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The legendary singer, Thomas Mapfumo suffered a stroke, his family has told ZimEye, revealing that this was after the 2 year ordeal of being subjected to Wicknell Chivayo statements coercing him to take the convicted fraudster’s money. Dr Mapfumo spent over 25 months contacting ZimEye for assistance to stop Chivayo from publishing statements with his name, a development that has seen the controversial Mnangagwa hedge-fund-holder obtaining publishing assistance from a UK based journalist Lance Guma. The riveting events are captured in the following footage- On video, Wicknell Chivayo thanks Lance Guma, “thank you for being a wonderful friend!” before MP Job Sikhala’s career is destroyed (as he adopts a fake Mandela accent influenced) by Guma’s other friend Hopewell Chin’ono, at a Mapfumo show, as Guma drives Chin’ono around UK, and Blessed Geza’s 100 activists are jailed after Chin’ono falsified that Geza-soldiers have deserted army, stolen guns, and Chris Mutsvangwa has fled to Dubai. Later, Geza returns to Zimbabwe in a coffin as his activists remain incarcerated. In the period, legendary singer spends over 25 months telephoning Simba Chikanza for help to stop Chivayo (who’s a convicted fraudster) to stop pestering him so that he accepts Chivayo’s monetary gifts. For over 2 years, Mapfumo repeatedly pleads with Chivayo and his ZANU PF party to stop publishing his name over Chivayo’s money offers because as he says, is causing stress and distress to him; because all he wants are his 5 cars back, the vehicles which were seized by the ZANU PF run police, illegally and unlawfully about 30 years ago. He says he is traumatised by statements that suggesting a possibility of the hard working artist touching money handed by a convicted fraudster.Famous Quotations the betrayalLocal News Assisted by Lance Guma, Hopewell Chin’ono loads more statements confusing Sikhala until the sharp MP ends up walking out of prison talking like a Nelson Mandela incarnate. His career and public respect soddenly ends after recording statements influenced by Chin’ono. Meanwhile, Wicknell Chivayo continues repeating his rambling and at one time he is supported by Chin’ono to harass both Mapfumo and Chikanza (Mapfumo’s own mouthpiece to stop Chivayo’s statements). Later, Thomas Mapfumo suffers a stroke, as a result of Chivayo’s statements. His family tell Simba Chikanza “mdara is not well, he suffered a stroke.” His current UK manager Tau Cheteni also weighs in his concerns saying, “mdara is not well after the stroke,” urging that people must stop harassing him. But in July, a journalist (Lance Guma) betrays trust and goes ahead to republish more of Chivayo’s statements. In his now vulnerable situation, the 81 years old is forced to record a video supporting Lance Guma’s algorithms that praise Chivayo as a businessman when in reality he is a convicted fraudster and a person of interest in multiple jurisdictions over money laundering allegations.Executive Branch 2 years after Mapfumo spent 25 months complaining that he doesn’t want Chivayo’s money and he does not want his name published alongside Chivayo’s statements, Lance Guma publishes that Chivayo who’s a convicted fraudster, is a “businessman.” Guma also publishes a statement purported to be Mapfumo’s contradicting the elderly singer’s position on accepting gifts. Guma has spent the last week, visually ‘drifting’ Mapfumo’s wishes from a function singing fee, to a straight cut “gift.”African political analysis Lance Guma was approached for a comment.
ZimEye98,362 views • 1 month ago

Zimbabwean gold smuggled to Kenya under the name of a Uebert Angel so called ‘son’
ZimEye109,818 views • 3 months ago

Whites are very easy to chase away, Emmerson Mnangagwa tells Hakainde Hichilema explaining how it is done, which is to just tell villagers to go and stand by the gates of white owned farms, in order to scare them. Mnangagwa laughs it off saying it worked to chase them away
ZimEye254,147 views • 10 months ago

Only 9 people turned up for Zimbabwe’s ambassador to UK’s address during independence celebrations today
ZimEye130,428 views • 4 months ago

