Manikai&Mnangagwa coup link exposed in a South African court case

It started with Manikai, President Mnangagwa’s personal in relation to the Musengezi’s ZANU-PF, ascendancy challenge and the Mupasiri impeachment landmark case, who on 27 March 2017 lifted the lid on the untold Tsholotsho corruption story.

According to Manikai, who admitted that his relationship with Mnangagwa involved the ascendency project, a political fallout occurred between President Mnangagwa and Mr. Mawere that resulted in the use of public power to divest and deprive Mr. Mawere of the control and management of SMM and related companies.

Professor Mupasiri in his quest to get President Mnangagwa to give his own version of what he knows about the damning allegations made by Manikai, has discovered that seeking the President’s version using the agency of the highest court in Zimbabwe, the Constitutional Court, is an impossible task.

After failing to get a response to his letters from both President Mnangagwa and Manikai, he launched a court application on 17 December 2021 but failed to serve it on President Mnangagwa yet in this bizarre story, on 24 December 2021, he was served with an opposing affidavit duly signed under oath by President Mnangagwa.

When asked whether a matter can be set down without an affidavit of service confirming to court that an application has been served to all cited parties, one of the court registry officers said: “If the facts are as you state, then the court has no jurisdiction to hear a matter that is not properly before it and I am surprised that this matter was enrolled for hearing and determined without the all parties including the President complying with the rules of court.”

By choosing the agency of DMH to act on his behalf in matter in which Manikai admitted to have personal interests, Manikai effectively with the consent and knowledge of the President is acting as a lawyer in a matter in which he is conflicted.

With respect to the succession issue, it is unmistakable to an observer close to the Musengezi and Mupasiri challenges who remarked as follows:

“Not many people including Mr. Nqobani Sithole seem to understand the nexus between the two matters.

Manikai is a practicing attorney and as such is precluded and prohibited from acting in a cause in which he ought to be a witness as the facts of SMM confirm his direct involvement in his fight back strategy together with President Mnangagwa.

The Musengezi issue is also about succession and the methods used to realize this and the involvement of persons like Manikai in advising Mnangagwa that there would be no legal and constitutional consequences of the removing Mnangagwa having been instrumental in crafting the extrajudicial dethronement of Mawere with no court rising to defeat this coup precedent.

Can you imagine that a judge like Patel who was the Acting Attorney General on 6 September 2004 when a coup order or reconstruction order was issued in relation to SMM is presiding over a matter in which he knew and ought to have known of how the idea admitted by Manikai of issuing and prosecuting an order whose effect was to undermine the rule of law, would not ordinarily have the conscience to recuse himself from hearing the matter in which the constitutional validity is in contestation?

It is not surprising that Manikai is defending the President in the ascendancy dispute.

He ks tried and tested in defending the indefensible with the Law Society of Zimbabwe playing a cheerleader role.

If I was Mupasiri’s legal advisor, I would advice him to apply to join in the Musengezi dispute seeking the court to determine and declare whether Manikai can act for the President in his official and unofficial capacities on a matter in which Manikai has already admitted to have a personal interest in.

This would be an interesting angle to the Musengezi matter and help guide the lawless legal practice system that is an enabler of judicial capture.

To me the relationship between Manikai and Mbangagwa is at the core of both disputes.

I can understand now why they are so desperate to have Mawere sequestrated in SA so that this link is buried.

Manikai is not defending Zanu PF, but his personal friend and colleague whom his power rise assisted and crafted.

DMH is now a common factor in all litigations involving the President.

The ascendancy of the President was powered by the Recon Act, as SMM became their cash cow.”

I was also thinking that the matter of that 2million USD advanced by RBZ to AMG should be pursued as it is of national interest.

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