys using Tshabangu to douse the inferno started by Emperor Nero to burn colleagues he wants discarded from the leadership of Triple C. Who are these Monkeys?
The top 3 Monkeys are undoubtedly Tendai Biti, Professor Welshman Ncube, and Charlton Hwende who, to their regret and utter shame, have not been endowed with balls worth displaying.
As events unfold, I cannot rule out Chibaya and Zvizwai to be part of the conspiracy against the Emperor, if not, at the very least, these other monkeys can be reckoned to be looking forward to feeding from the 3 top monkeys’ trough in the event the plot succeeds. Just think of it.
Sengenzo Tshabangu declares himself Interim Secretary General of Triple C and none of these monkeys issues a Statement to dispute the fact.
</blockquote>
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Tshabangu "Is A Real Man", Says Chinamasa As He Names CCC Officials "Funding" Renegade

Brighton Mutebuka, a Zimbabwean lawyer residing in the United Kingdom, has claimed that the ruling party ZANU PF sent <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Sengezo_Tshabangu/">Sengezo Tshabangu</a> to sabotage and possibly destroy the opposition <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Citizens'_Coalition_for_Change/">Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)</a>. Mutebuka alleges that Sengezo Tshabangu, who has been in the spotlight after declaring himself as the CCC’s Secretary-General and recalling 15 Members of Parliament (MPs) and some councillors, is being controlled by the ruling party.
Parliament Speaker <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Jacob_Mudenda/">Jacob Mudenda</a> acted upon Tshabangu’s instructions and removed the recalled legislators, disregarding a written communication from Chamisa stating that any dealings concerning CCC MPs should go through his office. Tshabangu who is also a lawyer, also asserted that <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Nelson_Chamisa/">Nelson Chamisa</a> was no longer the party president and announced that he had appointed <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Tendai_Biti/">Tendai Biti</a> and <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Welshman_Ncube/">Welshman Ncube</a> in his stead. 
Mutebuka’s analysis suggests that Tshabangu is operating under the guidance of ZANU PF. In a social media post seen by Pindula News, Mutebuka drew parallels between the current events and the circumstances surrounding the formation of the CCC. This comparison likely refers to the previous recalling of MDC Alliance MPs and Councillors aligned with Chamisa, following the party leadership dispute that ended up in court. <a href="https://twitter.com/BMutebuka/status/1711822391779750222/history">Mutebuka said:</a>
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<h3>Political Foolishness On Steroids In Zim As The Regime Deploys A Proxy To Try &amp; Destroy @CCCZimbabwe</h3>
1. The starting premise is that we are all mortals. What that entails is that each &amp; every one of us will ultimately exit this universe at some point. 
2. The next premise is that democracy is a game of numbers. A mandate is earned via convincing the majority of the electorate to vote for you on the basis that you are the best candidate. @nelsonchamisa has successfully achieved that premise &amp; proven his mettle through garnering millions of votes in successive elections. 
3. The regime simply has to come to terms with that political reality. It has to be reminded that the world can see through its crude machinations.
 4. @CCCZimbabwe was formed in January 2022 after a similar charade to what we are witnessing. The regime spectacularly failed to decimate the opposition despite the array of weapons at its disposal. 
5. What the regime is missing is that, the more it targets @nelsonchamisa, the more it inadvertently amplifies his profile &amp; popularity. 
6. Trying to derail his political movement is simply futile. It’s the people who follow him who matter, not political names. The only way to stop him is to ban elections &amp; declare Zimbabwe a one party state. 
</blockquote>
Mutebuka criticised the elderly leaders of Zimbabwe, including President <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Emmerson_Mnangagwa/">Emmerson Mnangagwa</a>, Mudenda, and <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Patrick_Chinamasa/">Patrick Chinamasa</a>, for engaging in “political foolishness” instead of leaving a meaningful legacy. He questioned the point of their actions, such as denying power to Chamisa, engaging in corruption, and terrorising citizens, when their own “end is near”.
Mutebuka found it embarrassing that a party formed in 1963 was fixated on fighting a 45-year-old leader of the opposition. He emphasised the need for Zimbabwe’s leadership to focus on the country’s development rather than eliminating the opposition. Ultimately, he questioned the significance of crowing over opponents if everything was left behind in the end.
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UK-based Lawyer Says ZANU PF Sent Tshabangu To Destroy CCC

Some Zambians held a press conference on Sunday, September 17, 2023, to address alleged death threats directed at President Hakainde Hichilema by Patrick Chinamasa. They also demanded a formal investigation into the suspicious death of former Zambian President Mwanawasa in 2008. Chinamasa, a senior official in Zimbabwe’s ZANU PF party, recently made statements that were perceived as a confession of Zimbabwe’s involvement in Mwanawasa’s death and a threat to Hichilema. The strained relations between the two countries worsened when Hichilema appointed Dr. Nevers Mumba to lead the SADC Electoral Observer Mission to Zimbabwe, and Mumba criticized the election process, leading to accusations from ZANU PF that Hichilema was pushing for regime change with the support of Western countries. Addressing the media, Jack Kalala who was representing the Zambian nationals said:
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<h3>STATEMENT BY CONCERNED TIZENS OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA IN REACTION TO SOCIAL MEDIA COMMENTS BY ZANU-PF SENIOR OFFICIAL, MR. PATRICK CHINAMASA, ON THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT LEVY P. MWANAWASA IN 2008 AND THE DEATH THREATS TO THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT, MR. HAKAINDE HICHILEMA</h3>
– Members of the Diplomatic Corp 
– Members of the Press 
– Ladies and Gentlemen
On behalf of my fellow concerned citizens herewith me and indeed on my own behalf, I wish to welcome you all to this press conference held on the 17th Day of September 2023 at Mulungushi Conference Center.
Social media comments of Senior ZANU-PF official, Mr. Patrick Chinamasa, (copy attached) in the wake of the SADC Election Observer Mission Report that highlighted noted shortcomings in the conduct of the 2023 national elections in Zimbabwe have been received with utter dismay, shock and alarm by many of our compatriots and indeed by us. Without being prompted by anyone, Mr. Chinamasa volunteered to tell the entire world that his country, Zimbabwe, caused the untimely death of President Mwanawasa in 2008. President Mwanawasa died on August 19 in 2008 in France after suddenly falling sick under unclear and suspicious circumstances while attending the AU Summit in Shann El Sheik Tourist Resort City in Egypt.
As if that was not enough, Mr. Chinamasa severely warned President Hakainde Hichilema that he too could die in the same way.
Our understanding of Mr. Chinamasa’s assertions is that Zimbabwe had a hand in the death of President Mwanawasa and therefore has become a national security threat to Zambia and its President.
Mr. Chinamasa is no ordinary citizen in Zimbabwe because he is a senior official in the governing party, ZANU-PF, in the country. We therefore take it that he was speaking from an informed position. We consider Chinamasa’s allegation that President Mwanawasa had agreed to host a detachment of the British Military in the plot to topple the Government of President Robert Mugabe patently false and absolutely malicious.
There is evidence from reputable sections of the British and South African press (copies attached) that it was in fact South Africa under President Thabo Mbeki which had been requested to offer such support. We therefore wonder why Mr. Chinamasa has not pointed his accusing finger at South Africa but has chosen to direct his anger against Zambia. As for the warning to President Hichilema, we consider it misguided, appalling and provocative because the SADC Secretariat is the appropriate organ to receive complaints or blame on the Election Observers Mission Report since Zambia was not responsible for the report but SADC.
The threat on the life of President Hichilema is a national security issue and should therefore not be taken lightly as we fear for his life, in view of the deliberate reference made to President Mwanawasa’s death as an example. We feel that it wouldn’t be safe and advisable for him to be attending regional summit meetings, especially those that Zimbabwe will host.
In the interest of regional peace, stability and harmonious coexistence, it is our considered view that the highest organ of SADC should take up and deal with Mr. Chinamasa’s unjustified and unwarranted provocations. Lest we forget, it should be noted that Zambia sacrificed so much for the liberation of Zimbabwe and other countries in the region. Many lives and properties were lost and destroyed in helping our brothers and sisters to gain their freedom and independence. Many freedom fighters were hosted in Zambia and they used Zambia to fight for their freedom and independence which they are now enjoying. It is therefore dismaying and outrageous that the brothers and sisters for whom we sacrificed so much should repay us with ingratitude and animosity on baseless and fabricated allegations. As patriotic Zambians we are ready to defend through peaceful means the integrity, values and the good reputation of our country, Zambia. We are ready to safeguard the peace and stability that have prevailed since independence. We need these for the development of our country and indeed the region and Africa.
Consequently, should SADC fail to effectively deal with this matter, we will have no choice but to escalate it to the African Court of Justice. In addition, we are going to formally write to our Government to request them to take up the matter with the SADC Secretariat and AU since President Mwanawasa suddenly fell sick while attending the AU Summit in Sharm El Sheik City in Egypt.
In view of the unsolicited confession that Mr. Chinamasa made, it is our prayer that the Zambian Government should demand for an inquiry to be made in the death of President Mwanawasa to establish the truth. This is in the interest of all the African heads of State as we wouldn’t like a situation where African Presidents should be living in fear of each other but should work together to collectively resolve the many challenges our continent is facing. May God bless our beautiful country Zambia. May God bless and protect our leaders and give them wisdom to lead us to prosperity. May God bless Africa!
I thank you. 
Jack Kalala 
</blockquote>
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Zambians Address Alleged Death Threats To President Hakainde Hichilema By Patrick Chinamasa

