Former ZANU PF cabinet ministers and members of the Joint Operations Command of security agency chiefs are said to have joined forces in a shadowy group calling itself the Social Revolutionary Council designed to frustrate the aims of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai,according to well placed sources.
The group is led by Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa as Chairman, State Security Minister Didymus Mutasa as its Secretary, and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono as Treasurer and members are the commanders of the army and air force.
The Joint Operations Command, commonly referred to as the JOC coordinated the deadly wave of political violence that preceded the presidential runoff ballot on June 27. Mr. Tsvangirai withdrew from that runoff in protest of the violence against his supporters.
The Social Revolutionary Council is said to be behind the recent wave of invasions of white-owned commercial farms and the continued detention and harassment of officials and activists of Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change.
Confirming there remain divisions within the unity government, President Mugabe this week said farm takeovers should continue, adding that elections could be held in two years.
Government and political sources said the members of the group lobbied Mr. Mugabe not to swear deputy agriculture minister-designate Roy Bennett into office.
Sources in the MDC say Reserve Bank Governor Gono tried to influence Members of Parliament from the majority party by offering them luxury vehicles. They said Tsvangirai Thursday ordered MDC MPs not to accept such vehicles following an incident in which MPs booed Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe when she urged them to turn down Gono’s offer.
Prepare for a coup in 08 and not elections lies from Robert.
Prepare for a coup in 2 years and not elections lies from Robert.
Prepare for a coup in 2 years and not elections lies from Robert. MDC needs to arrest Munangagwa and those army commanders otherwise they are wasting their time.
MDC Should prepare itself for Mugabe’s retirement and a military coup in 2 years and not these lies from Mugabe about elections. Mugabe hates elections. That will never change. I like the little progress MDC is doing in the unity government improving the lives of Zimbabweans (Political Suicide Though) but mark my words. In two years the will be a coup and a new constitution will not pass. Mdc should not go to sleep as its key strategists are now civil servants. CUT THE LIONS BALLS NOW BEFORE IT KILLS YOU!!!!!(Scrap Media Laws, Fire Gono, Arrest Munangagwa and the Army Chefs.)
Silly. Mutasa is no misnister of state security. STUPID!
MDC should prepare to form government in exile – unless something like an accident or something like that happens to eliminate evil Munangagwa.The cabal that is holding Zimbabwe at ransom consist of less thn 15 people. In that group of shame are mass murderers Munangagwa , Shiri (form 3 drop out) , Chiwenga (form 3 drop out) , Zimhondi , Kasukuvere , Chihuri , Gono , Mzilikazi.
Does zim Metro get an erection from reporting stale news???sometimes irrelevent news??????
you pple i dont know why on earth you keep on mourning about the elections , your leader pulled out right at the last minute cause he was a coward, MUGABE did not and will never cheat on any elections, the only person who cheated you was tswangson, anywhere the guy did not have the guts to lose bless him he’s under age anywhere. GOD BLESS MY ZIMBABWE GOD BLESS OUR COUNTRY GOD BLESS OUR PRESIDENT.
zanu pf
mapfumo akaimba kuti ‘ watamba negidi unofa negidi, watamba nepfumo unofa nepfumo……’ hapana chisina magumo. vana veZimbabwe vari kuziva zvishoma nezvishoma zvinoreva uye zvinounzwa neshanduko. Tarisai pasi rose, vanhu vari kuona uye muchapabva chete.
Regai ndikuedzei kuti musi mumwe chete chete mose muchaenda asi Zimbabwe munoisiya iripo.
handizive kuti vana venyu munovaudza kuti chii uye kuti munotarisana navo sei.
MUNONYADZISA.
IPAI ZIMBABWE NGUVA YEKURAPA MARONDA ENHAMO YAMAKAIPINZA.
MUNANGAGWA NEVAMWE VAKO:
TARISAI ZVIRI KUITIKA KUTHAILAND. ZVINOGONA KUITIKA MUZIMBABWE. INGUVA CHETE.
UPENYU MADZORO.
Aduk. What do you smoke. Asi wakzvarwa nepamupimbira?
