tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62165174536757203352024-02-22T17:58:27.829+02:00"GUKURAHUNDI RE-VISITED!"This blog looks after the debates relating to that period of Zim History where our brothers and sisters in Midlands and Mandebeleland suffered under the yoke of ZANU-PF and its 5th Brigade etc.
Refer: mufarostig@yahoo.co.uk Cell: 0791463039 RSA.The Radical Mindset!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06773394621026095967noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216517453675720335.post-12176256207434887082008-01-08T08:59:00.001+02:002008-01-09T11:14:08.025+02:00NDEBELE BROTHER GIVES VERY SAD PERSPECTIVE OF GUKURAHUNDI!<H2 class=date-header> </H2> <DIV class="post hentry"> <DIV class=post-header-line-1><EM></EM></DIV> <DIV class="post-body entry-content"> <div><EM><STRONG>This letter was written by Qhopheni Ndlovu (</STRONG></EM><A href="mailto:qhoshi03@yahoo.co.uk"><FONT color=#cc0000><EM><STRONG>qhoshi03@yahoo.co.uk</STRONG></EM></FONT></A><STRONG><EM> )<BR><BR>I corrected only spellings and gramma but otherwise its exactly as it landed in my In-Box.<BR><BR>Rev Mufaro Stig Hove.<BR><BR><SPAN style="COLOR: #ff0000">@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</SPAN><BR><BR>I find ads posted sad for people like you to try and make money out of other people's misery.<BR><BR>What have you done for the victims of the killings considering that you are making a killing from the ads posted on your site. You might think that you are promoting some tribal unity or something but let me tell you the truth straight , WE THE NDEBELES DO NOT WANT TO BE PART OF ZIMBABWE ANYMORE BELIEVE IT OR NOT.<BR><BR>We are sick and tired of the treachery perpetuated by the Shonas day in day out we are sick of having our salaries eroded every hour you may say the Shonas are suffering too but let me tell you that our suffering dates way back to the 80s.<BR><BR>Take Zodwa for example, her father left home when her mom was still pregnant to join the war came back at independence and in 1982 was collected at night by the fifth brigade and was never to be seen again the result is that without a father Zodwa's mom had to struggle to raise her, pay her fees and Zodwa went to school barefoot, was not doing well as there was not enough food at home; they were living like destitute in a country whose independence Zodwa's dad had sacrificed his life.<BR><BR>Because Zodwa has no father she cannot get a Birth Certficate and ID and in turn no Passport to escape the poverty and live in the UK like you so she can send money back home for her parents. She turns to the local eligible man, gets married and thats the end of the story of her youth. Now she has to fend for her kids who in turn (because she has no Birth Certificate) find it hard for them to get them themselves and they drop out of school at Grade 7 because they can not write Grade Seven exams with no Birth Cerficates, and yes the cycle continues vicious as it is and the next thing the boys who lost a grandparent border-jump into SA.<BR><BR>IF LUCKY THEY MAKE IT; if not they are either eaten by crocodiles or are caught and sent to Lindela.<BR><BR>On the flip side here's a boy in Mash East who grows up with with his mom as his dad has left to join the war dad comes back, gets his demob pay; is senseless, blows it all but is able to get his son a Birth Certificate and son gets an education up to Form Four. Son does not do well at school but as the crunch time comes in, son gets a passport, dad sells some of his cattle son goes to the UK starts a new life, sends dad some money and amongst other things dad buys his cattle back. Its not a blessing to have a father. Or should i say not having a dad is curse?<BR><BR>The sun is setting: the old guard is going; no one is man enough to stand up and challenge the old guard but need i reminder you and your likes in the words of Malcom X<BR><BR>"When you let your chickens out in the morning do not expect them to roost in your neighbour's run: they will come to yours."<BR><BR><BR>Here I was just highlighting to you how deep our problems with the Shonas are; so whatever you are promoting as long as it does not benefit the victims directly you are just as bad<BR>as Mugabe and Chiyangwa: you are enriching yourself with the suffering of others; you hands are blood-stained.<BR><BR>I have attached a link below just to give you an insight as to who the dissidents were, if a notebook signed by Notalks Mabhena is found in the pocket of a terrorist called Mombi Macheni, the rest is food for thought.<BR><SPAN class=a><SPAN style="COLOR: #008000"></SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN class=a><SPAN style="COLOR: #008000"><A href="http://www.rhodesia.nl/mission.htm" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN style="COLOR: #003399">www.rhodesia.nl/mission.htm</SPAN></A> </SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN class=a><SPAN style="COLOR: #008000"></SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN class=a><SPAN style="COLOR: #008000"></SPAN></SPAN><BR></EM><SPAN class=a><SPAN style="COLOR: #008000"><EM>Have a good day!</EM> </SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN class=a><SPAN style="COLOR: #008000"></SPAN></SPAN><BR></STRONG></div></DIV></DIV><BR><BR><div> </div><p>  <br />@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<br /><br />PLEASE VISIT SITE WHERE THERE IS A MOST HEATED DEBATE ON "GUKURAHUNDI". <a href="http://zimfinalpush7.blogspot.com/2008/01/ndebele-brother-gives-very-sad.html">@@>>LINK<<@@</a>The Radical Mindset!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06773394621026095967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216517453675720335.post-53687529193153609642007-12-06T10:48:00.000+02:002007-12-06T10:50:14.184+02:00Retired Bishop honoured for exposing Gukurahundi<strong><a href="http://www.talkzimbabwe.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=84&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=6328&wpage=&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1705&hn=talkzimbabwe&he=.com">LINK!!!</a><br />Ezekiel Chiwara 03.DEC.07<br /><br />A RETIRED Roman Catholic bishop who was one of the first people to expose the massacre of 20 000 civilians in Matabeleland and the Midlands, Henry Karlen was on Friday given the prestigious Civic Honour by the Bulawayo City Council for helping victims of the government's military campaign. <br /><br />He was bestowed with the honour at a function where Bulawayo mayor, Japhet Ndabeni Ncube also gave civic honours to the late Carl Paul Pretorius, a renowned soccer referee and Amratbai Desai who gave financial support to parties led by the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo during the liberation struggle.<br /><br />Karlen, who was the first Archbishop of the Bulawayo diocese in 1994 alongside his successor, Bishop Pius Ncube are credited for bringing the killings to the attention of the international community.<br /><br />The bishops confronted the then Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe with evidence that the Fifth Brigade, a specially trained forces of the fifth brigade deployed in the provinces to fight ‘dissidents’ were carrying out a campaign of torture, rape, starvation and murder against the civilian population. <br /><br />This was after they carried out an assessment of the situation in Matabeleland North and South provinces between 1983 and 1984. <br /><br />“Archbishop Karlen was a Bishop in Bulawayo at a time of the disturbances in Matabeleland in the early 80s. He went out of his way and at great personal risk to his own life to assess the situation in Matabeleland North in 1983 and in Matabeleland South in 1984 and to offer help to the beleaguered people in the two provinces,” read the citation for the honours.<br /><br />Bishop Ncube was forced to resign a few months ago after a government sponsored operation allegedly caught him having an affair with a married parishioner, Rosemary Sibanda. Sibanda’s husband, Onesmus is now suing Bishop Ncube for Z$15 billion for alleged adultery.<br /><br />Karlen was born in Switzerland in 1922 and taught in various Roman Catholic Church seminaries in Europe and South Africa before relocating to Zimbabwe in 1974. He retired as the Archbishop of Bulawayo in 1998 and is now involved in a number of charitable activities in the city.<br /><br />Mugabe described the Gukurahundi killings as “a moment of madness” but 20 years after they ended, victims are yet to receive any compensation.</strong>The Radical Mindset!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06773394621026095967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216517453675720335.post-38673393722075609202007-09-03T16:09:00.000+02:002007-09-03T16:11:04.299+02:00Tracing the last days of Look-out Masuku!<a href="http://www.thezimbabwestandard.com/viewinfo.cfm?linkid=21&id=7205&siteid=1">LINK!!!</a><br />sundayview by Judith Todd<br /><br />IN mid-March, my parents invited the Shamuyariras to dinner. Halfway through, Nathan said: "Judy, I hope CIO is not still interfering with your mail?" I had to think on my feet, as it were, although I was sitting down.<br /><br />What worried me was any possible fright to my mother, so I tried to pass his question off as a light-hearted matter and said: "Minister, I haven’t told my mother about this, but everything seems to have led to vastly improved relations with the CIO, and Mr Stannard and I are even due to have lunch with each other."<br /><br />The minister seemed amused, and my mother and the two New Zealand visitors seemed unperturbed. I supposed, sitting warmly around the table, the possibility of the CIO opening my mail seemed unreal to everyone but the minister, my father and me. But of course, whatever I hoped, my mother would have known exactly what was happening. Her sensitivity was ultra acute.<br /><br />Now and again, I thought I had reached the age and the condition when nothing was so bad that it could shock me. That particular thought was in my mind on Monday 24 March when Michelle Faul rang to say that we must meet, which we did high above Harare on the Meikles Hotel pool deck at lunch time. She worked for Associated Press and was a stringer for the BBC.<br /><br />Four days earlier, Michelle had been instructed to meet Nathan Shamuyarira. She was told that "we" are tired of her reporting; she would have no further assistance from the ministry — which meant she would lose her accreditation. She couldn’t be deported, as she was a citizen by birth of Zimbabwe, so the only way to deal with her was detention at Chikurubi.<br /><br />She was rightly very frightened, and at the same time ashamed of being scared. She was leaving Zimbabwe within the next 48 hours, deprived of her home, her right to work and, basically, of her citizenship.<br /><br />After our painful lunch, I got back to the office to find a white woman of about 60 who asked if I could spare a few minutes. Between Michelle and now this lady, I realised that there were still things that could profoundly shock me.<br /><br />She sat down, introducing herself as Margie Schwing, and although she never actually wept, she was on the verge of tears and struggling for control throughout the awful story she told me. She had been in Park Street in November, and all of a sudden was surrounded by five men who said they were from CIO and took her off to Harare Central police station. From there she was moved to Chikurubi Women’s Remand Section. She appeared once in a magistrate’s court and the CIO opposed bail because they said they were still investigating fraud.<br /><br />From what Mrs Schwing said, it was CIO throughout, and not the fraud squad. She said she still didn’t know why she had been held. She was released at the end of February, suffering from pneumonia, and was taken to Parirenyatwa Hospital outpatients. Due to one of those strokes of good fortune, Mrs Schwing had been alone when a member of her church saw her and came to ask what was wrong. She was accompanied by two CIO agents, one of whom had gone to get her prescription filled, while the other had gone to the toilet.<br /><br />The friend was extremely practical and whipped out a notebook, and took down the name and address of Mrs Schwing’s son, who apparently worked for Tabex in Malaysia, and then darted off before CIO reappeared.<br /><br />The conditions she described were terrible: women not knowing of any rights they might have; beatings by wardresses; people having their hair torn out; a woman having teeth punched in; the use of hosepipes on prisoners by the wardresses; malnutrition among toddlers and babies picked up with their mothers. She said that on New Year’s Day as the women came out of the cell blocks, they each received a blow with a hosepipe and the accompanying greeting: "Happy New Year!"<br /><br /><br />Mrs Schwing also said something that I thought might be the truth of the matter, although she apologised for saying it, because, she said, it sounded so unreal. She had been at a party before her detention, and Simon Muzenda was there. He had been very nice to her, and introduced her to a lot of people. Mrs Schwing heard a young man, who seemed to stay close to her all the time at the party, saying to someone else: "It’s just not fair! I’m also in business. Why doesn’t Muzenda introduce me to all these people?"<br /><br />So, she said, it may have all started with jealousy. To me, that didn’t sound unreal.<br /><br />On Tuesday 1 March 1986, Lieutenant General Lookout Masuku and the veteran PF Zapu politician Vote Moyo were officially released from detention. As was the case under the Smith regime, the names of detainees could not be published, so there hadn’t been news of them in the papers for the four years they had been imprisoned in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe. Now their freedom was headline news.<br /><br />Lookout’s wife Gift managed to get permission for me to see him on Sunday 9 March from 3.30PM to 6PM at Parirenyatwa Hospital. There were four heavily armed soldiers outside his room. I sat down with them, and said I gathered they had a permit for me to see Masuku. They were perfectly pleasant and said that was fine, so I walked into the private ward.<br /><br />Lookout was attached to two drips but sitting up in bed, and he gave a small scream when he saw me, jumped up and hugged me hard. The drips were suspended from a wheeled stand, so he was mobile.<br /><br />There was no awkwardness. It was as if we had known each other for years and had seen each other yesterday. But the joy was precisely because we hadn’t seen each other for more than four years, and because it was so wonderful to see one another again. I couldn’t begin to fathom the hell of uncontrolled suffering he had been going through. There were some days he had no memory of, which was probably just as well. The full story would probably never unfold, but if it did, it would be bleak. For example, it turned out that the "specialist" the prison authorities had told his lawyer he had seen in December was neither a specialist nor even a registered doctor.<br /><br />I wondered, too, about the doctor at Chikurubi. I had learned he was a Russian Jew on contract, that he had worked previously in Israel and that he was very timid. I wondered if he had ended up in his position because he had such good qualifications.<br /><br />We talked non-stop, an interested guard listening in the corner, until after six, when the soldiers very reasonably asked me to leave, as visiting hours were over. That was sad, because we didn’t then think we would be seeing each other again in the foreseeable future.<br /><br />I rang Gift the next day to thank her, and to say I’d had a wonderful time. Of course, "wonderful" was the wrong word. Lookout was skinny and his arms were very swollen from trying to find veins for the drips, and he was very, very sick. But he sat up all the time I was with him and was mentally as bright as a button. There was a heart-rending moment when he said: "But what of the future? When I went to prison I got high blood pressure. Then I got kidney troubles. Now I have this. What is going to happen to me next?<br /><br />I said: "Oh Lookout!" as though, how could he ask such a question?<br /><br />But he said: "No, Judy, I mean it. Let’s be practical about the whole thing."<br /><br />I feared he was absolutely right. I had been consulting Professor Noel Galen, who was very gloomy about Lookout’s future.<br /><br />Late on Monday night I returned a call from Gift.<br /><br />"Have you heard anything?" she asked.<br /><br />I said I had heard a rumour that Lookout was to be released. She said it was true. I said: "How do you know? Who told you? Is there a piece of paper?"<br /><br />She laughed and said the fact that she was telling me meant that it was true.<br /><br />She travelled up the next day from Bulawayo, and I spent half an hour with her and Lookout at Parirenyatwa. As he was now a free man, no permits were required to see him and the armed guards had been withdrawn.<br /><br />At about six that Tuesday evening, an unknown man walked in and stood by the bed. Lookout was polite but cool. I kept thinking, what an odd doctor. He didn’t ask how Lookout was feeling — he just kept informing him that he would be seeing him again, the next night, in hospital, in Bulawayo.<br /><br />When he left, they simultaneously said: "CIO." Then I remembered him.<br /><br /><br />*Excerpt from Judith Todd’s latest book, Through the Darkness; A Life in Zimbabwe, available from www.zebrapress.co.za.The Radical Mindset!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06773394621026095967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216517453675720335.post-44877503990772858762007-08-02T06:30:00.001+02:002007-08-02T06:54:04.302+02:00MORE ON "GUKURAHUNDI" from NICK WORRALL<strong><H3>GUKURAHUNDI REVISITED</H3> <DIV><IMG height=179 alt="" src="http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/images/5TH_20BRIGADE_201992.jpg" width=289 border=0><IMG style="WIDTH: 253px; HEIGHT: 180px" height=932 alt="" src="http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/images/joshNKOMO.JPG" width=721 border=0></DIV> <DIV><BR><STRONG><FONT size=4>Memories of a massacre</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><BR>stand first: The Guardian's correspondent in Zimbabwe in the early 80s, NICK WORRALL, gives his exclusive first-hand account of how he broke the news of the Gukurahundi massacre in Zimbabwe. <BR>'Dozens of small villages had been similarly attacked and hundreds - possibly thousands - of people shot dead'<BR>'My colleagues had betrayed our confidence and agreement'<BR>'The suffering people of Matabeleland were failed miserably by the journalists'<BR>'The Catholic Church knew at first hand about the killings and had been giving fleeing villagers places of refuge in their churches'<BR>It was a quiet Saturday morning in January 1983. I was sitting reading the sparse newswires, sitting at my desk in the small office I rented in Frankel House, in the centre of what used to be called Salisbury - now Harare. There seemed little news around on this sultry day and my mind was drifting towards swimming pool and cold wine. <BR>So, about to leave for home, I was picking up some papers when a small, oldish man, entered my office. He looked dishevelled and out of breath. He thought mine was the BBC office. I told him it was not but, sensing a bit of news, I asked him to sit down, catch his breath and tell me his story. <BR>He told me he had rushed over from Matabeleland where something dreadful was happening and he wanted to give details to the BBC. I told him that the BBC correspondent was, as far as I knew, out of town. But if he could give me details I would see that it was passed to the BBC when their man returned. In the meantime I asked him to tell me what was upsetting him. <BR>The story he stammered out turned my blood cold. I asked if I could come with him to his village so he could show me enough for me to give the story to my newspaper. The BBC, I said, would certainly pick it up quickly. <BR>There had been quite a bit of news to report - government irritation at my claim (true as usual) that Zim, suffering from severe shortages, was getting its petrol, from South Africa. Tantamount to a shameful African crime at that time. Then there had been consistent reports from Matabeleland of attacks on farmers with official blame being aimed at "dissidents". <BR>Some attacks, including a bomb or two in Harare and another against the air force in Gweru, were being blamed on the South Africans or perhaps on disgruntled former Rhodesian soldiers who refused to live under black rule. <BR>Apart from these Robert Mugabe had made an unexpectedly good start after his sweeping election victory in 1980. A certain amount of opposition had come from Joshua Nkomo's Matabeleland supporters, but a strong military presence in that part of the country seemed likely to quell any potential rebellion. <BR>Most of the Zim armed forces had received training from the British army, but a curious decision, which was bound to irritate the West, brought in soldiers from North Korea to train a new element of the local forces - to be known as the Fifth Brigade. They already had the country agog after a major showing of drill, armed and unarmed combat at the capital's major soccer stadium.<BR>I had arrived in Zimbabwe in 1981 to report for the London Sunday Times but I changed to the Guardian when I had the chance. I was fond of this great liberal paper from my days in Britain, especially since my father had been their man to report on Ian Smith's illegal declaration of independence in defiance of colonial masters Britain. John Worrall was expelled when Smith finally lost patience with his fair, but often damning, reports. <BR>I decided that I should not go down to dangerous Matabeleland alone but pass the news to two other British correspondents, the Reuters bureau chief and the freelance stringer for The Times. We all agreed to go down together first thing the next morning.<BR>My informant had come from a small village some distance northwest of Bulawayo. He took us there. All that remained was a ring of burned huts, some still smouldering. There were a few women. They were obviously in mourning. As we drove in they gathered up their children and moved away. But our friend called them back and reassured them that we meant them no harm.<BR>They told the story that two days before a troop of Fifth Brigade soldiers had driven into the village and brandished a piece of paper. They read out the names of several men, all of them local officials of Joshua Nkomo's ZAPU political party. They ordered the villagers to produce the men. When they said the men were not in the village the soldiers grabbed six villagers, male and female. These were lined up in front of a hut and shot. Huts were then set on fire and the soldiers departed.<BR>We were shown hollow graves in which the murdered villagers had hastily been buried. And we were told that this incident was by no means a one-off. Dozens of small villages had been similarly attacked and hundreds - possibly thousands - of people shot dead. Others, they said, especially young men, teenagers, had been savagely tortured with bayonets and left to die on the ground.<BR>We were shown two or three more villages which had suffered a similar fate at the murderous hands of the red beret-wearing Fifth brigade. We saw more shallow graves, more burned huts and more weeping women. In each case the same story was told - they were seeking Nkomo supporters and were under orders to kill them.<BR>We were also taken to the Mpilo hospital in Bulawayo where we were told many young men had been taken suffering from bayonet wounds. We saw about 15 victims, covered in bandages over a mass of holes in their chests and stomachs. Some were clearly in great agony, others had been drugged and were sleeping. Those that could speak told a similar story - they'd been dragged away from their huts or from their work and the soldiers had repeatedly stabbed them and then left them, lying on the ground.<BR>When we had seen enough we retired to the Holiday Inn hotel to discuss what we had observed. It was now quite late on Sunday but there would be time to write a story and file it to London by telex that night. We were of the opinion that it was important that all three of us should tell the story now - in that case we would be protected by the coverage. No-one could accuse any one of us for having made up the story which seemed to accuse Robert Mugabe and his army of mass murder. There was safety in numbers.<BR>The next day I discovered that the Guardian had used my story on the front page. Reuters and the London Times had printed nothing. My colleagues had betrayed our confidence and agreement. I knew that it was only a matter of time before I would to pay the same penalty as my father had 13 years before. <BR>It was nearly three months before they expelled me. I spent time trying to get others who knew full well what was happening in Matabeleland to support me from the accusation that my story had been a lie. I travelled to Botswana where I found hundreds of refugees from Matabeleland in a camp, all of whom told similar stories of the massacre. The Catholic Church knew at first hand about the killings and had been giving fleeing villagers places of refuge in their churches. But no-one wanted to admit to the problems.<BR>Another well-informed organisation was Oxfam who had several programmes for the poor in Matabeleland and had observed the actions of the troops. But they did not want to jeopardise their operations either.<BR>One result of my report (which was never acknowledged by Mugabe or any other Zimbabwean official) was to have Matabeleland closed down to the press. It took more than a year before Donald Trelford made the effort for The Observer to look for himself. Not many of our colleagues have made that effort. Perhaps in future journalists might show a bit more courage when confronted with this kind of brutality. On another occasion lives might be saved. In this, the suffering people of Matabeleland were failed miserably by the journalists.<BR>The role of the press over this dreadful issue was far from courageous, nor has it resulted in any repentance or admission of guilt and change of heart by Mugabe, himself a Roman Catholic. I shall never forget these words about his president from an embittered Joshua Nkomo during an interview: "Mugabe has dismantled everything but mantled nothing".</DIV><BR><BR><div> </div><p>  </strong>The Radical Mindset!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06773394621026095967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216517453675720335.post-2984373930907439712007-05-09T12:20:00.001+02:002007-05-09T12:20:45.035+02:00THE INTERVIEW BY THEARCHBISHOP PIUS NCUBE!<div><STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>PLEASE CLICK BELOWAND SEE AND HEAR FOR YOURSELF!</FONT></STRONG></div> <div> </div> <div><A href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_VwTIPm4"><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>http://youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_VwTIPm4</FONT></STRONG></A></div><BR><BR><div> </div><p>  <hr size=1> The <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/nowyoucan/free_from_isp/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=40565/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html">all-new Yahoo! Mail</a> goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider.The Radical Mindset!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06773394621026095967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216517453675720335.post-50245037101402879312007-05-03T07:17:00.001+02:002007-05-03T13:25:08.700+02:00URGENT "STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS" FROM THE OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT!<H3 class=post-title><A href="http://zimfinalpush.blogspot.com/2007/05/state-of-nation-address-by-your.html"><FONT color=#6131bd>"STATE OF THE NATION" ADDRESS BY YOUR PRESIDENT!</FONT></A> </H3> <DIV class=post-header-line-1></DIV> <DIV class=post-body> <div><A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMFqkgzpFmjZlg9_v0HCmOUTijQkCNj-pmwnaBizfydvrMzEl2EFqmz2Pk4yXc_3nkdbSJ2eg3qp0SBrLRbL4VHGKlGkbDP9nqzl7MBJ21YtD6uFOgt_YDSwQj7k2Tfsf-764COQ-KF4Q/s1600-h/mugabe+akaoma.jpg"><IMG id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060190619988546338 style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMFqkgzpFmjZlg9_v0HCmOUTijQkCNj-pmwnaBizfydvrMzEl2EFqmz2Pk4yXc_3nkdbSJ2eg3qp0SBrLRbL4VHGKlGkbDP9nqzl7MBJ21YtD6uFOgt_YDSwQj7k2Tfsf-764COQ-KF4Q/s400/mugabe+akaoma.jpg" border=0></A><BR><BR><EM><STRONG>I think there is a bit of confusion in our beloved country of Zimbabwe today!<BR><BR>Who ever said I won the Presidential Elections of 2002?<BR><BR>I never said so!<BR><BR>All I said was Tsvangirai's Election Petitions are "frivolous and vexatious."<BR><BR>I also pleaded with all patriots to "recognize" me as the Executive President.<BR><BR>I am the only person who can keep this country of Zimbabwe together!<BR><BR>If I removed myself from the top seat, the country will degenerate into chaos (racialism, tribalism, regionalism and all the negatives you can think of!)<BR><BR>Now we are in this whole mess because you simply refused to do the obvious- JUST RECOGNIZE ME. PERIOD!<BR><BR>Do you honestly think Tsvangirai can run this country?<BR><BR>I'm very disappointed with you, my fellow countrymen!<BR><BR>Running a country is a very complicated, delicate task!<BR><BR>You do your best and you are still accused of not doing your best!<BR><BR><STRONG>WHO REALLY COULD HAVE MANAGED THIS ECONOMY BETTER THAN ME?</STRONG><BR><BR>Now about the so-called rigging and the so-called-violence!<BR><BR>Your focus should be on the major issues!<BR><BR>Would we really stand by and allow Mr Blair to re-colonize our country, take away our Sovereignty and take over all our resources?<BR><BR>Would you allow someone to take your wife and you just stood by?<BR><BR>Please lets be very serious, Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends!<BR><BR>About assassinations:be very careful!<BR><BR>This may break the whole Nation apart!<BR><BR>Who killed Cde Hebert Chitepo?<BR><BR>So why do you ask who killed General Josiah Magama Tongogara?<BR><BR>About the so-called "Truth and Reconciliation Commission!"<BR><BR>Where and when do we start?<BR><BR>Who will remain without blood on his hands?