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Original Post Date: 2010-04-06 Time: 01:00:24 Posted By: News Poster
THE Zanu PF Leadership Code, which sought to define the party as a socialist movement forbids its officials from owning more than one house for purposes of earning rentals.
This is but one condition that seeks to prevent party officials from taking advantage of their positions in government to amass wealth. The code was adopted at Zanu PF’s second people’s congress in 1984.
But how many still abide by the code?
In the past few months there have been stunning revelations about how Zanu PF leaders have been amassing wealth while the rest of Zimbabweans wallow in poverty.
Last month, President Robert Mugabe told journalists he owned Higfield Farm in Norton and Gushungo dairy farm in Mazowe, which he wants to turn into “a centre of excellence.”
This is at variance with a provision in the Zanu PF code that says a leader is prohibited from owning “a business, a share or an interest in a business organised for profit, provided that this shall not be interpreted as prohibiting such petty side-line activities as chicken runs, small plots and gardens on one’s residential property.”
Zanu PF believes that a leader who concentrates on acquiring property becomes an enemy of the masses.
But a cursory look at the profiles of selected Zanu PF ministers and officials who have been in the news in the last few months for their appetite for acquiring property would make Mugabe a saint.
Ignatious Chombo, Minister of Local Government, Urban and Rural Development.
In a maintenance application filed at the High Court by his estranged wife, Marian, it is revealed that Chombo, a university lecturer for most of his professional life, has suddenly become one of Zimbabwe’s richest land owners with 100 residential stands and dozens of houses around the country.
He allegedly owns a staggering 13 companies, 15 vehicles, a bus, a 3 098ha farm in Raffingora and properties in South Africa. About 30 of the listed residential stands are in the plush Harare neighbourhood of Borrowdale. Marian wants half of Chombo’s wealth.
A recent investigation by the Harare City Council implicates Chombo in massive scams involving the acquisition of urban land.
The report says: “It remains disturbing to note that minister Chombo would identify pieces of land in the city, influence council officials to apply to him for change of land use and then sit over the same applications and approve the changes.
“He would then write to council officials asking to buy the same stands and obviously get them.
“Land reserved for recreational activities would end up having title deeds in his company’s name.”
Obert Mpofu, Minister of Mines and Mining Development
Mpofu who is currently in the eye of a storm has attracted unwanted publicity following reports that he has bought at least 27 properties in Bulawayo and Victoria Falls in the last few months.
He is also believed to be behind the construction of a state-of-the-art shopping mall between Fourth Avenue and Fife Street in Bulawayo.
Already an owner of one of the tallest buildings in Bulawayo — York House –Mpofu is probably the richest politician in Matabeleland.
Mpofu also owns a farm just outside Bulawayo and some pieces of land within the city.
He rose from humble beginnings as a line manager at the Zimpapers headquarters in Harare before he moved to Zimbabwe Grain Bag (Pvt) Ltd as general manager.
It was during that time that he became a whistle blower leading to what is now known as the Willowgate scandal, which claimed the scalps of several top Zanu PF officials.
He was first appointed Zanu PF non-constituency MP in 1987 and was elected MP for Bubi-Umguza in 1990. In 1995, he lost the constituency to the late Jacob Thabani of MDC only to regain it in 2005 in an election marred by massive violence against Zanu PF opponents.
In 2007, as Minister of Industry and International Trade, Mpofu spearheaded the price freeze, which analysts say quickened the collapse of Zimbabwe’s already battered economy.
The price freeze spawned the shortage of basic commodities that only eased with the formation of the inclusive government last year.
As Minister of Mines, Mpofu has come under scrutiny for licencing companies owned by “crooks” to exploit the Chiadzwa diamonds.
A staunch Mugabe loyalist, he is seen as one of the few politicians from Matabeleland from the liberation war movement who still give Mugabe an ear and in turn enjoys the unflinching support of the ageing leader.
He was also one of the people who foiled the so-called Tsholotsho coup, which sought to replace Zanu PF’s ageing presidium with Young Turks.
Phillip Chiyangwa, Former Zanu PF Mashonaland West Chairman
Chiyangwa has never attempted to hide his opulent lifestyle.
When The Standard contacted him seeking a comment on an investigation by the Harare council exposing how he irregularly acquired vast tracts of land, he showed up in his R4 million Bentley GTC Continental convertible. The Bentley is just one of the several expensive vehicles found in his garage.
His is also a rags-to-riches story, having started off as a mine worker at Chakari before he was called up as a member of the BSAP African Reserve. Now Chiyangwa is counted among the richest people in Zimbabwe.
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Original date published: 3 April 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201004050308.html?viewall=1