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Fireworks
erupt in
politburo
Faith Zaba/Elias MaMbo
FRESH cracks have emerged in Zanu PF
over the use of state media to sow divisions,
the poorly articulated indigenisation
programme blamed for scaring away investors,
and jockeying for positions ahead
of the party’s much-anticipated congress
in December.
The recent starkly contrasting policy
positions on indigenisation between the
minister of indigenisation Francis Nhema,
and that of Information Jonathan moyo,
which played out in the media, highlight
the problem.
The clashes resulted in fireworks at the
Zanu PF politburo meeting on Wednesday
where the indigenisation policy was clarified
and a livid President Robert mugabe
and members of Vice-President Joice
mujuru’s faction railed against moyo for
abusing the state media, which they said
was causing divisions within the party.
There is a growing feeling in Zanu PF that
the state media, managed by moyo, was
being used to push a factional agenda.
According to politburo insiders, party
heavyweights aligned to mujuru’s faction
attacked moyo, accusing him of fuelling
clashes in the party using the state media.
The discussion exposed the factional
fault-lines, with politburo
Under attack . . . Information minister Jonathan Moyo
members aligned to Justice minister Emmerson
mnangagwa siding with moyo on
the appointment of editors to the state-run
newspaper group, Zimpapers, who used to
work at what mugabe described as “anti-
Zanu PF” media organisations.
mugabe sided with mujuru and her
lieutenants who took advantage of the discussion
to openly attack moyo, whom they
believe is behind media campaigns targeted
at mujuru and her allies.
Speakers from the mujuru faction accused
moyo of leading a group in the party
to discredit mujuru and her allies ahead of
the congress. They blamed the Information
minister for abusing his office by allegedly
using the media to target mujuru, the most
senior party member among those tipped
to succeed mugabe.
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NetOne loses millions to fraudsters
owEn GaGarE
AN audit report into the operations of NetOne’s
Bulawayo branch reveals that the
struggling mobile service provider lost
millions of dollars through fraudulent activities
allowed to thrive because of lack of
supervision by, among others, the company’s
Harare head office.
The confidential report compiled by BCA
Forensic Audit Services dated November
12 2012 shows that NetOne suffered financial
prejudice as a result of fraudulent
actions and the negligence of employees
and shop management.
Several employees were fingered in
the fraudulent activities, among them
Wellington Dodzo, a regional sales representative
employed in march 2011. Dodzo
was employed while on bail facing criminal
charges of 30 counts of theft from
Delta Beverages in Bulawayo (ZRP Bulawayo
central CR 285/5/09 and CID Fraud
Bulawayo DR1615/09).
“During his tenure of office he committed
a series of fraudulent activities against
NetOne in Bulawayo . . . The amount outstanding
from his account of stock which
he took arose from US$190 205 on 31
October 2011 to US$852 796 as at 31 July
2012,” reads the report.
“Our investigation revealed that he was
in the practice of collecting cash from
dealers and vendors without issuing receipts,
and would not remit some of the
cash to the NetOne office.”
According to the report, unaccountedfor
airtime recharge cards taken by Dodzo
from the Jason moyo Shop in Bulawayo
as consignment stock for distribution to
dealers and vendors stood at US$465 148.
“mr Dodzo cannot account for the stock.
He created fraudulent documents to try
and camouflage the stock shortages,”
reads the audit report.
It highlighted that the company’s policies
and procedures were not being
followed. The regional account manager
was well aware that his subordinates were
flouting policies and procedures, but allowed
the practice to continue by not
taking corrective action.
“In this regard they allowed vendors to
access products at 15% commission on
credit or consignment, whereas their conditions
provide that vendors buy on cash
basis and they are entitled to 10% commission.
This practice resulted in NetOne
suffering financial prejudice amounting to
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No vacancy for president, Mujuru told
elias MaMbo/Herbert Moyo
A PEEVED President Robert Mugabe sent a
senior politburo member to “advise” Vice-
President Joice Mujuru that there is no vacancy
for the Zanu PF presidency as the
succession race intensifies ahead of Zanu
PF’s December congress, the Zimbabwe Independent
can reveal.
Highly-placed Zanu PF officials said
Mugabe took the pre-emptive action because
he was exasperated by Mujuru who
is said to be eyeing the top post in the event
that Mugabe resigns or is incapacitated.
“The President (Mugabe) sent a confidant
to tell Mujuru that he is still in charge and
she should not campaign for the presidency
because he (Mugabe) has no intention of
relinquishing the presidency at congress,”
said one party official, adding: “She was
FaitH Zaba
THE generation with which
President Robert Mugabe lived
and worked during the liberation
struggle leading to Independence
is almost gone with the death of
Zanu PF politburo member Nathan
Shamuyarira on Wednesday.
Shamuyarira died from problems
related to a chest infection at
Harare’s West End hospital where
he was on life-support in the intensive
care unit. He was 85.
Shamuyarira is likely to be declared
a national hero after his
home province, Mashonaland
West, met yesterday and recommended
to the party leadership
that he be buried at the National
Heroes Acre.
Besides Mugabe (90) the only
surviving members of the Chimoio
special congress which elevated
Mugabe to the presidency
of the party in 1977 are Vice-
President Joice Mujuru, Zanu PF
spokesperson Rugare Gumbo,
Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi
and Justice minister Emmerson
Mnangagwa.
Out of the inaugural 20-member
cabinet at Independence in
From Page 1
US$416 520,70,” says the report.
“We also note that the Bulawayo
shops were submitting a
list of dealers to the Sales Office
at Head Office on a monthly basis.
The list of dealers referred to
included names of vendors but
head office did not query why the
vendors were included on the list
of dealers.”
The auditors also noted that the
identification of dealers and their
registration was not done according
to the company policy in
some instances.
An example was given of an
unregistered company called Nature
Peak that was allowed to do
business with NetOne.
This was despite NetOne having
a credit control unit in Bulawayo
whose core business was to assess
business risk before entering into
a transaction with consignees.
“The unit is treated like a debt
collection team. The result is
that stock valued at US$1 602
718 was alleged to be due from
consignees.”
As a result dealers and vendors
exploited a weakness in the
manner management of NetOne
Bulawayo office was conducting
business and converted consignment
stock into credit stock. Instead
of remitting cash to NetOne,
they took the cash and turned it
advised that there is no vacancy for the top
post and therefore she should campaign for
the vice-presidency or any other post.”
The sources further claimed that although
Mujuru appeared to heed the message,
she went on to tell members of her
faction to go ahead with their campaign
plans.
The succession debate is threatening to
rip Zanu PF apart with Mujuru and Justice
minister Emmerson Mnangagwa said to be
leading factions angling to succeed Mugabe,
who, at 90, is battling eye and knee problems,
and other undisclosed ailments.
Mnangagwa and Mujuru have strenuously
denied harbouring presidential ambitions
or leading factions, insisting they are loyal
to Mugabe.
Recently, Mugabe said the people would
decide his successor when the time comes.
While addressing members of the Gushungo
clan at Murombedzi Growth point in
Zvimba, Mugabe said: “Izvi tirikutaura nekuti
kumaprovince akawanda kwanga kune nyaya
iyoyo yekudhivhaidhana kuti vamwe varikunzi
ndevaMai Mujuru pane zvesuccession, vamwe
ndevaminister Mnangagwa vachinzi ndovaviri
varikuda kuzotora chigaro chaPresident kana varitaya
(Mnangagwa and Mujuru are not the
only candidates to succeed me; in many
provinces we hear of divisions along factional
lines under these two).
“Vanhu vanosarudza vavanoda. Handi vaviri
ivava chete. (People are free to choose any
other person they think is the best candidate
besides these two).”
The sources said the subsequent endorsement
of Mugabe by his home district
of Zvimba was also part of the strategy to
pre-empt any subsequent attempts to
Mugabe’s generation almost gone
1980 (with 13 deputies) which
included Shamuyarira, only four
are still alive in Dzingai Mutumbuka,
Mnangagwa, Mujuru and
Sekeramayi.
Mugabe has publicly lamented
the loss of his colleagues stating
that he now feels lonely as
he is now surrounded by “small
people” he cannot relate to on
an equal footing because of age
differences.
Mugabe said the only person
who came close to him on maturity
and age was the Zanu PF secretary
for administration Didymus
Mutasa, who was the first
speaker of the House of Assembly
at Independence.
Mutasa, born in 1935, is 11 years
Mugabe’s junior.
“. . . They are gone (his agemates)
and those who remain,
you look down upon them because
they are young. And so you
can’t discuss with them things
that happened in the 1930s or
even 1950s. They will not know.
There is that limitation,” Mugabe
NetOne swindled of
millions of dollars
into working capital for their
businesses.
One of the people implicated
in mismanagement was Arthur
Madziro, appointed regional account
manager on December 1,
2011.
“When Madziro was appointed
regional account manager, the
balance in respect of consignment
stock was US$743 636,25
and this balance increased to
US$1 602 718 during his tenure of
office.
“He was grossly negligent in
the execution of his duties, resulting
in Dodzo being allowed
to take consignment stock worth
US$852 796,50, of this amount,
US$465 146 is disputed by dealers
and vendors,” reads the report.
“Chances of recovering the
money from the dealers and vendors
are slim because Madziro allowed
Dodzo to issue stocks without
issuing delivery notes hence
there is no proof of deliveries.”
Numerous fraudulent activities
involving sums ranging between
US$300 and US$20 000 were also
detected during the audit.
NetOne regional manager
Douglas Mafunda was also implicated
in fraudulent activities,
including cancelling company
debts, demanding bribes and destroying
company records, but
denied the allegations.
The late Nathan Shamuyarira
said in an interview with ZBC to
mark his 89th birthday.
“You take my cabinet as it is,
there is no one I can talk to about
how we used to approach girls
or we would go to this and that
place, riding bicycles. There is no
one. There are others like Mutasa.
He comes close, but others are
just children.”
A journalist by profession after
working as a cub reporter with
From Page 1
A top Zanu PF politburo member
said: “Jonathan Moyo came
under attack for the Zimpapers
appointments. Members questioned
why people from newspapers
and organisations that
were anti-Zanu PF were being
appointed editors.”
Another politburo member
said: “The president led the discussion.
He started off by citing
a report on people from the private
media being appointed to
top positions at Zimpapers where
they are not reflecting the party’s
thrust.
“The president said instead
there is a lot of acrimony and divisions
being caused by the state
media. He was very angry — I
have rarely seen him that angry.”
A report on the state media,
believed to have been prepared
by the Mujuru faction, was circulated
ahead of the politburo
meeting.
The politburo member said:
“The discussion was very frank
and people were able to express
what they have been whispering
in the corridors. People even
spoke on the statements made
by Moyo after he was fired from
Zanu PF in 2004 that the best way
to destroy Zanu PF is to do it from
within. They wanted to know if
this was part of that strategy.
“Mai Mujuru also spoke strongly
against what she described as a
campaign to tarnish her image.”
In his defence, Moyo said the
African Newspapers Ltd in 1953,
Shamuyarira rose steadily at the
company, becoming the first editor
of the African Daily News in 1956.
From July 1959 until September
1962, he was Editor-in-Chief of
African Newspapers, a post from
which he resigned over various
policy issues.
During the liberation struggle,
Shamuyarira fought at different
times under and helped lead Frolizi,
Zanu and Zapu.
At Independence, Shamuyarira
was appointed minister of information
and tourism and the other
portfolio he held in government
was minister of foreign affairs.
He retired from active politics in
2010 due to deteriorating health.
He is the only minister to voluntarily
retire from office, in 2000,
saying he wanted to concentrate
on his work in Zanu PF as secretary
of information.
In October 2006, Shamuyarira,
making reference to the Gukurahundi
massacres of the 1980s,
sparked outrage when he declared
challenge his position.
Last month, Zanu PF’s Zvimba district
comprising legislators Ignatius Chombo,
Walter Chidhakwa, Ziyambi Ziyambi as
well as chiefs endorsed Mugabe in a move
meant to set the tone for other districts and
provinces to follow suit.
“The thunderous victory in last year’s
harmonised elections was testimony that
the people enjoyed President Mugabe’s
leadership on a variety of issues,” Chombo
is reported to have said at the Zvimba
meeting.
“He deserves to rule the country for
more years. Since he was elected President
of Zimbabwe, we cannot have another person
to lead Zanu PF.
“Mugabe must continue to head both the
party and government.”
that Mugabe and the late cabinet
minister Edison Zvobgo were
wrong to apologise for the North
Korea-trained 5 Brigade massacres
in Matabeleland and parts of
Midlands.
Asked if he ever regretted the
atrocities, Shamuyarira, who
served as information minister
during the 5 Brigade operation,
is reported to have told a conference
on national reconciliation
in Vumba: “No, I don’t regret (it).
They (5 Brigade) were doing a job
to protect the people.”
Meanwhile, the Zimbabwe National
Editors Forum (Zinef) has
expressed “profound sadness and
heartfelt condolences to the Shamuyarira
family and nation over
the passing on of a prominent
nationalist and former government
minister Dr Nathan Shamuyarira,
who was also a politburo
member.”
Zinef said: “Shamuyarira’s
contribution to Zimbabwe’s liberation
and development are a
matter of public record. However,
he made a special contribution
and an indelible mark in our
area of interest which is the media
and journalism.”
Fireworks erupt in politburo meeting
appointments were made to
build a strong team in preparation
for the 2018 elections.
“What angered the president
was that Moyo was doing it without
consulting the President’s
Office and security,” said the politburo
member.
The Mujuru faction has always
maintained that the salary
scandal which involves senior
executives in parastatals and
quasi-state enterprises had assumed
a factional and succession
dimension.
The faction’s members claimed
the salary scandal disclosures
were being used to target their
camp while sparing those linked
to the faction led by Mnangagwa.
Women’s League boss Oppah
Muchinguri defended Moyo arguing
that the politburo should
not rush to criticise him for
poaching from the private media
when there are senior party officials
who have done worse by
leaking information to the Americans
as was revealed through
WikiLeaks.
She also asked why people
were making noise about the
journalists when the department
of information employed Psychology
Mazivisa, who used to
write articles viciously attacking
Zanu PF.
Between 2005 and 2010, Zanu
PF officials, among them Mujuru,
were exposed in the secret
United States cables released by
WikiLeaks as having met US diplomats
to discuss Mugabe’s succession
issue, health and other
political issues.
Officials who defended Moyo
included Mnangagwa and Saviour
Kasukuwere.
Questions were raised about
the recently established Information
and Media panel of Inquiry
(Impi) to assess the state
of the information and media industry
in Zimbabwe.
Although it was reportedly approved
by cabinet there are some
who are still suspicious about its
mandate.
Zanu PF spokesman Rugare
Gumbo refused to comment on
the attack on Moyo.
Gumbo however said it was
agreed that the shareholding
structure for the mining sector
would be 51% local and 49%
foreign while other sectors like
manufacturing and finance
would be negotiated on case-bycase
basis.
Indigenisation minister Francis
Nhema was directed to come
up with a legal framework that
clearly stated this position,
which Mugabe has been publicly
advocating.
Asked if the politburo had discussed
the two empowerment
models announced by Moyo a
fortnight ago, Gumbo said: “They
were not up for discussion. The
president said we have to be very
clear regarding natural resources
but for other sectors, we will
negotiate.”

ZIMBABWE INDEPENDENT JUNE 6 TO 12, 2014 3
LOCAL NEWS
EU warms up to progress in Zim
WONGAI ZHANGAZHA
WHILE the European Union (EU) seems to
have warmed up to what it sees as progress
by the Zanu PF government in key areas including
democracy, rule of law and security
of investment, there is concern that government
has not made sufficient progress on
these fronts.
Zimbabwe and the EU are currently engaged
in crucial negotiations that could
throw a lifeline to the cash-strapped Zanu
PF government that is now struggling to
pay civil servants on time. This is against the
backdrop of an economic malaise characterised
by a liquidity crunch and company
closures among other worrying signs.
Should the two parties reach an agreement,
the EU will, for the first time in more
than a decade, help finance Zimbabwe’s
budget. They are currently involved in cautious
discussions on modalities of implementation
which should be finalised by
November.
The EU stopped direct aid to government
in 2002 after imposing restrictive measures
on President Robert Mugabe and his inner
circle as well as companies linked to them
over accusations of gross human rights violations,
democratic principles and the rule
of law under the Cotonou Agreement.
The shift in prioritisation of funding from
civil society organisations to a Zanu PFcontrolled
government by the European
Union has raised concerns in the NGO sector
on sustainability as many believe human
rights violations and corruption in the public
sector remain rampant.
NGOs who spoke to the Zimbabwe Independent
on condition of anonymity had reservations
over government’s commitment to
reform, saying it had not adequately put in
place systems to ensure accountability and
EU ambassador Aldo Dell’Ariccia
transparency in the administration of public
finances, including its procurement and
tendering systems.
They based their reservations on the
Comptroller and Auditor-General’s Office
reports that accuse state-owned companies,
government departments and local government
of corruption and financial abuse. Despite
the annual reports exposing numerous
irregularities, nothing has been done to address
the anomalies.
The NGOs also raised questions as to how
the funds would be administered amid fears
that if the re-engagement exercise was successful,
NGOs — perceived by government
as promoting a regime change agenda —
would be sidelined.
As recently pointed out by Amnesty International,
despite the new constitution
being in effect for a year, government is yet
to amend or repeal all the laws rendered unconstitutional
and continues to use them.
In an interview this week, EU ambassador
Aldo Dell’Ariccia said the EU had not
changed its policies on Zimbabwe and reengagement
with the government started
after the establishment of the Global Political
Agreement and the Government of National
Unity.
He said the EU Council of Ministers decided
that in the event there was no serious
violations of human rights, no disruption
of the democratic order and rule of law,
on November 1 2014 Article 96 would be
“completely lifted and the EU would enter
into normal relations with the government
of Zimbabwe”.
Dell’Ariccia said: “This means that there
is a possibility from the first of November of
co-operating directly with government. At
present our co-operation is mainly channelled
through the UN organisations, not
NGOs. The support for NGOs is marginal as
compared to the one that is implemented
through UN agencies.
“It is possible that some of the money will
be channelled through government using
appropriate mechanisms that will permit
that the EU can, at any moment, audit the
use of the funds.
He said co-operation through the NGOs
is likely to continue in areas where the organisations
have a comparative advantage in
terms of their capacity to access directly the
beneficiaries of the development aid.
Dell’Ariccia said last week’s meeting to
discuss the draft National Indicative Programme
(NIP) was frank, open and constructive
adding that it was enough to demonstrate
that the fears of the NGOs were
“unfounded”.
The draft NIP has been agreed between
government, EU and about 150 civil society
organisations from all sectors that include
the private sector and parliamentary
committees.
According to the draft NIP, the EU proposes
to fund €88 million to the health sector,
€88 million to agriculture-based economic
development while governance and institution
building will get €45 million. Civil society
support is set at €6 million while support
to the national authorising officer will
be €3 million; the technical co-operation
facility will get €4 million.
The EU resident representative said the
re-engagement negotiations with Zanu PF
did not mean the EU was saying there are no
human rights violations.
“I am saying there is an improvement.
There are investigations going on for cases
that have been reported. We have seen some
positive judgments by the tribunals and
these are the elements we are considering,”
he said. “We observed recent land invasions
and the invaders were evicted by the authorities.
We have assurances that the Bilateral
Investment Promotion and Protection
Agreements (Bippas) would be respected.
Which means in case there are expropriations,
due compensation would be paid.
“If Zimbabwe wants to promote investment
it has to put in place mechanisms that
will permit the interests of the investors to
be protected. In this sense, we have been
hearing good and positive messages coming
from the government at the highest level.
But we are waiting now to see how these
good intentions are translated into properly
gazetted cabinet decisions that will ensure
transparency, accountability and equal
treatment of all stakeholders.”
The lifting of the economic measures will
enable Zimbabwe to benefit from the 11th
European Development Fund which supports
development programmes in Africa,
Caribbean and Pacific countries and runs
from 2014 to 2020.

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Zimbabwe independent june 6 to 12, 2014
loCal news
Zanu PF readies
‘Dokora must consult’
for 2018 elections
Herbert Moyo
LESS than a year into its fiveyear
mandate, the ruling Zanu
PF party has already started
preparations for the next polls
due in 2018 by importing vehicles,
clothing and other regalia
to be distributed during
campaigns.
The development, which
comes after the party controversially
secured a fresh mandate
to govern the country in
the July 2013 elections last year
was confirmed by party sources
over last weekend.
This comes as the party is yet
to deliver on its poll promises
which include creating 2,265
million jobs, as the economy
shows renewed signs of stress
characterised by company closures
and job losses.
A consignment of T-shirts,
head and waist gear has already
been imported from China and
await printing ahead of distribution
to party supporters.
The sources told the Zimbabwe
Independent Zanu PF is not resting
on its laurels as it seeks to
consolidate its stranglehold on
power secured after an overwhelming
poll triumph marred
by allegations of rigging and
A Zanu PF campaign vehicle. Pic: Elias Mambo
systematic disenfranchisement.
Party officials said the printing
would be done once there is clarity
over the party’s presidential
candidate.
Party regalia has always been
emblazoned with portraits of
the party president and respective
candidates. Although current
leader President Robert
Mugabe is seeking re-election at
the party’s congress scheduled
for December, it remains unclear
whether he will represent
the party in 2018 amid concerns
about his age and health. He will
be 94 when the polls are due.
Some of the cars are already on
the roads and some were spotted
over the weekend with the
branding: “Team Zanu PF 2018”.
“We did very well in 2013 because
we started the preparations
early while our MDC colleagues
were enjoying the trappings of
their new-found power in the
inclusive government (2009-
2013). We will use the same formula,”
said a senior party official
who spoke on condition of
anonymity.
“We learnt from the 2008 experience
where we narrowly lost
the parliamentary elections and
the first round of the presidential
contest to the MDC-T.”
elias MaMbo
PLANS by Primary and Secondary
Education minister Lazarus
Dokora to revamp the education
curriculum have set tongues
wagging as stakeholders and educationists
insist there is need for
serious consultations before any
policy is changed.
Although stakeholders agree
that a review of the education
system is long overdue, they insist
Dokora should engage stakeholders
and educationists to get
advice on what direction the
education system should take,
instead of unilaterally making
decisions.
Since his appointment Dokora
has introduced a cocktail of policy
interventions which include,
among others, the banning of extra
lessons at public institutions
and fund-raising initiatives by
Students Development Associations,
cancellation of incentives
for teachers and Form One entrance
tests, suspension of development
projects and recently
the introduction of hot sitting in
schools.
He is also changing the syllabus
of all primary and secondary
schools.While some educationists
are supportive of curriculum
change, they are worried by the
lack of consultation.
Former Education, Sport, Arts
and Culture minister David Coltart
said the curriculum needs
to be revamped but in a proper
manner.
“The curriculum is in dire need
of revamping as it was last done
in 1986. However it needs to be
done in an apolitical way by educationists
not politicians,” Coltart
said.
“I do not know what the current
government wants to introduce
but under my tenure I
wanted educationists to review
and reform the curriculum to
ensure that it was brought up to
date.”
However Progressive Teachers
Union of Zimbabwe secretarygeneral,
Raymond Majongwe,
said the Education minister
needs to be properly advised before
the education system collapses
again.
“He (Dokora) needs to consult
stakeholders including parents
on where he wants to take
our education system. He must
not politicise our education system
so that it serves purposes of
the (economic blueprint Zimbabwe
Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic
Transformation)
ZimAsset.
“Parents are furious over a
number of interventions by
Dokora with the latest being that
the Cambridge examinations will
be banned.”
Government also banned payment
of incentives to teachers by
parents and guardians claiming
to “restore sanity and equality in
the education sector”.
In an interview with this paper
Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association
chief executive officer Sifiso
Ndlovu said his association is
looking forward to the curriculum
review but said the minister
has to investigate what needs to
be done.
“Our curriculum is not aligned
to the needs of the economy so
as an association we are looking
forward to this process,” Ndlovu
said.
“It must be noted that the
whole process should be done
properly with all stakeholders
including parents and industry
being involved in the consultations,”
he said.
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Tongaat Hulett’s
Zimbabwe operation Triangle
(Pvt) Ltd is embroiled in a row
with its sugar cane cutters in the
sugar growing Lowveld region,
to whom it is allegedly offering
“slave wages” at a time the
company has posted profits.
The sugar cane cutters earn
US$6,50 a day which translates
to US$160 a month. An employee
who requested anonymity
said the company has been
exploiting employees for a long
time.
“We have never had a salary
increase and the US$6,50 we
get a day is not commensurate
with the work we do for eight
hours,” he said.
“We are supposed to cut about
two stakes of sugar cane which
measure five metres by two and
it is a very hard job for a day,”
said the employee.
“This is oppression. It is modern
day slavery. Imagine this is
all we get after all this hard labour.
It is too little,” the worker
said, wiping off sweat with the
brow of his hand in the sweltering
Chiredzi heat.
“Our unions also deduct
earnings from the little we earn
but do nothing to improve our
welfare,” said another worker.
Zimbabwe sugar milling industry
workers union secretary-general
Admore Hwarare
said his association has tried to
represent the workers, but was
meeting stiff resistance from
government.
“We are being hit hard by
government legislation which
stipulates that all those under
agriculture should have a
minimum wage of US$80 per
month,” Hwarare said.
“I have fought hard to represent
all the sugar cane cutters so
they can get twice the minimum
wage, with free accommodation,
free transport and medical
cover,” he said.
Repeated efforts to contact
Tongaat Hulett’s public relations
manager Adelaide Chikunguru
failed as her cellphone
kept ringing without being answered
throughout the week,
while an SMS message was not
responded to. Chikunguru only
responded to an email sent to
her by acknowledging receipt of
questions.
“Your questions have been
received, we will revert,” she
wrote.
Tongaat Hulett last week reported
a 4% rise in earnings to
R1,11 billion for its year ended
March, with the company’s
chief executive officer Peter
Staude saying earnings were
expected to increase in the full
year ahead.