Zambia has announced that it will approach the SADC, the African Union (AU), and the United Nations (UN) regarding reported death threats made by former Finance Minister <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Patrick_Chinamasa/">Patrick Chinamasa</a> against President <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Hakainde_Hichilema/">Hakainde Hichilema.</a> These threats allegedly arose following criticism of Zimbabwe’s recent elections by Dr. Nevers Mumba, a former Zambian Deputy Minister and head of the SEOM, who was appointed by Hichilema in his role as Chairperson of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence, and Security.
In a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), Patrick Chinamasa said that Reverend Dr. Nevers Sikwila Mumba, Leader of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy Party (MMD), is on an ungodly evangelical mission to effect regime change in Zimbabwe. Chinamasa likened Mumba’s actions to those of the late Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, whom he said was known for his hostility towards Zimbabwe and alleged collaboration with Tony Blair for a military offensive.
He said in 2008, as SADC Chairman, Mwanawasa organised an emergency summit in Lusaka, inviting opposition leader Tsvangirai. President Mugabe objected and sent a delegation led by Chinamasa and including then Speaker of Parliament Emmerson Mnangagwa, expecting the delegation would have some civility from Mwanawasa due to Mnangagwa’s personal connection. He added:
<blockquote>
The Lusaka Emergency SADC summit was inconclusive, and Mwanawasa made it known that he was taking the matter to the AU Summit to be held at Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt. Mwanawasa suffered a stroke, and that put an end to the regime change agenda as a SADC-initiated project at the behest of Tony Blair. Rev. Nevers Mumba is making a spirited attempt to take the regime change agenda from where Mwanawasa left it. Like Mwanawasa before him, he will not succeed in his evil intent. He does not know what mettle Zimbabweans are made of.
</blockquote>
The Zambian citizens submitted a petition to Zambian Minister Elisha Mutambo, calling on him to raise their concerns against Chinamasa and <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Rutendo_Benson_Matinyarare/">Rutendo Matinyarare</a> to regional and international organizations via Zambia’s Foreign Ministry. 
<img alt="Rutendo Matinyatare Patrick Chinamasa Hakainde Hichilema" class="alignnone wp-image-263723 size-full" decoding="async" height="640" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1422px) 100vw, 1422px" src="https://news.pindula.co.zw/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ruchi.jpeg" srcset="https://news.pindula.co.zw/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ruchi.jpeg 1422w, https://news.pindula.co.zw/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ruchi-300x135.jpeg 300w, https://news.pindula.co.zw/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ruchi-1024x461.jpeg 1024w, https://news.pindula.co.zw/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ruchi-768x346.jpeg 768w, https://news.pindula.co.zw/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ruchi-1320x594.jpeg 1320w" width="1422"/>
Matinyarare denies allegations of threatening to harm President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia. He asked:
<blockquote>
On what basis are Zambians protesting against me and Honorable Chinamasa, saying that we want to kill Hichilema? When have we ever said we want to kill HH? 
</blockquote>
Meanwhile, President Hakainde Hichilema has asserted Zambia’s commitment to maintaining the pacifist foreign policy established by its founding father, Kenneth Kaunda. He emphasised that Zambia seeks to avoid conflicts with any nation. In addition, President Hichilema reminded the region that some neighbouring countries’ leaders, who are now insulting Zambians, were once refugees in Zambia.
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Zambia To Approach SADC, AU, UN Over "Death Threats" To President Hichilema By Zimbabwean Ex-Minister

The ZANU PF party has stated that it is on target to achieve a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly and 60 to 65 percent of the vote for their presidential candidate President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the 2023 harmonised elections. The party’s Secretary for Finance, Patrick Chinamasa expressed the party’s confidence in their prospects of winning the elections based on the emerging results.
Speaking during a media briefing at the party headquarters in Harare, Chinamasa who was standing in for the Party Secretary General, Obert Mpofu, also thanked the electorate for their peaceful conduct during the 2023 general elections. Chinamasa said:
<blockquote>
 We are also on target to achieve 60 to 65% for our President in this election… Now we have these results, (and) I want to say on the basis of what we have, we are on full target with our projections. We are on full target to achieve a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly; already we are there. We are also on target to achieve 60 to 65 percent for our President in this election. That is what we set out to achieve. So, I am grateful to the electorate; that this has in fact been achieved.
</blockquote>
Chinamasa urged the public to disregard claims made by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa from the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) that he won the elections.
In response to media inquiries about allegations of collusion between the ruling party and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), Chinamasa dismissed these claims as unfounded.
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Zimbabwe 2023 Elections: ZANU PF Says It's On Course For Two-Thirds Majority, 60-65% Vote For Mnangagwa

