Zim death truck owned by Mugabe minister!

DEATH TRUCK: The American-owned truck which caused the Prime
Minister's Cruiser to crash, killing his wife on Friday, March 6, 2009
THE TRUCK that killed Susan Tsvangirai in a road crash was owned by one of Robert Mugabe's ZanuPF cabinet ministers!

This amazing coincidence was revealed in Harare yesterday by a private investigator probing the death of the wife of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai eight days ago.

Susan was killed when a truck hit the Land Cruiser she and her husband were travelling in.

At the time the Zimbabwe Government said the truck was a USAID vehicle taking medicalsupplies to HIV victims.

But yesterday:

• The investigator, whose name is known to Sunday Sun, revealed that the truck belonged to top Zanu (PF) politburo member and business tycoon Saviour Kasukuwere who is also Youth and Gender Development Minister in the Zimbabwe cabinet .

• And a US Government spokesman in Harare conflrmed that the truck did not belong to USAID, although it WAS delivering medical supplies.

"It was purchased using USAID funds by a contractor and belonged to the contractor," said US public affairs officer Tim Gerhardson.

He added that the driver was a Zimbabwean employed by the contractor - and not by USAID.

The revelations will boost fears that the death crash was more sinister than a simple accident - although Tsvangirai himself has said he is satisfied with the official explanation.

The investigator, a former Harare CID officer, told Sunday Sun that inquiries showed the truck belonged to Cum Oil, a company owned by Kasukuwere.

He said his investigations were not complete - "we are not looking for scapegoats, only the truth".

But he declined to reveal who hired him to investigate the crash.

There have been calls, backed by the US and Britain, for an independent inquiry.

Clever Bere, president of the Zimbabwe National Students Union said: "Zimbabwean political history is riddled with a trail of politically motivated accidents that remain unsolved cold cases."

Saviour Kasukuwere, a former spy agent in the CIO

JOHANNESBURG - The truck that killed Susan Tsvangirai the wife of the Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in a road crash is owned by Saviour Kasukuwere, a former spy agent in the CIO and Youth and Gender Development Minister in the inclusive government, a South African newspaper The Sunday Sun revealed. "Tyson" as he is popularly known, has worked as Robert Mugabe's body guard.

Kasukuwere was one of the first government officials to visit the Prime Minister in hospital at the Avenues Clinic in Harare.

The amazing coincidence of his truck's involvement was revealed in Harare by a private investigator probing the tragic accident that took the life of the Prime Minister's wife Susan.

Kasukuwere has worked in the Zimbabwean government's Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)'s close Security Unit, a crack department in the spy organisation which reports directly to the President. Its role is to spy on CIO agents and government officials, including Zanu(PF) politicians.

The notorious Mt Darwin MP has a menacing body and menacing looks and a close confidante of the President alongside the Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and he is normally tasked to carry out ruthless missions on behalf of Robert Mugabe.

Sources say Kasukuwere gained the favour of Robert Mugabe and Emmerson Mnangagwa when he worked for (Central Mechanical Equipment Department (CMED) as a driver and spy agent monitoring the movement and servicing of government officials' vehicles.

Over the years, Kasukuwere has become obsessed with eliminating Zanu(PF) rivals in Mashonaland Central to secure his position as the unchallenged political baron in that province.

It is believed that Kasukuwere drove out Mashonaland Central businessman James Makamba into exile and General Solomon Mujuru who had vast farming interests in the region was sent packing back to his native Chivu.

Tyson is also linked to the death of the province's budding young Zanu(PF) politicians Border Gezi, Elliot Manyika and the recent arrest of former Guruwe MP David Butau on his return from exile in the UK. Butau, like James Makamba was Solomon Mujuru's business front man.

In 2005 he spied on Phillip Chiyangwa, Tendai Matambanadzo, a banker, and Itai Marchi Zanu-PF director of Security, and long-serving Zimbabwe diplomat Godfrey Dzvairo and they were convicted of breaching the Official Secrets Act and given sentences ranging between five to six years in jail on accusations that they sold information to South African Intelligence.

