BOAF – THE AFRICA I WANT – MR MUCHA MUGOTA EXPRESSES HIS WISH FOR MR. MAWERE TO WRITE A MEMOIR

Mr. Mucha Mugota’s wish that he casually expressed in a whatsapp group called ZIMBABWE ECONOMIC FORUM (ZEF), that Mr. Mawere should write his memoir has provoked intense debate after Mr. Mawere’s lukewarm’s response suggesting that it would not be appropriate for him to be the author.

The proposition of a memoir was taken up by Mr. Edmore Nyamadzi, who is a participant with Mr. Mawere in another WhatsApp group called BOAF ESWATINI AGRI.

A interesting debate then ensued in this group resulting in Mr. Mugota being added to this group.

Prior to this, Ms. Thoko Zulu, an accomplished writer of screenplays was approached by Mr. Nyamadzi to test her appetite to convert Mr. Mawere’s fascinating story into a movie.

Set out below is what motivated Mr. Mugota to propose a memoir as a useful addition to the corporate and legal heritage of not only Zimbabwe but the continent of Africa;

“I thought would be a good thing, especially with Mr. Mawere’s input and illumination of the areas that are either misrepresented in the different circles.

Having read and understood Ms. Zulu’s angle. I appreciate that it is important to look at this as a national heritage initiative to document our heritage.

I only discovered today that Mr. Mawere has about 35,000 followers and a network of 30,000 on the linkedin platform.

With this community, it would not take a rocket scientist to know that if 10% of this community prechased this memoir for R150 per copy, an amount of R950,000 would be raised to cover the first batch of 64,000 e-nooks to be produced.

It is important for us as budding entrepreneurs to take advantage of this opportunity to learn from a person I and many have admired as a pathfinder of corporate involvement of blacks in post-colonial Zimbabwe.

I am.excited to be part of this landmark project and I am very encouraged that Mr. Mawere has agreed to help shape and define the character and personality of the story that has yet to be told after 19 years of unprecedented hijack of 26 companies using public power.

Many find the SMM story very unfair and if one is into business a bad precedent was set. The law still exists and as it was used on you it is likely to be used on someone again.

It would have academic, social, political and economic value, from where I stand.

To me Mr. Mawerw is a living legend and an African business titan, instead of celebrating him, some still out of igmorance villify him.

It is unfortunate that he may have lived ahead of his time!!!

Many of us marveled at his business acumen as young lads and then we watched as public power was used to divest and deprive the control and management of his the empire.

Various players have various beliefs and understanding and versions of what really transpired, depending on whom they believe or their sources.

The idea of a memoir is to me that the main actor in the events would share his side of the story.

I was intrigued by Mr. Mawere’s chat with AMG over the hijack of his Mt Pleasant house, it was a poor camouflage that revealed more than it hid!!

A lot is not in the public domain and its overshadowed by the one-sided narratives that are in the public media. I was astounded by the Gono Advisory Note…”

Set out below is a reverting chat between Ma. Zulu and Mr. Mawere.

