Firstel Cellular is key to Zanu PF cash flow and most Zanu PF leadership are not paying mobile phone bills. Firstel is a parasite at NETONE and is run by CIO thugs. Hence the need to get rid of Chamisa
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OPINION - The recent demotion of ICT Minister Hon. Nelson Chamisa by the ZANU PF leader Mr Robert Mugabe only serves to confirm how insincere ZANU-PF remains about genuine partnership with the opposition. ZANU PF has a defined plan to weaken and decimate the opposition ahead of elections.
It is clear that ZANU believes MDC should be a junior partner in the power-sharing arrangement despite the fact that MDC won the election and should be the ruling party whilst ZANU PF should be recovering as a opposition party. The whole GNU concept was ill-conceived from the start. This has been worsened by the general view that those who do not support the GNU are not patriotic.
It is clear ZANU PF does not support the proposed Media reforms and access to information which Hon Chamisa was spear heading. These are the key reforms that Zimbabwe needs for the "sanctions" to be lifted. By demoting Hon Chamisa Mr Mugabe is making it clear he doesn’t care about sanctions or the welfare of Zimbabweans who desperately need International support and assistance .
What is clear is ZANU is determined to hold on to National Assets such as Net-one which are being looted left ,right and centre. The introduction of Hon Chamisa presented a road block for the looting gravy train. Just like its exclusive access to the Diamond mines in Chiadzwa ,ZANU PF remains focused on denying MDC any access to resources or power. This explains why the state Media continue to take a dim view on all activities of the MDC.
According to ZANU PF when they lose election power has to be shared but when ZANU "won" past elections there was never a suggestion that power should be shared. This trend is totally disturbing as it goes against the whole concept of having elections in the first place. The parties should simply sit and dived power without wasting time ,resources and killing opposition activists just to proceed to divide power between election losers and winners .
The MDC clearly was duped ,intimidated and forced into a Government meant to legitimize an illegal government that has committed serious crimes against humanity. After losing an election and then proceed to commit mass murder ,rape, torture against Zimbabweans ZANU PF does not deserve to be rewarded or legitimized by being accommodated in some fancy Government structure as a senior partner in that Government.
It is clear ZANU is determined to use all tricks and tactics to frustrate and impede Zimbabwe’s recovery. The recent press reports of the Reserve Bank dishing out Quasi Fiscal Activities left over vehicles to Mps is just but one clear sign that Zimbabwe remains in the woods. The MPS are being silenced through such perks which are still dripping with blood from crimes against humanity. The very same vehicles are the "unmarked vehicles" that were used through out the country to abduct, torture and murder opposition and human rights activists. And now Members of Parliament are being rewarded with such tainted vehicles used to commit such horrible crimes against innocent Zimbabweans? How can then the MPs be expected to question the source of the vehicles or what the vehicles were used for in the past?
MDC is categorically being dismantled and weakened much to the disadvantage of Zimbabweans who have all their faith in MDC as an agent of change. The two MDC Ministers from who much was expected are slowly being entangled in a massive web resembling a circus. Finance Minister Biti was widely expected to be a new broom at the Ministry of Finance , but he is unlikely to deliver much as long as the International Community withholds support. Given that the removal of the Reserve Bank Governor has been made a condition precedent for any resumption of Aid means Minister Biti will find it hard to achieve the 100 day plan goals. The Reserve Bank Governor has made it clear that he is borrowing his Principal’s favorite song - handiende. Now if you have individuals who are willing to hold the nation at ransom just to remain in office it doesn’t take much to figure that such people cant be taken as serious partners with a genuine will to see the country recover.
The recent documentary on Prisons conditions show how ZANU PF has committed crimes against humanity. The evidence is undeniable .According to Wikipedia
Crimes against humanity, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Explanatory Memorandum, "are particularly odious offences in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a degradation of one or more human beings.
They are not isolated or sporadic events, but are part either of a government policy (although the perpetrators need not identify themselves with this policy) or of a wide practice of atrocities tolerated or condoned by a government or a de facto authority. Murder, extermination, torture, rape, political, racial, or religious persecution and other inhumane acts reach the threshold of crimes against humanity only if they are part of a widespread or systematic practice .
The conditions in Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe’s Prisons clearly show how fellow human beings are degraded, abused and humiliated in a scale that’s clearly a crime against humanity .
When you have partners who are prepared to do things such as keeping fellow human beings under such conditions and come out to deny or support it its clear such a Government can not be progressive. As such MDC may need to re-think its partnership with ZANU-PF since Governments operate on the doctrine of share responsibility and accountability. Some of these crimes against humanity need to isolated and be clearly linked to those who committed them .
It is clear that the MDC needs to remain alert to the various schemes and tactics that are being employed to weaken it. Ministers Biti and Chamisa were particularly expected to deliver a lot on behalf of the MDC and as elections draw closer it may be harder for them to show any real progress due to the traps and snares prepared for them in ZANU-PF bid to tarnish MDC reputation and image .Zimbabwe needs a ruling party and an opposition ,not de-facto one party state.
Gilbert Muponda is Founder and CEO of GMRI Capital. He can be reached at gilbert@gilbertmuponda.com
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Comments (9 posted):
Thank you for showing us that you have issues with Mugabe, why did you skip Zimbabwe through illigal points?