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loCal news
Zanu PF readies
‘Dokora must consult’
for 2018 elections
Herbert Moyo
LESS than a year into its fiveyear
mandate, the ruling Zanu
PF party has already started
preparations for the next polls
due in 2018 by importing vehicles,
clothing and other regalia
to be distributed during
campaigns.
The development, which
comes after the party controversially
secured a fresh mandate
to govern the country in
the July 2013 elections last year
was confirmed by party sources
over last weekend.
This comes as the party is yet
to deliver on its poll promises
which include creating 2,265
million jobs, as the economy
shows renewed signs of stress
characterised by company closures
and job losses.
A consignment of T-shirts,
head and waist gear has already
been imported from China and
await printing ahead of distribution
to party supporters.
The sources told the Zimbabwe
Independent Zanu PF is not resting
on its laurels as it seeks to
consolidate its stranglehold on
power secured after an overwhelming
poll triumph marred
by allegations of rigging and
A Zanu PF campaign vehicle. Pic: Elias Mambo
systematic disenfranchisement.
Party officials said the printing
would be done once there is clarity
over the party’s presidential
candidate.
Party regalia has always been
emblazoned with portraits of
the party president and respective
candidates. Although current
leader President Robert
Mugabe is seeking re-election at
the party’s congress scheduled
for December, it remains unclear
whether he will represent
the party in 2018 amid concerns
about his age and health. He will
be 94 when the polls are due.
Some of the cars are already on
ABANDON THE SEARCH
the roads and some were spotted
over the weekend with the
branding: “Team Zanu PF 2018”.
“We did very well in 2013 because
we started the preparations
early while our MDC colleagues
were enjoying the trappings of
their new-found power in the
inclusive government (2009-
2013). We will use the same formula,”
said a senior party official
who spoke on condition of
anonymity.
“We learnt from the 2008 experience
where we narrowly lost
the parliamentary elections and
the first round of the presidential
contest to the MDC-T.”
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PLANS by Primary and Secondary
Education minister Lazarus
Dokora to revamp the education
curriculum have set tongues
wagging as stakeholders and educationists
insist there is need for
serious consultations before any
policy is changed.
Although stakeholders agree
that a review of the education
system is long overdue, they insist
Dokora should engage stakeholders
and educationists to get
advice on what direction the
education system should take,
instead of unilaterally making
decisions.
Since his appointment Dokora
has introduced a cocktail of policy
interventions which include,
among others, the banning of extra
lessons at public institutions
and fund-raising initiatives by
Students Development Associations,
cancellation of incentives
for teachers and Form One entrance
tests, suspension of development
projects and recently
the introduction of hot sitting in
schools.
He is also changing the syllabus
of all primary and secondary
schools.While some educationists
are supportive of curriculum
change, they are worried by the
lack of consultation.
Former Education, Sport, Arts
and Culture minister David Coltart
said the curriculum needs
to be revamped but in a proper
manner.
“The curriculum is in dire need
of revamping as it was last done
in 1986. However it needs to be
done in an apolitical way by educationists
not politicians,” Coltart
said.
“I do not know what the current
government wants to introduce
but under my tenure I
wanted educationists to review
and reform the curriculum to
ensure that it was brought up to
date.”
However Progressive Teachers
Union of Zimbabwe secretarygeneral,
Raymond Majongwe,
said the Education minister
needs to be properly advised before
the education system collapses
again.
“He (Dokora) needs to consult
stakeholders including parents
on where he wants to take
our education system. He must
not politicise our education system
so that it serves purposes of
the (economic blueprint Zimbabwe
Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic
Transformation)
ZimAsset.
“Parents are furious over a
number of interventions by
Dokora with the latest being that
the Cambridge examinations will
be banned.”
Government also banned payment
of incentives to teachers by
parents and guardians claiming
to “restore sanity and equality in
the education sector”.
In an interview with this paper
Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association
chief executive officer Sifiso
Ndlovu said his association is
looking forward to the curriculum
review but said the minister
has to investigate what needs to
be done.
“Our curriculum is not aligned
to the needs of the economy so
as an association we are looking
forward to this process,” Ndlovu
said.
“It must be noted that the
whole process should be done
properly with all stakeholders
including parents and industry
being involved in the consultations,”
he said.
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Tongaat Hulett’s
Zimbabwe operation Triangle
(Pvt) Ltd is embroiled in a row
with its sugar cane cutters in the
sugar growing Lowveld region,
to whom it is allegedly offering
“slave wages” at a time the
company has posted profits.
The sugar cane cutters earn
US$6,50 a day which translates
to US$160 a month. An employee
who requested anonymity
said the company has been
exploiting employees for a long
time.
“We have never had a salary
increase and the US$6,50 we
get a day is not commensurate
with the work we do for eight
hours,” he said.
“We are supposed to cut about
two stakes of sugar cane which
measure five metres by two and
it is a very hard job for a day,”
said the employee.
“This is oppression. It is modern
day slavery. Imagine this is
all we get after all this hard labour.
It is too little,” the worker
said, wiping off sweat with the
brow of his hand in the sweltering
Chiredzi heat.
“Our unions also deduct
earnings from the little we earn
but do nothing to improve our
welfare,” said another worker.
Zimbabwe sugar milling industry
workers union secretary-general
Admore Hwarare
said his association has tried to
represent the workers, but was
meeting stiff resistance from
government.
“We are being hit hard by
government legislation which
stipulates that all those under
agriculture should have a
minimum wage of US$80 per
month,” Hwarare said.
“I have fought hard to represent
all the sugar cane cutters so
they can get twice the minimum
wage, with free accommodation,
free transport and medical
cover,” he said.
Repeated efforts to contact
Tongaat Hulett’s public relations
manager Adelaide Chikunguru
failed as her cellphone
kept ringing without being answered
throughout the week,
while an SMS message was not
responded to. Chikunguru only
responded to an email sent to
her by acknowledging receipt of
questions.
“Your questions have been
received, we will revert,” she
wrote.
Tongaat Hulett last week reported
a 4% rise in earnings to
R1,11 billion for its year ended
March, with the company’s
chief executive officer Peter
Staude saying earnings were
expected to increase in the full
year ahead.

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LOCAL NEWS
Youth league new Zanu PF battleground
FAITH ZABA/CLAYTON MASEKESA
THE new battleground for Zanu PF factions
tussling for control of strategic party
structures is now being fought at the youth
league level, as party heavyweights use a
variety of tactics including intimidation
and threats to influence its selection.
Factions and individuals within the party
have started positioning themselves for the
December party congress amid indications
the battle for central committee positions,
youth and women’s leagues will be dirty
and acrimonious.
Youth league inter-district conferences
have been lined up under the guise of discussing
ZimAsset by senior party officials
aligned to Vice-President Joice Mujuru’s
faction. The meetings held in Mashonaland
East and Manicaland provinces at the
weekend were used as platforms to attack
the faction led by Justice minister Emmerson
Mnangagwa and also to threaten youths
aligned to it with disciplinary action.
The national youth league congress is
scheduled for August.
According to party insiders in the youth
league who attended a meeting in Marondera,
addressed by secretary for administration
Didymus Mutasa and Mashonaland
East chairperson Ray Kaukonde, threats
were made against youths not backing
Mujuru.
“The secretary for administration Didymus
Mutasa, who was the guest of honour
at youth provincial inter-district conference
in Marondera, lambasted Mnangagwa
as head of the only faction in Zanu PF,
while he blatantly denied Mai Mujuru leads
the other major faction arguing that she is
a national leader and vice president of the
country,” said a Zanu PF youth executive
member.
“But what surprised us was why Mutasa,
using a meeting with youths meant
to discuss ZimAsset (the country’s latest
economic blueprint), would want to blast a
colleague in the politburo. To the surprise
of many he did not speak much on the conference
theme which was ‘ZimAsset Growing
the Economy for Youth Empowerment
MDC-T team
sets up structures
and Employment Creation’.”
Another youth league member said:
“He chose to speak about factionalism and
corruption.”
While Mutasa’s threats were thinly
veiled, Kaukonde warned that youths dabbling
in factionalism would soon suffer
the consequences as their lives would be
plunged into poverty.
“Cde Kaukonde attacked youth leaders
saying vari kushandiswa, uye vari kumhanya
(they are being used and they are rash),”
said the youth.
“He went on to say vanoparara kusara
vasina chinhu chekufambisa, vasina kana mapata
pata (They will be impoverished to the extent
that they will not even have slippers to
wear. He added that rwendo rwepolitics runoda
kufamba pamwechete (in politics, we need
to work together).”
Meanwhile addressing a provincial youth
inter-district conference at Biriri business
centre in Chimanimani, politburo member
and Chimanimani MP Munacho Mutezo
threatened those backing Mnangagwa with
suspension. Mutezo is Energy and Power
Development deputy minister and a close
Mujuru ally.
“I do not know why people are talking
about factions. There are no factions at all
in Zanu PF. It is very clear that the leader
of the party is President Mugabe followed
by Mai Mujuru. After that we have the party
chairman Cde (Simon Khaya) Moyo and
Cde (Didymus) Mutasa then follows,” he
said.
“These are the people leading Zanu PF.
We do not want to hear other names besides
the ones that I have mentioned. Those
aligned to other names will be suspended
because they would be against the party
constitution.”
He added: “The (Zanu PF) constitution is
very clear on succession. If there are to be
any changes (in leadership) they should be
done at our forthcoming congress.”
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THE MDC-T renewal team is now setting
up structures countrywide as it continues
to push for a grand coalition with other
parties.
Th e Zimbabwe Independent witnessed
MDC-T renewal team activists engaging
youths in Warren Park as it prepares to set
up structures.
Despite the move, spokesperson for the
team Joseph Mafume maintained they
were still part of the MDC-T.
“We have been moving from district to
district auditing the structures so that we
know who is moving with us and who is
not with us,” he said.
“We want to be clear as we prepare for an
all-structures meeting in about two weeks.
The all-structures meeting will be held before
the convention with other parties.”
Mafume said similar meetings had been
held in all provinces other than Mashonaland
Central, where MDC-T has been traditionally
weak.
Asked if the renewal team’s move was
not akin to coming up with parallel structures,
Mafume said they were merely ensuring
there was renewal while also consolidating
their position.
“We are rebranding and renewing the
party. The party is an organic organisation.
It’s just like in the animal kingdom; if
a snake sheds its skin and gets a new one
it doesn’t mean it’s a new snake,” he said.
Mafume said talks on the formation of a
grand coalition had reached a formal stage
as the parties involved were now discussing
at a technical level how the coalition
would work.
He said a coalition, and not individualism,
was important in defeating Zanu PF
“which itself is also a coalition of Zanu
PF, Zapu, Zipra and Zanla forces”. — Staff
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obituary
Dzinashe Machingura deserved better
Chrispen T
Mataire
Senior war veteran
MORE than a week has passed since the
burial at Glen Forest Cemetery in Harare of
Wilfred Mhanda, better known as Dzinashe
Machingura or Dzino. A morsel hotchpotch
of attendees contrasted sharply with the
multitudes of cadres that fell under his command
during the liberation struggle. It was
indeed a sad moment, seeing my fellow
comrade lying lifeless in typical resignation
to the cruel fate that characterised the larger
part of his life.
As someone who knew Dzino and witnessed
his transformation during and after
the liberation struggle, I felt duty-bound to
add my voice to his tributes. It is extremely
hard for me to compartmentalise Dzino’s
life without also retracing my own footprints
during the war as our lives became intertwined
mainly because of our obstinate beliefs
and philosophy of how the war should
be prosecuted.
In June 1970, I crossed the floor from the
Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army
(Zipra, military wing of PF Zapu) to the Zimbabwe
National Liberation Army (Zanla,
military wing of Zanu PF) and as a rule I was
retrained at Itumbi Camp under Zanla in the
same year. Upon completion of my training,
I was sent with others to Kongwa Holding
camp in Tanzania.
In December 1972, I was deployed to the
front in Mozambique and fought against the
Portuguese with Frelimo fighters in what
they called a “baptism of fire” before being
sent to fight on the front of the then Rhodesia
(now Zimbabwe).
I carried war materials across the crocodile-infested
Zambezi River. I was part of the
famous group of 45 combatants who crossed
into Zimbabwe and tentatively started operating
in 1972. I got wounded from enemy fire
on February 5 1972 in the Mt Darwin area.
Commander Josiah Tongogara requested
that I return to Lusaka to recuperate, a request
I flatly refused as I felt I was getting
better and itching to go back to the front because
my injury did not involve bone structure.
My request to return to the front was
granted.
In December 1973 I was recalled again
by Tongogara to Mgagao to join the training
team and share my experiences with instructors
and trainers.
It was during my stint at Mgagao that l
first met Dzino. He was at the time political
commissar at the camp, second in charge to
camp commander John Gwitira.
Unfortunately, Dzino and Gwitira felt I
was best suited to be in charge of the camp
clinic given my earlier training as a medic
while in Zipra. My interaction with the instructors
and trainers was thus casual and
informal.
It was not long before Dzino and I realised
we shared similar philosophies and ideologies.
We were both well read in Marxism-
Leninism. Dzino had joined several teams
that made visits to China and was well
acquainted with the Chinese liberation
against Japanese imperialism. I could also
tell that Dzino had read widely on various
revolutions.
Like Dzino, I naturally sided with the Soviets
because of my training in political science
in the then Soviet Union in 1967. Very
few cadres understood the socialist ideology
or any ideology for that matter.
The political discussions drew us closer,
creating a better appreciation of our standpoints
with regards to the essence of our
fight against colonialism. By default or design,
Dzino and I were selected to represent
the Mgagao Camp at the funeral of Herbert
Chitepo who died on March 18 1975. Both of
us were subsequently arrested by the Zambian
police and only released on June 6 1975.
After our release we were sent to Mboroma
Camp where all forces were gathered
after being rounded up from all the camps in
Zambia. I was immediately appointed commander
of the camp and at the end of July
of the same year, the commanders at Mgagao
pleaded with the Organisation of African
Unity Liberation Committee to allow
Wilfred Mhanda whose Chimurenga name was Dzinashe Machingura aka Cde Dzino
Zanla to rekindle the armed struggle on the
grounds that détente had failed.
Peaceful negotiations with Rhodesia’s Ian
Smith regime were simply a decoy by the
regime to gain time and restrategise.
The OAU conceded on condition that the
political leadership should step aside and
let the fighters lead the resumption of the
armed struggle and that Zanla and Zipra
forces should unite to form one army, the
Zimbabwe People’s Army (Zipa).
In my view, the decision by the OAU to
exclude the political leadership from the
war sowed seeds of discord and internal
contradictions that led to our incarceration
in Mozambique.
A request was made to release Dzino from
Mboroma as junior commanders could not
conclude such an arrangement without the
involvement of their superiors. Thus the
Joint Military Command was comprised
of nine commanders from both Zanla and
Zipra.
The late army commander General Solomon
Mujuru (Rex Nhongo) was appointed
the commander of Zipa and was deputised
by someone from Zipra. Nikita Mangena
from Zipra was appointed political commissar,
deputised by Dzino. These were the four
critical positions in Zipa.
In September 1975, Zanla fighters from
Mboroma were released and taken by air
to Mozambique and I was appointed commander
of the Chibavava-Toronga Camp.
My deputy was the late former Governor for
Matabeleland South Mark Dube and third in
command was) Joice Mujuru.
The other members of Zipa from Zanla
included Saw Sadza (logistics and supplies)
and Tendai Pfepferere (medical assistant). I
don’t know how I was left out when almost
all the members were my juniors.
I, however, knew Dzino had something to
do with this exclusion and he probably had
good reasons.
When Dzino visited Chibavava Camp
where I was commander, I took the opportunity
to brief him on the need to set up
an ideological college in the same mould as
the one that had been established in China
where political instructors founded the
Wampoa College in 1922.
Dzino readily accepted my idea and in
March 1975 I founded the Wampoa Ideological
College at Chimoio Camp.
Meanwhile, President Samora Machel had
relocated Robert Mugabe and Edgar Tekere
to Quelimane Island in Mozambique after
their arrival at Zhuuta Camp. The two senior
Zanu leaders were virtually unknown
to fighters and recruits when they arrived.
Due to the laxity of security at Quelimane,
Mugabe and Tekere occasionally sneaked
out of seclusion to visit some camps.
Dzino, who seemed to be more familiar
with Zanu’s organogram initiated these unsanctioned
visits, introducing the two leaders
to both fighters and recruits.
It was Dzino who regularly told cadres
that in accordance with the Zanu structure,
It was very ironic and one of the tragic contradictions of the struggle
that Mugabe was widely viewed as having aligned or influenced
Machel to get rid of Dzino and anyone of the same ilk from the command
of the Zanu military structure when the same Zipa was the one
which had pressured Machel not to quarantine him in Quelimane.
Mugabe was automatically the new leader
following the death of Leopold Takawira in
prison in 1970.
Contrary to distorted public perception,
the endorsement of Mugabe as the new
leader of Zanu was reflected in the Mgagao
document. It was very ironic and one
of the tragic contradictions of the struggle
that Mugabe was widely viewed as having
aligned or influenced Machel to get rid of
Dzino and anyone of the same ilk from the
command of the Zanu military structure
when the same Zipa was the one which had
pressured Machel not to quarantine him in
Quelimane.
I was appointed into the Zipa High Command
responsible for logistics and supplies
in 1976 following the death of Saw Sadza
after a Rhodesian raid that left more than
2 000 refugees dead.
It was after my appointment to the High
Command that I formed a formidable team
with Dzino who always consulted me before
making any decisions.
One other point that needs historical correction
is the fallacy that it was the Zanu
leadership and its central committee that
instigated the arrest of Zipa commanders.
Far from it; the real instigator and initiator
was Machel.
However, due to the material and human
losses that the new Mozambican government
incurred due to the constant raids by
Rhodesian forces, Machel could not continue
placating Zipa, obstinate in continuing
the war and dismissing the Geneva Conference
as a façade. He accepted without
critical analysis Henry Kissinger’s strategy
code-named “Tar Baby”, meant to bring an
immediate peaceful settlement of the Rhodesian
problem.
The whole of the Zipa leadership were
united in their rejection of the Geneva conference
as a waste of time. However, after
about two weeks upon the resumption of
the Geneva conference, Zanu sent the late
Kumbirai Kangai to plead with Zipa commanders
to be part of the conference, but
they would not budge.
The Zipa commanders advised Tongogara
to return and try their best to negotiate with
the Americans, while they intensified the
war.
Hardly three days after Tongogara’s departure,
Machel summoned the Zipa leadership
for a meeting where he impressed upon
it to appreciate the need for negotiations in
the war situation.
He strongly expressed his disdain for our
refusal to attend the Geneva conference and
in turn accused me personally of being a
KGB agent and used some of the most unsavoury
words to describe our group. It was
clear that we were no longer his “darlings”.
He ordered us to send a delegation to Geneva
and we had no option, but to give in
to his demands in return for his country’s
hospitality.
True to our prediction, the Geneva conference
failed to yield anything, but when
the Zanu delegation returned, Machel subsequently
accused the Zipa commanders of
serious insubordination and then hatched a
plan to rid them from the front.
A meeting was then called in Beira which
had Mugabe and Machel in attendance. We
were given our chance to express our views
and why we had misgivings about the whole
negotiation process. At the end of the meeting,
some were told to exit through different
points and we found ourselves under military
captivity. Surprisingly, Mujuru was not
part of those arrested even though he was
part of Zipa and had also inputted his views
on the Mgagao document.
After our arrest, Dzino was immediately
released and it was out of the benevolence
of the leadership that he was spared jail and
to the surprise of his captors, he opted to go
and join his colleagues in captivity unless
the same benevolence was extended to his
colleagues. Dzino thus re-joined us out of
his own volition at Cabo Delgado, the typical
Robben Island of Mozambique where we
were to spend three years before being released
after Zimbabwe’s Independence.
A question can be asked: Who arrested
the Zipa commanders? Was it Mugabe or
Machel? Since we were in Mozambique, we
can safely conclude that it was the host who
arrested us, but we cannot absolve our leader’s
involvement.
If Mugabe was able to reconcile with white
Rhodesians at Independence, why is it so
difficult for our leader and some of our colleagues
to reconcile with Zipa commanders,
even assuming that they erred. Contradictions
were apparent in the struggle and it
would not be good for a person to be permanently
maligned because of those contradictions.
There must be a realisation that no one
should be condemned as a perpetual sinner.
In summary, Dzino’s selfless dedication
to the liberation of our country can never be
doubted. He had the tenacity and vision of a
true revolutionary.
While it is highly regrettable that out of
frustration Dzino turned his back on the
revolution and aligned or sympathised with
reactionary forces in the mould of the MDC
and George Soros, I still feel that he deserved
a dignified send-off that typified the role he
played in the birth of independent Zimbabwe.
I pray that his soul finds eternal peace.
Mataire is a senior veteran of the struggle whose
Chimurenga name was David Todhlana. He was
arrested at the height of internal contradictions
within Zanu together with Dzino and later Rugare
Gumbo, and others.

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EDITORIAL & OPINION
ZIMBABWE
INDEPENDENT
HARARE, JUNE 6 TO 12, 2014
Govt its own
worst enemy
THE past few months have seen a strident debate over
how best to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) to the
country so the people as a whole can benefit. As it stands,
Zimbabwe is suffering an investment drought that is not
shared by its neighbours.
That would indicate we are doing something wrong and they are
getting it right.
Part of the debate is taking place within Zanu PF where there is
a growing difference of opinion over qualifications for investors and
percentages of businesses to be held. Another dimension to this debate
was manifest in recent weeks where Zanu PF has been inviting
its followers to grab land in the Save Conservancy, one of the most
precious resources in the country. The land-grabs have affected operations
of huge companies such as Hulett Tongaat cultivating vast
sugarcane estates in the Lowveld. Other land invaders have engaged
in systematic poaching that will not only damage foreign investment
in Zimbabwe, but also our reputation for professional wildlife
management.
Rhinos, for instance, were relocated to the Lowveld to protect them
from poaching by Zambia-based poachers in the Zambezi Valley. The
exercise worked until Zanu PF needed an election victory last year.
Other victims have been foreigners investing in the country under
Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements (Bippas).
Since the chaotic land reform programme, which has severely
dented the country’s image, there has been no new investment in the
Lowveld or indeed the country as a whole, save for the troubled Essar
deal.
Foreigners feel they have been a victim of theft and quickly learn
that what they put in gets taken out by partisan predators. Investors
from Europe, like Germans, have been dispossessed of their property
by a regime that doesn’t care about the consequences. They are then
surprised when the EU or US find better places to put their money.
Mauritius, whose nationals have been victims of seizure on the sugarcane
estates in the Lowveld, has laid down a red carpet for those
who wish to transfer their assets back home.
Here is a good example of why Zimbabwe is shunned. Patrick Chinamasa’s
recent statement in parliament that Bippas will not get in
the way of Zanu PF’s land seizures is the last thing well-wishers want
to hear. Much of the ruling party’s injuries are self-inflicted. Ostrich
breeding is one example of where ambitious plans have been
hijacked — in that case by Indonesians. Some years ago, Malaysian
investors also saw their plans go up in smoke.
All in all, there does not seem to be the sea change the government
needs to distance it from the ancien regime. Instead there has been an
intensification of the bad behaviour that led to Zimbabwe’s isolation
— it is amazing, isn’t it? All around us are successful economies
attracting investment. In Zimbabwe we are heading in the opposite
direction.
THE Warriors’ extremely disappointing
2-all home draw and
subsequent exit from the Afcon
competition came as a shock to
many, but if the truth be told, it
really shouldn’t have.
Almost 60 000 ardent fans packed the
National Sports Stadium hoping to witness
the most loved sports team in the land dispatch
Tanzania and book what should have
been a routine place in the next round.
Yet the Warriors, even by their poor
standards in recent years, contrived to
disappoint the multitudes by falling before
the proper qualification stages had
commenced.
An inquest has since been launched with
fingers pointing at the usual suspects in
coaches led by Ian Gorowa, the administrators
and players.
Yet the problems afflicting the “beautiful
game” in Zimbabwe are also evident in
rugby, cricket and, in fact, just about every
other sport.
The major obstacle to our progress in
sport is the abject lack of seriousness and
preparation. While everyone else was busy
preparing for the second legs by engaging
top opposition in friendly matches, Zimbabwe
opted to continue with the domestic
league programme.
And last Sunday, Tanzania, who did not
break camp after the first leg which they
won 1-0, played Malawi in a friendly and
reaped the rewards of hard work, focus and
seriousness.
Zimbabwe must shape up
LAST week at a crucial
meeting in Maputo, Mozambique,
the International
Monetary Fund
(IMF), finance ministers
and central bank governors
from around the world said Africa
has turned a new leaf and
is getting it together although a
deeper “structural transformation”
is needed so that ordinary
citizens can benefit from the current
boom.
Many African countries, excluding
Zimbabwe of course except
during the rebound phase
after 2009, have been experiencing
phenomenal growth trends
despite that the benefits are not
properly cascading down to the
people.
African governments and the
IMF agreed on the urgent need
to harness the continent’s rapid
economic growth to improve
the people’s standards of living
as conflicts and other problems
continue to sweep across some
parts of the continent.
A number of conflicts have
flared on the African continent
in recent decades. While peace
now prevails across swathes of
the continent, instability, caused
by political and religious conflicts
fuelled by poverty, still persists,
for instance, in trouble spots like
Nigeria, Central African Republic,
Somalia, South Sudan and the
Sahel region, among others.
This has had a devastating
impact on affected economies.
While the destabilisng impact of
conflicts has been shattering, it
has not halted Africa’s upward
trajectory.
According to various reports,
including the latest edition of Th e
Economist, sub-Saharan Africa has
made huge leaps in the last decade.
Malaria deaths in some of the
worst-affected countries have
declined by 30% and HIV infections
by up to 74%. Life expectancy
across Africa has increased
by about 10% and child mortality
rates in most African countries
have been falling steeply.
A booming economy has made
a big difference. Real income per
person has increased by more
than 30%, whereas in the previous
20 years, it shrank by nearly
10%.
Africa, which has vast natural
resources, is the world’s fastestgrowing
continent at the moment.
Over the next decade, its
GDP is expected to rise by an
average of 6% a year, not least
thanks to foreign direct investment.
FDI has gone from US$15
billion in 2002 to US$37 billion in
2006 and US$46 billion in 2012.
In the midst of the booms some
countries are crash-landing
largely to due to bad leadership,
poor governance and corruption.
In Southern Africa, upswings
are also evident. Zimbabwe’s
immediate neighbours, South
Africa, Zambia, Botswana and
Mozambique are doing relatively
well economically despite domestic
social challenges.
Zimbabweans are of the mistaken belief
that the country is a football giant and
the Warriors simply need to turn up for a
preliminary round match and march on to
the next stage. Yet the painful reality is that
Zimbabwe have only qualified twice for Afcon
finals, and there will be no meaningful
international football for the Warriors until
2016.
What performances or results can be expected
from a nation that appoints a parttime
coach who resides in South Africa
and only comes in as and when a match is
imminent?
Is that not the reason Gorowa invested
faith in a mostly locally-based squad that
did duty at Chan, yet most of the players
have struggled for form since the start of the
new season?
Zimbabwe suspiciously chooses to ignore
its European-based players in favour
of locally-based ones in a order to sell them
Mozambique, one of the poorest
countries in the world, is actually
now on a phenomenal recovery
path due to massive coal
and gas discoveries. The jackpot
has turned the country into an
energy hotspot while bringing
an investment bonanza. A construction
boom is thus under
way, concrete proof of the economic
renewal. Growth averages
7%, ensuring sustained recovery
from the ravages of a 15-year civil
war.
Compare this with what is
currently happening in Zimbabwe
which has an unfriendly
investment climate, courtesy of
the ill-conceived indigenisation
policy and retrogressive politics.
Companies are closing down
and workers losing jobs en masse,
worsening the already high unemployment
and poverty.
Investors are either sitting on
the fence or taking flight due to
the persistent problems of bad
and inconsistent policies, hostile
populist rhetoric and uncertainty.
When President Robert
Mugabe left Maputo for Harare at
the dawn of Independence, the
late Mozambican leader Samora
Machel reportedly told him not
to emulate his failed command
economic policies which had
ruined the country, but it seems
that advice, including from Julius
Nyerere, was ignored. One wonders
what Machel and Nyerere
would be thinking of Mugabe if
they were still alive.
All the same, it’s time Zimbabwe
shapes up or else it will
remain an island of entrenched
economic regression ruled by
kleptocrats and architects of
poverty at the heart of Sadc.
Lackadaisical approach to tourneys costly
Candid
Comment
KEVIN MAPASURE
Editor’s
Memo
DUMISANI
MULEYA
dmuleya@zimind.co.zw
to the poor quality, but cash-rich South African
league where their talents, unfortunately,
waste away.
If the Zimbabwe Rugby Union does not
draw lessons from the Warriors’ failures,
the Sables World Cup dream could go up in
smoke after their first game of the qualifiers
against Madagascar next month.
Rivals Kenya have been thorough in their
preparations, investing close to US$1 million
playing in the Vodacom Cup.
But for the Sables, only a handful of players
have showed up for training so far.
There is a golden chance for the Sables to
qualify for the World Cup in England next
year, yet government has had no role in
such an important undertaking.
As long as government continues to take
sport as a pastime, Zimbabwe’s sports fans
will continue to sing the blues. Appointing
a sports minister alone is not enough; there
must also be adequate funding.