[1/25, 10:53 AM] mdmawere1: [9:21 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: For me conversations with Mawere were the BEST, because as Munzengwa admits, they were inspiring and enlightening. And your Zimbabwean journey is of more interest, l don’t know if those episodes are captured in your 3 books because that was Mutumwa at his BEST. Write the memoirs
[9:23 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Have you understood the problem statement?
[9:23 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: According to Mucha?
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Hey, Ed. Thank you for the touch down. Well, he could if he has the time, which l very much doubt he has. My honest opinion is, it would be more controversial and if other people wrote it. Why? Because he is the kind of man whose demeanor hides a lot of controversial truths. It won’t be easy, but it is doable if he won’t resist the prodding and persuasion to just let go and be “seen”
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: I’m sorry I had a long call while you were typing. I get what you are saying but what if the writing and narration depends on his referrals, colleagues, recordings and the like. There’s a history about his journey certainly
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: It can still work, l suppose. Compiling and reading all that material and selecting what goes into the memoir is still a lot of work for it to make sense. I don’t think it can work if it’s about random selections for publication. For the little time l have interacted with him, l am intrigued to write a screenplay for either a documentary or a feature film
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Much appreciated. Thanks for the consideration. Have done some research on his Zim escapades, particularly the SMM debacle and the dispossession
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: I have also followed from a distance, what’s your take
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: That was the most vile piece of legislation and theft of private property in Zim, bigger then even the land dispossesion from the former farmers
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: I’m not very conversant with legal laws but looks somewhat something didn’t go well. What’s your comment or comments on him writing memoirs personally
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: 👆🏻…now this is intriguing!!!
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: But even if he were to write the memoirs himself, he’d still need an editor
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Certainly difficulties will be there and to me worth the story. Yes him doing it is possible but is it not him blowing his trumpet? Most likely not balanced, who checks the negative side? What I’m certain of its an interesting compilation of the man’s journey.
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: I am in total agreement that compilation of his journey although challenging, should be worth it. Blowing his own horn wouldn’t attract a credible audience and absolutely not balanced. But it will cost money
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Writers don’t write for free
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: …unless you are thinking using university students
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: A memoir and a documentary is what I would suggest, with funds permitting
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: I’m not really a literature someone but I believe, as initiated by J Bard, it’s a good project, but especially done by someone else with balanced facts as controversial as some may think of the main acto6
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: actor
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: TRUE say
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: What about bringing an audience and each says what they know of him, a hall or dinner gathering or something like that
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Yes it will cost definitely
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: For which purpose? To document or as a fundraiser towards writing the memoir? And where will be the venue? In Zimbabwe or South Africa?
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: And are we SURE or guarantee a huge paying audience?
[9:25 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Hmmm the purpose of the gathering can be both raising funds and getting more information about the subject and possibly in SA
[9:26 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Audience is beyond anyone’s control let’s be honest
[9:26 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: It will take time, money and expertise to organize successfully
[9:26 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Let’s put it on the group and see the response. What do you think
[9:26 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Depends how it’s packaged or branded
[9:26 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Fantabulous idea
