*From Criminals Surrounding the Presidency to Criminals Occupying the Presidency: Meet the Mnangagwas, Zimbabwe's New BSAC*
By Tafadzwa Munjanja
*How does a 22 year old side chick of President Mnangagwa's son own properties worth 10 million US dollars?*
Fellow Zimbabweans, this is a question lingering in the minds of all right thinking citizens. This past week, Collins Mnangagwa's 22 year old mistress, Kelsea Tafirenyika, was re arrested shortly after her release from remand prison. On top of charges relating to dealing in dangerous drugs, Mnangagwa's daughter in law is facing charges of money laundering involving more than 10 million US dollars.
Yes, dear reader, you heard correctly. 10 million US dollars for a 22 year old whose only qualification is being a mistress to one of Mnangagwa's twin sons.
The infighting, accusations, and counter accusations between the Mnangagwas, as epitomised by the First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa and her estranged daughter in law Kelsea, have opened a can of worms on how the Mnangagwas are looting the country dry.
*The Mnangagwas, Zimbabwe's New BSAC!*
In 1889, a British imperialist, Cecil John Rhodes, secured the Royal Charter, a document that entitled him and his company, the British South Africa Company (BSAC), to have direct control of the land north of the Limpopo on behalf of the British Crown.
The company, which had a Loot Committee, committed what some historians termed a colossal stroke of thievery or a stock exchange swindle. They controlled millions of acres of land, minerals, and mining rights, on top of a large herd of cattle looted from Africans.
Company rule in Southern Rhodesia was marked by capitalistic extraction, looting, forced labour, and exploitation of Africans.
Forty-six years after independence, Zimbabwe is faced with a similar situation in the form of Mnangagwa's so-called Second Republic. After removing Robert Mugabe via a coup in 2017, Mnangagwa's coup plotters told the nation that they were targeting criminals surrounding the Presidency.
Ironically, Mnangagwa, his family, and his inner circle of cartels like Wicknell Chivhayo and Kudakwashe Tagwirei, who are now running the show, have proved to be the real criminals occupying the President's Office.
Named by Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia documentary as the kingpin of gold smuggling and money laundering, Mnangagwa has proved to be the archbishop of corruption and looting in this country.
We are in trouble, fellow Zimbabweans, if we do not act now. We must stop Mnangagwa before he turns our country into a personal property like what Rhodes did with BSAC.
#RejectCAA3
#MnangagwaMustFall
*Tafadzwa Munjanja is the Chief Ambassador of the National Democratic Working Group (NDWG). Here, he writes in his own capacity*
Their doomed next assignment / project that they are mischievously trying to weaponise is @Cde_Ostallos.
They choose a prominent candidate & unleash a deluge of carefully curated insincere glorification & ingratiation to sow seeds of doubt, division & rivalriness at the heart of Chamisa's camp.
That's the script. They deploy their famed political kiss of death to propel their chosen fall guy to political oblivion.
Once their evil deed is complete, they decamp & set off for the next assignment.
Unfortunately for them, it's now a well worn script which will remain stuck on ground zero!
I come back with the same line of questions that I have previously asked. In whose service are they carrying out these assignments?
In the name of accountability? Of journalism? Ye right!
Has Hopewell ever told you where he intends to take us after he has buried Chamisa?
That is the question Zimbabweans should start asking.
For years, the message has increasingly been the same:
Chamisa is incompetent.
Chamisa has no structures.
Chamisa created a personality cult.
Chamisa failed Sikhala.
Chamisa destroyed CCC.
Chamisa is the problem.
Okay, Hopewell.
Suppose tomorrow you finally succeed.
Suppose every Zimbabwean accepts your thesis. Chamisa is politically buried. His credibility is destroyed. The millions who rallied behind him lose confidence in him.
THEN WHAT?
Where are you taking those people?
Who is your viable alternative?
Who commands anything remotely resembling Chamisa’s national constituency?
Who has demonstrated an ability to mobilise millions against ZANU-PF?
Because this is where your crusade becomes increasingly suspicious to me.
You aren’t building an alternative. You aren’t showing Zimbabweans a better vehicle. You are relentlessly dismantling confidence in the one opposition politician who has repeatedly demonstrated mass electoral appeal.
And your latest response exposes another contradiction.
You demand that Chamisa “produce the evidence” — the constitution and organogram.
Yet in the same response, you introduce an explosive allegation about a supposedly private conversation in which Chamisa allegedly told you that Job Sikhala was working with Chiwenga, based on information supposedly supplied by some unnamed imprisoned MP.
Okay.
WHERE ARE YOUR RECEIPTS, HOPEWELL?
Who is this MP?
When exactly did this conversation happen?
What evidence corroborates your version?
You cannot appoint yourself Zimbabwe’s prosecutor of evidence while expecting us to accept your own explosive allegations merely because you said so.
And that brings me to what really troubles me.
What is Hopewell’s endgame?
Who does this relentless vitriol against Chamisa ultimately serve?
