1. Set out below is Mr. Tichaona Noel Zimuto in response to this article that Mr. Mutumwa Mawere shared with him on 28 January 2023.

“I fully support Mr Mugota’s idea of a memoir.

Regardless of what happened, you are a true story of black excellence and we grow up looking up to you as a role model and source of inspiration.

Your story needs to be told and serves as a lesson to all.

A lot of bias and misinformation is in the public domain hence the need to set the facts straight.

I have joined the WhatsApp group BOAF and stand ready to play my part in any way possible.

Thank you very much for reaching out with this great idea.

I look forward to engaging further.”

• Based on the above, the following is common cause based on Mr. Zimuto’s response to Mr. Mawere’s question regarding his take on this https://iniafrica.com/index.php/2023/01/25/boaf-the-africa-i-want-mr-mucha-mugota-expresses-his-wish-for-mr-mawere-to-write-a-memoir/ that was published 25 January 2023:
• No memoir exists written by Mawere, 19 years after all companies deemed to be directly and indirectly under his control were divested and deprived from him by the force of a decree that was designed solely to achieve the purpose of alienating him from the 26 companies employing about 20,000 people.
• Versions exists regarding how Mr. Mawere’s British Virgin Island (BVI) incorporated company, Africa Resources Limited (ARL) acquired entire issued shareholding in SMM Holdings Private Limited’s (SMM), UK registered company, SMM Holdings Limited (SMM), that owned 100% of the issued shareholding of SMM.
• The acquisition was completed in the UK on 7 March 1996.
• The versions are principally in the public domain but none exists that has been authored by Mr. Mawere resulting in a cloud being placed over the whole acquisition leaving many people to rely on secondary versions.
• Against this backdrop, Mr. Edmore Nyamadzi, a member of the Banking on Africa’s Future (BOAF) – 10,000 Points of Light (POL), an initiative to convert connections into community power to solve problems was inspired by Mr. Mucha Mugore to take the next steps to establish why steps could be taken to use Mr. Mawere’s lived experiences as a case study to provoke, ignite and inspire active citizenship based on facts and not fake news, approached Mr. Mugore directly as follows:

1. EN:         Hie Mucha, I added you to a Boaf group I see your interest in Mawere writing a book let’s discuss it further.
2. MM:      Much appreciated.  Thanks for the consideration. Have done some research on his Zim escapades, particularly the SMM debacle and the dispossession.
3. EN:         I have also followed from a distance, what’s your take?
4. MM:      That was the vilest piece of legislation and theft of private property in Zimbabwe, bigger than even the land dispossession from the former farmers
5. EN:         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
6. MM:      I suggested he does so. Not the 1st time. The man is a walking thesaurus and sharing his experiences by documenting them would create a record for posterity and be a lesson to all future generations.  To me the man was a hero and role model he still is today as he was there. A genius. He is sui generis.  I wish he records his life experiences before death robs us of him…
7. EN:         I think I agree but what if he said no, what’s best in your view.  
8. MM:      We keep at it.  Or gets an author to do a biography of the man.
9. EN:         Yes, good point but the journey is really long for a current author but not impossible anyway something must be done most likely now indeed.
10. MM:      Let’s push it
11. EN:         He is still a hero maybe to me I have not been there since he started but my tiny glimpses into his history says much than what surface says
12. MM: Yes. I did a dissertation on the SMM issue. It is a treasure trove.
13. EN:         What do you suggest is the starting point I’m not an author
14. MM:      Lets brainstorm
15. EN:         I suggest I put it on the group but someone asked him directly and flatly he said otherwise
16. MM:      We can try other avenues
17. EN:         Would you mind I put this on the group
18. Mr. Edmore then added Mr. Mugore to the BOAF ESWATINI WHATSAPP group on 22 January at 11:16 am and the following chats too place in the group:

[1/22, 11:16 AM] Edmore Nyamadzi: Much appreciated.  Thanks for the consideration. Have done some research on his Zim escapades, particularly the SMM debacle and the dispossession

[1/22, 11:16 AM] Edmore Nyamadzi: Yes. I did a dissertation on the SMM issue. Its a treasure trove.

[1/22, 11:18 AM] Edmore Nyamadzi: Goodmorning Mr Mawere what’s take on what is in these 2 paragraphs above 👆🏾picked it from Mucha

• [1/22, 11:20 AM] mdmawere1: I was not aware of the dissertation that @⁨Mucha Mugota⁩ is talking about.
• I was never consulted or afforded an opportunity to give my input.
• [1/22, 11:21 AM] Mucha Mugota: This was for different purpose and not in any way about @⁨mdmawere1⁩ personally. It was an academic exercise which was on the Reconstruction Act and Property Rights donkey years ago. It must not be misconstrued as anything that it’s not.

