HARARE – Shock, confusion and speculation surrounds the decision by multi-millionaire entrepreneur Tinashe Mutarisi to close down Nash TV, a subsidiary of his NASH Holdings which also owns Nash Paints.
Only three months ago the ZANU PF National Deputy PC Youth League Taurai Kandishaya, a notorious online troll, made threats directed at Mutarisi and his businesses.
Mutarisi had posted a respectful request on Facebook wanting clarity on the logic and personnel behind a new policy initiative by the Zanu PF government.
Kandishaya hit back at the question writing; “Kana une business usatituke Mandebvu. Enjoy your business.”
Translated: If you have a business, don’t insult us you bearded one. Enjoy your business.
Writing on Nehanda Radio, political commentator Reason Wafawarova explained; “This was not advice. It was a warning. In the lexicon of Zimbabwean politics, “enjoy your business” means: we can take it away anytime.”
“Kandishaya is not a random troll with too much data. He is a political loudhailer, a shock trooper in ZANU PF’s informal machinery of intimidation,”
“But most importantly, he is financially tethered to Kudakwashe Tagwirei, the fuel baron whose looted billions from Command Agriculture have transformed him into Zimbabwe’s unelected Prime Minister of Capture.
“When Tagwirei sneezes, Kandishaya coughs on Facebook. When Tagwirei wants someone silenced, Kandishaya bellows. The relationship is simple: money oils the megaphone, and the megaphone protects the money.
“This is how Zimbabwe is governed today. Not through institutions, not through debate, not even through lawfare anymore. The regime has subcontracted repression to loyalists-for-hire who act as neighborhood enforcers of silence.
“Like mafia “soldiers,” they remind everyone that politics is not an arena for participation but a minefield where one wrong word can blow up your life, your career, or your business
“Mutarisi, by daring to ask, crossed that invisible line. And Kandishaya’s job was to remind him that in Zimbabwe, the line is patrolled not by laws or courts, but by thugs in party regalia financed by oligarchs,” Wafawarova added.