All these zanu idiotic supporters in this site are saying mugabe will never cheat in elections, shame on you. It is true that mugabe hates elections because he knows that he will never win a fair election in Zimbabwe. Now that we will have a new constitution, he will be exposed and he will lose by a big margin. mnangagwa and all his cronies who are busy working on mugabes mandate in this sick revolutionary council shame on you history will judge you. We shall take over one day and you shall pay for your sins. mugabe idiot swear in BENNET if you know what is good for you. We love white people unlike zanu thugs a racist bunch of idiots.
Why do you love white people you none racist PIG?
Change is irreversible.
White people are human as you are no one is superior, look at USA the most developed country in the world is led by a black man. Imi madofo ezanu you need to learn to be accomodative for progress sake and to be accomodated by the international community. You need to reform, thanks to MDC Zimbabwe was rotting. At least they are brave men who went to see the terrible state of Zimbabwe’s prisoners and they exposed you. AIDS dying chinamasa who is a non elected minister went to tell the world that those were not Zim prisons. Shame on you zanu thugs, the Lord shall forgive you, but you will burn in hell that I am sure.
Pamberi ne MDC ne GNU Pasi neZanu Pasi ne social revolutionary council, Pasi na Mnangagwa pasi na Gono the thief and members of this sick council.
Guseni you are saying you like white pple the thing is you will never hear them saying i like black pple instead they call you monkey, n word , sooty all sorts maybe you have never lived with them thus why you think they are proper human like you i’m telling you the truth if i can manage to come across one of them getting beaten in the streets of my hometown i would help as well they are nothing to me, most of them are vile they have the word evil written across their foreheads, so if they dont like my colour why should i like their colour.
The crimes committed to entrench Mr. Mugabe’s rule date back to the 1980s,
when thousands of civilians from Zimbabwe’s Ndebele minority in Matabeleland
were killed by the notorious North Korean-trained Fifth Army brigade,
according to historians.
Among the Ndebele, the tears of the living must be shed to release the souls
of the dead. But the Fifth Brigade insisted that there be no mourning for
those they killed, and in some cases shot family members because they wept,
according to “Breaking the Silence,” a 1997 investigation based on the
testimonies of more than 1,000 witnesses.
Other political crimes include widespread attacks on the opposition in 2000,
2002 and 2005, and most gruesomely last year. Beyond that, a vast 2005 slum
clearance effort known as Operation Murambatsvina, or Get Rid of the Filth,
drove 700,000 people in opposition bastions from their homes.
Last year, close to 200 people were killed, mostly before the June
presidential runoff between Mr. Mugabe and the opposition leader, Morgan
Tsvangirai, and thousands were tortured in state-sponsored attacks, but so
far no one has been prosecuted, according to a State Department human rights
report released in February.
Mr. Mugabe’s party fears that even more damning evidence will be unearthed.
For the first time since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, the opposition has
a majority in Parliament that can investigate corruption and political
violence.
“There are more explosive issues that are not in the public domain, cases
that have not been reported but still have a serious impact on the future of
some of the officials who were in the previous government,” said a senior
ZANU-PF official.
Last year, as it did in the 1980s, Mr. Mugabe’s loyalists cut off food aid
to hungry areas, blocked access to foreign journalists, sent party youth
brigades to terrorize the countryside, charged their rivals with treason and
used abduction, torture, arson and killings to silence critics.
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the minister who oversaw the intelligence agency in the
1980s, ran Mr. Mugabe’s warlike election campaign last year and is now
defense minister. Perence Shiri, who commanded the Fifth Brigade in
Matabeleland, is now air force commander. Both are among the Joint
Operations Command’s 11 members, who have advised Mr. Mugabe, the man at the
pinnacle, throughout.
“The Matabeleland issue can be blamed on the government as a broader
entity,” said a senior ZANU-PF official. “But the post-March 29 violence
and killings can be pinned down to only 12 people.”
Mr. Mugabe’s men realized they would not succeed in getting the opposition
to voluntarily give them an amnesty because, as one ZANU-PF official put it,
“unlike ZANU-PF they have very little to worry about in terms of crimes.”
One ruling party official, who speaks regularly with Mr. Mugabe’s top
commanders, said that his party needed opposition prisoners to trade for
amnesty. A second official, who attended meetings of Mr. Mugabe’s inner
circle, said Air Marshal Shiri suggested jailing as many top opposition
figures as possible.
