PUBLIC STATEMENT: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT.

By Simba Chikanza | I am so saddened to hear our Patson Dzamara is no more, and I send my deepest condolences to the Dzamara family. While we’re all in such a sad grief, a certain, Mr. Kuda Musasiwa, has begun taking opportunity to use his plight to make false allegations. He last week discouraged the Cancer Support Network I interviewed from assisting Patson Dzamara claiming that they are “herbalists.”

This time Musasiwa has come back today on Wednesday 26th August 2020 once again to claim that they are “herbalists.”

The Cancer Support Network had offered to (including bringing in their expertise) take care of all expenses and handle everything in the process of Dzamara’s treatment. The Cancer Support Networks has done this in the past for other patients, and I have interviewed them in the same manner; they have never done herbal treatment or at any time mentioned or inferred such.

This was an organisation trying to help and they have in the past demonstrated good will to assist patients.

I have never in my life interviewed a herbalist nor do I personally take in their methods to the extent of publishing their work in the news. This cancer organisation, the only one I interviewed is a fully registered British company – their certificates and qualifications are online, they do not at all do herbals as alleged.

TIMELINE:
– On Wednesday 19th Aug a fund was set up to help Patson Dzamara and the announcement made that he has been diagnosed with cancer.
– An article was published on ZimEye on the same publicising the fund.
– The same day many people came up seeking to assist Mr Dzamara.
– On the same day the Cancer Support Network came up offering to assist in the same way they have done other patients in the past.
– A confusing tweet by Pachedu alleging that Cancer Support Networks is an organisation of herbalists, was quickly deleted on the 20th Aug following Mr Dzamara’s personal intervention, and below is their message – reproduced below:

In their benevolence, Cancer Support Networks had called for urgent treatment to be done on Patson Dzamara last week, indicating that his case was an emergency (the full timestamped interview is below). They recommended that despite the diagnosis having been stage 2B, condition was very aggressive and treatment should be commenced  immediately, he should not wait for for foreign based treatment which would only be possible weeks later.

. The cancer support network is on full record having been interviewed twice last week demanding that treatment be done immediately, and that people should not wait for foreign travel.

“…This is a very aggressive cancer and we need to act very fast now…. treatment has to commence now,” was their response in the below interview.

They were immediately labelled “herbalists” by Kuda Musasiwa who said they deserved to be ignored with contempt.  Musasiwa seems to have his own agenda and I have reported on the man in previous news articles for among others, demeaning the office of President Nelson Chamisa.

We have the messages from Pachedu confirming their interactions with Mr Dzamara last Thur/Friday.

Patson Dzamara communicated directly with the Cancer Support Network and he listened to their advice that treatment needs to commence immediately locally instead of waiting for foreign treatment which would happen more than 3 weeks later, caused by quarantining requirements in different countries. But the Cancer Support Network could only go so far, after they were hindered being being labelled “herbalists.”

– Between the 20th Aug and the 24th Aug, all attempts by the Cancer Support Networks were paused as a result.

Mr Dzamara said he had communicated with Musasiwa and Pachedu to clear all misconceptions. That Musasiwa continued to make the allegations  throughout the weekend, is still not clear, as far as his intentions since Patson Dzamara had already spoken about it.

– On Monday 24th Aug at 1741h, Dzamara wrote to the Cancer Support Networks saying: “Whatever help you can render to me will go a long way. Right now i need to go through the surgery as a matter of urgence [sic]this coming week.”

That was the last communication he sent.

– On that day, Cancer Support Networks reached out to send some money for his needs. They sent GBP 1038.00 raised in one day.

Meanwhile, Musasiwa has presented some screenshots of communications as evidence to claim that the org does herbal treatment. I have looked in their company records, and the person inscribed thereon, has no link or association whatsoever with the Cancer Support Network.

Furthermore the company does not do herbal treatment at all.

I enclose a copy of their registration certificate, and below is the interview with the Cancer Support Network:

In the same light there is a man named Wellence Mujuru previously exposed for running a fake cancer organisation, and has never at any time disputed the numerous articles that are over two years old. The many news articles are only published by several news websites. Today, Mujuru took opportunity to use the nation’s loss of Patson Dzamara to lay claim that the findings in the articles exposing his fake organisation, he called RWISA CANCER are false.

I am extremely saddened that my brother has passed on, and I feel it is immoral to use this time of mourning to settle personal scores. Let’s mourn our departed brother.