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Mugabe using Ian Smith tactics, says Gumbo
18 May 2015 at 03:26hrs | Views
Former Zanu PF spokesman Rugare Gumbo has said President Mugabe is clinging to power through draconian methods used by Ian Smith's colonial regime to crush dissent.
Gumbo said Mugabe leads a gang of chancers who took advantage of a situation and came in to usurp the people's power and are now benefitting from a patronage system.
Meanwhile, new research and recently declassified Australian government documents detail how President Mugabe and his close associates were closely involved in the planning and execution of the Gukurahundi massacre.
The embassy dispatches to Canberra in 1983 reveal how VP Emmerson Mnangagwa, Sydney Sekeramayi and Eddison Zvobgo were aware of the massacres while Cephas Msipa had told the embassy officials that the exercise was planned by the central committee and that Perrence Shiri was the one who took action.
The cables contradict what VP Phelekezela Mphoko recently said that the massacres were a western conspiracy.
Historian Stuart Doran is set to publish a book based on new information on Zimbabwe titled Kingdom, Power, Glory: Mugabe, Zanu and the Quest for Supremacy, 1960-87.
He has an opinion in the Southern Eye version of the paper.
Gumbo said Mugabe leads a gang of chancers who took advantage of a situation and came in to usurp the people's power and are now benefitting from a patronage system.
Meanwhile, new research and recently declassified Australian government documents detail how President Mugabe and his close associates were closely involved in the planning and execution of the Gukurahundi massacre.
The embassy dispatches to Canberra in 1983 reveal how VP Emmerson Mnangagwa, Sydney Sekeramayi and Eddison Zvobgo were aware of the massacres while Cephas Msipa had told the embassy officials that the exercise was planned by the central committee and that Perrence Shiri was the one who took action.
The cables contradict what VP Phelekezela Mphoko recently said that the massacres were a western conspiracy.
Historian Stuart Doran is set to publish a book based on new information on Zimbabwe titled Kingdom, Power, Glory: Mugabe, Zanu and the Quest for Supremacy, 1960-87.
He has an opinion in the Southern Eye version of the paper.
Source - NewsDay