ZANU PF Finance Secretary Patrick Chinamasa lost thousands of dollars to thieves who broke into his vehicle at Meikles Hotel in Harare on Monday evening.
Narrating the incident in a post on social media site X, formerly Twitter, Chinamasa said he lost $6 700 cash, of which US$1 700 belonged to him and US$5000 was money entrusted to him by a relative to deliver to Rusape. <a href="https://twitter.com/Chinamasa_PA/status/1694252276427145626?s=20">He wrote</a>:
<blockquote>
On the evening of Monday, 21 August 2023, at the 5-Star Meikles Hotel, an incident occurred which caused me great distress.
I led a 7-member Zanu-PF delegation to a scheduled meeting with Former Mozambican President, His Excellency President Joachim Chissano, the Zimbabwe-appointed Facilitator in the engagement with International Creditor Institutions over granting debt relief to Zimbabwe.
The delegation comprised myself as Leader, Cdes Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, Zanu-PF Secretary for External Relations, Munyaradzi Machacha, Principal of the Chitepo School of Ideology, Fortune Chasi, Deputy Secretary of Legal Affairs, Herbert Madondo, Director of Security, Gamuchirai Mangundu, Director of External Relations, and Dr. Victor Mapuvire, Director in the Office of the Secretary-General Cde Dr. Obert Mpofu.
I drove myself to the venue and parked my car in the street right in front of the 5-Star Hotel. After ensuring that the car doors were locked and secure, I rode the lift up to the venue of our meeting with President Chissano.
The time was roughly 18:25 hours. Our meeting ended at about 21:35 hours. When I got to the car, I had the shock of my life.
A thief or thieves had smashed the right passenger window pane and there was broken glass all over the seat.
When I peeped inside to check on my bag, to my horror, I discovered that my bag had been stolen.
I went to the 5-Star Hotel Reception desk to inform them and to ask whether they had a clue who did it, when, and by whom.
Their calm response was to profess ignorance of the incident. A hotel guard accompanied me to the scene of the crime, also professing ignorance of the matter.
He told me that the hotel had no responsibility whatsoever over cars parked on the street, even if parked in front of the entrance to the 5-Star Hotel.
He emphasized again and again that the responsibility lay with the Harare Municipal Council and that any cars parked in the street in front of the 5-Star Hotel were parked at the owners’ risk.
To ram home his point, he directed my eyes to the CCTV camera on the wall directly overhead my car and explained that the camera was fixed to focus solely on the main entrance into the 5-Star Hotel and not the street, which was not the 5-Star Hotel’s responsibility.
The hotel General Manager, Mr Munjoma, was called to the scene and reiterated that the policy of the 5-Star Hotel was that there should be no 5-Star Hotel interference with the goings-on in the street in front of their 5-Star Hotel.
It was the strict policy of the 5-Star Hotel to turn a blind eye, technologically or otherwise, to what happens in the street in front of their entrance.
When police delayed coming to the scene, Mr Munjoma was kind enough to direct one of the hotel security guards to accompany me to the ZRP Harare Central Police Charge Office, where I made my report.
I retired home to a sleepless night, agonizing over my latest misfortune. As luck would have it, around 9 am on Tuesday, 22 August 2023, I received a call from Harare Central Police Despol, Mr. Moyo, informing me that my black Zanu-PF branded leather bag had been picked up in the Market Square area of Harare.
Naturally, the bag had been emptied of USD $6700 cash, of which USD $1700 was mine and USD $5000 was money entrusted to me by a relative to deliver to his parents in Rusape towards the construction of his house in Rusape.
My relative was taking advantage of my planned trip to Rusape on 23 August to vote for Team Zanu-PF, President ED Mnangagwa, Candidate Member of the National Assembly, and our Candidate for Local Authorities.
The rest of the contents of the bag were left intact, including my iPad, Identity Card, Driver’s Licence, CBZ and CABS bank swipe cards, 2 sets of spectacles, 21 x 20-litre Redan Coupons (not 20000 litres worth of fuel coupons or 1500 x 20 litre Puma coupons as has been reported on Social Media), and an assortment of personal and Zanu-PF files.
Missing was a Zanu-PF Commissariat document setting out schedules of Venues and dates of Provincial Star Rallies addressed by His Excellency President ED Mnangagwa and the Constituency-based Rallies addressed by the 2 Vice Presidents and Second Secretaries of Zanu-PF, Cdes Chiwenga and Mohadi, and the Zanu-PF National Chairman, Muchinguri-Kashiri.
The misfortune that befell me apart, the delegation’s meeting with President Chissano was a fruitful and constructive engagement.
Worth noting for the future was the point I made during the exchanges that, as they do in the United Nations and other global organizations, the sanctions-imposing countries wield unfriendly and veto powers in Creditor Institutions such as the World Bank and its Subsidiary Companies, the IMF and its subsidiaries, and the African Development Bank and its subsidiaries.
The point is that these sanctions-imposing countries will not agree to debt relief for as long as they maintain sanctions.
In other words, there is a direct link between the lifting of sanctions and agreeing to debt relief for Zimbabwe.
If they agree to lift sanctions, it will follow automatically that they will agree to grant debt relief…
</blockquote>
More: <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

Chinamasa Loses ZANU PF Documents, US$6 700 Cash In Car Break-in

<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Mutumwa_Mawere/">Mutumwa Mawere</a>, an exiled Zimbabwean businessman, has approached the Constitutional Court to block President Emmerson Mnangagwa from contesting in the August 23 polls.
Mawere argued that allowing Mnangagwa to run for the presidency would condone violations of the Reconstruction of State Indebted Insolvent Companies Act, which occurred during his tenure.
Mawere used to preside over the Shabanie Mashava Mines (SMM) Holdings, which were seized by the Zimbabwean government in 2004 through the Reconstruction of State-Indebted Insolvent Companies Act. Mawere cited Mnangagwa’s involvement in the seizure of the company after a fallout with him, alleging that Mnangagwa had assisted him in acquiring the company but later sided with his political rival, former Vice President Joyce Mujuru.
Mawere argued in his court application that Mnangagwa should be “interdicted and restrained from participating in the 2023 elections.” He also referred to the government-run airline, Air Zimbabwe, and Hwange Colliery Company Limited as cases where violations of the law had taken place while the firms were under reconstruction. He said:
<blockquote>
Court to declare that Mnangagwa’s conduct in relation to the affairs of Air Zimbabwe Private Limited and Hwange Colliery Company through his direct and personal actions including appointing (Patrick) Chinamasa as chairman of Air Zimbabwe under reconstruction, which conduct was ultra vires the Reconstruction of State-indebted Insolvent Companies Act.
</blockquote>
Mawere argued that the Reconstruction Act prevented the application of the provisions of the Companies Act in relation to a company whose management was divested. 
Zimbabwe is set to hold harmonised elections on August 23, 2023, and Mnangagwa is one of the presidential candidates.
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Mutumwa Mawere Approaches Court To Block Mnangagwa From Contesting In 2023 Elections

The Election Resource Centre (ERC), an independent election watchdog, has denied claims made by Zimbabwe’s ruling party, ZANU PF, that it received foreign funding from the West to train election agents. The ERC stated that training election agents was not part of its mandate.
ZANU PF’s finance boss, Patrick Chinamasa, claimed that ERC and the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) had received foreign funding to train election agents, allegedly provided by the United Kingdom, France, Australia, USAID, Sweden, the United States embassy in Harare, US-based National Democratic Institute and the European Union.
The ERC refuted these claims, stating that it was neither aware of the donation nor part of such a programme as alleged by ZANU PF. Said the election watchdog in a statement:
<blockquote>
Unfortunately, this statement from Zanu PF is not true with regards to ERC. As ERC we, therefore, put it on record that we are neither aware of the donation nor are we part of such a programme as alleged by Zanu PF.
As a law-abiding entity, we continue striving for electoral excellence, our mission as ERC is to provide credible information, strategic services and deliberative platforms that aim to improve the quality of democracy and elections at all tiers of Zimbabwean society and Africa at large.
The ERC is a think-tank and advocacy organisation on electoral and democracy issues in Africa, having been formed following the need to deepen electoral research work in Africa that would inform effective citizen participation as well as strengthen policy engagement towards improvement of the quality of electoral and democratic practices.
</blockquote>
ZESN, which also dismissed the claims made by ZANU PF, reiterated that it does not finance or train any political party agents as this is not part of its core business and mandate. ZESN restated that it does not provide funding or training for political party agents and does not endorse any political party or candidate in Zimbabwe. It said its core business and mandate is to promote democratic elections in Zimbabwe through domestic oversight on all electoral processes including voter registration, nomination, pre- and post-electoral environment, and polling day processes, among others. 
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ERC Denies ZANU PF's Foreign Funding Claim

