Opinion / Columnist
Mphoko are you brave, man enough? - tell Mugabe to his face about Gugurahundi atrocities!
05 Feb 2017 at 16:43hrs | Views
President Tsvangirai has his own weaknesses we all know them for sure. We have to ask ourselves who is cleaner than Tsvangirai in our political landscape: none whatsoever. For VP Mphoko to tell us now that Morgan Richard Tsvangirai wanted to kill Nkomo is wholly laughable if not stupid. In retrospect if Phelekezela Mphoko was sincere with himself he should be telling us about his role as a CIO in Zanu during the struggle and after independence. How did he get the diplomatic job? Are Mphoko's hands clean in the first place? How far did his absconding from Zapu to Zanu with all the Zapu military hardware assigned to him as leader of that contingent, influence the military activities of the Zipra armed forces on the ground? He will need to answer those questions. History will pin him to those dark days when he preferred to remain in Maputo and have a good time than to go to the front and fight.
It is said that Mphoko diverted military arms meant for Zipra to Zanu during the struggle. How much did Mphoko sell Nkomo and all the secrets of Zipra to Zanla? Why did he abscond from Zipra and opt to remain in Maputo to get married rather than continue the struggle just like all other freedom fighters. Is it the very ‘Mphoko who is trying to exonerate Robert Mugabe from the Gugurahundi atrocities he committed when he Mphoko was in the secret CIO wing that actually planned the killings of the innocent peoples of Mathebeleland and Midlands. Who is saying Gugurahundi is nothing but a western conspiracy? All that stuff and nonsense coming from Mphoko: he is trying to make Gabriel Mugabe the angel Gabriel itself. He has tried in vain to even pin Dambudzo Mnangagwa as the only Gugurahundist: no Mphoko: all of you are part of the criminal cabal that took lives of thousands in cold blood.
VP Mphoko should know better who wanted to assassinate our iconic Josh Nkomo: it was Mugabe himself who said Nkomo was like a cobra in the house that needs to be cut off its head. Mugabe wanted to kill Nkomo. Its not Tsvangirai who wanted to kill Nkomo. Where were you when Mugabe sent his killer squad to Pelandaba to finish Nkomo off by riddling him with bullets? Do not fool us VP Mphoko and tell us stuff and nonsense about MDC-T President Tsvangirai: the young man has his own shortcomings but his hands are surely not as dirty as your own hands. You should be ashamed to still go the SDA church service knowing full well how many people lost their lives under your CIO activities of the early 1980s that earned you the post of a Diplomat in Austria.
Do not think that if you have foolish ideas in your head we shall buy them. You are the last person who can tell the people of Mathebeleland about the struggle and the reasons and events that led to President Nkomo to go to exile. Luke Tamborinyoka was dead right, there is something you must have been smoking to come out with such accusations regarding Richard Morgan Tsvangirai. There are cadres who know all about your military activities until you mutinied and joined Zanu. You cannot stand those dirty activities that cost lives of Zipra freedom fighters and after independence. At best you should shut up and eat as much as you can, it won't be long Mugabe will be history and when he dies no amount of reinventing yourselves to be better than thou: will exonerate you.
In retrospect VP Mphoko, you are painfully a coward sibi sakho. Cowards do come with such falsehoods to cover your own misdemeanours, it is too late we know what you did and you will have to account for it at the right time: your time is running out, Mugabe is so old he can sleep forever anytime. If you were clever person you would really shut up your foul mouth. There is nothing clever that has ever come out of your mouth ever since you were hand-picked, nominated to the office of a Vice President: some appointment you can never get or smell it by any slender election in Zanu PF itself.
VP Mphoko almost all the peoples of Zimbabwe know who the architectures of Mathebelelands and Midlands genocide were. The criminal cabals were the Zanu PF including Enos Nkala and you: the part you were involved in as a CIO fugitive. You are not as clean as you want people to believe you. History books will be written and you will go down in history as those criminal cabals that sold out in the struggle. You should be ashamed of this and you do not stoop so low as to defame Richard Tsvangirai about falsehood. Tsvangirai was a Zanu in the early 1980s we know just like most of or all the Zanu PF youth of the time. To smear him of falsehood is the height of folly. This downright criminality was authored by Mugabe himself and his criminals we all know them by names: very well.
