A cat with 9 lives: Wadyajena the ultimate survivor

JUST a few months ago, it looked almost certain that factional wars in Zanu PF had buried Justice Mayor Wadyajena.

Yet, his detractors, especially in his turbulent Midlands province, forgot one thing: time and time again, throughout his switchback career in business and politics, he has been dismissed, written off and counted out, only to bounce back stronger, like some magical, flagitious rubber ball.

As a businessman, Wadyajena suffered a serious blow when he and five others were wrongly implicated in a fraud scandal at Cottco which led to the seizure of his personal vehicles and his haulage trucks, grounding his business operations.

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