“A divorce wrangle pitting Mohadi and his former wife Tambudzani
has helped to lift the lid on the VPs' benefits with a payslip attached to a
court application revealing the veteran politician from Beitbridge earns $7 000
in basic salary and a similar amount in allowances,” reported Bulawayo 24.
“Tambudzani is demanding a $13 394 monthly maintenance from Mohadi, whom she says earns "quite a substantial amount" including dividends from businesses that he operates.”
"During the subsistence of the marriage, we always maintained a high standard of living due to our high-earning capacity," Tambudzani said.
"However, my monthly income is insufficient to pay for all my monthly expenses and sustain the lifestyle I am accustomed to. As such, it is the legal duty of the respondent to contribute maintenance for my monthly expenses until I die or remarry."
“Tambudzani is demanding a $13 394 monthly maintenance from Mohadi, whom she says earns "quite a substantial amount" including dividends from businesses that he operates.”
"During the subsistence of the marriage, we always maintained a high standard of living due to our high-earning capacity," Tambudzani said.
"However, my monthly income is insufficient to pay for all my monthly expenses and sustain the lifestyle I am accustomed to. As such, it is the legal duty of the respondent to contribute maintenance for my monthly expenses until I die or remarry."
Zanu PF leaders, their families, friends and cronies have
enjoyed absolute power and the influence and vast economic benefits it brought
for the last 39 years. They are now addicted to the power, influence economic
luxuries giving it up is simply unthinkable. Yes they can see the sorry, sorry
state of the country’s economy, the decay and rot and the tragic human
suffering it has brought to the overwhelming majority of the people. What they
have refused to see is the connection between their insatiable greed for loot
and power and the country’s economic meltdown.
Formers Mrs Mohadi, her former husband and the rest of the Zanu
PF extended filthy rich ruling elite family will never ever give up Zanu PF’s
dictatorial powers, how else would they secure and guarantee their absolute
power, the influence and the fabulous wealth it brought and to which they are
now addicted.
The country’s economic meltdown has been a rising tide that
caught first povo, then the low ranking Zanu PF members and has moved up the
ranking. Stories of Zanu PF grandees like the late Nathan Shamuyarira and Enos
Nkala dying paupers have left everyone in the party worried about holding on to
their position. But as the economy sunk deeper and deeper and the national cake
to shrink smaller and smaller, the fight for a piece has become more vicious
and claimed more Zanu PF bigwig scalps.
In 2014 Zanu PF booted Joice Mujuru and a number of her
supporters out of the party. Load-shedding! Within a few months of losing their
privileged party positions, Didymus Mutasa and many others were coughing blood,
they could not sustain the extravagant lifestyles of their party days and soon had
stress related health problems.
In 2017 there was yet another load-shedding with many Generation
40 (G40) faction members being haunted out of the party following the November
2017 military coup. Although Mugabe and his wife, the G40 faction leaders, were
spared the humiliation and death, still their looted wealth taps were turned
off. Mugabe’s business empire is falling apart, last week the former dictator auctioning
his farming plant and equipment.
Mnangagwa and his Lacoste faction who stage the November 2017
coup knew if G40 had won the day they are the ones who would have joined Mujuru
et al in singing the blues. Having risked life and limb to wrestle power from
Mugabe the Lacoste gangsters were not going to risk losing it again in a free,
fair and credible elections and hence the reason Zanu PF rigged last year’s
elections. Mnangagwa promised to end corruptions but that too fall by the way
side- how could he turn off the looted wealth knowing his Zanu PF cronies,
their families, small-house and everyone in the ruling elite exclusive family
are all addicted to the extravagant lifestyles!
Still, as long as Zimbabwe remain a pariah state ruled by
corrupt and vote rigging thugs there will be no meaningful economic recovery.
Investors and lenders do not do business in pariah states, period.
Poor Mnangagwa he must be gutted to hear Ramaphosa had 57.5% of the vote and the elections were free, fair and credible whilst he had pull all the vote rigging stops just to get his wafer thin 50.8% only to discover he cannot rig economic recovery. He is now sweating like a pig as the economic meltdown get worse and worse.
ReplyDeleteYes SA has a chance of a strong and prosperous economy but not Zimbabwe, as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by thugs the economic meltdown will only get get worse!
Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess because of 39 years of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and tyrannical Zanu PF rule that has seen the regime remain in power regardless of the the people's wishes for meaningful political change. Whilst 3/4 of the population are now living in abject poverty on US$30 or less per month the filthy rich ruling elite are resisting all pressure to end the economic meltdown on the pretext they are now used to their extravagant lifestyles they cannot give it up.
ReplyDeleteWhat we have here is a fight by the impoverished millions for the rights to freedom, human rights including the right to a meaning say in the governance of the country and a fair share of the nation's wealth. They are fighting the filthy rich ruling elite who claim it is their right to oppress the majority and deny them their freedoms, rights and human dignity.
