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Businessman James Makamba has reportedly been abandoned by his supporters after he endorsed aspiring Mashonaland Central provincial chairman Kazembe Kazembe ahead of tomorrow’s provincial election.
Makamba’s backers are said to be now rallying behind another businessman, Tafadzwa Musarara, who is believed to be Kazembe’s main challenger.
Last week, ZANU PF’s highest decision-making organ outside congress, the Politburo, disqualified Makamba after his candidature was dismissed by the country’s security chiefs.
His alleged previous romantic affair with former first lady Grace Mugabe was cited as one of the reasons behind the disqualification.
During his campaign, Makamba had drawn up ten points that he used to severely criticise Kazembe.
He characterised Kazembe as a highly divisive, weak, and uncharismatic leader whose chairmanship had divided the province.
Makamba’s supporters accused him of hypocrisy and double standards in their WhatsApp group on Monday following his volte-face. One supporter wrote:
<blockquote>
I want to ask you, what has now changed that you are now backing the same man you have been severely criticising?
You are being sadistic in that you want the province to remain divided and despised.
You complained that Kazembe was vindictive and wanted to get you arrested on trumped-up charges.
You complained that your accounts were being closely monitored by Kazembe Kazembe. Tell us cde, were you telling us the truth or lying?
You painted a vivid picture of a bad cde Kazembe in our minds who is unsellable and unmarketable.
By endorsing Kazembe, you have pushed us to endorse Cde Musarara who is representing a new era and epoch in the history of Mashonaland Central.
We will walk with cde Musarara from seed level to flowering and then to fruit level have shared a piece of my mind with you. 
Let’s usher in a new way of doing things in our province on December 28. Ichoooo!
</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/makamba-supporters-desert-him-as-he-endorses-kazembe-kazembe/">NewZimbabwe.com</a></h4>

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Makamba Deserted By Supporters For Endorsing Kazembe

Prominent businessman and ZANU PF politician James Makamba has finally got back his shopping complex on Maryvale Farm in Mazowe.
The shopping centre on the farm, the Blue Ridge Spar or Sweet Valley supermarket and two adjacent shops were all returned to Makamba.
The Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement Perrance Shiri yesterday confirmed the return of Makamba’s properties and said while the process of demarcating boundaries and paperwork was still in progress, Makamba can go ahead and utilise the shopping centre.
Makamba was allocated the farm during the land reform programme at the turn of the Millenium and went on to build a complex.
However, following a nasty fallout with the then President Robert Mugabe, Makamba fled the country and the complex was closed.
Makamba returned to Zimbabwe in late 2017 following Mugabe’s ouster from office in a popular military coup.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/makamba-gets-shopping-centre-back/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Herald</a></h4>

Makamba Gets Back Properties He Lost After Nasty Fallout With Mugabe

Renowned entrepreneur and ZANU PF politician James Makamba has expressed his deep sorrow and sadness following the passing away of his son, Zororo, who succumbed to coronavirus on Monday last week.
Posting on social media, Makamba revealed that he and his wife Irene have now lost three of their children. <a href="https://twitter.com/MakambaJames/status/1244541799512920064?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">He wrote:</a>
<blockquote>On Monday 23 March our beloved son, Zororo Makamba succumbed to the #Covid_19 virus. There is no loss more painful and enduring than that of parents losing their child. My wife, Irene and myself have experienced this pain no fewer than three times.
Our two surviving children, Kushinga and Tawanda also went through the deep pain of losing three siblings.
The Makamba family expresses deep gratitude to friends and relatives who comforted us in difficult circumstances of social distance and quarantine.
We thank them all for their prayers and thoughts. We were touched that many people recognised Zororo’s immense talent as a communicator. His loss is thus not confined to his family and friends.
The country and the profession lost an outstanding talent.
For that, we are extremely proud and grateful. Zororo, your name demands that you rest in peace. The family and all those whose lives you touched will always love you and thank you for your short but highly productive life.
#RememberingZororo 
#RIPZororoMakamba 
#Resilience</blockquote>
Zororo died at Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital where he had been admitted after he tested positive for COVID-19.
He was buried a day later, having become the first officially confirmed coronavirus casualty in Zimbabwe.

