Source:Mutsvangwa attacks Chiwenga, defends zvigananda-Newsday Zimbabwe ZANU PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa has launched an indirect attack on Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga for his stance on controversial businesspeople, saying it is a distraction to the ruling party’s empowerment initiatives and economic successes. Mutsvangwa told journalists in Harare yesterday that there are “persistent efforts from detractors who are throwing cobwebs for us to witch hunt ourselves” following reports that Chiwenga caused a storm at a recent politburo meeting when he spoke against corrupt businesspeople that have allegedly captured the State under President EmmersonMnangagwa’s watch. Chiwenga is said to have presented a dossier that allegedly exposed businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei’s underhand dealings involving a venture linked to Zanu PF.
Mnangagwa’s deputy has become very vocal about a new class of businesspeople that have been accumulating unexplained wealth using their political links, describing them as zvigananda. “There are persistent efforts from detractors who are throwing cobwebs for us to witch hunt ourselves,” Mutsvangwa said. “They want to push an agenda that only a colonial economy can function.
We have showed that we can defy that false narrative. “The world has changed. Now you get capital in Sao Paulo, Riyadh or Mumbai because of the emergency of new capital markets.
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“The US is revisiting Zidera [Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act] to repeal it after learning that Zimbabwe can defy that illegal legislation.” He said those that had evidence that Tagwirei was corrupt should take it to law enforcement agents for investigation. Chiwenga early this year blocked moves to elevate the businessman to the Zanu PF central committee, saying Harare province, which nominated him, did not follow party structures. At the time, Mutsvangwa came out guns blazing accusing Tagwirei of trying to use money to buy his way into the central committee, but yesterday he was singing a different tune.
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