The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), an independent electoral watchdog, has denied claims made by ZANU PF treasurer Patrick Chinamasa that they received US$10 million from Western countries to train election agents for political parties.
Chinamasa had alleged that ZESN received money from various governments such as the United States, the United Kingdom, European Union, France, Japan, and Sweden to train 12,500 election agents for all parties participating in the August 23 polls.
ZESN has denied these claims and claimed that they did not receive any funding from any of the mentioned countries for the purpose of training election agents. Said the electoral watchdog in a statement on Thursday:
<blockquote>
Zesn reiterates that it does not and will not finance and or train any political party agents as this is not part of its core business and mandate, neither does Zesn support or endorse any political party or candidate in Zimbabwe. 
The network’s mandate is to promote democratic elections in Zimbabwe through domestic oversight on all electoral processes such as voter registration, nomination, pre- and post-electoral environment and polling day processes among others.
</blockquote>
The role of electoral watchdogs is to ensure free, fair, and transparent elections by monitoring the entire process from registration to vote counting. They promote voter education and participation, offer training to parties and officials, and provide oversight and accountability.
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ZESN Denies Chinamasa's Claim Of Receiving $10M For Election Agents Training

Zimbabwe’s permanent secretary of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Nick Mangwana, has criticised the United States of America for placing a 13-year-old Gamuchirai Chinamasa on the sanctions list saying the move was unjustifiable.
Gamuchirai Chinamasa, the daughter of former Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa, is among 17 individuals who were <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2022/12/13/full-list-usa-removes-17-zimbabweans-from-sanctions-list/">removed from the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) earlier this month.</a> 
The U.S. said, “CHINAMASA, Gamuchirai, 2 Honeybear Lane, Borrowdale, Zimbabwe; DOB 11 Nov 1991; Passport AN634603 (Zimbabwe); Child of Patrick Chinamasa (individual) [ZIMBABWE]” had been delisted from the sanctions list.
In response, Mangwana said:
<blockquote>
So Gamuchirai Chinamasa was placed under Sanctions at the age of 13. She had committed no offense against anyone nor any human right violation. But clearly, here we have her human rights and child rights ironically brazenly violated in the process. Let’s see you justifying it.
</blockquote>
Commenting on the development on Twitter, Chinamasa expressed outrage that his daughter, Gamuchirai, was sanctioned when she was just 13 years old. He said:
<blockquote>
The United States Authorities imposed sanctions against Gamuchirai when she was only 13 years old. Someone needs to explain to me how a 13-year-old girl child can pose a threat to the global security interests of the sole World Super Power, the Mighty USA.
Further someone needs to explain not only to me but to the Wider World how a 13 year old girl child can be sanctioned on the basis that she violated human rights. I am sure Hopewell Chin’ono can help explain.
Ndinoyambira (I wish to advise) political activists who are on the beck and call of Western Countries not to swallow hook, sinker and line the propaganda churned out by Western Imperial Forces on the subject of Human Rights. They don’t mean what they say .They don’t practise what they tell you.
</blockquote>
Meanwhile, in a statement accompanying the sanctions review, the US said; “…sanctions are not intended to be permanent but to incentivize changes in behaviour.”  
The U.S. added that each removal is based on a thorough review and is part of an ongoing effort to keep the sanctions program current, focused, and relevant.
Sanctions were initially imposed on the southern African country at the turn of the millennium following the fast-track land reform programme during which gross human rights violations were reported. 
The U.S. government and its allies have been renewing the restrictive measures yearly since then. 
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Mangwana Criticises The U.S. For Sanctioning 13-year-old Gamuchirai Chinamasa

ZANU PF says it has not been formally approached by self-exiled former party members Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao, and their intentions are not yet clear.
Moyo and Zhuwao jointly penned a letter to ZANU PF members on Tuesday apologising for associating themselves with the hashtag “ZANU PF Must Go”.
Speaking to <a href="https://www.sundaymail.co.zw/moyo-zhuwaos-intentions-not-yet-clear-zanu-pf">The Sunday Mail</a>, ZANU PF’s acting Secretary for Administration, who is also the party’s Secretary for Finance, Patrick Chinamasa, said that as former members, Moyo and Zhuwao know the party processes to follow if they want to rejoin the party. Said Chinamasa:
<blockquote>
I can confirm that my attention has been drawn to the joint statement purportedly signed by Prof Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao dated 15th November 2022 and circulating on social media, and addressed as an open letter to ZANU PF comrades.
My brief comment is, firstly, that is not direct communication with the ZANU PF party or ZANU PF leadership.
Secondly, this is not an application by Prof Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao to rejoin ZANU PF.
There is no intention in the statement that they want to rejoin ZANU PF.
</blockquote>
Chinamasa added that it was not clear what the duo intended to achieve by writing the letter. He said:
<blockquote>
As you know, Prof Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao are among the 26 members of the G40 cabal who were expelled from the party by the ZANU PF Central Committee meeting which met on the 19th of November 2017.
Thirdly, reading through the joint statement, it is not immediately clear what the intention in signing and circulating that statement is.
</blockquote>

Moyo, Zhuwao’s Intentions Not Yet Clear - ZANU PF

Zimbabwe’s ruling party, ZANU PF, has said sanctions imposed on the southern African country at the turn of the millennium could be a stumbling block to rejoining Commonwealth, according to the <a href="https://www.chronicle.co.zw/zanu-pf-raises-concern-with-commonwealth-processes/">Chronicle</a>.
Since the ascendancy to power of President Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2017, Zimbabwe has been pushing the engagement and re-engagement agenda and rejoining the Commonwealth bloc has been on the cards since then. 
Speaking after a closed-door meeting with the Commonwealth delegation led by Professor Luis Franschesci in Harare yesterday, ZANU PF’s acting secretary for administration, Patrick Chinamasa, said the discussions were fruitful. He said:
<blockquote>
We are very pleased that we had a very fruitful engagement with the Commonwealth delegation this afternoon. We discussed a number of issues mostly centred on our application for readmission into the Commonwealth.
ZANU PF fully supports the application for readmission and we told them so. We do so because as our President has said on many occasions, we want to be a friend to all and an enemy to none. That’s what motivates our application for readmission. We have been a valuable member of the club in the past from 1980-2003.
We have observed and informed the delegation that our application for  re-admission was made in May 2018, four years later we have not yet succeeded. Our observation is that the process is too slow, but also we observed that the bench-marking is skewed against Zimbabwe.
It’s made too high to a point where it’s not applied to any new members who want to get into the Commonwealth or to those who want to be readmitted like us.
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
Our problem with re-admission should be coming from those countries which imposed sanctions against us and who are members of the club.
They have to decide whether they want to lift the sanctions, if they agreed to have us re-admitted it would follow that they will lift sanctions. We think that is where the problem may be.
</blockquote>
The Commonwealth delegation is in the country for a week-long visit aimed at assessing progress made by Zimbabwe following an application submitted in 2018 for re-admission into the club.
The Commonwealth secretary general, Mrs Patricia Scotland, was in South Africa early this month where she addressed the first ordinary session of the 6th Pan African Parliament and pledged to deploy a team in Harare to assess the situation on the ground.
She said several engagements had been made and the current stage with regard to Zimbabwe’s application to rejoin the club was to have an assessment team which will eventually report back before a position is taken.
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ZANU PF Says Sanctions Could Be The Stumbling Block To Rejoining Commonwealth