It may have been a mistake to even mention it in the 1st place.

• [1/22, 11:22 AM] Edmore Nyamadzi: Academic exercise?? Hmmm, where?
• [1/22, 11:23 AM] Edmore Nyamadzi: Hopefully he will respond
• [1/22, 11:25 AM] mdmawere1: I am disturbed that a word like ESCAPADES would justifiably be imported into any narrative that speaks to any research endeavor. As I have said on this and other platforms including judicial proceedings no one has ever described me as a fugitive who knows me or who knew me.

It is the case that there are people in this group who one should expect to step up to the plate where falsehoods are served as meals help a person like @⁨Mucha Mugota⁩ to use research to bridge gaps based on empirical evidence and not copy and paster character assassination jobs.

[1/22, 11:28 AM] mdmawere1: Would you care to share your research?

1. I am sure you are aware of the historical link between me and the decree that preceded the Act.
2. When you state that HIS SMM ESCAPADES what is the meaning of this? Educate me as the actor in your narrative?
3. [1/22, 11:29 AM] Mucha Mugota: The word was used not in the negative @⁨mdmawere1⁩. No offence was intended.  The context was not one to cast aspersions on you, never have I nor will I do so.  I am intrigued and fascinated by your journey, obviously what is in the public domain.
4. [1/22, 11:29 AM] mdmawere1: WHAT TO YOU IS THE SMM DEBACLE?
5. [1/22, 11:29 AM] Mucha Mugota: Have we spoken about this before?
6. [1/22, 11:33 AM] mdmawere1: Thanks for actually stepping up to the plate. Please don’t take this initiative piloted by @⁨Edmore Nyamadzi⁩ as an attempt to attack you.  I had no idea until yesterday that you had authored a research paper on the Reconstruction Act.

You could help by identifying the problem statement that you solved through research about the Act and the conclusions that informs your TREASURE TROVE conclusion.  I am genuinely ignorant.

1. [1/22, 11:34 AM] mdmawere1: I apologize if we did but I have no recollection of being involved directly or indirectly in your research project.  My small memory is blank.  SOS!
2. [1/22, 11:37 AM] mdmawere1: @⁨Mucha Mugota⁩ I guess you must have passed with flying colors and the existence of this piece of scholarship would lessen the burden for me to write when a version already exists that touches on my life.  I would hate to contradict your version Sir as a product from authentic research enterprise.
3. [1/22, 11:40 AM] Norman Zim: Can you please share the contents or document
4. [1/22, 11:41 AM] mdmawere1: Did you know of its existence?
5. [1/22, 11:41 AM] Mucha Mugota: So that am further ridiculed?
6. [1/22, 11:42 AM] Norman Zim: Not at all
7. [1/22, 11:44 AM] Norman Zim: It’s not about that. You can’t afford to die without knowing the truth
8. [1/22, 11:46 AM] mdmawere1: I am sorry if I come across as opinionated on a subject matter in which I am implicated.  I am grateful that you put pen to paper to raise awareness on the matter.  There are no or should be right or wrong answers.  Let us learn to learn, unlearn and relearn.

I have no intention of correcting what exists but it would be tragic not to learn as I believe that even a barking dog is a better friend than a silent one.  I will be the last person defending your right to express yourself.

• [1/22, 11:47 AM] mdmawere1: I am truly sorry for this. @⁨Edmore Nyamadzi⁩ please help in apologizing on my behalf.
• [1/22, 11:50 AM] Mucha Mugota: No need to mukoma. It’s all good.
• [1/22, 11:54 AM] mdmawere1: Are you aware that there are far too many people who claim to know me even in this group, who have refused, failed and neglected to read the Act that must have informed your research?
• [1/22, 11:55 AM] Mucha Mugota: Indeed.
• [1/22, 11:55 AM] mdmawere1: Hypocrisy allows evil to triumph.
• [1/22, 11:58 AM] Mucha Mugota: There was something else before the Act, again, my faint memory, and being an intellectual midget maybe wrong. The Act came to sanitize.

Again, I may not have the right to comment nor the acceptable knowledge.