<BR><BR>Do you know how Dr Parerenyatwa died? Was it Smith's men or was it an internal struggle?<BR><BR>So will you raise the dead to ask them to testify?<BR><BR>Then last but not least: where in the world are "perfect people"?<BR><BR>The words "rigging", "assassinations" etc are English words!<BR><BR>Are they Shona words?<BR><BR>MUTIKWANIRE! (STOP THIS LUNACY!)<BR><BR>Please recognize me, rally behind me as your God-given father and lets move forward and re-build our Nation!<BR><BR>About the unfortunate isolated incidents in the Southern part of our country (the so-called "Gukurahundi Massacres"), please lets not open old wounds!<BR><BR>The Ndebeles can be very naive if they think we have forgotten their vicious raids against our peace-loving Shona people in the 1890s!<BR><BR>Please let all bye-gones be bye-gones!<BR><BR>MAY THE GOOD LORD ABOVE BE WITH YOU ALL!<BR><BR>Yours Faithfully,<BR><BR>ME.</STRONG></EM></div></DIV><BR><BR><div> </div><p>  <hr size=1> Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. <a href="http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTEydmViNG02BF9TAzIxMTQ3MTcxOTAEc2VjA21haWwEc2xrA3RhZ2xpbmU">Try it now</a>.The Radical Mindset!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06773394621026095967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216517453675720335.post-2848030689574668842007-05-02T12:20:00.001+02:002007-05-07T07:24:42.834+02:00JOURNALIST GEOFF NYAROTA REMEMBERS "THE DAILY NEWS!"<TABLE class=contentpaneopen> <TBODY> <TR> <TD class=contentheading width="100%"><STRONG>Against the Grain, Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman </STRONG></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE class=contentpaneopen> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top colSpan=2> <div><EM><STRONG>By Geoffrey Nyarota</STRONG></EM></div> <div><STRONG><EM></EM></STRONG> </div> <div><A href="http://www.thezimbabwetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=836&Itemid=44"><FONT size=1>http://www.thezimbabwetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=836&Itemid=44</FONT></A></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <STRONG>(Excerpt from Chapter 6, "Kutama to State House") </STRONG> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> THE TASK fell on Nhongo and Mhanda, the two top Zanla representatives in Zipa, to muster support for (Robert) Mugabe from both the guerrillas and his Mozambican host, Machel. In August 1976, said Mhanda, they spirited first (Edgar) Tekere and then Mugabe from Quilimane to the Zanla camp at Chimoio, without Machel's knowledge, to meet with the guerrillas. <div>'It was my task to brief Mugabe on our military operations and I found him both attentive and receptive, a good listener. However, the guerrillas and refugees who met him did not find him an easy man to deal with, and soon formed the opinion that we would not go very far with him,' said Mhanda.</div> 'He was secretive, stubborn and uncompromising, and the more I got to know him, the more I, too, began to fear for the future of the liberation struggle. When Mugabe takes a dislike to someone, he becomes vindictive and never changes his mind,' Mhanda told the BBC in an interview in January 2000. <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">After he returned to Quilimane, Mugabe was invited to attend a Front Line States summit in Dar es Salaam, where he was officially recognised as Zanu's new leader. From the Tanzanian capital he went to Maputo, where preparations were under way for the Geneva Conference aimed at settling the Rhodesian question. In October 1976, Mugabe led the Zanu delegation to the talks.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">One of his first acts as Zanu leader was to disband Zipa, fearing that his archrival, Nkomo, might gain control of a single, united guerrilla force. This so dismayed Mhanda that he refused to travel to Geneva with the Zanu delegation. Shortly before Mugabe's departure for Switzerland Mhanda, using his alias, Dzinashe Machingura, told Zanla fighters via a Radio Maputo broadcast: 'We do not identify ourselves with any of the factions trying to lead us'.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">For the duration of the talks, Mugabe brooded over what he saw as a threat to his leadership and on returning to Maputo, heartened by the fact that Machel had finally decided to support him, he persuaded the Mozambican president to act swiftly in order to forestall a military rebellion led by Mhanda.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">On 19 January 1977, the Mozambican army arrested fifty of Zipa's top commanders at Beira, in Mozambique's Sofala province, while they were attending a conference to discuss the reintegration of political and military leaders arrested in Zambia in the wake of Chitepo's murder. Tongogara had been released from prison in Lusaka at Mugabe's request so that he could attend the Geneva Conference, where the two had forged an alliance. In the year that followed the Beira arrests, another 600 'dissident' guerrillas were rounded up at Tongogara's behest in the various training camps.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">It was the start of what would be a ceaseless and ruthless campaign by Mugabe to neutralise anyone he perceived as a political opponent or threat to his hegemony. </div> <div>Among those held were Elias Hondo, James Nyikadzinashe, Bournard Manyadza (alias Parker Chipoera), Dr Stanslaus Kaka Mudambo, Chrispen Mataire (alias David Todhlana) and Dr Augustus Mudzingwa of Zipra. Also arrested were Happison Muchechetere (alias Harry Tanganeropa) who later became the editor-in-chief of New Ziana, Zimbabwe's national news agency, after a stint at ZBC, and Alexander Kanengoni, who worked for the ZBC and wrote a column for the Herald after independence.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Mhanda was not among those initially arrested.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">'In fact, Mugabe invited me to work with him,' he said. "We met a day after the commanders were arrested and I was informed of the so-called charges against them. I strongly disputed the claims and protested against this wilful and wanton act of victimisation.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">'I refused to cooperate with Mugabe and the new central committee that he had just set up and demanded that the commanders be released, failing which I would join them. That is how I ended up in prison, too.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">'The charges against the commanders were vague, to say the least. They were accused of straying from the party line kurasa gwara remusangano, as they say in Zanu.' </div> <div>According to Mhanda nothing more specific was put to the detainees and no evidence was presented against them. There was no trial, not even a hearing in terms of the codes of discipline and conduct applicable to both Zanu and Zanla, and the accused were offered no chance to defend themselves.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> 'We were held in the basement of the abandoned Grand Hotel in Beira before being taken by road to Nampula province, where we were locked up in a military prison for a week. We were then airlifted to Pemba, the provincial capital of Cabo Delgado in the far north, and confined to our cells for more than seven months,' said Mhanda.</div> <div>Those arrested in January 1978 were charged with plotting to overthrow the leadership of Zanu. </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">'They appeared before some form of kangaroo court,' said Mhanda. 'My understanding is that Mugabe was the presiding officer, assisted by Tongogara, Tekere, Herbert Ushewokunze and Emmerson Mnangagwa, who had just joined them in Mozambique after living and working in Zambia since 1970.'</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">After completing his studies at the University of Zambia, Mnangagwa had served his articles with a Lusaka law firm set up by Enoch Dumbutshena, who would be Zimbabwe's first black chief justice. Mnangagwa arrived in Maputo bearing impressive political credentials, despite not playing an active role in the liberation struggle during his time in Zambia. He had developed a close relationship with Mugabe in detention at Wha Wha and was married to Tongogara's sister. He went to Maputo at Tongogara's request and was appointed security chief, working out of the military supremo's office. </div> <div>It was the perfect launch pad for his meteoric post-independence rise to minister of state security.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Prominent figures arrested during the second swoop on so-called rebels included Mudzi, Gumbo and Hamadziripi, all previously imprisoned by the Zambian authorities on suspicion of plotting Chitepo's death. Hamadziripi was a member of the original executive committee when Zanu was formed in 1963. Other detainees were Chrispen Mandizvidza, a founding central committee member, Webster Gwauya, the party's deputy secretary for external affairs, central committee members Matthew Gurira and Dr Joseph Taderera, and Augustine Chihuri, who would profess unflinching loyalty to Mugabe as police commissioner more than twenty years later.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">On Chihuri's watch, the standards and performance of the Zimbabwe Republican Police reached an all-time low, with members being used to carry out witch-hunts against opposition politicians, the press and white commercial farmers. As the beleaguered country's most senior policeman, he was a prime recipient of Mugabe's legendary patronage, including agricultural estates.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Kangai and Richard Hove, who would both serve as cabinet ministers under Mugabe, were also detained. According to Mhanda, they spent several weeks in the Chimoio Dungeons, infamous for their execrable conditions, but escaped further incarceration due to their personal connections.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">All the prisoners were eventually released as the result of intervention by Nyerere, chairman of the Frontline States at the time. However, Zanu refused to accept them back into its ranks and Machel, in abeyance to Mugabe, restricted their movements.</div> <div>'We became free prisoners,' said Mhanda. 'After being confined to Pemba for six months, the Mozambican army's chief of staff persuaded us to relocate to an abandoned Portuguese military base at Balama, in rural Cabo Delgado. We were free to do whatever we liked, as long as we did not run away. Frankly, it was such a remote area that it would have been suicidal to try and run anyway.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">'Mugabe had identified us as counter-revolutionaries and we were anxious to prove to Frelimo that this was not true, so we stayed for two years before we were eventually released.'</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">They were detained under extremely harsh conditions.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">'For the week that we were at Nampula, we were never allowed out of our cells. The lights stayed on day and night, making it impossible to know what time it was. </div> <div>There were twenty-five of us crammed into a cell clearly not intended for so many people,' Mhanda recalled.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Conditions at Pemba were no better.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">'We were subjected to painful, cruel and inhuman torture. Our hands were tied behind our backs and we were thrown like bags of maize onto the back of trucks that were liberally strewn with broken glass. The guards derived great pleasure from beating us with anything they could lay their hands on. We were split into three groups of eight and confined to small cells of two metres by two metres.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">'We were allowed out of our cells only once every ten days to empty the single bucket in which we had to relieve ourselves. We became accustomed to living with our waste.</div> <div>'We had no blankets in the winter and our only clothing was a pair of trousers each. Our shirts had been confiscated so that in case we dared to try and escape, we could be easily spotted by our bare torsos. For almost eight months we were confined to our cells and during that period, we were allowed to bath only once, and then without soap. </div> <div>We were so infested with lice that we gave up killing them. We endured all manner of ailments like malaria, high fever and diarrhoea without any form of treatment or medication.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">'As for meals, we had rice sprinkled with sand grains, or sadza and beans. Many a time we had nothing to eat for a whole day.'</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Tongogara, Mugabe and Nhongo never once visited the prisoners.</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">("No quiet on the western front", Chapter 7 of Against the Grain covers the political upheaval of the 1980's in Matabeleland - the Gukurahundi atrocities committed by Five Brigade. The extract tomorrow is a passage dwelling on one of the key players, former defence and former home affairs minister, Enos Mzombi Nkala.)</div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><A href="http://www.thezimbabwe.proboards92.com/index.cgi?action=logout" target=_blank><STRONG><FONT color=#003366>JOING THE FORUM AND TAKE THIS ARTICLE FOR FURTHER DISCUSSIONS</FONT></STRONG></A> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </div></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><BR><div> </div><p>  <hr size=1> Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. 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Anybody who breaks the law will be arrested. There is no segregation."</div> <div align=justify>Speaker of the House of Assembly, John Nkomo said: "I have no response to what you are saying but generally that kind of feeling would be generated among the people if they were to be beaten and arrested. I am not aware if anybody has come up with that kind of position but that kind of sentiment would be understandable based on the nasty experiences of the 1980s. </div> <div align=justify>"But let me emphasise that I am not aware of the stance that you are talking about."</div> <div align=justify>Police brutally broke down a Harare Save Zimbabwe Campaign Prayer meeting last month but did not disrupt a similar rally held in Bulawayo. Zanu PF insiders said Dabengwa and Vice-President Joseph Msika made it clear they would not countenance any police brutality against the people of Matabeleland.</div></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><BR><div> </div><p>  <hr size=1> Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. <a href="http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTEydmViNG02BF9TAzIxMTQ3MTcxOTAEc2VjA21haWwEc2xrA3RhZ2xpbmU">Try it now</a>.The Radical Mindset!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06773394621026095967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216517453675720335.post-7991466784222904992007-04-29T08:51:00.001+02:002007-07-10T13:00:14.869+02:00JUDITH TODD REMEMBERS THE "GUKURAHUNDI ERA!"<strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjszZAFw2oAs2meT3Js3HOuXpXqbVLWpZCKK4vGK7q_4LA-mJmYF8xA2-QAgOu9Wi06xFZwmzQ9gGA9fGRam3HoWuegAZ4jHvBBqzTn_clmK8zpiaDq5133Rf0udUtfuXVZqZq41wjyzcya/s1600-h/judith+todd.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjszZAFw2oAs2meT3Js3HOuXpXqbVLWpZCKK4vGK7q_4LA-mJmYF8xA2-QAgOu9Wi06xFZwmzQ9gGA9fGRam3HoWuegAZ4jHvBBqzTn_clmK8zpiaDq5133Rf0udUtfuXVZqZq41wjyzcya/s400/judith+todd.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085516827764515282" /></a><br />Meeting the general<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/gukgenocide34.16329.html">LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE!</a><br /> <br /><br /><a href="http://visionzim.blogspot.com/2007/07/garfield-todds-daughter-was-raped-by.html">SEE ALSO!!!</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />This is an edited extract from the forthcoming book Through the Darkness: A Life in Zimbabwe, by Judith Garfield Todd. This extract was originally published in the Mail & Guardian<br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />By Judith Todd <br />Last updated: 04/27/2007 02:36:28 <br />THE Bulawayo Chronicle reported on Saturday February 12 1983 that Sydney Sekeremayi, Minister of State (Defence) in the Prime Minister’s Office, had said that 5 Brigade was going to operate in Matabeleland for a long time. The headline was “Five Brigade here to stay”. <br />Not all readers could have comprehended the report, but rumours had been mounting about the commission of terrible deeds by armed forces in different parts of the country, particularly Matabeleland -- rumours like ghastly nightmares from which you struggle, but don’t quite manage to awake.<br />Then Henry Karlen, the Catholic Bishop of Matabeleland, telephoned my father to inform him that the state was perpetrating atrocities. People were being terrorised, starved and butchered and their property destroyed.<br />Bishop Karlen said he had tried without success to make an appointment with the prime minister to tell him what was happening and to get him to stop.<br />The Catholics had been assembling evidence from their network of churches, schools and hospitals throughout the rural areas. The bishop asked if he could send a copy of these documents to my father and whether, as a senator appointed by Mugabe, he could seek an appointment for Karlen and others with the prime minister.<br />My father said he would do whatever he could. Karlen would courier the material to me and I would hold it for my father, who was due in Harare shortly.<br />The documents were delivered to my office on Thursday 17 February. I rang my father to report their arrival and he gave me permission to look at them, which I immediately did. Then I wished I hadn’t.<br />Events chronicled were far, far worse than I could ever have imagined. It seemed that state armed forces -- whether only 5 Brigade or others too -- had gone berserk in an orgy of violence against defenceless civilians.<br />I felt so horrified, sick and faint that I longed to go straight home to bed. But I had an appointment early that evening with a representative of an overseas agency which could benefit the Zimbabwe Project.<br />I couldn’t cancel.<br />We met at the Quill Club, a haunt of journalists and others who relished informed gossip, in the Ambassador Hotel near parliament. We had an adequate, if short, conversation and then I excused myself.<br />As I was leaving, someone hailed me. I turned and there was Justin Nyoka, now government’s director of information, waving at me and calling “Judy! Come and say hello!” He was with two other men, one of whom I didn’t know. When I joined them, he was introduced to me as Brigadier Agrippah Mutambara, head of the Zimbabwe National Army Staff College. The other was Lieutenant General Rex Nhongo, the army commander.<br />I shook hands with them, sat down and we exchanged courtesies. Justin bought me what was gladly described as a bitterly cold Castle Lager.<br />Bishop Karlen’s documents started burning in my handbag. I knew I would never have an opportunity like this again and steeled myself to speak to Nhongo.<br />I suppose Bishop Karlen had thought that perhaps Mugabe did not know what was happening. I suppose I thought that maybe Nhongo didn’t know either.<br />I said how wonderful it was that we were having this chance meeting, as I had information about army activities in Matabeleland that he might be unaware of.<br />The noise around us was increasing as more people came into the club and I could tell he was straining to hear me. I persevered and said it appeared as though forces were out of control; that atrocities were being committed and that mass graves were being filled with the corpses of helpless citizens.<br />Then, with terror, I fell silent. I had been noticing huge trickles of sweat pouring down Justin’s temples. He was mopping his face and saying, “Judy, keep quiet! Judy, keep quiet!” but Brigadier Mutambara intervened and said, “No, let her speak. She may know things we don’t. Let us hear what she has to say.”<br />Nhongo was stuttering, whether with horror or anger I couldn’t tell. I learned later that the stutter was a normal part of his speech. People passing our table kept trying to greet him, and he waved them all away.<br />He asked me for specific localities. I said I would find out for him. He said he was going to Matabeleland by helicopter the next day. He would send a car for me and I could go with him and show him the mass graves. I said unfortunately I couldn’t, as I had only heard about them and not seen them myself.<br />But, I said, thinking of Bishop Karlen, I might be able to find someone else to accompany him. Certainly I would try to compile information for him about what appeared to be happening. I gave him my telephone number and said if he really wanted someone to guide him, he should let me know as soon as possible and I would try to help. Then I said goodnight and slipped away.<br />Early the next morning, I telephoned Bishop Karlen and told him of my meeting with the army commander. I asked permission to copy all his documents for Nhongo.<br />He was quiet and obviously troubled but eventually said yes as others, including my father, of course, had, or were about to receive copies.<br />At about 9.30 I received a call from our reception area a floor below to say someone from the army was waiting for me in a car downstairs.<br />I scribbled a note to Sister Janice McLaughlin, saying something like: The Army Commander, Lt Gen Nhongo, has sent a car for me. I put it in a sealed envelope and gave it to Morris Mtsambiwa in an adjacent office, calmly saying, without explanation, that I was going somewhere and he must deliver the note if I wasn’t back before our offices closed that afternoon.<br />On the street I found a very smart looking Brigadier Mutambara in khaki uniform waiting for me. He opened the passenger door at the front of the olive green army car, I climbed in and we drove away -- to where or what my mind refused to consider.<br />I greeted him and started talking, trying to act as though everything was normal. I said I had just been on the telephone to Bishop Karlen and had told him of my meeting with Nhongo and himself the previous evening.<br />I said Bishop Karlen was the one who had compiled the information I had talked about and that he had given me permission to copy all the documents for the army commander. Mutambara seemed preoccupied. He was driving in the direction of Chikurubi Prison and started talking about himself and the fact that he was divorcing his wife, who had been unfaithful to him, and preparing to marry someone else. He stopped at a bottle store, went in and bought a couple of bottles of beer and orange juice and then proceeded to a house which, I think, was in the Chikurubi complex.<br />A servant let us in, not looking at us. The brigadier led me into a bedroom, opened a bottle of beer for each of us, unstrapped his firearm in its holster, laid it on the bedside table next to my head and proceeded. I did not resist.<br />Before long the subjugation was over, he dropped me back at our offices and, in the words of Eddison Zvobgo, I tried to continue on my road precisely as if nothing had ever happened.<br />Should you fall, rise with grace, and without/Turning to see who sees, continue on your road/Precisely as if nothing had ever happened;/ For those who did not, the ditches became graves.<br />I collected the unopened letter I had left with Morris and destroyed it. Then I made copies of Bishop Karlen’s documents and drafted a covering letter to accompany them to Lieutenant General Nhongo and now, also, to Brigadier Mutambara.<br />After the weekend I contacted Mutambara, who had given me a card with his number. We met at the reception desk of the Ambassador Hotel.<br />I handed over an envelope for Nhongo and one for Mutambara himself, each containing a complete set of Bishop Karlen’s horrifying documents on death and destruction, my letter to Nhongo and a copy of it for the brigadier.<br />Dated Monday 21 February, it read:<br />Lieutenant General Nhongo<br />Army Commander<br />Zimbabwe<br />Dear General<br />It was a privilege to talk to you and your friends at the Quill Club last Thursday evening, and to hear your views. My own strong feelings were based in part on evidence which I was not then authorised to pass on to you.<br />I now enclose a copy of a letter and reports compiled for the Prime Minister. I believe that Cdes Sekeremayi, Muzenda, Mnangagwa and perhaps others have also been given these copies. Bishop Karlen has given me permission now to give them to you. You can see for yourself the terrible suffering which they portray, if even half of these limited reports are accurate.<br />It seems to me that if, in the hunt for dissidents, we inflict such enormous damage on people who are Zimbabweans, and who are poor, weak, hungry and defenceless, all we will achieve is the creation of more dissidents forever.<br />I believe that this policy can only harm Zimbabwe. I also believe that, when Zimbabweans throughout the country learn what is happening, they will lose confidence in our government and in our national army.<br />When I hear of such damage to our people, I find it very difficult to sleep at night or to work during the day.<br />But while I am not in the position to provide these tormented peasants with food, with comfort and with safety, at least I can pass on to you what news I have of them.<br />I am sure that you are able to help [to] provide food and protection, and that the army can be redirected to healing and construction.<br />One of the things that frightens me most is to be told of the “disappearance” of so many young men from the affected areas -- people who have never been proved to be dissidents, but who probably played a brave role in the struggle for Zimbabwe -- their Zimbabwe as well as ours.<br />Surely the way to “deal” with dissidents is to establish first why they are dissidents, then to think of remedies? In other words, surely a political solution -- perhaps then backed up by the military -- is required, rather than an intransigent military one which, in my humble opinion, cannot be a solution but which can breed only more violence, bitterness and grief.<br />Thank you for your attention.<br />Yours sincerely,<br />Judith Acton<br />There was no further reaction from either Nhongo or Mutambara. I had unburdened myself on the very Friday I was collected to Professor Noel Galen, a retired American psychiatrist and dear friend teaching psychiatry at the University of Zimbabwe’s medical school, but to absolutely no one else.<br />Judith Todd is the daughter of Sir Garfield Todd, erstwhile prime minister of colonial Southern Rhodesia. She spent eight years in exile in Britain as an opponent of white minority rule in Ian Smith’s Rhodesia. She returned to Zimbabwe shortly before independence in 1980 and soon realised that, far from being the solution to Zimbabwe’s ills, Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu-PF party were increasingly becoming the problem. As the country slid into economic and social decline, Todd had a front-row view from her position as director of an international aid agency. Over the first 25 years of Mugabe’s rule, she kept journals, notes and copies of letters and documents from which she has compiled an intensely personal account of life in Zimbabwe.</strong>The Radical Mindset!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06773394621026095967noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216517453675720335.post-62085597195767968312007-04-19T09:01:00.001+02:002007-04-19T09:01:12.665+02:00GUKURAHUNDI RECONCILIATION URGED!<H3 class=MLX-EN>Zimbabwe: Gukurahundi Reconciliation Urged</H3> <div class=MLX-EN><A href="http://www.iwpr.net/?s=f&p=acr&l=EN&o=334959">http://www.iwpr.net/?s=f&p=acr&l=EN&o=334959</A></div> <div class=MLX-EN> </div><!-- --><!-- nif vid=78 Audio Files --><SPAN class=smalltext><!--nif Audio Files vid=79 --></SPAN> <div>New bill aims to address emotional scars of mass killings, but some say it doesn't go far enough.</div> <div>By Fiso Dingaan in Lupane, Matabeleland (AR No. 109, 18-Apr-07) </div>Fighting hard to hold back tears, 52-year-old Ernest Ngwenya points to three mounds of soil crudely marked with stones and burnt logs at a clearing two kilometres from his homestead. <BR><BR>The contorted face tells of the emotional turmoil Ngwenya is battling to control. When he eventually manages to speak, his voice is full of pain and grief.<BR><BR>"I have waited 24 years for this day to grieve openly with my relatives and to show them where I buried our father, brother and uncle who were killed during Gukurahundi," he said. <BR><BR>"All along, I was afraid that if I talked about something like this, more of my relatives would be beaten or killed - just like what happened during Gukurahundi." <BR><BR>The government's bloody suppression of opposition in southern Zimbabwe after independence in 1980 is known as the Gukurahundi, or "the rains that sweep away the chaff". <BR><BR>The North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade killed an estimated 20,000 people, ostensibly for being dissidents. Many were buried in unmarked graves or thrown down disused mines. But survivors say the killings were systematic and targeted at Zapu office bearers and community leaders such as teachers, nurses and headmen. <BR><BR>Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has not publicly apologised for the massacres except to say the atrocities were "a moment of madness".<BR><BR>More than two decades later, life is back to normal in Matabeleland and the Midlands. But the relative calm is deceptive. <BR><BR>Ngwenya was able to overcome his fear thanks to help from the local legislator and members of a social justice pressure group called Ibhetshu Likazulu. Lupane member of parliament, Jabuliso Mguni, also counselled Ngwenya and his extended family, saying that it would do them good to talk about their experiences. <BR><BR>Ngwenya says he needed assurances that nothing would happen to him if he spoke out.<BR><BR>Movement for Democratic Change legislator and lawyer David Coltart believes Zimbabwe is still in a state of denial regarding Gukurahundi. Coltart was part of a team of researchers that compiled a report, called Breaking the Silence, on the atrocities over ten years ago.