Mugabe youths violently fight each other over control of looting group‏
21 March 2012
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(Harare)There was drama on Tuesday when two factions of Upfumi Kuvadiki, a youth empowerment pressure group aligned to President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu (PF) violently clashed at a press conference in the capital, as they fought each for the control of the organisation.
The two groups clashed over a number of issues among them: the South African company-EasyPark company deal, control of the retail sector, as well as the involvement of youths in mainstream business opportunities.
The press conference had been called by the Alson Darikayi led faction clad in Julius Malema style regalia which comprised of a cap inscribed with the 88 year old President Mugabe’s signature.
Halfway into the conference the Pedzisai Sakupwanya led faction led by Tatenda Marodza (Secretary General) then stormed the venue, violently disrupted and looted the other faction’s banners and refreshments at the full glare of the media. The chaos reached a boiling point that there was a possibility of degeneration into a physical fight.

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Sakupwanya faction members climbed on tables in a barbaric manner leaving Darikayi and his entourage shell shocked before plucking off banners, stealing sweets and drinks meant for the conference.
Journalists also had to scurry for cover after some of the Sakupwanya group members threatened to beat them up for paying attention to Darikayi, he ordered journalists to leave or else they face unspecified action.
Sakupwanya’s faction is reported to be backed by the Youth Empowerment and indigenization Minister Savior Kasukuwere of Zanu (PF) while Darikayi’s faction is backed by the party’s secretary for administration Dydmus Mutasa.
According Sakupwanya, Darikayi has been fighting through a parallel structure that he formed and misled the people into believing that he is the legitimate leader yet he is not.
“Darikayi is the only member from Upfumi Kuvadiki whom we have realized but not as President of the organization but rather as the spokesperson. He is misrepresenting himself to the media and our members that he is the leader of this thing,” said Sakupwanya.
On the other hand Darikayi’s faction accused Sakupwanya’s faction of trying to hijack a project where they had been rejected by the Board of Trustees due to their alleged corrupt activities.
“Sakupwanya seized to be the President of this organization last year when his executive was dissolved on allegations of corruption paving way for a Darikayi led interim committee which was later adopted as the substantive committee to this day,” said a member of the Darikayi faction.
Darikayi’s group said it was 100% behind the ageing dictator President Robert Mugabe in his economic Empowerment initiative but said his group was not as violent as the Sakupwanya faction whose behavior was described as rowdy by the Darikayi faction Secretary General, one Withus Tatenda Masunda.
“Can we allow such a rowdy behavior in the name of indigenisation? And throw out our respect and dignity? What we are saying as Upfumi Kuvadiki as opposed to this group of violent thugs is that we approach the government over our concerns rather than violently take over companies without following due process,” he said.
Darikayi’s Secretary General said the reason why authorities have not been taking the youths seriously was because of the militant approach that is being used by the groups.
Upfumi Kuvadiki has over the years threatened to takeover companies to “empower the youths” and among the entities: Econet Zimbabwe owned by an indigenous Zimbabwean, Strive Masiyiwa. The same group looted property worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from shops belonging to foreigners at the popular Gulf Complex in Harare. (ZIMBABWE, ZimEye)

21 Replies to “Mugabe youths violently fight each other over control of looting group‏”

  1. Ah classic ZATO PF! hope these groups look at revenging each other soon, looking forward to more zanoids destroying each other

  2. i wonder if miki is human he cant grasp simple thngs. Vechidiki ar fighting each other over companies bt the idiot decides to look th other way. He behaves like hs funders wh blame sanction on zesa woes yet they dont settle bills. Stupid miki idiot

  3. WRESTLEMANIA— Chando and Mbiti are nowhere to be found.Vele Zanu violence,raping,stealing is part of their culture.the same aplies to Mthwakaz.

  4. what can you expect from Zanu PF, stealing sweets for the meeting. hahha haha, SHAME ON U, SHAME ON U. Zvamafambira tsve!

  5. saka those slit-eyed yellow, pungent smelling, short zhingyz are not foreigners,just because we loathe ourselves so much we willing to give them special status and throw in AFRICAN totems since they love eating tortoise, snake and hug them as bossom brothers to mine diamonds as we dont understand the value since we have for eons used them as divination stones?.NDIZVO HERE just to spite the west, sezvo tiri matribesmen passing off as OXFORD/CAMBRIDGE educated, toting Saville ROW suits made in CHINA being sold kuMUPEDZANHAMO for 35US$ WHILE OUR FAMILIES use polluted water to bathe and have mhezi muviri wose and their laundry is in shreds after washing it murky SAVE/ODZI water courtesy of the RUSSIAN MINING GOLD upstream and the CHINESE scrapping diamonds down stream. I OWE NO AALEGIANCE to the dead TO FIGHT THEIR wars of taking over the companies they never created but exist in the figments of looters and gangsters.

