Unlucky Ginimbi: Money Couldn’t Buy Him Happiness, Wisdom

To overcome sadness, some over eat, others take to the bottle and many other forms of binging – for Genius “Ginimbi” Kadungure – he simply spoiled himself.


Not just with the most expensive champagne, designer clothes or the most beautiful women – but top end cars and a million-dollar home.


In public, Ginimbi always appeared bubbly and happy, but tragedy actually trailed him while personal misfortune also had its way with him.
Leaving his home at the age of 17 to organise a path that saw him becoming one of the country’s most vibrant young entrepreneurs, Ginimbi has had his highs and lows.


In January 2014, he made headlines when it was revealed that he had been looking after another man’s child for 11 years after he fell victim to the deceitfulness of one Doreen Mutukwa.


Close friends said it broke his heart: “At some point Ginimbi actually believed the child was his. It left him heartbroken as he just did the tests to buy time and frustrate the mother who wanted more then it turned the child wasn’t his.”


Said Ginimbi of the incident: “Yes, I was duped into looking after a child I thought was mine for 11 years. It is heartbreaking. The woman blackmailed me into believing the child was mine and since I did not want any public scrutiny, I obliged.”

Family Deaths, Legal Troubles
The past two years began with Ginimbi being robbed of loved ones.
While on holiday in December 2018, Ginimbi received news that he had lost a brother, Andrew, after a short illness.


He died on New Year’s Eve.


Come January 2020, Ginimbi was grieving again after his mother Juliana Mubaiwa breathed her last after a lengthy battle with cancer.


Following these deaths, he was the only son left in his immediate family, but he did not see eye-to-eye with his biological father Anderson.


Despite all his money, the child parent relationship simply did not work to such an extent that his father does not even know the name of his grandchild he sired.


While he was still mourning his mother, Ginimbi found himself incarcerated for tax evasion for allegedly undervaluing excise duty for a Bentley Continental GT to the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra).
He was granted $10 000 bail after a two-week stint in remand prison and his troubles resurfaced again after being arrested again whilst still on routine remand over the Bentley case.


This time he was accused of forging documents which he used to import a Rolls Royce from South Africa thereby prejudicing Zimra US$90 260,10 for unpaid duty.


In 2018 he was arrested on allegations that between February 2009 and May 2016, his company Piko Trading Private Limited misrepresented to the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) that it made total sales of $2 777 678, inclusive of Value Added Tax, when in actual fact the company had made sales amounting to $9 092 951.


As a result of the misrepresentation, Zimra suffered a prejudice of $417 940.
Prior to these charges he had been arrested again for duping Chegutu West legislator Dexter Nduna and Ivon and Enos Gatawa of R1 535 000 in a pump supply deal.


Was unlucky or just foolish? Was he a thug and conman? Did he hide his sadness behind ostentatious parties?
Some of the issues he came across in life did not need the power of money, maybe a little prayer would have sufficed.
Whatever the case – Ginimbi lived his life to the fullest.
Nhau/Indaba

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