<BR><BR>"I do not think that even many sympathetic democrats who oppose the Zanu-PF regime have a clear idea of the scale of this crime against humanity - nor the extent of the psychological damage done to the affected communities," he said. <BR><BR>Indeed, most survivors are still seething with anger and grief. Elda Mlalazi is a mother of two and gets highly emotional when she recounts what she endured during Gukurahundi. She shows this reporter knife wounds that she says were inflicted by a neighbour on instructions from the soldiers.<BR><BR>"The scars are a constant reminder, especially when my in-laws, who don't know how I got them, start saying I was a prostitute before I got married. They laugh and say the scars were punishment from jilted boyfriends. There is nothing I can say to them but I know the truth," she said. <BR><BR>Ibhetshu Likazulu chairperson, Qhubekani Dube, says his organisation is trying albeit on a very small scale "to bring peace and closure among people who are still grieving and hurting inside. We realise that if people don't bring the issue out into the open, tribal enmity will continue," argued Dube.<BR><BR>The pressure group, formed in 2005, helps families identify where their relatives are buried and helps to organise burial rituals. During the ceremonies, villagers are encouraged to share their experiences and concerns over the massacres. Listening to some of the mainly Ndebele villagers recounting their experiences during a grave identification ceremony for Ngwenya's father, Mfungelwa, his brother, Aleck, and an uncle, Kaise Moyo, one is struck by the frequent reference to how "Shona-speaking soldiers" committed the atrocities.<BR><BR>Dube says the organisation fears that if such thoughts are left unaddressed, tribal hatred between Ndebeles and Shona will be perpetuated. He says that Ibhetshu Likazulu is trying to explain to survivors and families of victims that they should direct their anger at Mugabe "because it was him who issued the order to kill". <BR><BR>Mguni believes there is a desperate need to assuage the pain and grief of Gukurahundi. He worries that life has been at what he calls a "cultural standstill" for affected families. This, he explains, is because families have not buried their relatives according to custom and consequently they cannot communicate with their deceased as tradition demands.<BR><BR>"We have ways of burying our own. We have not done that. People were not given a chance to grieve. We are hurting inside. We have wounds festering within that need to be treated and healed by openly talking about how and why our relatives were killed. Keeping quiet will not do us any good," he said. <BR><BR>Additionally, Mguni says people's experiences of Gukurahundi must be recorded for posterity. <BR><BR>Another Matabeleland North legislator, Professor Jonathan Moyo, has drafted the Gukurahundi National Memorial Bill. Moyo is an independent member of parliament for Tsholotsho. His constituency was the first area where the Fifth Brigade was deployed in January 1983.<BR><BR>He says he will soon publish and distribute the proposed legislation for public input before tabling it in parliament.<BR><BR>Moyo, a former minister of information and publicity in Mugabe's cabinet, reckons the bill would garner enough support to allow it to be enacted because its objective of "putting in place a mechanism to deal with unresolved issues, healing the open wounds and invisible scars by seeking truth and justice", is noble. <BR><BR>Coltart, however, says legislation alone will not suffice. He accepts the proposed bill "may be a useful vehicle to ascertain the views and needs of victims" but adds, "The bill itself will not heal wounds the wounds of this atrocity will require a deep-rooted commitment by government and the entire nation to understand what happened, to apologise for what happened, and to take far-reaching steps to reconcile..the ongoing suffering caused." <BR><BR>The legislator's views resonate with those of survivors such as Ngwenya and his cousin Mlalazi. Ngwenya says now that he has dealt with the emotional side of Gukurahundi, he can start facing up to the realities of getting national identity papers for his nephews and nieces. And, one day, he hopes that the government will compensate him and his neighbours for property destroyed during the massacres.<BR><BR>Even then Gukurahundi will remain a part of his life. "I won't forget. I cannot forget. How do you forget something like that? But at least now I can be at peace with myself, I know where my father is buried," he said.<BR><BR>Fiso Dingaan is the pseudonym of an IWPR journalist in Zimbabwe.<BR><!-- Also in this issue call --><!-- IWPR Issues vid=32 --> <DIV><!-- IWPR Reports vid=33--> <DIV class="bigtextnonjust MLX-EN"><B>Also in this Issue</B></DIV> <DIV class="bigtextnonjust MLX-EN"><IMG height=8 alt="" src="http://www.iwpr.net/images/afr_sq1.gif" width=10> <A href="http://www.iwpr.net/?p=acr&s=f&o=334935&apc_state=hENfacr334959">Rumblings of Discontent in Zimbabwean Ruling Party </A></DIV> <DIV class="bigtextnonjust MLX-EN"><IMG height=8 alt="" src="http://www.iwpr.net/images/afr_sq1.gif" width=10> <A href="http://www.iwpr.net/?p=acr&s=f&o=334957&apc_state=hENfacr334959">Zimbabwe: Independence Day Gloom </A></DIV></DIV><BR><BR><div> </div><p>  <hr size=1> Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. 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Before we had maybe two graves a day to dig, now it is about eight to ten,' explains the graveyard foreman.</div> <div><IMG id=main-picture height=436 alt=Zimbabwe src="http://image.guardian.co.uk/Guardian/gallery/2007/apr/10//GD2978736@People-are-dying-so-f-3804.jpg" width=620> </div> <div>At West Park cemetery every inch of land is used to accommodate the rising numbers of bodies.</div> <div><IMG id=main-picture height=440 alt=Zimbabwe src="http://image.guardian.co.uk/Guardian/gallery/2007/apr/10//GD2978842@A-crowd-of-people-wai-6763.jpg" width=587> </div> <div>A crowd of people waiting to buy sugar, currently in short supply even for those with the money to pay for it.</div> <div> </div> <div><IMG id=main-picture height=440 alt=Zimbabwe src="http://image.guardian.co.uk/Guardian/gallery/2007/apr/10//GD2978961@A-shop-in-Bulawayo-wi-6047.jpg" width=587> </div> <div>Plenty of goods but no buyers: ruinous inflation means people can barely afford even basic provisions.</div> <div> </div> <div><IMG id=main-picture height=440 alt=Zimbabwe src="http://image.guardian.co.uk/Guardian/gallery/2007/apr/10//GD2978959@On-quiet-streets-in-B-7473.jpg" width=587> </div> <div>Two women sell ground nuts on a street in Bulawayo. The police regularly clear the street of traders; usually they return within the hour.</div> <div><IMG id=main-picture height=440 alt=Zimbabwe src="http://image.guardian.co.uk/Guardian/gallery/2007/apr/10//GD2978844@In-the-darkened-back--8219.jpg" width=587> </div> <div>A black market currency trader counts out notes in the back of a car. The official exchange rate is 250 Zimbabwean dollars to the US dollar. The unofficial rate is Zim$25,000 to US$1.</div> <div><IMG id=main-picture height=440 alt="Street scene in Bulawayo" src="http://image.guardian.co.uk/Guardian/gallery/2007/apr/10//GD2978846-3712.jpg" width=620> </div> <div>A quiet street in Bulawayo. Traffic is scarce now as people have no money for petrol or even bus fares.</div> <div> </div> <div><IMG id=main-picture height=440 alt=Zimbabwe src="http://image.guardian.co.uk/Guardian/gallery/2007/apr/10//GD2978625-254.jpg" width=620> </div> <div>At the municipal rubbish dump outside Bulawayo, hundreds of people survive by scavenging the rubbish of Zimbabwe's second largest city.</div> <div> </div> <div><IMG id=main-picture height=440 alt="Zimbabwe - huts outside Bulawayo" src="http://image.guardian.co.uk/Guardian/gallery/2007/apr/10//GD2978911-600.jpg" width=620> </div> <div>A family sits in front of their hut surrounded by their failed maize crop. Poor harvests have left many people reliant on sporadic food aid.</div> <div> </div> <div><IMG id=main-picture height=440 alt=Zimbabwe src="http://image.guardian.co.uk/Guardian/gallery/2007/apr/10//GD2978910@Children-dance-next-t-8887.jpg" width=587> </div> <div>Huts in a settlement near Bulawayo. Police have torn down the buildings three times, removing the roofs in an attempt to force people to move on.</div> <div><IMG id=main-picture height=440 alt=Zimbabwe src="http://image.guardian.co.uk/Guardian/gallery/2007/apr/10//GD2978912@James-Ndani-lives-wit-961.jpg" width=587> </div> <div>James Ndani (not his real name) lives in the settlement with his mother, who suffers from epilepsy and has been driven from her home. Their drinking water comes from the mine shaft pictured here. The sign reads: "Danger - Cyanide Mining"</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div></DIV><BR><BR><div> </div><p>  <hr size=1> Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. 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JOSHUA M. NKOMO<BR>2 Stevenage Road<BR>East Ham E6 2WL<BR>London E6 2WL<BR>United Kingdom<BR>7th June, 1983<BR><BR>INFORMATIVE LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER MUGABE<BR><BR>Dear Robert,<BR><BR>1. I write to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe and one of the leaders of our country, to you not just as one of the leaders of Zimbabwe, but above all, as Prime Minister of the Government of Zimbabwe as provided for by the Constitution, that you and me, as well as other leaders signed in December 1979.<BR><BR>2. I write because I feel that our country is in danger of complete disintegration, to the detriment of all its citizens now living and of generations to come.<BR><BR>3. Not least, I write to you because I am convinced that you believe I am the main contributory factor to this dangerous situation.<BR><BR>4. You have stated publicly on several occasions that I have plotted, and continue to plot, to overthrow you and your government, that I have conspired, and continue to conspire, with South Africa to do that, that I have organized and continue to organize dissident groups for the purpose of destabilizing the country and finally to overthrow you.<BR><BR>5. You now say I have run to Britain, ostensibly because I thought my life was or is in danger, but that I have done so for the purpose of recruiting mercenaries and/or assassins to wrest power from you.<BR><BR>6. I also know that you and your party believe that because ZAPU lost in the last election we feel wounded, and therefore plan to wrest power from you by means, fair or foul.<BR><BR>7. You say we did all I have stated above despite the fact that we agreed to take part in your Government when you as Prime Minister, invited us to.<BR><BR>8. This whole series of accusations against me and ZAPU, which are false and without any foundation whatsoever started on the 6th February, 1982 when caches of arms were discovered at Escort Farm, and later at Hampton Farm, both of which were owned by Nitram, a private company, I assisted former ZIPRA combatants to form for occupation and use by those of them who were not incorporated into the (ZNA) Zimbabwe National Army and the (ZRP) Zimbabwe Republic Police.<BR><BR>9. The discovery of arms on the 6th February was followed by a number of categoric and definitive statements, by yourself, to the effect that arms were discovered in Nkomo and<BR>ZAPU owned properties and that the cache of arms were part of a plot to overthrow you and your government; and that all those properties were being used for subversive purposes.<BR><BR>You said in Marondera on the 14th February, 1982: "ZAPU had bought more than 25 farms and more than 30 business enterprises throughout the country. We have now established they were not genuine business enterprises, but places of hiding military weapons to start another war at an appropriate time". You added, "Dr. Nkomo was trying to overthrow my government". "ZAPU and its leader, Dr. Joshua Nkomo, were like a cobra in a house. The only way to deal effectively with a snake is to strike and destroy its head".<BR><BR>10. You will remember that you met me and three of my colleagues at your official residence on the 5th February to discuss a number of issues, and at the end of that meeting I mentioned to you that I had received a telephone message from Bulaway to the effect that two Nitram Farms, Ascot and Woody Glen Farm had been invaded by the police the previous night and you said, you had also got information and you would inform me later what it was all about.<BR><BR>11. That evening I travelled with two of your Ministers on a plane to Bulawayo, Emmerson Munangagwa and Sydney Sekeramai. Little did I know that you had sent these two men to Bulawayo to display to the press arms allegedly unearthed in one of those farms, namely Ascot Farm.<BR><BR>12. I would have expected that as Minister under you, you would, after finding arms in Nitram owned properties, to have summoned me to your office to find out from me as to whether I knew anything about the arms.<BR><BR>13. I would have expected further, that you would have instructed me to have joined Munangagwa and Sekeramai in an attempt to uncover information about those arms. I am sure, you realize how important it was for me to have physically seen the location, the quantity and nature of the arms that was discovered, especially at a time when I was still Minister. While I do not dispute that arms were found on these farms, how else would I have been expected to believe the quantity, and nature of the arms unearthed and displayed to the press were authentic.<BR><BR>14. As it is now, I cannot be made to believe that the quantities, quality and nature of arms presented to the press were in fact all unearthed just in those two farms. It is quite clear for the discovery to make an impact on the people of Zimbabwe and the world in general, it was necessary for those who assisted you, to ferry arms from elsewhere so as to make this accusation of a plot to overthrow the government to appear real. To quote a statement made at a press briefing at Brady Barracks on the 8th February 1982: "Arms and ammunitions so far recovered in the joint police and army search operation in<BR>Matebeleland are sufficient to equip a force of 5,000 men". Note, in 'Matebeleland' and not in Ascot and Hampton Farms. However, this is neither here nor there.<BR><BR>15. By Monday the 15th February 1982, the two properties owned by Nitram, the only properties on which arms were found, together with properties owned by ZAPU and those owned by companies whose members were ZAPU, including properties owned by me and my family, were confiscated under the notorious Unlawful Organisations Act, which was enacted by settler regimes to suppress liberation organizations.<BR><BR>16. I would like to emphasise that no other property, even those others owned by Nitram, which were all confiscated, had any arms found on them.<BR><BR>17. Having reminded you that arms were discovered in only two Nitram owned farms, Ascot Farm near Bulawayo and Hampton Farm near Gweru, let me further remind you that in the course of your marathon speeches round the country, telling the story of having found caches of arms meant to perpetrate a plot to overthrow you and your government, you said among other things, "If all arms cached by ZIPRA were found in or near Assembly Camps only, my government and I would not have minded". "But that", you continued, "a large quantity of arms was found in ZAPU owned properties, it is clear they were intended for use against my government". You said this because you knew that ZANLA had cached a lot of arms in and near their former Assembly Camps, and there was the question of a trainload of arms that had disappeared between the [Mozambiquean] border and Mutare.<BR><BR>18. It appears to me you have conveniently forgotten that Ntumbane in Bulawayo, was in fact an Assembly Point for both ZIPRA and ZANLA, that after the first Ntumbane disturbances every type of weapon not allowed there, was found in that assembly point.<BR><BR>The same happened after the second disturbances there; heavy weapons were found in both ZIPRA and ZANLA camps in Ntumbane. Why then did you find it surprising to have found arms at Ascot farm which is hardly seven miles from Ntumbane assembly point?<BR><BR>19. The same applies to Hampton Farm which is not far from Connemara Barracks where there were disturbances at the same time as there were disturbances in Ntumbane the second time. As a matter of fact, Comrade Munangagwa on 26th February, said, "Four caches of arms including 600 G3 rifles stolen during the mutiny in Connemara more than a year ago were discovered on a farm near Gweru".<BR><BR>20. Over and above what I have stated regarding arms caches I quote a statement by (PF) ZAPU Central Committee held in Bulawayo on the 15 February, 1982, "The Central Committee is dismayed at the deliberate attempt to build a case on an issue whose background the Prime Minister very well knows emanates from a war situation. The Central Committee denies the allegation that ZAPU had any prior knowledge of the arms caches anywhere. The administration of the army and all military issues, including former combatants' assembly camps, were placed under the responsibility of the Joint Military Command, thus removing ZAPU and ZANU of responsibility over military affairs. We wish to categorically deny the allegation of a plot to overthrow the government. On the contrary, PF ZAPU did everything, and still does for the consolidation and success of our independence" (Herald).<BR><BR>21. On Thursday, February 17, you announced at a press conference that I and three of my colleagues, J.M. Chinamano, J.W. Msika and J.G. Ntuta were dismissed from your government. You made your announcement at a press conference and we learnt of our dismissal from your government by press, television and radio. I was completely flabbergasted and astounded by your accusations, your actions and the manner in which they were made. What stunned and bemused me even more is that I was convinced that you knew in your heart of hearts that all accusations were false.<BR><BR>22. I was also convinced that you could not have been unaware of the repercussions of your statements and actions on former ZANLA and ZIPRA combatants in the National Army and in the police, and the feelings of divisiveness and hostility they would arose.<BR><BR>23. You must know that it was soon after your initial statements and actions that there was talk of polarization of ZANLA and ZIPRA former combatants within the National Army. Mutual suspicion and mistrust was maximized, and clashes between the two groups became commonplace.<BR><BR>24. Meanwhile, former ZIPRA Commanders were summoned by the Army Command, at your instruction, for questioning and investigation. This was done, it is said, by the military police and/or the C.I.O. Later, ordinary former ZIPRA men, irrespective of rank were also taken for investigation.<BR><BR>25. Information has it that during these investigations there was a lot of beatings and torture of all types, that a number of these young people were killed and others maimed.<BR><BR>26. These actions were followed by desertions and defections from the National Army not only by former ZIPRA combatants, but also by former ZANLA.<BR><BR>27. It was then that we learnt from your public speeches, and those of your Ministers, that a number of armed robbers and bandits in the country was growing, especially in the Western Province of Matebeleland.<BR><BR>28. Later your public statements and those of your Ministers began to stress that these armed bandits were infact politically inspired dissidents.<BR><BR>29. Information has it also, that some 300 or so ZIPRA combatants and a few ZANLA who were arrested after the troubles in a battalion camp near Karoi were detained secretly somewhere near Harare and are taken in small batches to be court martialed and executed, with no right of appeal and without informing their next of kin. It is further known that the last of these executions that has come to light took place on February 14, 1983.<BR><BR>30. It was when in your Parliamentary Speech you openly and blatantly accused me personally and ZAPU as a party of organising, maintaining and directing such armed dissident activities that I met you, and after thorough discussion, that I thought you accepted our position that we were not in any manner connected with these elements.<BR><BR>31. I found it necessary to meet you because despite the fact that I had continuously and persistently denounced and condemned the activities of these dissidents and had demanded that you appoint a Parliamentary Select Committee, without success, to investigate who these dissidents are and who succours them, instead you found it necessary to accuse us in parliament the way you did.<BR><BR>32. During December, overtures on unity between ZAPU and ZANU were ma de to me by your emissaries in the persons of President Canaan Banana and Minister Enos Nkala. After two meetings with them I thought we had made progress and suggested to them that the next meeting should be with yourself.<BR><BR>33. A meeting between us was accordingly held at State House, Bulawayo early in January 1983. The meeting did not go as well as I had expected because it appeared to me that you were averse to what I discussed with President Banana and Enos Nkala. However, despite that, we agreed between ourselves to form a Committee of 6, comprising three ZANU and three ZAPU representatives.<BR><BR>34. Although nothing much was achieved at the meeting between us, I believed nonetheless that moves towards an understanding between ZAPU and ZANU were making progress.<BR><BR>35. Yet on Tuesday, the 25th of January [1983], I received information from people who were fleeing from Mbembesi that mass beatings and killings were being perpetrated by young men in camouflage uniforms who were calling themselves the 'Fifth Brigade'.<BR><BR>36. By the 26th January, the numbers had grown and the information given us was that more people were being brutally beaten and killed by these young men.<BR><BR>37. On the 27th of January, I decided to take 12 of the people, who had themselves experienced violence at the hands of members of the Fifth Brigade, to Harare so that they may themselves explain to government what in fact was talking place.<BR><BR>38. When I arrived in Harare, I presented the matter to Comrade Muzenda who, in the absence of the Prime Minister, was acting Prime Minister. After I informed him of the situation in Mbembesi, which by that time had spread to Bubi and Tsholotsho, the acting Prime Minister delegated his Minister of Home Affairs, Ushewonkunze, who had expressed ignorance of these happenings, to go and meet the afflicted people in Highfields.<BR><BR>39. When Ushewonkunze failed to turn up until Friday afternoon, I decided to call a press conference and informed the conference of the mass killings by the Fifth Brigade; by that time the numbers reported killed by the Fifth brigade had risen to 95.<BR><BR>40. The following week a government spokesman made much play of the fact that Josiah Gumede; who I had told the conference that I understood by reports from Mbembesi, was among those who were killed; but because he had survived his ordeal, the spokesman completely ignored the fact that many more other people were killed, a fact Gumede himself had made known to you and president Banana.<BR><BR>41. During the first week of February a censure motion was presented to parliament by the chief whip of ZANU-PF against ZAPU and its leadership because of exposure of the carnage by the Fifth Brigade. Almost every ZANU member who spoke abused and scorned ZAPU, and more particularly myself, for having exposed the killings, which now had spread to Nkayi and Lupane. It was quite evident that ZANU-PF had full knowledge of what was happening but was not prepared to intervene or call a halt to those most barbarous actions which the Fifth Brigade, in the name of security, perpetrated against fellow citizens of Zimbabwe in the so-called 'curfew' areas.<BR><BR>42. On Saturday February the 19th, I was prevented from travelling to Prague to attend an executive meeting of the World Peace Council (which your press called Soviet sponsored) and which was to take place on the 21st and 22nd of that month. My ticket and passport and those of my three colleagues who were travelling with me were seized by the police when we were arrested. When I was released seven hours later, my three colleagues remained in custody and were later issued with detention orders which remain in force to this day.<BR><BR>43. On the 19th February, I was taken to the Bulawayo Charge Office where the police demanded that I make two 'Warned and Cautioned' statements to the effect that they were investigating the possibility that I had committed certain crimes: under the Law and Order Maintenance Act, because they had found on me, two sets of notes containing:<BR><BR>(a) a statement I made in Parliament in connection with the serious situation in Matebeleland Province created by killings and other atrocities, and<BR><BR>(b) notes prepared for a meeting I was to have had held with you about the same situation but did not come off.<BR><BR>2. That they were investigating a possible contravention of the Currency Exchange Control Act because they found on me $300 Zimbabwe dollars; meant for my wife, but in the packing rush was forgotten in my brief case. Later that day, I was called back to the Charge Office and told that they (the police) had received a telegram from the Harare police to the effect that I should make another 'Warned and Cautioned' statement in reply to a possible charge that the police in Harare were investigating a possible contravention of the Precious Minerals Act in that the police had found emeralds in my Highfields residence when they were searching for arms in that house on the 5th October 1982.<BR><BR>44. About three weeks earlier, I had been made to make a 'Warned and cautioned' statement by the Harare police to the effec t that they were investigating a possible breach of the Law and Order Maintenance Act when I addressed a press conference in Harare, in which I had revealed the killings of people in Mbembesi, Bubi and Tsholotsho.<BR><BR>45. I made those 'Warned and Cautioned' statements denying those possible charges. It was clear to me, as it could be, to any responsible person that these were trumped up possible charges designed by your government to harass and embarrass me.<BR><BR>46. Is it reasonable for anybody to believe that possession of a copy of a speech made in parliament and unpublished notes to be used in a meeting with the Prime minister could be a breach of the Law and Order Maintenance Act? Is it reasonable for anyone to believe that I would export from the country $300 Zimbabwe dollars. To what purpose? Is it reasonable to believe that the so-called possession of emeralds in early October, 1982 could still be for investigation by the police in mid-February, 1983? What investigation after four months of physical so-called 'possession of emeralds'.<BR><BR>47. On Sunday the 27th February, 1983, I received a letter from the police informing me that before leaving my house for any place, I should report to the Police Station. I refused doing this because I had no charge preferred against me, and could not understand why the police should have been so interested in my movements.<BR><BR>48. About the 1st or the 2nd of March, 1983, security forces, including the Fifth Brigade, were deployed in Bulawayo western suburbs and on the 5th March, 1983: my house was raided by the Fifth Brigade. Three people were killed and property, including three cars, was vandalized by the raiders. It was after this act that I realized why the police were interested in my movements.<BR><BR>49. I then decided to leave the country for the time being as it was clear to me that my life was threatened.<BR><BR>50. During the weeks that followed the deployment of the Fifth Brigade in the Western Province of Matebeleland, right up to the day I departed from Zimbabwe, hundreds of brutally assaulted people from the so-called 'curfew' areas of Mbembesi, Nyathi, Nkayi, Lupane and Tsholotsho had come to my home and related horrible accounts of brutal beatings, mass rapings, mass killings, maiming of hundreds of innocent unarmed, unresisting men, women and children as well as looting and burning of villages and houses.<BR><BR>51. Before leaving my house and finally Bulawayo on the 8th March, 1983, reports had come to me of untold brutalities and inhuman and degrading treatment of people within Bulawayo itself and of people being marched in their hundreds to the adjacent bush areas on the outskirts of Bulawayo, to be shot and their bodies left rotting and some taken away to unknown destinations and never to return.<BR><BR>52. Now that I have attempted to give an account of some of your publicly expressed opinions and beliefs about me and ZAPU, and have also tried to summarise the more important events that took place as well as actions or non-actions during the course of the three years since our independence, and have some bearing on your attempt to impose a one-ZANU Party State on the people of Zimbabwe, I give hereunder my reactions.<BR><BR>53. In retrospect, I now believe that I and ZAPU were deceived and cheated by you and your party when you talked of unity, reconciliation, peace and security. I now honestly and sincerely believe that when you invited us to take part in your government you believed that we would reject your offer and set ourselves up in strong opposition to you and thereby label us disgruntled rejected plotters.<BR><BR>54. I can now see that your insistence on establishing assembly camps in Bulawayo and Harare, and of your Ministers Nkala and others coming to Bulawayo to make inflammatory statements which sparked off the first Ntumbane incident, was all part of a plan and strategy to destabilize the country, especially the Western Province of Matebeleland, so that you could use incidents there as an excuse for using military action to crush me and my party.