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Zanu PF businessmen Mike Chimombe, Mpofu locked up over botched Presidential Goat Scheme
By Mary Taruvinga
CONTROVERSIAL businessmen Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu have been sent to Remand Prison awaiting their bail determination.
The two appeared before Harare magistrate Marewanazvo Gofa who upheld the State&#;s application to postpone the matter to this Thursday to allow the State to lead evidence from investigating officers.
Chimombe (43) and Mpofu (49) are facing fraud charges after they allegedly fleeced the government in a shadowy contract to supply goats in the US$88 million Presidential Goat pass-on scheme.
The duo&#;s lawyers, Ashiel Mugiya and Tapson Dzvetero had submitted that issues of bail do not arise in this case because their clients were coming from home.
But the State represented by Anesu Chirenje said the two were coming from the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) and opposed bail.
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Uproar in Zimbabwe : Just for Once, Corruption’s a Real Scandal
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe — As with so many good scandals, the one called “Willowgate” began unraveling with a misdirected letter.
The letter and an enclosed check landed on the desk of a businessman here named Obert Mpofu. Mpofu was mystified as to why he would be entitled to a $1, rebate from the Zimbabwean government’s Willowvale auto assembly plant for a car he had not ordered and would not be entitled to buy for many years.
Then he noticed that both items were actually meant for one A. Mpofu. This man turned out to be an employee of a leading Bulawayo businessman, who turned out to be up to his ears in shady deals with a number of Zimbabwean politicians.
In time, these documents came to the notice of the Bulawayo Chronicle newspaper, which one day gods October, under a huge headline screaming, “CARS RACKET,” proceeded to make African history.
No Parallel in Region
What followed was a public inquiry into of
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Introduction: Obert Mpofu and Self-Writing in Zimbabwe
On the Shoulders of Struggle: Memoirs of a Political Insider Dr. Obert M. Mpofu ISBN: (Print) Introduction: Obert Mpofu and Self-Writing in Zimbabwe Richard Runyararo Mahomva To cite this article: Mahomva Richard R. () Introduction: Obert Mpofu and Self-Writing in Zimbabwe, in Mpofu Obert M. On the Shoulders of Struggle: memoirs of a Political Insider. Bulawayo: LAN Readers, pp. xvixxxvi Published: Contact Leaders for Africa Network Download by: [Leaders for Africa Network] Date: 07 July , At: Introduction: Obert Mpofu and Self-Writing in Zimbabwe Richard Runyararo Mahomva The Tradition of Self-location Auto/biographies belong to the self-writing genre. The key authorship motivation for memoirs and biographies is premised on direct and selfexperiences of certain socio-economic and political actors (McArthur, ; Gusdorf, ). Historical location of the narrative actor(s) forms the bedrock of self-writing. The foregrounding to self