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Mugabe spokesperson labels dead MDC-T official a dissident
01 May 2012 at 15:08hrs | Views
Zanu-PF has described the late MDC-T non constituency Senator and Deputy Minister of Transport, Communications and Infrastructural Development, Tichaona Mudzingwa who died on 10 April as a dissident.
Speaking at the Mudzingwa's funeral service, MDC-T secretary-general, Tendai Biti, said it was unfortunate that Mudzingwa was not accorded national hero's status as he fought in the liberation struggle alongside the late army commander Solomon Mujuru and Nikita Mangena.
But in his column published in the Saturday Herald, President Robert Mugabe's spokesperson George Charamba under the shadow name Nathaniel Manheru labelled Mudzingwa a dissident explaining why the war veteran was not given war hero status.
"It is at this juncture that the Western world gets divided. How is that bad independence to be reversed? Is it by way of a Democratic Alliance look-alike? But Zimbabwe does not have the white numbers of South Africa?
"Is it by way of the MDC formations tinctured with elements from the liberation struggle which Tsvangirai made reference to, barely two weeks ago at the burial of Dr Mudzingwa, himself a dissident war veteran just like Mhanda?," wrote Charamba in an article attacking war veteran Wilfred Mhanda aka Dzinashe Machingura whom he accused of bad mouthing senior Zanu-PF officials to members of the white community.
The Manheru column has over the years been credited for giving insight into Zanu-PF thinking.
Mudzingwa served in the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) between 1980 and 1994, rising to the position of colonel before retiring.
Speaking at the Mudzingwa's funeral service, MDC-T secretary-general, Tendai Biti, said it was unfortunate that Mudzingwa was not accorded national hero's status as he fought in the liberation struggle alongside the late army commander Solomon Mujuru and Nikita Mangena.
But in his column published in the Saturday Herald, President Robert Mugabe's spokesperson George Charamba under the shadow name Nathaniel Manheru labelled Mudzingwa a dissident explaining why the war veteran was not given war hero status.
"It is at this juncture that the Western world gets divided. How is that bad independence to be reversed? Is it by way of a Democratic Alliance look-alike? But Zimbabwe does not have the white numbers of South Africa?
"Is it by way of the MDC formations tinctured with elements from the liberation struggle which Tsvangirai made reference to, barely two weeks ago at the burial of Dr Mudzingwa, himself a dissident war veteran just like Mhanda?," wrote Charamba in an article attacking war veteran Wilfred Mhanda aka Dzinashe Machingura whom he accused of bad mouthing senior Zanu-PF officials to members of the white community.
The Manheru column has over the years been credited for giving insight into Zanu-PF thinking.
Mudzingwa served in the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) between 1980 and 1994, rising to the position of colonel before retiring.
Source - Byo24News