<BR><BR>55. It is now obvious to me that when you demoted me from the Ministry of Home Affairs which you knew was negotiated for a purpose at the time you invited us to take part in your government; that while you knew that we felt it was necessary for us to take part in one of the security ministries (Defence or Home Affairs) so that the former ZIPRA men drafted into the ZNA and ZRP may feel confident, thereby solidify both the army and the police, you deliberately took that action. It is clear you wanted us to pull out of your government at that time so as to destabilize the army and the police, create dissidents out of the deserting ZIPRA men and then call us plotters against your government.<BR><BR>56. It is clear you thought you had struck a political bonanza by the arms caches fiasco and you handled it the way you did, to achieve the following: To make the country believe that I and ZAPU wanted to overthrow your government.<BR><BR>That the world at large should view us as a group of people who had lost the elections and now wanted to wrest power from you and your government. To polarize the population into bad guys and good guys and so destabilize the country. To polarize the former ZIPRA and ZANLA combatants both inside and outside the army and police, so as to create a former ZIPRA grouping to be labelled dissidents. To create within ZAPU a group that would believe there was a group within the party, that in fact, was plotting to overthrow the government.<BR><BR>As a pretext, to use discredited and archaic settler imperialist legislation, the Unlawful Organisations Act, to confiscate ZAPU supporters's property.<BR><BR>57. When you announced the confiscation of ZAPU and Nitram properties, property belonging to Companies of individual ZAPU members and to me and my family, you said it was because all these properties were acquired for hiding arms. Now that it is known no arms were found on any property other than the two farms belonging to Nitram, Ascot and Hampton Farms, how do you justify the blatant and arbitrary forced acquisition of all these properties?<BR><BR>58. Even the confiscation of the two farms on which arms were discovered is questionable. Nitram as a Co-operative company, whose membership was more than 4,000 former ZIPRA combatants, who had contributed towards the purchase of these farms, and therefore, could not be held responsible for action or actions of a few people, who have not been identified even at the High Court trial that ended in the acquittal of six of the seven people accused of treason and caching arms.<BR><BR>59. With regards properties owned by ZAPU formed companies as well as those formed by us individuals, I can only say your action against them was even much more obscure. I do hope Mr. Prime Minister, you realize the harm inflicted by your ill-considered action on these properties including those owned by Nitram. Thousands of people were thrown out of resident-employment; this includes former combatants as well as former employees of those farms, who had become members of co-operatives established there. The Herald of 17th February, 1982 says, about projects at Mguza, "The co-operative venture and Secretarial training centers for women ex-combatants have been hailed by several people, including the Minister of Finance, Enos Nkala, as a model of its kind".<BR><BR>60. All this is gone; with hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of movable property of all types including over-head irrigation equipment worth $700,000 [Zimbabwe dollars] is ruined and some of it missing. Other movable property which was looted from Mguza Complex is what Dr. Sekeramai referred to as, "The other equipment, such as a very modern operating theatre lamp with its own generator, and a sophiscated dental unit, in excellent condition and not used at all was found". This equipment meant for the College and co-operative farm inmates and people who attended a co-operative clinic there.<BR><BR>61. Among the most important properties of ZAPU that were taken away by the army and the C.I.O. from the Nitram farms, i.e. Nest Egg, were ZAPU Archives which were stored there for safe-keeping. They contained all ZAPU records covering the whole period of our struggle outside and inside the country, including the list of all ZAPU and ZIPRA war casualties. As a result of this, no names of ZIPRA dead were available for inclusion at the Heroes' Acre Roll of Honor list on the 10th and 11th August, 1982. This, you will agree is a very serious matter.<BR><BR>62. What disturbs me most, is that when you banned the companies that ran various properties and projects you said, "ZAPU had bought more than 25 farms and more than 30 business enterprises throughout the country. We had now established they were not genuine business enterprises, but places to hide military weapons to start another war at an appropriate time", (Sunday mail, 7th February, 1982). This was a deliberate distortion.<BR><BR>63. At the time you made the above statement ZAPU had only 2 farms, one near Harare and the other near Gweru; and had only 5 business enterprises, 2 in Harare, 2 in Gweru and 1 in Masvingo. If by ZAPU you meant farms and businesses run by companies such as Nitram and those owned by individual members of ZAPU: the position is as follows: Nitram had only 4 farms and 4 business enterprises. Companies owned by individual members of ZAPU had 3 farms near Harare, 2 near Bulawayo and two business enterprises in Bulawayo and 1 in Mbalabala. All these ventures Mr. Prime Minister, cannot be said to be, "throughout the country", nor, "more than 25 farms and more than 30 business enterprises" as you said in your statement.<BR><BR>64. You deliberately gave the impression to the country that, projects on those properties were run clandestinely; and yet you knew, I had, without success, several times invited you, to visit Nijo Products, 1.2 million dollar ZAPU Composite Agricultural Project, just outside Harare. I said your visit to that particular project was important and necessary because I felt it could be used as a model for resettlement purposes.<BR><BR>65. You were aware further that the Mguza Secretarial Training College was officially opened by Minister Shaba and that that College and the Mguza Co-operative Farming Project were visited by President Banana and Enos Nkala a few weeks before your banning order was issued. I am certain, you must have been aware that the Lido Motel in Queens Park, Bulawayo was being used as a hostel for over 300 former ZIPRA war disabled, as government had failed to house them anywhere.<BR><BR>66. You will remember when I met you in your office in August, 1982, you made known to me that the involvement of my family property Walmer Ranch, where we built our Makwe home, would be revealed in evidence during the Masuku, Dabengwa trial at the High Court. The trial has come and gone, Masuku and Dabengwa acquitted. However, I was told by a defence lawyer of a bizarre story about some military training supposed to have been conducted at Makwe Farm which was presented by the prosecution and was later unconditionally withdrawn by them without argument. You will know that our home at Makwe has been surrounded by the army and police ever since you made your announcement of the 16th February, 1982. All meaningful activity came to a complete halt and incalculable damage was done to all we were trying to do there.<BR><BR>67. I am certain you should recall what I told you when we met in your office in August, that what I had at Makwe outside the working of the farm was a big gathering where I met members of the Gwanda Community Co-operative, to discuss a grand settlement scheme in which the Makwe Irrigation Scheme and our Makwe farm would be the core of the project.<BR><BR>White farmers had been approached to either donate or sell at very reduced prices their farms within the area, and the response was promising. This scheme had been forwarded to the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement by the Gwanda Co-op through the local district council machinery. It was hoped that the Scheme would be presented to Government through appropriate channels for funding through ZIMCORD.<BR><BR>68. You must have known through your respective Government departments, local authorities and your various devices of information collection, that Kennellworth-Carisbrook Farm near Harare, Lingfield near Gweru and Mbalabala Village near Esigodini were all being processed to be handled in the same way as above, and as the Mguza complex had shown, be it in a small way, that it was feasible to implement such schemes, it was believed that the Makwe Project would succeed.<BR><BR>69. All these schemes were in the spirit of what I had discussed with you in December, 1981. I had made it plain to you Prime Minister, when I met you in your official residence; that your Resettlement policy was a national disaster, and you agreed with me. These schemes were meant to present practical approach models, to both rural and peri-urban resettlement, that would embrace everybody and not just a few who are said to 'qualify'.<BR><BR>70. But, with full knowledge of all this, you chose to tell a crowd of more than 18,000 people at the Rudaka Stadium in Marondera on the 13th February, 1982, that, "We desire a new richer life for all and we wish to see changes in people's way of living standards and economic status. But in the midst of all our endeavours our colleagues in Government, were stockpiling and building enough weapons of war to arm 20,000 men".<BR><BR>71. What baffles me even more, is that, you said all the above when you knew that less than 2 months prior to your Marondera meeting, I had offered myself to take over your Ministry of Lands and Resettleme nt in an effort to assist you and through you, the country to make a success of its most vital development programme. You turned down my offer, saying I was too old to handle that Ministry, however, you said you would invite me to be one of the members of a resettlement Ministerial Committee you were about to institute. To you all this meant plotting.<BR><BR>72. You also had knowledge that on December 29, 1982; while I was on holiday, was requested by Brigadier Chinenge to assist him to demobilize more than 5,000 former ZIPRA combatants at Gwaai River Mine Assembly Point and willingly drove over 150 miles to help. How could I have done all these things if I was bent on overthrowing you?<BR><BR>Who do you think I would have called on to use all those arms after assisting to integrate some ZIPRA combatants in the ZNA and ZRP and assisted in dispersing others to their respective homes.<BR><BR>73. It is now very clear to me that you were very unhappy with the extent of my cooperation and that of ZAPU because you did not want peace and tranquility. You did not want stability, progress and development, because such conditions would not give you the turmoil and instability you required for your political-military action to liquidate those you chose to, and thereby impose your one-ZANU Party State.<BR><BR>74. It is obvious to me why you decided to form the Fifth Brigade outside the structure and command of the National Army, so that you may use it as a party and Tribal Brigade for eliminating and liquidating, as you have many times said, those you chose to destroy. As a matter of fact, when I questioned the formation of the Fifth Brigade outside the Zimbabwe National Army without consultation, you angrily replied and said, "Who are you to be consulted? This Brigade", you said, "has been formed to crush those who try to subvert my government, and if you attempt that, they will crush you too".<BR><BR>75. You took action against what you called ZAPU sponsored dissidents. But because you wanted to maintain this show of subversion, you have not, for almost one year and 4 months, arrested and put on trial a single dissident. Yet you have continuously, for all this period, persistently accused the ZAPU structure and those who support that structure for organising, maintaining, feeding and directing the dissidents so as to justify an armed attack on the masses.<BR><BR>76. It is known through information given by the masses in the affected curfew areas, that in fact the people who go about killing, maiming, raping and burning government property are in fact organized provocateurs planted by ZANU-PF in the form of undercover pseudodissidents.<BR><BR> It is further known that government property destroyed by dissidents was property used by district councils who were made up of 100 ZAPU members, who were known to have worked hard to use this equipment for developing their areas vigorously and with great enthusiasm.<BR><BR>77. It is known that about 90% of the victims killed by dissidents were either top ZAPU officials, ZAPU businessmen and teachers, ZAPU local government officials and generally ZAPU supporters. The remaining 10% appear to be white people. Not a single ZANU supporter was killed during this period. Does not this fact speak for itself? One does not know what the position is or would be after the Fifth Brigade's bloody escapade in the Western Province of Matebeleland.<BR><BR>78. It can be said without hesitation that to have used the police as if they were ZIPRA officers in the Dr. Bertrand case was an abominable and fascist like attempt to portray to the country and the world at large that former ZIPRA combatants had plotting tendencies so as to blemish the name of ZIPRA.<BR><BR>79. I believe that the notes that were purported to have been sent by former 'ZIPRA dissidents' to the police, when foreign tourists were abducted near Bulawayo in July 1982, were in fact an effort to show ZAPU and former ZIPRA combatants in bad light. Having said that, I would like to make it clearly understood that former ZIPRA combatants are not the responsibility of ZAPU but of the Zimbabwe government, like anybody else. Despite this I found it necessary to activate and involve the masses in the areas where it was thought kidnappers may be hiding with the tourists, but before I concluded the exercise government declared a curfew in those areas, making them nogo places, causing an abrupt end to that effort. Why that was done I do not know to this day.<BR><BR>80. I now understand why you have maintained legislation such as the Law and Order Maintenance Act, the Unlawful Organisation Act and the Emergency Powers Act; which was enacted by former regimes specifically for the suppression and oppression of the black population of Zimbabwe, and for use against their effort to struggle for independence, social justice, enjoyment of freedom and human rights. You now seem to enjoy and justify the use of these notorious laws to deny your own people that which they fought and died to achieve.<BR><BR>What is it that makes you believe that this independence, which you and I and indeed the masses of Zimbabwe fought for, for so long should now be maintained and protected by this type of legislation? Don't you think there is something wrong?<BR><BR>81. I am not surprised that you have decided to maintain a state of emergency which was declared by Ian Smith on the 5th November, 1965 in preparation for his illegal action to declare, control and protect his type of independence.<BR><BR>82. During the protracted war our people were subjected to every kind of cruelty and oppression. No man's life was safe, it was the frequent fate of an innocent villager to be shot out hand, to be arbitrarily arrested and often to be tortured, to suffer the burning of his village, the massacre of his women and children, the destruction of crops and livestock, to suffer long years of imprisonment or to endure the pangs of long exile. The legal basis of this campaign of terror was the 'State of Emergency'.<BR><BR>83. You well know that in point of fact the Law and Order maintenance Act was used to undermine and subvert law and order to quite a horrendous degree, and the declaration of a 'state of emergency' itself was instrumental in creating an acute state of emergency by unleashing forces which inflicted a wave of murder and brutality upon our people which, in its savagery and disregard for humanitarian considerations, had no precedent among our people.<BR><BR>84. Taken together, these facts indicate clearly that for many years an unparalleled campaign of barbarism and terror was waged against the masses. Yet this campaign failed; our people did not submit, they fought back until finally victory was won and independence achieved. But what in fact has been achieved? It is painful to ask this question, for it springs from events which have increasingly darkened the horizons of Zimbabwe over the past year or more, events I am trying to summarise in this letter.<BR><BR>85. You knew that having created the confusion, you would then be able to take military and legal action against deliberately created 'political and armed dissid ents'; hence the arrest of men like Lookout Masuku, Dumiso Dabengwa and others, and decided to charge them with treason. It is a shame to all of us who fought for liberty, freedom and the rule of law, to see Dumiso, Masuku and others being immediately arbitrarily detained after acquittal by the High Court.<BR><BR>86. It is a well known fact that in Zimbabwe today, there are more people detained without trial than in fascist South Africa. Most of these people are also without formal detention orders and the next of kin have no idea as to whether they are alive or dead.<BR>These people are not enemies of Zimbabwe, but patriots who have suffered, like us and many others, in the struggle to free their country, Zimbabwe, peasant men, women as well as young men and women who only happen to be caught, in a conflict the government itself created.<BR><BR>87. The double tragedy of Zimbabwe today is, firstly, that the routine and administrative use of detention, torture and arbitrary repression has been adopted by an independent government, and secondly, that this government uses the very same mercenaries and torturers as the former regime used against the struggling people. In fact the situation today is in some respects is even worse, as our government has abandoned even those standards of bourgeois legality which the Smith regime generally attempted to hide their repression behind. Under that regime you could be detained but a least you were more likely to be issued with a detention order. You were therefore, less likely to simply disappear as is the case today. The mercenaries and torturers used by the former regime are known and are very few, and therefore their exclusion from our security organs could not have disrupted those organs.<BR><BR>88. There are, in Zimbabwe today, so many different groups of armed men with power to do virtually anything to people. People get arrested by the C.I.O., the Law and Order Section of the police, the so-called ZIMPOLIS, the so-called ZANU Intelligence Service (which is not an arm of government), the Military Police of the Zimbabwe National Army, the Fifth Brigade (which seems to regard execution as the most effective method of arresting people), the Youth Brigade (which is also an arm of the party, but used as if it were part of the machinery of government), the Militia, by ZANU party officials, by undercover pseudo-dissidents the list is endless. In fact, the rights of the Zimbabwe citizen as defined in the Constitution are meaningless.<BR><BR>89. One of the most disgraceful and shaming aspects of our independence which is difficult to defend, is that we have taken the methods and men used to oppress, torture and kill our people and tried to use them to consolidate our 'independence'. You cannot take weapons, methods and people designed to defend colonial fascism and try to use to them defend the people. It is just not possible. Today in Zimbabwe the same torturers that Smith used against the people are back in business 'defending a people's government'. They must smile to themselves when they are ordered to continue their torture of patriots by an independent government.<BR><BR>90. The methods of torture are also the same: electric shocks, beatings, burning with cigarettes, suffocation using wet sacks, and psychological torture. In the recent case of the State vs Dabengwa and others, the government must surely have been embarrassed when the activities of Fraser, Arnold (of CIO) and DSO Kaurayi were revealed in court. These men whose record of torture and atrocities against the people during the liberation war are well known, were brought into this case by our government to use their same techniques against the heroes of the liberation struggle.<BR><BR>91. In court it was revealed that Fraser assaulted, tortured and threatened ZIPRA men to tell lies against their commanders. DSO Kaurayi did the same to workers on the NITRAM farms. Arnold, the so-called chief of the investigation offered bribes and threats to witnesses to try to get them to change their evidence. Fraser has now run back to his masters in Pretoria. Arnold and Kaurayi remain to be used again to prostitute justice and bring disgrace on the memories of the fallen heroes of our struggle.<BR><BR>92. Under the terms of the Indemnity Act, which we condemned as barbaric and fascist during the liberation struggle, a citizen has no right of appeal or redress against those who illegally torture, maim, kill, destroy property or do any illegal act on him or against him. I am sure you realize that the result of this use of Smith's laws and torturers has been to create in an independent Zimbabwe a climate of terror and fear even more discriminate than that created by the Smith regime. Remember, there is no war in Zimbabwe today.<BR><BR>93. As it is in Zimbabwe, everyone faces this fear. It is a fear created by the fear the government itself obviously feels. What is it that the government is in fear of is not very clear, but the fact that our government lives in daily fear cannot be doubted. Ministers fear to walk the streets without armed men around them, roads are sealed off, convoys of armed men race through the streets sirens wailing announcing this fear.<BR><BR>94. The real victims of this climate of fear are the people themselves. How can the people get on with the vital task of building the nation when all around them they feel this insecurity and fear? At any moment they know that this machinery of fear and repression may be turned against them. The people of Murewa may have not yet felt the bayonets of the Fifth Brigade, but they have already heard the stories. In their faces is the fear that one day this party army may be turned against them. It is certain that some ZANU members fear that the Fifth Brigade may be turned against ZANU and that it may even turn against its creators. Is this the climate of a confident, free, proud and independent people and government? You do not teach young people to be contemptuous of human life and expect them to respect yours.<BR><BR>95. Mr. Prime Minister, as I have mentioned above, the way the sec urity organs of Government in their generality is being used has created fear and despondency in the minds of a wide section of our people. But, let me stress, that the activities of the Fifth Brigade in particular are something I never expected could happen in Zimbabwe. I could not make myself believe that such activities could have been carried out with your knowledge and approval.<BR><BR>96. It was when you were reported to have given an astounding declaration at a rally in Zhombe that I realized you support what the Fifth Brigade has done and continue to do in Matebeleland; quote "When men and women provide food for dissidents, when we get there we eradicate them. We do not select who we fight, because we cannot tell who is a dissident and who is not " (Financial Times, Telegraph and The Times, 15.4.83).<BR><BR>97. Comrade Prime Minister, you know that about two weeks before election day in March 1980, then Governor of Southern Rhodesia, Lord Soames, called all leaders of political parties contesting in the election and told them that "because of the security situation in the eastern Districts of Zimbabwe there could be no free and fair election there", which meant election would in fact not take place.<BR><BR>98. You will remember, I am sure, that about four or three days before polling day, Lord Soames unilaterally and without consultation, announced that elections will take place in all districts in the country, including the Eastern Districts. I am sure you will agree with me that, with all the goodwill in the world, the Good Governor, could not have made the 'Security Situation' in the Eastern Districts so stable in less than two weeks, to be able to conduct 'free and fair elections'.<BR><BR>99. You know as well as I do, that the unstable and dangerous security situation in the Eastern Districts was caused by your party, ZANU (PF) which maintained armed former ZANLA combatants throughout that area; who terrorized by beatings, tortures and even killing anyone who did not comply with ZANU (PF) directions. It was made impossible for any party other than ZANU (PF) to operate in the Eastern Districts area.<BR><BR>100. We in ZAPU tried to canvass support for elections in those districts, and ended up with two candidates killed, 18 party workers killed and several others severely beaten up, some of them permanently maimed, and while others disappeared to this day. I approached you and told you what your party was doing with little or no effect at all on the situation there.<BR><BR>101. Now that the 1985 elections are approaching ZANU (PF) has begun using the same tactics as were used in the Eastern Districts before and during the 1980 elections. This time the Fifth Brigade is being used as state machinery to terrorise and coerce the people in Matebeleland. Some believe that you are doing all this not just for electoral advantage, but that your aim is genocide.<BR><BR>102. As an effective coercive stunt, the Fifth Brigade was deployed in the area ostensibly to root out dissidents but in fact to terrorise the masses by beatings, torture, killings, rapings, looting, burning of villages, and literally doing anything atrocious on such a large scale as to instill fear into the people, not only in the affected areas, but that the effects of the action would pervade the entire population of Zimbabwe.<BR><BR>103. This has been followed by maintenance in every area of sizeable groups of the Fifth Brigade and reinforced by armed Youth Brigades in areas like Gokwe and Zhombe to organize forced 'Pungwes' (rallies held from dusk to dawn) at which the old and the young are forcibly given doses of ZANU (PF) indoctrination. This group has continued to carry out selective beatings, torture, killings and kidnappings in their respective areas. In areas like Nkayi, Lupane and Tsholotsho only sizeable groups of the Fifth Brigade are maintained. It is general practice during these 'Pungwes' that young women, schoolgirls and residents' wives are forced to have sexual intercourse with Brigadiers.<BR><BR>104. District Councillors, Chiefs and Headmen are o rdered by these armed young men to give numbers of people under them, and then given corresponding number of ZANU (PF) membership cards and told to return with cash and lists of names on a given day. These are the methods used for organising rallies for ZANU (PF) Ministers and other officials.<BR><BR>105. I know and accept that the Fifth Brigade was deployed in these areas after the murder of about 200 people in about a year and the destruction of thousands of dollars worth of government equipment by dissidents. But Mr. Prime Minister, I am sure you appreciate the absurdity of trying to protect people who have had 200 of their number killed in 12 months by dissidents while the Fifth Brigade in the process of that protection kills 3,000 to 5,000 people in six weeks.<BR><BR>106. I know that you have denied that any such things have taken place in Matebeleland, but the fact is that the evidence of this is irrefutable and based on the testimony of numerous firsthand witnesses, not least on that of many of the victims who survived. These victims include teachers, nurses, District Councillors, etc. Apart from victim witnesses, there are among others well known international aid organizations who were friends of Zimbabwe during the war and after independence, came to work with our people on the ground level. Added to these witnesses are different Churches which work in the affected areas. I would refer especially to the testimony of no less than 6 Catholic Bishops who were moved to issue a joint signed pastoral statement at their Easter 1983 conference. They did this, I would remind you, after I made my own disclosure at a Press Conference and in parliament late in February.<BR><BR>107. It has to be appreciated that, a Bishop of the Catholic Church, indeed any Christian Bishop, is a person who has devoted his life to the service of God. In order that his ministry shall be effective, he has an obvious interest in maintaining friendly and cordial relations with the government of the day. It is certainly not in his interest, or that of his flock, to act in any way which will make such relations difficult or discordant. We may conclude therefore that when he is so moved he acts from a deep sense of personal conviction and from motives which can scarcely be said to spring from self-interest.<BR><BR>108. The following is an extract from their statement:<BR>"We entirely support the use of the army in a peace-keeping role. What we view with dismay are methods that have been adopted for doing so. Methods which should be firm and just have degenerated into brutality and atrocity. We censure the frightful consequences of such methods. Violent reaction against dissident activity has, to our certain knowledge, brought about the maiming and death of hundreds and hundreds of innocent people who are neither dissidents nor collaborators. We are convinced by incontrovertible evidence that many wanton atrocities and brutalities have been and are still being perpetrated. We have already forwarded such evidence to the Government".<BR><BR>109. I would remind you of the basis on which this testimony is made. It stems from the firsthand reports of numerous parish priests, priests who are articulate and responsible officers of their church and who are in close daily contact with the people of their parishes. Again in the interest of their work they have everything to gain from maintaining good relations with the government of the day, and much to lose from a failure to do so.<BR><BR>110. Hence their testimony is surely to be judged to be disinterested, just as their motives for offering it can spring from nothing but a desire to serve their people. In this light is it possible for anyone in a position of authority and hence responsibility for these outrages, and possessed of the merest sense of human sensibility and compassion to feel other than a deep sense of shame and a desire to make amends for all this grievous suffering?