War vets seek audience with Mugabe

Members of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) are seeking another crisis indaba with their former patron, President Robert Mugabe before the end of the year over their unmet demands.

The highly irritable ex-combatants had a meeting with the President on April 7 this year, their first in 20 years, where they presented a long list of grievances.

They had last met him in 1996 when they were demanding compensation for participating in the 1970s liberation war that helped bring the country's independence in 1980.

During the April meeting, the war veterans asked for tax exemptions, allocation of some shares in the country's blue chip companies and the sacking of ZANU-PF national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, among some of their demands.

President Mugabe wholly ignored their demands, prompting them to request for yet another meeting with him in July which was not granted.