WHO DUMPED 114 PEOPLE INTO AN OPEN VESSEL, AND SENT THEM INTO THE WORLD’s MOST DANGEROUS LAKE, THAT SLOWS DOWN EARTH’s ROTATION- KARIBA? A vessel reportedly rated for 90 people carried 114 registered adults — plus five crew, with authorities warning that additional children may also have been aboard. Then, shortly after departure, footage appears to capture voices warning: 🗣️ “The wave has already started!” Another voice: “It has gone off and it will be stopped by Binga waves.” Now the questions are unavoidable: Who approved the vessel? Who counted the passengers? Who assessed the waves? And who gave the final green light? This was Lake Kariba — the world’s largest artificial reservoir by volume. And these were human beings, not cargo. #LakeKariba #BreakingNews #Zimbabwe #KaribaDisaster #DDF
ZimEye29,153 views • 1 month ago

The controversial journalist, Hopewell Chin’ono advised that the corruption accused, tenderpreneur, Kuda Tagwirei must be protected. He used his 2018 statement to instruct ZANU activists, Rutendo Matinyarare and Joshua Maponga to pursue their issues privately. Announced Joshua Maponga in a video that’s since been deleted: “I had a phone call with Benson and Hopewell. After our squabble and mis-directed, miss informative videos that Rutendo had sent on the social media space, then I needed to clarify. And when Hopewell saw our battle, he called, we called, we had a conference call together to clarify those issues. Hopewell Chin’ono advised to me that we needed to bury our hatchets so that we can be able to develop the Zimbabwe story in a more positive light.” Maphosa’s claim confirms what Chin’ono comments during the week and what he’s been communicating to other people since 2018. Responding over the claim, Chin’ono says of a truth he had a conversation with Maponga and Matinyarare and he truly advised the two to pursue secrecy over Tagwirei issues, and deal with the Matinyarare-Tagwirei allegations silently (directly between them). Chin’ono’s statement is contrasted with his many others before, when he has issued the same wording hush down advice over disclosures exposing Emmerson Mnangagwa. In Aug 2018, Chin’ono accused the civil society of causing tension with army, of which he advised that the army must pursue the civil society and western embassies who were accused of funding protests, directly, to silence them. In an X spaces podcast he admitted that he attended a meeting with Emmerson Mnangagwa in the company of a GoldMafia businessman he works for called Kaala Mpinga. He said this as he accused ZimEye over his online mentorship statement that he purchased his first home from a UK £50,000 sportscar loan from 1996. Chin’ono’s many inconsistencies of character have led to questions being raised over who he is. Many have been questioning the validity of his claim to a 1996 loan of that level, and authenticity of his claim that his name changes were He said: “What Simba keeps posting, that I exposed people is a lie. The, what happened was that I was taken to have a conversation in 2018 which I publicly talked about. In that conversation, there was the British ambassador, EU ambassador, a Congolese businessman called Kala Mpinga, Vice President Chiwenga, and then we were taken to the President of the country, Emmerson Mnangagwa. It had nothing with all this bullshit that Simba Chikanza posts about. Simba Chikanza is asking me to account for a car I bought 30 years ago. I asked you that people like Kamun said, you know, so if that's the guy that I was never going to answer these nonsense, I was it. But, you know, if you ask me to account for a card that I put both failures ago, because you hate me so much. You don't like me. You know, you hate me so much. And I have more money in my, in my current account, than all those figures that you talk about. And that money can account for it.”
ZimEye61,359 views • 2 months ago