ZIMbabwe IndePendent june 6 to 12, 2014 9
readers’ forum
Heroes Acre now a
symbol of shame
• The heroes Acre in was established
primarily to honour
liberation war heroes who persevered
to see the birth of a new
Zimbabwe.
Besides the known ones who
are physically buried at the
acre, there is the tomb of the
unknown soldier to signify the
unsung heroes who again perished
during war.
The criteria is fair in my own
opinion. What hasn’t been fair
is the exclusion of deserving
heroes like James Chikerema,
Welshman Mabhena, Ndabaniningi
Sithole, John Mutasa
and recently Wilfred Mhanda,
whose war name was Dzinashe
Machingura, among others,
while including undeserving
people such as Border Gezi.
equally disturbing is the inclusion
of some whose contribution
to the liberation struggle
was not too significant compared
to everyone else and
therefore not deserving any
special status. All this is usually
done for political expediency.
After this generation of liberation
war heroes is gone,
the future must honour national
heroes through naming
of schools, roads etc and move
away from burying people at
one shrine.
even physically burying people
at the heroes Acre is no
longer a great idea after all. A
liberation war museum should
have been established and
make it easily accessible to the
public, detailing the lives of the
liberation war heroes and a funeral
pass out parade and a state
funeral.
Our problem is that the heroes
Acre is being used to scare
away Zanu PF’s political competitors
and whip them into its
political doctrines.
how else can one justify the
fact that Jairos Jiri was not made
a national hero, yet Chenjerai
hunzvi was declared one?
Jiri was a selfless person who
gave all he had to make the lives
of the disabled people better.
he changed our attitudes towards
the disabled, made us see
the light. hunzvi on the other
hand was a completely selfish
person who facilitated the
looting of state funds by lying
about the extent of disabilities
suffered during the war, in exchange
for bribes. Between the
two of them, who would you
call a hero?
The idea of conferring hero
status is supposed to be a great
recognition of men and women
who undertook to liberate
this country from the yoke of
colonialism.
The principle has however
being grossly abused by a cabal
of self-opinionated Zanu PF
politicians who believe in honouring
party loyalists, personal
friends and relatives of the ruling
party’s top officials at the
expense of true national heroes.
Zanu PF must realise that the
national shrine has simply become
a symbol of shame. Decisions
made by the party are
only serving to discredit its importance
and it is shocking that
President Robert Mugabe finds
it wise to sideline his fellow
comrades.
every political movement
experiences differences and
the likes of Mhanda were not
wrong in expressing dissent.
Zanu PF must learn to accept
that it is not Mugabe alone who
fought the liberation struggle
and thus he must cease to treat
Independence as his individual
achievement. With this mindset,
surely we are doomed!
ConCerned, Harare.
Transitional govt necessary
• I believe a transitional or coalition
government that includes all
political parties may save us from
suffering.
The current state of affairs requires
all influential individuals
to unite, set aside their differences
and work out a common strategy
geared towards resuscitating the
bleeding economy.
The country is hopeless as the
national leadership appears lost
and clueless. Remember the inclusive
government brought
back some hope when Zimbabwe
was reeling from the effects
of hyperinflation and surging
unemployment.
The same approach must guide
us today. If we unite as Zimbabweans,
it’s likely that we will
shape a better economy. Greedy
and selfishness, attributes characterising
the Zanu PF leadership
Former liberation fighter Wilfred
Mhanda
today, must be discarded in favour
of unity of purpose.
however, it seems Zanu PF
stalwarts are like flies that will
go down in the grave with the
carcass. They are determined to
safeguard their ill-gotten wealth
without considering the needs of
other ordinary citizens.
The so-called front runners allegedly
aiming to succeed President
Robert Mugabe have nothing
to offer. They are just powerhungry,
and after having stayed in
Zanu PF for too long, their chances
of worsening the economic rot are
high.
The other problem that seems
to be dominating the nation’s political
landscape is the acceptance
that Mugabe must be a life president.
Zanu PF has no intension
of challenging him, and over the
years Mugabe has realised that.
Since he could not be removed by
the ballot, it is necessary he accepts
a coalition with other parties
for the benefit of Zimbabwe.
tiPei, marondera.
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Removing
sanctions
won’t help
• DOeS anyone really think
that removing sanctions will reform
Zanu PF? It is clear from all
that is happening that those in
power have no intention of doing
what is good for the country.
They are all seeing the writing on
the wall and are merely ensuring
that when everything crumbles,
they will not suffer. By removing
sanctions, they will be vindicated
and rewarded for their
corrupt behaviour. Unfortunately,
both the West and Zanu
PF have backed themselves into
corners they can hardly extract
themselves from. Zanu PF has
been consistent in its dishonesty
and this will not change because
sanctions on some individuals
are lifted.
maveriCk.
• The African Union and Sadc
are instruments serving to justify
leadership impunity in Africa.
Uganda’s former President
Idi Amin became the Organisation
of African Unity Chairperson
when there was massive
repression in his country. President
Robert Mugabe became the
deputy Sadc chairperson despite
the political oppression in Zimbabwe.
It’s time African citizens
wake up and demand democratic
leaders and not despots who
suddenly become billionaires
when they get into power.
nkosi mambo.
• The liberation struggle does
not belong to Zanu PF. It belongs
to the people of Zimbabwe. It is
indisputable that Zanu PF played
a co-leading role, but that was
the old, determined Zanu PF, not
the current gang of thieves. We
urgently need change, though
we cannot rubbish the armed
struggle. Long live the people’s
struggle, but the dishonest Zanu
government should have no
place in this country.
afriCan Warrior.
• TheRe is discord between
Tyrants ruin
AU principles
• I agree with the article in your
paper that questioned why African
leaders want immunity.
In my view, the African Union
is discrediting itself by going
against the founding principles
of the Organisation of African
Unity. The organisation is now
being misled by tyrants who
have overstayed in power.
Clifford masHiri.
what the MDC Renewal Team’s
Jacob Mafume and Tendai Biti
are saying. While Biti said they
will soon form their own party,
Mafume said they are re-aligning
the MDC-T. If they are forming
a new party, there is no need
for re-alignment because they
are starting a new project. These
guys are confused and are out to
destroy the MDC-T. If they want
to identify with the armed struggle,
in what way are they different
from Zanu PF? They cannot
win any votes for thinking like
Zanu PF. It’s sensible for them to
join the ruling party than forming
another party. Soon they will
be preaching to us that they are
more Pan-African than anyone
else just as Zanu PF thinks it is
more patriotic than anyone.
PaPa dad.
• CIvIL Society needs to involve
citizens in their programmes
while interacting with
their counterparts in other African
countries to come up with
strategies to reform the status
quo in various countries across
the continent. By this they become
people-oriented.
Just saying.
• I don’t think government
ministers really understand
how unfriendly the indigenisation
policy is. In a competitive
world, the best thing to do is to
repeal the legislation. We are the
“funny” character in the Sadc
economic movie and the sooner
we realise that, the better. The
world does not owe us a living.
taurai moyo.
Zim needs proper planning
• I agree that sanctions have to go since they are being used as
an excuse for incompetency. It is important for Zimbabwe to ensure
the reasons that caused the imposition of sanctions are addressed.
The Rhodesian prime minister Ian Douglas Smith ran a
strong economy amid UN sanctions and a war. how did he manage?
State enterprises in the form of railways, CSC and eSC were
the envy of the region. Towns had clean running water and hospitals
had drugs. The nation is failing to overcome sanctions because
we spend what we don’t have and don’t care about tomorrow.
That is why President Robert Mugabe’s entourage on his trips
is always bloated. Corruption has also largely permeated through
Zimbabwe society. As long as we have this, we will remained entrenched
in the economic abyss. Only a committed, conscious
leadership can turn around the economy despite the sanctions.
sibongiseni Hove.
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ZIMbabwe IndePendent june 6 to 12, 2014 9
readers’ forum
Heroes Acre now a
symbol of shame
• The heroes Acre in was established
primarily to honour
liberation war heroes who persevered
to see the birth of a new
Zimbabwe.
Besides the known ones who
are physically buried at the
acre, there is the tomb of the
unknown soldier to signify the
unsung heroes who again perished
during war.
The criteria is fair in my own
opinion. What hasn’t been fair
is the exclusion of deserving
heroes like James Chikerema,
Welshman Mabhena, Ndabaniningi
Sithole, John Mutasa
and recently Wilfred Mhanda,
whose war name was Dzinashe
Machingura, among others,
while including undeserving
people such as Border Gezi.
equally disturbing is the inclusion
of some whose contribution
to the liberation struggle
was not too significant compared
to everyone else and
therefore not deserving any
special status. All this is usually
done for political expediency.
After this generation of liberation
war heroes is gone,
the future must honour national
heroes through naming
of schools, roads etc and move
away from burying people at
one shrine.
even physically burying people
at the heroes Acre is no
longer a great idea after all. A
liberation war museum should
have been established and
make it easily accessible to the
public, detailing the lives of the
liberation war heroes and a funeral
pass out parade and a state
funeral.
Our problem is that the heroes
Acre is being used to scare
away Zanu PF’s political competitors
and whip them into its
political doctrines.
how else can one justify the
fact that Jairos Jiri was not made
a national hero, yet Chenjerai
hunzvi was declared one?
Jiri was a selfless person who
gave all he had to make the lives
of the disabled people better.
he changed our attitudes towards
the disabled, made us see
the light. hunzvi on the other
hand was a completely selfish
person who facilitated the
looting of state funds by lying
about the extent of disabilities
suffered during the war, in exchange
for bribes. Between the
two of them, who would you
call a hero?
The idea of conferring hero
status is supposed to be a great
recognition of men and women
who undertook to liberate
this country from the yoke of
colonialism.
The principle has however
being grossly abused by a cabal
of self-opinionated Zanu PF
politicians who believe in honouring
party loyalists, personal
friends and relatives of the ruling
party’s top officials at the
expense of true national heroes.
Zanu PF must realise that the
national shrine has simply become
a symbol of shame. Decisions
made by the party are
only serving to discredit its importance
and it is shocking that
President Robert Mugabe finds
it wise to sideline his fellow
comrades.
every political movement
experiences differences and
the likes of Mhanda were not
wrong in expressing dissent.
Zanu PF must learn to accept
that it is not Mugabe alone who
fought the liberation struggle
and thus he must cease to treat
Independence as his individual
achievement. With this mindset,
surely we are doomed!
ConCerned, Harare.
Transitional govt necessary
• I believe a transitional or coalition
government that includes all
political parties may save us from
suffering.
The current state of affairs requires
all influential individuals
to unite, set aside their differences
and work out a common strategy
geared towards resuscitating the
bleeding economy.
The country is hopeless as the
national leadership appears lost
and clueless. Remember the inclusive
government brought
back some hope when Zimbabwe
was reeling from the effects
of hyperinflation and surging
unemployment.
The same approach must guide
us today. If we unite as Zimbabweans,
it’s likely that we will
shape a better economy. Greedy
and selfishness, attributes characterising
the Zanu PF leadership
Former liberation fighter Wilfred
Mhanda
today, must be discarded in favour
of unity of purpose.
however, it seems Zanu PF
stalwarts are like flies that will
go down in the grave with the
carcass. They are determined to
safeguard their ill-gotten wealth
without considering the needs of
other ordinary citizens.
The so-called front runners allegedly
aiming to succeed President
Robert Mugabe have nothing
to offer. They are just powerhungry,
and after having stayed in
Zanu PF for too long, their chances
of worsening the economic rot are
high.
The other problem that seems
to be dominating the nation’s political
landscape is the acceptance
that Mugabe must be a life president.
Zanu PF has no intension
of challenging him, and over the
years Mugabe has realised that.
Since he could not be removed by
the ballot, it is necessary he accepts
a coalition with other parties
for the benefit of Zimbabwe.
tiPei, marondera.
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comments
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Removing
sanctions
won’t help
• DOeS anyone really think
that removing sanctions will reform
Zanu PF? It is clear from all
that is happening that those in
power have no intention of doing
what is good for the country.
They are all seeing the writing on
the wall and are merely ensuring
that when everything crumbles,
they will not suffer. By removing
sanctions, they will be vindicated
and rewarded for their
corrupt behaviour. Unfortunately,
both the West and Zanu
PF have backed themselves into
corners they can hardly extract
themselves from. Zanu PF has
been consistent in its dishonesty
and this will not change because
sanctions on some individuals
are lifted.
maveriCk.
• The African Union and Sadc
are instruments serving to justify
leadership impunity in Africa.
Uganda’s former President
Idi Amin became the Organisation
of African Unity Chairperson
when there was massive
repression in his country. President
Robert Mugabe became the
deputy Sadc chairperson despite
the political oppression in Zimbabwe.
It’s time African citizens
wake up and demand democratic
leaders and not despots who
suddenly become billionaires
when they get into power.
nkosi mambo.
• The liberation struggle does
not belong to Zanu PF. It belongs
to the people of Zimbabwe. It is
indisputable that Zanu PF played
a co-leading role, but that was
the old, determined Zanu PF, not
the current gang of thieves. We
urgently need change, though
we cannot rubbish the armed
struggle. Long live the people’s
struggle, but the dishonest Zanu
government should have no
place in this country.
afriCan Warrior.
• TheRe is discord between
Tyrants ruin
AU principles
• I agree with the article in your
paper that questioned why African
leaders want immunity.
In my view, the African Union
is discrediting itself by going
against the founding principles
of the Organisation of African
Unity. The organisation is now
being misled by tyrants who
have overstayed in power.
Clifford masHiri.
what the MDC Renewal Team’s
Jacob Mafume and Tendai Biti
are saying. While Biti said they
will soon form their own party,
Mafume said they are re-aligning
the MDC-T. If they are forming
a new party, there is no need
for re-alignment because they
are starting a new project. These
guys are confused and are out to
destroy the MDC-T. If they want
to identify with the armed struggle,
in what way are they different
from Zanu PF? They cannot
win any votes for thinking like
Zanu PF. It’s sensible for them to
join the ruling party than forming
another party. Soon they will
be preaching to us that they are
more Pan-African than anyone
else just as Zanu PF thinks it is
more patriotic than anyone.
PaPa dad.
• CIvIL Society needs to involve
citizens in their programmes
while interacting with
their counterparts in other African
countries to come up with
strategies to reform the status
quo in various countries across
the continent. By this they become
people-oriented.
Just saying.
• I don’t think government
ministers really understand
how unfriendly the indigenisation
policy is. In a competitive
world, the best thing to do is to
repeal the legislation. We are the
“funny” character in the Sadc
economic movie and the sooner
we realise that, the better. The
world does not owe us a living.
taurai moyo.
Zim needs proper planning
• I agree that sanctions have to go since they are being used as
an excuse for incompetency. It is important for Zimbabwe to ensure
the reasons that caused the imposition of sanctions are addressed.
The Rhodesian prime minister Ian Douglas Smith ran a
strong economy amid UN sanctions and a war. how did he manage?
State enterprises in the form of railways, CSC and eSC were
the envy of the region. Towns had clean running water and hospitals
had drugs. The nation is failing to overcome sanctions because
we spend what we don’t have and don’t care about tomorrow.
That is why President Robert Mugabe’s entourage on his trips
is always bloated. Corruption has also largely permeated through
Zimbabwe society. As long as we have this, we will remained entrenched
in the economic abyss. Only a committed, conscious
leadership can turn around the economy despite the sanctions.
sibongiseni Hove.
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Zimbabwe independent june 6 to 12, 2014
fEaTurE
Chingwizi: Resilience carries the day
Elias MaMbo/TaTEnda ChiTagu
READING accounts of life at Chingwizi
camp in the media, some
of them heart-rending, one is
bound to imagine life at the camp
is all doom and gloom with villagers
eking out a living from the
depths of despair.
However, a visit to the camp,
where more than 3 000 families
— mostly victims of the Tokwe-
Murkosi flood disaster — are staying,
defied such expectations and
turned out to be a study in resilience
under tough circumstances.
Upon arrival at Chingwizi camp,
the visitor is greeted by a curious
mixture of properly set up tents
and the cardboard and plastic
shacks reminiscent of the shanty
towns in South Africa.
Three elderly women, all carrying
mobile phones, emerge from
the tents and their eyes light up in
anticipation of a donation from us.
After a few pleasantries and
upon the realisation that they
would not be given anything, they
shift their attention to a wellgroomed
young woman who has
just disembarked from a truck
with a cooler bag stuffed with frozen
chicken pieces for sale.
The woman is just one of many
traders who trudge the rows of
gravel paths in the sprawling settlement
to sell their wares.
The usual tales of looming starvation
and confrontation towards
government are not in evidence as
Chingwizi inhabitants loudly haggle
with traders bringing an assortment
of merchandise for sale.
A young lady emerges from one
of the tents into the bright sunlight,
gazes intently at her reflection in a
hand held mirror and starts to apply
make-up to her face while a
few metres away, a group of male
youths take swigs from a plastic
bottle containing popular opaque
beer. Occasionally, they throw
approving glances in the young
lady’s direction.
Clearly, even in the face of
hardships, hope springs eternal at
this camp, making it microcosmic
of the wider resilient Zimbabwean
society that continues to hold
hope despite an economic meltdown
now in its second decade.
“My shop has become the centre
of attraction because I load
music onto mobile phones and
update the whatsapp application
on people’s phones,” said Tinotenda
Shumba whose computer
is housed in a makeshift grass
thatched shop.
Just across the street another
enterprising youth sets up huge
speakers and the entire shop rattles
and reverberates to popular
musician Jah Prayzah’s hit song.
From the mobile gadgets and audio
accessories to shebeens, Chingwizi
has it all.
One of the country’s mobile
networks has constructed a
makeshift base station and opened
a shop near the police post to keep
There is football debate
as the young men air their
views on which country is
likely to win the World Cup
tournament which kicks
off in Brazil next Friday.
Youths can enjoy a game of pool. Pic by Elias Mambo
A hive of activity as camp residents buy supplies from makeshift tuckshops. Pic by Sherpherd Tozvireva
the villagers connected to the rest
of the world. It sells airtime and
offers money transfer services.
Some youths play a game of
pool. There is football debate as
the young men air their views on
which country is likely to win the
World Cup tournament kicking
off in Brazil next Friday.
It is hard to imagine that these
people mostly have to rely on food
handouts largely from foreign
non-governmental organisations
(NGOs) like Oxfam, whose flag
flutters in the wind while government
and local NGOs take a
backseat.
Only last week, government
dismantled a large shed that
served as storage for donated food
at the camp. The move which dismayed
thousands of hungry people
at the camp is said to be part
of a concerted effort by government
to force the people out of
the camp.
A new tent has been erected in
a bushy area 17km away where
government wants villagers to be
resettled on one-hectare pieces
of land condemned by camp residents
as arid and too small.
“These shops, these radios and
these phones ensure we feel we
are not isolated from the whole
world,” said Mbuya Chigova, a
widow who was evacuated from
the Tokwe-Murkosi basin.
“The first three months were
very tough as there was little
to occupy us, but things have
changed although most people
can hardly afford what the traders
sell.
“Unfortunately, we are being
forced to sell our cattle for a song
so we can buy groceries as government
has stopped giving us
any support.”
Most families were plunged
into complete poverty by floods,
after incessant rains in Masvingo
caused the partial collapse
of the Tokwe-Murkosi dam wall,
washed away crops and homes.
The villagers have, since relocation,
been up in arms with
government’s alleged insensitive
handling of their plight with some
claiming to have lost livestock
and valuable property during
government-assisted evacuation.
Currently, there is not enough
water, raising serious health concerns.
There are also widespread
reports of government officials
looting goods intended for the
flood victims, and allegedly using
food in exchange for sexual
favours. Some of the tents have
been destroyed by heavy winds.
“As our tents have been destroyed,
we are being forced to
go and settle at small plots which
cannot accommodate our families,”
Tendai Mandebvu said. “We
have been told anyone who wants
food should accept to move to the
plots, otherwise we will starve
to death because government is
ready to assist only those who accept
new plots. The majority have
vowed they would rather die here
instead of being forced to accept a
one-hectare piece of land.”
A widow, Miriam Zhou, who
houses six siblings in her tent and
claims to be a war veteran, criticised
government.
“It seems our government is
behaving like the settler colonial
government,” she said.
Maxwell Saungweme, a local
social commentator, said what is
happening at Chingwizi is typical
of resilient Zimbabweans.
“Since the colonial era, Zimbabweans
have demonstrated
their ability to take abnormal
situations to be the ‘new normal’.
Even during the Economic Structural
Adjustment Programme in
the 1990s, to the land invasions
and political violence in 2000 and
years after, to the hyperinflationary
crisis that peaked in 2008-9,
Zimbabweans have shown that
they can bear extreme hardships,”
Saungweme said.
“Life needed to come back to
Chingwizi; unfortunately, this
will lead to the government forgetting
the core issues this unfortunate
community faces. They
will be forgotten again and only
remembered when another disaster
strikes. As Zimbabweans,
we must not accept these abnormal
situations to continue and
confront the government, the
duty bearers, to deliver on their
mandates. We have to take them
to account.”
Another commentator, Youth
Initiative for Democracy in Zimbabwe
director Sydney Chisi,
said whatever is giving the people
smiles during the day in Chingwizi
will surely give them sadness
in the long-run if their plight is
not resolved.
“Chingwizi villagers’ patience
will be eroded the longer government
takes to resolve their issues,
Chisi said. “While camp inmates
might celebrate the comfort of
their open prison system, the reality
is that what they have lost
through the relocation is huge.
The micro-businesses provided
by crisis-entrepreneurs within
the system will offer only temporary
relief.”

ZiMbabwe independenT june 6 To 12, 2014 11
column
Under the heading “the
Zim dollar can work wonders”,
the Sunday Mail last
weekend once again tried to
stimulate interest in this discredited
currency.
If Zanu PF was hoping for an
uptake in interest they were
likely to be disappointed. nothing
could be more calculated to
drive the public into the arms of
the opposition.
Whatever we may think about
the MdC formations, they — and
probably the rest of the country
— are united on the issue of the
Zim dollar.
nobody wants the disastrous
dollar to make a reappearance
after the success of the US dollar
in standing for stability and
growth.
Inspired
The Sunday Mail has taken
inspiration from German
chancellor Gustav Stressemann.
in the Weimar republic
who secured currency stability
in the mid-20s.
Germans were delighted with
this outcome.
Can the same be said of Tafataona
Mahoso who has been advocating
a return to the Zim dollar
for several years?
The German public were keen
to exchange their worthless
papierenmark for the robust
rentenmark.
After the Second World War
Germans embraced another new
currency in 1948 — the deutschemark
— which they were
loath to abandon when the euro
came in.
Zimbabweans, we can be sure,
will be equally reluctant to see a
return to the Zim dollar.
The US dollar provided, in
addition to physical stability,
the psychological security that
comes with a stable currency.
People could actually plan ahead.
Mahoso refers to the “rand
Union” in his article. Is this the
same as the rand Monetary
Area?
Parade circus
IT is very important nowadays
to put on the correct shoes
when going on parade. ZTV
carried a clip last Thursday night
which explained how tightfitting
shoes can be a hazard to
powerful people’s circulation
when they have to stand to attention
for hours.
We gather that it is an offence
in one service to fall over when
standing on parade. rarely has a
story been so widely covered as
this one. All sorts of explanations
were given about how and why
it happened. But all were agreed
including the victim, it was the
tight shoes that were the culprits!
Muckraker’s comment: Couldn’t
he check what shoes he
would be wearing that morning?
Imaginary victories
IT is entertaining to watch the
state press claim victories for
Zanu PF.
MUCKRAKER
Twitter: @MuckrakerZim
“Is it true that the EU
is prepared to ignore
its own policy? Why
for instance have
several ministerial
expeditions to Europe
under the rubric of
re-engagement
prove fruitless? Is it
seriously suggested.
the EU knows
nothing about
observer mission
head Pierre Schori’s
eviction from the
country in 2002 . . .”
shoRt And swEEt ...
Malawi’s justice system sends favourable signal
The chaos that seemed inevitable in Malawi
after the general elections were held in the
country recently has at least subsided, thanks
to the transparent justice system.
That the courts refused to consider the country’s
former President Joyce Banda’s antics to challenge
the electoral outcome as null and void put smiles on
democrats across the world. The fear among many,
especially Zimbabweans, was that Banda would
employ rigging tactics to outwit the eventual winner,
Peter Mutharika.
Zim dollar a curse
many want to forget
Information deputy minister Supa
Mandiwanzira
The trial however was met with legal resistance.
The doctrine of separation of powers between
the judiciary and the executive must be hailed as a
milestone development in a continent where elections
are mainly crafted to suit the demands of the
ruling elite.
Zanu PF may have been less impressed, at least
Banda could have learnt a lot from Zimbabwe’s general
elections since 2000. Opposition politics must
simply end with envy and not power. At least Malawi
now knows more than one president or is it five?
On Tuesday the Herald stated
that “the fact that the eU is prepared
to normalise relations
without setting preconditions,
especially around the land reform
programme, is a major victory
for the country.”
Is it true that the eU is prepared
to ignore its own policy? Why for
instance have several ministerial
expeditions to europe under the
rubric of re-engagement proved
fruitless?
Is it seriously suggested the eU
knows nothing about observer
mission head Pierre Schori’s
eviction from the country in 2002
for identifying political violence
and electoral manipulation?
Misplaced warning
MeAnWhIle it is good to
have Supa Mandiwanzira’s
assurance that more
commercial radio licences will
soon be issued.
But we are not interested in Joram
nyathi’s warning about the
tower of Babel in the commercial
sector.
“We need to have a national
voice that speaks to common
values,” he says.
do we? In a mature democracy
the public and interested parties
can fashion whatever values
they like. They don’t need
government columnists telling
them about the supposed need
for “common values”.
There are over 12 million Zimbabweans
and every one is entitled,
notionally, to broadcast
their “values”.
“Common values” are in any
case the domain of one-party
states in an earlier era.
They need consigning to the
dustbin of history while real
broadcasters get on with their
work.
Once again we need to draw
attention to the Supreme Court
ruling of 2000 striking down the
ZBC monopoly. how has that
manipulation of “common values”
served the country? It is a
good illustration of what happens
when the state thinks it
knows better.
Perplexed
CAn someone please explain
what the european Council
on Tourism and Trade really
is all about.
Muck paid a visit to the “private
Bucharest, romania-based
organisation with an interest
in tourism”, as it is described
by The Herald, and was underwhelmed
to put it mildly.
Shabby and outdated-looking,
it could do with a comprehensive
facelift. And how is the
World Best Tourism destination
award arrived at, and by whom,
most Zimbabweans must be
wondering?
The website reveals the award
winner for 2013 was laos.
Previous winners are: 2007
— Arab republic of Syria; 2008
— Turkey; 2009 — United Arab
emirates; 2010 — republic of
Korea (South Korea); 2011 —
United Arab emirates; 2012 —
republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
Under “nomination Criteria
and Selection” the website, rather
vaguely, says:
nominations are usually submitted
until August 1 of the year
in question, but the update and
new name are accepted until the
completion is closed.
The statutes of World Best
Tourist destination Award guarantee
the secrecy of nominations,
procedure, considerations
and investigation for a period of
50 years after the prize has been
awarded.
The nominations are not representative
of anything other
than the opinions of the nominators,
we are told.
The eCTT, which is not affiliated
to the eU was on Wednesday
scheduled to present two awards
to President Mugabe “in recognition
of Zimbabwe’s appeal as
a major tourism destination” in
a ceremony at a harare hotel,
which “provides further independent
affirmation of Zimbabwe
as a tourism destination of
choice”, according to The Herald.
Marginalised
MeAnWhIle our sister
paper Newsday on the
same day reported Tourism
players from Mashonaland
West province had rapped the
Zimbabwe Tourism Authority
(ZTA) for charging “exorbitant”
operating fees and concentrating
its activities in harare at the expense
of outlying areas.
Speaking during a stakeholders’
meeting at Chinhoyi Training
Centre on Tuesday, hotel, boat
and fishery operators from the
province also accused the ZTA
of “killing the tourism sector” by
failing to promote local tourism
and ignoring small players.
Tourism and hospitality Industry
deputy minister retired
Brigadier-General Walter Kanhanga
concurred saying the
tourism sector was on a downward
slide due to many factors.