[9:26 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: The group response will be the guiding map
[9:26 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Sorry dialed by mistake
[9:35 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: YES, according to Mucha
[9:35 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: What is your understanding?
[9:35 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Yes, l AGREE
[9:36 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: If so, what should be the next step forward?
[9:39 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: The group response was diverted by the assassination of the human rights lawyer. The heated debate we hoped for after Mucha’s post about your memoirs wasn’t forthcoming
[9:41 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: …the response was also diluted by your posts thereafter. I think you should have sat by the sidelines and waited
[9:41 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: This l think is what should follow
[9:43 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: …and if for some weird reason the event doesn’t gather momentum or raise enough funds then maybe we could abandon ship
[9:44 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: And this 👆🏻 l second
[9:45 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: The group has no life – ONE POINT OF NO SHARED UNDERSTANDING.
[9:46 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: …but it’s too huge a project to be successfully executed by one individual hence you have the 3 of us, Mucha, Bard and I
[9:47 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: DO YOU AGREE THAT THERE IS NO SHARED UNDERSTANDING ON THE PROJECT ITSELF? YOU HAVE YOURS AND I HAVE MINE. THIS IS THE DISASTER IN HUMAN AFFAIRS.
[9:51 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: No, this is no disaster, this is Epic. Lol!!! I would be very worried if there were no conflicting views because one of the fundamentals of great story telling lies in very BIG conflicting ideas. That’s why l mentioned the brain storming sessions. Their purpose is to bring the conflicting ideas together for a shared understanding
[9:52 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Is it correct that you regard yourself as a great script writer?
[9:53 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Enough to belong to your own identity as a human being?
[9:54 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: There are no GREAT Scriptwriters in my field Mawere. Every new project presents another opportunity to unlearn and relearn new processes
[9:55 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: A writer cannot exist out of their own singled out identity
[9:56 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: In order to respond, did you do any empirical research or what lies between your two great and perhaps exceptional ears is the universe?
[9:57 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: What lies between my two great ears is often misunderstood
[9:57 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Yet the affairs of humanity exposes a different and scary reality. Those who pretend to know more become subject matter experts even on a reality that does not exists but will exist if a circle around the challenge or problem is created without anyone in the middle as an actor – or popstar?
[10:00 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Yes, TRUE this
[10:04 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Again what do you think could have made Mucha to make reference to me in his voluntary share without affording me an opportunity to express myself on the question of the missing script not just about me but about many others including his?
[10:06 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: I assumed it’s a conversation you both engaged in prior to the posting as we initially discussed it when you asked what l thought of the proposed memoir idea
[10:07 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: You assumed without doing your diligence. Is this correct?
[10:08 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Assumption in reference to the specifics of your private conversation with Mucha
[10:10 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Sometimes conversations with you are similar to interrogations by a criminal lawyer 😄
[10:11 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: …you’re stubborn, intimidating…and a very hard man to read
[10:12 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Once in every good while people are forced to stand down
[10:13 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Do you agree that life was created to be STUBBORN, INTIMIDATING AND VERY HARD? Would you prefer to abuse the truth or learn from its expression.
[10:14 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Does it occur to you that Mucha is the one who proposed the idea in good faith without the benefit of my input?
[10:17 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Most definitely it does occur to me
