Source: Party splashes on cars for top chefs –Newsday Zimbabwe
Zanu PF top chefs carsZANU PF has splashed millions of dollars on cars, party regalia and improving the welfare for its chefs ahead of next year’s polls.
This is despite that the majority of citizens in the country are wallowing in poverty.
The party’s central committee (CC) report to the 7th National People’s Congress, which was held in Harare last week, readily admits that the majority of people in the country are wallowing in poverty.
The report states that in 2017, before the late former President Robert Mugabe was removed from power, the party only had 45 vehicles.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has boosted the fleet to 531 vehicles — the largest in Zanu PF’s history.
At the weekend, Zanu PF was in the eye of a storm after it emerged that it bought top-of-the-range vehicles for the provincial leaders of the women’s league, and the newly-formed war veterans’ league despite the deteriorating economy.
The central committee report also revealed that for the elective congress, which ended on Saturday the ruling party spent $1,8 billion and over US$4,8 million from January to September on staff salaries, gratuities, transport, health and allowances for party bigwigs among other expenses.
“In 2018, the Zanu PF party acquired an additional 438 new motor vehicles bringing the fleet size to 486,” the report read.
“In 2020, the department of transport and social welfare received 15 new Isuzu double cab vehicles from the party treasury, bringing the fleet size to 501. Between December 2021 and September 2022, his Excellency the President and first secretary of the Zanu PF party, Comrade Dr Ed Mnangagwa donated 30 double cab vehicles to the party bringing the current fleet size to 531. Accordingly, the department of transport and social welfare remains grateful to leadership for this, and other interventions that saw unprecedented acquisition of the biggest motor vehicle fleet in the history of the party.”
The report claimed that Zanu PF sources its funds from membership subscriptions, donations, allocations from government under the Political Parties Finance Act and “investments”.
In the report, Zanu PF also acknowledged that the majority of Zimbabweans were not formally employed but earned their living from the informal sector, which it described as the “new mass employer.”
“Vending has become the major safety net for most people who predominantly are women. The lack of formality makes entry (easy), however, this flexibility of informality is accompanied by many hazards, for example, running battles with the law enforcement agents and losing money to imposters of state agents and also space barons,” the report read.
“The resurgence of street money changers has posed even greater risk as this high value trade operates on streets outside the secure banking system. Cross border trading is another age-old trade that has gained prominence by the year and has become the lifeline for most homes.”
At his inauguration in 2017, Mnangagwa pledged to create more jobs.
The latest ZimStat survey on the labour force showed that half of youths in the country aged 15 to 34 years were loafers, with no employment, education or training (50%).
Human rights organisations have red-flagged lavish lifestyles of the elite in the country at a time when ordinary citizens are struggling to put food onthe table due to economic hardships.
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And this will help the poor people who are starving, and appease the ancestral spirits of the 25 000 innocent victims that Mugabe, ED and Shiri butchered in Matabeleland? Zanu are all fired up about some sculls from the UK – but Zanu is still creating hundreds of sculls of its own in Zimbabwe. Like the Russians and the Nazi’s – they use people like Tongogara, Rex Nhongo, Maurice Nyagumbo and Perrence Shiri – and SB Moyo for that matter – then suddenly decided that they need a few more high profile sculls – and next thing those top echelon Mujibas disappear from black magic. Tongogara was bumped off before Zimbabwe arrived. Nhongo was burnt to death in a concrete home with an asbestos roof, and Shiri was gone in a flash like SB Moyo and Biggie Matiza. All Zanu Black Magic and now they have Ford Rangers to lift the pace of Black magic – beating up MPs in Matabeleland but detaining CCC or ZAPU members, and destroying the Malunga’s farm in Nyamadhlovu. Sanctions are there for a very good set of reasons – Black Magic in Zanu.
Ndebele, of course the ancestors are smiling from ear to ear. I am just being facetious here. In reality, ZANUPF’s crimes scream to the heavens for retribution. ZANUPF does not have a conscious. The people of Zimbabwe are wallowing in poverty, yet ZANUPF is spending millions of dollars on top of the range ” cars, party regalia and improving the welfare for its chefs ahead of next year’s polls”. I don’t know how the leaders in ZANUPF sleep at night. They must have access to good sleeping tablets. But then they have access to the nations treasury so they can afford to buy excellent sleeping aids.
Chefs?
Ndebele, of course the ancestors are smiling from ear to ear. I am just being facetious here. In reality, ZANUPF’s crimes scream to the heavens for retribution. ZANUPF does not have a conscious. The people of Zimbabwe are wallowing in poverty, yet ZANUPF is spending millions of dollars on top of the range ” cars, party regalia and improving the welfare for its chefs ahead of next year’s polls”. I don’t know how the leaders in ZANUPF sleep at night. They must have access to good sleeping tablets. But then they have access to the nations treasury so they can afford to buy excellent sleeping aids.