James Makamba Reveals Pain Of Losing Three Children

Makamba family has fumed over the government’s lack of adequate preparation for coronavirus which it says contributed immensely to the death of the 30-year-old journalist Zororo Makamba.
Family spokesperson Tawanda Makamba, elder brother to Zororo, spoke to Daily News reporter Sindiso Mhlope and below is the verbatim extract.
<blockquote>Zororo was in New York for 20 days and when he came back he had a slight flue, a cold. He then went to his general practitioner and they checked him for coronavirus symptoms and they said he didn’t have them at the time. 
He was just told that he had a cough and a flue because in New York it’s cold and here it’s hot, so they then treated him for flue and he came back home.
On Friday last week, he started developing a fever and his doctor recommended that he had to be admitted. This is because Zororo had a tumour removed from just under his left lung last year in November and he was under an 18-month recovery time-frame. 
His immune system was already compromised, so the doctor was very keen that he gets into the hospital and receives proper medication to help him get over the flu and fever.
He was further advised to go to Wilkins Hospital to test for the coronavirus. He arrived at Wilkins Hospital by 10 am and samples were collected from him and we were told that the results would be in after 6 hours.  
After 6 hours there were no results and his general practitioner called to find out why the results had not been availed yet. The hospital’s officials then told the GPA that they had not run the tests yet they were waiting for samples from provincial hospitals to run them all at once.
The doctor got frustrated and started questioning why they had not run the tests given that Zororo’s condition was deteriorating. After some time they then decided to run the test and in the meantime, we took him home and he needed oxygen. 
His GPA phoned around and an ambulance came home to deliver the oxygen and then we got the positive results for coronavirus at about 1:30 or 2:00 am the following day.
They told us that now that they had confirmed that he had the virus he had to be taken to the Wilkins Hospital for treatment. 
We then inquired if we could him bring immediately and we were told that the hospital was not ready to receive coronavirus patients. 
So in the morning we waited and waited and they were still not ready to admit him. He ended up being admitted around 10 am and 11 am.
His doctor made it clear earlier on that he had to be on a ventilator because he could not breathe. However, when we got at Wilkins Hospital there was no ventilator, no medication and even the oxygen would run out and they had to get it from the City of Harare. 
After that, we ran around to find a ventilator for him and we managed to get a portable ventilator from a family friend who had a relative who used the ventilator before he died. 
In terms of medicine you need to breathe, they didn’t have it there, we had to go and buy it in South Africa. We ended up finding some today (yesterday)just as he was passing away at a local pharmacy, yet the hospital was telling us it was not locally available.
We then brought the ventilator on Sunday by 2 pm and when we got here because the portable ventilator had an American plug, they told us to get an adapter because they only had round sockets at the hospital. I then rushed to buy an adapter and came back and they never used it and when I asked why they were not using the ventilator they said they had no sockets in his room. So they didn’t have medication, ventilators and we brought them a ventilator and they didn’t have sockets in his room. I told them that I had an extension cord and pleaded with them to use the cord, but they refused.
They forced us to come here but failed to deliver on their promise. When Zororo had his operation, he had it at Health Point Clinic. I contacted the people at Health Point and asked if they were willing to take Zororo in and they said yes and that they had already set up a facility to accommodate him.  
We then appealed to Health minister Obadiah Moyo that since you are not prepared at Wilkins Hospital can we take him to Health Point and he refused. 
Minister Moyo said we could not take him there and that needed to be treated at Wilkins. We were puzzled and wondered how he could say that Zororo should be treated at Wilkins when they don’t even have plugs in his room to connect the ventilator. 
He promised us all sorts of things that this morning (yesterday) they would definitely be a ventilator and equipment but nothing materialised. If you go inside there you will see that they are not prepared to handle cases this side.
The minister at some point also suggested that we could take him to a trauma centre in Borrowdale. When it was now time for us to go to Borrowdale trauma they refused us to go there. Instead, they got the owner of Borrowdale Trauma Centre to call me and he told me that he could come and set up an ICU at Wilkins for Zororo complete with a ventilator and monitors, but he said that we had to pay US$120 000 for the equipment. 
He added that once Zororo finishes using the equipment and recovers we had to donate the equipment to Wilkins Hospital. So basically the hospital wanted us to buy the equipment for them. We don’t have US$120 000 and it is not our responsibility to buy equipment for the government.
On top of that, remember this is a critical patient, nurses would only visit him after two hours because they were afraid of handling his situation. We had to phone from home, calling the nurse station to tell them that Zororo was in distress and that his oxygen was finished because they were not going to check on him. 
It even got to a point where they were telling us that we are bothering them but Zororo was struggling in there. My mother and his fiancé have been parked out here for the past two days and they wouldn’t allow us to come in. 
The minister lied to us on many occasions. He lied to us that they were going to bring equipment and doctors but nothing ever materialised. We reached out to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa who promised us that Zororo could be transferred to Beatrice and that there was a room for him. Nothing came out of this.
We even appealed to them saying that if they have failed then they should allow us to take him home and treat him ourselves because really what he needed was oxygen. At the end, before he died, he kept telling us that he was alone and scared and the staff was refusing to help him to a point where he got up and tried to walk out and they were trying to restrain him. So this is how my younger brother ended up dying. I want people to know that the government is lying. 
Remember at some point I spoke to the president and he was saying that the report he received about Wilkins from the Health Minister is that there is equipment and medicine. However, right now they don’t even have water at Wilkins. So if you come here to be treated for corona there is absolutely no treatment you will get, you will die. 
I am not a healthcare giver but I have respect for nurses and doctors. The doctor we were in contact with here at Wilkins would turn off his phone yet he was the critical contact person, the nurses also refused to help us. 
So people need to know that the government is ill-prepared, it is not ready to deal with this virus. 
 Right now we have been outside since 12pm and they have not given us his body, neither have they told us the way forward. Zororo passed away between 11 am and 12 pm today (yesterday) and the hospital called us to come and look at his body. When we got there, we were, however, told that they had already put his body in a body bag and taken it to the mortuary. 
Until now at 5 pm we have been waiting for further communication and they have not even given us any of his belongings. This is such a heart-breaking experience for us and it goes to show the lack of seriousness our government has in dealing with the coronavirus.</blockquote>