• [1/22, 12:00 PM] mdmawere1: It was a decree.
• [1/22, 12:01 PM] Mucha Mugota: Yes.
• [1/22, 12:04 PM] mdmawere1: You want to share a copy for the literacy of others and speak to it?
• [1/22, 12:04 PM] mdmawere1: Me to share
• [1/22, 12:06 PM] Mucha Mugota: The Advisory Brief by Dr Gono of 14 May 2009 was an interesting read
• [1/22, 12:07 PM] Mucha Mugota: That would be great. You shared it with me along with other documents mukoma.
• [1/22, 12:13 PM] mdmawere1: Which one first?
• [1/22, 12:15 PM] Mucha Mugota: The one you referred to
• [1/22, 12:18 PM] Mucha Mugota: Yes.
• [1/22, 12:20 PM] mdmawere1: Did you rely upon this decree in your research??
• [1/22, 12:23 PM] Mucha Mugota: I looked at property rights and dispossession. The SMM issue was a part of it.

As I explained to you when you called me on 21/12/2020.

• [1/22, 12:29 PM] mdmawere1: Just remember that my ears are too small.

I only have two. I don’t remember many conversations hence I record so that I can learn from those that choose to listen because strangely I cannot listen to my own voice.

There are many who dislike this conduct but I have struggled to occupy myself with what I would have said good or bad without alerting the implicated people about what would be on mind.

I would therefore urge you to share what you could have said and what I said without any limitation.

I guess you will be in this chapter of the book that you wished for and in doing so, triggered the question of whether I should be the author or all of us who have an interest in shaping the future that is informed by the rule of law.

• [1/22, 12:29 PM] Mucha Mugota: The decree, the Act, the cases in the different jurisdictions, Zim, SA, UK and Zambia*, the Advisory Note, amongst other documents, the roles played by Chinamasa, Gwaradzimba etc.  It was not a Mutumwa Mawere thing, nor your biography. I thought you have clearly explained the role of companies, shareholders, directors aptly and the various court actions have extensively covered same. So the focus was on the unfair use of the law to dispossess assets.
• [1/22, 12:31 PM] mdmawere1: Do you agree that the decree did not exist? It was created in the mind as a start?
• [1/22, 12:32 PM] Mucha Mugota: Indeed.
• [1/22, 12:32 PM] mdmawere1: Do you agree that the authors were like hunters with salt?
• [1/22, 12:33 PM] Mucha Mugota: Agreed.
• [1/22, 12:35 PM] mdmawere1: Do you agree that this decree provides enough evidence of the use of public power to punish through divestment and deprivation of the control and management of companies?
• [1/22, 12:41 PM] Mucha Mugota: Yes, as we discussed in 2020.
• [1/22, 12:43 PM] mdmawere1: As I said I don’t have a good memory. So help others by sharing what I may have said.
• [1/22, 12:45 PM] Mucha Mugota: Exactly what you are saying here.
• [1/22, 8:59 PM] mdmawere1: https://twitter.com/daddyhope/status/1617102946927263744?t=meC65qQzBqfZCsWz68Kw8Q&s=09
• [1/22, 9:36 PM] Joshua Ziyambi: Is there no misrepresentation of facts by Mr Chin’ono here. Is it not misleading to give a short clip that may not necessarily give the full information.
• [1/22, 10:12 PM] Edmore Nyamadzi: I think one can further check this on YouTube for details of the whole meeting. Remember this was posted on Twitter where messages and videos are so limited. However, the details from the video are quite clear and understandable
• [1/22, 10:28 PM] Joshua Ziyambi: You are right the full details could be on youTube
• [1/22, 10:32 PM] Mike Hull: In life he who makes the ridiculous statement carries the burden of proof.
• [1/23, 6:14 AM] Mosaics Marufu: Chingono blocked me
• [1/23, 6:15 AM] Mosaics Marufu: Likes no alternative thought, that’s democracy kkk
• [1/23, 6:15 AM] mdmawere1: Good morning
• [1/23, 6:16 AM] mdmawere1: When and why?
• [1/23, 6:18 AM] Mosaics Marufu: My posts against his were not tasty to him.
• [1/23, 6:19 AM] mdmawere1: What posts and when?
• [1/23, 11:08 PM] Fungai Zvinondiramba Makoni: I have followed WaMawere discussing with a lot of professionals about issues that should provoke action however most of the people either admire him, sympathize with him or just think he is pushing his own agenda, I’m not a professional like most of my fellow African brothers who have listened to Mawere but I have understood something from his engagement, and that’s the fact that the SMM and issues associated with the reconstruction of companies in Zimbabwe is not a Mutunwa Mawere issue it’s a matter of public interest which should provoke public action. Unfortunately, the opposite is what is the case with a lot of us except Mupasiri who realized something beyond Mutumwa.
• [1/23, 11:23 PM] Luke Dangirwa: What exactly is Mr. Mutumwa Mawere teaching besides using his painful experience he has gone through the loss of SMM & his Mt. Pleasant home. There is something he is teaching but it’s in parables? Can someone explain?
• [1/23, 11:42 PM] Joshua Ziyambi: That painful experience wins sympathy from people like myself due to human sentiments hence we want to highlight that to discourage such miscarriage of the rule of law in future. We share the same pain because there are a lot more people who share the same experience.  I am also a victim of a similar ordeal though at a small scale. So when i hear the narrative i feel the same pain. This is why I decided to form a sister group if I may call it , to express such views and those that share the same . The subject of discussion might be Mawere but the reality is that many went through the same ordeal.
• [1/24, 12:22 AM] mdmawere1: Thanks. There are people who go through life without any experiences at all that others may wish to learn from.