It is very say and tragic that the nation risked life and limb to end white colonial oppression and exploitation only to see it replaced by black oppression and criminal waste of the nation's material and human resources! We must fight to end this nightmare, it is a pity that we allowed the situation to develop but unforgivable to continue to do nothing to end it.
It is a great pity that there are millions out there who have yet to lift a finger to end the Zanu PF corrupt and tyrannical rule, even when they too have paid dearly for their folly! We are our own worst enemy in that we are our own liberators content to do nothing.
If anyone in the MDC Chamisa camp believe the Justice Mushore judgement is going to go away then they are wrong. This matter is going to stay and drag on and on and on. The way Chamisa seized power last year was very foolish and undemocratic and now the party is paying for it.
ReplyDeleteMDC has been ineffective as the opposition and the fight with Dr Khupe over the leadership of the party will only make the party even more useless! The nation has serious matters like the economic meltdown the rigged 2018 elections, etc. that MDC A should be attending to and now the party will be wasting time on this trivial matter.
Zimbabwe has implemented 10-hour a day power cuts countrywide to avert the risk of running out of electricity within four months.
ReplyDeleteThe Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) said the water level at the Kariba Dam, which has been supplying the country with an average of 542 Megawatts through the hydropower station, has dwindled.
“We had very little in terms of rainfall influence into the lake and we have reached a point whereby the power generation has scaled down. If we do not scale down, we may have to shut down the entire situation around October because we won’t be having water,” said Zesa spokesman Fullard Gwasira.
Zimbabwe requires 2,100 Megawatts but can only produce 1,000 Megawatts. The balance is imported from Eskom in South Africa and Hydro Cahora Bassa of Mozambique because the coal-fired Hwange thermal power station, as well as three smaller plants, are fragile and dilapidated due to age.
This is just another example of Zimbabwe failing to make the hay whilst the sun was shining. Zimbabwe has failed to maintain the country’s power generating plant these last 39 years much less invested in additional power generation capacity and we are now paying dearly for it!
Zanu PF has been a curse to the nation these last 39 years and it beggars belief why the nation has failed to remove the regime from office to this day! Nation get the government they deserve we certainly deserve this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF regime complete with it entourage of corrupt and incompetent opposition parties, all 130 of them!
A government-funded audit in Zimbabwe has revealed serious irregularities in the redistribution of land seized from white commercial farmers in 2000 and parcelled out to indigenous people, some with no knowledge of taking care of productive farms.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the state-controlled Sunday Mail newspaper, the National Agricultural Land Audit which was conducted in the country’s 10 districts and 10 provinces between October and November last year and only covers 6 per cent of the targeted land, also revealed that some farmers sold the farms and others leased them without government approval.
Tendai Bare, chairperson of the Zimbabwe Land Commission that was in charge of the auditing process which involved over 18,000 farmers, told the newspaper that fraudulent land allocations and other gross irregularities resulted in low agricultural output in the country.
As a result, the commission recommended a thorough clean-up exercise to ensure that land is utilized accordingly unlike today in which thousands of farmers are failing to till the land due to lack of financial resources, poor planning and multiple farm ownership, which has resulted in haphazard land tillage, improper record keeping, employment of unskilled managers and different government departments issuing lease agreements and other documents.
For the last two decades Zanu PF has denied that its land redistribution was flawed and now its own funded land audit tell us the process was “fraudulent and (full of ) other gross irregularities resulting in low agricultural output in the country”. The consequences of the collapse of the agricultural sector were not just the country losing its prized position as the breadbasket of the region and the failure to produce enough for our own consumption. The collapse of the agricultural sector triggered the collapse of the economy too because the agricultural sector was the engine of the national economy. The economy collapsed and its recovery is dependent on the reviving of the agricultural sector.
Zanu PF cannot be trusted to revive the agricultural sectors because the same reasons of incompetence and corruption behind the fraudulent and other irregularities in the allocation of the farms are still valid today. Besides, the people of Zimbabwe were denied a meaningful say in the allocation of the seized farms because Zanu PF rigged the elections. It is makes sense that the people’s right to a meaningful vote must be restored to make sure the mistakes of the past are not repeated.
Zimbabwe’s land redistribution, economic recovery and restoration of the individual rights to free, fair and credible elections are all intertwined. Zanu PF rigged last year’s elections and the party must step down to allow for the appointment of a interim administration that will be tasked to implement the reforms designed to end the curse of rigged elections.
@Mapamba
ReplyDelete“Wilbert Mukori during gukurahundi dissidents had the support of villagers and the chiefs ...yu can still see the hatred they still habour against us unjustified it is .....thats if you can read between the lines . Gukurahundi was war.”
Dissidents were the criminals and ZDF was there to protect the citizens from the criminals. Over 20 000 innocent civilians were killed by ZDF during the Gukurahundi years. Gukurahundi was not a war because armed soldiers targeted unarmed civilians, the very people who were looking to the Army for protection!
To call Gukurahundi a war is to falsify history and to deny the victims of this outrage the justice they rightly deserve. Zimbabwe must deal with this thorny issue honestly and decisively.