💬 “We lived during Mugabe’s time, and we thought it was bad, but I think I owe him an apology,” said Tendai Biti, the Citizens Coalition for Change MP michael2day looks at the opposition figures who have been persecuted by the Mnangagwa regime ⬇️
The country was battered and destitute. But many – and particularly those who’d suffered at the hand of the regime – were ecstatic.that since Mugabe’s first premiership in 1980, Zimbabwe’s life expectancy had fallen by half, while deaths from politically motivated violence sponsored by the government exceeded 200,000. Anything had to be better than Mugabe and his cronies.
This has not come as a surprise to many in Zimbabwe. Nicknamed “The Crocodile” on account of his cunning, Mnangagwa’s CV was marked by his role as Mugabe’s hatchetman for the best part of 40 years, and in particular his association with ethnic massacres in the 1980s. Thousands of civilians were massacred by the Zimbabwean military, mostly ethnic Ndebeles in Matabeleland. Mnangagwa was in charge of intelligence services at the time.
MP and CCC interim vice-chairperson, Job Sikhala, has been incarcerated in leg irons at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison since 14 June, 2022 after he stepped in to act as the lawyer of the family of Moreblessing Ali, a murdered community mobiliser and CCC supporter whose body was found mutilated on 11 June, 2022 in the Zengeza West Constituency, outside of Harare.