Former Finance minister <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Patrick_Chinamasa">Patrick Chinamasa</a> has reportedly pleaded for the allocation of more central committee seats to Manicaland after he was rejected by his Makoni district at a recent Makoni inter-district meeting.
Party members say he should be contested in the upcoming central committee elections, Standard reported.
In a letter dated September 30 addressed to the ZANU PF political commissar <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Mike_Bimha">Mike Bimha</a>, Chinamasa protested why Makoni was allocated few central committee seats. He wrote: 
<blockquote>
Further to the appeal made to the Makoni District Coordination chairman (DCC) Albert Nyakuedzwa dated 27 September 2022, concerning the above subject matter, allow me to submit copy of Zanu PF Manicaland province analysis showing distribution of party districts, constituency by constituency and administrative district by administrative district.
The analysis reveals that Makoni district, which has hundred and twelve districts and five constituencies has been allocated two central committee posts whereas Nyanga has two constituencies and thirty-two party districts has been allocated four central committee districts.
Clearly the allocation is irrational and defies logic. I add my voice to the appeal by Nyakuedzwa for rectification of the anomaly.
</blockquote>
The election dates have not been announced.
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Former Finance Minister Chinamasa Rejected By His District

A parliamentary report on Command Agriculture has indicated that former Finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa, and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) superintended over a shady and illegal process through dubious approvals of Treasury Bills that have saddled the government with a debt of nearly US$1.6 billion. 
According to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report presented on Thursday Chinamasa and the RBZ disregarded the law in discharging the programme. 
Members of Parliament are now calling on the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) to probe their actions.
Parliamentarians have also called for a forensic audit to establish how much the country lost in the shady arrangement, done outside the tender process.
MPs under the committee chaired by Gweru Urban legislator Brian Dube said they also want the executive to take the findings of the report seriously and act. 
Several companies including Sakunda Holdings owned by business tycoon Kudakwashe Tagwirei, who is President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s adviser, are implicated in the report. Sakunda got millions of dollars without going through requisite tender processes.
Other companies which took part in the Command Agriculture programme are FSG, Quton, Pedstock, Cottco, Sable Chemicals, Valley Seeds, Seed Co, Windmill and ZFC.
The MPs said the report came about as a result of a “normal routine” that looked into audited accounts for the years 2017 and 2018.
MPs said this quickly imploded into a major inquiry when the committee noted a huge “unallocated reserve” amounting to US$1 559 713 867 exposed by the 2017 report by the Auditor-General on the ministry of Agriculture that established the variance. The report read in part:
<blockquote>
According to a schedule received from the Auditor-General, the ministry of Agriculture was supposed to have received US$1 633 617 652 from Treasury. However, as at 10 May 2018, the ministry of Agriculture confirmed having received only US$73 903 785. 
Although the Auditor-General’s reports relate the figures to the ‘Unallocated Reserve’, the amounts referred to above were in fact unbudgeted for expenditure spent outside Parliament’s approved budget as shown in the figures in the Appropriation Account, the Budget and the Blue Book.
</blockquote>
The PAC said these huge amounts were spent outside the Appropriation Act in breach of the Constitution of Zimbabwe and the Public Finance Management Act.
Agriculture ministry officials said the Finance ministry and the RBZ were in full control of the Command Agriculture.
MPs accused the ministry of Agriculture of not being proactive, adding they should have played a meaningful role in their operations by interrogating their role in the whole maize production matrix.
Ministry of Finance officials admitted that there had been unauthorised expenditure through Command Agriculture for the years 2017 and 2018 as captured in the Auditor-General’s statements.
The report says RBZ governor, John Mangundya, felt that the issues of compliance with the constitution and the law were not his problem but were the ministry of Finance’s problem.
More: <a href="https://thenewshawks.com/us16bn-command-agriculture-bombshell/">TheNewsHawks</a>

US$1.6 Billion: Parliament Implicates Chinamasa, RBZ In Shady Command Agriculture Processes

ZANU PF has with immediate effect banned co-options into party organs and also banned the passing of votes of no confidence on elected officials amid reports of major factional fights in provinces over posts.
Internal disputes were also clear in the district coordinating committees (DCCs) elections held last December.
The party’s acting national political commissar, Patrick Chinamasa wrote to all DCCs nationwide and said the ongoing restructuring within the party would automatically fill vacant posts, therefore, cherry-picking replacements was unnecessary. 
  
He said henceforth, Zanu PF national Commissariat department should grant explicit approvals for co-options and VONC. Reads the circular, dated 3 August 2021:
<blockquote>
It has come to the attention of the department that some provinces are conducting co-options to fill in vacant posts in their branches, districts and provincial executive committees. Provinces are aware that the party is currently conducting a restructuring exercise which should usher in new leadership for the same organs by October 2021.
“This restructuring exercise will naturally redress the issue of vacant posts. Provinces are, therefore, prohibited from carrying out co-options and VONC in any of the above-mentioned party organs. In respect of the above it is directed that all co-options and VONC conducted from April 2021, which marked the commencement of the current restructuring exercise to December 2021 are null and void.
</blockquote>
Zanu PF insiders said the ban was also targeting branch and provincial executive committees, and the district coordinating committees that was posing headaches for the commissariat. 
  
Zanu PF DCCs were recently reintroduced after their disbandment in 2012 at the height of a gruelling succession turf war between former vice president Joice Mujuru and Mnangagwa, who at the time was just a Cabinet minister, as both protagonists angled to succeed Robert Mugabe. 
  
Their reintroduction has fuelled factional fights that in some cases have been chaotic.
More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/jittery-chinamasa-bans-dcc-co-options/">NewZimbabwe</a>

ZANU PF Bans Votes Of No Confidence, Co-options

ZANU PF acting political commissar Patrick Chinamasa says he is recovering well at a private hospital in Harare after he was involved in an accident on Saturday night.
Chinamasa’s car crashed into a truck that was carrying scrap metal around 6:45 pm at the 12-kilometre peg after Rusape, before the tollgate.
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Speaking to The Herald from his hospital bed on Monday, Chinamasa said he is feeling much better and could be discharged soon. He said:
<blockquote>The doctor is monitoring my situation to see if I do not have some internal injuries. I am fit and ready to go.
I am only waiting for the doctor to monitor my chest otherwise I might be discharged anytime from now.</blockquote>
The former Justice Minister said he escaped death by the skin of his teeth but urged people not to panic. He added:
<blockquote>I was saved by the airbags, otherwise, we will be talking about something else.</blockquote>
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"Airbags Saved My Life", Chinamasa Speaks From Hospital

