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*** 28-Jun-18 World View -- Zimbabwe president Mnangagwa blames Grace Mugabe for bomb blast at rally
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** Zimbabwe president Mnangagwa blames Grace Mugabe for bomb blast at rally
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Three presidential candidates (L to R): Emmerson Mnangagwa, Joice Mujuru, Nelson Chamisa (Independent-zw)
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa is blaming a political group
linked to Grace Mugabe, the wife of former president Robert Mugabe,
for a bomb explosion that occurred last Saturday (June 23) during a
Mnangagwa rally, killing two and injuring dozens. The obvious target
was Mnangagwa, but he escaped unharmed.
Fearing a new terror attack on Wednesday, Mnangagwa canceled a rally
scheduled for Wednesday, his first campaign rally since the attack on
Saturday.
Wednesday's rally took place without him. It was in the city of
Hwange, which is an opposition stronghold, like Bulawayo, which is
where Saturday's attack occurred.
Although Mnangagwa did not directly accuse Grace Mugabe of being in
involved in Saturday's bombing, he accused the Generation 40 (G40)
group of Grace Mugabe supporters of being behind the bombing. The G40
group is a group of younger members of Mnangagwa's and Mugabe's
Zanu-pf political party. Grace Mugabe is 52 years old, while her
husband Robert Mugabe is 94.
A former member of the G40 group, former government minister Jonathan
Moyo, said that the explosion "smacks of an inside job."
The implication is that the Mnangagwa election team staged the
explosion in order to justify a crackdown on the opposition prior to
next month's general elections, scheduled for July 30. It seems
unlikely that the bombing was an inside job, however, because of the
large number of casualties.
Even so, there's a widespread suspicion that Mnangagwa will use the
explosion as an excuse for security crackdowns that will guarantee the
election of him and his Zanu-pf party. Under Robert Mugabe, extreme
violence was used for decades to keep Zanu-pf in power.
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, head of the opposition party
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has directly suffered election
related violence under the Mugabe regime. He said on Wednesday:
<QUOTE>"It shows you that things can turn ugly, it has been
ugly in the past and over the past 38 years we have had disputed
elections, violent elections, state-sponsored violence and we are
likely to see that ugly feature rearing its head once more.
Zimbabweans are vulnerable ... the electorate is vulnerable,
political players like myself are vulnerable. I have scars on
account of political violence in the past, so it's something we
have budgeted for."<END QUOTE>
However, Mnangagwa is trying to reassure the international community
that Zimbabwe has changed, and that it's once again a good idea for
foreign investors to invest in Zimbabwe. In particular, he's promised
that the election will be free and fair, and open to international
observers. He has invited election observers from the United States,
the European Union and elsewhere for the first time in 16
years. Mugabe rejected Western observers, accusing them of bias.
In order to reassure both voters and foreign investors, all 23
president candidates running in the July 30 elections signed a "peace
pledge" on Wednesday committing themselves and their political parties
to a peaceful campaign ahead of the elections. BBC and Herald (Zimbabwe) and Reuters and Guardian (London) and AP
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**** Zimbabwe elections overshadowed by the country's dark past
****
During last year's chaos in Zimbabwe's capital city Harare, president
Robert Mugabe fired his vice-president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, so that
Grace Mugabe could succeed him. This triggered a series of events
that led to the forced resignation of Mugabe, and his replacement with
Mnangagwa as the new president.
There was a great deal of vitriolic hostility between the two men last
year, and it was joined by Mugabe's wife Grace Mugabe, who blamed
Mnangagwa for her husband's downfall.
However, the vitriol was only recent, since the two men worked closely
together since independence in 1981.
They're both in the Shona tribe, and they both are responsible for
Operation Gukurahundi, the genocidal war crime that brought in North
Korean soldiers to help exterminate tens of thousands of civilians in
the hated Ndebele tribe in the early 1980s.
They've both cooperated in turning Zimbabwe into a police state, where
anyone who speaks against the government was likely to be arrested,
tortured and killed. This is particularly true of the members of the
Ndebele tribe that managed to survive Operation Gukurahundi.
They both worked together on Mugabe's "indigenization" program, which
threw out farm and business owners who knew how to run a farm or a
business, and replaced them with thugs and cronies from Mugabe's and
Mnangagwa's Shona tribe who didn't know how to run a farm or business.
Over three decades, Mugabe and Mnangagwa turned Rhodesia, which was a
wealthy country and the breadbasket of southern Africa, into today's
Zimbabwe, which is an economic basket case.
Mnangagwa is now trying to convince foreigners to invest in Zimbabwe
again. In order to do that he's going to have convince investors that
Operation Gukurahundi and indigenization are in the past, and won't be
repeated in the future, so that investors' money will be safe. This
is going to be a tough sell for Mnangagwa, since there are still a lot
of people in Zimbabwe, especially people in the Nbdele tribe, that
believe that there is continuing violent discrimination against people
in the Nbdele tribe, and that Mnangagwa will not hesitate to use
"indigenization" to confiscate a farm or a business to aware to one of
his Shona cronies in return for political favor. The Zimbabawean and Al Jazeera and Independent (Zimbabwe)
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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zanu-pf, Shona,
Nelson Chamisa, Movement for Democratic Change, MDC, Nbdele,
Generation 40, G40, Jonathan Moyo,
Robert Mugabe, Grace Mugabe, Operation Gukurahundi, indigenization
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Zimbabwe president Mnangagwa blames Grace Mugabe for bomb blast at rally
- Zimbabwe elections overshadowed by the country's dark past
****
**** Zimbabwe president Mnangagwa blames Grace Mugabe for bomb blast at rally
****
Three presidential candidates (L to R): Emmerson Mnangagwa, Joice Mujuru, Nelson Chamisa (Independent-zw)
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa is blaming a political group
linked to Grace Mugabe, the wife of former president Robert Mugabe,
for a bomb explosion that occurred last Saturday (June 23) during a
Mnangagwa rally, killing two and injuring dozens. The obvious target
was Mnangagwa, but he escaped unharmed.