[10:18 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Is this not the reality of the story. It was authored in his mind and expressed in a group.
[10:18 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Life was created to be celebrated
[10:19 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Life was created but the creator forget to put cash in the model.
[10:21 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Well, the same way you posted half our conversation where l allegedly referred to your most insightful work as bullshit. Lol! Most intelligent people who followed your Conversations with Mawere must think l am very stupid
[10:21 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Lol!
[10:22 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Yadeuka yadeuka. Why seek to hide your own voluntary contribution to humanity?
[10:23 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: I don’t think many people understand your dry humor
[10:26 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Although not very educated, I am neither stupid nor naive. Lol!
[10:26 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Why default into a bishop when you and I walk on the same ground?
[10:26 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: You lost me in your response as no one has accused you of being stupid or naive.
[10:27 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Like everyone else l learn my valuable lessons
[10:27 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: What if there are many who choose not to learn because they think they already known the start and end of life?
[10:28 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: You hide…a lot. I wish l could see you. Who is Mutumwa?
[10:29 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: If something is known to you then you should always be the last to talk about hiding.
[10:29 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Lol!
[10:30 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: I rest my case for today
[10:30 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Expose that which you believe is hidden and not talk about assumptions dressed as fact.
[10:31 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: I cannot expose what l don’t know
[10:31 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Truth must underpin story telling lest gossip takes the centerpiece?
[10:32 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Yet you seem determined to import assumptions, speculation and superstition in the narratives to permit you to condemn me to write a memoir to respond to ghosts.
[10:33 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Documentaries are based not on gossip or assumptions but facts. I don’t know if any attempts to get that close to the truth will be successful
[10:33 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Yet the truth has no legs but gossip has.
[10:33 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Mutumwa ka…
[10:34 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: You are raising great issues and hence I am responding for posterity so that Mucha may know better.
[10:34 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Which is the reason for the attempt to get through your door to discover the truth
[10:35 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: What if the truth is in front of your eyes yet your mind is the devil in the mix?
[10:36 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Mmm…am l blind not to see the devil, l wonder
[10:37 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Why not change from the I to the WE narratives?
[10:37 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: What if you are not the only one?
[10:37 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: We? I and them?
[10:38 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: I suspect not to be the only one
[10:39 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Why not invest in finding others like you and me by sharing chats?
[10:41 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: You already share others and my chats
[10:41 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: ARE YOU A DR?
[10:41 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Without our permission in most cases
[10:42 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Do you agree that this thread is jointly owned by the two of us?
[10:42 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: My assumption, yes
[10:46 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: [10:25 am, 25/01/2023] TENDAYI: Morning
[10:27 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Good morning
[10:38 am, 25/01/2023] TENDAYI: Are you Dr Mawere
[10:40 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: I guess it bothers you why not ask the authors unless I said so?
[10:44 am, 25/01/2023] TENDAYI: Should I, a mere mortal, shoulder the burden of maligning those who dress you in such robes?