I am not writing this piece because I am MDC-T member of the party. Far from it, I will never join MDC-T because I have issues with leadership that does not want any kind of renewal: give the baton to younger people who can actually effect change because they are dynamic and energetic. Tsvangirai has done his part; he is supposed to give the baton to the next to demonstrate that MDC-T and Zanu PF are two different political parties when it comes to leadership change. I will hate it if Richard Tsvangirai is falsely accused of the dirt he was not part of. The political filth and dirt is in Zanu PF where Mphoko belongs and part of it.
It is said that Mphoko diverted military arms meant for Zipra to Zanu during the struggle. How much did Mphoko sell Nkomo and all the secrets of Zipra to Zanla? Why did he abscond from Zipra and opt to remain in Maputo to get married rather than continue the struggle just like all other freedom fighters. Is it the very ‘Mphoko who is trying to exonerate Robert Mugabe from the Gugurahundi atrocities he committed when he Mphoko was in the secret CIO wing that actually planned the killings of the innocent peoples of Mathebeleland and Midlands. Who is saying Gugurahundi is nothing but a western conspiracy? All that stuff and nonsense coming from Mphoko: he is trying to make Gabriel Mugabe the angel Gabriel itself. He has tried in vain to even pin Dambudzo Mnangagwa as the only Gugurahundist: no Mphoko: all of you are part of the criminal cabal that took lives of thousands in cold blood.
VP Mphoko should know better who wanted to assassinate our iconic Josh Nkomo: it was Mugabe himself who said Nkomo was like a cobra in the house that needs to be cut off its head. Mugabe wanted to kill Nkomo. Its not Tsvangirai who wanted to kill Nkomo. Where were you when Mugabe sent his killer squad to Pelandaba to finish Nkomo off by riddling him with bullets? Do not fool us VP Mphoko and tell us stuff and nonsense about MDC-T President Tsvangirai: the young man has his own shortcomings but his hands are surely not as dirty as your own hands. You should be ashamed to still go the SDA church service knowing full well how many people lost their lives under your CIO activities of the early 1980s that earned you the post of a Diplomat in Austria.
In retrospect VP Mphoko, you are painfully a coward sibi sakho. Cowards do come with such falsehoods to cover your own misdemeanours, it is too late we know what you did and you will have to account for it at the right time: your time is running out, Mugabe is so old he can sleep forever anytime. If you were clever person you would really shut up your foul mouth. There is nothing clever that has ever come out of your mouth ever since you were hand-picked, nominated to the office of a Vice President: some appointment you can never get or smell it by any slender election in Zanu PF itself.
VP Mphoko almost all the peoples of Zimbabwe know who the architectures of Mathebelelands and Midlands genocide were. The criminal cabals were the Zanu PF including Enos Nkala and you: the part you were involved in as a CIO fugitive. You are not as clean as you want people to believe you. History books will be written and you will go down in history as those criminal cabals that sold out in the struggle. You should be ashamed of this and you do not stoop so low as to defame Richard Tsvangirai about falsehood. Tsvangirai was a Zanu in the early 1980s we know just like most of or all the Zanu PF youth of the time. To smear him of falsehood is the height of folly. This downright criminality was authored by Mugabe himself and his criminals we all know them by names: very well.
I am not writing this piece because I am MDC-T member of the party. Far from it, I will never join MDC-T because I have issues with leadership that does not want any kind of renewal: give the baton to younger people who can actually effect change because they are dynamic and energetic. Tsvangirai has done his part; he is supposed to give the baton to the next to demonstrate that MDC-T and Zanu PF are two different political parties when it comes to leadership change. I will hate it if Richard Tsvangirai is falsely accused of the dirt he was not part of. The political filth and dirt is in Zanu PF where Mphoko belongs and part of it.
Source - Nomazulu Thata
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