Fearing a new terror attack on Wednesday, Mnangagwa canceled a rally
scheduled for Wednesday, his first campaign rally since the attack on
Saturday.
Wednesday's rally took place without him. It was in the city of
Hwange, which is an opposition stronghold, like Bulawayo, which is
where Saturday's attack occurred.
Although Mnangagwa did not directly accuse Grace Mugabe of being in
involved in Saturday's bombing, he accused the Generation 40 (G40)
group of Grace Mugabe supporters of being behind the bombing. The G40
group is a group of younger members of Mnangagwa's and Mugabe's
Zanu-pf political party. Grace Mugabe is 52 years old, while her
husband Robert Mugabe is 94.
A former member of the G40 group, former government minister Jonathan
Moyo, said that the explosion "smacks of an inside job."
The implication is that the Mnangagwa election team staged the
explosion in order to justify a crackdown on the opposition prior to
next month's general elections, scheduled for July 30. It seems
unlikely that the bombing was an inside job, however, because of the
large number of casualties.
Even so, there's a widespread suspicion that Mnangagwa will use the
explosion as an excuse for security crackdowns that will guarantee the
election of him and his Zanu-pf party. Under Robert Mugabe, extreme
violence was used for decades to keep Zanu-pf in power.
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, head of the opposition party
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has directly suffered election
related violence under the Mugabe regime. He said on Wednesday:
<QUOTE>"It shows you that things can turn ugly, it has been
ugly in the past and over the past 38 years we have had disputed
elections, violent elections, state-sponsored violence and we are
likely to see that ugly feature rearing its head once more.
Zimbabweans are vulnerable ... the electorate is vulnerable,
political players like myself are vulnerable. I have scars on
account of political violence in the past, so it's something we
have budgeted for."<END QUOTE>
However, Mnangagwa is trying to reassure the international community
that Zimbabwe has changed, and that it's once again a good idea for
foreign investors to invest in Zimbabwe. In particular, he's promised
that the election will be free and fair, and open to international
observers. He has invited election observers from the United States,
the European Union and elsewhere for the first time in 16
years. Mugabe rejected Western observers, accusing them of bias.
In order to reassure both voters and foreign investors, all 23
president candidates running in the July 30 elections signed a "peace
pledge" on Wednesday committing themselves and their political parties
to a peaceful campaign ahead of the elections. BBC and Herald (Zimbabwe) and Reuters and Guardian (London) and AP
****
**** Zimbabwe elections overshadowed by the country's dark past
****
During last year's chaos in Zimbabwe's capital city Harare, president
Robert Mugabe fired his vice-president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, so that
Grace Mugabe could succeed him. This triggered a series of events
that led to the forced resignation of Mugabe, and his replacement with
Mnangagwa as the new president.
There was a great deal of vitriolic hostility between the two men last
year, and it was joined by Mugabe's wife Grace Mugabe, who blamed
Mnangagwa for her husband's downfall.
However, the vitriol was only recent, since the two men worked closely
together since independence in 1981.
They're both in the Shona tribe, and they both are responsible for
Operation Gukurahundi, the genocidal war crime that brought in North
Korean soldiers to help exterminate tens of thousands of civilians in
the hated Ndebele tribe in the early 1980s.
They've both cooperated in turning Zimbabwe into a police state, where
anyone who speaks against the government was likely to be arrested,
tortured and killed. This is particularly true of the members of the
Ndebele tribe that managed to survive Operation Gukurahundi.
They both worked together on Mugabe's "indigenization" program, which
threw out farm and business owners who knew how to run a farm or a
business, and replaced them with thugs and cronies from Mugabe's and
Mnangagwa's Shona tribe who didn't know how to run a farm or business.
Over three decades, Mugabe and Mnangagwa turned Rhodesia, which was a
wealthy country and the breadbasket of southern Africa, into today's
Zimbabwe, which is an economic basket case.
Mnangagwa is now trying to convince foreigners to invest in Zimbabwe
again. In order to do that he's going to have convince investors that
Operation Gukurahundi and indigenization are in the past, and won't be
repeated in the future, so that investors' money will be safe. This
is going to be a tough sell for Mnangagwa, since there are still a lot
of people in Zimbabwe, especially people in the Nbdele tribe, that
believe that there is continuing violent discrimination against people
in the Nbdele tribe, and that Mnangagwa will not hesitate to use
"indigenization" to confiscate a farm or a business to aware to one of
his Shona cronies in return for political favor. The Zimbabawean and Al Jazeera and Independent (Zimbabwe)
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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zanu-pf, Shona,
Nelson Chamisa, Movement for Democratic Change, MDC, Nbdele,
Generation 40, G40, Jonathan Moyo,
Robert Mugabe, Grace Mugabe, Operation Gukurahundi, indigenization
Permanent web link to this article
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John J. Xenakis
100 Memorial Drive Apt 8-13A
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-864-0010
E-mail: john@GenerationalDynamics.com
Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
Forum: http://www.gdxforum.com/forum
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