Mugabe’s Nephew, Patrick Zhuwao Denies Being A Generation 40 (G40), Zanu PF Faction Member

Mugabe’s Nephew, Patrick Zhuwao Denies Being A Generation 40 (G40), Zanu PF Faction  Member

Patrick Zhuwao President Robert Mugabe’s nephew, has said he is not part of a Zanu-PF faction known as Generation 40 (G40). Zhuwao, the Youth Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment minister, has been linked with the group that also boasts of, in its ranks, First Lady Grace Mugabe, Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko, Zanu-PF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere and Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo. Zhuwao said he was dissociating himself from the G40 faction in response to…

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Mugabe’s Thuggish And Bullying Nephew ‘Zhuwao’ Should “Be Strongly Reprimanded For Advancing Extortionist Policies On Already Overburderned Companies”

Mugabe’s Thuggish And Bullying Nephew ‘Zhuwao’  Should “Be Strongly Reprimanded For Advancing Extortionist Policies  On Already Overburderned Companies”

YOUTH and empowerment minister Patrick Zhuwao should “be strongly reprimanded for advancing extortionist policies on already over-burdened and struggling companies”, the opposition MDC-T party has said. Zhuwao, President Robert Mugabe’s nephew, has threatened to impose a 10 percent levy on foreign companies which he claims will force them to comply with the country’s indigenisation laws. He also claims the levy would raise funds for youth empowerment programmes. But the MDC-T expressed “extreme displeasure and disappointment”…

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‘Gvt Won’t Tolerate Debate On Economic Empowerment Law!’- Patrick Zhuwao .

‘Gvt Won’t Tolerate Debate On Economic Empowerment Law!’- Patrick  Zhuwao .

YOUTH and indigenisation minister Patrick Zhuwao says government is not going to tolerate any debate on the economic empowerment law. A furious Zhuwao who appeared to be taking a dig at finance minister Patrick Chinamasa, told hundreds of cheering Zanu PF sympathisers attending his economic empowerment conference in Harare Friday that those wishing for the reversal of the law were ‘dreaming’. Chinamasa is on record saying that government was revising the controversial black empowerment law…

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Zhuwao Warns, ‘Indeginisation Levy Will Go Ahead!’

Zhuwao Warns, ‘Indeginisation Levy Will Go Ahead!’

MUGABE’S NEPHEW, ‘ZHUWAO’, WARNS COLLEAGUES, PROPOSED INDEGINIZATION LEVY WILL GO AHEAD, AS HE RUBBISHES POLICY REVIEW SUGGESTIONS BY CABINET   Patrick Zhuwao the Youth, Indigenization and Economic Empowerment minister, who is President Robert Robert Mugabe’s nephew, yesterday warned his Cabinet colleagues “who dine and wine at embassies” that their endeavors to block his proposed indigenization levy were bound to fail.   Addressing a Zanu-PF provincial co-coordinating committee meeting in Chinhoyi, Zhuwao took a swipe at…

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Zhuwao 10% Tax -, ‘Unconstitutional Idiocy Of The highest Order’ Says MDC

Zhuwao 10% Tax -, ‘Unconstitutional Idiocy Of The highest Order’ Says MDC

THE opposition MDC party has rejected as “unconstitutional and idiocy of the highest order” a proposal by President Robert Mugabe’s nephew and empoerment minister to force a 10 percent empowerment tax on foreign companies. “This attempt to milk the few companies that remain operational in the country is daylight robbery which should not be allowed to see the light of day,” the party said in a statement Monday. “It is yet another example of the…

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Zanu PF Regime To Impose 10% Tax On Foreign Owned Companies To Fund Black Empowerment

Zanu PF Regime To Impose 10% Tax On Foreign Owned Companies To Fund Black Empowerment

GOVERNMENT plans to impose a 10 percent tax on foreign-owned firms to fund a black economic empowerment programme that is designed to bring the companies under local majority control, a minister was quoted as saying on Monday. Some of the companies that could be affected by the new tax include the world’s top two platinum producers Anglo American Platinum and Impala Platinum Holdings, which both have operations in Zimbabwe. Under the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment…

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