<BR><BR>111. I was amazed and bewildered when Dr. Nathan Shamuyarira dismissed the Catholic Bishop's statement as 'irresponsible, contrived propaganda'. But I thought because as Minister of Information, he would swallow what the Bishops in their well-considered statement said about his government -controlled mass media which has, to quote the same pastoral statement:<BR><BR>"singularly failed to keep the people of Zimbabwe properly informed of the facts which are common knowledge, both in areas concerned and outside them through the reports of reliable witnesses. The facts point to a reign of terror caused by wanton killings, woundings, beatings, burnings and rapings. Many homes have been burnt down. People in rural areas are starving, not only because of the drought, but because in some cases supplies of food have been deliberately cut off and in other cases access to food supplies has been restricted or stopped. The innocent have no recourse or redress, for fear of reprisals".<BR><BR>112. I was shattered when you as Prime Minister said of the Bishops' well thought and constructive pastoral letter: quote:<BR><BR>"The seven Catholic Bishops's pastoral statement sermonizing my Government on the morality of our military operations in Matebeleland as they affect human rights and our policy of reconciliation is the latest pronouncement on the subject. You further said the Bishops were playing to the international gallery and you are mere megaphone agents of your external masters" "this band of Jeremiahs". "In these circumstances, your allegiance and loyalty to Zimbabwe becomes extremely questionable" considering that the Church in general and the Catholic Bishops in particular on the question of human rights, were very outspoken during our war of independence, one wonders where we are being headed to.<BR><BR>113. Looking at your attitude towards this most serious occurrence in your country, it appears that for many of our people the result of a 15-year armed struggle has not been to achieve the liberties for which they fought, but an increase in the oppression against which they took up arms in the first place. I agree completely with the Bishops when they declare, "These brutal methods will have the opposite effect to what the Government is intending to achieve", and we would add that terror did not work under Smith and it will not work today under us.<BR><BR>114. As a direct result of Government terrorism thousands of people have fled into neighbouring territory and many, many more have left their villages and gone into hiding. In keeping with the worst excesses of the Smith era there has been the burning of villages and other barbarities referred to in the report, as well as the widespread practice of extortion and attempts at compulsory indoctrination as stated in preceding paragraphs.<BR><BR>115. This is not government, it is the abuse of government, an abuse which transforms the rule of law into the law of rule. As such it cannot lead to a free, united, peaceful and prosperous Zimbabwe. But to one in which oppression, division, violence and poverty will shadow all our hopes, and make a mockery of the freedom struggle in which so many heroes gave their lives.<BR><BR>116. In the final section of their statement the Bishops appeal to the Government to use its authority to stop these excesses and call for the establishment of a judicial commission. We fully support this call. But I feel that the problem facing us in Zimbabwe today requires an approach much more resolute, much more embracing than ever attempted by ZANU and ZAPU before. A judicial commission as proposed by the Bishops should be a part of wider machinery composed of a wide spectrum of our society, who should examine our composite problems together with government, seek and find solutions which should be implemented jointly by the people and government. If the people of Zimbabwe and their government fail to find a solution to this serious situation in which we find ourselves, our enemies will exploit the situation and destroy us.<BR><BR>117. Remember, Prime Minister, Zimbabwe and the people have to defend the country from these enemies. But today Zimbabwe is defenceless because the people live in fear, not of these enemies, but of their own government. What has happened to the brave and determined, confident and fearless people of Zimbabwe and their soldiers of liberation, who showed the world that no power on earth could prevent us from achieving our freedom?<BR><BR>That was a time when even our enemies had to admire us for our courage and determination. Today our enemies laugh at us. What they see is a divided, confused and frightened people, led by a divided, confused and frightened government. Government which has the love, respect and confidence of the people does not have to use the laws and weapons of colonial regimes to protect itself. The people themselves will protect their government if they have full trust in it. Fear is a weapon of despair, used by those who fear the people. This is the time and opportunity to rebuild trust, find the solution to our problems and defend the country as a united people.<BR><BR>Yours sincerely,<BR><BR>Joshua M. Nkomo</STRONG></DIV><BR><BR><div> </div><p>  <hr size=1> Yahoo! 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Someone out there knows the answer. <a href="http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTEydmViNG02BF9TAzIxMTQ3MTcxOTAEc2VjA21haWwEc2xrA3RhZ2xpbmU">Try it now</a>.The Radical Mindset!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06773394621026095967noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216517453675720335.post-60984765607252731482007-04-10T08:00:00.001+02:002007-04-10T08:00:39.676+02:00WHAT SHOULD WE CONCENTRATE ON AT THIS PARTICULAR POINT IN TIME?<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><U><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT face="Times New Roman">What should we concentrate on at this point in time?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></U></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">I'm sitting at a place which I call "home away from home" and I've discovered that I have forgotten the power-lead for the lap-top.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">This has become a blessing in disguise because it has shown me that apparently I have to take a proper look at what it is exactly that we must focus on when dealing with the Zim crisis!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">If I had the power chord with me, I would write for 10 hours and describe how and why we rigged the Elections as I promised a few weeks ago!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Now I've only got about an hour of "stored" power and I've to be as brief as possible!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">What purpose would it serve if I wrote about all the details of how the Elections were rigged? Who sincerely believes the Zim Elections were "free and fair"? What new stuff would I bring forward? Would it materially change the present situation?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">I think if anyone really wants to know about how we rigged the Elections, they can arrange for a Press Conference and I will give it my best shot.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">In the same vein, I challenge anyone (even President Thabo Mbeki or Mr Robert Mugabe himself) to a "live" Television debate on that issue and any other "allegations" that I have made in any of my writings. That would be a very simple assignment! I would then be the perfect "sell-out."<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">But I really need to know from you, dear readers:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Is it the core-issue to prove "beyond any reasonable doubt" that the Elections were "rigged"? Or should we concentrate on why they were rigged? I ask this question because those of us who did the various acts and deeds did them in the best of faith believing we were doing the "Revolution" a service.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">That is what, in my humble opinion, is what we must concentrate on!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The violence and the "machinations" against the MDC can be read on </FONT><A title=http://www.chinja.blogspot.com/ href="http://www.chinja.blogspot.com/"><FONT title=http://www.chinja.blogspot.com/ face="Times New Roman" size=3>www.chinja.blogspot.com</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> and on a detailed article posted elsewhere in my blogs as "THE SAD STORY OF THE MDC 1999 to 2006" which one can get the link thereof at </FONT><A title=http://www.finalpushzim.blogspot.com/ href="http://www.finalpushzim.blogspot.com/"><FONT title=http://www.finalpushzim.blogspot.com/ face="Times New Roman" size=3>www.finalpushzim.blogspot.com</FONT></A><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> .<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Numerous blog-sites and radio stations concentrate on describing the events, the events and the events! This may be correct as simple journalism, but we need to look at the IDEOLOGICAL ARGUMENTS! For instance, why do you think Mr Mbeki seems "impotent" on the Zim crisis? Do you think he does not know all about the rigging, the violence etc that happened esp from 2000 to date?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Mr Mbeki would be a "common liar" if he said he didn't know!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">The real issue is the "direction" of the Continent vis-à-vis the whole "imperialist forces" and the so-called "Western World."<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">The question is: "Who are the MDC and what do they stand for?"<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Cde Mugabe once said at the National Heroes' Acre at the funeral of somebody or other: "KANA MUKOMA ATADZA, VANUN'UNA MUNOGARA PASI NAYE PASINA VAENZI NAVAUYI, MOGADZIRISANA NAYE!"<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">("IF THE ELDER BROTHER IS AT FAULT, THE YOUNG BROTHERS MUST SIT DOWN WITH HIM WHERE THERE ARE NEITHER VISITORS NOR FOREIGNERS THEN YOU SORT OUT YOUR GRIEVANCES PRIVATELY WITH HIM!")<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Just here I will be labelled a ZANU-PF "propagandist! <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">That's the tragedy of the Zim situation!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">If you explain any issue as objectively as you can, either ZANU-PF will throw you "out the window" as a "sell-out" or the MDC will similarly label you as a ZANU-PF Propagandist!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">That's precisely why we will never get to the solution of the multiplicity of the problems facing the beloved country.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Some are so "fixed" on either side because they benefit from the continuation of the crisis!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Some are unemployable in the "real world" and would not see themselves "surviving" in a normal situation. So for them dust must always be up in the air so that (if they are with ZANU-PF), they should continue to be called upon<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>to "fish out and torture" the so-called MDC "sell-outs."<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">If they are with the MDC, they must be available to present "papers" and "reports" and receive "donor funds."<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">I'm extremely unpopular with both sides because ZANU-PF views me as a "sell-out" and the MDC sees me as a "ZANU-PF sympathiser."<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">But, come on, brothers and sisters!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Can we not sit down and come up with a "STATEMENT OF AGREED FACTS."?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">For instance, one major issue is the question of LAND!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">I read an article by one young white writer who claimed that was never a LAND QUESTION in Zimbabwe. That is very dangerous fallacy. Why should it be believed that a black man should be a white man's servant forever? On the other hand, did we have to beat up and literally kill the white farmers in order to "rectify" the land ownership imbalances? Now that we did it in that manner, why do we blame the "West" for their re-action to our violent seizures of the land (even if it is obvious that the imbalances had to be rectified)?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Why does ZANU-PF expect the "West" to smile at what we did?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Suppose Britain does compensate all the farmers whom we displaced, is that the end of the story?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Who should compensate all the supporters of the MDC (mainly "blacks") who were killed, maimed, displaced etc and their only crime was to support a Political Party of their choice? Is it ZANU-PF? Whose funds should ZANU-PF use to pay for those claims? The tax-payers' money? <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Who should compensate the victims of the "Gukurahundi Era"? The ex-ZIPRA forces have not yet got their "NITRAM" FARMS back 20 years after the so-called "UNITY ACCORD" between ZANU-PF and PF-ZAPU? Or does nobody care? Or should we forget all about it? What seeds have we sown and what are the future implications of "ignoring" the "MATEBELELAND MASSACRES"?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Do we not see the need for a comprehensive "ALL-INCLUSIVE" ALL-PARTY CONFERENCE to deal with all the issues affecting our beloved land?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">When Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai, and all of us alive now are gone, what will our children say of us? Did we deal well with the "LAND QUESTION"? Were we "expelling" all the white famers? Should South Africa do the same? <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Should Namibia do the same?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Is Robert Mugabe the hero of the African ?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">If he is, why is he sheltering a man who is required in Ethiopia to face justice for the crimes he committed against the former Emperor Haille Sellase and numerous of his officials?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Then also, "WHAT DO WE WANT DONE TO MR ROBERT MUGABE?"<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Should a hand of reconciliation be offered to him as he offered to his former oppressors in 1980?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Does Robert Mugabe think and know that anyone is "after his blood"?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Does he believe that solving the "LAND QUESTION" will atone for his numerous other atrocities (many against "his own people" ie the black man)?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">So do we now appreciate the complexity of the Zim issue?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Do we appreciate the "load" which is upon Mr Thabo Mbeki's shoulders?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">I then appreciate why Mbeki had to "cover up" for Robert Mugabe!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Does he not know what Mugabe faces if he suddenly became an ordinary person just today?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Will Mugabe get adequate refuge in South Africa? How will the new Administration in Zimbabwe view him(ie Mbeki)?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Tsvangirai has already warned Mbeki about protecting Mugabe!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Then there is a question of corruption!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">The ordinary Zimbabweans know how the ZANU-PF Leadership has "siphoned" Zimbabwe's wealth in the past 27 years!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Will the whole top ZANU-PF Leadership also seek refuge in South Africa?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>I invite you to read an article entitled "AGRRESSIVE WRITERS REQUIRED" which is posted elsewhere on these blog-sites. (You can see the postings at </FONT><A title=http://www.finalpushzim.blogspot.com/ href="http://www.finalpushzim.blogspot.com/"><FONT title=http://www.finalpushzim.blogspot.com/ face="Times New Roman" size=3>www.finalpushzim.blogspot.com</FONT></A><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> )<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">My wn interest is to see JUSTICE done to all!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">The white farmers must be compensated by the former Colonial Power!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">ZANU-PF must compensate all those who suffered unjustly under its 27-year rule!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">EVERY-ONE MUST FACE HIS PAST AND ACCOUNT FOR IT!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Blaming Mr Tony Blair alone will not get us anywhere!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">That the Elections were rigged is not the question!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">THAT IS VERY OBVIOUS!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">The question should be:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">HOW DO WE GET OUT OF THIS MESS WHICH HAS DESTROYED OUR BELOVED ZIMBABWE?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Rev Mufaro Stig Hove.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">THE RADICAL SOLDIER.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> 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Former Defence Minister Enos Nkala!<div><STRONG><FONT size=3>Enos Nkala vows to fight Mugabe</FONT></STRONG></div> <div>ex <A href="http://www.talkzimbabwe.com">www.talkzimbabwe.com</A> 9 April, 2007.<BR></div> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=3 width=1 align=left border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><IMG alt="One of Mugabe's former Zanu colleagues, Enos Nkala, was telling journalists that he would fight to the last drop to ensure that Mugabe does not win next year's election" src="http://www.talkzimbabwe.com/clients/talkzimbabwe/4-5-2007-2-58-15-AM-5049297.jpg" align=left></TD></TR> <TR> <TD align=middle><FONT class=CAPTION color=#ff0000>One of Mugabe's former Zanu colleagues, Enos Nkala, was telling journalists that he would fight to the last drop to ensure that Mugabe does not win next year's election.</FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <div><STRONG><FONT class=BYLINE>Ranganai Chidemo 05.APR.07</FONT></STRONG></div> <div><STRONG></STRONG> </div> <div><STRONG> </div> <div><BR></STRONG>HARARE -- As the Zanu PF central committee met at party headquarters on Friday down the road at the New Ambassador Hotel one of Mugabe's former Zanu colleagues, Enos Nkala, was telling journalists that he would fight to the last drop to ensure that Mugabe does not win next year's election, TalkZimbabwe has heard. <BR><BR>"He is a savage with total disregard for human life," said Nkala, one of the prominent figures in the founding of Zimbabwe's struggle for liberation. <BR><BR>The original Zanu party was formed in his house in 1963, and after independence in 1980 he served in the new government for a decade before falling out with the president. <BR><BR>He said Mugabe's recent crackdown on MDC members and innocent civilians, which has involved abductions and severe beatings, showed the president's "primitive and uncultured nature".<BR><BR>Nkala questioned Mugabe's background.<BR><BR>"He talks about his mother always, where is his father?" Ask him; he cannot trace his lineage any further than two generations.<BR><BR>"It takes a primitive, non-polished mind full of savagery to do this [persecuting the opposition]. I am prepared to die for what I am saying."<BR><BR>Nkala blamed Mugabe for having "demolished" the process of reconciliation between Zimbabwe and Britain after independence through his one-man rule. <BR><BR>As for next year's election, he said he would side with the recently formed opposition party Patriotic Union of Matabeleland, led by his son Leonard.<FONT class=SOURCELINE> - TalkZimbabwe ----- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.</FONT> </div> <CENTER><BR><BR><A href="http://www.talkzimbabwe.com/email_this_story.asp?smenu=84&sdetail=3991&wpage=1" target=blank><IMG src="http://www.talkzimbabwe.com/images/email_this_story.gif" border=0></A> <A href="http://www.talkzimbabwe.com/print_this_story.asp?smenu=84&sdetail=3991" target=blank><IMG src="http://www.talkzimbabwe.com/images/print_this_story.gif" border=0></A></CENTER><BR> <TABLE width="100%" align=center VALIGN="TOP"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><BR></TD></TR> <TR> <TD class=WB align=middle><B>Reader Opinions</B></TD></TR> <TR> <TD></TD></TR> <TR> <TD></TD></TR> <TR> <TD></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><B>zrp2007@gmail.com</B> <B><A href="mailto:zrp2007@gmail.com">zrp2007@gmail.com</A></B></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><FONT color=gray>APR 08 </FONT>Nkala's words,"I am prepared to die for what I am saying." I will happilly attend his funeral. His hands are as bloody as his former handler Mugabe. I propose that Nkala & Mugabe must be cremated under watchful eyes of anyone who cares. These ashes should then be scattered in different dust bins lest they regroup......... I for one do not trust the genes of these two. Jonathan Moyo is no diferent to Nkala either.</TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <TABLE class=WB cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><B>Kelvin</B> <B><A href="mailto:kel211m@aol.com">kel211m@aol.com</A></B></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><FONT color=gray>APR 08 </FONT>Preposterous! Utterly pathetic. At a time when all opposition in Zimbabwe should be uniting into one single omnipresent force to oust the murderous regime of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, some people are still forming new political parties based on tribal or regional lines. Now how stupid can you get? This is the sort of nonsense Zimbabweans should not be doing if we really want to see Bob's exit from power.</TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <TABLE class=WB cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><B>We need to jog people's memories</B> <B><A href="mailto:chrysys@gmail.com">chrysys@gmail.com</A></B></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><FONT color=gray>APR 07 </FONT>We need to jog a few peeps memories.<BR><BR>Zimbabwe Rejects Charges That Detainees Are Tortured <BR>REUTERS <BR>Published: November 20, 1985<BR>Zimbabwe has rejected charges by Amnesty International that it has increased the detention and torture of suspected Government opponents, the country's embassy in Britain said today. <BR><BR>Zimbabwe's Home Affairs Minister, Enos Nkala, met Monday with officials of Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organization, and said its report contained false allegations. <BR><BR>Amnesty reported beatings, electric shocks and other torture at Government detention camps since a general election in Zimbabwe in July. <BR><BR>An embassy spokesman said Mr. Nkala expressed a willingness to meet with anyone who had been tortured if Amnesty International were to produce him. He also said anyone guilty of torture would be prosecuted. <BR><BR>An Amnesty International spokesman described the meeting as useful but said the organization would not bring forth people who had provided evidence of torture. <BR><BR></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <TABLE class=WB cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><B>Ralph Mguni</B> <B><A href="mailto:bayethe@aol.com">bayethe@aol.com</A></B></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><FONT color=gray>APR 06 </FONT>I remember the revulsion with which Enos Nkala was regarded during the Gukurahundi years. I remember too the blood curdling threats about how he would subdue the Ndebele people. The memories are still quite fresh, because in that fateful period, I lost my only brother. The circumstances were very unclear but when irrationality is the order of the day, even accidental deaths raise suspicion.<BR><BR>I am not one that believes that transformed, if indeed that is what has happened, individuals should be shut out of progress for Zimbabwe. There are few untainted by the madness unleashed by Mugabe, in pursuit of power. The way forward, surely would be to engage the authors of the evil system that befell our country. O course this takes a leap of faith, what if these people area only tring a cosmetic exercise just to sanitise their warped minds that led to the evils they perpetrated on our people.<BR><BR>Perhaps Nkala can make good his distance from the evil one. If he actually died for the cause, I would be totally convinced that his words were not just demagoguic utterings of one that has seen that Mugabe's, and hopefully old ZANU's world is over!</TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <TABLE class=WB cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><B>majika</B> <B><A href="mailto:lindofelly@yahoo.co.uk">lindofelly@yahoo.co.uk</A></B></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><FONT color=gray>APR 06 </FONT>bakithi sizamthemba kanjani lomuntu owayehambisana lo Mgabe ngesikhathi seguguraundi akasicazele ukuthi kungani esembona ububi bakhe manje ather wise shut yr mouth nkala lasibulalela abafowethu</TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <TABLE class=WB cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><B>N/A</B> <B><A href="mailto:N/A">N/A</A></B></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><FONT color=gray>APR 06 </FONT>Patriotic Union of Matebeleland, what a joke. At a time when everyone is advocating the changing of the provincial name, a "genius" finds it fit to call his party such. Nkala, hush.</TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <TABLE class=WB cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><B>SOLO MAI-MBODEI</B> <B><A href="mailto:N/A">N/A</A></B></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><FONT color=gray>APR 05 </FONT>Nkala did not "participate" in the Gukurahundi massarces nor was he complicit. Nkala then understood the "diplomacy of the gun". Shut up or be killed yourself. Nkala chose to keep his mouth shut (then). As a minister in Mugabe's gvt, do you really think he could have done something on his own to stop the 5th brigade. I don't think so. <BR></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <TABLE class=WB cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><B>keeth</B> <B><A href="mailto:keethashby@yahoo.co.uk">keethashby@yahoo.co.uk</A></B></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><FONT color=gray>APR 05 </FONT>Nkala has no credibility to say whay he is saying .he should shut up..He participated in the genocide of his own people.His past stinks.</TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <TABLE class=WB cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><B>Chris</B> <B><A href="mailto:chrysys@gmail.com">chrysys@gmail.com</A></B></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><FONT color=gray>APR 05 </FONT>Vumani you missed the point. The people who were booted out of Zanu PF are distancing themselves from Mugabe. Nkala was the Minister Of Defence during Gukurahundi. Talk Zimbabwe must solicit an explanation from him what happened during Gukurahundi and tell us what happened. Even wikipedia says he was complicit in Gukurahundi. Tell him confession is good for the soul. Tekere thinks he is smart when he says Mugabe did not kill Tongogara but that is a ploy(as Mugabe's point man at that time) to distance himself from that cowardly act of assassinating Tongogara.</TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <TABLE class=WB cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><B>Vumani Dlodlo</B> <B><A href="mailto:dlodlo20002000@yahoo.co.uk">dlodlo20002000@yahoo.co.uk</A></B></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><FONT color=gray>APR 05 </FONT>This is another hypocrytical individual how can he seek to condemn Mugabe after all these years, when Mugabe unleashed the 5th Brigade to eliminate the people of Midlands and Matebeleland Mr Nkala remained silent he has gone to the extent of saying that he will make some revelations in his memiors which are supposed to published when his dead. I wouldn't take such a man seriously he was part of the establishment his comments should be treated with utmost caution.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><BR><div> </div><p>  <hr size=1> What kind of emailer are you? Find out today - get a free analysis of your email personality. Take the quiz at the <a href="http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/championships/quiz/*http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk/">Yahoo! 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Robert Gabriel Mugabe<br />The Prime Minister of Zimbabwe<br />Milton Buildings, Causeway,<br />Harare<br />Zimbabwe <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER ROBERT MUGABE<br /><br /><br /><br />Dear Robert,<br /><br />1. I write to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe and one of the leaders of our country, to you not just as one of the leaders of Zimbabwe, but above all, as Prime Minister of the Government of Zimbabwe as provided for by the Constitution, that you and me, as well as other leaders signed in December 1979.<br /><br />2. I write because I feel that our country is in danger of complete disintegration, to the detriment of all its citizens now living and of generations to come.<br /><br />3. Not least, I write to you because I am convinced that you believe I am the main contributory factor to this dangerous situation.<br /><br />4. You have stated publicly on several occasions that I have plotted, and continue to plot, to overthrow you and your government, that I have conspired, and continue to conspire, with South Africa to do that, that I have organized and continue to organize dissident groups for the purpose of destabilizing the country and finally to overthrow you.