Assumption is the mother of all blundering dear Mr. Pardon Gambakwe. Only the truth shall set us free.

By Brian Tawanda Manyati

22 April 2022

I thought use of “blunder” would be wording that is relatively better placed in our culture and upbringing as Africans than the phrasal verb of its simile. Your video is a piece of completely mismanaged work in my view, you may check out my respectful commentary on your You Tube post in question, plus my like as a goodwill gesture. Nothing sarcastic, nothing mockingly so, it is my way of appreciating that through your video made public you came out in the open with views that you hold on a matter of paramount importance to us Zimbabweans and Africans alike. A Constitutional Court matter whose hearing is current and impending cometh the 11th of May 2022.

From everyday community based knowledge sharing under Friends of Shabanie Mashaba Mines (FoSMM), since 2020, I have learnt as what is factual, beginning from when I first interviewed Mutumwa Mawere and made the series of interviews public, that what you Mr. Pardon Gambakwe, stated in your video shared out as true and fact, that Mutumwa Mawere is a Zimbabwean businessman who is in exile in South Africa since 2004 is a false narrative whose intends and purposes, as things have often panned out thus far, has always sought to safeguard the misdeeds of certain individuals, both private and public office bearers, who continue to abuse/d their positions and the public power they hold in my government of Zimbabwe (I say this as an active citizen), of course ranging from 2004 or earlier to date.

ConCourt files:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MK7URritVa1d_Z9SkpHQt0sMwL8YJ_i1

Or:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brian-tawanda-manyati-67859875_meet-google-drive-one-place-for-all-your-activity-6912556274089906176-JU25

Its questionable that what is now common knowledge, awash almost everywhere online and in print or conventional press, appears to be still pervasive to you when you miss out the bare facts such as that the former minister of legal and parliamentary affairs Mr. Chinamasa took it upon himself to circumvent the Attorney General’s office on approaching the High Court of Zimbabwe in retrospective search of the order to reconstruct SMMZ, in November 2005 as confirmation of his aggravating actions not fitting the four corners of the law, which were clandestinely taken or metted out per the twisted gracing of the Presidential powers and temporary/emergent measures Act.

There is written paperwork shared around and openly by FoSMM in the form of letters which are now public material, from Mrs. Mabhiza then employed in 2004 at a division of the then Attorney General’s office to Mr. Gwaradzimba the administrator of SMMZ, including the latter’s responses citing DMH on carbon copies (cc) at the expense of the Attorney General’s office against what he, himself had promised to Mrs. Mabhiza in earlier correspondence. These are public interest issues kindly, who as a taxpayer would not be interested in knowing that a private legal services firm such as DMH is being paid from government coffers without clarity when an attorney general’s office already exists with individuals under the public service commission payroll? These are issues that your video narrative dear Mr. Gambakwe, cannot sweep under the carpet or cause to be swept under the carpet. All this is with evidence that has since been made public by FoSMM in its public awareness campaigns and in the interest of keeping public office holders accountable. Like I opined at the start that through the video post you spoke openly your mindset, which thing is laudable. It’s as open as it gets how you did it through your unsolicited but now publicly availed and a video I personally find to be relevant.

Gambakwe video:

In my 2020 interview series of Mutumwa Mawere a portion of the questions and answers I independently gathered in a no holds barred interview which was aimed at hearing from the horse’s mouth, upon my taking advantage of the opportunity he had alerted me to voluntarily take part in Civic Education under the Connections to Communities (C2C) initiative if I wanted to, gave an account of how since 1988 he has stayed out of Zimbabwe. Something which makes the commonly favoured “exiled businessman” claims by biased local reportage of both the mainstream and private media unfounded. For instance, one Constantine Chagonda of masvingomirror.com on April 10, 2021 ignorantly wrote the very first line as, “Exiled Zimbabwean businessman Mutumwa Mawere is fuming after he lost tens of thousands of $US to a judiciary manager (Alfas Gwaradzimba) who has been collecting rent from his Mt. Pleasent house for 17 years without remitting a cent to him…”

In a community conversation on a WhatsApp group Mutumwa Mawere responded similarly in 2021 as follows:

[12/26, 8:30 AM] mdmawere1: Did you know that I stopped from being a director and chairman of SMM in October 1997?

[12/26, 8:59 AM] Martin Matshazi: Ok as l said before from my little knowledge some of these things am not aware

Furthermore, the ConCourt application of December 2021 by Prof Mupasiri bids the President of Zimbabwe as the first respondent versus Prof Mupasiri himself as a self actor. You say the case involves Mawere and ED which narrative is again false coming from you. Typical of the old type of journalism whereby the Chief Editor of a newspaper column alters or twists headlines to agenda set as he or she likes the general public to be misleading-ly fed, hear or read. In my personal view, Prof Mupasiri has always been an independent mind, be it in FoSMM or JUROL everyday community discourses up until he took it upon himself to step forward and apply before the ConCourt, upon him on his own seeing the merits of doing so. Time also has proved this point more as up today he has not changed or altered his stride, even in answering inside court right before the presiding judge/s he holds his own so none can force Prof Mupasiri to wear a jacket that ain’t his own through whatever means be it the use of Pardon Gambakwe or other on slaughts. The mention that the ConCourt application and matter pits President Mnangagwa versus Mutumwa Mawere is one of your video misses, and you may not be alone, several members of the public may equally be missing or misinterpreting the ConCourt matter pencilled for hearing on the 11th of May 2022 and pitting Prof. Mupasiri and another vs President of Zimbabwe and another in a similar way, after all well to do Advocates other than the general public, who already misconstrued the matter in that way of stripping Prof. Mupasiri of his civic and constitutionally permitted right to self act, have evidentially been there in various discourses. Needed therefore, is more open explanatory discourse or answers which dispels whatever is not factual but being let out to the public recklessly be it in print or video, in the name of practising everyday journalism by the persons who will be behind those unfounded ‘breaking news’ releases. Such as what you did with the You Tube video of yours.

Allow me to say this article is on point at letting out a fraud that has evidently obtained. To try and hide the involvement of DMH in representing the President of Zimbabwe all the while, for several years, without the authority to do so, as that authority resides with the Attorney General. It’s sad, since 2003 or 4 this has gone on corruptly unwatched. It comes up to a time when such corrosion of public administration systems cannot go on and on without on its own letting a cat out of the bag as happened here that things are not in order at all. I have been following up on this matter for a while now. I am aware that Justice Bharat Patel was circumvented in between 2003/4 to 2005/6 by the likes of former Minister Chinamasa while approaching the High Court retrospectively for the confirmation of the reconstruction order of 2004 in 2005, and from correspondences between Administrator Alfas Gwaradzimba and DMH I have read and it came out clear as daylight that DMH was aiding it all unabated. All these things which your video need not seek to hide from the public. These expositions do not need Mutumwa Mawere not at all as per the figment of your thinking, these things do not need ridiculing or despising the efforts of self actors and several investigative members of vehicles or initiatives such as War on Corruption (WAC), Justice under Rule of Law (JUROL) and FoSMM. Instead, more and more investigative journalism ought to be done.