12
ZIMBABWE INDEPENDENT JUNE 6 TO 12, 2014
COLUMN
Indigenisation saga rages on
PUBLICLY, the first assertions that this
country required to effect meaningful
economic indigenisation were made in
about 1958, when the liberally minded
humanitarian Sir Garfield Todd and his
political party, the United Rhodesia Front,
urged that the laws barring the indigenous
population from owning land except indirectly
(via chiefs and tribunal councils)
through designated “communal lands” be
repealed. Unfortunately this advice fell on
resolutely deaf ears.
Although I was not a member of his or
any other party, at one of his public meetings
I supported the demand but emphasised
that diverse policies and progress
were required to enable capable members
of the indigenous population to be active
participants (not necessarily just employees)
in all sectors of the economy. That too
fell on deaf ears.
Some very limited consideration to
these issues arose during the Unilateral
Declaration of Independence (UDI) period,
but yet again there was no meaningful
progress on indigenisation. The first real
movement in a partially positive direction
was when post-Independence the Zanu
PF government repealed the indigenously
hostile Land Apportionment Act, and legislated
that all rural lands were state property
to be leased to farmers in general,
but primarily to indigenous “new” farmers.
However, the manner in which it was
done was appallingly unjust, and with innumerable
negative consequences.
In the first instance, government alleged
that the white farmers being displaced
had “stolen” the lands from the
indigenous population, and therefore no
compensation would be paid unless those
farmers’ “original” homelands, for example
the United Kingdom, paid such compensation.
This stance was in deliberate
disregard for not only the fact that when
the white farmers acquired the lands there
was no one occupying it, and with equal
disregard for the innumerable Certificates
of No Interest which government had previously
issued which enabled then white
farmers to sell the lands to other whites.
The bottom line is government stole the
land from the whites, albeit that the whites
had shockingly and unjustly barred indigenous
land ownership for many decades.
Moreover, government only issued offer
letters to indigenous “new farmers”, but
acceptance of those offers did not result in
issuance of leases, which left the farmers
with a great sense of insecurity, and rendered
them devoid of collateral in order
to secure essential funding. At the same
time, and for many years, government did
not ensure the timeous availability of agricultural
inputs, and also prescribed that
crops produced in most instances had to
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be sold to specified state enterprises, usually
at unrealistically low prices and delayed
payment.
Consequently, agriculture production declined
drastically and this seriously affected
the economy. In addition, because of oppressive
legislation and policies, about 1,5 million
farm workers lost employment, rendering
them devoid of income and condemning
them to intense poverty.
Over the years government has recurrently
assured 99-year leases will be forthcoming,
and over the last eight months has stated that
such leases will be formatted in such manner
as to accord them collateral value, but that is
yet to happen. Government, when claiming
to be doing anything progressive, can only
work at three speeds: slow, very slow, and
stop. In contrast, when it wishes to do something
prejudicial, it usually also works at one
of three speeds: too fast, much too fast, and
catastrophically fast!
All of these circumstances have been major
contributors to the tensions and hostile relationships
among Zimbabwe and the international
community, much to Zimbabwean
prejudice.
The reduced goodwill caused by Zimbabwean
actions and statements markedly
reduced international aid, loans and other
funding; diminished trade with resultant
further negative economic consequences;
discouraged greatly needed investment (potential
investors fearing that their investments
would be “stolen” in the same manner
government “stole” the farms from the white
farmers).
Then, in 2008, government rapidly proceeded
with legislation for “indigenisation”
of existing and future enterprises. The legislation
was targeted at intensified (even if indirect)
governmental control or influence of
almost all economic ventures, the vesting of
part ownership in many of the targeted ventures
by government through diverse funds
and community trusts. This has been economically
disastrous for over six years. The
legislation caused many non-resident investors
to disinvest hurriedly, and is an enormous
deterrent to investment in Zimbabwe.
As a result, the economy has continuously
struggled along, with much of the population
suffering intense hardships, government being
constantly bankrupt, and very little effective
indigenisation being achieved.
Since the end of 2013 President Robert
Mugabe, Minister of Finance Patrick Chinamasa,
Senior Minister Simon Khaya Moyo,
and others in high political authority have
intimated that the policies and legislation
would imminently be amended to be more
effective, just, and conducive to investment,
although until a week ago the Minister of
Indigenisation, Francis Nhema, denied any
knowledge thereof. However this week various
draft documents were considerably deliberated
upon by much of the political hierarchy,
and hence the hope that there will be
remedies for the ills created by indigenisation
(but with the current government that cannot
be taken for granted).
The intended legislation will see some realistic
modifications in respect of the commerce
and industry, distributive services and
allied economic sectors, which will motivate
and facilitate new investment, provided
that the legislation also contains provisions
which then entrench investor security, and
that such provisions are enforceable in law.
In contradistinction, the declared intents in
respect of the economic exploitation of Zimbabwe’s
natural resources are disastrous for
investment.
To all intents government wishes to retain
total ownership of those resources, with investors
providing capital funding, requisite
equipment, technological skills and inputs,
and access to markets, in exchange for an alleged
“profit-share”. The reality is this cannot
accord investors any real security, and
only a greatly minimal return on investment.

Zimbabwe independent june 6 to 12, 2014 13
analysis
Political will key to governance code
Herbert Moyo
LAST week’s media reports that government
had joined hands with the private
sector to craft the National Code of Corporate
Governance aimed at providing a “holistic
solution to corporate failure and poor
corporate governance” will not necessarily
be sweet music to ordinary Zimbabweans
now accustomed to their government’s
propensity for rhetoric at the expense of
action.
Zimbabwe has a well-documented history
of crafting well-intentioned policy
documents including the ruling party Zanu
PF’s leadership code of 1984 (which banned
party members from owning businesses
and property), and more recently the Corporate
Governance Framework launched
during the tenure of the unity government
comprising Zanu PF and the MDC formations
from 2009 to 2013.
“Party officials shall not own a business, a
share or an interest in a business organised
for profit; provided that this shall not be
interpreted as prohibiting such petty sideline
activities as chicken runs, small plots
and gardens on one© s residential property,”
reads part of the Zanu PF code of the heady
early years of Independence when socialism
was still en vogue.
Other prohibitions in the code included
receiving more than one salary and owning
more than 50 acres of land. While these
were highly ambitious and difficult to sustain
they at least demonstrate a Zanu PF
whose ethos and ideology is in stark contrast
to the rapacity of the present-day
party where multiple farm ownership, including
by the first family, are the order of
the day. This is in flagrant disregard of the
party’s one man, one farm policy.
The Zanu PF government seemed so serious
about fighting corruption that then party
heavyweights like the late Maurice Nyagumbo,
Frederick Shava, Callistus Ndlovu
and the late Enos Nkala were hauled before
a commission of inquiry led by then judge
president Wilson Sandura and subsequently
lost their ministerial posts.
The ministers were fingered in abuse
of their offices in the buying of cars from
Willowvale car assembly before re-selling
them at exorbitant prices for profit.
This, and subsequent documents including
the latest code, have all identified corruption
and personal enrichment as the
key impediments to getting parastatals and
state enterprises (SEPs) to start contributing
substantially to economic and social
development in the country, instead of
haemorrhaging the fiscus.
Given this scenario the question is: what
exactly is new in this governance code
glowingly described as the “first of its kind”
by the state media? Even if, as expected, it
is launched by President Robert Mugabe —
what will it do which the code launched
by former State Enterprises and Parastatals
minister Gorden Moyo failed to do?
Moyo launched the Corporate Governance
Framework (CGF) in 2010 for adoption
by line ministries in an attempt to turn
around the operations of SEPs. The CGF
provides step-by-step procedures, including
consultations and consensus among key
stakeholders in the appointments of board
members, culminating in cabinet approval.
To its credit, the code also acknowledges
that appointments to public office must
be made primarily on merit and measures
should be taken to expose, combat and
eradicate corruption and abuse of office.
But as analysts point out, it can only work
when implemented and for that to happen
there must be political will which has generally
been absent in government.
The code came to naught perhaps because
as political commentator Godwin
Phiri observed, “It was launched amid political
bickering in the inclusive government
where Zanu PF and its MDC coalition
partners sought to undermine each other’s
efforts.”
“The proof of the pudding will be in the
eating but the code may well lead to concrete
action because it has been crafted by
a Zanu PF government which has also been
very vocal against its own in exposing corruption,”
said Phiri.
“We need to give the government the
benefit of doubt this time around. The economy
is bleeding from various causes chief
of which is the scourge of corruption in the
parastatals and civil service. The Zanu PF
government does not want the economy to
totally collapse and ruin Mugabe’s legacy.”
But does the government have the will or
the spine to enforce some of the code’s key
recommendations including meritocracy
in the appointment of public officials and
parastatal bosses, given Mugabe has widely
been accused of using a patronage system
to maintain his stranglehold on the party
and country.
Military personnel currently sit on many
parastatals boards; in fact, the Zanu PF party’s
central committee report to its 14th annual
people’s conference held in Chinhoyi
last December contains proposals to staff
key parastatals like the National Indigenisation
and Economic Empowerment Board
with “people with the relevant political
will”.
Exasperated by what he believed to be
the partisan appointments of military officials,
Moyo claimed his ministry had
even prepared what he called a data base
of competent Zimbabwean professionals
for consideration by line ministers for
appointment to executive and parastatals
boards.
But beyond crafting a sound code, government
will have to take it a step further
through legislation to give it legal force.
Zimbabwe Environmental Lawyers Association
director Mutuso Dhliwayo said
the new code should only be seen as nothing
more than “a statement of intent”,
which is not legally binding.
“Hopefully the government will proceed
to have it legislated so that it can have full
legal effect,” he said.
SEPs, which have the potential to contribute
40% to the country’s Gross Domestic
Product (GDP), can only make a meaningful
contribution when run professionally
and not the current shadowy approach
where appointments are made on partisan
grounds, and bosses are paid outrageous
salaries when their entities are broke and
constantly bailed out by the fiscus.
Former State Enterprises and Parastatals
minister Gorden Moyo

14
ZIMBABWE INDEPENDENT JUNE 6 TO 12, 2014
OPINION
Tapiwa
Mashakada
MDC-T MP
ZIMBABWE’S investment climate
has no doubt deteriorated
drastically along with the economy
over the past decade. The
World Bank Doing Business Report
has repeatedly ranked Zimbabwe
158th out of 183 countries. The
World Economic Forum’s global
competitiveness index has rated
Zimbabwe poorly at number 133
out of 134 countries over the past
five years.
The poor perception of the
country has affected investment
inflows over the past decade.
United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development statistics
on inflows into the sub-region
show Zimbabwe has received the
least foreign direct investment
(FDI) over the past five years.
The country is in the throes of
a stubborn economic crisis many
feel was authored by the controversial
election of July 31 last year
which the ruling party Zanu PF
won amid allegations of systematic
rigging and voter disenfranchisement.
Ever since, the economy
has been in freefall, with the
government appearing having no
clue on how to intervene to stop
the resurgent economic malaise.
Rigging an election is not synonymous
with rigging an economy.
The so-called ZimAsset
economic blueprint, the country’s
latest in a long list of mostly
unimplemented economic recovery
programmes, is more of a
political statement. The greatest
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economy is deflation, triggered
by a swingeing liquidity crunch
and a broke government that is
Innovation, Beneficiation, Growth
struggling to meet basic obligations,
including paying civil servants’
salaries on time.
Industry has been a major
casualty of the economic meltdown.
Since the elections, we
have witnessed more and more
companies closing down due to
non-availability lines of credit
and stiff competition from cheap
imports. It goes without saying
that central to the crisis is the
lack of capital. Zimbabwe needs
FDI to stimulate growth, but the
indigenisation and economic
empowerment policy, particularly
the 51% local ownership
threshold that is set for amendment,
has been a brake on FDI.
Investors have been concerned
by the lack of clarity and inconsistencies
regarding the interpretation
and implementation of
the indigenisation policy. For the
past five years, they have adopted
a wait-and-see attitude. Even
new projects approved by the
Zimbabwe Investment Authority
in the mining, agriculture,
manufacturing, tourism and infrastructure
sectors have failed to
be consummated because of the
indigenisation policy.
The other problem is that indigenisation
has been rolled out
as a one-size-fits-all policy prescription
with serious overtones
of nationalisation. The opposition
Movement for Democratic
Change (MDC) has long warned
that by pursuing a rigid indigenisation
drive, the government is
scaring away investors and putting
a foreclosure on prospects
for new capital inflows, but these
alarm bells fell on deaf ears.
But government has started to
backtrack on its indigenisation
policy. This has vindicated the
MDC, which has all along called
for a review.
Any government that takes its
people seriously should never
craft policies that not only scare
away investors, but also encourage
the closure of industries thus
throwing thousands onto the
streets.
Now government has signalled
its intention to review its empowerment
policies by adopting
the so-called production-sharing
model (PSM) and joint empowerment
investment model (JEIM)
borrowed from the Middle East.
The MDC categorically rejects
the purported policy shift as a
case of too little too late. We see
this move as mere posturing by
the corrupt Zanu PF government.
The MDC does not believe Zanu
PF is able, or politically willing,
to improve the investment
climate.
The question that remains is
whether the 51% threshold is still
in force. The government cannot
provide a clear answer, which
does not help solve the policy
opacity.
The other vexing question is:
what is production sharing? Our
interpretation is that it implies a
100% indigenisation threshold,
even worse than the current 51%.
So instead of easing the indigenisation
and economic empowerment
policies, government is actually
tightening the screws.
If the 51% threshold is a foot
brake on investment, the new
model is an anchor. It is the
last nail in the FDI coffin as it
does not inspire any confidence
whatsoever.
What Zimbabwe needs are
investor-friendly policies making
it easy for investors to set up,
shop and contribute to the development
of the country. Investors
want to control their businesses
and the proposed models do not
allow that.
Investors do not base their decisions
on explanatory notes;
all they want to see is a clear
and consistent policy and legal
framework. Therefore, the proposed
model is a damp squib. The
MDC alternative cabinet calls for
a holistic policy and legal review
of all laws that inhibit investment,
making sure that they are
aligned to the new constitution.
The government still has to
address such issues as corruption,
which has become a cancer
that drives away investors. Serious
anti-corruption measures
need to be put in place and implemented
to avoid leakages of
investment as experienced over
the past years.
The people of Zimbabwe are
eagerly waiting for jobs and economic
development, which can
only happen once there is a truly
legitimate government with the
mandate of the people. The jury
is still out as to when the government
will introduce serious political
and economic reforms that
will put the economy back on
the rails, promote FDI and create
jobs.
ZimAsset is dead in the water
because it cannot attract FDI. To
boost economic recovery and
Zimbabwe’s long-term growth
potential, Zimbabwe needs to attract
a significant amount of FDI,
rebuild its image and establish
itself as a viable and attractive
destination.
Key to achieving this goal is
ensuring that the country overhauls
its institutional and legal
frameworks. Efforts by the Zanu
PF government to hoodwink investors
will come to naught until
it seriously addresses the perceptions
and realities around sovereign
risk and security. — BD Live.
Mashakada is the MDC-T’s shadow
minister for industry and commerce.

14
ZiMbabwe inDepenDenT june 6 To 12, 2014
OPINION
Tapiwa
Mashakada
MDC-T MP
ZIMBABWE’s investment climate
has no doubt deteriorated
drastically along with the economy
over the past decade. The
World Bank Doing Business Report
has repeatedly ranked Zimbabwe
158th out of 183 countries. The
World Economic Forum’s global
competitiveness index has rated
Zimbabwe poorly at number 133
out of 134 countries over the past
five years.
The poor perception of the
country has affected investment
inflows over the past decade.
United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development statistics
on inflows into the sub-region
show Zimbabwe has received the
least foreign direct investment
(FDI) over the past five years.
The country is in the throes of
a stubborn economic crisis many
feel was authored by the controversial
election of July 31 last year
which the ruling party Zanu PF
won amid allegations of systematic
rigging and voter disenfranchisement.
Ever since, the economy
has been in freefall, with the
government appearing having no
clue on how to intervene to stop
the resurgent economic malaise.
Rigging an election is not synonymous
with rigging an economy.
The so-called ZimAsset
economic blueprint, the country’s
latest in a long list of mostly
unimplemented economic recovery
programmes, is more of a
political statement. The greatest
Economic woes: Zanu PF
govt shooting in the dark
Abandoned factory shell ... The economy climate has deteriorated since the July 31 general elections last year.
mischief currently arresting the
economy is deflation, triggered
Security Growth and Profitability
by a swingeing liquidity crunch
and a broke government that is
struggling to meet basic obligations,
including paying civil servants’
salaries on time.
Industry has been a major
casualty of the economic meltdown.
since the elections, we
have witnessed more and more
companies closing down due to
non-availability lines of credit
and stiff competition from cheap
imports. It goes without saying
that central to the crisis is the
lack of capital. Zimbabwe needs
FDI to stimulate growth, but the
indigenisation and economic
empowerment policy, particularly
the 51% local ownership
threshold that is set for amendment,
has been a brake on FDI.
Investors have been concerned
by the lack of clarity and inconsistencies
regarding the interpretation
and implementation of
the indigenisation policy. For the
past five years, they have adopted
a wait-and-see attitude. Even
new projects approved by the
Zimbabwe Investment Authority
in the mining, agriculture,
manufacturing, tourism and infrastructure
sectors have failed to
be consummated because of the
indigenisation policy.
The other problem is that indigenisation
has been rolled out
as a one-size-fits-all policy prescription
with serious overtones
of nationalisation. The opposition
Movement for Democratic
Change (MDC) has long warned
that by pursuing a rigid indigenisation
drive, the government is
scaring away investors and putting
a foreclosure on prospects
for new capital inflows, but these
alarm bells fell on deaf ears.
But government has started to
backtrack on its indigenisation
policy. This has vindicated the
MDC, which has all along called
for a review.
Any government that takes its
people seriously should never
craft policies that not only scare
away investors, but also encourage
the closure of industries thus
throwing thousands onto the
streets.
Now government has signalled
its intention to review its empowerment
policies by adopting
the so-called production-sharing
model (PsM) and joint empowerment
investment model (JEIM)
borrowed from the Middle East.
The MDC categorically rejects
the purported policy shift as a
case of too little too late. We see
this move as mere posturing by
the corrupt Zanu PF government.
The MDC does not believe Zanu
PF is able, or politically willing,
to improve the investment
climate.
The question that remains is
whether the 51% threshold is still
in force. The government cannot
provide a clear answer, which
does not help solve the policy
opacity.
The other vexing question is:
what is production sharing? Our
interpretation is that it implies a
100% indigenisation threshold,
even worse than the current 51%.
so instead of easing the indigenisation
and economic empowerment
policies, government is actually
tightening the screws.
If the 51% threshold is a foot
brake on investment, the new
model is an anchor. It is the
last nail in the FDI coffin as it
does not inspire any confidence
whatsoever.
What Zimbabwe needs are
investor-friendly policies making
it easy for investors to set up,
shop and contribute to the development
of the country. Investors
want to control their businesses
and the proposed models do not
allow that.
Investors do not base their decisions
on explanatory notes;
all they want to see is a clear
and consistent policy and legal
framework. Therefore, the proposed
model is a damp squib. The
MDC alternative cabinet calls for
a holistic policy and legal review
of all laws that inhibit investment,
making sure that they are
aligned to the new constitution.
The government still has to
address such issues as corruption,
which has become a cancer
that drives away investors. serious
anti-corruption measures
need to be put in place and implemented
to avoid leakages of
investment as experienced over
the past years.
The people of Zimbabwe are
eagerly waiting for jobs and economic
development, which can
only happen once there is a truly
legitimate government with the
mandate of the people. The jury
is still out as to when the government
will introduce serious political
and economic reforms that
will put the economy back on
the rails, promote FDI and create
jobs.
ZimAsset is dead in the water
because it cannot attract FDI. To
boost economic recovery and
Zimbabwe’s long-term growth
potential, Zimbabwe needs to attract
a significant amount of FDI,
rebuild its image and establish
itself as a viable and attractive
destination.
Key to achieving this goal is
ensuring that the country overhauls
its institutional and legal
frameworks. Efforts by the Zanu
PF government to hoodwink investors
will come to naught until
it seriously addresses the perceptions
and realities around sovereign
risk and security. — BD Live.
Mashakada is the MDC-T’s shadow
minister for industry and commerce.

ZiMbabwE iNdEpENdENt juNE 6 to juNE 12, 2014 15
opinion
Recession-proof investment strategy
Ray
Chipendo
Researcher
Mixed policy signals from government
have reduced economic
forecasting to mere guess work.
How much worse for the stock
market “oracle” who has to foretell
the ups and downs of the
market?
With contradictory statements
flying from different ministries
at any given point, government’s
economic game plan remains a
mystery. The long-term investor
will tell us that he is more comfortable
with “definite unfavourable
news” than “favourable but
uncertain statements”.
To a greater extent our policy
uncertainty explains why terrorist-tormented
countries such as
Nigeria and Kenya remain investment
favourites over a peaceful
country like Zimbabwe where
policy is unfortunately fickle.
But for now, investor-friendly
statements coming from Harare
have been a positive breath in a
gloomy atmosphere.
information minister Jonathan
Moyo’s announcement on toning
down the indigenisation policy is
certainly helping to calm down
a lot of nerves — so do remarks
by both Finance minister Patrick
Chinamasa and RBZ governor
John Mangudya stressing the need
to create investor confidence. But
as with many glossy messages
from government — deep-pocketed
investors will only be swayed
by action than words.
if de-industrialisation continues,
the new RBZ governor has
warned that chances of an economic
contraction in 2015 are
likely. With de-industrialisation
not showing any signs of slowing,
what does it mean for the stock
market investor?
does he have to exit his positions
— more so in light of a market
that has taken a 15% cut since
beginning of the year?
The decline in the market has
created what others view as “value
opportunities”. But, with falling
earnings being reported every
other week, chances of the recent
market fall turning into one bottomless
hole are not unreasonable
to imagine. Low valuations might
turn out to be value traps. We imagine
this must be the dilemma
that bargain and value hunters
face.
But we don’t believe such a
dilemma is necessary or should
be the case. in light of a looming
economic slowdown, we understand
that an investor not only
needs an undervalued stock, but
a company that can go through
an economic furnace and come
out unscathed — a recession proof
company.
Out of 66 listed stocks, there
are two companies we believe can
grow and preserve an investor’s
capital through a recession. Our
two super-stock picks are Padenga
Holdings and Seed Co.
Here is why we think the two
befit our “super-stock” status:
Consumer staples
during times of falling income,
consumer staples are the very last
items that consumers would remove
from their budget.
in a country where the majority
lives in rural areas and survives
RBZ Governor John Mangudya
on subsistence farming, packs
of maize and sorghum seeds are
the difference between life and
starvation. At a time where pasta
and rice become expensive, the
masses will switch to maize meal.
Should the economy deteriorate
further into a recession, demand
for Seed Co’s seed packs will likely
remain strong.
Complement government
government’s policy puts agriculture
at the centre of the country’s
economic success.
Small farmers’ efforts to increase
yields by using better seed
varieties will always receive government’s
support. government
is likely to step up such support
during harsh economic times
when grain production by small
farmers becomes vital for survival.
As key participants in the
agriculture sector, Seed Co and
Padenga will always benefit from
the prioritisation of farming in
Zimbabwe.
Export market leverage
Approximately more than 95%
of Padenga’s crocodile skins and
meat find their way into foreign
markets. its export dependency
will mean that sluggish local economic
growth will have negligible
effect on the company’s revenue.
Seed Co’s African footprint
spanning 15 African countries including
Malawi, Botswana, Tanzania,
Zambia and recently Nigeria
and ethiopia help leverage local
sales. Approximately 60% of the
group’s revenue is now attributed
to exports and foreign operations.
With only 40% of the group’s
sales exposed to a possible economic
slowdown in Zimbabwe,
the company is expected to continue
faring well.
Ready access to capital
Ready access to capital for growing
businesses is a must — more
so in an environment reeling from
a liquidity squeeze. Many of the
companies closing shop today
are businesses weighed down by
highly leveraged balance sheets.
Our super-stocks have access
to alternative sources of capital
should local capital markets dry
up. Padenga has an impeccable
international reputation and
is one of few crocodile farms in
Africa that tanneries or fashion
houses would see as an ideal target
of vertical integration to secure
quality skins.
Never mind the US operation
which could also be used as a conduit
for capital raising, if need be.
Seed Co is letting go a 25% stake
to a French international seed
company, Vilmorin & Cie S A. The
French company which views
Seed Co as the platform to further
its involvement in Africa will be
prepared to inject more capital in
Seed Co should an opportunity to
increase its stake.
Cheap!
Towards the end of April we
shared our views on the attractiveness
of Padenga stock. Since
then the stock has gone up by
25%.
We believe the stock still remains
a good buy. Seed Co’s
share has struggled in the last five
months, falling by 27%. The price
discount should prompt an investor’s
attention. An exposure to
expanding West and east African
markets supported by a leading
seed research company Vilmorin
& Cie SA sets Seed Co on a growth
trajectory.
Our two “super-stocks” will
be our best bet for retaining value
and maintaining growth in the
event of insistent liquidity constraints
and economic contraction.
But, should the doom fail to
loom and the economy picks up,
Padenga and Seed Co are still two
great growth stories that stand to
surpass their ZSe peers performance-wise.
Whichever path
the economy takes, by investing
in these two companies its heads
you win — tails you win.
Ray Chipendo is the Research Lead at
Emergent Capital Management, an investment
management and research
firm focused on Zimbabwe. Ray can
be reached on email: rayc@emergentcapital.co.za;
twitter: @ray_chipendo;
blog: emergentresearch.wordpress.
com
Colls
Ndlovu
Financial analyst
THe recent addition of the Chinese
currency, among others,
into Zimbabwe’s multicurrency
system (which the new RBZ governor
John Mangudya has already
branded as being sin qua non to
the Zimbabwe economy revival)
would have raised eyebrows within
the global financial markets in
general, and the Zimbabwe’s financial
sector in particular.
Admittedly, the Chinese currency
is not for the faint-hearted,
for it has its own bespoke features
which can befuddle a credulous
investor. The ongoing confusion
among currency experts and investors
alike, relating to the complexity
and opacity of the Chinese
currency markets, bears testimony
to the foregoing.
Notwithstanding its perceived
or misperceived new status as a
global financial power and a leading
member of the so-called Brics
(Brazil, Russia, india, China and
South Africa) group of countries,
it is noteworthy that investments
into the Chinese currency markets
are still subject to an array of
technicalities.
These entail tight and stifling
regulatory controls, special agreements,
restrictions, quotas, and a
plethora of other hurdles relating
to the convertibility of the currency,
acceptability of the currency,
liquidity, and challenges faced by
financial clearing houses, among
other factors.
Against this background, simple
questions posed by villagers generally
beg for answers: what is the
Chinese currency? is it a renminbi
or yuan or CNH? What is its true
Multicurrencies: Impact
of the Chinese renminbi
Yuan Notes . . . Ordinary local citizens are yet to understand about the value of the Chinese currency
value? is it marked-to-market?
is its value determined by market
forces?, or, is its value determined
by the Chinese Communist Party
or an opaque coterie of politburo
members?
These and related questions will
continue to be posed by ordinary
villagers out there. Although China’s
vigorous intensification of the
drive towards internationalisation
of its currency is now well-established,
there still remains (within
China) a communist inspired propensity
to continue tightly controlling
the very same currency,
thereby diminishing any gains
accruing from the globalisation of
the renminbi.
As usual, whenever discussions
of the Chinese currency occur,
there is always confusion as to
what are the real dynamics of this
opaque but benign currency.
Firstly, there are three issues
about the Chinese currency, the
renminbi, yuan (CNY) and the
yuan (CNH). The question which
arises is: what are the key differences
between and within these
three?
To answer these and related
questions, one needs to analyse
the relationship between the
renmnibi, the renminbi (CNY)
and the renminbi (CNH).
China’s currency is officially
called the renminbi. The renminbi
occurs in two forms; as CNY (what
is commonly known as the Yuan),
and as CNH with “H” denoting
Hong Kong.
Parenthetically, the renminbi,
is thus the name for the currency
traded onshore (within mainland
China) and offshore (originally
through Hong Kong, but now even
in Zimbabwe).
There exists a separation between
these two markets. if the
renminbi is traded onshore (in
mainland China), it is referred to
as CNY, whereas if the renminbi is
traded offshore (eg in Zimbabwe)
it trades as CNH. Thus, while the
renminbi is just one currency, it
trades at two different exchange
rates, depending on the location of
where the trade occurs, ie mainland
(in Beijing) or offshore (eg in
Zimbabwe).
it is worth mentioning that the
renminbi (CNY or CNH) in its capacity
as the Chinese medium
of exchange and a store of value,
carries the full might, faith and
credit of the Chinese government.
The difference being just the location
of where the trade takes place
as highlighted above (onshore or
off-shore).
An analysis of the two forms of
the renmibi and how they simultaneously
trade against the US
dollar reveals that the CNY and
the CNH are almost perfectly correlated
relative to the US dollar.
However, notwithstanding the
high degree of correlation between
the CNY and the CNH, the
CNY has generally been slightly
weaker (by insignificant points)
than the CNH relative to the US
dollar.
The minor difference (relative
to the US dollar) between these
two currencies (CNY–CNH) is
generally reflective of the liquidity
conditions between the onshore
and offshore markets with
the offshore-traded CNH showing
strength derived from its more
liquid offshore market.
Therefore, the fact of the matter
is that the Chinese renminbi
is an emerging currency whose
government seeks to intensify the
process of its internationalisation
and possibly have it as a future reserve
currency (akin to the role of
the US dollar), and, consequently
notwithstanding the teething problems
associated with its globalisation,
the renminbi must be embraced
and used as part and parcel
of Zimbabwe’s fledging multicurrency
system.
Colls Ndlovu is an independent financial
analyst and he writes in his
personal capacity.