There are others who are privileged to have organic stories to download.

Sharing is caring yet to others it becomes teaching without understanding that history doesn’t repeat itself but it can provoke paradigm shifts.

@⁨Steve Nyambe⁩ thanks for the chat and learning is a two-way street calling for an exchange of value.

Parables exist to open the minds that thrive on transactional interfaces.

@⁨Luke Dangirwa⁩ you have no duty to understand anything I choose to say let alone if what is said may not prejudice you.

Worry less about a barking dog as long as it does not bite you. A barking dog needs no interpreter at all.  

It would be absurd to expect another to suffer the burden to explain anything to a person who knows all the answers to questions of life.

Some get inspired whilst smart ones get insulted.  No one is born to give answers to what is yet to happen but to talk to what has happened. History is what it is and the future belongs to its creator who has all the answers yet has no duty to explain anything that lies in store.

I never said that I lost SMM yet some would choose to see loss when public power is used.

Active citizenship calls for a different understanding on civics yet many would pretend to be literate when they may not on what the rights and duties of citizenship are and are not.

@⁨Joshua Ziyambi⁩ for stepping up to the plate without expecting any personal outcomes to yourself.

• [1/24, 8:14 AM] Luke Dangirwa: I do not want sympathies from anyone. I commented what I thought would provoke further conversation. Then boom I am now an evil person. Boom my chats with you get posted in the group. I did not judge you Mr. Mawere.
• [1/24, 8:19 AM] Luke Dangirwa: Good morning
• [1/25, 8:46 AM] mdmawere1: SHARING IS CARING

@⁨Thoko Zulu⁩ thanks for caring to call me a bullshitter.

@⁨Josiyanne Bardavid⁩ do you still remember on one of your visit to SA and I took to you Soweto and ended up as the late Winnie Mandela’s house and she said something profound because I had hosted a fundraising dinner that the then President, Thabo Mbeki, was the guest of honor and she was pissed off.

Years later, I met her again through the agency of @⁨Kennedy Kkabo⁩ in connection with a proposal that he had to honor her in the USA.

She agreed and it never happened but the concept of promoting, protecting and celebrating our heritage included people like Winnie leaving a heritage in words and expressions that future generations can mine to deal with their own challenges as the common denominator of humanity is not generational but universal.

• [1/24, 7:51 PM] Thoko Zulu: I remember the Mutumwa Mawere column and l LOVED your bullshit and style of writing 😃😀😄
• [1/24, 7:56 PM] Thoko Zulu: You have posted so many conversations and l have been following some arguments or comments so much that my head is spinning not sure if to turn right or left but as you have mentioned 3 books already at Amazon, l am quite certain there’s enough content for a thousand more books from different approaches by people who have crossed your path
• [1/25, 5:53 AM] mdmawere1: Good morning.
• [1/25, 8:08 AM] Thoko Zulu: Good morning you too my good Sir
• [1/25, 8:12 AM] mdmawere1: This is gross that you would conclude bullshit without any specificity and in doing so deny the reader of the wisdom that is rare to distinguish bullshit from another point of view.
• [1/25, 8:22 AM] Thoko Zulu: Well, maybe my approach is different because as a writer l am extracting and compiling my own version/story from bits and pieces of what I have been reading to see if it’s possible to come up with a credible screenplay for a Mutumwa Mawere “Between My Two Ears” documentary. It’s a process and putting the cart before the horse when l have not even finished the story synopsis or a simple thing as a logline would be self-defeating.
• [1/25, 8:28 AM] Thoko Zulu: … I am not even sure you’ll answer my bullshit personal questions
• [1/25, 8:38 AM] mdmawere1: Because it is coming from you, a living and sovereign creature like me, I would never call your expressed thoughts and conclusions anything but God’s message conveyed through you as a vehicle.