FULL TEXT: Makamba Family Opens Up On Zororo's Death, Exposes Govt's Ill-Preparedness To Contain Coronavirus

Grain Millers Association Of Zimbabwe Boss <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Tafadzwa_Musarara">Tafadzwa Musarara</a> will this week appear before the Wadyajena led agriculture committee to explain how GMAZ used the money it received from the government, The Standard reports.
But sources that spoke to the publication say Musarara, who has appeared before the committee several times is only suffering because he contested against Wadyajena’s ally <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Kazembe_Kazembe">Kazembe Kazembe</a> and his supporters accused Kazembe Kazembe of rigging the elections by not sending ballot papers to Musarara’s strongholds.
A source that spoke to the publication said:
<blockquote>We believe Kazembe is behind the wars between Wadyajena and Musarara. Wadyajena and Kazembe are known allies.
District coordinating committee elections and provincial elections are due any time and Kazembe is likely to be challenged by businessman James Makamba
He believes Musarara is backing Makamba and, therefore, there is a strong belief that he is using Parliament to get at Musarara.
Remember last year, Kazembe touched off a storm when he declared that he would deal ruthlessly with anyone who wanted to challenge him for the position of provincial chairmanship, which he said he still wanted</blockquote>
Musarara was also named and shamed by suspended Zanu Pf youth league officials who <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/02/03/zanu-pf-youths-name-looters-wreaking-havoc-on-the-economy/">said he is behind some of the cartels wreaking havoc in the economy. </a>
More: <a href="https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2020/02/23/zanu-pf-factions-square-off-parly/">The  Standard </a>

Kazembe Kazembe Using His Friendship With Wadyajena To Fight Political Wars With GMAZ's Tafadzwa Musarara In Parliament - Report

James Makamba’s Kestrel Corporation (Private) Limited has been put under provisional judicial management over a US$2,8 million debt. The debt arises from a transaction involving Empowerment Corporation (EC).
George Manyere who owns EC said indicated that the parties signed two agreements of sale for the purchase of 69% of Kestrel shares in EC. He also revealed that Makamba continually avoided completion of the sale of the shares despite fulfilment of all set conditions.
He believes that placing Kestrel under provisional judicial management allows proper and objective consideration of all of its affairs, its management, liabilities and obligations.
<blockquote>It is applicant’s prayer that respondent company be placed under provisional judicial management to that its assets, particularly the shares in EC are protected from other legal action occasioned by Makamba’s mismanagement of the respondent to the prejudice of the applicants.</blockquote>
On March 19, Bulawayo High Court judge, Justice Thompson Mabhikwa placed Kestrel Corporation under provisional judicial management. Mabhikwa said:
<blockquote>…..the respondent, Kestrel Corporation (Private) Limited, be and is hereby placed under provisional judicial management and subject to the supervision of this court, shall be under the management of a provisional judicial manager appointed in terms of 299 of the Companies Act but according to section 300 of this Act.</blockquote>
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More: <a href="https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2019/03/31/debt-haunts-makamba-firm/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Standard</a>

