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WikiLeaks, a blessing to Zimbabwe: ZAPU
17 Sep 2011 at 08:32hrs | Views
The new Zimbabwe African People's union (ZAPU) says whistleblower website WikiLeaks has been a blessing to Zimbabwe as it has exposed chaos in Zanu PF and also revealed that President Robert Mugabe is longer wanted by his close confidants, DailyNews reported on Friday.
In the past recent weeks WikiLeaks has been releasing US diplomatic cables which contain confidential information which exposes most top Zanu PF officials, especially the presidium for passing on information to the US government about the party and its leader Mugabe whom they said "should go".
The top Zanu PF leaders who were mentioned in WikiLeaks for either plotting the "Mugabe must go" campaign or who were implicated by association are Vice Presidents Joice Mujuru and John Nkomo, Jonathan Moyo, Saviour Kasukuwere, Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, Dzikamai Mavhaire, Cephas Msipa and Emmerson Mnangagwa among others.
Speaking to journalists in Bulawayo yesterday Zapu spokesperson Methuseli Moyo said WikiLeaks has made Zimbabweans know that Zanu PF leaders are "sell-outs" and Mugabe is no longer wanted his party.
"Thanks to WikiLeaks, most of our questions have been answered eloquently by the cables. Because of WikiLeaks, we now know that Zimbabweans, from Vice Presidents Joice Mujuru and John Nkomo, are unanimous that Mugabe must go.
"It is a blessing for us as a nation because it has confirmed a lot of things which we always suspected or speculated about; such as the President's health, such as whether all army generals think like Constantine Chiwenga, such as whether all people who claim to support and like President Mugabe really do," said Moyo.
Moyo praised his party President Dumiso Dabengwa saying he is a principled and brave man who admitted what he told US diplomats and was carried in WikiLeaks was true.
"We are glad as Zapu that our leader, Dabengwa, being the indoda sibili (brave man) that he is, has acknowledged the contents of the WikiLeaks cables citing him," he said.
According WikiLeaks, Dabengwa told the former US ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee on March 12, 2008, that Gukurahundi architect Perence Shiri who is now Air Force of Zimbabwe chief has "repented" following his role" as commander of the Fifth Brigade that slaughtered more than 20 000 civilians in Matabeleland and the Midlands in the early 1980s.
The Zapu spokesperson added "We challenge all those implicated to at least be men enough for once and confirm that they also want President Mugabe to go."
In the past recent weeks WikiLeaks has been releasing US diplomatic cables which contain confidential information which exposes most top Zanu PF officials, especially the presidium for passing on information to the US government about the party and its leader Mugabe whom they said "should go".
The top Zanu PF leaders who were mentioned in WikiLeaks for either plotting the "Mugabe must go" campaign or who were implicated by association are Vice Presidents Joice Mujuru and John Nkomo, Jonathan Moyo, Saviour Kasukuwere, Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, Dzikamai Mavhaire, Cephas Msipa and Emmerson Mnangagwa among others.
Speaking to journalists in Bulawayo yesterday Zapu spokesperson Methuseli Moyo said WikiLeaks has made Zimbabweans know that Zanu PF leaders are "sell-outs" and Mugabe is no longer wanted his party.
"Thanks to WikiLeaks, most of our questions have been answered eloquently by the cables. Because of WikiLeaks, we now know that Zimbabweans, from Vice Presidents Joice Mujuru and John Nkomo, are unanimous that Mugabe must go.
Moyo praised his party President Dumiso Dabengwa saying he is a principled and brave man who admitted what he told US diplomats and was carried in WikiLeaks was true.
"We are glad as Zapu that our leader, Dabengwa, being the indoda sibili (brave man) that he is, has acknowledged the contents of the WikiLeaks cables citing him," he said.
According WikiLeaks, Dabengwa told the former US ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee on March 12, 2008, that Gukurahundi architect Perence Shiri who is now Air Force of Zimbabwe chief has "repented" following his role" as commander of the Fifth Brigade that slaughtered more than 20 000 civilians in Matabeleland and the Midlands in the early 1980s.
The Zapu spokesperson added "We challenge all those implicated to at least be men enough for once and confirm that they also want President Mugabe to go."
Source - DailyNews