ZANU PF Finance Secretary and Acting Political Commissar, Patrick Chinamasa, was involved in an accident just after Rusape on Saturday after he allegedly rammed into a truck carrying scrap metal.
NewsDay reported ZANU PF sources as saying the accident happened around 6:45 pm at the 12-kilometre peg after Rusape, before the tollgate.
Chinamasa, however, did not incur any serious injury but was reportedly complaining of chest pains.
He was taken to Rusape Hospital but was transferred to a private hospital in Harare. The NewsDay source said:
<blockquote>It’s true comrade Chinamasa was involved in an accident at the 12-kilometre peg after Rusape, before tollgate.
He was rushed to Rusape Hospital and transferred to Harare as he was complaining of chest pains.</blockquote>
ZANU PF Manicaland provincial chairman Mike Madiro was among party officials who rushed to see Chinamasa after the accident.
Efforts by the publication to get a comment from the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) about the accident were fruitless as police declined to comment.
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Chinamasa Hospitalised After He Was Involved In An Accident

The ruling ZANU PF has lashed out at media organisations reporting on Zimbabwean affairs but not controlled by the government.
The party’s Acting Political Commissar Patrick Chinamasa on Thursday singled out The Voice of America (VOA) station popularly known as Studio 7, as a propaganda mouthpiece for the hostile American government.
He told reporters at the party’s headquarters that ZANU PF viewed broadcasts by VOA in the same light with sanctions imposed on the country by the United States of America. Said Chinamasa:
<blockquote>I want to refer to the specifically targeted propaganda against Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), for example, via hostile broadcasts like the Voice of America’s Studio 7.
ZANU PF views these hostile broadcasts in the same light as illegal sanctions, an illegitimate and unwanted interference in our country’s domestic affairs and as part of the illegal arsenal for regime change. We will resist as we have successfully done since 2000.</blockquote>
Chinamasa also lambasted the country’s Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) he blamed for undermining the country’s political, economic, and judicial systems.
He said the government was ready to deregister any such organisations which tried to interfere with the national affairs.
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Chinamasa Castigates Studio 7 For Alleged Biased Reporting On Zimbabwe

The ruling ZANU PF party said it would continue relying on the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) for political survival because the two are tied together by the liberation struggle.
The party’s Acting Political Commissar Patrick Chinamasa told journalists at a Press conference in Harare on Thursday that there was an unbreakable continuity between the ruling party and its military wings during the liberation struggle.
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The Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) and the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) Chinamasa said, remain at the heart of the ZNA.
Chinamasa, who was flanked by former Zanu PF political commissars Victor Matemadanda, Webster Shamu and Engelbert Rugeje, said:
<blockquote>Always be mindful that there is this unbreakable continuity between the liberation struggle and ZANU PF, between the armies of liberation ZIPRA and ZANLA and the national army of independence.
Any notion which seeks to break this bond should be rejected outright.</blockquote>
Chinamasa, who is also ZANU PF Secretary for Finance, said that the composition of the ZNA leadership also told a story of the link between the ruling party and the military. He said:
<blockquote>It speaks for itself who are the commanders of the army, who is the CDF [Commander Defence Forces], Cde Valerio Sibanda. Who was he? He was a leading general in ZIPRA.
Who is the commander of the national army, Cde Edzayi Chimonyo? Who was he? He was a leading commander in ZANLA.
That culture of defending the sovereignty of this country will continue.</blockquote>
The military played a major role in denying the late former MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai victory in the 2008 presidential election runoff which forced him to pull out of the race as thousands of his supporters were forced to flee from their homes.
In November 2017, the military settled internal power struggles in ZANU PF by leading a coup which led to the ouster of the long-time ruler, the late former President Robert Mugabe.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was installed in Mugabe’s place.
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ZANU PF, Army Inseparable - Chinamasa

Zanu PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa has claimed that a large number of MDC Alliance members have applied to join the ruling party after realising that the Nelson Chamisa-led party lacks direction.
Chinamasa made the remarks on Sunday at Rukweza, Makoni South constituency during the official handover of 44 bicycles to Nyazura Police Station by Makoni South MP Misheck Mataranyika through the assistance of Nyaradzo Group. He said:
<blockquote>At the moment, we are receiving applications from several MDC Alliance members seeking to join our party and we are overwhelmed, and some of those members are doing it for the first time, while others are re-joining because they have been previously Zanu PF members.</blockquote>
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere dismissed Chinamasa’s remarks as cheap propaganda meant to distract people from Zanu PF’s failures. Mahere said:
<blockquote>The regime continues to neglect matters of governance but is fixated with the abuse of State institutions in its toxic attempt to create a one-party state.
The MDC Alliance remains unshaken by the few who have chosen to pursue politics of the stomach.
As highlighted by Chamisa recently, Zanu PF is very comfortable with spent forces whose energy has been sapped.
The party is unmoved. The people know who their leaders are. Political power lies in the people.</blockquote>
This comes after top MDC Alliance officials, Lillian Timveous and James Makore, and former party bigwigs who had already left the party, among them Blessing Chebundo and Obert Gutu, joined Zanu PF in recent weeks.
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More MDC-A Members Flocking To Zanu PF - Chinamasa

After many government officials including Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo, succumbed to COVID-19, many speculated that even more political elites, including Patrick Chinamasa, had died. There is no proof that he is dead, actually, ZBC reporter, Reuben Barwe recorded a video in which he claims to be speaking to Chinamasa over the phone, suggesting he is still alive.
Here is some information about former Zimbabwe finance minister, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Patrick_Chinamasa">Patrick Chinamasa</a>.
<h2>1. As Finance Minister</h2>
He is the former Minister of Finance and Economic Planning. Chinamasa was appointed the minister by the late <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Robert_Mugabe">Robert Mugabe</a> and he served in the ministry from 10 September 2013 to 9 September 2017. On 9 September 2017 Mugabe through the Office of the President and Cabinet announced changes to his then cabinet. Chinamasa was moved to a newly created Ministry of Cyber Security, Threat Detection and Mitigation. This portfolio became effective on 9 October 2017 in a cabinet reshuffle which was speculated to be a measure adopted to stop factional fighting in Zanu-PF.
However, when Emmerson Mnangagwa became President of Zimbabwe in November 2017 (following a <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/November_2017_Military_Coup">military coup the ousted Mugabe</a>) Chinamasa was reappointed to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning. He was however removed from the ministry after Mnangagwa secured the presidency in August 2018. He now serves as Zanu-PF Secretary of Finance.
<h2>2. Bribery Accusations</h2>
In 2006 he allegedly wanted to bribe James Kaunye after the latter filed a court application to sue<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Didymus_Mutasa"> Didymus Mutasa</a>‘s supporters who had insulted him. Kaunye told the court that the Minister called on him at his Yorkshire Farm in Headlands and offered him bribes so that he could drop his complaint against 23 of Mutasa’s supporters who had earlier attacked and left him wounded.
Early in Patrick Chinamasa’s trial, proceedings were adjourned for a week when magistrates <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5313366.stm">complained of intimidation</a> and refused to preside over the issue. Kaunye and Mutasa were contesting against each other for the Makoni North Constituency in Zanu PF primary elections. He was later acquitted after inconsistencies and evasiveness in the witness’ evidence for the charge.
<h2>3. Benefiting from a gov loan he never repaid</h2>
In July 2020, Patrick Chinamasa was revealed by Alex Magaisa’s <a href="https://www.bigsr.co.uk/single-post/2020/07/18/bsr-exclusive-beneficiaries-of-the-rbz-farm-mechanisation-scheme">BSR publication</a> to be one of the Zanu-PF senior members that benefited unfairly from the 2007 RBZ Farm Mechanisation Scheme. Chinamasa (Tsukumai Farm) was listed in a leaked document as having benefited equipment worth US$350,463.00 which he did not pay for.
Other Zanu-PF officials listed then include Obert Mpofu, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Phelekezela Mphoko, Joice Mujuru, Joseph Msika, Oppah Muchinguri and Didymus Mutasa.
<h2>4. Calling the US Ambassador a “thug”</h2>
On 27 July 2020, as acting Zanu PF spokesperson, Chinamasa accused the US ambassador to Zimbabwe of meddling in local affairs and labelled him a ‘thug’ in a press statement. Chinamasa also claimed that US ambassador Brian Nichols was an Uncle Tom being used to propagate values the US itself did not practice on its people. He also warned that Zanu PF was aware of a “coterie of gangsters and mercenaries disguised as diplomats” in Zimbabwe.
The attacked on the Ambassador followed plans of what would be nationwide protests against the government slated for 31 July.
<h2>5. Chinamasa’s personal information</h2>
Born Patrick Antony Chinamasa on 25 January 1947, Chinamasa turns 74 in 2021. Chinamasa is married to Monica Chinamasa. His children include Chengetai and Gamuchirai. Chengetai died in November 2007.
<h2>6. Notable positions held by Patrick Chinamasa</h2>
In addition to the Finance Minister position, Chinamasa also served as Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs from July 2000 – September 2013.
<h2>7 Preasuring judges to resign</h2>
Following his appointment as Justice Minister in 2000, many Zimbabwean judges, (especially European-African Judges) resigned, complaining of political pressure.
On 9 February 2001 after <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Anthony_Gubbay">Chief Justice Anthony Gubbay</a> took early retirement at his suggestion, Chinamasa reportedly held meetings with senior Justices Ahmed Ebrahim and Nicholas McNally and told them for their own safety to leave.