Makamba's Company Under Provincial Judicial Management Over Debt

In a video posted on his Twitter account, James Makamba praised President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s economic policies.
Makamba praised Mnangagwa’s ‘Zimbabwe is open for business’ mantra as well as the efforts to reengage with the West. Said Makamba:
<blockquote>Since taking the oath of office, the President has declared ‘Zimbabwe open for business’, embraced new freedoms and emphasised on re-engagement in defiance of isolation abroad. The UN has called for the international community to invest in Zimbabwe.</blockquote>
More: <a href="http://www.chronicle.co.zw/makamba-praises-eds-economic-reforms/">Chronicle</a>

James Makamba Praises Mnangagwa's Economic Policies

The saga as Telecel Zimbabwe seems to be ongoing after businessman James Makamba disputed reports that he resigned as Telecel chairperson at an Extraordinary General Meeting held last week. Makamba has been involved in a battle for control of some of the shares in Telecel with his former lawyer Gerald Mlotshwa.  His lawyers Chinyama &amp; Partners released a statement saying:
<blockquote>RE: STATEMENT OF FACTUAL POSITION
We have been instructed by Dr. James Makamba our client and owner of investment vehicle known as Kestrel Corporation (Private) Limited to correct certain factual inaccuracies in media reports which claim that an Extra Ordinary General Meeting was held on the 7th of June 2018 at 8:30 am at Telecel Zimbabwe (Private) Limited boardroom wherein our client Dr.
James Makamba is alleged to have sold his Equity in Telecel Zimbabwe (Private) Limited and that he agreed to step down as Chairman of the Board of Telecel Zimbabwe (Private) Limited and as Director in Telecel Zimbabwe (Private) Limited.
Our instructions are that our client has never resigned a Director or Chairman of the Board of Directors of Telecel Zimbabwe (Private) Limited.
Further that, no Extra Ordinary General Meeting of Telecel Zimbabwe (Private) Limited took place on the 7th of June 2018 and, our client denies disposing of any of his Telecel Zimbabwe (Private) Limited Shares to anyone neither has he received any consideration in exchange of such purported transaction.
Lastly, our client instructs that at one stage he wanted to sell his Equity to a certain consortium which failed to fulfil the terms of their conditional purchase and sale agreement which saw him writing a conditional letter of resignation which could only have been effective upon the meeting of conditions in the conditional agreement of sale.
The person purporting to have signed the resolution is not the Company Secretary of Telecel Zimbabwe (Private) Limited neither does the person have authority to act in the manner he did.
CHINYAMA &amp; PARTNERS</blockquote>

Full Text: James Makamba Refutes That He Sold His Telecel Shares Or Resigned As Chairperson

Businessman James Makamba who was in self-imposed exile for the past 12 years is close to leaving Telecel after his former lawyer, Gerald Mlotshwa, called for the resumption of an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) to adopt Makamba’s resignation.  Mlotshwa is also President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s son-in-law. The EGM will be a continuation of the meeting held in August 2017 which was not concluded. Sources who spoke to The Zimbabwe Independent said,
<blockquote>In August 2017, an EGM was called by James Makamba and attended by Jane Mutasa, representing Empowerment Corporation, as well as Vengai Madzima, who was also standing in for Mlotshwa of Empowerment Corporation. The EGM, after passing one resolution, adjourned indefinitely to allow government to appoint its own director to the Telecel board. The idea was that, once the directors were appointed, the EGM would resume.  The EGM is now resuming. Its main intention will note the resignation of Makamba from the Telecel board as a director and chairman.</blockquote>
Mlotshwa and Makamba have been previously reported as fighting for control of Telecel.
More: <a href="https://www.theindependent.co.zw/2018/05/24/battle-telecel-control-intensifies/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Zimbabwe Independent</a>

Mnangagwa's Son-In-Law Calls For Resumption Of Telecel EGM To Adopt James Makamba's Resignation

In an interview with The Herald at Stodart Hall in Mbare yesterday, Zanu-PF’s national elections commission (NEC)  chairperson Retired Lieutenant-General Engelbert Rugeje confirmed the disqualification of James Makamba (Mount Darwin South) and Flora Boka (Gokwe Nembudziya).
An audio clip of Makamba leaked where the businessman could be heard plotting a sponsored smear campaign against fellow Zanu-PF members in the press. Makamba admitted that the voice in the audio clip is his although he said a lot of editing had been done. Said Makamba:
<blockquote>
Yes the voice in the audio recording is mine but what I can tell you is there was a lot of editing done for reasons known to the person who leaked the audio
</blockquote>
Last week Tuesday, Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairperson Kazembe Kazembe announced that Makamba had been disqualified because he does not meet the criteria set for aspiring candidates to contest in the party primary elections. Makamba however remained adamant saying that  he had not heard about his disqualification from any Zanu-PF official.