  6. Vanhu ava imbavha dzevanhu kusadawo kunotsvaga mabasa pasi tsve mandinyadzisa kwazvo nonsense youth

  7. Xolani, nizakubeta mufeti katesi katesi nansi mina tata ngobulala lo Mthwakazi aka Mutakathi, nonsese.
    Whats so special, whats new and whats so funny about a group of young enthusiastic, very patriotic and forward thinking young Zimbabweans who are all fighting for a common cause? The youngsters are all fighting for the Blackman’s prosperity through harnessing our own God given natural resources, through sharing from the same sources from which imperialists have been looting our wealth from and through a high level advocacy of putting to use the land that we acquired? Whats wrong with that? To me it sounds very positive and l am pleased to note that these youngsters are HUNGRY FOR SUCCESS.
    You, in the MDC fight for women or men whatever arrangement may be applicable as gays, you fight for positions in the party, fight for recognition from Tsvangirai and recently Tony Blair and you fight for human rights amongst them, homosexuality? nonsense a thousand times.
    l am therefore impressed although violence is an evil, but fighting for a good cause is a revolutionary spirit, discipline should simply be instilled to the youngsters for them to remain focussed.

  8. Xolani, nizakubeta mufeti katesi katesi nansi mina tata ngobulala lo Mthwakazi aka Mutakathi, nonsese.
    Whats so special, whats new and whats so funny about a group of young enthusiastic, very patriotic and forward thinking young Zimbabweans who are all fighting for a common cause? The youngsters are all fighting for the Blackman’s prosperity through harnessing our own God given natural resources, through sharing from the same sources from which imperialists have been looting our wealth from and through a high level advocacy of putting to use the land that we acquired? Whats wrong with that? To me it sounds very positive and l am pleased to note that these youngsters are HUNGRY FOR SUCCESS.
    You, in the MDC fight for women or men whatever arrangement may be applicable as gays, you fight for positions in the party, fight for recognition from Tsvangirai and recently Tony Blair and you fight for human rights amongst them, homosexuality? nonsense a thousand times.
    l am therefore impressed although violence is an evil, but fighting for a good cause is a revolutionary spirit, discipline should simply be instilled to the youngsters for them to remain focussed.

  9. The struggle continues .Hapana chekufadza muvengi nacho apa.These are small dsagrmnts they wll never stop the train.We are just saying no to looting of our natural resources by our guests from abroad.We cant be all lik J Zivanai whl foreigners ar busy looting our wealth.Did Mazoe plantation owner buy that plantation or his Kulu just stole it from our fore Fathers.

  10. They must kill each other. I love the in house fighting. I bet Kasukuwere will be out within the next 12 months. I will go as far as saying that all he will own is a bicycle. I know something you don’t!! Slowly slowly catch a monkey comrades. You are fighting each other and that is what we enjoy! The day will come for change – it’s around the corner and all this scum will be destroyed in the process!!!

  11. is ths wht u call politics,makororo aya atanga zvino,hunyope ndihwo hunowaremadza,tsvagai mabasa kwete kuda kurarama nezvekuba,munonyadzisa.one day ths will cme 2 an end

  12. It always happens when young people are allowed to fight for otherwise noble ideals without proper guidance form the grey haired. Any group of “boys” can get rowdy at any given time because of too much adrenaline. Where are the females in this youth movement? They should consider the fairer and sober-er sex for higher positions in the movement.

  13. IT took me 36 years to save for a house then 2 years sleeping on the floor since I HAD NO BED,and no curtains throught the whole house.My children went to school with a water drink and I didnt buy soft drinks or waste money on MAZOE nonsense yet i grew up in mazoe and boast of no addiction to it.The neighbours used to have field-days twittering behind my back and when I bought my second hand furniture I INVITED them to show off but to my dismay none was impressed.YEARS LATER IAM still alive happy and contented with my antiques and hurt noone in the process. SOMEONE needs to tell these ugly street urchins kuti zviro zvinosevenzerwa nekunamata kwete kuda kuita short cut, i still remember mbuya dzekuflea market inviting me to go pray for S MASIIWA when he was besieged by evil from all sides inga atova munhu ane turo twake avakuda kutotorerwa nemaboora ngoma aya, asi chii nhai.

  14. Anything based on looting will lead to chaos and violence. There will never be enough for everybody. Someone will always want a larger share. It is achieving through hard work and not looting, stealing and murdering others. Indegenization and black empowerment are indeed a people`s struggle for economic emancipation but looting and self enrichment will never lead to any national economic emancipation. These misguided youths need to understand these facts.

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