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Andrew Langa fingered in Gukurahundi massacres
16 Jan 2017 at 10:39hrs | Views
Former minister of Sports and Recreation, Andrew Langa has been linked to the notorious 1980s Zanu PF youth wing that worked closely with the Firth Brigade during the bloody Gukurahundi era.
Undisputed picture of a slim Langa wearing youth wing regalia and holding a bicycle in the 1980s have surfaced on social media.
Langa is said to be feared in the home district of Fibalusi due to his several violence accusations.
During the 2002 October 26-27 Insiza by-election, Langa, now a born again Christian reportedly shot an MDC supporter, Darlington Kadengu, during the campaign period.
Again in 2013, the late former MDC-T Filabusi Ward 11 councilor, who went missing for days and found dead had Langa fingered in his death.
Oziah Mathuthu was found with his hands tied with strings.
Langa denied the allegations.
According to reports, Langa was a member of notorious Zanu PF youth recruits who were trained in an closed asbestos Pangani mine in Filabusi in the eighties.
Pangani mine is now a site of a youth training institute
The recruits are believed to have been a para-military wing, used by the Gukurahundi soldiers to go out and gather people targeted for manslaughter by the soldiers.
The youth wing was only disbanded at the signing of the Unity Accord on 1987.
Its not immediately clear whether Langa personally actively took part in the killings.
In January last year, the Insiza North legislator told the nation that he has repented and turned to God and was baptised at the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) at Filabusi Centre.
He boldly declared he was no longer going to drink beer.
Zanu PF members who are fingered in the massacre of more than 20 000 Matabeleland and Midlands people deny any links to Gukurahundi.
Last December, vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa again denied accusations he played an active role in the Gukurahundi massacres.
He told a United Kingdom-based magazine New States Man, that reports linking him to the atrocities were being peddled by his political foes to soil his image.
"How do I become the enforcer during Gukurahundi? We had the President, the Minister of Defence, commander of the army and I was none of that. My own enemies attack me left and right and that is what you are buying," he is quoted as having said.
The late General Solomon Mujuru was army commander, while current Airforce of Zimbabwe Commander, Perrance Shiri was Fifth Brigade commander.
Mnangagwa was the State Security minister then and is often regarded as the face of the massacres.
Undisputed picture of a slim Langa wearing youth wing regalia and holding a bicycle in the 1980s have surfaced on social media.
Langa is said to be feared in the home district of Fibalusi due to his several violence accusations.
During the 2002 October 26-27 Insiza by-election, Langa, now a born again Christian reportedly shot an MDC supporter, Darlington Kadengu, during the campaign period.
Again in 2013, the late former MDC-T Filabusi Ward 11 councilor, who went missing for days and found dead had Langa fingered in his death.
Oziah Mathuthu was found with his hands tied with strings.
Langa denied the allegations.
According to reports, Langa was a member of notorious Zanu PF youth recruits who were trained in an closed asbestos Pangani mine in Filabusi in the eighties.
Pangani mine is now a site of a youth training institute
The youth wing was only disbanded at the signing of the Unity Accord on 1987.
Its not immediately clear whether Langa personally actively took part in the killings.
In January last year, the Insiza North legislator told the nation that he has repented and turned to God and was baptised at the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) at Filabusi Centre.
He boldly declared he was no longer going to drink beer.
Zanu PF members who are fingered in the massacre of more than 20 000 Matabeleland and Midlands people deny any links to Gukurahundi.
Last December, vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa again denied accusations he played an active role in the Gukurahundi massacres.
He told a United Kingdom-based magazine New States Man, that reports linking him to the atrocities were being peddled by his political foes to soil his image.
"How do I become the enforcer during Gukurahundi? We had the President, the Minister of Defence, commander of the army and I was none of that. My own enemies attack me left and right and that is what you are buying," he is quoted as having said.
The late General Solomon Mujuru was army commander, while current Airforce of Zimbabwe Commander, Perrance Shiri was Fifth Brigade commander.
Mnangagwa was the State Security minister then and is often regarded as the face of the massacres.
Source - Byo24News
