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Mujuru fingered in mineral selling scandal, Mugabe furious

By Murombo Zengeya
for ZimEye.org

Published: February 24, 2009

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Harare(ZimEye)-Vice president Joice Mujuru has been caught in the middle of a ’stinking’ mineral dealing web where she is accused of trying to fund a multi-million dollar deal of gold taken from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The BBC reported on Tuesday that the deal involved the selling of more than three and a half tonnes of raw Congolese gold in Europe through her daughter, Nyasha del Campo.

Mujuru, who was appointed five years ago by President Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe’s first female vice-president has not immediately commented on the allegations.

She and her husband, Solomon, a former head of the national army, are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Zimbabwe, with extensive mining interest.The company, Fairstar, which was to buy the gold chunk has reported that they withdrew immediately upon discovering who’s it was.

The couple were also fingered in massive looting of diamonds from the Chiadzwa fields in Marange.

Mujuru has shares in a company called ART, whch has been mining diamonds in the diamond rich Marange area, in Zimbabwe.

On Tuesday president, Mugabe was rumoured to be furious with Mujuru over the deal. It was still not yet clear, at the time of writing the reasons why president Mugabe is unhappy with his junior.

Mujuru has also been fingered to be among those people named to have looted many other some minerals in DRC during the war. Zimbabwe’s army is still stationed in the DRC under a presumed ‘peace keeping mission’(ZimEye, Zimbabwe)


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24 Comments on "Mujuru fingered in mineral selling scandal, Mugabe furious"

  1. samukeliso on Tue, 24th Feb 2009 8:52 pm 

    Oh they milked Zimbabwe till they was no milk coming out, now they are milking Drc what on earth is this, what further proof do we need that Shona people are not capable of running our beautiful country. This is pure corruption at its level best, we cant defend this can we?

  2. Garikai Mukusha on Tue, 24th Feb 2009 9:01 pm 

    I don’t think this thing has anything to do with a Shona/English/Ndebele. There is noone who has clean hands. Not even Joshua Nkomo.

  3. Garikai Mukusha on Tue, 24th Feb 2009 9:15 pm 

    I don’t think this thing has anything to do with a Shona/English/Ndebele. There is noone who has clean hands. Not even Joshua Nkomo had clean hands. For your own infor the British were actually more skeptical of Nkomo than of Mugabe… Check your history.

  4. Herbert Tumirai on Tue, 24th Feb 2009 9:30 pm 

    Yes, I think you are right Garikai. This is why this ZAPU thing will be a failure. It is a tribal party. They have no other mission but to prove that Shona’s are to blame for everything and yet they are the one’s who not only raped the country BUT also sold it to the whites. What a shame

  5. Xolani Mduduzi on Tue, 24th Feb 2009 11:41 pm 

    Herbert you are misguided. I feel cery sorry for people like yourself.

    ZAPU was the first national party for Zimbabwe. I included both SHona and Ndebele and always will. It ahs absolutely nothign to do with the Ndebele apart from the fact that Ndebeles are a part of it. Study your history well Herbert and you Garikai

  6. The jackal on Wed, 25th Feb 2009 12:32 am 

    XOLANI MDUDUZI you are also misguided , you ndebele people are a pain in the ass when one is hanging on a cliff, that is why Mugabe did you a Gukurahundi for your own information the oldest political party in Zimbabwe is the National Democratic Party(NDP) Which later gave birth to Zapu then Zanu in that order. You must read well you ignorant ****

  7. Xolani Mduduzi on Wed, 25th Feb 2009 12:37 am 

    Listen. I have a Masters in History yeah. I went to school as well. Who has been in control of education over the past 29 years in Zimbabwe? Is it not you uncle Bob Mugabe you Jack?

    So stop spitting your ignorance on this publication.

  8. Chidzidzo Shoko on Wed, 25th Feb 2009 5:36 am 

    People, people,people. Stop that nonsense. You cannot be fighting over tribes. Let’s just stop and wait to see how these things go. No tribal fights guys.

  9. R dube on Wed, 25th Feb 2009 6:13 am 

    I agree with you Chidzidzo,now we forcus on tribal differences giving mugabe enough ground to mess around with all of us regarless of any ethnic group. we are all facing the same challenge ‘mugabe’ so lets not divert our attention from this dictator until we win the war.

