American boxing promoter and former professional boxer, Floyd Mayweather Jr, landed in Harare Zimbabwe on Thursday.
Mayweather Jr’s private jet touched down at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport on Thursday morning.
He is in Zimbabwe for a three-day visit dubbed “The Motherland Tour”.
Mayweather is coming at the invitation of businessman and ZANU PF aspiring candidate for Mabvuku constituency, <a href="https://pindula.co.zw/Pedzai_Sakupwanya">Pedzisayi “Scott” Sakupwanya</a>.
<a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/hosts-finally-release-full-programme-of-mayweathers-zim-tour/">The Herald</a> reported that tour hosts said proceedings at Number 1 Grounds in Mabvuku, the venue for the main activities, will commence at 10 AM Thursday.
Mayweather then wraps up his tour with an event specifically for the invited that is slated for the Meikles Hotel in the evening.
Mayweather had a meeting with Sakupwanya in the United Arab Emirates in May 2022.
The boxing legend was there for an exhibition fight that was ultimately cancelled and Sakupwanya was on a business trip.
Commenting on Mayweather’s visit at Sakupwanya’s invitation, award-winning journalist Hopewell Chin’ono said Zimbabweans are being taken advantage of due to their poverty. <a href="https://twitter.com/daddyhope/status/1679394158581108736?s=20">He said</a>:
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This only happens in a Banana Republic where citizens are taken advantage of and expected to celebrate their misery and assumed to be non-thinkers.
Only fools would celebrate people who plunder the country’s natural resources and bring American boxers paying them millions whilst hospitals have no medication, no radiotherapy cancer treatment machines, no clean drinking water and citizens are dying from cholera, 95% unemployment, hyperinflation, potholed roads, no books in schools, discredited currency, opposition politicians in jail and more!
Remember that 2500 women die every year giving birth because there are no maternity theaters.
Remember that the biggest hospital only has ONE maternity theater built by Ian Smith in 1977.
Remember that many Zimbabweans are going to bed on empty stomachs.
Remember that all these things could be fixed if the Gold was not being plundered by a few.
We have really been turned into a Banana Republic, let us see who are the Banana clowns amongst us who will fall for this tragic gimmick!
Imagine how the rest of the world views us and laugh at us!
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American Boxing Legend Floyd Mayweather Jr Visits Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean businessman and alleged gold smuggler Ewan Macmillan says he is done bribing politicians to smuggle gold out of the country.
Macmillan (aka Mr. Gold) was featured in the final episode of the Gold Mafia Al Jazeera documentary titled “Have The King With You” released on Friday, 14 April.
Speaking to the undercover journalists who posed as Chinese gangsters who wanted to wash dirty money, Macmillan said:
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I will never go down that road again. You pay, you pay, you pay, you pay and you pay.
And you think this is so much money. Why am I paying this much money?
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Meanwhile, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Ambassador at Large and Presidential Envoy to Europe and the Americas, Uebert Angel, was also filmed by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) deriding Macmillan, saying he was no longer “Mr. Gold” and had been overtaken by his former employee Pedzisai “Scott” Sakupwanya.
Angel also showed the reporters pictures of Sakupwanya flaunting his US$5 million cash and some gold bars on 29 June 2020. He said:
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He is the biggest gold guy in Zimbabwe. He’s right there, he’s in his house, sleeping on five million U.S. dollars.
This guy used to clean MacMillan’s car. Macmillan was the one that this one worked for. It’s good we know it’s Macmillan.
Macmillan doesn’t control nothing. This was his worker cleaning his car. He is the number one now in Zimbabwe.
Scott is number one. Number one without a doubt. We can just call him right now.
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Angel then called Sakupwanya in the presence of the undercover reporters. He said:
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So I’ve got some good investors for you here. They are hearing you already. From January, what have you gotten right now? What have you sold?
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Scott said he had sold six tonnes of gold in 10 months. When Angel asked about what happens when someone invests with him, Sakupwanya said:
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I guess I can take ten percent per month.
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He said if he gets cash from someone, he gives them ten percent per month for the money they invest with him.
Scott said the investors are 100 per guaranteed to get a return for their investment.
On being asked by Angel how he moves the money back to the investor, he said:
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It depends on where they are from. If they are from Dubai, I can pay into their Dubai account… Anywhere, anywhere in the world, I can manage to do the transfer. Not a problem for me.
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According to Angel, Sakupwanya has managed to keep his wealth, and proceeds to gold, due to his loyalty to Mnangagwa. He said:
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Because he is (pointing above, to indicate that he is Mnangagwa’s man) … and the president.
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According to Al Jazeera, the gold smugglers carry Zimbabwe’s gold to Dubai, where it is then sold in exchange for clean cash.
This money is transferred to the bank accounts of the money launderers, who hand over an equivalent amount of their dirty dollars to the Zimbabwe government through the smugglers.
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Gold Mafia: Macmillan Says He's Done Bribing Politicians To Smuggle Gold

