ZANU PF Clearly Rewarding Khupe With $7.5m Payout For Persecuting Chamisa
12 July 2020
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Thokozani Khupe with President Emmerson Mnangagwa

The Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T received $7.5 million on Friday as part of the political parties government funding.

The money was paid to Khupe despite the Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance having obtained a provisional court order barring the Zimbabwean government from disbursing the funds to MDC-T according to the Political Parties Finance Act.

The government believes Khupe is the legitimate leader of the MDC Alliance and is entitled to the $7,4 million despite her having lost the 2018 elections to the same party he now claims to lead.

In the provisional order issued in May, High Court judge Justice Munangati Manongwa instructed the respondents Justice Minister Ziyambi, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube and Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda – have 10 days to respond to this ruling of which no record of the response is yet available.

In the interim order, Justice Manongwa said, “The 1st and 2nd respondents be and are hereby interdicted, stopped and barred from disbursing the sum of $7,492.500 due to the applicant in terms of the Political Parties (Finance) Act Chapter 2:11 in the sum of $7,492,500.”

Meanwhile, the development has since been confirmed by the minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Ziyambi Ziyambi who said the money was deposited into the MDC-T account controlled by Khupe and her allies.

He told The Standard

“Why is there an outrage? I paid what was gazetted and those who were not paid are not entitled to anything.”

Those who were supposed to be paid were paid; those who were not supposed to be paid were not paid, full stop.

The PPF Act states that the money is meant to block political parties and candidates from seeking foreign funding or donations.

It also states that it is given to each political party whose candidates received at least five per centum of the total number of votes cast in the most recent general election.