By Cde Patriot Sunungura

On May 23, 2025, the people of Masvingo Province were graced with the rare privilege of hosting Kudakwashe Tagwirei—chairperson of the Land Tenure Committee, beneficiary of inflated state tenders, and architect of Zimbabwe’s grand land privatization scheme—at Masvingo Polytechnic. 

Never one to hoard his wisdom, the Seventh-day Adventist church elder Tagwirei has embarked on a nationwide tour under the pious banner of “Leadership Success Series Seminars,” where he dispenses divine financial advice to a nation where 90% survive on less than US$2 a day.  

While individuals like him are billionaires thriving on patronage and state corruption.

Tagwirei’s gospel nonetheless is simple: “poverty is a spiritual condition.”

Quoting Deuteronomy 8:18 with the fervor of a televangelist, he preached that God alone grants the power to attain wealth—a truth evidently demonstrated when the Almighty personally instructed Treasury to deposit US$1.9 billion into his Kuvimba Holdings account. 

Was it not the same celestial hand that blessed command agriculture’s lucrative subsidies and anointed his companies with every major infrastructure tender? 

The Trabablas Interchange, the mining concessions, the fuel deals—all manifestations of Biblical prosperity. 

Those still stuck in poverty, Tagwirei implied, simply hadn’t prayed hard enough.  

However, the day’s revelation came when Tagwirei, now channeling both prophet and policy-maker, unveiled his vision for Zimbabwe’s agrarian future. 

State land, he declared, would be entrusted to “capable custodian,”  a euphemism for billionaires like himself who could “maximize its potential.”

The poor clinging to their A1 farms would receive temporary ownership papers, just formal enough to qualify for predatory loans. 

When and if they default the land would revert to “more competent hands,” namely the financial institutions in Tagwirei’s orbit. 

It’s a trickle-down economics meets the Book of Job.  

The irony was lost on the desperate crowds who cheered his every word. 

Our state, ever generous with its favored sons, provided security and logistics for the tour, ensuring the message reached every corner of the nation. 

“God is in it,” the old electoral mantra previously used to comfort masses after their votes had been stolen, has now been repurposed to bless corporate looting. 

As Zimbabweans left the seminars, pockets empty but hearts full of holy hope, one truth became clear: in Tagwirei’s Zimbabwe, God’s kingdom wasn’t coming—it had already arrived, with offshore accounts and a boardroom seat.