We know that the incident that happened at present in Zambia has attracted a little attention, but particularly the use of a fraud gang leader, Hopewell Chin’ono, and Emmanuel Mwamba. I think people have seen me in the past, in the last few years. I’ve confronted these two characters on matters that I was able to demonstrate were matters of fact, but there are also matters of accountability in a very big way. They were matters relating to money, movement of money across countries. How many people have seen my documentaries? How many have seen the Gatwick Airport hacking documentary that features a man called Hopewell Chin’ono? In the last two years, I personally, physically recovered over a million British pounds in a property that had been robbed from a British man. Two years ago, in 2024, and the person who was singularly behind that scam is a man called Hopewell Chin’ono. Brian Mundubile, the opposition leader, and Emmanuel Mwamba, the opposition spokesperson — I’m not sure what title he has in Zambia. If you’re watching right now in Zambia, please let me know which title he carries, because I know that there have been entities and institutions that have switched names, switched sides, or switched shape. So I’m not aware what title Emmanuel Mwamba now has, but Emmanuel Mwamba and Brian Mundubile, as the opposition leader, have been using this man who will lead a fraud gang, and is [a] fraudster, I would be [saying]. So I’m going to say it in Zimbabwean English, okay? Accent, Zimbabwean and Zambian, for I would be… [Speaking in a local language.] And on Hopewell Chin’ono… [Speaking in a local language.] A million-pound property from him and his friend and his colleague, called Jennifer Banguré, in East Midlands. I think people have seen him sometimes posting a picture of him dressed in very, very buttoned trousers, boasting that he’s got a house in East Midlands. Right there in East Midlands, two years ago, I had a copy of [the] property, but he himself and the colleague of him had taken off, unlawfully taken away from a British man. And so Hopewell Chin’ono has been used by Mundubile and Mwamba with the two knowing well that he is a fraud gang leader. Some people have been claiming, “Oh, Brian Mundubile,” and the likes of him that this man is a journalist. This person is a fraud gang leader, just using the face in the front of journalism. There is no person who is law-abiding who uses Hopewell Chin’ono for anything. But what was happening was that Brian Mundubile and Emmanuel Mwamba were using this shady character for their communications, which were not factual at all. I mean, people were following over the time, every post that this man has been posting — this character that Brian Mundubile has been using to make communications. In every single post, there’s always been some falsification, some misleading. This is not a character that anyone would want to sit having tea with, because he’s well known for more than 30 years for being dodgy, shady and engaging in some of the most horrible [activities]. I’ve done thorough investigations over the years. I’ve done more investigations on this man than I’ve done on all my other documentaries and stories over the years. And so, what were they discussing? What were they doing? But mainly, — what have they been posting around the elections, not just today? Over several years, by the way: this whole operation didn’t start today. Even during the Edgar Lungu death days last year, I think people remember — how many people remember? There’s a dossier that I presented to South Africa, to the courts, where I was arguing, and I was even taking the SABC, the South Africa Broadcasting Corporation, to court. Very soon I will, for them using this type — this character. And this is a big, big scam. It’s not a small scam. So, what has happened right now, there’s another operation that law enforcement have done in [Zambia]. I’m not going to talk about that because it’ll be sub judice, and I’m not aware of the full circumstances of what that is. But I am aware. I’m fully aware. I think people saw me a few years ago. I was in Lusaka physically, and I was on live camera. I’m fully aware that Brian Mundubile and his crop were cooking some activity. That’s how I was there. I saw it physically. They were doing something there that I can’t say right now because it would be sub judice. People understand what the law says. I am aware of certain things that were happening around that time that were not clean. And that’s how suddenly I was in Lusaka around the same period in August 2023, which was the first time I’d been to Lusaka before, a few years before. My work — I investigate, I investigate, I investigate matters relating to… Excuse me, sorry, I apologise. I’m just getting distracted. Just two seconds here. Those are coming right now live. I am just two seconds, just two seconds, folks. I think it’s me, love. Yes, it’s me. Walter. Yes. Okay, so just two seconds, folks. Okay, so what I was saying was that a few years ago, I was in Lusaka, Zambia. And the things that I witnessed there — I’m not going to talk about the rest and things that have happened today because it’s sub judice. I can’t do that. And I’m not aware of the full circumstances. But there are definitely things that I know, and people have seen over the years. When Edgar Lungu died, there was one character who Emmanuel Mwamba started using. Many of the people started using. And they were firing an algorithm. And if you are in law enforcement here in Zambia, and if you are in law enforcement in any other country, I hope you can hear this tidbit that I’m dropping here. I investigate wrongdoing by notorious people, particularly people who target crowds. And so this person that Brian Mundubile has been using has been fronting the face and the badge of journalism. But, in