Look at the political wreckage around this campaign. Biti and Sikhala have been pulled away from Chamisa. Young politicians who once stood within the same broad democratic movement have turned viciously against him. Hopewell has repeatedly amplified the divisions, suspicions and grievances surrounding Chamisa.
Whether every one of those outcomes can be attributed directly to Hopewell is another question. But the pattern and political effect deserve scrutiny.
Because it increasingly seems to me as though Hopewell’s political mission has been to dismantle Chamisa as the focal point of Zimbabwe’s opposition — albeit, so far, dismally.
And that is why I have come to believe Hopewell is CIO and a plant.
But Zimbabweans should ask the question for themselves:
After years of attacking Chamisa, fracturing confidence, elevating internal disputes and helping turn opposition figures against one another—
WHAT IS HIS ENDGAME?
And perhaps more importantly:
WHO IS SERVED IF HOPEWELL FINALLY SUCCEEDS IN DESTROYING CHAMISA?
Why is it so difficult to count votes when counting an equivalent amount in money is done so efficiently, in minutes .
I watched one million dollars( $1m )being counted in some two churches recently - very fast and in record time !
But Politicians will take days , sometimes weeks to count anything under 10 million ballots and account for them !
@DavidColtart It's a criminal offence to those without links to the political elite! Yet ordinary people we daily fight each other to protect the wants of these vampires.
What I find astonishing about what is happening in South Africa is that the perpetrators of xenophobic and Afrophobic violence against foreign nationals are not only committing these acts, but are actually recording them and deliberately sharing the videos on social media so that they go viral.
One has to ask; why would anyone film themselves committing acts of violence, upload the evidence for the world to see, and apparently believe there will be no consequences?
Even more astonishing is that many of these videos are celebrated and applauded by like-minded individuals, while those responsible often appear to face little or no accountability.
The damage this is doing to South Africa’s international reputation is beyond dispute. Every viral video sends the same message to the rest of the world, that South Africa is violent, xenophobic and Afrophobic.
Whether that perception reflects the views of the majority of South Africans or not, it is the image that is being projected globally because the perpetrators themselves are creating and distributing the evidence.
What is even more troubling is the apparent lack of decisive action. If people openly record themselves committing acts of violence, circulate those videos online and are not swiftly identified, arrested and prosecuted, what message does that send?
It creates the impression that such behaviour is tolerated or carries little risk of punishment by the state.
How, then, can anyone convincingly argue that South Africa is not struggling with xenophobia or Afrophobia when some South Africans are themselves documenting these violent attacks, sharing them with the world and, in many cases, being cheered on for doing so? What kind of mentality willingly damages the reputation of its own country in this way?
A country’s reputation is one of its most valuable national assets. It influences tourism, foreign investment, international partnerships and the confidence of skilled professionals considering whether to live and work there.
Every time one of these videos is uploaded and allowed to circulate without meaningful consequences, that reputation suffers another blow.
The world is watching. And when the perpetrators become the country’s own public relations department, broadcasting violence instead of condemning it, the reputational damage is inevitable and profound.
@DavidColtart@SADC_News@MYANC@CyrilRamaphosa No any current president of SADC countries will speak out and come to the rescue of Zimbabwe. The bill is now law and as Zimbabweans like sheep we will move on quietly to the slaughter house.
@nelsonchamisa@citizenactionz@mamakaCleo Politics is about harnessing emotions. CAB3, immigration crisis in SA, violence against foreigners, displacement of people, unemployment, rotten infrastructure, poor governance, compromised MPs. Hopefully this is not a missed opportunity to launch a citizen driven party.
On 18 June 2026, at around 1 PM, I was on my way to the University of Zimbabwe bus stop to catch a kombi into town when I was approached by a young woman with braids wearing a pink jacket. She stopped me and said, “Sister, please wait.”
She then claimed that I had dropped a pink wallet. I told her that I did not own any pink wallet. She then said that another woman had picked up the wallet and that she had found money inside it. She suggested that if the wallet was not mine, we could all share the money.
The woman she referred to was wearing an orange skirt and was walking ahead of us. When she was called over, she stopped and pretended to confirm that the wallet did not belong to me.
Before they could continue with their story, I switched on my phone camera and started recording. I confronted them and asked if they were not ashamed of trying to scam people in Mt Pleasant using the well-known “chadonha” trick.
What I did not know was that they had a getaway vehicle nearby. The driver noticed that I was recording and signalled to them. The woman in the pink jacket then said something to the effect of, “Should we go back?” They immediately ran towards a vehicle and quickly got inside before driving away.
The vehicle they used was a Honda Fit, registration number AGO 2350.
@PoliceZimbabwe
@advocatemahere@that_Mushona There are many South African companies operating in Zimbabwe and also on a daily basis we use South African products and even music we listen to it. Why are we not boycotting these? Not every South African is Xenophobia or Afrophobia. Zanu Pf created this crisis.
@SABCNews@MbuyiseniNdlozi Ronwen and your Bafana Bafana speak out against Xenophobia and Afrophobia. Africans don't hate South Africa but the behaviour shown by a small group of South Africans towards black Africans in SA. The very minimal action against these criminals by the authorities.