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ZIMBABWE INDEPENDENT JUNE 6 TO 12, 2014

ZIMBABWE INDEPENDENT JUNE 6 TO 12, 2014 17
COLUMN
India could pass China in economic power
SOON after winning an absolute majority
in the Indian parliamentary elections,
prime minister-elect Narendra Modi
promised “to make the 21st century India’s
century.” If he can avoid tripping over his
own ideology, he might just succeed.
“India’s century” is a misleading phrase,
of course, because no country gets to own a
whole century.
It wasn’t ever really going to be “China’s
century” either, although China is a huge
country with an economy that has grown
amazingly fast over the past three decades.
What Modi meant was that India, the other
huge Asian country, may soon take China’s
place as the fastest growing large economy
— and it might even surpass China economically,
in the end.
At first glance this seems unlikely. India’s
gross domestic product is currently
less than a quarter of China’s, although the
two countries are quite close in population
(China at 1,36 billion and India at 1,29 billion).
Moreover, the Chinese economy’s
growth rate last year, although well down
from its peak years, was still 7,7%, while
India’s grew at only 4,4%.
But China’s growth rate is bound to fall
further for purely demographic reasons.
Due partly to three decades of the onechild-per-family
policy, the size of its
workforce is already starting to decline.
Total population (and hence total domestic
demand) will also start to shrink within
five years. And this doesn’t even take into
account the high probability of a financial
crash and a long, deep recession in China.
India’s growth rate has also fallen in recent
years, but for reasons like corruption,
excessive regulation and inadequate infrastructure,
which are a lot easier to fix. And
the reason that Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) won by a landslide was
iNDIAN Prime minister Narendra Modi
precisely that voters thought he would be
better at overcoming these obstacles to
growth than the worn-out and deeply corrupt
Congress Party.
Modi did not win because a majority of
Indians want to pursue divisive sectarian
battles that pit Hindus against India’s many
minorities, and especially against Muslims.
That has always been part of the BJP’s appeal
to its core voters, but its new voters
were attracted by Modi’s reputation as the
man who brought rapid development to
the state of Gujarat, which he has ruled for
the past 13 years. They want him to do the
same thing nationally.
The BJP’s absolute majority in parliament
means that Modi will not be constrained
by coalition allies like previous
BJP governments were. This could lead to a
leap in the Indian growth rate if he uses his
power to sweep aside the regulations and
bureaucratic roadblocks that hamper trade
and investment in India.
Modi also has a golden opportunity to
crush the corruption that imposes a huge
invisible tax on every enterprise in the
country. Unfortunately, his extraordinary
political freedom also means that he will
find it hard to resist the kind of sectarian
(anti-Muslim) measures that the militants
in his own party expect. He cannot use the
need to keep his coalition allies happy as
an excuse for not going down that road.
Nobody knows which way he’ll jump, but
it might be the right way.
What might that mean over the next
decade? It could mean a politically stable
India with a growth rate back up around
World View
GWYNNE DYER
seven or eight percent — and a China destabilised
by a severe recession and political
protests with a growth rate down around
four per cent.
While neither political stability in India
nor political chaos in China are guaranteed
in the longer run, by 2025 the demography
will have taken over with a vengeance.
China’s population will be in decline, and
the number of young people entering the
workforce annually will be down by 20%
and still falling.
India’s population will still be growing,
as will the number of young people entering
the job market each year.
That will give India a three or four per
cent advantage in economic growth regardless
of what happens on the political
front. In the long run both countries may
come to see their massive populations as a
problem, but in the medium term it looks
increasingly likely that India will catch up
with and even overtake China in economic
power.
Dyer is a London-based freelance journalist.

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africa/international
Zimbabwe independent june 6 to 12, 2014
UN condemns S Sudan bloodshed
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on
Wednesday condemned the continued
bloodshed in South Sudan in violation of
two ceasefire agreements and urged both
sides in the conflict to halt all military operations
in keeping with previous pledges.
The remarks came in a readout of a telephone
conversation Ban had on Wednesday
with South Sudan’s President Salva
Kiir.
“He (Ban) expressed his grave concern
that hostilities have continued in violation
of the January 23 Agreement on the Cessation
of Hostilities and the May 9 Agreement
between President Kiir and former
Vice-President Riek Machar to resolve the
crisis in South Sudan,” the UN press office
said.
“He stressed the need for both parties
to abide by these agreements and end all
military operations immediately,” it said,
noting that Ban urged Kiir and Machar to
meet on June 9.
UN claims South Sudan can avoid poverty if the shaky ceasefire holds
The United Nations has already said that
maintaining a ceasefire was crucial for efforts
to alleviate the worsening humanitarian
crisis in the world’s youngest country.
Fighting has killed thousands of people
and driven more than 1,3 million from
their homes.
Government forces and rebels, who
have been fighting since mid-December,
agreed a second ceasefire deal in May after
the first one in January collapsed.
South Sudan’s army spokesperson reported
more clashes this week in Unity
and Upper Nile states, oil producing areas
that have been flashpoints in the conflict.
A senior UN official said South Sudan
can only avoid famine if the shaky ceasefire
holds and people displaced by more
than five months of fighting are able to return
home in the next few weeks to plant
crops before the rains.
Tens of thousands of civilians have
been seeking protection for months at UN
peacekeeping bases around the country.
The crisis has stretched the capacity of
the blue-helmeted forces, who were originally
deployed to help the government
stabilise the country after it acquired independence
from Sudan in 2011. — Reuters
Security Growth and Profitability
th
th
Notice is hereby given that the 16 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of members of Zimre Holdings Limited (ZHL) will be held in the NICOZDIAMOND Auditorium, 7 Floor
Insurance Centre, 30 Samora Machel Avenue, Harare on Monday, 30 June 2014 at 1230 hours, to consider the following business:
ORDINARY BUSINESS
1. To receive, consider and adopt the audited annual financial statements together with the reports of the Directors and Auditors for the year ended 31 December 2013.
2. To elect Directors of the company.
In terms of Article 75 of the Articles of Association of the Company, Messrs Ignatius Mvere,
Rongai Chizema and Selby Vunganai Hwacha retire by rotation and being
eligible, offer themselves for re- election.
3. To approve the remuneration of the Directors.
4. To approve the remuneration of the Auditors for the past year.
5. To appoint Auditors for the current year. BDO Zimbabwe, being eligible,
offer themselves for re-appointment.
6. To transact all such other business as may be transacted at an Annual General Meeting.
SPECIAL BUSINESS
To consider and if deemed fit, to pass, with or without modification, the following resolution:-
As a Special Resolution
“That the Directors be and are hereby authorised in terms of Article 28 (f) of the Company's Articles of Association and subject to Sections 78 and 79 of the Companies Act (Chapter
24:03) to purchase the company's own shares subject to the following:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Directors' Statement
That the purchase price shall not be lower than the nominal value of the company's shares and not greater than 5% or 5% below the weighted average of the trading
price for the ordinary shares traded for the five (5) business days immediately preceding the date of the repurchase of such shares of the Company.
The maximum number of shares that may be acquired shall not exceed 10% (ten percent) of the company's issued ordinary share capital.
That this authority shall expire on the date of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company and shall not extend beyond 15 (fifteen) months from the date of the
resolution.
That the shares repurchased may be held for treasury purposes or cancelled as may be decided by the Board of Directors from time to time.
That a Capital Redemption Reserve Fund appropriated out of the reserves standing from time to time in the books of the Company be created.”
The Directors, in considering the effect of the above purchase, have reviewed the Company's budget and cashflow forecast for the period of twelve months after
date of notice convening the Annual General Meeting. On the basis of this review, the Directors are satisfied that:
The Company is in a strong financial position and will, in the ordinary course of business, be able to pay its debts for the period of twelve (12) months
after the Annual General Meeting;
The assets of the Company will be in excess of its liabilities for a period of twelve (12) months after the Annual General Meeting;
The ordinary capital and reserves of the Company will be adequate for a period of twelve (12) months after the Annual General Meeting, and
The working capital will be adequate for a period of twelve (12) months after the Annual General Meeting.
NOTE
A member entitled to attend and vote at the meeting is also entitled to appoint a proxy to attend, vote and speak on his behalf. A proxy need not be a member of the
Company. Proxy forms must be lodged with the registered office of the Company at least forty-eight hours before commencement of the meeting.
By order of the Board
S Mhlanga
Company Secretary
2 June 2014
NOTICE OF AN ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Registered Office
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9 Floor, Zimre Centre
Cnr Leopold Takawira/Kwame Nkrumah Ave
HARARE
Zimbabwe
Mixed feelings over
release of detainees
GUANTAMO Bay detainees have long been considered
America’s most dangerous enemies.
So what happens when they walk free — like
the five detainees swapped for US Army Sgt Bowe
Bergdahl? Do they return to terror activities or
transition to quiet, private lives away from the
mayhem? Well, it’s a mixture of both.
How dangerous is this swap?
Mathematically, it’s not an even swap. But President
Barack Obama’s administration maintains
it’s not a risky move for the US.
The five detainees have been at Guantanamo
Bay in Cuba for years, and out of commission for
a long time. They probably don’t have extensive
networks to tap into, according to two senior US
officials. Additionally, there will be fewer US
forces to target in Afghanistan since under a new
agreement, most troops will be out of the nation
next year.
Qatar has also reassured the US that it will aggressively
monitor the detainees, who will be under
a travel ban for one year.
How many returned to terrorism?
At its peak, Guantanamo Bay had 770 men believed
by the US government to be involved in
terrorist activity or military attacks.
That number has dwindled significantly. As of
last month, the facility had 154 detainees.
A September 2013 report from the director of
national intelligence reflected on what happened
to the roughly 600 people who left Gitmo between
its opening in 2002 and July 2013.
Of those, 100 — or 16,6% of the released prisoners
— were “confirmed” to have returned “to
terrorist activities.” Seventeen of those died,
while 27 ended up in custody, according to the
DNI report. An additional 70 are “suspected of
reengaging,” it said.
“Based on trends identified during the past
10 years, we assess that if additional detainees
are transferred without conditions . . . some will
reengage in terrorist or insurgent activities,” the
report said.
Does the US keep an eye?
While the former prisoners are no longer under
its control, Washington says it keeps track of
them, which is the basis of the DNI report.
During President George W. Bush’s administration,
some were handed over to authorities in
other countries. Dozens more were released under
Obama.
Are US interests more at risk?
There are a lot of variables, making this a debatable
question. Except for those accused or convicted
of the most heinous crimes such as murder,
most people are not detained indefinitely.
And studies show the recidivism rate for those
in the US legal system typically top 50% or even
60%, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Armed with that knowledge, the idea of a Gitmo
detainee returning to his previous ways may not
be surprising. It also depends on where they go
from there.
In other words, a detainee who returns to a
place beset by violence — where terrorist groups
and attacks are common — is more likely to return
to the fold. — CNN

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sports news
Fouling key
to Brazil’s
Cup hopes?
A FASCINATING piece of data emerged
from the Confederations Cup — the player
who committed the most fouls in the tournament
was Brazil striker Neymar.
The 22-year-old — also the most fouled
player — committed 17 infringements during
the 2013 competition, closely followed
by team-mate Oscar (14).
That Neymar was the most fouled player
will come as no surprise, for two reasons.
Neymar, who joined Barcelona from Santos
last summer for £48,6m, is a wonderfully
talented dribbler, superbly balanced and
capable of changing direction at pace. On
form, he is a defender© s nightmare.
His relatively frail build means he can be
knocked over, and his delivery from freekicks
gives him a strong incentive to go to
ground when in striking distance of goal.
Sometimes kicking him seems to be the
only way to stop him, and sometimes he
is only too happy to draw the foul.
Attacking talent
The first statistic, however, might raise a
few eyebrows. Few would expect two of
Brazil© s attacking talents to be at the top of
this list.
On reflection, though, it is not hard to
understand — and the explanation goes
right to the heart of Brazil’s challenge to
win the 2014 World Cup.
Changes in both personnel and style
of play since the last finals
mean that the Brazilian
side appear to be
adopting a return to tacti- cal
fouling, infringements which break down
an attack by a team’s opponents, and it is
forwards like Neymar who are the first line
of defence.
After their quarter-final elimination by
the Netherlands in South Africa four years
ago, Dunga was sacked as national team
coach and replaced by Mano Menezes. Relatively
inexperienced, Menezes had to preside
over two important changes.
Firstly, he had to rebuild the side. Brazil
had taken an ageing squad to South Africa
and Menezes had to identity and nurture
the likes of Neymar and Oscar.
Counter-attack
He also had to oversee a change of style.
The problem was confronted in his very
first news conference. Brazil had become
over-dependent on the counter-attack.
Fernando
Alonso
They did not know how to play against
opponents who sat back and denied them
the space to launch their favourite weapon.
More than 14 000 Brazil fans signed a petition
demanding that Neymar be called up
for the 2010 World Cup finals after he was
not named in then head coach Dunga’s
squad. They were unsuccessful.
Concern at this defect was all the greater
because Brazil would be playing the
next World Cup at home, where they were
bound to meet cautious opponents.
In many of his training sessions, Menezes
worked at getting the team to press high in
the opponent’s half. This has rarely been
part of the Brazilian make-up.
The great 1970 side, for example,
concentrated on bringing everyone
bar centre-forward
Tostao behind the line of the
ball when they lost possession.
One of the reasons
that right winger Jairzinho
was so successful in that
tournament was that this
created plenty of space into
which he could burst and latch
on to the magnificent long-range
passing of Gerson.
When Luiz Felipe Scolari was
recalled to replace Menezes at
the end of 2012, some important
changes were made.
Straight away, a
target man centre-forward
was
brought back into
the team — this soon turned
out to be Fred.
Fernado Alonso hungry for third title
FeRRARI’s
Fernando
Alonso says
he does not
want to retire
from Formula
1 until he
has won a third
world title.
He was second
to
Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel in three of
the past four seasons but has little hope
of stopping Mercedes this year.
Alonso (32) told BBC Sport: “We are
still hungry for success, waiting for our
opportunity to become champion.
“This is the main goal and you don’t
think of retiring until you get some
satisfaction.”
The Spaniard, who won backto-back
titles with Renault in
2005 and 2006, believes winning
a third championship is an important
landmark in defining a
driver’s legacy.
“It is something I am working
for and hoping for,” he said ahead
of Sunday© s Canadian Grand Prix.
“It is not that I’m not happy
with two but the third puts you in
a list of very important names.”
A third title would bring Alonso level
with Ayrton Senna, his boyhood hero,
among others.
Neymar of Brazil scored the opening goal during Wednesday night’s Fifa Confederations Cup
Brazil 2013 Group A match between the hosts and Mexico at Castelao in Fortaleza. Brazil won
the match 2-0 after Neymar set Jo for the second.
Tactical fouling
And the jigsaw started to fit together when
a holding midfielder, Luiz Gustavo, was introduced,
protecting the space in front of
the centre-backs.
Otherwise, though, there were few
changes in personnel. Scolari kept faith
with the men Menezes had been blooding.
He also retained the tactic of occasionally
pressing high in the opponent’s half. But he
was worried about it as it meant his team
were leaving lots of space behind them.
It is important to stress here that former
Chelsea boss Scolari made his name in the
1990s — a time when Brazilian football was
dominated by tactical fouling. Some believed
that the team that fouled most intelligently
would win the game.
A foul, some argued, was covered by the
rules, meaning that it was a resource of the
game to be used at opportune moments.
Luiz Felipe Scolari guided his team to victory
at the Confederations Cup last year.
Line of defence
In 1999, Scolari said “well played, normal
football in certain situations obliges a player
to commit a foul — a push, some shirt pulling,
use of the shoulder, fouls that don’t
Asked how long he can continue at
the highest level, Alonso said: “I think
I can carry on long enough to win and
to be competitive for some good years.
I don’t know how many — three, five,
seven. I don’t think it should be any
problem.”
He added it would depend on how
long he continued to enjoy the sport,
but said he was not a fan of certain aspects
of F1 this year.
“The new F1 cars are heavier, slower,
difficult to understand what the car is
doing, you cannot push all through the
race,” he said. “You push two laps and
then you save tyres until the next stop.
Sometimes you don’t even push. This is
not something racing drivers like to do.
“It is not a problem of how long you
can keep this level, it’s a problem of
how much fun I will have driving those
cars in the future.”
Alonso and Ferrari missed out on
the title in both 2010 and 2012, having
give the opponents the chance to organise
an attack”.
In the current context, this means that
when Brazil lose possession, the likes of
Neymar and Oscar (or Willian, who is doing
well in training) have to take on the responsibility
of being the first line of defence.
Part of their role is to slow down or halt
the opposing counter-attack — preferably
by winning the ball close to goal. But if their
attempts to win possession end in a foul, so
be it. — BBC Sport
taken the battle to the last race despite
inferior equipment to Vettel.
In 2014, Ferrari have produced an
uncompetitive car, which has achieved
just one podium finish at China in six
races this season.
But Alonso denied he was frustrated
with the team© s lack of performance.
“I’m just hungry to win,” he said. “At
the moment, we are so far away. That it
is not frustration, it is just we need to do
better.”
Alonso said claims he and Ferrari
president Luca Di Montezemolo had a
difficult relationship were inaccurate.
“When it is a race weekend, we talk
three times. Sometimes I talk more
with him than with my family. There
are zero problems.”
Alonso, who is contracted to Ferrari
until the end of 2016, insisted he still
had faith that the team could produce
the car he needs to win the title. — BBC
Sport

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Chippa land Chipeta
CHippa United of South africa have completed the signing of Zimbabwean
defender eric Chipeta, while they have confirmed interest in Zambian
striker Christopher Katongo.
Chipeta — who stood firm for the warriors in central defence during
the CHan finals earlier this year — currently turns out for Hwange. —
Lovemore moyo.
Mahachi,
Chigova’
in costly
SA moves
George Chigova
Kevin Mapasure
Warriors’ attacker Kuda Mahachi and
goalkeeper George Chigova failed to seize the
moment after the Chan tournament last year
by breaking into Europe when they hastily
signed contracts with south african topflight
clubs.
Both could have tried their luck at major
European leagues after a spanish La
Liga side expressed interest in giving Mahachi
a trial stint, while Chigova would
have travelled to France for trials with
League 1 side Lille this month.
But despite attracting such interest
Mahachi opted to sign for sundowns
while Chigova moved to supersport
United.
Mahachi has been linked with a
trial stint with French side Monaco,
but nothing has materialised yet.
a local player agent this week revealed
the two players made hasty
decisions and lacked patience and
ambition.
“These are both young players who
could have gone to Europe for trials,”
said the agent. “Even if you go there
and fail to make the grade that experience
is invaluable; you will obviously
learn something. Kuda could have gone
to sevilla and even if he were to fail, there
would be other clubs watching. it’s a big
waste for some of the good local talent to go
to south africa. Players are desperate to go
down there but south africa must be the
last option.”
only a handful of players have made
it to Europe from the local league in
recent years with archford Gutu in
sweden, ovidy Karuru (Belgium),
Quincy antipas and silas songani
in Denmark among the few.
Knowledge Musona still has a
running contract with Bundesliga
side TG Hoffenheim who are
listening to offers for the striker
who spent a year in south africa
despite interest from European
leagues.
Musona is likely to return to Kaizer Chiefs.
The comforts of the south african topflight
league have sucked out the ambition
from Zimbabwean players with most talent
wasting away in the rich but poor quality
league.
Hordes of players are going down south to
sign for whatever is offered to them so that
they can escape poverty in the local league,
with most Zimbabwean teams struggling for
basics.
Championship chasing Highlanders could
lose at least five players this month to south
africa with goalkeeper ariel sibanda set to
leave for trials at Bloemfontein Celtic, while
Munyaradzi Diya is set for a move to Mpumalanga
Black aces.
Milton Ncube has already signed for ajax
Cape Town while Peter rio Moyo is lining up a
move to Mpumalanga.
Kuda Mahachi will link up with his parent
club sundowns after a loan stint at
Highlanders.
as the inquest into the Warriors debacle in
the afcon qualifiers against Tanzania continues,
some football experts have averred that
the wasting of talent in south africa could be
a key factor in failure at international level.
“our young talented players are no longer
thinking beyond south africa, they are content
with signing contracts that tie them down
to those teams while not realising the benefits
their talent warrants,” said the agent. “on the
other hand you can understand the players
because locally, football is not paying and it is
difficult to make a proper living out of it.”
While Highlanders is set for a major player
exodus they could benefit from a Walter Musona-sundowns
deal.
sundowns have retained interest in the
younger Musona who is on loan at FC Platinum
with a deal likely to be signed during this
transfer window, which would see the player
loaned out to Highlanders.
on the other hand Bosso are lining up a
move for How Mine striker Kuda Musharu as
coach Kelvin Kaindu searches for a reliable
striker.