Kasukuwere is also linked to the attempted murder of MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa two years ago.

In the disputed violent Presidential elections run-off, he directed political assasinations, abductions and torture in Mashonaland Central and engineered attacks on US embassy vehicles.

During his time as a Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operative in Manicaland in the Nineties, he was nicknamed "Mike Tyson" because of his ruthlessness and precision in dealing with political foes.

Kasukuwere is a wealthy individual and his youthful brother Stanley had a brief stint as Chairman of Dynamos football club.

In a report by a Zimbabwe Sunday paper The Standard, John Snow International (JSI) "Deliver project" has opened an internal investigation on how the "killer truck" that claimed the life of the Prime Minister’s wife Susan was dispatched last Friday, in a new twist to the accident.

The truck was involved in an accident with Tsvangirai's car on Friday.
The Supply Chain Management System (SCMS), is the contractor of the "USAid/Deliver Projects" aimed at strengthening HIV/Aids and family planning supply chains in developing countries run by JSI.

According to the official JSI website the "Deliver project" helps developing countries "establish effective and efficient supply chains for public health and family planning programmes".

A confidential internal memorandum in the possession of The Standard, dated March 9 — three days after the accident — said the truck belonged to JSI but was not driven by a JSI driver.

"As you may have heard, there was a tragic car accident on Friday (March 6) in Zimbabwe in which the Prime Minister (Morgan Tsvangirai) was injured and his wife was killed.

CRASH SCENE: The Prime Minister's Toyota Landcruiser lies on its roof after being sideswiped by an American truck, forcing it into a violent spin (March 6, 2009). Morgan Tsvangirai's wife, Susan, died on the spot

"The vehicle involved in this accident was registered to USAid/Deliver (a JSI Project) although not driven by a JSI driver, as far as we know. At this point, further details about the accident are unknown.

"Understandably, this tragedy has generated a lot of media interest. If you receive any inquiries from the media, we ask that you please direct them to Penelope Riseborough, WEI/JSI Director of Communication in Boston," the memorandum said.

JSI has launched an internal investigation to unravel how the truck was dispatched under unclear circumstances, leading to the fatal accident along the Harare-Masvingo highway on March 6.

Sources said that an "administrator", identified only as N Dube and in charge of the delivery trucks, had been quizzed by management amid reports that she had been sent on suspension pending investigations.

The administrator was not at work when The Standard visited JSI head offices at Agriculture House in Marlborough on Friday.

"The administrator has been quizzed on how the truck was released laden with SCMC drugs but with an unofficial driver. If it was coming from delivery in Masvingo it should have been empty," the source told The Standard.

It was not immediately possible to get details of the whereabouts of the administrator because of the blanket ban on talking to the media.
David Alt, the JSI’s country director, was locked in meetings when The Standard visited JSI headquarters. He did not respond to written questions on the alleged suspension of the administrator.

However, late on Friday afternoon JSI released a statement in which it said: "We have learned with great sadness about the death of Susan Tsvangirai in a tragic accident on Friday afternoon. We cannot at this time make any comment on the detail of the accident but we are co-operating fully with the authorities to ensure the investigation is open and transparent.

"We send our deepest condolences to the Prime Minister and his family at this terrible time and hope they find peace and comfort in the coming weeks."

Prime Minister Tsvangirai and his wife were being driven in a Toyota 4x4 Land Cruiser to their rural home in Buhera, when they were sideswiped by the Nissan UD truck driven by Chinoona Mwanda (35). The PM’s Land Cruiser was forced into a spin rolling over at least three times, killing his wife Susan.

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Report: Truck that killed Susan Tsvangirai owned and operated by the CIO

The Zimbabwe Mail/The Sunday Sun (SA)/The Zimbabwe Standard