Being the super-patriot that Muckraker always has been — despite a spirited campaign by his detractors who are desperate to monopolise this rare quality — he is duty-bound to always seek to put the record straight, especially on issues pertaining to our Owner and the country, being interchangeable as they are … one cannot love the country without first loving its Owner, strictly in that order. So, it is Muck’s patriotic duty to set the record straight. Yes, it is very true that our Owner was in Japan for the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Kansai, but NOT as an exhibition piece on display “in the geriatric leaders’ section” as some criminals, for whom the Prevention of Undermining and or Insulting of Ownership Act is duly meant, have been swearing.For the record, our Owner was at this global event to showcase the country, and by virtue of him and the country being one and the same, his detractors decided to pretend to confuse him to be the one who was actually on display at the expo. Silly people!These miscreants want to give the false impression that our Owner, who officially turns only 83 young on the next Munhumutapa Day in September — although the same claim that he is feared to be actually 86 “old” — has so fossilised to the point of being a danger to the future of the country. Let them be warned!Who doesn’t know that these misfits are being paid by the usual suspects in the West to say all these things to seek and stymie the Party’s Bulawayo resolution to make our Owner’s current second and final term open-ended to allow the blessing that he is to own the country in perpetuity to prosperity? These very same fools ask how can someone “so old” as to be more than two decades past the normal retirement age be entrusted with spearheading the future of a nation — or any future for that matter — deliberately ignoring the proven wisdom that experience is everything. So, Muck just thought it important to warn these miscreants that those whose job is to get angry on our Owner’s behalf are in a no-nonsense mood … we don’t have to remind them that the Prevention of Undermining and or Insulting of Ownership Act, the Patriotic Act, the PVO Act and other laws (both written and unwritten) do not just exist for decorative purposes. Let them be warned! Honour our Owner & Zvigananda’When Zanu-PF’s secretary for legal affairs Patrick Chinamasa is not causing confusion in the rural party or commissioning skip bins, he is gallivanting around the globe, most likely shopping around to obnoxious laws and ideas to justify his continued existence in the party’s cricky structures.“I was in Abuja, Nigeria, from 24–28 June, 2025 for the 32nd Annual Meetings of Afreximbank,” Chinamasa wrote to Zimbos recently. Please don’t ask Muck in what capacity he attended these meetings.“Nigeria boasts 8 200 millionaires and four billionaires, and unlike Zimbabweans, Nigerians are proud of the role their rich people — millionaires and billionaires — play in generating economic growth and wealth. Nigerians embrace their millionaires and billionaires. Unhappily, Zimbabweans still remain suspicious of, if not hostile to, capital,” Chinamasa lectured Zimbos. “Nigerians don’t badmouth their country or their country’s political leadership while abroad, as Zimbabweans are accustomed to doing — without shame.”In short, Chinamasa was telling Zimbos that they should cherish their own Owners and Zviganandas.“(Aliko) Dangote, whose net worth is estimated to be US$28,1 billion as of March 2025, made his fortune through the manufacture of cement and sugar but has since diversified into the production of fertiliser, oil refinery, gas, and petrochemicals.” Sadly, Chinamasa would not tell us how our own Zvinganandas such as Cde Wicked and Cde Kuba made their fortunes … all he wants is for us to celebrate them.Then he added: “One lesson Zimbabweans should learn — and learn fast — is that capital, whether global or domestic, is by nature a big coward. It will not go where it is not wanted or where there is turmoil of whatever nature … The antics of our opposition since they came on the political scene in the late nineties served to chase away our capital, and the situation was, of course, compounded by the imposition of the illegal sanctions by Western countries against Zimbabwe.”According to this staid narrative, the opposition is to blame for everything that has gone wrong in this country … everything — and Chinamasa’s own party is responsible for all the good. Never mind the prominent role that Chinamasa himself has played in chasing away capital through the breakdown of the rule of law during his time as the Attorney-General and later as Justice minister. All blame has to be heaped on the cussed opposition and “the illegal sanctions”.Muck would like to add on Chinamasa’s good observation on strides that Nigeria has made … but the country has had a total of eight coups, five of them successful. So, if it is about comparisons, we certainly are still a long way before we catch up with Big Brother Nigeria. Talk about comparing a guitar and jelly fish!Open for business?(In) Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi is back with his appropriately unpopular face in Parliament … this time to present the Medical Services Amendment Bill. Under this Bill, private hospitals will no longer be allowed to increase their service charges without government approval and will be legally required to admit patients in “life-threatening conditions” for at least 48 hours — even if they cannot pay, among other things.Curiously, this price control move comes at a time when we were being told that in the aftermath of our Owner’s unscheduled visits, public health facilities are in the process of being upgraded into state of the art somethings ... add the 200 air ambulances and the hefty tender awarded to the usual suspects, our people should soon be stampeding to use Parirenyatwa, Harare, Mpilo, United Bulawayo Hospitals and other public hospitals, effectively making private hospitals redundant, with their fees naturally dropping — the laws of demand and supply. So, why seek to control fees charged by private hospitals that are actually on their way out? Does this reveal the real truth about the promises that Zimbos have been getting? That nothing is coming from Nguwaya & Co, together with the other lot. Price controls and “Open for business” mantra on the same front page of The Herald! sounds to Muck like the magic of carrying fire and water in the same mouth!Leaker plugging leaksArrogant Finance ministry permanent secretary Cde George Guvamatanga says he is busy plugging border revenue leakage. This is what the message read on his busy behalf at the recent Shipping and Forwarding Agents’ Association of Zimbabwe (SFAAZ) 19th Annual Conference held in Bulawayo, said. Fine and dandy. But what is the purpose of plugging small leakages all over when the biggest of the leakages are actually in his own office? Is this not ironic just as the same irony that Zimbos witnessed last week when some of the country’s key drug barons stampeded to contributing to a fund to fight drug and substance abuse? Or when the godfather of Zvigananda chanted the slogan “Pasi neZvigananda!”Sorry Joji!Meanwhile, Muck is commiserating with Cde Joji, whose 26 tonnes of fertiliser vanished on the way to his farm! Very painful and criminally unfair that criminals can actually steal someone’s own loot! Indeed, there is no honour among thieves!