<br /><br />5. You now say I have run to Britain, ostensibly because I thought my life was or is in danger, but that I have done so for the purpose of recruiting mercenaries and/or assassins to wrest power from you.<br /><br />6.I also know that you and your party believe that because ZAPU lost in the last election we feel wounded, and therefore plan to wrest power from you by means, fair or foul.<br /><br />7.You say we did all I have stated above despite the fact that we agreed to take part in your Government when you as Prime Minister, invited us to.<br /><br />8. This whole series of accusations against me and ZAPU, which are false and without any foundation whatsoever started on the 6th February, 1982 when caches of arms were discovered at Escort Farm, and later at Hampton Farm, both of which were owned by Nitram, a private company, I assisted former ZIPRA combatants to form for occupation and use by those of them who were not incorporated into the (ZNA) Zimbabwe National Army and the (ZRP) Zimbabwe Republic Police.<br /><br />9. The discovery of arms on the 6th February was followed by a number of categoric and definitive statements, by yourself, to the effect that arms were discovered in Nkomo and ZAPU owned properties and that the cache of arms were part of a plot to overthrow you and your government; and that all those properties were being used for subversive purposes.<br /><br />You said in Marondera on the 14th February, 1982: “ZAPU had bought more than 25 farms and more than 30 business enterprises throughout the country. We have now established they were not genuine business enterprises, but places of hiding military weapons to start another war at an appropriate time”. You added, “Dr. Nkomo was trying to overthrow my government”. “ZAPU and its leader, Dr. Joshua Nkomo, were like a cobra in a house.<br /><br />The only way to deal effectively with a snake is to strike and destroy its head”.<br /><br />10. You will remember that you met me and three of my colleagues at your official residence on the 5th February to discuss a number of issues, and at the end of that meeting I mentioned to you that I had received a telephone message from Bulawayo to the effect that two Nitram Farms, Ascot and Woody Glen Farm had been invaded by the police the previous night and you said, you had also got information and you would inform me later what it was all about.<br /><br />11. That evening I traveled with two of your Ministers on a plane to Bulawayo, Emmerson Mnangagwa and Sydney Sekeramai. Little did I know that you had sent these two men to Bulawayo to display to the press arms allegedly unearthed in one of those farms, namely Ascot Farm.<br /><br />12. I would have expected that as Minister under you, you would, after finding arms in Nitram owned properties, to have summoned me to your office to find out from me as to whether I knew anything about the arms.<br /><br />13. I would have expected further, that you would have instructed me to have joined Mnangagwa and Sekeramai in an attempt to uncover information about those arms.<br /><br /><br /><br />Next part tomorrow. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> 5 Stars - Excellent4 Stars - Good3 Stars - Average2 Stars - Fair1 Stars - Poor <br /> 5 / 5 (4 Votes) <br /> <br /><br /><br /><br />26 Comments | Add Your Comment | Forums <br /><br />The following comments are owned by whomever posted them. ZimDaily is not responsible for what they say. Please keep your comments short and to the point. Obscene, tribalistic, racist, vulgar comments will be deleted. Simple HTML is allowed for basic text editing. <br /><br /><br />LET DOWN<br />I STILL THINK THAT DR. NKOMO DID LET THE PEOPLE OF ZIMBABWE DOWN.BY ALLOWING ZAPU TO BE DROWNED BY ZANUPF OR RATHER,SWALLOWED BY ZANUPF,ZIMBABWEANS WERE EFFECTIVELY DENIED A CREDIBLE OPPOSITION.JOSEPH MUSIKA,JOHN NKOMO AND THEIR ZAPU COLLEAGUES ARE THE WORST TRAITORS ZIMBABWEAN POLITICS WILL EVER PRODUCE!<br />Posted By MUVHETI , STOKE ON TRENT UK : Apr 8 2007 06:16 PM<br />Muvheti-I beg to differ<br />I think the old man did the best under the circumstances-worse could have happened if he had stuck out at that time. I still think what he did was wise because at that time there was no comfort in numbers. <br />Posted By Miss Him , Harare : Apr 8 2007 08:02 PM<br />Mayaz Muvheti<br />Muvheti, think of Zapu in the 80's as the MDC in the late 90's. I mean they can only do so much given the fact that Zanu will stop at nothing to discredit oppostion. Nkomo had to literally flee for his life and back then Zanu was more murderous. In the end the only option he had was to shut up forver (no good) or join Zanu but with a Zapu mentality, which he did quite well coz till his death Nkomo was the most outspoken critic of Zanu within Zanu. I urge people to make comments backed by actual fact, not some superficial mumbo jumbo. Your opinion (that Nkomo is a traitor) is the same thing a 9 year old would say if told that Nkomo joined Zanu and left Zapu. It takes discretion to figure out the real deal, which is that Zapu at the time wouldnt succeed even given 10 years. So Nkomo did the next best thing. <br />Posted By Nkomo fi evea , Bues : Apr 8 2007 08:12 PM<br />What next<br />Nkomo in the end sold out if he was true to his word and belief he should have stick to it. The old man died in Office he should have resigned being outspoken in ZANU and not doing anything is just one and the same thing. what did he say against the party?. God rest his soul but he let the people down him and all the other leaders in ZANU who failed to reign in Mugabe while he goes on a war path against his own people. Right from the start at 1980 his tail should have been trimmed. While in the party Nkomo should have used his influence. He did not. <br />Posted By Big Maz , Elmpt Germany : Apr 8 2007 10:19 PM<br />What Next<br />No guys, Umdhala did the 'next best thing' zvataurwa neumwe apo. In the 80s the conflict was called 'tribalism' and if he had not stopped and 'united' with Zanu, vanhu vaipera kupfuudzwa. So he made a painful but wise move. Now his wisdom is paying off even while he is departed because tese tavekuchema naGushungo...there is now power in numbers. <br />Posted By Miss Him , Harare : Apr 8 2007 10:36 PM<br />BIG DHARA<br />I am not sure about the intricacies of Nkomos influence on the political playing field but if theres one thing that we all know is that Nkomo was one one of if not the only one who could have really stood up to Bob on behalf of the nation but i'm sorry maybe its just me but i have never heard of there ever being a time when he stood up to Bob. He always seemed to be lurking in the shadows of the regime - not saying much!<br />Posted By Samanyika , Chelsea, London : Apr 9 2007 12:58 AM<br />Nkomo a Gorbatchew within Africa<br />Dr. Nkomo had no other chace than to HOPE for influencing ZANU to find a democratic path. Read my postings in newzim forum around this letter. Should he call for a new civil war, as ZANU pushed him to do? The shamefull Unity Accord ended up in ZAPU being just swallowed from ZANU. Nothing honourable remained besides some rememberances. Robert Mugabe was to strict in his dictatorship like earlier in his teacher life with pupils. His tribal venom fell on breedy soil. Fear was and is his only method to gain “respect” in Zimbabwe and that seems to be unchangable ZANU philosophy from the very beginning. As long as Nkomo was alife, Zimbabwe was a hope of Africa. Now it’s only a shame. If he made a fault, then to think just African instead of global, what made him weak against Mugabe, who found strong allies in the British conservatives, presenting him Zim on a silver plate. data <br />Posted By data , former GDR (East Germany) : Apr 9 2007 01:26 AM<br />Nkomo and ZANU PF<br />The Unity Accord was signed voluntarily between ZANU PF snd PF ZAPU. It greatest success was the end of dissent activities in Matebeleland which saved more lives that could have been lost had the problems continued. Ideologically there was little difference between ZANU PF and PF ZAPU.<br />Posted By Spokes Mupurusa , XXXXXXXXZimbabwe : Apr 9 2007 02:03 AM<br />Mugabe hates opposition with passion<br />Nkomo did what was right given at the given circustances. He (Nkomo) had the people`s interest at heart. Zimbabwe was just from war and another suffering was the last thing to let the poeople of Zimbabwe go through. Ofcoz, Nkomo should have jumped the ship after the union but he feared for his life. Mugabe ahs killed many people. He has covered it up and we as the nation have not challenged him enough. It was not a surprise when he accused Tsvangirai for a coup. I mean history has shown that anyubody that oppose him wants to kill him although its always not the case. It would be unfair for the Zimbabwean pewople if Mugabe diies without paying or punished for the damage he has done to the people of Zimbabwe. As for his police, i feel pity for them because they will be there when Mugabe is gone. We will deal with them efectively. MDC has their names.<br />Posted By Humbulani , : Apr 9 2007 07:53 AM<br />Nkomo<br />Nkomo did the right thing under the circumstances,imagine when he was still alive no-body gave a damn about him, to be precise he was just a kamdebere aka!. The majority of Zimbabweans noticed his effort long after he was gone, when Mugabe was becoming sour grapes.Going back to history and studying Mugabe's tactics you will discover that-he has divided the country on tribal grounds with people from matabelelands being treated as citizens of another nation, anything that is ndebele is no good, he is a dictator without shame and will stop at nothing, cunning like a lion etc. So with this in mind Nkomo did the best considering that all arms were against him.TO add salt to an injury, Mgabe killed Nkomo's widow Mafuyane (we have the details). <br />Posted By keen , Australia : Apr 9 2007 08:52 AM<br />no title<br />Robert Mugabe is unmatched in his ability to disintergrate resistance. He is a tyrant who has perfected his art. It is tue that the merging of Zapu and Zanu through the unity accord is one of the episodes that led to Zanu PF hegemony. I guess it was too much for old Josh to resist the temptation of being vice president after he had been made number one enemy of the state. I don't know what it was, whether it was lack of character on his part or just a genuine desire for peace. Remember during those days Mugabe was a very popular figure and even Morgan Tsvangirai was a commissar or something similar in Zanu PF. So I guess it was really tough for old man Josh to accept the carrot that was dangled in front of him. <br />Posted By Hannibal , Bristol, UK : Apr 9 2007 09:05 AM<br />Mr<br />Dr Nkomo was guilty of a crime-treason and possession of arms-though no court tried him. He was lucky to get away with it under the Canan Banana brokered unity accord. Otherwise he could have ended just like Savimbi of Angola. Nkomo ploted to oustMugabe Government from the moment he lost the landmark elections in 1980.There is overwhelming evidence if one gets documents from South Africa intelligence Lonrho and Anglo-Ameriacn.<br />Posted By Hondo Chimurenga , Lusaka, Zambia : Apr 9 2007 11:40 AM<br />NKOMO THE MAN WITH A VISION<br />MY UNDERSTANDING OF JOSHUA NKOMO WAS THAT HE WAS A MAN WITH A VISON FOR THE PEOPLE.I SPECIFICALLY REMEMBER MAMA MAFUYANE STATING THAT NKOMO NEVER WANTED TO SEE THE BLOOD OF HIS PEOPLE.INDEED HE WAS A MAN WHO HAD THE PEOPLE AT HEART.THE PEOPLE CAME FIRST BEFORE HIM.THAT IS WHY HE SWALLOWED HIS PRIDE.IT IS FOR A WISE MAN TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO FIGHT TO SHOW THAT YOU ARE A MAN.A WISE MAN DOES NOT FIGHT A WAR KNOWING THAT HE WILL NOT WIN IT.BY JOINING ZANU PF,NKOMO FOUGHT A BATTLE UNTIL HIS DEATH.EATING TOGETHER WITH THE ONE YOU ONCE CALLED AN ENEMY,TAKES COURAGE.AS A ZIMBABWEAN -NDEBELE,I PRAISE NKOMO FOR WHAT HE DID.I AM SURE THAT IF HE HAD NO COURAGE TO DO WHAT HE DID,THE NDEBELE PEOPLE WOULD BE A THING OF THE PAST BY NOW.I AM HAPPY BECAUSE WE HAVE MAINTAINED OUR CULTURE,LANGUAGE AND HAVE EVEN REVIVED THE OLD BULAWAYO.HAD HE NOT DONE WHAT HE DID ,OUR CHILDREN WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO INHERIT TODAY.THANK GOD FOR MAN LIKE HIM.HE IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT IT IS TO BE A MAN OF CHARACTER,VISION AND WHAT IT IS TO HAVE THE PEOPLE AT HEART.EVEN THOUGH HE DID NOT RULE,HE HELPED PRESERVE OUR IDENTIY.I LEARNT FROM NKOMO THAT PERSONAL AMBITIONS ARE NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE PEOPLE YOU REPRESENT AS A LEADER.IT IS UNWISE TO FORCE THE BONE INTO A POT WHEN IT IS EVIDENT THAT IT CAN NOT FIT INTO THE POT.<br />Posted By HLUZ , AUSTRALIA : Apr 9 2007 12:19 PM<br />He was not guility<br />Nkomo was never guility of any crime treason as said by Mugabe.To be precise he never possessed any arms in the so called farms. The arms that were said to be discovered belonged to the Zimbabwean army and they were never, l reapet never unearthed from the ZAPU farms. Mugabe as curning as ever just lied to the mass of zimbabwe and he succeded in misleading people like Hondo Chimrenga and for that matter l am a historian who has read the documents from a south africa intelligence Lonrho and anglo-american and those documents if studied closely potray a different image. To be short Nkomo was guility of nothing and for your own information Robert did not win the elections he rigged his way up just like what he is doing with the MDC-same fanana <br />Posted By Keen , Australia : Apr 9 2007 02:12 PM<br />tshiyani umdalaa wethu<br />ubaba wethu was a man of peace who never wanted to see blood despite myself being ndebele we can not compare mugabe and nkomo hazviite mugabe a day time witch muroyi<br />Posted By ngenkani , uk manchester : Apr 9 2007 02:22 PM<br />Nkomo<br />Joshua Nkomo would have made a far better leader for us. He would not have exercised power like a megalomaniac the way Robert Mugabe has done. He was far more level headed than Mugabe. This Mugabe has been the curse of our country. As an aside, leaders from minority groups can make good overall leaders: look at how Marshall Tito, for example, a Croatian, held Yugoslavia together. I didn't know until he died that Yugoslavia was such a powderkeg.<br />Posted By Charan Muzaya , London, UK : Apr 9 2007 03:02 PM<br />Umdhala Wethu<br />With all due respect the old man had his own short-coming. This mentality of Holier than thou is what led to the criss in Zimbabwe. He fought against white oppression yes. But did he continue the fight against Mugabe oppression or was he part of Mugabe oppression he should have step up to the plate and say no to Mugabe's dictatorial tendencies which at 1987 could have been curtailed. All this he could have been a better leader that Mugabe well anyone could be a better leader than Mugabe because leaders don't come as worse as Bob. Needless to say Father Zimbabwe did not go all the way to protect the people of Zimbabwe.God REST HIS SOUL. Against Mugabe we need leaders who are prepared do die for the coz, just as they did against the Smith Regime. <br />Posted By BIG MAZ , Elmpt Germany : Apr 9 2007 03:25 PM<br />ulahlekile<br />with all due respect big MAZ, Nkomo did not have a choice Mugabe had guns and he was killing innocent people upto + or - 40000. then you say Nkomo did not protect abantu beZimbabwe ngaphandle kokuthi nxa imatabeleland ingekho ezimbabwe. But l will love to believe ukuthi if you were in Matabeleland during that period of ethnic cleansing you wouldn't be saying what u have juu said. ngilusizi mfowethu.<br />Posted By survivor , : Apr 9 2007 04:05 PM<br />Linyani lelo<br />lami l will agree with survivor, loluhlanya olungu Mgabe luyabulala aludlali njalo lwalule support yabelungu lamanye amasho**, its only now lapho onukirikiri asebesithi umgabe this, umgabe that otherwise during all these years they were behind him 100% because he speaks the same lagguage as them and they used to hate unkomo. Kuyasidanisa lokubona amagala akhe unkomo esesenziwa kibo khonale ingathi ngowabo. Asazi sibabukele beqedana khona ngale eharare bebulalana thina kontuthu sithe zwi,lokhu asisibo bantu as compared to them.<br />Posted By Keen , Australia : Apr 9 2007 04:25 PM<br />Umdala wethu was right<br />Its a pity that the old man died before delivering us from evil land of Egypt. We cant say he betrayed us because had he struck at that time all our tribe could have been finished. Remeber he opted for unity to save and preserve the remaining people in his bracket.<br />Posted By Leo , Bulawayo Zimbabwe : Apr 9 2007 04:40 PM<br />What next<br />Survivor do no assume that anyone who looks at Nkomo's shortcomings is Shona and was leaving Harare while the Mugabe's killers were rampaging down south far from it. Anyway that is not the case here l have great respect for the man yes he definately had no choice at first when he signed the Unity Accord and l am sure many lives where saved but that decision mine include, however what happen then when he joined the government what influence did he exert on Bob l would say not much. Do l believe that he could have done more while he was VP yes not only for the people of Matebeleland but Zimbabwe as a whole. <br />Posted By BIG MAZ , Elmpt Germany : Apr 9 2007 04:49 PM<br />no title<br />Mdala did the best thing here.Unfortunately whenever we got arrested by Smith Mdala had to be out of the Country that was when he let the whole of Zim down mdala was the only person who had the masses.Mugabe never had the pple on his side.That's why he won't stop killing pple.<br />Posted By Cde Chipwanyamombe , Maputo Mozambique : Apr 9 2007 06:27 PM<br />Joshua Nkomo was a star<br />Mudhala wethu was a star boyz dzangu, ini ndiri pure mushona samanyakika but i hate vanhu vanoda kupinza Tribalism pasi nayo, Nkomo died a respectful leader and had people at heart, e.g. akamira kuti Clive Masiyiwa a piwe licence to operate Econet , mashona achida kutsika konzi udzvanyiriri pachedu, mhata dzevanhu - kurova vanhu vari innocent kumba that's not fair we are nor free but opressed nemhata idzi, ndakatsamwa izvozvi<br />Posted By Papa Lolo , Lancashire UK : Apr 9 2007 06:36 PM<br />Nkomo, Zimbabwe's Mandela<br />I still beleive if Nkomo had ruled Zimbabwe in 1980 we would be much better today. We the Shona voted on tribal lines instead of merit. On all leadership qualities Nkomo was miles ahead of the rest. Just analyse how he handled crtical issues. He signed the unity accord for peace in the country. Look at the Econet issue. there is a lot i could put down but the fact remains Nkomo was a great man. I cant find anyone I can compare him to in this era. <br />Posted By Parke , Karoi, Zimbabwe : Apr 9 2007 06:58 PM<br />true<br />l think Parke you are one of the people whom l can call objective in your analysis. l think we should leave the tribal issues aside. the man was juss great.may his soul rest in peace.<br />Posted By Ndex , Norway : Apr 9 2007 10:34 PM<br />Litsho kahle bafowethu<br />Kuyangithokozisa ukubona ukuthi sibanengi "esithokoziswa" ngokwenzeka la ekhaya.Babengamboni uMdala esaphila.Loluhlanya olungaziwa lokuthi lwazalwa ngubani lwaluyihero yabo.Kubuhlungu okwenzeka la ekhaya kodwa myekele akabatshisatshise babone ukuthi uNkomo wayengahlanyi,loluhlanya ngumbulali.Phela babesithi asisobantu thina.Lamhla bafuna sizwelane labo.Ngolwabo uhlanya.Yibo ababeqolotsha lapho luhuquluza amavoti ngobugcwelegcwele.Baphe iNdebele lamuhla-bayalivuma lanxa bengalazi-solubahlakazile uhlanya lwakwabo!!<br />Posted By Kim Pee , Gweru Zimbabwe : Apr 10 2007 09:42 AM<br />26 Comments | Add Your Comment | ForumsThe Radical Mindset!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06773394621026095967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216517453675720335.post-42195675499247419822007-03-31T14:11:00.001+02:002007-03-31T14:11:46.326+02:00Dear Dr John Makumbe, <DIV><STRONG>We heard you "LIVE" on Radio "702" here in South africa giving an Ultimatum to the South Africans about their expected role in the resolution of the Mugabe-made crisis in Zimbabwe!</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>We agree with you in full and we are asking you issue that particular ultimatum in writing so we can post it on our blogsites!</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>We hold you in the highest esteem and we thank you for your kindest co-operation in this regard!</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Rev Mufaro Stig Hove.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>THE RADICAL SOLDIER.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><A href="mailto:mufarostig@yahoo.co.uk"><STRONG>mufarostig@yahoo.co.uk</STRONG></A></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><A href="mailto:revmshove@yahoo.co.uk"><STRONG>revmshove@yahoo.co.uk</STRONG></A><STRONG> </STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Cell: 0791463039 RSA.</STRONG></DIV><BR><BR><div> </div><p>  <hr size=1> The <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/nowyoucan/free_from_isp/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=40565/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html">all-new Yahoo! 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Let our SpamGuard protect you.The Radical Mindset!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06773394621026095967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216517453675720335.post-53748359917236918392007-03-26T06:08:00.001+02:002007-03-26T06:08:14.301+02:00MEMORIES AND THOUGHTS OF A FORMER ZANU-PF CADRE!<DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><STRONG><U>MEMORIES AND THOUGHTS OF A FORMER ZANU-PF CADRE</U></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA><FONT size=6><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><STRONG><U>PREAMBLE:</U></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">I think many of us have seen movies/films that have a very complex plot!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">To the real deep thinker, the more complex the plot, the more exciting the movie!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">One that has really been great to me was "THE FUGITIVE."</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">A very successful Medical Doctor rushes home to find his front door open.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">He rushes up the steps and is nearly knocked over by a man rushing down.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Someone had informed him that his wife's life was in danger, so he decides whether to go down the steps to try and apprehend the intruder that has descended down from his bedroom or to continue up the stairs to check on his wife.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">(As we are to learn later, the person who had informed him that his wife was in danger was the very person who had sent the assassin to kill his wife!)</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">When he gets to the bed-room door, his wife is lying in a pool of blood and is already through to 911 and she manages to say, " Richard, attacked, Richard, dying."</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">When Richard, the husband, checks her out he finds that she has been struck by some metal object and is indeed dying.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Then he manages to replace the receiver and calls for the Police to proceed immediately to his house.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Incidentally, the Police were already at his door having received an urgent report that a caller had made a call from a number traced to his to the effect a certain Richard was murdering her!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">So the Police rush up the stairs and immediately arrest Richard!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">The only person who would have freed Richard was already dead, and that was the wife!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">She would have clarified that 911 had misunderstood her call!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Her message had included Richard's name only because she saw him as she was making her desperate 911 call and therefore the message really was both to Richard and to the (already dialled 911) that she was dying of wounds inflicted on her body (but not necessarily inflicted by Richard.)</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Then started the troubles that were to make Richard (a normally respectable figure in the Community) turn into a FUGITIVE (ONE THAT IS ON THE RUN, FLEEING THE "ARM OF THE LAW!"</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Prosecutors had produced in Court what they called "A VOICE FROM THE GRAVE" which was the recorded 911 call that had been made by the dying wife!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">So apart from Richard himself (and the group that had master-minded the dastardly act); no-one else knew that Richard was innocent!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">By some strange set of circumstances, he managed to flee from a Prison Van and went into the woods to hide and to plan how to investigate the murder of his wife!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 1pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 6.75pt double"> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">So here was an innocent man, hiding in the woods, being both a "FUGITIVE" and a "PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR" to the murder mystery of which he had already been convicted by a Competent Court!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">But there is another plot!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">There is a gang of criminals.They wreck real havoc in the community.A new policeman is very zealous to get rid of the gang.He collects all the information.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">He gets the leads that will definitely get the gang "nabbed".He tells his boss of the clarity of the evidence,</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">On the day when he is sure the gang will be caught in action, he informs his boss of his intricate plans. He is so happy that at last the gang will be nabbed and the community will be free of harassment.What surprises him, though, is the cold nature of his boss's responses whenever he mentions the progress of the investigations.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">His boss just gives cold, standard replies. But the "policeman instinct" in him tells him there is something terribly weird but he never seems to get to bottom of the story.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">But just before he leaves his office one day, something catches his attention.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">A message meant for his boss is erroneously delivered to his office.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">The message simply says: " The new bastard in your.bloody Dept is spoiling the fun! If you can't get rid of him (as we have been telling you for the last 3 weeks, then don't blame us if we 'take him out' ourselves."He quickly re-seals the note and puts it in his boss's in-tray!He sweats profusely as he drives the Police Van home!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Of course the million-rand question is:</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">What does an upright person do when "illegal and immoral" orders are received from above?</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">What does a man of principle do when his superior is the leader of the crooks?</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">What does an honest citizen do when he discovers that the Executive President of the country is the "Master-Assassin"?</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Lets leave that one for now. We will return to it later in the "second-half"?</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">####################################################################################################<SPAN> </SPAN></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">There is also a true story that happened in a city that I will not mention by name.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">My friend in the Police Force was attached to the dog section. An urgent call was received that a Police dog was required to help sniff out some robbers that had fled in a certain direction into the thick bushes. He duly answered the call and his dog did assist apprehension of the two robbers. My policeman friend then had to return at top speed to answer to another call!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Police-van overturned in the dirt road and a passing motorist managed to take out my bleeding Policeman friend and his colleague.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">The blunder they did at that juncture was to open the back of the van to "free" the dog that was trapped in the cage there!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">The dog rushed to sit next to its wounded master (Inspector Mpofu/ my Policeman friend!)</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">They then tried to reach Inspector Mpofu so that they would carefully lift him and put him into a Bakkie that had also stopped by to help at the scene of the accident.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">The huge, vicious animal vowed that noone would get anywhere near his master who by now had lost too much blood. </FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">The more they signalled for the "loyal" beast to get away, the angrier the animal became and really showed everyone present that he meant real business!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">In his programmed thinking process, these 5 people had attacked his master and they would not get the opportunity to finish him off!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">He was going to show everybody what he was made of if they dared approach his master who (in his illogical instinct) needed him most at this time and he would let him down at this, his greatest hour of greatest need!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">So for 30 precious minutes even a Medical Doctor that had stopped by could not reach the now unconscious Inspector.