actual fact, he leads a fraud gang — a whole gang of people, some who were fully convicted and served prison sentences. This is all public record, by the way. So it’s not what I’m saying here, so people listening — it’s not something from a special investigation that I guess, of course, there are things that I’ve done, that I’ve done. But this is public record. There is no person who is law-abiding. There’s no person who follows the law who uses a man called Hopewell Chin’ono for anything. For anything. [Speaking in Shona.] This is a record that is over 30 years old — 30 years running, every year. Every year, this man called Hopewell Chin’ono has a repeating incident, or for high-profile — we’re talking high-profile crime here. And one of them involves a million-pound property that I personally reversed in a documentary called “Gatwick Airport.” “Gatwick Airport.” So if you Google “Gatwick Airport,” you see it. I mean, this is a whole broad, multi-million-pound property, massive property that I investigated and helped to reverse two years ago. And the records are all there. They are replete. There’s also an article that was published that is on the New Statesman website, that is titled “Journalism Rarely Generates Excessive Wealth.” Well, this is not my work now. This is the work of the only investigative journalist of our time by the name Geoffrey Nyarota. It’s a very interesting piece. He died in March last year. And Geoffrey Nyarota published this article, investigated this character called Hopewell Chin’ono, and published this article. If you see it, it audits money that he used — money that he took from the United Kingdom and then used it to buy property in Zimbabwe. This is an article that is over four years, five years, in fact, in the public domain. Five years in the public domain. And the man called Hopewell Chin’ono even responded, so he passed comments on that article in the article. That article is on a publication that I’ve got nothing to do with. It’s another major, major big independent newspaper that publishes in Zimbabwe. It’s on the internet, so if you Google “Journalism Rarely Generates Excessive Wealth,” that’s an article that has been available that Brian Mundubile, the opposition leader of Zambia, knows. And Emmanuel Mwamba, his spokesperson, knows that article. For over five years, he knows that Hopewell Chin’ono is not a practising journalist, that he is doing his practising disguise. He is a disguiser. How does a person who has won an election use a disguiser? How do you go on video and say, “I won this election”? Number one, you don’t show, you don’t present any tabulation. You say that you’ve got a tabulation that you’re reading, but you don’t show people that tabulation. Show people so that they see that you truly have won. Okay, let’s just assume that you are avoiding this disclosure because maybe you don’t want to get into trouble. Certainly, people around you, if you have those millions of followers, certainly those people could just present the tabulation. Not WhatsApp screenshots. No. The tabulation. The tabulation and those forms. Show the tabulation and then you also show the forms, which are a public record. The forms become public record at the polling station. So you don’t even need to wait for the Electoral Commission Chairperson of Zambia to make the announcement. The announcement has already been made at the polling station. You don’t need to record a video and pronounce yourself a leader. Because if you have won the election, that pronouncement has already been made at the polling station. And so the youngest child, a Grade One child, can do their maths. During the first hour of those results being placarded at the polling stations, you don’t need to come out yourself. Because it’s already there. If you have won the election, it’s already there. Why did you do that? Why did you record this video? What’s the point? What’s the game? What’s the hurry? Because it’s already there. It’s a public record. It’s already there. It’s in the forest, it’s there — right at the polling station. So Brian Mundubile did not need to do that. Who was the point? Maybe other people have done it before. But what was the point? I’m trying to ask here. I don’t know how I could say it in Bemba, in Nyanja. I don’t know which language, folks. If those people will see you speak the language in [unclear], in Zambia, please click the video link and talk to me. And maybe say it to people, ask questions: Mr Mundubile, what was the point when you announced yourself, pronouncing yourself, on video? And then you get someone who leads — who practises disguise. Whoa, what’s the point? Does not practise journalism? He practises disguise. Who doesn’t know that if there’s a public record out there? So you used someone who’s engaged in some of the most dodgy things on earth, including election vote-tempering that he has been doing in other jurisdictions. You used that character. For what purpose? For what purpose? Because you didn’t press a vote, Brian Mundubile knew that you did not need to go on video. Because if you won the election, you were already politically — you would have already been proclaimed at the polling station. So any person who has got a small GCSE certificate can do their maths. They would have already known that they would have made the announcement for itself. Where is the regulation? So this is a big investigation because all watching on, as I said, I myself have recovered a million-pound property in the United Kingdom in the last two years, and the documentary…
ZimEye19,606 views • 25 days ago

Due to Violence By Fraud Gangs, Zambia Postpones Results Announcements By Another 24Hours
ZimEye17,949 views • 29 days ago

Police caught on camera assaulting miners at Jumbo Mine in Mazowe. Are you there?
ZimEye33,858 views • 2 months ago