Who am I to then describe God’s message as bullshit because no one compelled you to say what you have said.

I have no influence in what you may wish to say about me but you must remember that was is spoken cannot be withdrawn leading to the inherent abuse being contagious and undermining the promise of community building based on equality.

The idea is not Mutumwa Mawere being the subject for I am also a vessel and not the author.

If what I choose to express by his grace and wisdom is Bullshit, then you need to direct your outrage to him for without his time and grace, nothing will come from me and I am comfortable not sharing his words that you may wish to trash as is often the case.

Do you really think I am so delusional to give up time to record voices including mine and share chats if I was not concerned about the quality of the content and context shared by seemingly enlightened but foolish people like me?

• [1/25, 9:44 AM] mdmawere1: Please join me in welcoming @⁨Colletta Madzvamuse⁩ and @⁨Mr Edward Samakomva⁩ to this group.

As a participant, please ignore the title and focus on sharing your own experiences, insights, ideas and knowledge. There is no leader in this group.

There is no reservoir to hold the content shared and freedom to choose to read or not is the order of the group. Use the group to share, connect, equip and inspire without expecting the readers to respond or respect you for your expression of wisdom or lack of it to them.

BE YOURSELF and refrain from expecting anyone to like what you deem to be of interest to you. Never be angry when some stranger chooses to make you his or her project of attack or ridicule. Life is lived without a guide or compass, to expect anything better from humans of flesh.

FINALLY REFRAIN FROM ASKING WHAT THIS GROUP IS FOR WHEN YOU ARE NOW PART OF ITS SHAPING.

• [1/25, 9:47 AM] Mr Edward Samakomva: Thank you so much
• [1/25, 9:47 AM] mdmawere1: You are welcome. BE A SOLDIER and get on with it.
• [1/25, 9:48 AM] Mr Edward Samakomva: Certainly!
• [1/25, 9:49 AM] mdmawere1: Welcome come on board and fasten your seatbelts without expecting another unknown person to take the next steps so that you complain or leave?
• [1/25, 9:53 AM] Mr Edward Samakomva: I won’t leave will learn from others and share my experiences as much as possible
• [1/25, 9:53 AM] Joshua Ziyambi: Welcome Mr Samakomva we greatly appreciate your being among us
• [1/25, 9:55 AM] mdmawere1: That is the spirit that should characterize life from birth to death yet the reality is otherwise in the prosecution of life.

MR. MUGOTA’S IDEA OF MEMOIR

• It is clear from the above that Mr. Mugota’s idea of a memoir was primarily focused at the facts and circumstances of the acquisition of SMMH, the growth, diversification, and the divestment and deprivation of the control and management of SMM and related companies pursuant to the reconstruction decree and subsequent law.

This is what Mr. Mugota said to Mr. Nyamadzi: “The man is a walking thesaurus and sharing his experiences by documenting them would create a record for posterity and be a lesson to all future generations.  To me the man was a hero and role model he still is today as he was there. A genius. He is sui generis.  I wish he records his life experiences before death robs us of him…”

• Mr. Mugota did not insist that the narrative be done by Mr. Mawere and he was open to an author being tasked with the responsibility of writing a biography of Mr. Mawere. He just vocalized what he felt needed to be done for posterity without prescribing what should be done or not.
• A person like Mr. Zimuto correctly captured what Mr. Mugore identified as a problem statement, that a gap exists between the reality of the SMM affair and what exists in the public domain.  In the premises, Mr. Zimuto stated that: “I fully support Mr Mugota’s idea of a memoir.

Regardless of what happened, you are a true story of black excellence and we grow up looking up to you as a role model and source of inspiration.

Your story needs to be told and serves as a lesson to all.

A lot of bias and misinformation is in the public domain hence the need to set the facts straight.

I have joined the WhatsApp group BOAF and stand ready to play my part in any way possible.

• The question should not be about what Mr. Mawere thinks of the idea of documenting the facts as they existed and storing the facts in a secure place for future generations not to be left wondering as to what happened to permit public power to be used to destroy the hopes and aspirations of so many under the guise of reconstruction.