You have proved to be the shinning and Intelligent Businessman Zimbabwe has ever produced, but you made so many people are homeless in Zimbabwe.
Do you know that the crimes you committed in Zimbabwe if it was Canada or USA you would be bind bars in one of those states in the USA.
Playing cassino with Investors` money, flying to watch Grand Prix race in France, and flying to watch Manchester United play soccer in the UK. with a group of Girl friends, was irresponsible with Investors money...
Just a question for you Mr Muponda, how are you going to pay for the money that Investors lost as a result of the financial irregularities at your once owned Zimbabwe Bank?
We should be addressing you as Honourable Gidza Mupondo if you have executed your national Duties as a responsible banker professionally.
l still find it difficult to take people like you and Maware`s comments seriously, until you have proved to be honesty in your professional dealings.
l asked questions that Gilbert can respond to, through the same platform. He is a public figure and you can not defend him, unless if you are appointment PR spokesperson.
Corporate Governance is what haunted this guy and his crew, they came out from Rural Zvimba and for you to say he was Victimised, because of the money he was making is wrong....
When the Government unleash a sweeping broom on people who will be hidding under the disguise of coming from the President`s Rural home and committing crimes, you jump the boat and claim victimization, or find refuge in Chamisa is irresponsible, remember he was the untouchable from Zvimba, with a lot of illigal activities including briberry, importing vehicles on SA plates and eventual putting Dutsun Y number plates on a Porche etc...
Let Muponda respond, if he failed in Harare it makes it difficult to make it even overseas.
Where is the logic when some announce he is buying a website? he can create a website, webhosting fees are cheap in Canada.. Zimdaily Website is not worth buying... If he had bought thezimbabwemail.com or other online news sites it would make logical sense.
How can a normal person claim to have splashed money on zimdaily even newzimbabwe... l do not have any personal problem with these sites, but the outlook is not business oriented.....
He can do a good job if he can, put money in this news site, because you can see the admin here at work...
Thezimbabwemail Team keep the good work....
This was for your Hohomwa...
l have no problem with Gidza as per say, but my point was, he is throwing stones when he knows he is leaving in a glass house, that is wrong....
He knows the reason why he was arrested, it was not only Corporate Legitimacy, that he failed, he was involved in a lot of issues that had nothing to do with the Financial sectors... Remember the Zimbabwean System does not have protection on the basis that someone comes from Zvimba, or you know the Big guys in the system. Phillip Chiyangwa was asked to decide whether to be in Business or to double, in politics and in dirty dealing, and he chose legitimate Business..
Some of the problems Phillip Chiyangwa had were caused by people like Gilbert Muponda. He went and parked Expensive Vehicles at his House whilst he knew there were hot vehicles. Phillip was just asked to keep them not knowing there are hot vehicles. Phillip like to advertise good things and his Son was arrested driving a hot vehicle in town.
It later surfaced that Gilbert had thought that Phillip was the intouchable, so keeping stollen vehicles with him was the best , they could do..
Was that ethically wrong or correct..? did he break the law or he was justified, driving a vehicle, that was reported stollen in South Africa?
Let him start afresh and appologies , and start again...so many people have tried these things and failed. but they have come out. and there are starting afresh..
Look the rough patch that Kadeni went through. Talking ESAP with Xervia Kadani.
Gilbert`s hands are dirty, if he knew that the Porche was stollen at gun point and the owner was reported Killed in SA, and he went to illigally took the vehicles from the hands of the gansters accross Limpopo. Without paying Duty on it . that was wrong...
How did he managed to convince ZIMRA the number plate that was reported to have been for a 1979 Dutsun 120Y that was fitted on an almost new Porche was for that vehicle.
If it was only one vehicle it could have been better, revisit the articles surrounding Gilbert Muponda`s cases, forgot about bad Investment, he was trying to say to Phillip Chiyangwa so that Phillip could enter the Banking sector, through a flawed process...
Phillip had not done anything wrong he thought it was a legitimate Business and he wanted to support his homeboyz... and that complicated things for the usual smart deal maker.....
Gilbert is misleading people about Firsttel Cellular, he has an X to grind with people at Firsttel....If a Company has customers whose bigger base is from the Government, it does not mean to say that it protects anyone or it is being run by CIO...
His Business was mainly being protected by the same CIOs he is now blaming today for running Firstel, you can tell that, the CIO who fled Zimbabwe because of illigal activities al seek protection in the same Country were Gilbert Muponda is based, so who had more CIO protection, Firstel or Gilbert Muponda?
Gilbert must start marketing his Company he is running now, and he must not comment on issues he does not have privilledge on. these statements have destroyed the lives of people in Zimbabwe.
We want people who are positive, if you read from Muponda, Mawere , Danford the list is endless, there is no poisitive tone coming from their articles.
What do we need to be a producctive Country? all these wrong assumptions are wrong...Because we have people who knew what these guys were up to...
Hohonwa, tell your man to change his tone
We had to deal with these guys who claim to be smart and yet, there are the ones who helped the Financial sector in Zimbabwe to rot.
Dr.Julius Makoni is quiet and Dr Chris Kuruneri is quiet the list is endless, even Prof.Charles Nherera etc.
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