More ZANU PF Save Conservancy ‘looters’ named
By Tererai Karimakwenda
06 September, 2012
A more detailed list of military officials and top ZANU PF chefs, given
concessions in the Save Valley Conservancy, was revealed this week and the
list reads like a who-is-who of the Mugabe regime elite.
The Conservancy is the current focus of a ZANU PF land grab campaign that
has also exposed divisions within the party. A group of ZANU PF chefs known
as the ‘Masvingo Initiative’ claim to have taken over the Conservancy,
ignoring warnings about the destruction their actions will bring to the
wildlife and tourism sectors.
The group, including Higher Education Minister Stan Mudenge, Masvingo
Governor Titus Maluleke and war vet Shuvai Mahofa, were earlier this year
given 25 year land leases in the Conservancy and recently granted hunting
licences by the National Parks chief Vitalis Chadenga.
In the name of ‘indigenisation’, this Masvingo gang appointed some of their
own officials as the new Conservancy leaders, after invading the area and
disrupting a Conservancy management meeting last month.
A more detailed list has now been revealed by the independent Newsday
newspaper, and it includes several active and retired officials from the
military, intelligence and ZANU PF structures.
Among them are the Health deputy minister Douglas Mombeshora, ZANU PF
central committee member Enock Porusingazi, war vet leader Joseph Chinotimba
and the late Vice-President Simon Muzenda’s son, Tongai.
Charles Taffs from the Commercial farmers Union (CFU) told SW Radio Africa
that he could not confirm whether the names on the new list were involved in
the Save takeover, but he said there is definitely massive looting of Save
Conservancy taking place.
“These individuals would appear to be positioning themselves to make a huge
amount of money. I think it is high time the rest of the world takes a stern
position against what is happening in this country,” Taffs said.
Taffs explained that if the United Nations World Tourism Organisation goes
ahead with their General Assembly in Victoria Falls next year, the whole
event would be a farce against this chaotic background of looting.
“The Save Conservancy looting is the tip of the iceberg of what is happening
in this entire country and looting , pillaging and raping of land and
mineral resources is just astronomical,” Taffs explained.
He added: “What really upsets me is that the rest of the world has sat back
and allowed this rape and pillaging to continue until such a time as its
affected one or a couple of the high-powered investors from their own
country.”
The full list of beneficiaries published in Newsday:
Lieutenant Colonel David Moyo, Major General Gibson Mashingaidze, Retired
Colonel Claudius Makova, Assistant Commissioner Connel Dube, Major General
Engelbert Rugeje, Brigadier General Livingstone Chineka, Masvingo Provincial
Intelligence Officer Chibaya,
Higher Education minister Stan Mudenge, Health deputy Minister Douglas
Mombeshora, ZANU PF Central Committee member Enock Porusingazi, MPs Ailess
Baloyi, Abraham Sithole, Samson Mukanduri, Noel Mandebvu, Shuvai Mahofa,
Titus Maluleke and Ronald Rundava.
Health deputy minister Douglas Mombeshora, ZANU PF central committee member
Enock Porusingazi, war vet leader Joseph Chinotimba and the late
Vice-President Simon Muzenda’s son, Tongai.
ex-Tourism secretary Sylvester Maunganidze, Nelson Mawema, Farai Mukota,
Bertha Chikwama, one Motokai, Chiefs Gudo and Mundau Tshovani, Tafadzwa
Ngarande, Ray Musimbwa, Grey Mushava, Josiah Pasi, Jeddy Jaboon, Gladman
Chibememe, Masvingo provincial administrator Felix Chikovo, Elliot Takawira,
believed to be related to the late former ZANU PF vice-president Leopold
Takawira among others.