Dear Emmerson Mnangagwa,
I hope this memo finds you well with my full compliments of the season.
If my father didn’t pass on two years ago he could have been the same
age with you. When I look at you I see you as my father’s generational
colleague. I respect you as you are of the same age with my father and
that is as far as my respect for you goes.
Before going any further let me start by telling you that my father and all
my relatives have a deep wound over your activities for years. You
remember when you were the Minister of State (Security) in the Prime
Minister’s Office from 1980? No matter how much you might try to
downplay or trivialise your role in the massacre of innocent civilians in
Matabeleland during Gukurahundi, we know for a fact that one of our
own family members who is my aunt, died because of your active
participation and direct underground command. You might try to sound
clever by trying to deny your role but Zimbabweans are no fools. If you
don’t know, Zimbabweans are well aware of your cruel activities during
the time and that you were one of the main actors or protagonists of the
massacre.
For your brief information, my father’s sister was married to Sello
Maphinyani in Gwanda around the area called Manama. Despite coming
from Gutu, the majority of my relatives are in Gwanda. She was brutally
murdered in 1983 on the pretext that she was hiding her husband
somewhere when the Central Intelligence Organisation under your
command and the Fifth Brigade besieged her homestead. He was just a
mere ZAPU official in Matabeleland South. The murder brought the
wound to the family up to this day, because we still believe that she died
for no apparent reason on the background of your active participation.
All Zimbabweans know that you were the godfather and schemer of
Gururahundi. Some might have forgiven you but not myself and my
family.
We are also oblivious that we are not the only ones who can hardly
forgive you. There are many others both in your own party and those
whom you once worked with who will never ever accept you as the
BOSS. I had the privilege of having a face to face discussion with Rugare
Gumbo on the trials and tribulations he and others like, Wilfred Mhanda
aka Cde Dzinashe Machingura went through in Mozambique during the
liberation struggle. They went under horrendous incarceration through
your instigation as Robert Mugabe’s Personal Assistant. They said your
sins are unforgivable. You instructed them to be thrown into the pit on
the pretext that it was the command from Robert Mugabe. You are said
to have asked them to feed on their own faeces in the pity. What a BOSS
you where.
During the formative stages of the Movement for Democratic Change
(MDC) you personally took command and strategies of all the violence
that engulfed our nation. You wanted to kill Blessing Chebundo in
Kwekwe personally. Chebundo survived after he held the Bible and
prayed to God to save his life as he had not sinned or done anything
wrong to anyone. It is said you saw hallucinations and started to have
convulsions that you left him without a word, only for Chebundo to hide
in the mountains of Gokwe. He still defeated you twice while in hiding
until you ran away and created a ridiculous constituency for yourself
called Zibagwe something. This is not forgotten Mr. Mnangagwa. You
can play your kindergarten games with your equally ridiculous G-40, not
the people of Zimbabwe.
It is in the public court of masses that you are the architect of the June
27 2008 massacres. Every Zimbabwean knows that you coordinated the
military deployment on the aftermath of Mugabe’s defeat by Morgan
Tsvangirai in 2008. For you Emmerson, Tsvangirai will defeat you home
and away and we know you will resort to your usual cruelty. You stand
no chance at all against anyone including even your nemesis Jonathan
Moyo in your party.
Hundreds of people who were killed during the June 27 genocide, those
who were maimed, those who were raped, those who were tortured cry
over you Mnangagwa. If you don’t know it, please let me tell you the
truth. The people of Zimbabwe cry for what you did to their kith and kin.
They don’t hate their brother soldiers because they know you were the
instigator. The anguish the people suffered because of your instigation
can never be forgotten by the masses of this country. Please bear it in
mind. There is boiling anger outside there against you.
If Energy Mutodi and others who make you drunk by Jonnie Walker
don’t tell you what the people of Zimbabwe think and say about you on
the death of Gen Solomon Mujuru, it then means they don’t love you.
They just want to use you to protect their shady deals. Zimbabweans
are not happy about the way General Mujuru died. They think you are
the best person to give them a better explanation of what happened to
their General but you play the clever boy tactics.
The death of Lookout Masuku in prison under your instigation on false
accusations of trying to overthrow the government haunts many
Zimbabweans to this present day, if you don’t know. When they hear
about your name today, they associate it with the death of General
Lookout Masuku in prison. For your own information the former ZIPRA
Intelligence Supremo Dumiso Dabengwa, is so loved and sympathised
with by many Zimbabweans because they know the horrendous torture
he went through in prison without trial under your instigation. He nearly
soiled his good name in the public by once associating with you and
your evil party. This is not forgotten and forgiven Mr. Mnangagwa.
Zimbabweans will never accept you as their BOSS.
It is also important to alert you that Zimbabweans have been angered by
your childish public utterances when you uttered “Muchangoramba
muchiwawata ZANU PF ichingotonga, ichingotonga, ichingotonga” while
all the masses are suffering. They have no kind words for you on such
arrogance of cruelty.
Be advised that Zimbabweans are waiting for that day they will revenge
against you in the ballot box. That’s when Zimbabweans will show you
that they don’t want a BOSS of your kind, even if you kill everyone and
remained with your kids, wife and Energy Mutodi.
Without prejudice.
Sincerely,
Job Wiwa Sikhala.