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">So Zimbabwe lay bleeding as the "guerrilla instinct" in the Octogenarian prevented the whole International Community from rendering any assistance!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">###################################################################################################### </FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">I have marvelled myself at the complexities of Politics!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">When I was young, I saw my parents suffering the effects of RACIAL DISCRIMINATION and I said to myself that when I grew up, I would do all I could to fight that evil system of RACIAL DOMINATION of ONE RACE GROUP by ANOTHER!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">I did not go to Mozambique or to Zambia or to Botswana but I hold in High-esteem those that did!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Their patriotism was of the highest level and their sacrifices were of the supreme level!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">The snares on their journey were too numerous and only a few have survived to tell the stories and the nightmares! </FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN> </SPAN></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Unfortunately a lot of them died in conflicts which were not advancing the cause of Zimbabwe's liberation!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Some of them were "used" to fight "private and personal" battles by unscrupulous Commanders!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Some were sent by their "Chefs" to collect beautiful women from the villages and deliver them to the "lust-filled" Commanders!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Details of such negatives are never fully told since it is expected that during war situations, many unfortunate things happen!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">The fighters then learnt to fit in within the system and learn how to survive within the Hierarchical Set Up!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">(Here I'm trying to explain why a true ZANU cadre will never agree with you that his "Chef" is wrong even if he sees it himself!)</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">So when men "fell" during the so-called "NHARI REBELLION", different versions of the events leading to that rebellion will be offered by this side and by that side according to the allegiance of the story-teller!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Another example is the version of events leading to the "ENTUMBANE REBELLION" after Independence!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Some say a certain Politician issued a very "inflammatory" statement which led to the events that saw many soldiers lose their lives.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">I referred to the movie "THE FUGITIVE" to highlight that in many instances things are not always how they appear to the eye of the simple observer!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">For an example, were it not for the formation of the MDC, ZANU-PF would not have engaged in the Land Reform Programme in the manner that it did!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">All I'm saying is: The very existence of the MDC gave ZANU-PF<SPAN> </SPAN>the reason to engage in that exercise (although everyone, including Robert Mugabe himself, admits that it was not at all done properly.)</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">But the blunt truth is that is that it had to be done in a proper manner sooner or later!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">The versions vary as to why ZANU-PF did not accomplish much before the formation of the MDC.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Some say ZANU-PF received money to finance that exercise and bought a few farms for a few senior Party Leaders!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Others say the British Prime Minister reneged on promises that had been made by his predecessors to fully fund the Programme!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">ZANU-PF justifies all the evil that it metes out to the Opposition by alleging that they are a formation of the Westminister Foundation which was hoping that if the MDC came into power, the story of the black man's hunger for land would not arise!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Today, Sunday, the 25<SUP>th</SUP> of March, 2007, I've just been watching an SABC Programme just a few hours ago and Mr Andrew Meldrum was live on the talk-show with another journalist and the Zimbabwean Presidential Spokesman was "hooked up live" by telephone!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">The two versions came up with Cde George Charamba articulating the ZANU-PF position.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">But, of course the full story is not being told!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">The MDC is the Political Party which asked why "some" farms which were lying idle could not be purchased by the Government so that the unemployed could benefit from the use thereof!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">ZANU-PF was desperate for Political Survival, anyway after losing the Referendum on the Constitution and wanted something to "give" to its supporters as a "dangling carrot".</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">On the other hand, the NCA (The National Constitutional Assembly) was the one that was making a lof of noise about the need for a new Constitution.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">ZANU-PF then picked up that whistle and went blowing it desperately but still lost the Referendum in the last "free and fair" of the will of the people of Zimbabwe!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">All I';m saying is:</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">THINGS ARE NEVER WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE AT FIRST SIGHT AND TO THE EYE OF THE SIMPLE OBSERVER!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Now lets go some memories I have of certain events as I saw them through the eyes of an active, dedicated ZANU-PF CADRE and then lets go through certain questions and observations I have as a CONCERNED ZIMBABWEAN OBSERVER!</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><U><FONT face="Times New Roman">@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</FONT></U></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><U><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></U></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><STRONG><U><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></U></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN> </SPAN>It is extremely and vitally important at the outset that I, Mufaro Stig Hove, inform you, the reader, that I was one of the most ardent supporters of ZANU-PF (THE ZIMBABWE AFRICAN NATIONAL UNION PATRIOTIC FRONT).</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">It was not out of coersion that I supported ZANU-PF!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN> </SPAN>I supported ZANU-PF out of a real and fervent zeal, out of a real patriotic allegiance to such values as freedom, socialism (whether it was Scientific Socialism or raw Communism) and the general desire to see mankind live in a country with Human Rights availed to all regardless of the colour of one's skin or any other qualification.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">ZANU-PF and PF-ZAPU (THE ZIMBABWE AFRICAN PEOPLES' UNION)were the Political Parties that represented the Liberation Movement and won between them 77 seats in the first Democratic Elections in 1980. There were 80 seats for the "blacks" in a 100 seat HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">ZANU-PF got 57 seats and PF-ZAPU had the other 20. </FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The UANC (THE UNITED AFICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS) of Bishop Abel Muzorewa got the 3 remaining seats.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">It is vitally important, too, at this stage of my submission that it be mentioned that when the Rev Ndabaningi Sithole broke away from ZAPU in 1963, there was a lot of fighting between the ZAPU members and the members of the newly founded ZANU. (ZAPU being the original Party of the late Dr Joshua Nkomo and ZANU being the newly founded Party of the late Rev Ndabaningi Sithole.)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">These in-fightings and rivalries were threatening the over-all progress of the black man's struggle to emancipate himself from the shackles of white settler domination and discrimination.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The tragedy of this scenario was that Ian Smith and his CIO ( The Central Intelligence Organization) would "plant" men and women into both of these Organizations who would then commit crimes or mislead others into committing crimes so that Ian Smith would then have the excuse to arrest, detain, ban and even physically eliminate the leaders of both Political Organizations.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The other tragedy of such a scenario is that the very first casualty is the truth and usually there is no time for both parties to sit down and discuss in a "cool frame of mind" to see what exactly is the reason for certain happenings etc so that both Parties can review their positions and see where they share common aspirations, common goals, a common vision etc etc.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Fortunately for that difficult time of the 70s, "operatives" within the Intelligence Community would leak information to the leaderships of these Organizations highlighting the true state of affairs so that these leaders would discover that some in their midst were being used and hence their only way forward was to "close ranks" so that they would fight the common enemy (Ian Smith) and hence minimize the opportunities of "infiltration" etc.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">(Note that I said "minimize" because "infiltrations" can never be completely removed from any situation no matter how effective and rigorous the "vetting" systems may be!)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The tragedy occurs when a very senior person on either side of the divide decides to "preach" falsehoods or "half-truths" and to incite his followers to hate/ attack etc members of the other Political Formations.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Ian Smith fully employed various evil and dirty tactics in his war against the guerrilla forces of ZANLA (The Zimbabwe National Liberation Army) , the military wing of ZANU and ZIPRA( the Zimbabwe Peoples' Revolutionary Army), the military wing of ZAPU!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">"Selous Scouts" would be briefed by "deserters" from these forces on certain details about these respective forces, their patterns of behaviour, their signals, their language "codes", their dressing styles etc so that these "Selous Scouts" would then go to strategic places eg Mission Stations, kill missionaries there, loot stuff and then leave, say, ZANU-PF material eg pamplets etc in order for "Public Opinion" to sway against the legitimate ZANLA Liberation fighters and, of course, ultimately their Leaders (in this particular case) Robert Mugabe and on the ZIPRA side, Dr Joshua Nkomo!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">So these same leaders learnt the very hard way of the evil nature of Politics and the abuse of Information to subdue and, if possible, permanently "neutralize" your "opponent."</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The real tragedy occurs when within the Intelligence Forces there arise "disgruntled elements" who will make it their commitment to inform and advise the "opponents" of every detail of the plans of each and every impending "operation" etc.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The "State Machinery", for instance, can never "succeed" if the greater part of its members are disgruntled and are themselves privately "wishing and praying" for a change of Administration.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">They will make sure that the so-called "Opposition" Forces are well briefed and updated and they would actually "aggressively" encourage these "opposition forces" to increase their "onslaughts" and a very intricate system develops of information dissemination and co-operation.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The "State Machinery" will then provide equipment eg "Arms" to the their "friends" in the "Opposition" who they will be viewing as their "liberators" from a perceived "evil" Administration.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The worst comes when certain of the very close "Protection Units" decide to do the "Laurent Kabila" on the very object they are supposed to protect!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">In my humble analysis of events in Zimbabwe at the moment, I don't think we are very far from that scenario!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">In that situation, the very personnel that are used to "rig" the Elections, to assassinate and eliminate are the very people that give detailed reports to the "other side" on the full details of these "activities."</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">In that situation, the only way out for a sitting Government, for instance, would be to call for , say, an "ALL PARTY CONFERENCE" so that there is a renewed National and Common Vision so that Points of Agreement and Points of Disagreement are fully discussed then the various Forces (whether Military, Intelligence etc) get a new "allegiance" to the new "Status Quo."</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Any propaganda, any misinformation etc must then be done away with and apologies must be made and restitution and compensations paid out to all those that will have been "caught up" in various "cross-fire" situations.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Let me now go back to the events that occurred immediately after independence in Zimbabwe!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Dr Joshua Nkomo of PF-ZAPU was offered the Ceremonial Presidency and he declined. Many are of the opinion that he had been advised that Robert Mugabe would have effectively "killed" ZAPU then because as a Non-Political President, he would not be legally "allowed" to oversee the affairs of his Party.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I agree with that perception because it was in Mugabe's vision all the time to have his ZANU-PF as the "One-Party" that would remain in his envisioned "One-Party State."</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Mugabe himself does not hide his deep disappointment in Dr Nkomo's turning down of that "noble and well-meant" offer. (Of course, there had been nothing "noble and well-meaning" in that supposed "offer", anyway!)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">So Cde Nkomo was invited into a Government of National Unity with the post of Minister of Home Affairs being given to him.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The more strategic Ministries of Security and Defence were kept on the ZANU-PF side.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">We were shocked and disillusioned when we heard one evening on the radio and on State Television that the ZAPU members had been expelled from Government and that there would be arrests of Senior and Junior Leaders of ZAPU as investigations were going on that Dr Joshua Nkomo was collaborating with the then- Apartheid South Africa and other "Imperialist" forces to oust "my" (Mugabe's) Government by military means.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">What happened during those years from 1983 to 1987 can be got from various other writings and also from postings I made on my </FONT><A href="http://www.gukurahundi.blogspot.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#003399>www.gukurahundi.blogspot.com</FONT></I></A><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Suffice to say that I, myself, was a Secretary in a ZANU-PF District in Kadoma and we beat up and literally killed a lot of ZAPU members in various "Operations" which were well planned by the late Cde Robson Manyika and the late Cde Enos Chikowore (among others.)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">What was most painful to me was that I was made to supervise the brutal beating of many of my friends and compatriots with whom we had worked and suffered in the 70s as a unified force under the umbrella of the then UANC.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I had either to be fully involved or risk being labelled a ZAPU "dissident" myself.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Incidentally, I had a Zulu wife then and to the simplest ZANU-PF "activist", a Zulu and a Ndebele were one and the same and were ZAPU "elements."</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I remember clearly on the morning of the 16th of June, 1984 (at about 0530 hrs) that I left our house at No 23 Masina Street in Rimuka Township (near Kuredza Primary School/ opposite the Maternity Clinic) and rode my bicycle to buy the "Herald" newspaper.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I came across a big "mob" that was singing such songs as "Tondokudubura 'madhizi' .Takabata ma'sub' nezvimbambaira." (We are going to crush the dissidents .we are armed with sub-machine guns and landmines.")</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">(Of course, they were only armed with sticks, chains and other such "weapons").</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">As a fairly Senior member, I was surprised that I had not known of such an arrangement!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I was told, "Chef totoenda tose kubasa!( Boss, you are joining us in the task at hand.")</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I remember I left my bicycle somewhere along the way at a member's house as I joined the growing crowd!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I only collected it late at about 18.00 hrs.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">May I at this stage reveal that other ZANU-PF leaders confided with me that Cde Robson Manyika was at the "Moores Motel" and was awaiting the progress of this "Operation."</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Back home, those at the back of the crowd knocked for my wife to open the door ( as they were doing at each and every house, anyway!)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">My wife could not reply in good Shona and was only saved the beatings because a certain woman in the crowd shouted that she was "Cde Mapetere's wife" and could they be "very careful of what they were planning to do". (Cde Mapetere is my lineage name and I was using that one in ZANU-PF business!)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">My Zulu wife was 8 months pregnant ( and was carrying our second baby).</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I will never forget the dates and everything because she had a threatened miscarried a few days after that but God was good to us and she delivered the most healthy bouncy baby-girl on the 14<SUP>th</SUP> of July, 1984.(who today is a very pretty 23-year-old darling.)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">My wife was then "covered" by Women's League members but was made to accompany them (for her own protection lest another group that would not be as discreet would inflict harm on her.)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">So (as I was made to understand later), she accompanied the League women for some time until someone noticed her swollen feet and suggested that she be excused from this "Perm" Operation.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The terminology of "Perm" came from the straitening of women's (or sometimes men's) hair using a very hot steel comb.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">So the "cleaning-up" Operations in the various (mainly High Density Areas) was likened to that very dangerous hair-straitening exercise!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I only got to know of<SPAN> </SPAN>my wife's experiences when I met another group at the last point of Assembly at about 14.00 hrs.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The events in question had occurred at about 05.30 and I was worried if she was okay and if anyone had come across her since she was heavily pregnant!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I was assured that some Women's League members (and up to now I still think they are the Biblical "Good Samaritans") had offered to accompany her to my mother's place (which was at the other end of Rimuka Township at Stand 135 opposite Tafadzwa Primary School) so she could rest.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">My mother (although Zulu also) had firmly established herself as a ZANU-PF member (although she made it a point that she informed them that the real Liberation was from sin and from the Devil and the real Liberated place was Heaven where we all had to "prepare" for even as we did our earthly chores.)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">(She saw herself as one and the same with such brave , gallant heroes as Cde Victoria Chitepo and Cde Ruth Chinamano!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">What a great woman my late mother was!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">She once asked Cde Richard Chemist Hove what exactly had happened to Cde Josiah Tongogara.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">She said Cde Hove just looked down and did not reply her!)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The "Good Samaritans" then met my mother (who was with another ZANU-PF team).</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">At this juncture may I mention that it was really torture for my mother to accompany these murderous gangs.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The only things my mother could kill were flies and I do not remember her killing a chicken! ( That MaNgcobo woman of God!)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">So I sincerely believe she was overjoyed to find an excuse to return to her house with her heavily-pregnant daughter-in-law to look after her as the "Perm" Operations progressed elsewhere.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">By the way, she had left behind my father whom everyone knew as asthmatic and would have had a serious attack on that very cold winter morning if he had been forced to join the Perm" Operations.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Me as a good loyal "Cadre", I supervised over the beatings up of not less than 30 ZAPU members. </FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">At least two died as I watched with my own eyes.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">It was thick sticks, chains and fists that did the job!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I must admit, though, that my conscience (as an Assemblies of God Pastor) did not allow me to personally beat up anyone myself!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">In fact, I wasn't really "comfortable" with the whole situation but the "orders" had come "from above" and who was I to say anything?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">"What of the Police? Where were they in all this?"</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">What good questions!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Those that ran to seek refuge at the Rimuka Police Station gave us the opportunity to "deal" with the "Dzaku-Dzakus" and "Dissidents" there (including members of the Police themselves!)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">There were Policemen who were known to "support" ZAPU or were ex-ZIPRA and some were fervent UANC supporters (having a "hang-over" from the previous short-lived Muzorewa's "Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.")</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">("Dzaku-Dzaku" was the pseudo name<SPAN> </SPAN>for UANC and, of course, "Dissidents"<SPAN> </SPAN>were ZAPU supporters but loosely-extended to mean any Ndebele-speaking person!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">One plain-clothes Policeman was beaten to death as I watched with my own eyes (and within the grounds of the Rimuka Police Station!) What a vivid and graphic reminder of the "suspending" of the rule of law! </FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Unlike the Saul (Paul) of the Bible, I wasn't really consenting to what was happening but I had no alternative!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">A good number of my friends and compatriots (some of whom we had suffered detentions with in 70s were beaten to death as I watched!)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">It was about 1400 hrs that we all had to march to an open place in the town of<SPAN> </SPAN>Kadoma (in front of the TM Supermarket) where there are shops like Jaggers now) and<SPAN> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Cdes<SPAN> </SPAN>Robson Manyika, Enos Chikowore and others stood on top of open Police Bakkies (Vans) and addressed us all (including of course the "repentant" ZAPU members we had brought with us!)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The TV crews were told to switch off their equipments!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Then Cde Manyika said that what had happened that day was the beginning of what all ZAPU members were going to face as ZAPU was like a snake (mhakure) which had entered the children's house and had to crushed with all the force possible!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The TV crews were then told to switch on their cameras.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The message now was "Please we don't want any violence! Please don't take the law into your own hands! If you suspect that your neighbour is involved in "illegal" activities, please go to the Police Station and report them and return to your house! Leave the Police to do their investigations and verify the facts. Remember we are a Multi-Party State and everybody is free to join and belong to a Political Party of his/her choice including PF-ZAPU and even the UANC!"</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">You have guessed right!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The latter message was the one that was broadcast on ZTV that evening as the then-Prime Minister Robert Mugabe also joined in the chorus of the ZANU-PF leaders who condemned the lawlessness that was being perpetrated by certain of his "over-zealous" members who had decided to the law into their own hands.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">But the "anger was appreciated", said!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">These "dissident activities" had gone on for too long and members of "his" Party were running out of "patience."</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">But he did not omit to add that the real "suspicion" was that the ZAPU members were organising these events in order to give an impression that ZANU-PF was doing an indiscriminate "cleansing exercise" in order to mete out a "blanket punishment" on all ZAPU members (many of whom were not even involved in the "dissident" activities.")</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">What transpired in Kadoma was simultaneously done in Chinhoyi (Mashonaland West) and in many other towns of the Midlands eg Kwe-kwe and Gweru!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">At Political Rallies (where every household was forced to attend and ZANU-PF "Cell" Chairmen were to write registers of which household did not have at least one member attending), Dr Joshua Nkomo was depicted as the Devil who had come straight from the pit of Hell to destroy the good work that the Angel Gabriel had been sent straight from Heaven to accomplish!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">(Remember Robert Mugabe's middle name is "GABRIEL!")</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I remember clearly the then Governor of the Midlands, (Cde Benson Ndemera) asking us what should be done to such a Devil!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The crowds shouted, "He should be killed!"</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">And those were the days we heard that Cde Joshua Nkomo had disguised himself as a very old woman and had fled to Botswana!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">(My intention here is not to relate the whole story!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The story can never be told in full by any single individual or in any single book!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I'm only trying to relate the pattern of events as they would be experienced by members of the MDC (The Movement for Democratic Change) sixteen to twenty-three years later!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I still continued, though, to serve and to vote for ZANU-PF!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN> </SPAN>I had no other real choice also because ZAPU was (about three years later) "swallowed" by ZANU-PF on the 22<SUP>nd</SUP> of Dec, 1987 when DR JOSHUA NKOMO signed that so-called Unity Accord where he also had to carry the picture of Robert Mugabe in his wallet like every other ZANU-PF member!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">What an anti-climax after the events that were later so vividly described in the "Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace".</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">For your information,I posted the full "Gukurahundi Report" on my </FONT><A href="http://www.gukurahundi.blospot.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#003399>www.gukurahundi.blospot.com</FONT></I></A><FONT face="Times New Roman"> ( and I'm sincerely<SPAN> </SPAN>thankful to Mr Mduduzi Mathuthu of </FONT><A href="http://www.newzimbabwe.