A third official, who has regular discussions with the top lieutenants, said
the most powerful players in the party, except for Mr. Mugabe, would prefer
the power-sharing government to fail and have sought to keep opposition
officials imprisoned in hopes Mr. Tsvangirai will pull out. The officials
said they agreed to be interviewed because they felt the amnesty issue
needed to be faced, or because they perceived themselves as safe from
prosecution and possibly benefiting from the downfall of some in the inner
circle.
The recent abductions of dozens of opposition and human rights activists
began in October. Many were held for weeks or months in hidden locations.
Most were eventually produced in court and many have provided sworn
accounts, corroborated by doctors, of being tortured to elicit confessions
that they were recruiting militants to overthrow Mr. Mugabe or were involved
in bombing plots.
Chris Dhlamini, the opposition’s director of security, was hung upside down
from a tree and dropped on his head, as well as submerged in water until he
believed he would drown. His interrogators tried to get him to implicate Mr.
Tsvangirai, he said.
Fidelis Charamba, a 73-year-old local opposition official, said he was
pushed into a deep freezer and had boiling water poured over his genitals.
Mucha**** chete, come hell come thunder……
merit idiot who is worse a white person or mugabe, compare the following:
1. whites have done nothing wrong to their fellow white people
2. mugabe has killed and touchered black and white people
Who is worse here?
Whites fed the nation up until the land invasions, mugabe blocked food aid when the nation needed food more than ever, who is worse?
Blacks have been taught skills (farming, agriculture etc) by whites, mugabe closed schools who is worse?
I know the the Lord made us in his image and we need to love one another as brothers and sisters in Christ. May God forgive you merit for your ignorance. mugabes and mnangagwa’s cousin in hell the devil is waiting for them in open arms, but the will be joing the Darfur President first in the ICC before they go to their home where they belong in HELL.
one thing you thick people obama is not black. He is mixed blood. Father black mother white.
iwe makapusa imwi the fact remains that Obama has African blood flowing in him, Kenyan blood to be specific. The thick person is you, he is not white at all. Obama is one of us, you don’t like him because he rejected the dictactor mugabe, the young man is democratic and he is doing well. What can he talk with someone who is of his grandfathers age(mugabe).
GUSENI yes GOD made us in his image but that doesn’t mean he is white and one thing that white pple will never believe is that GOD is black like you just tell them he’s white so that you will stay friends, forget about OBAMA they like him cause he’s got a white mother if his mum was from kenya and black he wasn’t gonna be in that white house i swear in my farther’s life. I will not pretend like you they dont like my colour why should i like them, they see you in the streets they give you a fake evil smile like a grining dog, us proper pple we dont give that fake smile why do you have to smile when there is nothing to smile about, that is proper fake its for only for dogs and you wonder why they have good relationships with dogs they share the same ancestors.
Guseni can u read. I never said Obama is white. I said mixed blood. Read about Apartheid policies and Darwinism if u want to understand the issue further.
merit no one knows about whether God is black or white, He is the God for all. He is a forgiving and loving God, learn from that. I tolerate white people because there is no way that we can deny the fact they have a right to leave anywhere in this world. I respect them as human beings that God created in the first place.
makapusa is the right name for you who ever you are, mixed blood with African blood (Kenyan) to start with because his father is Kenyan and mother American, even a baby can understand that. Don’t refer me to Apartheid and Darwinism you are a pessimist, I can also refer you to events of Gukurahundi, Land invasions, Operation wakavotera papi, operation murambatsvina.
Nobody is perfect lets have a clean state and begin from somewhere, but with people with zanu mentality like you, this is a dream. What fake smile are you talking about merit, whites are not like zanu people especially mugabe and his top officers all of them have crocodile smiles fake as hell. Just read more about what Bennet was doing at his farm in aid to the local black people. I do not worship white people but I tolerate them and I wish you can move on and accept them for the development of the nation. South Africa is a perfect case study, there was a truth and reconciliation commission and they moved on. All those whites who committed crimes in SA against humanity during Apartheid are languishing in jails and the same should happen to zanu people who did the same crimes in Zimbabwe.
Maduku i wish you had it up in your head form a party of yours right now the ground is very ready for you to make things go talk to the right people Morgan T lost it all ready and i tell you its is the time to till for a new party and you will get support wake up Maduku .