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Market rIsers
COUNTER PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE
MASHONALAND 2.50 0.10 4.16%
ECONET 67.00 0.98 1.49%
MEIKLES 18.10 0.10 0.55%
PPC 202.00 1.00 0.49%
Market Fallers
lOsER PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE
COTTCO 0.80 -0.10 -11.11%
HWANGE 5.50 -0.50 -8.33%
AFRICAN SUN 2.50 -0.20 -7.40%
COLCOM 22.00 -1.00 -4.34%
OK ZIM 19.90 -0.08 -0.45%
stOCk Market INDICes
(Wednesday close. Change from week previous)
INDUSTRIAL 177.69 0.14%
MINING 29.03 -2.05%
Tetrad shelves
commercial
banking plans
. . .eyes infrastructure development
Chris Muronzi/Kudzai Kuwaza
SERGEy Pokusaev’s Horizon
Capital Consortium (HCC) has put
on hold plans to turn Tetrad Investment
Bank (TIB) into a commercial
bank and will stick with
investment banking specialising
in mining and infrastructure
development, businessdigest has
established.
Sources said Pokusaev, who
recently acquired a controlling
stake in TIB, will abandon plans
by the bank to go commercial.
The bank’s thrust, the source
said, would be mining and infrastructure
development.
Zimbabwe needs US$10 billion
for infrastructure development,
while its mining sector has a huge
upside potential.
Pokusaev’s links to Eastern
European capital are expected to
help mobilise lines of credit.
A source said: “Horizon Capital
have access to lot of money and
they want to use this to finance
infrastructure and mining.”
It is understood that TIB two
months ago concluded a voluntary
retrenchment exercise that
saw 40 members of staff accepting
the offer in line with the Russian
businessman’s plan to have
a leaner bank.
The institution’s headcount is
now around 100.
Two weeks ago Tetrad Holdings
Ltd shareholders unanimously
gave the nod to the acquisition
of a controlling stake in TIB by
Pokusaev.
The deal now awaits regulatory
approvals.
The new shareholder is not
looking at having "serious"
branch presence in the market,
the source said.
A source told businessdigest a
fortnight ago management at
the bank would largely remain
unchanged. Currently, Eugene
Mlambo, a key shareholder, is
CEO and acting MD of the bank
after another Tetrad boss Emmanuel
Chikaka assumed responsibility
at group level as chief operating
officer.
The deal is expected to improve
the bank’s capital position
and unlock lines of credit for the
institution.
HCC’s takeover of Tetrad comes
hot on the heels of the Mauritiusbased
AfrAsia Bank Ltd’s increased
shareholding in AfrAsia
Zimbabwe Holdings Ltd to 62,5%
and more recently the acquisition
Tetrad CEO Eugene Mlambo
of ABC Holdings, which controls
BancABC, by an international investor,
Atlas Mara.
A Mauritius-based consortium
also acquired a majority stake in
troubled Allied Bank.
Commercial banks were initially
required by the central Bank
to have a minimum capitalisation
of US$100 million by 2014, but
this was later extended to 2020.
Tetrad has interests in the financial
services sector, insurance,
property, mining and other
areas of commerce.
Efforts to reach Mlambo
and Chikaka proved fruitless
at the time of going to print as
their mobile phones went
unanswered.
Import ban threatens safari operators’ viability
Kudzai Kuwaza
THE ban of the importation of sport hunted
elephant trophies from Zimbabwe for the
2014 hunting season in April by the United
States government will have devastating
effects on the country’s hunting season,
the Safari Operators Association of Zimbabwe
(Soaz) has said.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service announced
a suspension on imports of sporthunted
African elephant trophies taken in
Tanzania and Zimbabwe during the calendar
2014 year.
“In Zimbabwe, available data, though
limited, indicates a significant decline
in the elephant population. Anecdotal
evidence, such as the widely publicised
poisoning last year of 300 elephants in
Hwange National Park, suggests that Zimbabwe’s
elephants are also under siege,”
the organisation said. “Given the current
situation on the ground in both Tanzania
and Zimbabwe, the Service is unable to
make positive findings required under the
Convention on International Trade in Endangered
Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
(Cites) and the Endangered Species Act
to allow import of elephant trophies from
these countries.
“Additional killing of elephants in these
countries, even if legal, is not sustainable
and is not currently supporting conservation
efforts that contribute towards the recovery
of the species.”
Soaz chairman Emmanuel Fundira told
businessdigest in an interview on Wednesday
that most of the country’s visitors who
came for sport hunting were attracted by
the prospect of hunting the full complement
of the big five which are the lion,
leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino. The
absence of the elephant trophy, Fundira
said, would discourage sport hunting lovers
from coming to the country, making
the sector uncompetitive.
Fundira said 65% of the market came
from the Americas which include North
and South America, indicating the extent
of the damage caused by the ban.
“When 65% of the market starts coughing
it actually tells you that there is an imminent
collapse of the whole industry because
you cannot make it survive on 35%,”
Fundira said. “The projections for this year
are depressing.”
He said this meant massive loss of income
for government as well as unemployment
and loss of value for the tourism sector.
Fundira said the ban would negatively
impact the Communal Areas Management
Programme for Indigenous Resources
(Campfire), a community-based
natural resource management programme
in which Rural District Councils, on behalf
of communities on communal land,
are granted the authority to market access
to wildlife in their district to safari
operators.
He said the ban will take away the livelihoods
of 800 000 families under the
Campfire project. “The reasons for the ban
are not convincing, as they are not based
on scientific findings.”
He said he had led a delegation to the
United States to have the decision rescinded
and met various government officials
including the Secretary of State John
Kerry.
Fundira said US senators would consider
their case and expected a response in July.
Even if the decision was rescinded, the
recovery from the damage would not be an
overnight process, he said.

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ZIMBABWE INDEPENDENT BUSINESS DIGEST JUNE 6 TO 12, 2014
Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry continues to grow
Farmers at the official opening of the auction floors at Tobacco sales floor in Harare
INVITATION TO FORMAL TENDERS
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advertisement tender Number, the description and closing date. Tenders must be
posted in time to be sorted into Post Office Box CY408, Causeway and received at
State Procurement Board before the closing date or delivered by hand to the The
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Principal Officer, State Procurement Board, 5 Floor, Old Reserve Bank Building,
76 Samora Machel Avenue, Harare Zimbabwe before 1000 hours on the closing
date
Interested bidders are required to obtain the Tender document that consists the
instructions and Scope of work from The Procurement Manager, Zimbabwe Power
th
Company Head Office, 11 Floor Megawatt House, 44 Samora Machel Avenue,
Harare upon payment of a non-refundable fee of US$10.00 per tender.
Your submission should reach The State Procurement Board not later than the
closing dates as indicated.
Late submissions will not be accepted.
NOTE:
Meeting Venue Holiday Inn Mutare Conference Room
Site visit for the tender, as indicated is compulsory, failure to attend the
compulsory site
Visit meeting will lead to automatic disqualification.
COLLINS RUDZUNA
ZIMBABWE’S tobacco industry
continues to grow in leaps and
bounds. Although trading is still
underway, statistics from the
auction floors show that the 2014
crop is already more than what
was achieved last year. Statistics
released by the Tobacco Industry
Marketing Board (TIMB) show
that after 68 weeks of trading,
173 million kilograms of tobacco
have been traded. That figure is
an improvement of 31% from the
132 million kilogrammes that had
been traded in the same period
last year. More notably, it is also
above last year’s season total of
156 million kilogrammes.
It has always been acknowledged
the industry’s growth can
to a large extent be attributed to
the increased number of participants.
It is reported that in 2013 a
total of 75,000 farmers delivered
tobacco to auction floors. That is
a significant increase from the
5,000 odd farmers that delivered
tobacco before the land resettlement
programme which paved
way for wider participation.
Wider inclusion of participants is
in itself a laudable development.
The contentious political circumstances
surrounding it aside, it
represents one of the areas where
people have been able to become
self-employed in a gainful way.
But this emancipation comes at a
cost. A cost which some argue far
outweighs the benefits thereof.
Land reform changed Zimbabwe’s
commercial farming landscape
from one dominated by a
handful of farmers with vast tracts
of land to one where much smaller
pieces of land were pieced out
to smaller operators. Where big
operators had relied on hired labour
and mechanised operations,
today’s tobacco industry is characterised
by small scale farmers,
often relying on family labour and
simpler technology. The challenge
with this model is that it is
less efficient and loses some of the
economies of scale that made the
yesteryear model work which, at
face value, is not a problem. Most
new farmers seem content with
their lot. Many of them come from
a peasant background or were
themselves labourers on the prereform
farms. Their financial position
has improved greatly.
Concern has however been
raised on whether the new model
is sustainable. Those that are
in favour say it is and point to
the great leaps in volumes since
2008’s low of 48 million kilograms
to last year’s 156 million
kilograms as testimony. Naysayers
have however pointed out
that while the jump in absolute
figures is astounding, it is more
the result of increased headcount
in the participants than anything
else. Yields per hectare have reportedly
dwindled. Crop quality
has deteriorated as evidenced by
the low prices that new farmers
are always crying about. Farming
standards, which are a necessity
in tobacco because of its high
proneness to disease, are reportedly
being compromised by underfunded
farmers eager to cut
corners and turn a quick buck.
The criticisms are many.
New farmers themselves have
thrown in criticisms of their own
at other industry participants. The
banks have been accused of being
discriminatory for not wanting to
extent credit. Before land reform
farmers often relied on banks
to provide working capital and
funding for purchase of tractors
and other necessary machinery.
Banks have hit back, pointing out
that the new land tenure system is
not conducive to collateral based
lending. New farmers have, most
recently, accused auctioneers of
rigging the buying process and
giving them unfairly low prices.
Acoording to disgruntled farmers,
cartels of unscrupulous buyers
operate at auction floor, artificially
depressing prices. Buyers in
turn say the quality of tobacco has
gone down significantly, hence
the low prices.
Whoever is right between the
farmers and their industry peers,
it is clear that there is urgent need
for the concerns in the industry to
be addressed. Government needs
to devise a land tenure model
which allows banks to hold some
form of collateral against which
they can lend. Without proper
funding new tobacco farmers are
doomed to remain small in scale
and scope. Additionally, there is
need for proper training. While
yesteryear farmers relied on
trained management personnel
and experienced workers, new
farmers are typically self-taught
and with little technical support.
Extension workers are available
but the ratio between extension
workers and farmers is so desperate
that many cannot even
access the service. Moreover the
extension workers are often underfunded
and unable to offer top
notch service.
Contract farming has been suggested
as a workable solution to
the problems dogging the sector.
The model is such that tobacco
buyers provide farmers with technical
and material support and in
return are guaranteed access to
the crop. It solves the problem
of funding because contractors
themselves can access bank loans
and on-lend them in the form of
inputs. It also takes care of quality
concerns because contractors will
have their own men on the ground
providing technical expertise. The
problem with the model of course
comes at the marketing stage.
Farmers who are using this model
have complained that contractors
offer unfair prices because they
have exclusive rights to purchase
the crop. Contractors themselves
often complain that farmers are
engaged in ‘side marketing’, the
selling of contracted crop to third
parties.
The solution may lie in making
contracting supervised by government
authorities. Standards
of practice can be established and
where disputes still arise a technically
competent ombudsman
can be appointed to mediate. Tobacco
remains one of the few sectors
showing robust growth, but
if certain fundamentals are not
taken care of then there is danger
of all the gains made thus far being
undone.

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First Mutual Holdings reports US$1m profit
TaUraI maNGUDhla
First Mutual Holdings Ltd (FML) has reported
a Us$1 million technical profit in
the first four months of 2014 to April despite
a difficult operating environment,
group CEO Douglas Hoto said.
in a trading update to shareholders at
an annual general meeting held in the
capital this week, Hoto said the business
remained profitable from operations
with the second half of the year expected
to be much better.
“The operations are positive, but the
market has not been very good,” said
Hoto. “We hope that it might improve as
we go into the second half of the year,
but that is not part of our main plans as
we are trying to be prudent.”
revenues for the period under review
stood at Us$41 million and are largely in
line with the group’s target of Us$100
million revenues annually.
Hoto said gross premium written stood
at Us$38,2 million, 14% up from Us$33,6
million in the same period in the prior
year while retrocession stood at Us$2,8
million, a 31% drop from Us$4 million in
the corresponding period in 2013.
“retrocession has gone down from
Us$4 million to Us$2,8 million signifying
more retention of business internally
and also the signing of some of the projects
contracts,” he said.
Net premium written grew by 20%
to Us$35,4 million while net premium
earned grew 22% to Us$34,6 million
compared to Us$28, 4 million in 2013.
investment income for the period was
at Us$1,97 million compared to Us$4,7
million in the same period in 2013.
Claims for the period under review
amounted to Us$21 million, up 30%
from Us$14,7 million.
“remember i said we are going to implement
a robust approach on claims.
Claims are up 30% when net revenues
are up 20% which may indicate something
is not very well, but in fact the
claims provisions were still at formative
stage and have now been incorporated
into the actuarial cycle which is now being
implemented,” Hoto said.
“some of our business is cyclical and
will even out at the end of the year.”
Hoto said total expenses went up 17%
to Us$36,8 million.
The company’s statement of financial
First Mutual Life Building along Jason Moyo street in Harare
Revenues for the period under
review stood at US$41 million
and are in line with the group’s
target of US$100 million worth of
revenues annually.
position shows total assets amounted to
Us$216, 5 million at the end of the period
under review, up 6% from Us$205
million as at December 2013.
A 38% growth was registered on trade
receivables to Us$11,3 million while
cash and cash equivalents also grew by
24% to Us$22,8 million.
Property investment also grew by 9%
to Us$125,9 million.
Policy holder’s funds were flat, shedding
1% in value terms between December
2013 and April 2014 to Us$83,5
million.
Hoto said the company’s low cost
mobile-based funeral assurance product,
e-FML, launched late 2013 has registered
a huge number of policies.
in its last full year results for the period
ended December 2013, FML reported
a 14% growth in gross premium written
to Us$101,1 million mainly driven by
its FML Health business and a Us$1,1
million technical profit which was 93%
down from prior year.

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ZIMBABWE INDEPENDENT BUSINESS DIGEST JUNE 6 TO 12, 2014
COMPANY NEWS
Zim winter wheat production down 29%
TAURAI MANGUDHLA
Wheat imports will continue as national consumption stands around 400 000mt per year while
producion this year is estimated at 10 000mt
ZIMBABWE’S winter wheat production is
this year seen dropping by as much as 29%
to 10 000 metric tonnes (mt) as structural
challenges affecting viability of the cereal’s
production persist, a top farming expert
says.
The country will fail to meet last year’s
production levels of 14 000mt as the planted
area will significantly decline, Commercial
Farmers Union (Cfu) crops manager
Richard Taylor said.
About 4 000 hectares of wheat were
planted in 2013 against around 3 000 hectares
in the current season, according to national
figures.
“The biggest issue is basically the high input
costs that is water, electricity, seed and
fertilisers and this will result in production
declining,” Taylor said.
He also said pricing was a major challenge
for wheat producers as local buyers
are paying less than average international
prices.
“Local prices dropped in line with the international
prices,” he added.
Taylor said wheat imports would continue
to feature on the country’s expenditure
as national consumption stands around 400
000mt per year, the bulk of which is imported
from neigbouring South Africa and
Zambia.
He said farmers and government
needed funding to get out of the current
predicament.
Economists say Zimbabwe must find
ways to address the land tenure system after
the fast track land reform so that farmers
can use land as collateral to access funding
from banks. Government’s 99-year leases
are not accepted as security by banks.
In an interview with businessdigest, Agriculture
Co-Deputy Minister responsible for
cropping Davison Marapira said his department
had spoken to the ministries responsible
for water and electricity to ensure special
arrangements for wheat growers going
forward.
However, indications on the ground are
that farmers are yet to have confidence in
the new arrangement.
“The response may take two to three years
for people to start growing wheat again
confidently after seeing a change in water
and electricity supply,” said Marapira.
Currently, Marapira said, farmers are still
planting their winter wheat crop and are
expected to do so until mid June.
“If they continue planting after mid June
their wheat will be affected by early rains
and their yield will be affected as well.”
In 2013, local millers said Zimbabwe consumes
more than a million loaves of bread
daily and needs at least 25 000 tonnes of
wheat monthly.
The millers said the country needed
US$200 million worth of flour a year to
meet the national bread demands.
According to national statistics, about a
decade ago, local producers used to harvest
up to 260 000 tonnes from about 65 000
hectares, with the balance of 40 000 tonnes
being imported. In 2012, the hectarage under
wheat production shrunk to only 4 000
hactares, which yielded 16 000 tonnes.
Grain Millers’ Association of Zimbabwe
chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara said government
should come up with a wheat
policy that would ensure there is a secure
source of affordable funding and reasonable
loan terms. Musarara said farmers must realise
they will not make profit if their yields
are less than 4 tonnes per hectare.
He said binding pre-planting prices must
be permitted to stimulate wheat production.
He said the pre-planting prices must be
protected and not overruled by gazetted
floor prices.
He also said government should do more
to protect potential investors in agriculture.
“The current legislation that regulates
contract farming is heavily biased towards
farmers. It does not have sufficient investor
protection,” he said.
“For instance, where a farmer willfully
and intentionally diverts inputs of worth
US$30 000 he is only liable to a fine of
US$100 or a prison for a period sentence
not more than three months, but if one will
be imprisoned for 9 years for stealing the
same farmer© s beast worth US$300.”
He said government should focus on revamping
irrigation and dams while limiting
flour imports, which have flooded the
market.
“Wheat farmers have been facing problems
of power supply and funding has been
expensive,” Musarara said. “They also have
high monthly electricity and water bills.
Considering that Zimbabwe consumes one
million loaves a day, government has to
come up with a clear wheat policy.”
Cfu president Charles Taffs also recently
said viable solutions are required to address
fundamentals in respect of land tenure and
a general lack of policy consistency in order
to attract much-needed foreign direct
investment in irrigation.

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BAT faces fresh espionage allegations
Fresh allegations of corporate espionage
and possible money-laundering emerged
this week against British American Tobacco
(Batz) Zimbabwe’s parent company, British
American Tobacco PLc (Bat) amid reports
the sA revenue service (sars) has unearthed
errant and illegal behavior on the part of the
company.
The allegations lend credence to accusations
Batz could have been involved in hijackings
of its competitors — Kingdom, savanna
Tobacco, Breco (Fodya), Cutrag, Trednet
and Chelsea — export consignments valued
at r100 million to armed hijackers three
years ago.
The cigarettes were mostly destined for
south Africa. None of Batz’s products were
hijacked, prompting its competitors to believe
the largest cigarette manufacturer in
the country was involved in industrial espionage
and possible sabotage, a charge Batz
refutes.
According to reports, a March sars tax
probe of all the country’s tobacco companies
revealed rampant illegal and unethical industry
practices.
While sars did not name specific companies,
industry insiders said the letter referred
to poor behaviour across the board — from
large operators such as Bat to smaller “value-brand”
companies under the banner of
the Fair-Trade Independent Tobacco Association.The
letter was signed by sars investigations
head Johann van Loggenberg and
sent to Lieutenant-General Anwa Dramat,
who heads the hawks crime-fighting unit,
suggesting arrests and prosecutions could
follow. Van Loggenberg said the companies
“have been found wanting when it comes
to accounting for and complying with their
income-tax obligations”.
Damningly for Bat, the sars letter appeared
to confirm the claims of corporate espionage
and possible money-laundering in which it
is implicated, allegations first revealed by the
Sunday Times two months ago.
In March, the Sunday Times published excerpts
of a conversation between a Bat official
and someone it hired to spy on rivals,
in which the tobacco executive implores
the “agent” not to “sell us out” by disclosing
dodgy cross-border payments Bat made
to the agent. The Bat official said: “We will
never reveal who we pay because of the nature
of the business and the danger to the
individuals ... I am not going to reveal that
because it is a life-threatening issue.”
however, the sars letter provided further
confirmation, saying it had identified people
“who have been employed by a manufacturer
in a secretive manner to collect confidential
information on their competitors”.
“This has led to these individuals receiving
remuneration, in some cases from offshore
sources, in a way that can only be considered
to be money-laundering.”
sars said the companies who do this “expose
themselves not only to charges of tax
evasion and money-laundering, but it falls
within the south Africa statutory definition
of general corruption” — as well as bribery
provisions in the Us and UK.
Tabby Tsengiwe, a spokesman for Bat, said
the company took the allegations “very seriously”,
and “regards compliance with all local
laws as a priority and we do not engage in
any illegal conduct”.
The scandal has not had any impact on the
share price; Bat’s shares have climbed 12%
on the Jse over the last year.
The company reported a 3% climb in profit
for last year to £4,2bn, as it sold 676-billion
cigarettes across the world under brands including
Lucky strike, Dunhill, Peter stuyvesant
and Craven A.
But revelations in the sars letter — apparently
pointing to Bat — that the UK and Us tax
authorities were now investigating the spying
could increase pressure on the company.
In recent weeks, sars launched a fullscale
audit into Bat. Tsengiwe said this tax
probe was not into Bat specifically, but
“industry-wide”.
But Bat has already had a number of runins
with sars.
In a prospectus issued two weeks ago to
raise £15bn, Bat said: “sars has challenged
the debt financing of British American Tobacco
south Africa and reassessed the years
2006-2008 in the sum of r600m.”
Bat aside, the picture painted by sars is of
an industry rippling with dishonest tactics
to dodge tax, from putting in place “artificial
profit-shifting strategies”, pretending
that entire shipments of tobacco were
being sent to Zambia when actually they
were being leaked into the local market,
and hiring people to bribe sars officials or
to quash tax cases. In one case, a tobacco
company paid r2 million to a tax adviser,
who it believed had influence at sars and
who could make a tax case disappear.
“Apart from having engaged in questionable
and possibly corrupt activities,
[the companies] will most certainly have
wasted their money,” said Van Loggenberg.
Back home, police has beebn clamping
down on Batz’s imported Dunhill
brand amid indications the products were
not compliant with the country’s laws,
prompting retailers to remove the product
from the shelves briefly. The Dunhill packs
and dispensers carry south African health
warnings, which are considered to be illegal
under the instrument. sI 264 (2002)
governs the sale and marketing of tobacco
and tobacco related products. Among other
things, it outlines the rules and regulations
guiding the sale of cigarettes, packaging
required and health warnings.
Bat’s competitors such as savanna Tobacco,
the manufacturers of the Pacific
brand of cigarettes and Fodya, the makers
of the Mega Brand of cigarettes, have
complied. Authorities say Bat is using a
south African health warning which reads:
“Warning: smoking Can Kill You”, among
others that are used in the south African
tobacco industry.
According to the statutory Instrument,
Zimbabwean cigarette manufacturers have
to use the mandatory Zimbabwean health
warning which reads: “Danger: smoking
Is harmful to health.” — Business Times
/staff Writer.
A Sars task probe has revealed rampant illegal
practices by tobacco companies.

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Remarks on GMB signal govt contradictions
Agriculture deputy minister Paddy Zhanda
Government set the buying price of maize at US$390 per tonne this season
Security Growth and Profitability
Kudzai Kuwaza
that the cash-strapped Grain
Marketing Board (GMB) will
struggle to pay for maize delivered
to the parastatal is hardly
surprising. What raised eyebrows
however were remarks by agriculture
deputy minister Paddy
Zhanda encouraging farmers to
sell maize to private buyers.
Zhanda recently told the National
assembly that the parastatal
had to date not been allocated
funds to procure maize due
to financial constraints. he added
that the GMB was “the buyer of
last resort”, a surprising depature
from government’s insistence
farmers sell maize to the
parastatal.
Government, Zhanda said, had
set the buying price of US$390
per tonne this season as a benchmark
to farmers who wanted to
sell their maize to private buyers.
This was probably the first time
since the country’s Independence
in 1980, that such a senior
government official has uttered
words completely divorced from
the usual call for farmers to rush
to GMB depots with their maize.
Barely a week later, agriculture
minister Joseph Made called for a
press conference where he rubbished
Zhanda’s remarks. analysts
say this is a clear demonstration
of not only contradictions in
government, but in the ministry
as well.
“The GMB has been tasked by
government to buy maize as it relates
to the strategic grain reserve,
which requires 500 000 metric
tonnes annually, and I want to
emphasise that the GMB is not a
buyer of last resort,” Made said.
“The GMB is tasked to buy grain at
the beginning of the season and it
buys continuously, which means
farmers deliver grain throughout
the season at the first instance by
the farmer’s choice.”
Economist Godfrey Kanyenze
said the recent contradictions
between Made and his deputy
showed that all is not well at GMB.
“There are serious challenges at
the GMB,” Kanyenze noted. “The
indictment is the discord between
the minister and his deputy.”
he said while the deputy minister’s
remarks were a true reflection
of the situation at the GMB,
Made was only giving “a politically
correct” position that did not
mirror the reality on the ground.
Kanyenze said Zhanda’s exhortation
for farmers to prioritise
private buyers ahead of the GMB
was “someone basically throwing
in the towel”.
he said there was a need to be
honest on the problems bedeviling
GMB.
“If the minister is not going to
give the correct position on GMB,
then it will be like an ostrich
burying its head in the sand, hoping
the problem will disappear,”
Kanyenze said.
he said the country’s strategic
grain reserve has been struggling
for some time characterised by
poor funding and dilapidated infrastructure
and called for a rethink
on how to resuscitate the
parastatal.
The Zimbabwe Farmers’ Union
second vice president, Berean
Mukwende said that government
needs to urgently look for funds
to enable GMB to pay farmers
timeously for their produce.
he said if farmers are likely to
be short changed if they sell to
private buyers. he said private
buyers would buy maize at a
song and sell it for a substantially
higher price which will affect not
only the farmers but consumers
and government as well.
Mukwende said it was the government’s
sole responsibility to
feed the populace and this could
not be abdicated to private buyers.
he said the buying price set
by the government of US$390
will only allow the farmers to
break even and fell short of their
ecommended buying price of
US$420.
The GMB has a long history of
loss-making and mismanagement
with workers going for seven
months without pay.
In 2012, the parastatal held its
first annual general meeting in 81
years and in the same year, former
State Enterprises and Parastatals
minister Gorden Moyo
presented a damning report to
cabinet detailing how parastatals
were continuing to perform dismally
with the majority making
losses amounting to millions of
US dollars.
The country requires 1,8 million
tonnes of maize annually.