[10:46 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: Should I suffer the burden to respond to the idea that I never authored? Who suffers any prejudice if I am called an idiot?
[10:46 am, 25/01/2023] TENDAYI: Indeed
[10:47 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Agh…sigh
[10:49 am, 25/01/2023] Thoko Zulu: Assuming l can also post my own edited version of our conversation. Lol!
[10:49 am, 25/01/2023] mdmawere1: You don’t suffer any obligation to use that which has been shared between more than one person?
[1/25, 12:27 PM] mdmawere1: [1/25, 10:54 AM] Thoko Zulu: Agh…sigh
[1/25, 10:59 AM] Thoko Zulu: You’re a very GOOD writer, one of the BEST I have met
[1/25, 11:00 AM] mdmawere1: Guess what? I am not a writer but I am me. I wear no mask.
[1/25, 11:01 AM] Thoko Zulu: You wear a very BIG mask
[1/25, 11:01 AM] mdmawere1: This is because you choose to me when you are complete as a person yourself.
[1/25, 11:02 AM] mdmawere1: Stop imagining other people but looking into your own mirror.
[1/25, 11:02 AM] Thoko Zulu: Although we all wear them
[1/25, 11:02 AM] mdmawere1: I never called myself Dr or writer but you and another did without my consent.
[1/25, 11:02 AM] Thoko Zulu: I am looking at my own
[1/25, 11:02 AM] Thoko Zulu: Lol!
[1/25, 11:03 AM] mdmawere1: You are the one who should call yourself a writer and it is not for me or anyone to label you.
[1/25, 11:04 AM] Thoko Zulu: Are you married? Do you have children?
[1/25, 11:07 AM] mdmawere1: Why?
[1/25, 11:08 AM] Thoko Zulu: One of the bullshit questions we will be asking when/if we shoot the documentary
[1/25, 11:09 AM] Thoko Zulu: Your Mt Pleasant home was taken
[1/25, 11:09 AM] mdmawere1: Who said I want to be involved in a documentary as proposed by Mucha?
[1/25, 11:10 AM] mdmawere1: Who said it was taken? From where to where I may ask?
[1/25, 11:11 AM] Thoko Zulu: No documentary then, this is clear
[1/25, 11:11 AM] mdmawere1: I am lost. Did I approach you to do a documentary or what?
[1/25, 11:11 AM] Thoko Zulu: I will search and extract the clip from a previous conversation l read which was shared
[1/25, 11:12 AM] mdmawere1: If you want to know, you can always ask.
[1/25, 11:12 AM] Thoko Zulu: And forward it here
[1/25, 11:13 AM] Thoko Zulu: What can l ask?
[1/25, 11:13 AM] mdmawere1: About the house affair.
[1/25, 11:13 AM] Thoko Zulu: What happened?
[1/25, 11:15 AM] mdmawere1: However, if the affair is of interest to you, should a BOAF not be created comprising of interested persons so that instead of repeating myself 100 TIMES ON THE SAME ISSUE, WE DO ONE HOUR FOR POSTERITY?.
[1/25, 11:17 AM] Thoko Zulu: This would be practical, yes
[1/25, 11:21 AM] mdmawere1: Do you agree that it could be the case that among my followers and connections, there could be many who genuinely may wish to know the problem and the facts in it?
[1/25, 11:27 AM] Thoko Zulu: Yes
[1/25, 11:29 AM] Thoko Zulu: Your point?
[1/25, 11:30 AM] mdmawere1: The first thing is to define a problem statement.
[1/25, 11:30 AM] mdmawere1: That needs to be solved.
[1/25, 11:31 AM] mdmawere1: The second is to test it.
[1/25, 11:33 AM] Thoko Zulu: 🤷🏾‍♂️
[1/25, 11:33 AM] mdmawere1: Not sure what the response is.
[1/25, 11:34 AM] Thoko Zulu: Well, now that you mention it
[1/25, 11:36 AM] mdmawere1: Do you agree that when properly construed Mucha wanted to give me a job to write a memoir simply to satisfy himself?
[1/25, 11:38 AM] Thoko Zulu: Lol! And l was weighing options for a documentary to satisfy whom? And was it a paid job for you to write the memoir?
[1/25, 11:39 AM] mdmawere1: You assumed like Mucha that it was a great project for me.
[1/25, 11:40 AM] Thoko Zulu: Wouldn’t we have the answer behind the reasons for proposing the memoir if you asked Mucha instead of us speculating what his intentions were?
[1/25, 11:41 AM] Thoko Zulu: For you how? And not valuable information or life lessons and inspiration for the audience?
[1/25, 11:42 AM] Thoko Zulu: Content is rarely written for the subjects but intended beneficiaries or target market
[1/25, 11:42 AM] mdmawere1: That is what Edward did and he generously responded.
[1/25, 11:42 AM] mdmawere1: He also checked with you. And you also responded.
[1/25, 11:43 AM] Thoko Zulu: As a writer l saw a potentially good project where l would be paid
[1/25, 11:44 AM] Thoko Zulu: …to be part of the writing team
[1/25, 11:49 AM] mdmawere1: Paid by whom?
[1/25, 11:49 AM] mdmawere1: As a service provider. But to whom?
[1/25, 11:53 AM] Thoko Zulu: Agh…sigh
[1/25, 11:53 AM] Thoko Zulu: A conversation for another day
[1/25, 11:55 AM] mdmawere1: Not sure where this idea of a project creeped in. I am sorry if an impression was created that your services were required for Mucha’s noble idea without an owner?
[1/25, 11:58 AM] Thoko Zulu: I am sorry to have supported an idea without ownership
[1/25, 11:59 AM] mdmawere1: No problem. Do you agree that all too often opportunities are squandered by defaulting to service provider to client binaries?
[1/25, 12:05 PM] Thoko Zulu: At this point l feel like my face has been slammed against a concrete wall. I didn’t subscribe to being a service provider but joining a team who somehow didn’t know how best to celebrate your legacy
