{"id":75823,"date":"2023-03-25T10:43:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T08:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gold-mafia-zimbabwes-leadership-rotten-to-the-core-chamisa"},"modified":"2023-03-25T13:13:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T11:13:23","slug":"gold-mafia-zimbabwes-leadership-rotten-to-the-core-chamisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gold-mafia-zimbabwes-leadership-rotten-to-the-core-chamisa","title":{"rendered":"Gold Mafia: Zimbabwe\u2019s Leadership Rotten To The Core \u2013 Chamisa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa says Zimbabwe\u2019s current leadership is corrupt and rotten to the core.<\/p>\n<p>Chamisa made the remarks in response to Thursday\u2019s latest Al Jazeera investigation \u201cGold Mafia\u201d, which uncovered criminals driving gold smuggling and money laundering worth billions of dollars in Southern Africa. Chamisa tweeted:<\/p>\n<p>The fish rots from the head #Aljazeeradocumentary exposes the extent of the rot at the top, but it\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>This clearly shows how corrupt, rotten and broken leadership has destroyed a jewel and great country. Zimbabwe is not poor, it\u2019s just poorly governed.<\/p>\n<p>In a follow-up statement, CCC condemned the corruption, saying the provision of social services in the country has collapsed while millions are being looted. The opposition party said:<\/p>\n<p>While our health, education and infrastructure systems are on their deathbed, the few elites who are connected to government officials are making at least US$80 million every month through one of our valuable natural resources, gold.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, 23 March, Al Jazeera released Episode One of Gold Mafia (The Laundry Service) a four-part series.<\/p>\n<p>Uebert Angel, a new-age pastor who was appointed a special envoy and ambassador-at-large to Europe and the Americas by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2021, his deputy Rikki Doolan, and Mnangagwa\u2019s niece Henrietta Rushwaya, who is the president of the Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF), are named as part of the mafia.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cThe Laundry Service\u201d episode, a former accountant of Kamlesh Pattni, a gold smuggler implicated in a scandal that robbed Kenya of 10 percent of its GDP in the 1990s, said his former boss is duping Zimbabwean government officials. Said the former accountant:<\/p>\n<p>He (Pattni) exports jewellery and gold bars to Dubai and the rest of the world. In exchange, he has to bring foreign currency to Zimbabwe. On paper, he is bringing money to Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>The accountant said Pattni would declare a fraction of the value of Zimbabwean gold sold abroad and keep the rest of the proceeds out of the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa says Zimbabwe\u2019s current leadership is corrupt and rotten to the core. Chamisa made the remarks in response to Thursday\u2019s latest Al Jazeera investigation \u201cGold Mafia\u201d, which uncovered criminals driving gold smuggling and money laundering worth billions of dollars in Southern Africa. Chamisa tweeted: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":75821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,35,12,2715],"tags":[1493,2189,14371,14125,530,14199,14385,64,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-75823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-policy","11":"category-to-homepage","12":"tag-africa-press","13":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","14":"tag-al-jazeera-documentary-corruption-and-looting-zimbabwe","15":"tag-al-jazeera-investigations-zimbabwe","16":"tag-corruption","17":"tag-gold-mafia","18":"tag-jazeera","19":"tag-nelson-chamisa","20":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gold Mafia: Zimbabwe\u2019s Leadership Rotten To The Core \u2013 Chamisa - 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