Following is an unedited copy of an article found on the Zimbabwe Situation website. It was published on 31 October 2004. It is important to note that the figures for the amounts awarded as compensation had changed as of 31st October 2004, otherwise it also gives an idea of how Zimbabwe’s currency had lost value by then. The most important point, though, is how some of the Zanu-PF leaders handled the truth about their degrees of disability for their role in the liberation struggle and how corruption started in Zimbabwe.
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“In view of the recently passed Ex-political Prisoners, Detainees and Restrictees Bill, it is instructive to re-examine some prominent War Victims and their Disability Claims and Payments, investigated by the Judge Chidyausiku Commission in 1998.
Note that the amounts paid should be multiplied by at least 417 to get the equivalent at today's [31 October 2004] rate of 7 500 – 1, assuming the amount was granted in 1998 at the rate of 18-1. If payment was made in 1980, you would probably have to multiply by around 10 000 – unfortunately that detail is not available in the Commission Report.
The full list of claims investigated appears in the Report, and was also published in both the Financial Gazette and Zimbabwe Independent in August 1998.
Name Total % Disability claimed Total % awarded Amount (at 18-1 or less)
Chigudu, Tinaye Elisha 119 84 490 779,78
Chihuru, Augustine 20 20 135 645,04
Chikwinya, Nyasha 130 100 369 522,14
Chinamasa, Mishek 50 50 264 035,53
Chinengundu, R 99,4 86,4 585 986,07
Chipanga, Shadreck 25 25 188 629,71
Chiwenga, Constantine 66 59 225 584,36
Dongo, Margaret 90 48 89 720,00
Hunzvi, late Chenjerai 117 85 361 630,86
Kangai, Kumbirai 62 62 117 834,00
Mahofa, Shuvai 70 12 29 301,98
Malaba, Herbert 99 74 273 026,15
Marufu, Reward 95 95 822 668,55
Matanga, Godwin 94 92 618 076,83
Mathema, Cain 30 30 65 244,75
Matongo, R Mataruse 30 30 63 698,09
Mau Mau, Stalin 26 26 239 390,32
Mhlanga, Robert 65 65 237 592,69
Mohadi, Kembo 43 35 174 147,43
Mpofu, Griffiths 65 45 362 924,03
Mpofu, Obert 50 50 138 495,22
Muchechetere, Hapison 85 85 619 334,60
Mudzimbamuto, Daniel 85 70 333 839,66
Mujuru, Teurai Ropa 55 55 389 971,13
Mutsvangwa, Christopher 78,7 40,7 209 580,72
Muzonzini, Elisha 40 40 73 409,42
Mvenge, Moses 45 45 244 543,30
Mwashita, Vivian 94 64 585 220,06
Ndlovu, Charles 35 35 306 680,45
Nkomo, John 55 55 254 153,92
Nyambuya, R 50 50 231 246,61
Pasipamire, Christopher 75 75 487 139,12
Rushesha, Oppah 90 75 477 908,17
Shiri, Perence 50 50 90 249,20
Sibanda, Gerald 94 84 428 267,00
Siziba, Chemist 30 25 37 2.1,32
Tekere, Edgar 90 90 262 162,38
Tungamirai, Josiah 7 7 300,00
Tungamirai, Pamela 55 55 71 066,95
Zimondi, Kennedy 97 24 148 490,12
Zindi, Irene 91 7 408 379,58
Zvinavashe, Vitalis 55 55 224 395,80”
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Source: http://www.zimbabwesituation.com/old/oct31_2004.html#link11
Clifford is a former diplomat, author, London based political analyst and a doctoral researcher at London South Bank University, mashiric@lsbu.ac.uk.
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