7 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Patrick Chinamasa

After many government officials including Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo, succumbed to COVID-19, many speculated that even more political elites, including Patrick Chinamasa, had died. There is no proof that he is dead, actually, ZBC reporter, Reuben Barwe recorded a video in which he claims to be speaking to Chinamasa over the phone, suggesting he is still alive.
Here is some information about former Zimbabwe finance minister, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Patrick_Chinamasa">Patrick Chinamasa</a>.
<h2>1. As Finance Minister</h2>
He is the former Minister of Finance and Economic Planning. Chinamasa was appointed the minister by the late <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Robert_Mugabe">Robert Mugabe</a> and he served in the ministry from 10 September 2013 to 9 September 2017. On 9 September 2017 Mugabe through the Office of the President and Cabinet announced changes to his then cabinet. Chinamasa was moved to a newly created Ministry of Cyber Security, Threat Detection and Mitigation. This portfolio became effective on 9 October 2017 in a cabinet reshuffle which was speculated to be a measure adopted to stop factional fighting in Zanu-PF.
However, when Emmerson Mnangagwa became President of Zimbabwe in November 2017 (following a <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/November_2017_Military_Coup">military coup the ousted Mugabe</a>) Chinamasa was reappointed to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning. He was however removed from the ministry after Mnangagwa secured the presidency in August 2018. He now serves as Zanu-PF Secretary of Finance.
 
<h2>2. Bribery Accusations</h2>
In 2006 he allegedly wanted to bribe James Kaunye after the latter filed a court application to sue<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Didymus_Mutasa"> Didymus Mutasa</a>‘s supporters who had insulted him. Kaunye told the court that the Minister called on him at his Yorkshire Farm in Headlands and offered him bribes so that he could drop his complaint against 23 of Mutasa’s supporters who had earlier attacked and left him wounded.
Early in Patrick Chinamasa’s trial, proceedings were adjourned for a week when magistrates <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5313366.stm">complained of intimidation</a> and refused to preside over the issue. Kaunye and Mutasa were contesting against each other for the Makoni North Constituency in Zanu PF primary elections. He was later acquitted after inconsistencies and evasiveness in the witness’ evidence for the charge.
 
<h2>3. Benefiting from a gov loan he never repaid</h2>
In July 2020, Patrick Chinamasa was revealed by Alex Magaisa’s <a href="https://www.bigsr.co.uk/single-post/2020/07/18/bsr-exclusive-beneficiaries-of-the-rbz-farm-mechanisation-scheme">BSR publication</a> to be one of the Zanu-PF senior members that benefited unfairly from the 2007 RBZ Farm Mechanisation Scheme. Chinamasa (Tsukumai Farm) was listed in a leaked document as having benefited equipment worth US$350,463.00 which he did not pay for.
Other Zanu-PF officials listed then include Obert Mpofu, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Phelekezela Mphoko, Joice Mujuru, Joseph Msika, Oppah Muchinguri and Didymus Mutasa.
 
<h2>4. Calling the US Ambassador a “thug”</h2>
On 27 July 2020, as acting Zanu PF spokesperson, Chinamasa accused the US ambassador to Zimbabwe of meddling in local affairs and labelled him a ‘thug’ in a press statement. Chinamasa also claimed that US ambassador Brian Nichols was an Uncle Tom being used to propagate values the US itself did not practice on its people. He also warned that Zanu PF was aware of a “coterie of gangsters and mercenaries disguised as diplomats” in Zimbabwe.
The attacked on the Ambassador followed plans of what would be nationwide protests against the government slated for 31 July.
 
<h2>5. Chinamasa’s personal information</h2>
Born Patrick Antony Chinamasa on 25 January 1947, Chinamasa turns 74 in 2021. Chinamasa is married to Monica Chinamasa. His children include Chengetai and Gamuchirai. Chengetai died in November 2007.
 
<h2>6. Notable positions held by Patrick Chinamasa</h2>
In addition to the Finance Minister position, Chinamasa also served as Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs from July 2000 – September 2013.
 
<h2>7 Preasuring judges to resign</h2>
Following his appointment as Justice Minister in 2000, many Zimbabwean judges, (especially European-African Judges) resigned, complaining of political pressure.
On 9 February 2001 after <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Anthony_Gubbay">Chief Justice Anthony Gubbay</a> took early retirement at his suggestion, Chinamasa reportedly held meetings with senior Justices Ahmed Ebrahim and Nicholas McNally and told them for their own safety to leave.

The ruling ZANU PF has accused nurses of having “a broad opposition agenda” saying the periodic salary protests they have embarked on since last year are meant to destabilise President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration.
Nurses affiliated to the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) have since last year embarked on a series of protests demanding better salaries and working conditions.
Speaking to reporters at the ZANU PF Politburo held Wednesday in the capital, the party’s acting secretary of information, Patrick Chinamasa applauded other nurses who returned to work. He said:
<blockquote>We also took note as politburo of the positive gesture by nurses at Sally Mugabe Hospital who bravely broke ranks with the opposition-aligned Zina and returned to work.
That is the kind of patriotism we want to see from civil servants.</blockquote>
Responding to Chinamasa’s assertions, Zina president, Enoch Dongo, said it was shameful for Zanu PF to use threats and lies to silence nurses. He said:
<blockquote>That is cheap politics. We are there for the welfare of nurses and that has nothing to do with politics. Ours is a labour issue and not politics.
Clearly, the statement by Chinamasa is misleading. Why has it ended up to that level? The issue with government spilled into the courts and we have two judgments in our favour. Does that mean the High Court is also working with the opposition?</blockquote>
This comes after nurses were recently “forced” to apologise for embarking on industrial action meant for the restoration of their 2018 salaries and to ensure they have a safe working environment.
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ZANU PF Accuses Nurses Of Having "Broad Opposition Agenda"

