Kudzai Isaac Sadomba

ZIMBABWEAN GOVERNMENT CAUGHT UP IN A UK CONTRACT KILLLERS, EXTREMISTS AND FAKE RALLY SCANDAL An Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit documentary film titled Contract Killers and the Far Right exposes links between the British far-right student movement Turning Point UK (TPUK) and an armed loyalist paramilitary member, while detailing a fake political rally organised on behalf of the Zimbabwean government. The investigation revealed that TPUK's chief executive Jack Ross was acting on behalf of the Zimbabwean government and paid thousands of pounds to Allan Nesbitt — a convicted violent criminal linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a proscribed terrorist organisation — to stage a fraudulent political rally. The purpose of this rally was to manufacture public support in the UK for lifting international sanctions against Zimbabwe. Uebert Angel, a Zimbabwean businessman, self-styled prophet, and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Special Presidential Envoy and Ambassador-at-Large to Europe and the Americas, is referenced in the story. While Angel is a prominent figure frequently tied to Zimbabwean state lobbying, sanction-busting campaigns, and was famously the central target of Al Jazeera's 2023 Gold Mafia exposé regarding illicit state financial flows, this specific film focuses directly on the operational link between TPUK leadership, British far-right networks, and loyalist paramilitaries acting as paid conduits for the Zimbabwean state. Beyond the fake rally for Zimbabwe, undercover cameras captured Ross introducing an undercover reporter to Nesbitt, revealing that Nesbitt could arrange violent physical attacks or execution-style contract killings through his paramilitary connections. Ross has completely denied the findings, claiming his secretly recorded remarks were "not meant seriously".