  10. kilo kufa on Wed, 25th Feb 2009 9:22 am 

    Well Garikayi, Look at Obert Mpofu,always in the news for corruption, GMB, Fuel etc. Look at Kembo Muhadi, police minister, what he has done to curtain corruption, instead he is on the fore front. ZANU PF leaders whether SHONA or NDEBELE have looted the country to its knees. There are few exeptions like Musika VP, he has nothing for sure.Look at Enos Nkala, a Ndebele who was in the forefront of killing other Ndebeles when he was the minister. Evil actions are beyond tribe. Look at some whites like BredenKamp, Billy Retaunbaech, busy working with ZANU PF big wigs siphoning the country.

  11. The jackal on Wed, 25th Feb 2009 1:14 pm 

    XOLANI MDUDUZI you must have done your masters @ St Nyoka University then because the fact is, the first nationalist party in Zim is the NDP not ZAPU as you ****ing ndebele people want us to believe.You must stop playing this tribal cyber war with us and try to potray yourselves as victims. As KILO KUFA has just mentioned “EVIL ACTIONS ARE BEYOND TRIBE”,make debates as Zimbabweans not as Ndebeles the moment you try to play the tribal card i promise you i will respond accordingly. Do you know how much shona people were killed, raped, and traumatised when your Dumiso Dabengwa was head of Home Affairs and State Security?. Should we then assume that Dabengwa is responsible for all this.Y our brain nurones need to be reconditioned you ****ing ndebele people go back to your slumps in South Africa and leave us alone.

  12. Mhlanga on Wed, 25th Feb 2009 1:34 pm 

    Hey Jackal. You could be right BUT you are only partly right BECAUSE NDP like the 1st Chimurenga did not get very far. ZAPU was the first to challenge Ian Smith face to face. I hope you will go back to the library and study your history well. Cheers!

  13. Tambudzayi Mukonoweshuro on Wed, 25th Feb 2009 2:57 pm 

    Hie Guys.

    The people who messed up the economy are still there in power more or less. Why don’t we bind forces and kick them out for good. For the good of you and me, our children and our grandchildren. Gukurahundi was an atrocity and should such be treated. We can not be pointing fingers saying you are Ndebele and I am Shona. We are all Zimbabweans.

    Dr Mukonoweshuro

  14. samukeliso on Wed, 25th Feb 2009 7:27 pm 

    hey jackal mate i am not quite sure onthe statement on(NDP) as the first nationalist party but i have this information underneath may be it can help.

    http://www.psywar.org/rhodesia.php
    The first leader of the Rhodesian nationalist movement was Joshua Nqabuko Nyangolo Nkomo. He had been elected president of the newly formed African National Congress (ANC) on 1 September 1957.
    The Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) of ZANU and the Zimbabwe People’s Liberation Army (ZIPRA) of ZAPU based their campaigns on their interpretations of Marxist-Leninist revolutionary theory of bloody revolution. ZIPRA took advice from their Soviet instructors and trained in the Soviet Union, Cuba, Algeria, Bulgaria, North Korea, and Zaire. ZANLA had Chinese instructors and trained in China, Ghana, and Egypt. Later in the war, both ZANLA and ZIPRA fighters would receive training from a variety of foreign militaries in Zambia and Mozambique.

    cheers mate

  15. The Serpent on Thu, 26th Feb 2009 4:35 pm 

    In November 1980 Enos Nkala made remarks at a rally in Bulawayo, in which he warned ZAPU that ZANU would deliver a few blows against them. This started the first Entumbane uprising, in which ZIPRA and ZANLA fought for two days. Is Nkala Shona?

    In February 1981 there was a second uprising, which spread to Glenville and also to Connemara in the Midlands. ZIPRA troops in other parts of Matabeleland headed for Bulawayo to join the battle, and ex-Rhodesian units had to come in to stop the fighting. Over 300 shona people were killed. Was this not genocide, Dabengwa should also be charged if Mugabe is Charged.

    The majority people, the Shona, comprise 80 to 84%. The Ndebele are the second most populous with 10 to 15% of the population. The Ndebele are descended from Zulu migrations in the 19th century and the other tribes with which they intermarried. Most of these noise making people are not of the Khumalo clan hence not Ndebeles.

