Source: Mujuru bombshell: Ex-VP speaks on Gukurahundi, ‘Zanu PF shenanigans’ – The Standard July 3, 2016
Former vice-president Joice Mujuru says her husband, the late General Solomon Mujuru, had nothing to do with the Gukurahundi massacres although he was the country’s chief military commander at the time.
By Everson Mushava
In fact, she said, the general had to be called back to Zimbabwe from Pakistan where he was attending a military course when the massacres started in the Matabeleland and Midlands regions in the 80s.
Responding to questions posed to her by The Standard last week, Mujuru — who was expelled from Zanu PF two years ago and has since formed her own party, Zimbabwe People First — said her late husband was popular with both Zanla and Zipra forces and was the only one who could be listened to by both armies. She said Mujuru had worked with Zipra before joining Zanla and as such, had acquaintances in both liberation war armies. That is how he was appointed the overall military commander soon after the war of independence, she said.
“Solomon was a people’s person. He was their soldier, their commander, their hero. He worked hard to bring together Zipra and Zanla during the liberation struggle. Because he had worked with Zipra before joining Zanla, he had acquaintances in both liberation war armies; hence it was easy for him to bring them together.
“It is also for the same reason that he had to be called back from Pakistan where he was attending a military course when Gukurahundi started. He had to be called back to try to find ways of ending the fighting that had started in his absence,” she said.
The ex-VP said she knew about Zanu PF’s electoral shenanigans which the party employed to fraudulently win elections and that she now had strategies to counter them. She would, however, not say what strategies her party had devised to foil the alleged electoral theft by Zanu PF, saying they were their secrets.
“Sharing with you publicly our plans, our strategy would be the greatest betrayal I would have done to our people. Suffice to say, we know the shenanigans and we have put in place plans to counter them to ensure our supporters’ votes are not put to waste,” she said.
COMMENTS
HE GOT HIS DISCIPLINE FROM ZIPRA! !!!!
I can confirm that the Army and Ministry of Defence only learned of the North Koreans coming to form the Presidential Guard (5 Brigade) the day before they arrived at Mutare Railway Station. The Presidential Guard and its purpose in supressing ZAPU and Matabeleland was cooked up between Kin Il Sung and Mugabe during the State visit to North Korea in 1980. This meeting was Mugabe’s moment of Madness.
Mujuru knew about the matebele massacres. He was the general. Did they ever discuss about it in their bedrom? She has dirty hands
Joyce Mujuru is being clumsy, she thinks that giving defence lines for the late General Mujuru will help her win hearts and minds of the electorate translating into votes. My advise free as it may is this. Sister Joyce pronounce strategies that will bring food and jobs to the nation. That way the masses will see a future based on projection of your vision. Unfortunately your husband had too many skeletons in the closest. Too many issues that led to his early retirement or sacking from the army. The Thurlows army supplies, River Range diamonds and many more. The fact of the matter is that he was the army commander period.