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800080>www.newzimbabwe.com</FONT></I></A><FONT face="Times New Roman"> for the numerous pieces which I joined together and posted onto the said blog.)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">As I said before, I continued to religiously labour and vote for ZANU-PF until another event Gweru which had a very permanent effect on my life!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Cde Patrick Kombayi (having left ZANU-PF and now a Senior member of Cde Edgar Tekere's ZUM- The Zimbabwe Unity Movement) stood against the late Vice President Muzenda in the Gweru Urban Constituency!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">He was shot and wounded as he drove his vehicle like any other private citizen in of the streets of Gweru!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">A certain CIO Operative called Kanengoni<SPAN> </SPAN>and a ZANU-PF youth leader had done that "unholy" act.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Those two assassins were arrested, charged, convicted and sentenced by a "competent Court of Law."</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Our dear Executive President, Cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe wrote a Presidential Pardon which was urgently delivered to the Judge as soon as he finished reading his Judgement </FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">So instead of being handcuffed, they were immediately released and joined the world of the free and the innocent!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">From that day, in 1990, I made a vow that I would never vote for ZANU-PF again!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I voted for Cde Tekere, instead, in the Presidential Elections that were held in that year (1990.)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Another thing happened that was to again affect my perception of ZANU-PF!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">As I was in the queue to vote, my metal ID (Identification Document) was checked, as normal,<SPAN> </SPAN>and my name found and was deleted in the Register (Voters' Roll) as is the standard procedure.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Then next was a young man who asked for my ID again </FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">As he detached the Ballot Paper I was to use, I clearly remember seeing him writing my ID number 24-033249-W-03 on the corresponding Counterfoil that remained.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I didn't think much of it then and I proceeded to the next stage where I had my hand dipped into that ink stuff!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I then proceeded to the "private" corner at the other end of the Hall (which had been prepared<SPAN> </SPAN>like a "fitting-room" of a Clothes Shop).</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Without any hesitation,I put my mark against Cde Edgar Tekere's name, face and mark signifying that he was my choice for the Executive Presidency of The Republic of Zimbabwe for the Presidential Elections of 1990!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I had broken with my tradition and I felt free but strangely "guilty"!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I left the little corner smiling (my heart beating as one would feel after "cheating" on one's partner) and dutifully inserted the neatly folded paper into the Ballot Box!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">A few hours later (at home), I started re-living the evemts that had transpired at the "Cooksey Hall."</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I wondered why the young man had written my ID number on the Counterfoil of the Ballot Paper!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">After a few weeks I confided this "query"with one of my "friends" in the CIO and he said it wasn't really done to everybody!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I told him his answer wasn't good enough!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">"To whom was it done then?" I was very eager to know.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">He answered that there were a few selected individuals who were being "monitored" and the State wanted to know how they were voting!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">"SHIT", I quietly thought to myself!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I thanked the "friend" and passed on pretending that his explanations had not worried me at all!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">But inside I was boiling and sweating!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I had just submitted an Application to join the ZNA (the Zimbabwe National Army) as a Chaplain and I was awaiting their "rigorous" "vetting" process!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">So I could "kiss that vacancy Goodbye!"</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I've since related this experience to many people and they do not see the very serious implications of this "Devilish" intrusion into one's private life!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">"What exactly is the fuss, Mr Hove?" you may ask.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Ballot Paper has a serial number which is exactly the same as the one on the remaining Counterfoil!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">(Exactly like the cheque-book!)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">After all the counting has been done and the results have been announced, the boxes are then sent to a "special place" for "auditing."</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">It is there when the audits are being done that the selected Ballot Papers are matched with the Counterfoils (as the "auditing" requires, anyway).</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Simultaneously (or as a separate "Operation", it is then realized that 24-033249-W-03 (who is Mufaro Stig Hove) voted for ZUM and not ZANU-PF!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">But even at that stage, that information is kept to a very selected few because that "extra" activity is completely illegal and unconstitutional!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Or am I wrong? Can someone assist me!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Are these "things" also happening in other countries, say RSA, Britain or the USA?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">But I have never felt so 'abused"!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">So "cheated"!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">"So is this the Independence we welcomed in 1980?" I used to ask to ask myself for days on end.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">"So we can't remove this Government, even if we wanted to, for fear of these 'things'?"</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">But as they say, "I HADN'T SEEN ANYTHING YET!"</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The worst was to come when the MDC was formed in 1999!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">REAL HELL BROKE LOOSE AND EVEN THE DEVIL (LUCIFER) HIMSELF IN THE VERY DEPTHS OF HELL MARVELS AND IS SHOCKED AT THE VIOLENCE THAT IS METERED OUT TO MDC MEMBERS IN THE INDEPENDENT, "MULTI-PARTY" DEMOCRATIC STATE OF ZIMBABWE!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">It is not my intention in this particular submission to relate all the experiences of the MDC in the "Democratic" country we know as Zimbabwe!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">You can read elsewhere that in my blogs an article entitled "THE SAD STORY OF THE MDC (1999 to 2006.)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">You can also </FONT><A href="http://www.chinja.blospot.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#003399>www.chinja.blospot.com</FONT></I></A><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">For now I think I can close this submission.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I, however, think that if there could be dialogue in Zimbabwe, a lot of issues could be discussed and a way forward found!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The suffering of the people has gone on for too long and a way out must be found.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">In a separate submission, I will try to show that Mr Robert Mugabe, himself, in not a sincere leader.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I believe a true leader of the people could have worked for a solution of his country's problems even if it meant him stepping aside to allow others to work on the intricacies of the problems facing the beautiful country!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Unfortunately, as most of us know, Robert Mugabe himself is the problem!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">AS A BY THE WAY .</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I have never understood the true nature of the man!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I have watched him as he speaks. I've tried to closely watch him as he is interviewed. I'm convinced that we do not have a ordinary man as our leader!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">He does not do a normal eye contact with anyone!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">His very blinking is too terribly strange.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Am I only one who has made that observation?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I'm encouraged because I remember my muzukuru Tanonoka Hwande (Joseph Machenjera ) also observing that the very proof that something was terribly wrong in the coutry could be felt in the "President's" voice.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">You can hear the shivering of anger and various mixed emotions in his voice.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Joseph Machenjera then asked , "Whom is the President angry with?"</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Is the President angry with everybody?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">What crime did everybody commit to him?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I can testify that this so-called "President" has never been a "normal" person even before the formation of the MDC in 1999.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The way he has handled certain emotional momemts have completely baffled me!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">For an example, we expected him to at least attend the funeral of the Rev Ndabaningi Sithole.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Not making him a National Hero was "evil" enough but not, at least, attending his Funeral was completely unforgivable!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I have perceived in Robert Mugabe a very evil heart! (What English word means our Shona "hutsinye"?)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I can bet my life on the fact when Robert Mugabe puts a certain type of smile on his face, he will be describing another person in a very bad light.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">If he speaks of his "lazy" or "incompetent" Ministers, he will really put a strange smile on his face!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Or when he describes how these Ministers go to "witch-doctors" to seek for "muti" to get favours from the President!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I wonder why he always refers to himself as "we" even when he is not really referring to to the "Party".</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I also wonder what exactly he meant when said in Malawi (at that road named after him), "Do you really know who I am?"</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Is there a real bigger force that is in him that has not yet been "known"?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Does anyone have any answers?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Then there is the aspect of "mysteries"!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Was Mugabe "castrated " during the detentions he suffered at the hands of the equally evil Ian Smith?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Then what happened?<SPAN> </SPAN>How was it rectified?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Did Mugabe go for various "face-lifts" ie "plastic surgery" on his face?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Did Mugabe ever authorise or get involved in the taking of assassination of certain of his people?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Please kindly refer to a submission posted elsewhere on these blogs as "Is Robert Mugabe the 'Master-assassin'?"</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Does Mugabe or has ever used certain certain drugs eg "mbanje"("dagga?"</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I'm asking because he used to talk with pauses where he sounded like one "inhaling" smoke from a twist of dagga!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Then has Mugabe ever taken time to explain all the questions that people ask about him?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Or<SPAN> </SPAN>are people afraid of really getting "down-to-earth" with the man and ask him about his real private life!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Is he always tense even in the "private intimate moments?"</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I have a feeling that we have never had a normal human being in our midst.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Was he always that strange or did the "war experiences" "harden" him?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">But why did certain other people like Cde Nelson Mandela come out of 27 years of Detention and seem to have adjusted well to "normal" life?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Why did Mugabe seem to belittle Cde Nelson Mandela?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Why did Mugabe react with exaggerate anger to the revered Archbishop Desmond Tutu?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">My final question is :</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Does Robert Gabriel Mugabe have a serious "inferiority complex" and hence hides under the exaggerated rage to confuse his real emotions?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I hope I have opened a few "Pandora's Boxes" with the mixed "thoughts" and "memories" that I have presented to you, dear beloved reader, in this "Mixed Masala" type of submission!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">My submission has been like a "Punch Drink" ..all sorts of flavours and mixed tastes.</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Yours for the love of Zimbabwe and its wonderful, smiling people, </FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Rev Mufaro Stig Hove .THE RADICAL SOLDIER!</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-ZA style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><A 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Before 2003<br>general elections key political opponents of the Federal government and<br>various state governments were assassinated, but they made no real news to<br>BBC and other western media. Just few months ago in Ebonyi State one of the<br>poorest States, the governor locked up two journalists for over three months<br>for publishing articles which accused the governor, Sam Egwu of corruption<br>in a local newspaper. What a pity, this fact did not make any news to the<br>democracy loving western media! Currently, oppositions at all levels are<br>being openly suppressed and systematically excluded from contesting the next<br>elections by the electoral body headed by a government stooge (in fact there<br>are clear evidence that the head of the electoral body has forged<br>certificate but he cannot be removed because he has a mission to install<br>government candidates). The vice president of Nigeria is openly humiliated<br>and denied his official privileges just for standing up against the plot by<br>the president to extend his rule through the back door. One would have<br>expected the democracy loving white world to stand up against the evil<br>regime of Obasanjo, but nothing like that has happened. <p>The clear message being sent across Black Africa seems to be that all one<br>needs to succeed as president of his country is to be a friend of the west<br>even at the expense of his people just like Obasanjo and not transparency<br>and good governance. The fact is now clearest that any Black African leader<br>regarded as good by the west is definitely evil or incompetent. Example<br>Obasanjo vis-à-vis General Abacha who was condemned in the west but has left<br>indelible landmarks of great infrastructural development in Nigeria... For<br>the benefit of those who are unaware of the facts. Abacha ruled Nigeria<br>between November 1993 and June 1998 during which the oil market was not at<br>all booming, but used the meagre resources wisely enough to rehabilitate<br>roads, hospitals universities and other public amenities through the<br>Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF). Obasanjo's democracy has ruled Nigeria since may<br>1999 witnessing unprecedented increase in revenue through the unprecedented<br>oil boom and irresponsible disposals of the most lucrative public<br>corporations in the name of privatisation, but has achieved virtually no<br>definite success in any sector. Roads are basically left where Abacha left<br>them in 1998 and I speak as an enlightened Nigerian who knows Nigeria. I<br>visited Nigeria in 2005 October and travelled by coach round the country to<br>see if there has been any changes. I travelled from Abuja to Abakaliki via<br>Enugu; from Enugu to Onitsha - Benin - Ore - Lagos and from Lagos to<br>Ibadan-Okene-Abuja and was shocked to see that we have wasted 8years of<br>unprecedented economic boom. There are global drumming about economic<br>reforms and progress in Nigeria, while the reality is that only white rogues<br>collaborating with the government are the gainers. Destroying landline<br>phones networks and public payphones in order to force every Nigerian to<br>depend on GSM (which enriches mainly white South Africans) is what people<br>call economic progress in Nigeria. The fact that western media and their<br>governments have continued to praise a government as evil as Obasanjo's<br>despite clear evidences of everything they claim to stand against makes me<br>confident that any government condemned by the west might not be all bad<br>after all. Perhaps, Idi Amin might have not been as bad! <br>It seems to me that the only reason the white world is against Mugabe is<br>because he expelled white farmers because genuine concern for the Black race<br>would have meant that Nigeria being the largest Black society would be given<br>greater focus. It is now clear to me that BBC and other British media are<br>far worse than the British National Party (BNP) which is labelled racist.<br>The BNP is not threatening the existence and survival of the Black race<br>while British journalists are. I am most grateful for the hospitality of the<br>British state for affording me the good life and respect that no Black<br>country can afford its Black citizens. I do not shy away from the hard fact<br>that the most racist white country would treat ordinary Black immigrants<br>better than the best Black country would treat its own citizens. Therefore,<br>I am grateful to Britain, but at the same time believe that my people must<br>be enlightened about the true location of racism. The real racism is not<br>about local people genuinely resenting to uncontrolled immigration of<br>dubious people into their country. I put myself in the shoes of ordinary<br>white British people who have no other country to run to! What I call racism<br>at its worst is the one-sided stand of the "white world" on Zimbabwe. <p>It is accepted that the takeover of white farms could have been more<br>diplomatically done, but it cannot justify the current scale of global<br>condemnation of Mugabe. What the white supremacists pretending to be<br>messiahs are insinuating is that Zimbabwe cannot survive without white<br>farmers who clearly were not even farming to feed Zimbabweans in the first<br>place. What is being propagated around the world is that no Black country<br>can survive on its own even though, I know that there had been no evidence<br>of starvation since the controversial take over of farms. What needs to be<br>done by enlightened and decolonised Black people is to rally round and use<br>the Zimbabwean case as an inspiration for building successful societies.<br>Zimbabwe is by far more democratic and successful than most other Black<br>African countries like Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda, DRC etc., but today it bears<br>the ignoble reputation of being one of the worst places to live in. Even<br>though nobody can prove that the best of the 36 state governors of Nigeria<br>is not worst than 10 Mugabes as I have severally challenged the BBC to do,<br>we are still being fed with lies about Mugabe. It is therefore very clear<br>that Mugabe would have remained a friend of the west if he had not expelled<br>white farmers. Hence, it is purely and squarely about race! <br>John Iteshi<p><a href="http://johntina1.spaces.live.com/">http://johntina1.spaces.live.com/</a><p>Izhiogoagbo@yahoo.com <br>LondonThe Radical Mindset!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06773394621026095967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216517453675720335.post-19889328760744362982007-03-19T09:23:00.001+02:002007-03-19T09:23:30.591+02:00Bro Moeletsi Mbeki Paints A Gloom Picture For Zimbabwe !<H3 class=post-title><A href="http://crybelovedzimbabwe.blogspot.com/2007/03/moeletsi-mbeki-paints-gloom-picture-for.html"><FONT size=1>http://crybelovedzimbabwe.blogspot.com/2007/03/moeletsi-mbeki-paints-gloom-picture-for.html</FONT></A><BR><BR><BR> <H3 class=post-title>Moeletsi Mbeki Paints A Gloom Picture For Zimbabwe </H3> <DIV class=post-body> <div> <DIV style="CLEAR: both"></DIV><A onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8M5Ft0oG3O1-P380Pw-8bfYZ11coUVuqDlf1EV0zpX0BCikciwu7LV86JEKsiRQJKhhKK7tG9ONb-VGWCAzVCq6eXjOUzwIr9zW3pWvPwHj6lx23AspeHr6NXcHoDt1tQFB__2Yh1OkA/s1600-h/_41274353_moeletski_mbeki_203.jpg"><IMG id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043231768657568210 style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8M5Ft0oG3O1-P380Pw-8bfYZ11coUVuqDlf1EV0zpX0BCikciwu7LV86JEKsiRQJKhhKK7tG9ONb-VGWCAzVCq6eXjOUzwIr9zW3pWvPwHj6lx23AspeHr6NXcHoDt1tQFB__2Yh1OkA/s320/_41274353_moeletski_mbeki_203.jpg" border=0></A><BR><BR><BR>I watched Moeletsi Mbeki's interview on Sky News this morning and I am afraid the picture is bleak. He starts by pointing out that Zimbabwe is a landlocked country that if any pressure was needed then it can only be exerted by the neighbouring countries i.e South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique. He then points out what he conceives as the primary reason for the neighbours for not exerting pressure on Zimbabwe is mostly because they fear that their support for MDC and Morgan Tsvangirai would send a wrong message for Africa's most industrialised region. Souther Africa being the most industrialised has more people working and this has given rise to trade unionism, the trade unions using their sheer size are becoming more and more political. He cites the case of Zambia where Kenneth Kaunda was ousted by a trade union leader after 27 years in power. Therefore African leaders are reluctant to be drawn into the issue of Zimbabwe for fear that they own labour movement might oust them from power one day. Mr Mbeki argues that the influx of refugees would not make a big policy change as he acknowledged that even in South Africa, COSATU the largest umbrella labour body in whole of Africa poses a threat to South Africa's ANC led government. COSATU is only civic body together with The Church Council of Souther Africa which issued a statement concerned by what was happening in Zimbabwe. On Human Rights day in South Africa it has promised to demonstrate against South Africa's quiet diplomacy and the illegal arrest and torture of Zimbabwean's opposition and civic leaders on their way to a prayer meeting.<BR><BR>Mbeki having lived in Zimbabwe when he was forced to flee apartheid was there when Mugabe ordered the massacre of more than 50 000 civilians to crush Joshua Nkomo's opposition Zapu PF which later merged with Mugabe's Zanu PF. He then uses this example to say that things will get worse before they get better in Zimbabwe. Asked about the fact that The MDC President feels that last Sunday's events were a tipping point, he answers that Morgan is an optimist. He says he knows Mugabe personally and know that he has an appetite for violence and will continue to exert brutal violence to stop regime change in Zimbabwe. <BR><BR>Mr Moeletsi Mbeki is a brother to South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki, has a strong background in journalism, with a resume that includes a Nieman Fellowship and time at the BBC. He was a media consultant for the ANC in the '90s, and is currently the chairman of Endemol South Africa. He has always bee outspoken and differs on many things from his brother South Africa's president. He caused waves when he said: <A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3679706.stm"><FONT color=#448888>Africans Were Better Off During Colonial Times Than They Are Now</FONT></A></DIV></H3><BR><BR><div> </div><p>  <hr size=1> What kind of emailer are you? Find out today - get a free analysis of your email personality. Take the quiz at the <a href="http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/championships/quiz/*http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk/">Yahoo! Mail Championship</a>.The Radical Mindset!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06773394621026095967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216517453675720335.post-17929339109640393132007-03-15T13:18:00.001+02:002007-03-15T13:18:33.148+02:00Mr Mduduzi Mathuthu of Newzimbabwe.com corrected!The Editor of Talkzimbabwe.com has "corrected" some views expressed by Mr<br>Mduduzi Mathuthu!<p> <p>Please kindly go to <a href="http://www.zimdebate.blogspot.com">www.zimdebate.blogspot.com</a><br><<a href="http://www.zimdebate.blogspot.com/">http://www.zimdebate.blogspot.com/</a>> <p> <p>Ex <a href="http://www.talkzimbabwe.com">www.talkzimbabwe.com</a> <<a href="http://www.talkzimbabwe.com/">http://www.talkzimbabwe.com/</a>>The Radical Mindset!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06773394621026095967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216517453675720335.post-90524000787513159992007-03-12T12:43:00.001+02:002007-03-12T12:43:05.960+02:00"Britain should invade Zimbabwe!"<a href="http://gorey.com.au/archives/1691">http://gorey.com.au/archives/1691</a><p><p>Posted on March 11th, 2007 <p>I'm not the first person to notice Britain<br><<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/02/09/dl090">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/02/09/dl090</a><br>2.xml> 's hypocrisy in relation to Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe. As readers of<br>the Daily Telgraph commented, if Zimbabwe had a thimblefull of oil it would<br>have been brought into line by now.<p>Europe intervened in the Balkans and the "coalition of the willing" did a<br>job in Iraq, but nobody seems to care about Zimbabwe.<p>Britain, in my view, has more legal grounds to invade Zimbabwe than it did<br>Iraq. Britain was the former colonial power in Rhodesia and negotiated the<br>Lancaster House Agreement <<a href="http://www.divshare.com/download/213642-59f">http://www.divshare.com/download/213642-59f</a>> .<p>The agreement is actually worth reading. It sets out the principles under<br>which democratic Zimbabwe should have been governed, and was in fact<br>governed for the first few years.<p>Mugabe has clearly violated the agreement. He has breached conditions<br>including white representation in parliament, independence of the judiciary,<br>citizenship and payment of pensions.<p>These should be sufficient grounds for Britain to demand change or otherwise<br>invade. Who knows? Maybe John Howard will even commit a couple of hundred<br>Australian troops.<p>Get a stable, decent government in place and my guess is that thousands of<br>white Zimbabweans and black middle class professionals will return to the<br>country and make it prosper.The Radical Mindset!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06773394621026095967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216517453675720335.post-41788364082423355932007-03-08T14:07:00.000+02:002007-03-08T14:08:00.693+02:00Numerous, numerous blogs and websites by fellow Zimbos!<div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>I’m receiving a lot of communication and appreciation from numerous other Zimbos who have their own websites and blogs or refer me to various other websites!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>An example is <a href="http://www.makaipa.blogspot.com/">www.makaipa.blogspot.com</a> , <a href="http://www.zimpolitics.blogspot.com/">www.zimpolitics.blogspot.com</a> etc.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>My request, therefore, is please lets use <a href="http://www.zimdebate.blogspot.com/">www.zimdebate.blogspot.com</a> as the place where one just posts the web-site, blog etc which one wants others to visit!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Post your web-site from your e-mail address (and you will be anonymous if you don’t sign it) to revmshove.debate@blogger.com.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>In due course , we must have a library of these blogs, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>For the “think-tanks”, and for the future!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Howz that, good people?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>M <st1:place w:st="on">S Hove</st1:place>…(Rev.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> The Radical Mindset!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06773394621026095967noreply@blogger.com0