The ZANU PF DCC polls being <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/12/04/zanu-pf-to-hold-dcc-polls-at-1248-poling-stations-this-weekend/">conducted this weekend at 1248 polling stations</a> will look for their own ballot boxes because the ruling party is not able to provide all polling stations with ballot boxes, New Zimbabwe reports.
This was revealed in a memo from the ruling part addressed to all districts holding DCC polls that read in part:
<blockquote>All district chairpersons are requested to improvise and make their own ballot boxes at their respective districts. There should be 23 boxes at each polling station. Look for any small cardboard boxes to use</blockquote>
Events leading to the DCC Polls that include violence and or allegation of cheating and irregularities and allegations that members of the G40 were paying people to vote for candidates affiliated to Zanu PF have headlined for the past few weeks. The ruling party even warned party members that they <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/12/04/we-will-expel-anyone-who-commits-any-acts-of-indiscipline-chinamasa-warns-zanu-pf-members-ahead-of-dcc-polls/">risk getting expelled if they conduct</a> any acts of misconduct during the polls.
More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/shortage-of-ballot-boxes-hits-zanu-pf-dcc-elections/">New Zimbabwe </a>

Zanu PF DCC Polls: Polling Stations To Create Their Own Ballot Boxes

The ZANU PF DCC polls being <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/zanu-pf-to-hold-dcc-polls-at-1248-poling-stations-this-weekend/">conducted this weekend at 1248 polling stations</a> will look for their own ballot boxes because the ruling party is not able to provide all polling stations with ballot boxes, New Zimbabwe reports.
This was revealed in a memo from the ruling part addressed to all districts holding DCC polls that read in part:
<blockquote>All district chairpersons are requested to improvise and make their own ballot boxes at their respective districts. There should be 23 boxes at each polling station. Look for any small cardboard boxes to use</blockquote>
Events leading to the DCC Polls that include violence and or allegation of cheating and irregularities and allegations that members of the G40 were paying people to vote for candidates affiliated to Zanu PF have headlined for the past few weeks. The ruling party even warned party members that they <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/we-will-expel-anyone-who-commits-any-acts-of-indiscipline-chinamasa-warns-zanu-pf-members-ahead-of-dcc-polls/">risk getting expelled if they conduct</a> any acts of misconduct during the polls.
More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/shortage-of-ballot-boxes-hits-zanu-pf-dcc-elections/">New Zimbabwe </a>

During a press conference in Harare last week, Zanu PF spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa made sensational claims that the opposition will not rule this country because according to him, the opposition undermines the gains that came through the liberation struggle, the Daily News reports.
Addressing the media, a tough-talking Chinamasa said:
<blockquote>Zimbabwe is a liberated country. It did not come through democracy, there was no vote to say Zimbabwe 
now wants to become independent.
It was fought for. Those who oppose its liberation should never dream of ruling this country, those who oppose the independence of this country and those who oppose the land redistribution programme should never dream of ruling this country with their masters.Those who oppose the redistribution of the land… have no right to rule this country because by opposing it, they became sell-outs.
Right now, they talk about human rights. During the colonial period, there were no human rights to talk about. “The colonial masters only started to talk about human rights, democracy in 1980 when they were handing over power. Right now, they are talking about freedom of expression.
That is a digression, it’s important, but it’s a digression. The important narrative is how Zimbabweans get empowered until you do that, you spend the next 200 years exercising freedom of expression without eating. Those who go to America to ask for sanctions have no rights to rule this country.</blockquote>
Zanu Pf Political commissar Victor Matemadanda said something similar<a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2019/12/15/if-elections-fail-well-use-any-other-means-necessary-zanu-pf/"> to what Chinamasa said in 2018 when he said elections will never remove Zanu PF from power</a> because he said if they don’t work Zanu PF will use other means.
Chinamasa in July at a press conference attacked the American ambassador and called him a thug right before he threatened to expel him from Zimbabwe. During the same month, he also urged Zanu PF supporters to defend themselves from people who were planning to protest the government’s maladministration and corruption.
More: <a href="https://dailynews.co.zw/opposition-will-never-rule-zimbabwe/">Daily News </a>

The Opposition Will Never Rule Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Did Not Come By Votes - Chinamasa

The ruling party Zanu PF spokeperson Patrick Chinamasa has said they will continue to hold primary by-elections in all vacant constituencies and councils despite their party’s top executive Constantino Chiwenga who is the country’s Vice President and doubles as the <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/10/02/vp-chiwenga-bans-holding-of-by-elections/">Health Minister’s ban on all by-elections</a> using SI 225A of 2020. New Zimbabwe reports.
While addresing journalist, tough talking Chinamasa said he wants to make it clear that they are ready for the by-elections :
<blockquote>I want to make this clear, as far as Zanu PF is concerned, we are ready for elections.</blockquote>
Chinamasa was then asked why the ruling party was holding by-elections when ZEC and the government suspended them and he responded and said anyone with a problem with that must take it up with the government:
<blockquote>We have been observing all the Covid-19 regulations, whether we go to our 2020 conference, these will be observed. If it does not, we will have to hold it as a virtual conference.
To my knowledge, as Zanu PF, we have already started preparing for our primaries. The postponement of by-elections came because of Covid-19. If you are querying whether it was proper or not, put that to government.
Regulations are issued by government. I do not see any double standards myself. When the situation is considered appropriate, the regulations will be relaxed to allow for primary by-elections to take place.
Let me be clear, Zanu PF is ready today for any by-elections. We are ready any day. We will proceed and continue with our primary elections.
The numbers were very small and the party had complied with the regulations of not having a gathering of not more than 100 people.</blockquote>
Meanwhile Zanu PF <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/10/05/zanu-pf-suspends-kwekwe-primary-elections-because-of-suspected-makorokozas-violence/">indefinitely suspended Kwekwe primary by-elections</a> after they turned blody when rival groups clashed and ZRP officers had to be called to difuse the violence.
More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/zanu-pf-ready-for-by-elections-chinamasa/">New Zimbabwe </a>

Zanu PF Proceeding With Primary By-Elections Despite Chiwenga's Ban

The late Brigadier General Rhufus Chigudu who succumbed to an undisclosed illness on 24 September will be buried at the National Shrine tomorrow, The Sunday News reports.
The development was communicated by Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage permanent secretary Mr Aaron Nhepera who told the publication that:
<blockquote>The burial will take place on Monday. The body will leave Charles Gumbo Barracks (formerly One Commando Barracks) around 7am and will be taken to Stodart Hall for the traditional body viewing rites. From there it will be transported to the national shrine where the remains will be interred. There will be limited attendance because of the Covid-19 pandemic.</blockquote>
Meanwhile, Zanu PF acting Spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa released a statement that said the ruling party applauded the president’s decision to confer recently promoted <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/10/02/rhufus-chigudu-declared-national-hero/">Rhufus Chigudu with the national hero status</a>:
<blockquote>Zanu- PF joins His Excellency Cde ED Mnangagwa in mourning the passing of Brigadier-General Ruphus Chigudu who died on Thursday, 24 September 2020. Brigadier General Chigudu was born on 11 December 1955 and joined the liberation struggle under Zanla forces in 1975 in Mozambique.
He later joined the ZNA (Zimbabwe National Army) during the integration exercise in 1980. He rose through the ranks to become Brigadier-General and is survived by his wife (Vimbai) and three children. We applaud the decision taken by the party to confer him the status of national hero</blockquote>
More: <a href="https://www.sundaynews.co.zw/national-hero-chigudu-burial-tomorrow/">The Sunday News </a>

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