Self-proclaimed prophet Uebert Angel has claimed that ZANU PF politician Pedzisai Sakupwanya, also known as Scott, is Zimbabwe’s number one gold dealer.
Angel was appointed Zimbabwe’s Ambassador at Large and Presidential Envoy to Europe and the Americas by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2021.
He made the remarks while speaking to Al Jazeera undercover reporters, who were pretending to be Chinese criminals looking to launder more than US$100 million of undeclared wealth.
This was revealed in the fourth and final episode of the “Gold Mafia” documentary titled “Have The King With You” that was premiered on Friday, 14 April 2023.
Angel also claimed that Scott used to wash cars for Ewan Macmillan and has overtaken his former boss in the gold industry. Said Angel:
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He is the biggest gold guy in Zimbabwe. He’s right there, he’s in his house, sleeping on five million U.S. dollars.
This guy used to clean MacMillan’s car. Macmillan was the one that this one worked for. It’s good we know it’s Macmillan.
Macmillan doesn’t control nothing. This was his worker cleaning his car. He is the number one now in Zimbabwe.
Scott is number one. Number one without a doubt. We can just call him right now.
</blockquote>
Angel then called Sakupwanya in the presence of the undercover reporters. He said:
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So I’ve got some good investors for you here. They are hearing you already. From January, what have you gotten right now? What have you sold?
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Scott said he had sold six tonnes of gold in 10 months. When Angel asked about what happens when someone invests with him, Sakupwanya said:
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I guess I can take ten percent per month.
</blockquote>
He said if he gets cash from someone, he gives them ten percent per month for the money they invest with him. 
Scott said the “investors” are 100 per guaranteed to get a return for their investment.
On being asked by Angel how he moves the money back to the investor, he said:
<blockquote>
It depends on where they are from. If they are from Dubai, I can pay into their Dubai account… Anywhere, anywhere in the world, I can manage to do the transfer. Not a problem for me.
</blockquote>
According to Al Jazeera, the gold smugglers carry Zimbabwe’s gold to Dubai, where it is then sold in exchange for clean cash.
This money is transferred to the bank accounts of the money launderers, who hand over an equivalent amount of their dirty dollars to the Zimbabwe government through the smugglers.
Angel’s assets were recently frozen by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s Financial Intelligence Unit.
Reports suggest  Angel is likely to face money laundering charges and allegations of name-dropping.
Angel, through his lawyer Lovemore Madhuku, on Thursday postponed responding to the Gold Mafia documentary saying he will do so once the fourth and final episode is released.
A 2020 report by the International Crisis Group (ICG) said gold worth US$1.5 billion was smuggled out of Zimbabwe every year by syndicates linked to political elites.
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Gold Mafia: Scott Sakupwanya Says He Takes 10% From Investors

Redwing Mine in Penhalonga, which is being run by a company called BetterBrands owned by ZANU PF official and prominent gold dealer Pedzisai Scott Sakupwanya, has resumed operations.
The mine was temporarily closed by the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) at the end of January this year after more than 20 people died in 13 months.
Manicaland provincial mining director, Elton Makumbe confirmed the reopening of Redwing Mine to <a href="https://www.manicapost.co.zw/mining-resumes-at-redwing/">The Manica Post</a>. He said:
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They were given the nod to reopen. The decision was made after consideration of the amount of work they have done in restoring sanity in the area.
They have conditions that relate to environmental stewardship, and security in terms of beefing up and warding off illegal miners as well as the need for mining protective implements.
It is important to note that this is not overnight work to implement some of the set safety and environmental conditions. They can do that while generating revenue.
Various factors were also considered including the economic aspect in terms of people’s livelihoods as well as their (BetterBrands) contribution to the fiscus.
To us, it is a welcome move, given that they have done a lot in restoring sanity in the area.
One of the conditions that we could not compromise on was the issue of gas monitors. They need to have gas monitors.
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According to a joint statement issued by three civic groups, that is Centre for Research and Development (CRD), Ziva Community Empowerment Trust, and Penhalonga Youth Development Ratepayers Trust, on 22 January 2023, 100 artisanal have died at Sakupwanya’s mine since 2020.
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Mining Operations Resume At Redwing Mine

Pedzisai Sakupwanya, popularly known as Scott, has been elected chairman of the Gold Buyers Association of Zimbabwe (GBAZ).
The elections were conducted following a meeting held at the Zimbabwe Miners Federation (Z.M.F) Head Office in Msasa, Harare on Friday.
The meeting was attended by licensed gold buyers across the country. Said Sakupwanya:
<blockquote>My association will be working with gold buyers across the country to ensure that all buyers are taking their productions to Fidelity Printers Refinery.
We hope that the prices around the country will be on par to eradicate bogus buyers.</blockquote>
The association’s Treasurer General Raj Skorus said the formation of the association will help in the eradication and elimination of leakage sponsored competition which was prejudicing small scale and artisanal miners.
He added that the establishment of one union will improve the quality of communication within the gold buyers’ community.
<h4>More: <a href="https://zimmorningpost.com/scott-sakupwanya-elected-chairman-of-gold-buyers-association-vows-to-thwart-gold-smuggling/">Zim Morning Post</a></h4>

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