A FORMER Zanu PF business associate Manharlal Chunilal Joshi, who left the country in a huff in 2004 after the party started investigating alleged externalisation of foreign currency by business executives, has died.
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He was 68.
Joshi died on November 30 in South Africa.
According to a funeral notice published by the family yesterday, he will be cremated this morning at Brixton Crematorium in Johannesburg.
“The Joshi family will return to Harare on December 7 and mourners and sympathisers are welcome to gather at his residence,” read the notice.
Originally from Malawi, the Joshi family and their extended network of financial and commercial contracts were pivotal to Zanu PF between 1980 and 2004 when they left the country in the face of an internal probe into Zanu PF businesses.
Joyant Joshi, Manharlal’s brother, was at one time believed to hold directorship in several Zanu PF companies, among them, Catercraft, Eagle Investments, First Banking Corporation, M&S Syndicate, National Blankets, Treger, Vimco Chemicals, and Zidco Imports.
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The Joshi family was reportedly thrown out of Malawi by the late Hastings Kamuzu Banda in the 1960s before they linked up with Zanu PF.
Based in the United Kingdom in the 1970s, the Joshi family are alleged to have provided innumerable logistical support to Zanu during the liberation war.
During their stay in Zimbabwe, the Joshi brothers allegedly acted as fronts for many senior Zanu PF politicians.
Just before their hasty departure, the Joshi brothers were reportedly under surveillance over allegations of externalisation of funds in a scam believed to involve top Zanu PF leaders.