Zanu-PF Confirms James Makamba's Disqualification From Primary Elections

Businessman James Makamba who returned home today after more than 10 years in self-imposed exile said that he heeded the call made by President Emmerson Mnangagwa for Zimbabweans in the diaspora to come back home and rebuild the country.
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Statement on <a href="https://twitter.com/MakambaJames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MakambaJames</a> arrival back in Zimbabwe <a href="https://twitter.com/ZimMediaReview?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ZimMediaReview</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/263Chat?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@263Chat</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/nqabamatshazi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nqabamatshazi</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NewsDayZimbabwe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NewsDayZimbabwe</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/HeraldZimbabwe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HeraldZimbabwe</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BrezhMalaba?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BrezhMalaba</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/harumutasa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@harumutasa</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/shingainyoka?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@shingainyoka</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/robynkriel1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@robynkriel1</a> <a href="https://t.co/1ebgsx511J">pic.twitter.com/1ebgsx511J</a>
— Zororo Makamba (@ZororoMakamba) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZororoMakamba/status/940969774867206145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Video: James Makamba Says He Has Answered Mnangagwa's Call To Come Back Home And Rebuild The Country

Entrepreneur and former politician James Makamba arrived back in Zimbabwe after spending more than 10 years in self-imposed exile. Makamba left the country in 2005, after being arrested for allegedly illegally dealing in foreign currency without a licence. His return may be tied to President Robert Mugabe’s resignation last month.
Makamba was the brains behind Zimbabwe’s first privately-owned broadcasting station Joy Television (Joy TV), which used to lease Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation’s second colour television channel from 1997 to 2002. However, the station was forced to close down in 2002, after licensing problems.
His son, Zororo Makamba tweeted:
<blockquote>Aiwa, zvaita Murehwa, zvaita Mukanya. Welcome home, Baba! All glory to God</blockquote>
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More: <a href="http://www.zbc.co.zw/2017/12/13/james-makamba-back-in-zim/">ZBC News</a>
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James Makamba Returns To Zim After Self-Imposed Exile

In emailed responses to NewsDay, James Makamba’s Empowerment Corporation Private Limited (EC) corporate adviser Tapiwa Shamu confirmed that they are in talks to sell their 40% stake in Telecel Zimbabwe.
He said that he would give more details when the negotiations reach a conclusion. Said Shamu:
<blockquote>I can confirm that EC is currently in discussions with potential purchasers. TZL is an attractive asset in a high-growth sector with a strong market position, so we have received a number of approaches as you would expect over time. The discussions are, as is customary in these types of transactions, covered by confidentiality clauses so I cannot provide any details at this stage. Should the negotiations reach a conclusion, whether in a transaction or not, I will be sure to brief the media promptly.</blockquote>
Last week, Information Communication Technology minister Supa Mandiwanzira disclosed that the government wants to buy the remaining 40% shares in Telecel Zimbabwe to make it a parastatal.
More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2017/08/07/makamba-dispose-stake-telecel/">NewsDay</a>

James Makamba to sell Telecel shares

During a press conference held yesterday, Norton MP, <a href="http://www.pindula.co.zw/Temba_Mliswa">Temba Mliswa</a> announced that his formation of independents under the banner Third Force is courting some prominent businesspersons to come and stand as its presidential candidate.
Said Mliswa:
<blockquote>We are looking at an outsider, who can lead, such as established business people like <a href="http://www.pindula.co.zw/Mthuli_Ncube">Mthuli Ncube</a>, <a href="http://www.pindula.co.zw/Nkosana_Moyo">Nkosana Moyo</a> and James Makamba. We are also talking to Diasporans, who are proven like former banker, <a href="http://www.pindula.co.zw/James_Mushore">James Mushore</a> or even the reluctant <a href="http://www.pindula.co.zw/Strive_Masiyiwa">Strive Masiyiwa</a>.</blockquote>
Mliswa said Zimbabweans were generally losing faith in established political parties, hence, the need to form a Third Force. Mliswa also revealed former Zanu PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu had joined his movement.
More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2017/01/18/mliswa-courts-masiyiwa/">NewsDay</a>

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