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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The late Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency (ZIDA) chief executive Douglas Munatsi worked in a tense and toxic political environment and he was eventually sucked to the centre of a vicious power struggle.<\/p>\n

Munatsi was reportedly close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and originally hailed from the latter\u2019s home province, Midlands.<\/p>\n

He is also said to have been among key people who were completely behind Mnangagwa during the November 2017 coup when he ousted the late former president Robert Mugabe.<\/p>\n

Munatsi was appointed to head ZIDA and into the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe monetary policy committee (MPC) after the coup.<\/p>\n

According to The NewsHawks, in April 2020, Vice President Chiwenga visited Munatsi\u2019s farm and this reportedly did not go down well with the Mnangagwa camp.<\/p>\n

He explained to the publication that Chiwenga had asked to visit his Kunatsa Farm at Matepatepa in Bindura North, Mashonaland Central province.<\/p>\n

Munatsi said after Chiwenga\u2019s visit, he had received a warning from \u201csecurity circles\u201d as to why he had invited the Vice-President before Mnangagwa came to his farm.<\/p>\n

Munatsi had earlier last year visited Mnangagwa\u2019s Precabe Farm in Sherwood, Kwekwe, Midlands province.<\/p>\n

He told reporters that there were people who were not happy that he was interacting with Chiwenga and the late Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri, and were threatening him.<\/p>\n

Munatsi said the people threatening him were from \u201csecurity, military intelligence\u201d.<\/p>\n

He eventually invited Mnangagwa to visit his farm on 28 August 2020, which he did.<\/p>\n

Analysts say the move was meant to prove to those who were now accusing him of defecting to the Chiwenga camp while assuring Mnangagwa of his loyalty. A The NewsHawks source was quoted as saying:<\/p>\n

That he found himself engulfed in toxic political, business and corruption fights is not in doubt.<\/p>\n

The only question is whether that played a part in his murder or not. Quite clearly it did. He was killed for political and business reasons.<\/p>\n

Munatsi was reported to have not been on good terms with business rivals around Mnangagwa over access to the President, business deals and ZIDA issues.<\/p>\n

The banker died on 29 November in a mysterious fire at his upmarket Harare apartment.<\/p>\n

Authorities are still trying to establish the cause of the fire and death through the pending post-mortem results as well as reports from the Forensic Unit and Fire Brigade.<\/p>\n

Mnangagwa said Munatsi died in \u201cunclear circumstances\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. The late Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency (ZIDA) chief executive Douglas Munatsi worked in a tense and toxic political environment and he was eventually sucked to the centre of a vicious power struggle. Munatsi was reportedly close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and originally hailed from the latter\u2019s home province, Midlands. 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