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MLF challenges ANC to assist Mthwakazi People
23 Feb 2016 at 10:22hrs | Views
Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF) has challenged the Africa National Congress party in South Africa to assist people of Mthwakazi in their agenda to regain the Mthwakazi State.
In a statement MLF said the Information being given out now by former SA President Thabo Mbeki about relationships between ANC :ZAPU and ZANU during and after the War against White Colonialism and Apartheid shows clearly how the ANC let down the people of Mthwakazi leading tens of thousands including the MKhonto Wesizwe cadres to be murdered in cold blood by Zanu.
"The failure by Mbeki to touch on the massacres of the 80s of the Ndebele people by Zanu whom the ANC had developed strong ties with despite having been earlier warned by the MK leaders not to, leaves boogles in the minds of many. That is especially if one puts considering that a report by the CCJPZ, over the killings, state that the Bulawayo -Ascot arms cache with which Mugabe justified his deployment of the killer gukurahundi in Mthwakazi, belonged to the MK," reads the statement.
"We had hoped that Mr Mbeki would touch on that as well and possibly send a formal apology to the people of Mthwakazi for accidentally setting them on fire if ever it was an accident."
MLF said the revelations by Mbeki explains why his administration refused to see the regime change in Zimbabwe which Mthwakazi people had hoped it would bring about the healing for their past experiences in Zanu. It said Mbeki puts it indirectly clear that it would be improper for his administration to effect the regime change that could quiz him too of the killings as he worked and in hand with one of the prime suspects in the killings, Emmerson Mnangagwa.
"As MLF, we are still hopeful that Mbeki can still do the right thing now as he has already confessed their blindly falling into ties with Zanu, the ties that turned to be a nightmare and continues to be even today, to the people whom they had suffered the worst together in the hands of the Rhodesian Front and those of Zanu in Morogoro in Tanzania in 1976. We now challenge Mbeki and the current ANC leadership to do the right thing for Mthwakazi people, the people whom they have a good account of their historical background," reads the statement.
"Is it now that they (ANC) honour the agreements they had with Zapu, but in a different way though because what Joshua Nkomo was fighting for was not only wrong but has immensely failed his people. We say Mbeki and Hon President Jacob Zuma, go to Mugabe and tell him to set Mthwakazi Free. Matebeleland people who partnered you in the struggle for the liberation of South Africa are not Zimbabweans and cannot continue being called Zimbabweans any more.
In a statement MLF said the Information being given out now by former SA President Thabo Mbeki about relationships between ANC :ZAPU and ZANU during and after the War against White Colonialism and Apartheid shows clearly how the ANC let down the people of Mthwakazi leading tens of thousands including the MKhonto Wesizwe cadres to be murdered in cold blood by Zanu.
"The failure by Mbeki to touch on the massacres of the 80s of the Ndebele people by Zanu whom the ANC had developed strong ties with despite having been earlier warned by the MK leaders not to, leaves boogles in the minds of many. That is especially if one puts considering that a report by the CCJPZ, over the killings, state that the Bulawayo -Ascot arms cache with which Mugabe justified his deployment of the killer gukurahundi in Mthwakazi, belonged to the MK," reads the statement.
"We had hoped that Mr Mbeki would touch on that as well and possibly send a formal apology to the people of Mthwakazi for accidentally setting them on fire if ever it was an accident."
MLF said the revelations by Mbeki explains why his administration refused to see the regime change in Zimbabwe which Mthwakazi people had hoped it would bring about the healing for their past experiences in Zanu. It said Mbeki puts it indirectly clear that it would be improper for his administration to effect the regime change that could quiz him too of the killings as he worked and in hand with one of the prime suspects in the killings, Emmerson Mnangagwa.
"As MLF, we are still hopeful that Mbeki can still do the right thing now as he has already confessed their blindly falling into ties with Zanu, the ties that turned to be a nightmare and continues to be even today, to the people whom they had suffered the worst together in the hands of the Rhodesian Front and those of Zanu in Morogoro in Tanzania in 1976. We now challenge Mbeki and the current ANC leadership to do the right thing for Mthwakazi people, the people whom they have a good account of their historical background," reads the statement.
"Is it now that they (ANC) honour the agreements they had with Zapu, but in a different way though because what Joshua Nkomo was fighting for was not only wrong but has immensely failed his people. We say Mbeki and Hon President Jacob Zuma, go to Mugabe and tell him to set Mthwakazi Free. Matebeleland people who partnered you in the struggle for the liberation of South Africa are not Zimbabweans and cannot continue being called Zimbabweans any more.
Source - Byo24News