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Madzibaba’s ‘tsvimbo’ mightier than the police baton?
Systems Think
sam hlabati
Commuter bus drivers are always on the
lookout for the men and women in the grey
and navy blue uniforms; who are always at
hand to chase them down the road to demand
documents such as driver’s licences
and operating permits. The people chasing
the commuter omnibuses are the police force
who wield their infamous black batons.
Drivers who dare keep driving ignoring
the police are given instantaneous punishment
of having the windscreens of their vehicles
smashed. The mushikashika small vehicles
that are also in the business of ferrying
passengers are not spared. There is continuous
public outcry about the consequences of
the police officers’ actions.
It’s is an offence according to the Vehicle
registration & Licencing Act [Chapter 12:14]
to drive a vehicle which has a “windscreen
not providing clear vision”. Section 54 of SI
154 states: “The windscreen shall be so constructed
that, if it is damaged in any manner,
it will ensure a safe degree of visibility for
the driver”; yet the impact of the police officer’s
baton is aimed in the position right in
the face of the driver. I wonder if the police
officers do prosecute the commuter omnibus
drivers for this offence, knowing that the
smashed screens are a result of their “hand
-work”.
Is there any other better way of enforcing
the law against the kombis other than
smashing windscreens? The jury is out as to
whose doorstep the blameworthiness should
lie at in the instances where innocent people
are killed when the kombi drivers are trying
to evade the police; is it the police or is it
the kombi drivers? You are the judge, whatever
your answer you definitely have your
justification.
Now the police have taken centre stage in
a matter that involved the Vapostori sect in
Budiriro. I was chatting to some colleagues
recently and the central topic was that of the
Vapostori saga that is still ongoing in Budiriro.
The facts that are generally available to
the public through the press are that a sect of
the Johane masowe Chishanu in Budiriro led
by a certain madzibaba Ishmael was being
threatened with closure of their shrine and
worship services by the Apostolic Christian
Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ). It is reported
that the members of the sect turned amok
and attacked the police officers, ACCZ officials
and journalists who had descended on
their shrine.
There are allegations that the sect has been
practicing their religion in a manner that
went against the doctrines of Christianity.
Some of the allegations against the sect are
gross. They are being accused of, among other
things, denying children the right to go to
school, forcing girls into marriages, conducting
virginity tests and forcing women to provide
their husbands with virgin girls if they
were not virgins when they got married.
The approach by the ACCZ was to ban the
sect from conducting services. It is reported
that the ACCZ played an instrumental role in
the probe and arrest of robert martin Gumbura
of the rGm end time message Church.
The question that springs to mind is then
why did ACCZ not recommend that the particular
Vapostori congregation be investigated
and that the perpetrators of the abuses be
brought before the courts to answer to their
crimes. The Vapostori sect is a highly “amphibious”
and “self-propagating” church
that requires great tact to deal with. The sect
does not require any building or amenities
to start a congregation. All they require
is a group of people who have the attire and
know the fellowship routines, an open space
on the peripherals of residential areas to start
a church. There are no bills to pay and once
the place in which they meet is no longer
available, they will just look for another open
space. Surely banning such a group of people
from congregating is like telling a group of
vendors in a particular street of Harare that
they are banned from selling their wares at a
particular street corner. They may not come
back to that street corner but they surely
will choose another street and continue
with their business.
A question to the ACCZ; Was it the intention
of the council to “ban” the particular
sect and reasonably expect that the group
of persons that congregate in that place
would then accept the banishment and
subsequently reform from their practices.
Christianity is a branch of philosophical
idealism; founded on the very believe of
the superbeing and the acceptance that
a human mind has limited knowledge
which can only be guided spiritually.
Was there an expectation that announcing
a banishment was going to have any
effect more than dispersing the sect members
who would then regroup and continue
practicing their religion in a different;
lamenting their “perceived persecution”.
Within the same Vapostori sect, a leader
of a congregation Godfrey Nzira from
Chitungwiza was arrested about a decade
ago. He was arrested for his offences
of rape; and he did his time behind bars.
Can the ACCZ explain what they intended
to achieve with the ban and why they
did not favour conducting investigations
and bringing the perpetrators of the said
abuses before the courts. Going back to
the police force; were they fully aware that
they were accompanying the ACCZ on a
mission to ban a religious sect accused of
sexual abuse; such as the checking of the
virginity of daughters by their fathers using
fingers? Were they reasonably aware
the very sect that they were going to was
being accused of marrying off young girls
before their age of sexual consent? Were
they aware of the fact that there were other
human rights abuses within the sect?
The questions for the police force are a
score and a dozen.
The police officers at the scene of the
clash with the Vapostori are seen in media
photos brandishing baton sticks and
wearing “riot gear”. Were they preparing
for a riot? . What was the mission on the
day of the visit? This question is for both
that ACCZ and the police force.
Was the mission to deliver the message
of the ban? or was the mission to effect
the ban on the very instant the message
was delivered?; thus telling everyone to
pack their bags and go home.
What was expected of the people who
are dependent on their religion for spiritual
strength to do after that? There is a
saying that a cornered rat will fight a cat
and despair turns the cowards courageous.
Sam Hlabati is a Senior Professional in Human
Resources (SPHR®), a Certified Compensation
Professional (CCP®) and a Global Remuneration
Professional (GRP®). E-mail samhlabati@
gmail.com; twitter handle; @samhlabati

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More bad news for SA economy
The decline in vehicle sales is another
sign that the economy is losing momentum,
warned the National Association of
Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa
(Naamsa).
On Monday Naamsa announced that
year-on-year (y/y) new vehicle sales declined
by 9,2% last month.
“The South African economy was losing
momentum and risked moving into recession,”
Naamsa said in a statement.
“The decline in first-quarter GDP to
negative levels, the dramatic decline in the
purchasing managers’ index . . . the sharp
rise in producer inflation and the worsening
trade deficit all confirmed the advent of
a more difficult economic environment.”
As a result, the domestic automotive
market was likely to continue facing headwinds
in the short to medium term, it said.
In May 2014, aggregate new vehicles
sales were 49 465 compared to the 54 490
sold in the same month last year.
Naamsa said all segments and categories
recorded y/y declines.
export sales declined from 26 252 in May
last year to 15 613 this year, a fall of 40,5%.
Overall, out of the total disaggregated
reported industry sales of 49 465 vehicles,
86,8% represented dealer sales, 5,6% represented
sales to the vehicle rental industry,
4,9% to industry corporate fleets and
2,7% to government.
The new car market remained under
pressure during May this year, with a fall
of 11,3% compared to the same time last
year.
Domestic sales of new light commercial
vehicles, bakkies, and minibuses declined
by 5,1% compared to the corresponding
month last year.
Sales of vehicles in the medium and
heavy truck segments reflected a mixed
performance.
Medium commercial vehicle sales
showed a decline of 140 units or 14,4%.
South Africa’s Finance minister Nhlanhla Nene
heavy trucks and buses registered an
improvement of 74 units or a gain of 4,3%.
Industry new vehicle exports during
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May this year showed a sharp decline from
26 252 last year to 15 613 this year.
“The decline in export sales was due to
the discontinuation of an export model
by a major vehicle manufacturer and the
temporary lack of any contribution by
Mercedes-Benz,” Naamsa said.
“From the middle of 2014, the momentum
of industry vehicle exports was expected
to improve.”
The outlook for the automotive sector
for the balance of the year looked increasingly
less promising.
“At this stage, Naamsa anticipated that
the domestic market in 2014 was likely to
register a decline, in aggregate terms, of
between 3,5% and five percent compared
to 2013,” it said.
In contrast WesBank’s data shows that
the total number of finance applications
is up 16% y/y - setting a new, all-time
record of 124 770 — however the majority
of this growth came from applications
for used vehicles, which grew by 21% y/y,
while new vehicle applications grew by
5%, y/y.
“The record number of applications can
largely be attributed to the credit amnesty
legislation introduced in March,”
said Rudolf Mahoney, head of research at
WesBank.
“There appears to be a level of misunderstanding
among consumers regarding
the legislation and their belief that their
records may have been cleared. This is
resulting in a great number of speculative
applications, thus contributing to the
growing surge in applications.”
The higher demand for used vehicles
is as a result of consumers finding better
value in the pre-owned market, driven by
the rising prices of new vehicles.
TransUnion Auto reported that new
vehicle prices have increased 6,58% in
the first quarter of 2014, contrasting with
0,83% for used vehicles.
WesBank pointed out that slow sales in
the new vehicle market can be correlated
to negative growth in the economy.
The most recent figures from Statistics
South Africa show GDP growth at -0,6%
for the first quarter of 2014. New vehicle
sales for same period were down -3,4%.
“historically, negative GDP growth is
associated with increased activity in the
used vehicle market,” said Mahoney.
“Conversely, positive GDP growth correlates
with a strong performance in
the new vehicle market as the economy
flourishes.”
Given the current economic climate,
WesBank expects the new vehicle market
to continue to struggle, while consumers
will turn to the used vehicle market.
New Finance minister Nhlanhla Nene
played down fears of economy is heading
into recession, reported City Press. — Fin24
Sugar strike:
Settlement
seems likely
PAPeR and packaging firm Mondi said on
Tuesday it will buy the US bags and kraft
paper business of Graphic Packaging International
for US$105 million as it seeks
to grow its presence in the world’s largest
economy.
Mondi, a South African company also
listed in London, said the acquisition will
be on a debt and cash-free basis and would
be funded from its existing resources.
“The combination of the business with
Mondi’s existing network will create a
leading bags player in North America and
expand the group’s growing global footprint
in this market,” chief executive David
hathorn said in a statement.
Kraft paper refers to a type of paper often
used in packaging.
Graphic Packaging International is a
subsidiary of Graphic Packaging holding.
— Fin24

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FOREIGN BUSINESS NEWS
Facebook acquires mobile
data plan firm Pryte
FACEBOOK Inc is acquiring Pryte, a
Finnish company that aims to make it
easier for mobile phone users in under-developed
parts of the world to
use wireless Internet apps.
Facebook did not disclose financial
terms of the deal, which spokeswoman
Vanessa Chan said is expected to
close later this month.
Pryte© s service, which has not publicly
launched yet, seeks to make it
easier for consumers without wireless
data plans to use online services by
selling short-term passes that would
provide access to particular mobile
apps, such as Facebook or Foursquare.
Facebook, the world© s largest social
network with 1.28 billion users, is primarily
interested in the team behind
Pryte, led by Chief Executive Markku
Makelainen, Chan said.
The one-year old, Helsinki-based
company has valuable experience
and relationships working with wireless
operators, particularly in emerging
markets, she said.
The company has fewer than 30
employees, though it© s not clear how
many will join Facebook.
The deal marks Facebook’s latest
effort to advance its mission of connecting
people in under-developed
parts of the world to the Internet. Facebook
has partnered with wireless
operators in certain countries to offer
free access to its social network and
the company is building drones and
satellites that will beam Internet access
to remote regions of the world.
Facebook Chief Executive Mark
Zuckerberg has said that connecting
the “next five billion people” to the Internet
is one of the company’s top priorities
going forward.— Reuters.
US factory orders
increase for third
straight month
NEW orders for U.S. factory goods rose for a third
straight month in April, pointing to strength in
manufacturing and the broader economy.
The Commerce Department said on Tuesday new
orders for manufactured goods increased 0.7 percent.
March© s orders were revised to show a 1.5 percent
increase instead of the previously reported 0.9
percent rise.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast new
orders received by factories gaining 0.5 percent.
Manufacturing is growing after moderating a bit
during a very cold winter. It is likely to continue
expanding, with a survey on Monday showing new
orders at the nation© s factories at their highest level
in five months in May.
Orders excluding the volatile transportation category
increased 0.5 percent as bookings for primary
metals, electrical equipment, appliances and components
and capital goods rose.
The department also said orders for durable
goods, manufactured products expected to last
three years and more, rose 0.6 percent instead of
the 0,8% gain reported last month.
Durable goods orders excluding transportation
increased 0.3 percent instead of the previously reported
0.1 percent gain.
Orders for non-defense capital goods excluding
aircraft - seen as a measure of business confidence
and spending plans - fell 1.2 percent as reported last
month.— Reuters.

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forEIGN BUSINESS NEwS
France blames US for ‘unreasonable’ fine
France said it would defend the interests
of its biggest bank BnP Paribas, calling a possible
US$10 billion-plus US fine “unreasonable”
and warning it could have a bearing on
transatlantic free trade talks.
French government ministers have until
now shied away from discussing in public
BnP’ negotiations with US authorities, who
are investigating whether the lender evaded
US sanctions relating primarily to Sudan,
Iran and Syria between 2002 and 2009.
“If there is a an error or a violation then it’s
normal that there is a fine, but the fine has
to be proportionate and reasonable,” Foreign
Minister Laurent Fabius said on France 2 television.
“These figures are not reasonable.”
The criticism comes two days before US
President Barack Obama meets President
Francois Hollande in Paris, with ties between
the two allies already strained over the United
States’ handling of the Syrian crisis and
France’s reluctance to cancel a deal to sell
helicopter carriers to russia.
French officials have said Hollande will
bring up the BnP issue during the talks,
which Fabius will also attend. Other possible
subjects for discussion could be US conglomerate
General electric co’s bid for French
group alstom Sa’s energy assets, a move
which prompted Hollande’s government to
encourage a rival approach from Germany’s
Siemens aG.
US authorities, including new York state’s
top banking regulator, the Justice Department
and the Manhattan District attorney
allege BnP stripped out identifying information
from wire transfers so they could pass
through the US financial system without
raising red flags, sources told reuters.
Sources familiar with the negotiations
said a settlement could include a fine of
more than US$10 billion — almost as much
as BnP’s pre-tax income of 8,2 billion euros
(US$11,2 billion) in 2013 — and other penalties,
such as a possible temporary suspension
of the bank’s authority to clear US dollar
transactions.
although the penalty is not set, one source
said, negotiations with BnP were “north of
US$8 billion," considerably higher than the
US$1,1 billion which it had previously set
aside.
BnP declined comment on the matter on
Tuesday. Last month it said it had improved
control processes and was doing all it could
to ensure such mistakes don’t occur again.
BnP has lost more than 6 billion euros of
its stock market value since the end of april,
reflecting concerns that a heavy fine could
force it to restrain its dividends, reduce lending
and even raise fresh capital to bolster its
finances.
“These figures could have a negative impact
and BnP could see its capital hit and
that means less loans, especially for French
firms,” Fabius said.
The French government, stung by a string
of election setbacks, has sharpened criticism
of the United States since the start of the
year, straining ties ahead of Obama’s visit
this week to commemorate the World War
Two D-Day landings in normandy, western
France.
Fabius has repeatedly lamented Washington’s
decision to back away from launching
a military operation in Syria hours before
French jets were ready to strike and has rebuffed
US calls for Paris to cancel a 1,2 billion
euro deal to sell Mistral helicopter carrier
ships to russia. In the BnP case, Fabius’
diplomatic plea for Washington to intervene
may fall on deaf ears, as the suit emanates
from the new York State Department of Financial
Services (DFS), which acts independently
of the US federal government.
But Fabius, who is also in charge of the
trade portfolio, said any US decision regarding
BnP would raise questions over european
Union-US trade negotiations, given any
deal should be based on reciprocity.
“Here you would have an example of an
unfair and unilateral decision. It would be an
extremely serious problem. You can’t consider
reciprocity to be the rule, when at the
same time you have a decision like this,” he
said.
The United States and the eU are holding
talks over a bilateral free trade agreement intended
to deal with issues ranging from agricultural
market access to electronic commerce
to investment and competition policy.
France has been sceptical about some
issues, such as any opening of its movies,
music and internet markets to free
trade, fearing this could impact jobs and
competitiveness.
Other european governments have
demurred from confrontation when the
DFS imposed penalties or settlements
for bank misdemeanours, albeit much
smaller than in prospect for BnP.
a low-profile approach was adopted by
Britain’s finance minister George Osborne
for instance to limit the damage faced by
Standard chartered, after it came under
fire from US regulators for breaching U.S.
sanctions, a UK government source told
reuters in august 2012 when the story
broke.
“It’s an extremely serious question that
the americans must handle in a spirit of
partnership and not unilaterally,” Fabius
said. — reuters.
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stocks dip
as the
euro gains
eUropean shares dipped on
Tuesday and the euro edged
higher against the dollar after
a fall in euro zone inflation
cemented the case for the european
Central Bank to ease
monetary policy later this
week.
The pan-european FTSe
eurofirst 300 .FTeU3 equity
index was down 0,5%, extending
losses after data that
showed annual consumer
price inflation unexpectedly
slowed to 0,5% in May.
Traders said expectations
the eCB, which targets inflation
of close to 2%, would cut
interest rates yesterday were
already largely priced in and
that only a weaker inflation
number would have triggered
a big market move.
The euro gained some respite
on relief that price growth
had not slowed even further,
while German government
bond futures fell.
“The inflation reading could
have been much worse, but
it nonetheless underpins the
necessity for the eCB to act,”
said Jeremy Stretch, head of
currency strategy at CIBC
World Markets.
Wall Street also looked set
to open lower. S&p 500 index
futures Spc1 were down 0,2%.
expectations of lower euro
zone rates, and recent upbeat
US economic data, have
combined to push the euro to
its weakest against the dollar
since mid-February.
However, the single currency
eUr= was up 0,1% at
US$1 3610, having fallen as
low as US$1 3587 immediately
after the data, but still not far
from a low of US$1 3586 hit
last week.
“a (eCB) refinance rate cut
by 15 basis points and a negative
deposit rate cut by 10 basis
points is baked in. The risk is
of a more aggressive cut in the
deposit rate which has the potential
to take the euro down
Head of currency strategy at CIBC World Markets Jeremy Stretch
below the US$1 3585 level that
has proved sticky in the past
few sessions,” Stretch said.
The dollar stood at 102,40
yen, having earlier hit 102,49,
its strongest in more than a
month.
German 10-year government
bond yields
De10YT=TWeB, which hit
12-month lows last week, rose
5 basis points to 1,36%. Bund
futures FGBlc1 declined.
Some traders said the weak
inflation data was already
priced into the market and
prompted investors to book
profits after a recent rally.
“It’s clearly a call for the
eCB to take action but a lot
of it is priced in already and
there’s a reluctance to take
aggressive positions before
the meeting. It (the eCB) will
need to exceed expectations
to drive yields lower,” said
Jan von Gerich, chief fixed income
analyst at nordea.
US 10-year Treasury yields
US10YT=rr rose on Monday
to 2,54% after the Institute of
Supply Management showed
US manufacturing activity accelerated
in May.
The ISM data helped push
US stocks higher, with the
Dow Jones average.
The US numbers and Chinese
data showing factory and
service-sector performance
had their best showings in
months in May helped push
asian shares higher on Tuesday.
— reuters
Us records surge
in auto sales
General Motors Co, Chrysler Group and nissan
Motor Co on Tuesday reported higher-thanexpected
US new car sales in May, with consumer
demand continuing to gather strength as
temperatures rise across the country.
GM and Chrysler said May sales were the best
in seven years, and nissan set a sales record for
the month.
GM’s May sales were up 12,6% to 284 694, well
above the consensus of nine analysts polled by
reuters. all four GM brands reported sales increases,
with gains at Chevrolet and GMC driven
in part by strong demand for new full-size utility
vehicles and pickups.
The US auto industry is forecast to show a
third straight month of strong sales after cold
and snowy weather held down results in January
and February.
analysts polled by reuters expected May industry
sales to rise about 7%, with an annual
sales rate of 16,1 million vehicles.
Chrysler expects the industry’s annual sales
rate in May to finish at 16,9 million vehicles, including
medium and heavy trucks, which account
for about 300 000 vehicles each year. GM
projected the annual rate in May at 16,5 million.
Monthly auto sales are seen as an early snapshot
of consumer demand for big-ticket items.
US new-car sales in april rose 8%, and the annual
selling rate finished at 16,04 million vehicles.
US sales for Chrysler, a unit of Fiat Chrysler
automobiles, finished at 194 421 vehicles in May,
above analysts’ estimates.
Sales of Chrysler’s Jeep SUV line jumped 58%
to 70 203 vehicles in May from a year earlier,
while ram pickup truck sales increased 17% to
37 131 vehicles.
nissan said US sales rose 18,8% to a record 135
934, with double-digit gains at both its nissan
and Infiniti brands. — reuters
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independent executive
EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS
The power of body language
in communication
Page E2
EXECUTIVE HEALTH
Natural ways to treat high
blood pressure
Page E3
EXECUTIVE BANKING
How to grow your SME
business
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From Raindrops To Gold Mine
GAME
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CHANGER
Entrepreneur
Joel Mwale
VENTURES AFRICA – Sometimes
the best business ideas
comes from seeking answers
to unasked questions–thinking
for the customer-or tapping
from free resource. No one
asked for an iPod or Google
search, but the ability of Steve
Jobs, Larry Page and Sergey
Brin to think on our behalf and
proffer solutions for the future
have helped shape the world,
while they amassed a fortune.
Ever thought about rain as a
resource? Well, daring entrepreneur
Joel Mwale has. Mwale
built on a possible solution to
the problem of access to clean
water while he was recuperating
from dysentery, which he
got from consuming contaminated
water provided by his
municipal council during Kenya’s
annual dry season.
Whilst still in his teenage
years, he thought about possible
solutions to combat a recurring
problem with dysentery.
This led Mwale to build a borehole
in his village, investing
all his savings on the project at
that. “I thought that what if this
thing keeps on happening, year
in, year out, what if next year
the same problem happens?”
Joel opined.
Today, Mwale has move from
a $95 investment into building
a borehole to creating SkyDrop
Enterprises, a water harvesting
project, which purifies, bottles
and packages rain water for
sale. The inspiration to create
SkyDrop Enterprises was quite
peculiar. “I remember it was in
April during one of the heavy
rainy season in Kitale. I was just
walking as the rain poured and
happened to spot a closed down
yoghurt shop. Next to the building
there was this water tank
that was storing the rain water
from the gutters of the roof,” he
explains.
“So I said that if there’s anything
that I could do to be able
to trap this rain water, store it
in a reservoir, then be able to
purify it and sell it to the public,
this would be a good idea.”
Mwale once described his financial
constraints and how it
was difficult to convince possible
financiers that his idea was a
viable one. Notwithstanding, he
had already managed to convince
the owner of the yoghurt
shop to lease him the location.
Most significantly, Joel Mwale
knocked on doors of all the local
banks and NGOs for funding,
and they all declined his
proposal. “I guess they did not
see my idea as viable. Besides,
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who could listen to a 16-yearold
school drop-out?” he recalls.
Entrepreneurship is the point
where creativity meets innovation
and resourcefulness. After
his idea was frowned upon
by prospective financiers, Joel
raised his own finance by deciding
to lease his father’s land
— his mother didn’t like the
idea.
Slowly, SkyDrop Enterprises
has been gaining market share,
in the lucrative drinking water
market in Trans Nzoia. In 2012,
the company sold over 33,000
bottles, after initially only being
able to sell about 10 bottles of
water a day, as a result of significant
competition from already
established drinking water bottlers.
In 2011, Joel won the Anzisha
Prize for Youth Leadership,
recognizing innovative solutions
to solve problems facing
their communities. After winning
the prize that comes with a
$30,000 cheque, it also enabled
him to provide for his family,
offer employment to a growing
number of people in his community.
As he continues to get high
praise for his work, Master-
Card Foundation provided $2.5
million to support his project
in 2012. He has invested the
money into acquiring a piece
of land on which boreholes will
be drilled. Already, improved
growth prospects are being
forecast after completion of
drilling a new borehole.
“The borehole will make it
possible for us to produce 6,000
litres of water per hour. This
will be an addition to our current
plant that gives us 5,000
litres of water per hour.
“And since the water produced
by the borehole may be
more than what we intend to
use, we have plans to pipe the
surplus to the community at
no cost, serving a population of
500,000,” he adds.
According to him, “I think
there are many more youths
who are sitting on their potential.
But, the most important
thing is that in order for Africa
to realize its goals, the youths
and everyone will need to embrace
the true spirit of entrepreneurship
because it’s only
through true entrepreneurship
that people are able to utilize
their full potential.”

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The power of body language in communication
By BleSSiNg Duri
It takes a fraction of a second to recognise a face
VACANCY
TECHNICAL SERVICES MANAGER
The Zimbabwe Sugar Association Experiment Station [Z.S.A.E.S.] has a vacancy for a Technical Services
Manager with an aptitude and interest in project management and planning, civil works and building
development and maintenance, fleet management (including tractors and implements) and agricultural
operations. Under the mentorship of the Director and the Principal Agricultural Engineer, the person will
manage and be accountable for the provision of technical services to Research Officers, Management and
Administrative staff on the Station and to related off-Station projects.
The Z.S.A.E.S., which is situated in the South Eastern Lowveld of Zimbabwe near Chiredzi, is owned and funded
by the Zimbabwe Sugarcane Industry through the Zimbabwe Sugar Association [Z.S.A.]. It is a research
institution established to serve the interests of the sugarcane industry through research, evaluation, transfer
of technology, and the provision of specialized services. These activities aim at improving sugarcane
production and profits as well as contributing to the development of the economy while conserving a healthy,
pleasant, and productive environment.
KEY DUTIES
Reporting to the Principal Agricultural Engineer the incumbent will be responsible for:
· Planning and overseeing weekly, monthly, and annual work plans for all maintenance work, land
preparation, haulage, and/or construction activities pertaining to the Z.S.A.E.S.;
· Managing the preparation of fields and green-houses for trials and rotation/break crops;
· Overseeing and/or coordinating timely maintenance of tractors, farm implements, machinery,
vehicles, pumps, office, laboratory and residential buildings as well as other Station infrastructure,
including development and upkeep of associated administration and records-keeping systems;
· Specific management of trials and projects which have a technical bias, for example, new buildings,
new civil works or evaluating the performance of a new implement or machine;
· Participating in recruiting Field Assistants, Handymen, technical and research support staff;
· Supervising, training, motivating, and controlling External Contractors, Field Assistants, Handymen,
Tractor drivers and other technical staff and ensuring adherence to standard operating procedures and
quality control procedures as well as scheduling time-offs and maintaining discipline at the work place;
· Preparing Budgets for Technical Services and sourcing, ordering and purchasing materials and spares
in advance and maintaining stock and asset registers as well as implementing appropriate control
measures;
· Taking initiative, making suggestions, and consulting with superiors on relevant technical and research
issues at the Station and on remedial measures;
· Ensuring that there is compliance with the Z.S.A.E.S. Safety, Health, and Environment policy and
procedures.
PERSON SPECIFICATIONS
· A Diploma in Agricultural Engineering, Civil Engineering, Construction/Building or Mechanical
Engineering is a minimum requirement with at least 4 years relevant working experience and traceable
references; A Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Engineering or Civil/Construction/Mechanical
Engineering will be an added advantage.
· A clean Class 4 Driver's License with at least three years driving experience and preferably a defensive
driving certificate;
· Excellent communication skills and ability to motivate support staff;
· Excellent project management and planning skills with the ability to co-ordinate multiple
operations/activities;
· Good computing and administrative skills - good knowledge of spreadsheets, project management
and/or accounting/budgeting software will be an advantage;
Applications with a cover letter, curriculum vitae, traceable references and proof of qualifications should be
addressed to:
The Director
ZSA Experiment Station
P Bag 7006, Chiredzi
OR email to:
dir@zsaes.org.zw
The closing date for receipt of applications is 30 June, 2014. Only short-listed candidates will be
acknowledged.
IT takes approximately eleven one-hundredths
of a second to recognise a face. When
you walk into an interview for the first time,
that’s about how long it takes for the interviewer
to make an assessment of you. There
are tons of articles about optimising sales,
productivity, and your online presence, but
what about optimising yourself?
I’m not talking about spiritually, but superficially—literally
nothing below the skin.
Not only will improving your posture improve
how people immediately perceive
you, but you will begin to feel what you are
presenting. How are you sitting while you’re
reading this right now? Are your legs or ankles
crossed? Maybe your left hand is touching
the side of your nose as you recline in
your armchair, or lean on the desk in front of
your computer.
In our presentation, “Corporate Grooming
and Business Etiquette For Executives
and Professionals”, we reveal how we can
change other people’s perceptions, and even
our own body chemistry, simply by changing
body positions. Even for political offices this
is very important. The electorate has no idea
who the candidates are, nor of their political
career or standings; all they know is what
they see, if the candidate looks pleasant or
trustworthy.
When we are feeling confident and powerful,
we spread out — make ourselves big. Recall
any victory of a sports player. What did
they do? They probably threw their arms up
in the air, right? Now, what do we do when
we feel powerless? We do the exact opposite.
We close up, and make ourselves small. This
will be perceived as showing lack of confidence
— if you look weak, people will think
you’re weak, and vice versa. Nobody wants
to interact with a feeble person (this applies
to aspects outside of the workplace, too, like
making friends and finding dates). We know
non-verbals effect and how others see us,
but the presentation, “Corporate Grooming
and Business Etiquette For Executives and
Professionals” elaborates upon a hypothesis
of how some people wanted to try: does
changing our body language affect the way
we see ourselves? The example is that some
people tried an experiment to answer this
question. Turns out, it does. “We smile when
we feel happy, but also, when we’re forced to
smile by holding a pen in our teeth… When
it comes to power, it goes both ways… when
you pretend to be powerful, you are more
likely to actually feel powerful.”
In the experiment, Bleluk Consulting (Pvt)
Ltd brought people into a lab and told the
people to adopt either high-power or lowpower
poses for two minutes. After two minutes
had passed, the subjects were told to
gamble, and guess what happened: the ones
who assumed high-power poses were much
more confident — ie took more risks—in
games of chance. How did this affect physiological
(hormonal) conditions? Here’s what
we find on testosterone: From their baseline
when they come in, high-power people
experience about a 20% increase, and
low-power people experience about a 10%
decrease. Here’s what you get on cortisol:
High-power people experience about a 25%
decrease, and the low-power people experience
about a 15% increase. So two minutes
(of high- or low-power posing) lead to these
hormonal changes that configure your brain
to basically be either assertive, confident and
comfortable, or really stress-reactive, and…
feeling sort of shut down… So it seems that
our non-verbals do govern how we think and
feel about ourselves.”
Applying this research to your everyday
life will not only improve your next interview,
but subsequently the rest of your work
and personal life. So give it a try! Spend a couple
of minutes standing or sitting in a highpower
pose. See if it affects the way you feel
about yourself, and if it changes your overall
outlook. What do you think? Have you tried
“faking it ‘til you make it?” Let us know if it
worked for you in your comments.
blessing duri is the executive Consultant, author
& Certified Life Coach at bleluk Consulting (pvt)
Ltd, at suite 312 pollack House, 30 Robson manyika,
Harare, Zimbabwe. +263 773 522 350 / +263
715 294 225. email: blelukconsulting@gmail.com