    The famous soapstone bird carvings stood on walls and monoliths of the ancient city of Great Zimbabwe, built, it is believed, sometime between the 13th and 16th centuries by ancestors of the Shona. Few Ndebeles and the other tribes they intermarried came in early 18th century the reason why they are not Identified in national events with anything Ndebele.

    Jackal is 100% right in everything he has said, well researched, well done Mr Jackal. The truth should be told to silence few sons and daughters of Matebele prostitutes.

  16. samukeliso on Thu, 26th Feb 2009 5:59 pm 

    hey jackal mate i am not quite sure onthe statement on(NDP) as the first nationalist party but i have this information underneath may be it can help.

    http://www.psywar.org/rhodesia.php
    The first leader of the Rhodesian nationalist movement was Joshua Nqabuko Nyangolo Nkomo. He had been elected president of the newly formed African National Congress (ANC) on 1 September 1957.
    The Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) of ZANU and the Zimbabwe People’s Liberation Army (ZIPRA) of ZAPU based their campaigns on their interpretations of Marxist-Leninist revolutionary theory of bloody revolution. ZIPRA took advice from their Soviet instructors and trained in the Soviet Union, Cuba, Algeria, Bulgaria, North Korea, and Zaire. ZANLA had Chinese instructors and trained in China, Ghana, and Egypt. Later in the war, both ZANLA and ZIPRA fighters would receive training from a variety of foreign militaries in Zambia and Mozambique.

    cheers mate

  17. Thandeka on Fri, 27th Feb 2009 9:38 am 

    Isusu Mandebele tiri****** dzevanhu

  18. Thandeka on Fri, 27th Feb 2009 9:55 am 

    Check your source Samukeliso a Rhodesian website is always suspect

  19. Kuonesana Zvakavandika on Fri, 27th Feb 2009 11:11 am 

    We people are the same in the face of GOd, but truely speaking some people see themsevles superior than others. if deals are done to profit one family or person are bad but for the country -its a noble idea. being what tribe or from which tribe it makes no sense. lets we fight the impurity which has crept into us.

  20. samukeliso on Fri, 27th Feb 2009 1:45 pm 

    Tambudzayi Mukonoweshuro on Wed, 25th Feb 2009 2:57 pm

    Hie Guys.

    The people who messed up the economy are still there in power more or less. Why don’t we bind forces and kick them out for good. For the good of you and me, our children and our grandchildren. Gukurahundi was an atrocity and should such be treated. We can not be pointing fingers saying you are Ndebele and I am Shona. We are all Zimbabweans.
    _______________________________________
    Simple and straight foward truth does not break friendship. I can’t add or subract point taken.I dont know how to write in Shona but i will try,(Matavire once said ‘ndakarurama semukaka unoruramisa rusvava’ so do that old DMB old advert) i was not his fan (Matavire) but i took my time to listen, asked and understood, so do the above words.
    Have yu ever noticed what normally happens when yu breast feed a crying/hungry baby, Yes above words are enough to bring together lovely and understanding people of Zimbabbwe.

  21. Thando on Fri, 27th Feb 2009 7:14 pm 

    Well said, well said Samukeliso! But why have you people chosen a Ndebele to lead your ZAPU regiment? Why can’t you choose a Shona? You are all merely tribal though you deny it!

  22. samukeliso on Fri, 27th Feb 2009 7:44 pm 

    I don’t know Thando my friend may iam a bit lost correct me if iam wrong, look here the leader of the party has’nt been choosen, Dabengwa is only the interim chairman of the party the leadership from my understanding will be choosen in April onthe convesion. Look at (Cope) which broke away from (anc) in South Africa, yu remember the guy Lekota who led it during the breaking period but he failed to secure enough votes to make him stand against Zuma inthe elections so he was just the leader during that interim period, so do Debengwa from my point of view.(thats my how i see it and i stand corrected).

  23. Chinhego T. on Tue, 10th Mar 2009 9:54 pm 

    As a Shona I am embarassed by my own people who still refuse what is plain and evident. We have ruled that country since independence and we think we can find someone to blame for the mess we are in. Shame on us… If Nkomo had been president, I can assure we will be screaming for his head. That sounds like the Bush administration trying to blame the Obama one…

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