Opinion / Columnist
Who was Julius Nyerere and Robert Mugabe?
12 Jun 2017 at 14:32hrs | Views
While the rest of Africa believes that former Tanzanian President and one of the pioneers of pan Africanism is a Super Hero of Africa and a founding member of OAU. Our grandparents who were in ZAPU and ZIPRA refutes that. According to some cadres in both Zipra and ZAPU Nyerere and Mugabe started well but it is suspected that they later worked with the enemy to the extent that Zipra believes the two were CIA agents.
Both sabotaged ZAPU and Zipra severally during the struggle and both were being advised by Britain and American spies and they listened. We want those who really know what happened to tell us the real story. According to my Great grand father, Mugabe started well in ZAPU , after he returned from Ghana trouble started when he and others formed ZANU on tribal basis. According to him honorable Julius Nyerere had a hand in the ouster of ZANU PF's Ndabaningi Sithole on tribal grounds.
This was confirmed by Zipra cadres when I asked them. Britain was not comfortable with Nkomo's leadership style, because he was loyal to the people more than he ought to be according to Britain, that would have made it difficult to manipulate him as they did with President Robert Mugabe. Hence the push to completely disturbilise both ZAPU and Zipra. The other major crime ZAPU committed was it's alignment with Russia, which have a long history of being at logger heads with Britain and her Allies.
Mugabe's ZANU PF party thwarted many attempts by Dr Nkomo and ZAPU of uniting, way before 1980. Dr Nkomo had a good heart, even when Mugabe and Rugare Gumbo among others were not in his party he made sure they were realised from jail. He protested that he wasn't going to attend to any talks without them realised from jail. But Mugabe when it was his chance to prove his sincerity he ran away from a hotel in Britain and went to Tanzania where he announced that ZANU was going to stand elections with out ZAPU as previously agreed and again Julius Nyerere knew this. Thus just how much Julius Nyerere betrayed Matabeleland.
The attack on unarmed Zipra cadres by Tanzanian forces, China army and Zanla forces on the Tanzanian soil, actually proves my grand fathers claim that Nyerere listened to Britain. ZANU PF tribalists had a plan to stop ZAPU from leading the country after independence. Zipra is the one that fought for the libration of Zimbabwe and Zanla have no single battle attributed to them. They were only known for night vigils, violent campaigns and tribalism as early as the sixties and seventies while Zipra fought against the system.
Zipra cadres were attacked by Zanla in Mozambique and Tanzania with the full knowledge of Nyerere who did nothing to bring Zanla to order. Mugabe and his government worked tirelessly to stop ANC and Umkhonto Wesizwe from operating from here, conniving with the apartheid South Africa government. So the two were not sincere heroes. Can we have those in the know tell us who these two gentlemen really are? Britain conspired with ZANU, and North Korea to commit genocide in Mthwakazi and until today they have not been made to account for it hence depriving us of Justice and again Julius Nyerere knew what was happening in Matabeleland, there is nowhere where we read that says OAU or Julius Nyerere ever questioned Mugabe over Gukurahundi genocide why?
Why was Julius Nyerere and Robert Mugabe always against ZAPU and Zipra?
When now we say we want out of Zimbabwe, the government gets uncomfortable, isn't it thus what they wanted all along?
Asifuni Bumbulu, we want proper history please.
MRP Information department.
Both sabotaged ZAPU and Zipra severally during the struggle and both were being advised by Britain and American spies and they listened. We want those who really know what happened to tell us the real story. According to my Great grand father, Mugabe started well in ZAPU , after he returned from Ghana trouble started when he and others formed ZANU on tribal basis. According to him honorable Julius Nyerere had a hand in the ouster of ZANU PF's Ndabaningi Sithole on tribal grounds.
This was confirmed by Zipra cadres when I asked them. Britain was not comfortable with Nkomo's leadership style, because he was loyal to the people more than he ought to be according to Britain, that would have made it difficult to manipulate him as they did with President Robert Mugabe. Hence the push to completely disturbilise both ZAPU and Zipra. The other major crime ZAPU committed was it's alignment with Russia, which have a long history of being at logger heads with Britain and her Allies.
Mugabe's ZANU PF party thwarted many attempts by Dr Nkomo and ZAPU of uniting, way before 1980. Dr Nkomo had a good heart, even when Mugabe and Rugare Gumbo among others were not in his party he made sure they were realised from jail. He protested that he wasn't going to attend to any talks without them realised from jail. But Mugabe when it was his chance to prove his sincerity he ran away from a hotel in Britain and went to Tanzania where he announced that ZANU was going to stand elections with out ZAPU as previously agreed and again Julius Nyerere knew this. Thus just how much Julius Nyerere betrayed Matabeleland.
Zipra cadres were attacked by Zanla in Mozambique and Tanzania with the full knowledge of Nyerere who did nothing to bring Zanla to order. Mugabe and his government worked tirelessly to stop ANC and Umkhonto Wesizwe from operating from here, conniving with the apartheid South Africa government. So the two were not sincere heroes. Can we have those in the know tell us who these two gentlemen really are? Britain conspired with ZANU, and North Korea to commit genocide in Mthwakazi and until today they have not been made to account for it hence depriving us of Justice and again Julius Nyerere knew what was happening in Matabeleland, there is nowhere where we read that says OAU or Julius Nyerere ever questioned Mugabe over Gukurahundi genocide why?
Why was Julius Nyerere and Robert Mugabe always against ZAPU and Zipra?
When now we say we want out of Zimbabwe, the government gets uncomfortable, isn't it thus what they wanted all along?
Asifuni Bumbulu, we want proper history please.
MRP Information department.
Source - MRP
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