The British property company, Citigroup, and South African Breweries-Miller are among international businesses that are fund-raising for Simba Makoni’s presidential campaign in Zimbabwe’s March 29 elections, the state-controlled Herald reports. According to the newspaper this confirmed “reports that his election bid was part of the Western regime change agenda”.

Another company, Actis Africa, a leading private British equity investor based in London, was being used as a conduit to bring in money to Zimbabwe, the newspaper said.

Former Minister of Industry and Trade Nkosana Moyo, who was Makoni’s campaign strategist, was a managing partner in Actis Africa that had branches in China, Latin America, Asia and Africa, the Herald said.

“Information available indicates that the London-based Zimbabwean-born Christine Thompson, who is the policy issues manager with SABMiller, co-ordinated a fund-raising lunch held in London last Friday.”

Moyo, who was described by Thompson as “a key strategist behind the Zimbabwe presidential campaign of Simba Makoni”, attended the lunch at Citigroup’s offices at Stirling Gardens.

“The Herald is yet to establish how much was raised at the occasion meant to attract funding from UK companies.” News 24

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