The structure is as follows: Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces: Lieutenant General Vitalis Zvinavashe (Karanga)...
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander Lieutenant General Vitalis Zvinavashe Air Force Commander Air Marshall Perence Shiri and Army Commander Gen...
Arms for mines The Oryx deal involves a profit-sharing arrangement with the private Zimbabwean company Osleg (Operation Sovereign Legitimacy) of which Zimbabwe Defence Force Commander Lieutenant General Vitalis Musungwa Gava Zvinavashe is a director...
Morgan Tsvangirai leader of Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change claims that profits from various Congo-Zimbabwe joint ventures have left no trace in the Reserve Bank accounts or in the national budget - although the main shareholders are public servants including General Vitalis Zvinavashe the Chief of Staff Onesimo Moyo head of the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe Job Whabira Permanent Secretary at the Defence Ministry and the Managing Director of the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation...
ZANU-PF is now factionalised along regional-ethnic lines (between the Shona sub-groups the Karanga and the Ndebele) and along ideological lines between hardliners close to the military (such as Mugabe Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa Lieutenant General Vitalis Zvinavashe) and reformers (Security Minister Sydney Sekeramayi Local Government Minister John Nkomo Home Affairs Minister Dabengwa)...
Vol 40 No 22 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
On 23 September too the Zimbabwean Defence Ministry announced a joint venture for dealing in Congolese gold and diamonds between Comiex a company belonging to Laurent Kabila and some of his ministers and Osleg one of whose main shareholders is General Vitalis Zvinavashe the Zimbabwean Chief of Staff...
We hear Rautenbach's other operations in Congo such as supplies logistics and transport alongside companies such as Zvinavashe Transport (owned by the brother of Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Vitalis Zvinavashe) are faring better than Gécamines...
Some individuals have benefited from the Congo intervention such as the Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Vitalis Zvinavashe and his younger brother Augustine (AC Vol 39 No 21)...
Another Zimbabwean doing business in Congo is Lieutenant General Vitalis Zvinavashe army Chief of Staff and overall commander of the joint southern African forces fighting for Kabila...
The Chief of Staff Vitalis Zvinavashe is Karanga but directly controls no soldiers; army commander Constantine Chiwenga and air force commander Perrence Shiri are Mugabe men...