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Natural ways to treat high blood pressure
The four diet game-changers
NO one clamours to join the hypertension
club, but it sure has a lot of members. High
blood pressure puts you at greater risk for
experiencing a heart attack or stroke, and
it can damage your kidneys. That’s the bad
news.
The good news: Hypertension usually
can be controlled — and you may not need
to take medication to do it. Research shows
a variety of lifestyle changes, from altering
your diet to engaging in a regular meditation
practice, can effectively lower blood
pressure. Changing your eating patterns is
a good start to controlling high blood pressure,
and it works best in combination with
other natural interventions. This is the first
in a series of articles that will help you
understand which natural blood pressure
treatments work — and which ones don’t
(yet) stand up to clinical scrutiny.
What you eat matters
Your diet plays an important role in managing
hypertension. In particular, clinical
studies show that eating whole foods over
processed foods can reduce blood pressure.
Changing your eating patterns doesn’t have
to be daunting. Here are some ways to ease
into it.
The dash diet
An acronym for “Dietary Approaches to
Stop Hypertension,” the Dash diet is possibly
the most-studied eating plan in history.
Numerous clinical trials have confirmed
the effectiveness of Dash in lowering
systolic blood pressure by as much as 11
points. (Systolic blood pressure is the “top”
number in a blood pressure reading and
represents the arterial pressure produced
when the heart contracts and sends blood
flowing through your system.)
The original Dash diet plan called for
lowering sodium intake to just 1 500 milligrammes
per day, but this recommendation
has recently been challenged by new
research. Because sodium is important for
critical body functions, new guidelines
suggest it’s better to reduce your consumption
to no less than 2 300 milligrammes per
day unless your health care provider tells
you otherwise. There is no evidence that
reducing your intake below that level offers
any additional benefit.
The low-calorie diet
Studies have shown that merely reducing
your caloric intake can have a positive effect
on blood pressure, reducing the systolic
reading by up to six points. Why? Probably
because a low-calorie diet can help
you lose weight, which is known to lower
blood pressure.
Many people consume far more calories
than they need, often because they don’t
know how many calories they require
or how many they consume. There are a
number of health apps and fitness trackers
that help you track your caloric intake as
well as other key health metrics, like your
activity level and calories burned.
If you choose to go the low-cal route
to control hypertension, be sure to avoid
fatty, salty processed foods and choose un-
A vegetarian or vegan eating plan can reduce
hypertension
processed whole foods like whole grains
and vegetables or it may not benefit your
blood pressure.
The Mediterranean diet
You’ve probably heard of this eating plan,
inspired by the dietary habits of people
who live along the northern coastal areas
of the Mediterranean Sea. The Mediterranean
Diet has been shown to reduce blood
pressure by a modest two points, but the
proven heart health benefits of this eating
plan extend beyond hypertension control.
The Mediterranean Diet emphasises
consuming only monounsaturated fats
(mainly from olive oil and olives), along
with daily helpings of fresh fruits, vegetables,
whole grains, and low-fat dairy
products. People on the Mediterranean
Diet usually eat calorie-dense, high-protein
foods only a few times per week, and
then it’s limited to fish, poultry, and legumes.
Red meat is rarely consumed, about
once a month.
An integral part of the Mediterranean
Diet is the daily consumption of alcohol,
chiefly red wine, with meals. Drinking
wine may not directly lower your blood
pressure, but it’s salubrious for the heart
(and soul!) when consumed in moderation.
The vegetarian or vegan diet
Research, although still inconclusive, suggests
a vegetarian or vegan eating plan can
reduce hypertension. How? Going veg may
help lower your blood pressure because it
eliminates factors known to worsen hypertension,
such as eating red meat.
Make sure your diet includes plenty
of whole grains, fruits, and vegetables,
along with high-quality proteins from
plant sources, such as nuts and legumes.
Vegetarians may also consume moderate
amounts of low-fat dairy products and
eggs.
Anti-hypertension eating plan
Let’s face it: Changing your eating patterns
can be hard. That’s why we encourage you
to ease into the process by gradually incorporating
the following blood pressurelowering
elements into your diet. Before
you know it, you’ll have created an eating
plan you love. And that means you’re more
likely to sustain it for a lifetime.
Eat more dietary fiber. Think whole
grains like whole wheat and brown rice,
but also incorporate other high-fiber
foods, including fresh fruits like raspberries
and apples; beans; nuts and seeds; and
vegetables like artichoke and broccoli.
Enjoy monounsaturated fats. Drizzle
olive oil over your steamed broccoli, sear
tuna in canola oil, or munch on olives with
your meal. Avoid saturated fats like butter
and lard.
Eat lean proteins–but not too frequently.
Every week, eat two or three helpings of
fish, poultry, or whole beans. If you eat
red meat such as beef, pork, or lamb, do
so very sparingly (once or twice a month).
Drink alcohol only in moderation. If you
are able to drink with no problems, a daily
drink or two with a meal may calm stress
(which reduces blood pressure) and can
have positive effects on your heart health.
Moderate drinking means no more than
1 drink per day for women, and two for
men. — Onemedical.com.

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How to grow your SME business
clive MphAMBelA
STARTING a business is not easy, remaining
in business after start-up is even more
difficult and growing the business thereafter
is an even bigger challenge. In the
last installment in this series we discussed
how SMEs can avoid ‘financial suicide’, as
we recognised a few financial management
errors that lead to early demise of
SME startups. Today’s article tries to articulate
more of the same issues that help
stop an early “death “ of the business and
position it for growth.
Know your customers
In coming up with your business the first
thing is to have a keen understanding of
your market. Who are your customers?
Where are they? How many are they? How
will you reach out to them. This is what we
have called “market research”. This step
is critical from the very beginning and
the SME owner must engage in this basic
research before even venturing into business.
Going into business without this kind
of knowledge is akin to flying blind. The
business will crash land very fast.
Manage yourself
Second, once the business gets off the
ground don’t get over excited and start
changing your lifestyle as soon as the cash
starts rolling in. That’s a recipe for disaster.
Business requires patience and maintaining
a cool sober head. One of the biggest
risks SMEs face is the risk of being bled to
death by the business owner. The best way
to manage yourself well is to always remember
that the business and the owner
are “two different entities”. Money that
belongs to the business is not yours as the
owner of the business, at least until you
pay a dividend or draw a salary.
It is therefore wise to delay drawing dividends
early as this can drain business
capital and derail the business. Rather as
the owner, draw a decent salary that the
business can afford. That salary should be
sufficient compensation for the skills and
time that you are investing in the business,
whilst profits earned by the business
should be retained for growth.
Minimise expenses
One of the most difficult things to do in
business is to manage costs within sustainable
limits. Just because you are generating
cash does not mean you should spend
it, especially on things that do not directly
impact the business growth. Spend a dollar
if that expenditure will result in more
revenues coming in. In other words stick
to “business relevant expenditures” and
avoid spending money on things that the
business does not need.
Keeping costs down also means you will
hire only those employees necessary to run
the business efficiently and look after customers
well. Don’t go on a hiring spree so
that you fill up the office or factory with
people. Salaries and wages are always one
of the biggest expenses in any business, big
or small so one should be absolutely careful
here. Hire people that can do more than
one task, for example a receptionist who
can also double up as telesales assistant or
accounts clerk can be useful in the early
stages of a business.
No lavish premises
Chose premises carefully, don’t go for the
expensive real estate or prestigious location.
Rather a practical low cost office will
do just fine. For some types of business
you can start working from home to cut on
rental costs at the start, and then look for
appropriate space to rent as the business
gains scale.
Keep business records
How do you tell if your business is making
a profit or a loss if you are not keeping any
records? Most small business owners unfortunately
perhaps take record keeping for
granted, but it can make the difference between
success and failure in business.
Develop the discipline of keeping track
of all the sales, cash proceeds, and overall
turnover of their business as well as other
vital business records such as bank account
statements, and so on.
Your business financial records will help
you prepare financial statements that will
become invaluable when you want to approach
potential financiers or funders for
the growth of your business. For example,
credible financial records are required to
support your business proposal when one
approaches a bank to apply for a bank loan.
Have a banking relationship
Religiously operate a business bank account
early in the life of the business.
Where possible bank all receipts and record
all payments against your bank account.
Your bank statements will provide potential
lenders, (including your bank) a useful
record of how your business has been
running and will prove crucial in providing
an insight into how it will run in future. Using
a bank also ensures that you do not run
your business from “your pocket” which
generally leads to sometimes unnecessary
expenditures.
Having a banker to rely on also gives you
access to a sounding board as you can ask
your banker to professionally advise you
on how to run your finances. As already alluded
above, keep your personal bank account
separate from the business account.
This may seem to increase your costs in the
short run but the benefits will quickly outweigh
the seeming inconvenience of going
to the bank everyday to bank your sales.
Avoid borrowing too early
Sometimes we are tempted to borrow
very early in business to “expand” the
business. This can be dangerous! Expanding
too quickly may lead to “overtrading”
where the business is growing faster than
it should. In other words the structures required
for a certain level of business may
not be in place and this can result in a quick
and sudden death.
Allow the business to expand at a sound
pace and make sure all things are in place
before tackling new customers or exploring
a new market or idea. Rather save a bit of
cash and build up a cash reserve for a rainy
day instead of jumping into debt. Borrowing
too early also exposes the business owner
as he/she is responsible for the debts if the
business fails.
When the time comes for the business
to borrow, when it has been around for a
while and you have gotten to understand
your market etc etc , you can then approach
your bank for a loan. Hopefully by that time
you bank records will be showing a healthy
trading pattern.
Clive mphambela is a banker. He writes in his
capacity as advocacy officer for the bankers
association of Zimbabwe. players in the mSme
sector and other stakeholders can give their
valuable comments on clive@baz.org.zw or 04-
744686, 0772206913

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ZNCC HARARE BRANCH
ZNCC business awards criteria attributes
THE Zimbabwe National Chamber
of Commerce Harare Branch, as
“The Voice of Business” aims to be
a leader in business development.
It therefore runs the Annual
Business Awards (Aba) to recognise
excelling and outstanding
business leaders and companies
who are striving to harness economic
growth through strategic
implementation and innovation
for the development of our national
economy.
All nominees were requested to
highlight their organisation’s history
and performance focusing
on the critical and important role
played by the nominee.
Management of people, tasks,
processes and macro-environmental
fundamentals helped the
adjudicators to have an insight
on the leadership style used by
the nominee. In some instances
nominees were requested to submit
copies of papers they have
presented on various facts of business
or on social issues and even
press cuttings applicable, among
other important information.
The information provided is
treated with strict confidence and
is used in the adjudication process
only. The adjudication process
was not made easy due to the high
quality of nominees in the various
categories. However, they had to
come up with winners.
The chamber also awarded the
Rural Business Person of the
Year focusing on the company’s
growth strategy, vision, profitability,
human resources welfare,
philanthropic work etc.
What makes a business award
winner?
Winning businesses were selected
on the basis of their ability to
operate truly sustainable and innovative
businesses, demonstrating
excellence in:
• Overall profitability, return
on investment and growth;
• Long-term business strategy,
vision and focus;
• Leadership, board composition,
culture and values;
• Investment in employees;
• Innovating to address a
market need;
• Compliance with statutory
requirements e.g. Nssa,
Zimra etc
• Making a contribution to
the community;
Selection criteria
1.Businessman/Business Woman
Award
• Mature business
• Does the nominee provide
recognition for charting
new frontiers in business
acumen, management and
adroitness with inevitable
windfalls to economic
resuscitation
• Contribution to good corporate
governance in their
company, ethical and sustainable
business practices
(environment, safety,
quality, health etc.)
• business leaders who
serves as role models
to Zimbabwe’s aspiring
entrepreneurs and who
demonstrate business
excellence
• Innovation and
entrepreneurship
• Human resources
development
• Corporate social responsibility
(philanthropic work)
2. Entrepreneur of the Year Award
• The nominee should be
the one who started up the
business
• Nominee must be the one
running the business
• Demonstration of exceptional
entrepreneurial
qualities and best practice
• Demonstration of exceptional
adaptation in their
industry and in the face
of prevailing business obstacles
- innovation and
entrepreneurship
3.Most Innovative SMEs Award
• This is a small to medium
size business on its growth
path
• High ethical standards of
behavior towards customers,
suppliers, users, shareholders,
employees, and
communities in which they
do business.
• Demonstration of exceptional
adaptation in their
industry and in the face
of prevailing business obstacles
- innovation and
entrepreneurship
4.Best Improved Exporter Award
• Use of export figures
from the Reserve Bank of
Zimbabwe
5. Best Corporate Social Responsibility
Programme-HIV/Aids
• Use of information received
from PSI Zimbabwe, Ministry
of Local Government
(Civil Protection Unit), Philanthropy
Institute of Zimbabwe
etc.
For further information, please
contact Christine Kahari Regional
Manager, ZNCC Harare Branch.
Awards Ceremony

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The Benefits of Mentoring
Do not underestimate your ability to teach.
SUCCESS without successors is tantamount
to failure. It’s rather difficult to walk a new
path that could come with all new experiences
and guarantees for any outcome are
not given. That alone makes it vital and
necessary for mentoring. A Corporate culture
common in large organizations is their
preference for any high level appointment
in management; the executives would have
“grown up” with and within the organization.
That literally means they carry with
them the DNA of the organization and the
culture of the organization is tattooed on
them. There are immeasurable benefits of
having an individual who has a comprehensive
understanding of how the “first floor”
is to as high as it can go. All the progressions
that come thereof and the responsibilities
required to handle low level tasks and duties
to handling the key decision making
takes a nurtured someone.
1. Do not underestimate your ability to
teach.
You do not have to be the smartest, nor
most successful person in the world in order
to provide direction. The fact of the
matter is that you have made mistakes, thus
have acquired some level of experience and
insight through time. This is the knowledge
that you must bestow on your protégée.
Your duty as a mentor is to help them
avoid some of the obstacles that you faced,
so that they do not make the same mistakes.
It’s safe to say you are on a time machine
and have gone back into time to correct
your mistakes just that you are now doing
it on someone else© s path.
Your ability to impart or teach is not governed
or determined by how good you are
or how much training you received yourself.
The idea is actually is the reverse of
that, where in essence your ability to recognize
your mistakes as many as they are,
puts you in a position to actually teach. A
perfect reputation puts you in a bad position
because it eliminates a common ground for
relating with the mentee.
2. The Mentor gets as much, if not more,
from the relationship, as the mentee does.
The best way to learn is to teach. It naturally
shortens the time you would have
needed to fully understand everything. Being
a role model for the mentee becomes
your main objective. In turn this imposes
better control on the mentor. Your desire to
be in harmony with the lessons you want
them to comprehend means that you will
see to yourself that you are what you teach
Therefore the gap between your words and
your actions narrows.
Having this constantly on your mind
stimulates a consciousness to make smarter
decisions and behave in a more professional
manner. Furthermore, mentoring allows
you to refine and improve your communication,
leadership and coaching skills.
Talking to someone about their career goals
and expectations, forces you to analyze and
question your own goals and expectations
and address them accordingly. An immediate
self-introspection comes into place.
Overally being a mentor fosters personal
and professional growth. Perhaps most interestingly,
the realization that you are actually
administering help to somebody else
serves as a nice boost to self-esteem and
overall life satisfaction.
3. Mentoring is for life
Mentoring is a cycle; whosoever can credit
mentorship for their progress attaches great
value to it, so much that they put it to themselves
as an obligation to continue to do the
same to others. When passion is instigated
that way, ideas and skills will be relayed
much better.
Organizations that harness and fully embrace
such culture have developed a committed
workforce that belong to the vision
and feel they have a stake in it. They grow
having it in their minds that they have a
part to give that will count. Family companies
like Johnson & Johnson are true to such
a stamp of a nurturing philosophy. It’s sad
when one leaves without imparting a fair
share amount of the knowledge that has
contributed to their personal and professional
development. Success without successors
is failure. The stories of their success
become rather personal and consequently
this implies the failure of the organization.
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RiRi gets naughty at fashion awards
CFDA awards winners
Twerking up a storm in racy see-through dress ... Rihanna was honoured
with the Fashion Icon Award at the annual Council of Fashion Designers of
America Awards (CFDA) on Monday and she made sure all eyes were on her
during — and after — the bash in a racy sheer embellished halter dress.
Putting every inch of her slim figure in the naughty outfit — custom made by
designer Adam Selman and comprised of a total of 216 000 Swarovski
crystals — RiRi left nothing to the imagination as she picked up her award
before she then went on to enjoy her new accolade. The singer celebrated her
achievement in an equally saucy manner as she was seen twerking in her
see-through gown after the ceremony. — Mail Online.
DStv’s Pick of the Week
Mission of Justice
Blackbelt TV (Channel 129)
Monday 9 June
@ 18:00 CAT
• Womenswear Designer of the
Year: Joseph Altuzarra (Altuzarra)
• Menswear Designer of the Year:
Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi
Chow (Public School)
• Accessory Designer of the Year:
Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen
(The Row)
• Swarovski Womenswear award:
Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters
(Creatures of the Wind)
• Swarovski Menswear award: Tim
Coppens
• Swarovski Accessory award:
Irene Neuwirth
• Geoffrey Beene Lifetime
Achievement Award: Tom Ford
• Founders Award: Bethann
Hardison
• Media Award: Allure creative director
Paul Cavaco
• Board of Directors’ Tribute
Award: Ruth Finley, creator and
editor of Fashion Calendar
• International Award: Raf Simons,
Dior womenswear designer
• Fashion Icon Award: Rihanna
Kurt Harris
goes undercover
after his
friend Cedric
Williams is
killed. He tries
to stop an evil
beauty Rachel
Larkin with a
private army
of “peacemakers”,
all
experts in
martial arts
saying their
purpose is to
help the police
reduce crime,
but Larkin
has her own
agenda to take
over the city.
Kurt infiltrates
the group after
resigning from
the police department
and
is branded a
traitor.
The prestigious Founder’s Award went to Bethann Hardison (centre), a former
model and modelling agent who has been a vocal champion for diversity on
runways. She poses for a photo with models (from left) Liya Kebede, Chanel
Iman, Iman and Joan Smalls after receiving her award.
Beyoncé, Jay Z ‘to divorce’
THE internet is abuzz with reports
that Beyoncé and Jay Z are
preparing to divorce after the
rumour that the R&B singer had
been cheating on her rapper husband
emerged in the wake of the
now-infamous post-Met Gala elevator
fight.
Sources have indicated to Star
magazine that the Halo singer and
Julius de Boer, her bodyguard,
have been having a long-term
affair and that Jay Z’s suspicions
were alerted long ago.
However, Star magazine doesn’t
exatly have a glowing record of
acurate exclusives.
“Jay definitely thinks that there
was and may still be something
romantic going on between Bey
and Julius,” a source told the publication.
“He wanted to fire Julius
last February, but Beyoncé said,
‘Julius isn’t going anywhere’.”
“They’ve spent a lot of time together
behind closed doors,” the
insider continued. “He’s even
stayed in her hotel room.”
Rumors of a secret relationship
between Bey and Julius first arose
back in 2009 when the pair were
snapped leaving a hotel in Berlin.
In the photo Beyoncé’s mouth is
strangely covered by her hand
while Julius’ mouth is allegedly
covered in red lipstick.
Boer, who was in the elevator
when Solange Knowles physically
attacked brother-in-law Jay
Z after the Met gala, is reportedly
of Dutch descent and is divorced
with a four year-old daughter.
The rumours seem to have
prompted the high-profile pair to
change their bodyguard as of May
31.
Observers have also noticed
that Beyoncé’s “IV” tattoo, which
denoted her own and Jay’s birthday
and their wedding date, on
her hand has been fading recently
and could be in the process of being
removed.
Jay Z and Beyoncé are currently
gearing up for their joint “On The
Run” world tour and neither has
publicly commented on the reports.
— contactmusic.com

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Zimbabwe independent Xtra JUne 6 to 12, 2014
weird world
it’s a weird world
LIVING ADS
• Japanese people are being
turned into living adverts warning
against the dangers of excess
alcohol in a campaign sponsored
by a local bar.
excessive drinking at the
weekends in particular is a big
problem in Japan as people head
out to bars to let off steam after a
stressful week.
Coupled with the fact that
many asian people have a low
alcohol tolerance, it means that
by the early hours of the morning
there are often many people
passed out at various places
around the city.
now in the Japanese capital
Tokyo staff from the Yaocho
Bar Group had been heading out
in the early hours of the morning
looking for the completely
intoxicated.
Once they have spotted someone,
the staff frame them with
duct tape and put slogans near
their bodies warning against the
dangers of drinking too much
such as the word nomisugi, which
means “drank too much”.
The bar group said that while
many people tolerated it as a way
of letting off steam it was also actually
a serious problem. Those
who drink too much risk physical
injury either from the alcohol
itself or from hurting themselves
while moving around while
drunk, the group said. They might
also end up either being robbed
or mugged.— Orange news.
STEALING OUT OF BOREDOM
• an elderly swiss couple in
the canton of Lucerne have been
stealing money from church collection
boxes apparently out of
boredom, report the BBC.
The married couple, aged 70
and 73, have allegedly stolen
hundreds of swiss francs from
several churches since november
2013, prosecutors in Lucerne say.
according to them, the husband
kept watch outside, while his
wife emptied the boxes.
The couple, who are reported
to be relatively well-off, say one
of their motives for the robberies
was the adrenaline rush they got
from “the pleasure of the forbidden”,
local media report. They
have now been arrested and an
investigation has been launched.
according to the World Bank,
switzerland is one of the top five
richest countries in the world,
with a Gross Domestic product
(GDp) per capita of almost Us$79
000 (£47 000). — Orange news.
DOG DIVERTS PLANE
• a Us airways plane has been
forced to make an emergency
landing after a guide dog repeatedly
relieved itself in the aisle.
andrew Christie, a spokesman
for the airline, said the flight from
La to philadelphia made an unscheduled
stop in Kansas City.
a cleaning crew on the ground
eventually came to the rescue,
but the journey time for passengers
doubled to more than 14
hours. The flight continued after
the mess was cleaned up by Us
airways staff on the ground.
The passenger and guide dog
were rebooked onto another
flight.
Christie said the incident was
a “rare and unfortunate situation”.—
Orange news.
Drunk in Japan
A couple has been accused of stealing money from church funds.

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Food
Travel &
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Ethiopian week at Café Afrique
WHEN I had a phone call inviting
me for a last-minute Ethiopian
lunch at Café Afrique, Cresta
Oasis, I echoed a sick mid-1980s
joke: “Will there be actually anything
to eat?”
Because in the mid-1980s,
around half-a-million Ethiopians
died of starvation and possibly
more than twice that number perished
from human rights abuses
and war in that hauntingly lovely
mountainous country.
The last I heard, Mengistu Haile
Mariam, the diminutive communist
colonel found guilty in absentia
of the genocide of possibly twomillion
of his then countrymen,
women and children was still living
in a grace-and-favour villa at
Gun Hill, Ha-ha-ha-re (Africa’s
fun capital) as the mostly unwelcome
guest of the Zimbabwe taxpayer;
(you and me!)
I was very impressed with the
food service and value for money
at Cresta Oasis, especially the a la
carte menu (US$6-US$12) when I
visited a few months ago, the first
time since May 2007 (when the
buffet then cost ZW$150 000 and
December of that same year when
the same meal had sky-rocketed
to ZW$30 million!)
It was really a bit pointless inviting
me to sample Ethiopian
graze last Thursday, as the weeklong
gastronomic speciality finished
two days later, and unless
my readers have their own version
of HG Wells’ Time Machine and can
turn back the clock a week, this
review can be of purely archival
interest.
But it did some good, as planned
future Mozambican and Kenyan
food and drink weeks at Café Afrique
will be subject to a muchneeded
“dry-run” chefs’ table a
fortnight in advance; then we restaurant
reviewers can mark readers’
cards in plenty of time.
Addis envoy
Another problem was that the
Ethiopian specialities were apparently
exclusively served at
supper time (the Addis Ababa
Ambassador was due to dine
there that night) and we went for
lunch when there was only a mere
Eating Out
DUSTY MILLER
External view at Cresta Oasis in The Avenues
sample of the special spicy, flavoursome
dishes available. They
shared the same buffet display
and similar black three-legged
pots as traditional Zimbabwean
dishes, including the dreaded
mopani worms!
Lentil soup, rightly a firm family
favourite throughout the Horn
of Africa and Middle East, was
“on” at night, but at lunch we had
a rather thin and slightly oversalted
quotidian cream of vegetable
soup, in which the principal
ingredients were corn-flour and
water!
For my main course I thoroughly
enjoyed the very traditional
Ethiopian fish dish tilapia berbere
(fried bream with very spicy vegetables)….allegedly
nothing to do
with the Berbers or the Barbary
Coast… and a little doro wat chicken
(huku with hard-boiled eggs), plus
a wee bit of chopped up local roast
pork chop.
Alecha (vegetable stew), sega wat
(fish stew) and kifto (finely minced
meat in spices) were also listed for
supper. In Ethiopia (and I must
admit never having got outside
the dreadfully depressing 1950s
hangar-type Bole Airport, with
toilet accommodation to match,
in the last 40 years!) you eat by
rolling the food up with your right
hand in njera (like a large sourdough
flat-cake) and Café Afrique’s
very talented chefs made a
sound effort at authentically replicating
this trademark starch.
No Ethiopian drinks were available
(St George light lager beer is
very acceptable, even in Bole Airport!)
and tej is a deceptively sweet
honey-wine or mead drink (often
home-made) which can blow
your head off. I had two glasses of
hotel’s anonymous chilled house
white wine, from the Cape.
I don’t think any Ethiopian
puddings were available on the
attractive display at lunch time,
but I was truly delighted to be introduced
to a house speciality of
ice-cream made from the pods of
the baobab tree, which was memorably
wonderful.
Personally I wouldn’t wait for
the next Pan-African food week
to take place at Café Afrique, but
rather go there for the great steak,
chicken, burger and fish dishes
served a la carte…or try the “interesting”
black caterpillar fried mopani
worms if you dare!
Café Afrique at Cresta Oasis in
Nelson Mandela Avenue is in a
residential hotel and opens for
breakfast daily, and then serves
much of the sort of food described
above from 10am to 9pm
daily. Eating indoors, on a shady
verandah, or around an attractive
swimming pool. Smoking/no
smoking areas. Child and handicapped
friendly. There is plenty of
guarded, safe parking off the sanitary
lane behind the hotel, or on
Nelson Mandela Avenue.
dustym@zimind.co.zw
Buffet items included tilapia berbere from Ethiopia
Crispin Chimuvuri, the hotel’s
general manager
Mopani worms!
Part of the attractive buffet. — All pictures by Dusty Miller.
Three-legged pots keep the food hot

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