THE 1873 NETWORK - OPINION AND REMARKS Tino Mambeu 26 December 03:26 . Mr Mawere, I have been following closely the posts you have been issuing as a result of the baseless accusations being levelled against you by one Mr Zuwaoh, not sure of the correct spelling of the name, my sincere apology regarding that. It is very interesting to note that he happens to describe your person as an SPE yet he does not tell us how you became so close to Mnangagwa to be able to have such alleged influence. Now are you by anyway related to Mnangagwa or probably went to school with him such that when the opportunity to buy SMM arose he then gave you the alleged support. I find it very hard from an entrepreneurial point of view for a mere individual who has not proved his mettle in bussiness or let me rather say a nobody being assisted to buy such a big company. My point is if you were not an entrepreneur by design and a hardworker by nature you would never lend that deal from a private seller with or without the alleged political God father. You did it on your own and if you were not able to stand on your feet you could be long forgotten and be absolutely broke by now since your companies were taken away. I noted with sadness the state of your infrastructure as I drove around to the then plush suburb of Noelvale in Zvishavane, everything is deplorable. Its now a ghost area and that is not the only place infact all is now in shambles. The golf course in hillside is something else. The then tarred roads with glamorous roadsides dressed with lawn are now a thing of the past. I used to enjoy my visits to my late brother who worked for you as a junior accountant. It was lovely and really enjoyable. I cant forget those times but thanks to our government shrewd polices all that is now history. So what will happen to SMM and its delapidating infrastructure. I remember the roaring conveyour belt along buchwa road. We used to wish the bus never proceded after the stop because the sight was amazing but alas for now all has been overtaken by dirty politics. Having said that I direct all my frustration for the loss of jobs and the buzzling shabanie town to this so called political cum economic analyst Zuwaoh. May he shut up or give us incredible evidence. He has no legal standing for his allegations. Just my opinion REMARKS Thanks for the observations. I think it would be wrong to blame a single individual like Zhuwao for stating the views that are widely held. The only difference is that Zhuwao in trying to give credence to the values, principles, ideas, policies and programs of the so-called Mazoe Crush movement was compelled to provide an empirical basis to explain the nature of the alleged relationship between Kaukonde and Mujuru on the one hand and Mnangagwa and myself on the other. It is in the context of trying to understand the dynamics of the interplay between politics and business that you must locate Zhuwaos input. You will be surprised that based what he thinks he knows he is surprised that this has become a big issue because only a hypocrite would seek to deny the obvious. What is obvious to him as it is to many is that Mnangagwa played a key in the acquisition of SMM otherwise there is nothing to explain my relationship to him. It is that simple. For simple minds, any attempt to explain the obvious is an exercise in futility. How many of your friends has said what Zhuwao has the courage to say openly? You will be surprised that my name dominates conversations even among people who really dont know me. It must be accepted that given our history with the absence of serious black corporate role models, we have a challenge that we must urgently cure otherwise the future of big business in Africa will be dominated by non-Africans. By seeking to invoke politics in the affairs of all successful black projects, the intention is clear. The same people would never venture to make an association between white economic progress and black political patronage in post-colonial states. Only black success or big things have to be intermediated by otherwise bankrupt political actors. This is a real tragedy for it is not Mugabe who is the author of this toxic narrative but all of us who choose to remain silent while the few wise people take the steps to write history as they want it to be. In the fiction world, I am then projected as a pawn and Mnangagwa is projected as the genius of business which wisdom is not portable to state institutions that are bleeding. You ask whether I am related to Mnangagwa. The answer is not. I only met Mnangagwa for the first time in 1995. However, it is convenient for people to create relationship to suit certain narratives. We all have a duty to break from this stranglehold of a past that refuses to go away where our minds seem imprisoned by what was and not what is possible. The SMM experience allowed blacks to dream big because one of them had broken the mould. However, as a pioneer I was alive to the limitations imposed by small minds and such minds will even seek to explain death in manners that would suggest that death is not related to birth and is after all not inevitable.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 12:28:49 +0000