Gukurahundi movie-maker receives threats from shadows

A SOUTH AFRICA-BASED Zimbabwean journalist has alleged he received threats from unknown people warning him to stop filming satirical political movie on the Gukurahundi massacres.

The 80-minute movie by Godknows Nare, titled Great Britain's Most Mischievous Son, will be premiered in Paris, France on November 30.

Nare told NewsDay that the movie was about President Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace, having to answer for the 1980's Matabeleland and Midlands mass killings in heaven after they die in a plane crash.

The movie implicates characters like Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Joice Mujuru and Enos Nkala. It's a political satire, but with serious political undertones.

Nare, however, said the movie has ruffled feathers, adding he now faces constant threats.

Nare claims that he has been getting strange messages and calls telling him to stop what he is doing and to come with the film to Zimbabwe for discussions.

Nare says he did the movie to address an episode to the people of Matabeleland as he doesn't want an outsider/foreigner to tell the story of Gukurahundi because it will be biased.