Christopher Tichaona Kuruneri (4 April 1949[1][2] – 28 May 2022)[3] was a Zimbabwean businessman, politician, lawyer,[4] farmer and philanthropist.
Kuruneri was born in the Mbare District of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe),[citation needed] on 4 April 1949.
His parents hail from the town of Mount Darwin in the Mashonaland Central Provincial District of Zimbabwe.
After selling his house on 30 Harare drive to the Canadian Embassy he bought Bromley Farm just outside Marondera, Zimbabwe.
He was relieved by the government of his Cabinet position as Finance Minister after it was revealed that he spent millions purchasing two homes in Llandudno, Cape Town, which is a suburb popular with movie stars and wealthy businessmen.
Kuruneri made headlines in the South African Sunday Times when it broke a story that he was building a R30 million mansion in the exclusive suburb of Llandudno in Cape Town.
[7] Despite all the harassment, Kuruneri has remained a loyal Zanu PF member, Kuruneri stood in Mount Darwin East election in the 31 July 2013 polls and his electoral victory made it possible for him to make his way back to the National Assembly, but failed to catapult him into Cabinet after he was overlooked by Robert Mugabe.