[1/25, 12:07 PM] Thoko Zulu: I sincerely believe Mucha’s suggestion came from a very good place
[1/25, 12:08 PM] mdmawere1: Why should any living person be the reason for you to think and act in the mind of a forward leaning problem solver?
[1/25, 12:10 PM] mdmawere1: I have no reason to believe that Mucha was motivated by any malice but genuinely believed that it should be my business and not his to ensure that stories are told as bridges to an informed, inclusive and open future of Africa.
[1/25, 12:12 PM] Thoko Zulu: And indeed like Mucha, there are lessons to be learned
[1/25, 12:14 PM] mdmawere1: Do you agree that Mucha did not intend on causing anything to happen or own his idea but may have had no interest in being part of any value chain to convert it into reality?
[1/25, 12:16 PM] Thoko Zulu: I wouldn’t confirm Mucha’s intentions or interests because sometimes you’re so brutal when imparting knowledge or advice that sometimes people miss valuable information in translation
[1/25, 12:24 PM] mdmawere1: Why do you seek to interpose yourself into the minds of others?
[1/25, 12:25 PM] mdmawere1: Should we not share the thread with him to permit him to know the gossip?
[1/25, 12:53 PM] mdmawere1: [1/25, 12:29 PM] Thoko Zulu: I don’t see the necessity. My conversations with you don’t relate his experience and should be kept separate. If you’re interested to open new dialogue with him about the same issue, you can proceed without forwarding my thoughts to him
[1/25, 12:30 PM] mdmawere1: Are you a dictator? What prejudice would the cause suffer if he was party to the conversation?
[1/25, 12:31 PM] Thoko Zulu: He wasn’t part of the conversation here
[1/25, 12:33 PM] mdmawere1: He provoked it all in case you have forgotten.
[1/25, 12:34 PM] Thoko Zulu: I don’t want my conversations shared without my consent
[1/25, 12:34 PM] mdmawere1: I want my conversation shared. It is my property.
[1/25, 12:35 PM] mdmawere1: Can mealie meal protest against being eaten as sadza?
[1/25, 12:36 PM] Thoko Zulu: Then go ahead and share your conversation without my responses as both have different ownership rights
[1/25, 12:37 PM] mdmawere1: Then I would lying to history. I will never betray or shade history.
[1/25, 12:38 PM] mdmawere1: Reverse sadza to water, mealie meal and firewood.
[1/25, 12:43 PM] Thoko Zulu: You’re so ruthless when you feel misrepresented
[1/25, 12:46 PM] mdmawere1: Not at all. Speaking truth to anything should never be construed as brutal.
[1/25, 12:47 PM] Thoko Zulu: I remember Dali Thambo’s interview with the late President Robert Mugabe and Grace. He asked how Mugabe was at home as a dad and husband. Which is what prompted my marital and parental question after assuming like Mucha that you were buying into the documentary idea. I sometimes wonder during our conversations what kind of man you are at home
[1/25, 12:48 PM] mdmawere1: I guess that was between Amazing Grace and Amazing Bob.
[1/25, 12:49 PM] Thoko Zulu: Have a great day, my good Sir
[1/25, 12:50 PM] mdmawere1: Thanks for adding a chapter to my story.
[1/25, 12:52 PM] mdmawere1: It is a pity Mugabe is late. He could have come to the rescue.
[1/25, 1:26 PM] mdmawere1: Good afternoon Sir
[1/25, 1:27 PM] mdmawere1: Hope you have enjoined a gossip chat that was provoked by you.
[1/25, 5:22 PM] mdmawere1: Hello
[1/25, 5:22 PM] mdmawere1: What was your idea on the memoir?
[1/25, 5:22 PM] Mucha Mugota: Good afternoon mukoma
[1/25, 5:22 PM] mdmawere1: Good afternoon
[1/25, 5:30 PM] Mucha Mugota: Interesting
[1/25, 5:33 PM] mdmawere1: Indeed. All you did was to provoke an idea that speaks to many but what was registered in the minds of some was the expense side of the idea and not the income side.
[1/25, 5:48 PM] Mucha Mugota: I thought would be a good thing, especially woth your input and illumination of the areas that are either misrepresented in the different circles.

You are correct on the expense and income sides. Am sure eoth more thought it can be done.

Many find the SMM story very unfair and if one is into business a bad precedent was set. The law still exists and as it was used on you it is likely to be used on someone again.

It would have academic, social, political and economic value, from where I stand.

You are a living legend and a Zimbabwean business titan, instead of celebrating you, we persecuted you. Its unfortunate that you may have lived ahead of your time!!! We marveled at your business acumen as young lads and then we watched as the system crashed the empire you had assembled.

Various players have various beliefs and understanding and versions of what really transpired, depending on whom they believe or their sources.

The idea of a memoir was so that the main actor in the events would share their side of the story.

I was intrigued by your discussion with AMG over the Mt Pleasant house, it was a poor camouflage that revealed more than it hid!!

A lot is not in the public domain and its overshadowed by the one-sided narratives that are in the public media. I was astounded by the Gono Advisory Note…
[1/25, 6:17 PM] mdmawere1: Great.

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