By Silas Nkala
The opposition Zapu party has claimed that the late former President Robert Mugabe forced the late former Vice-President Joshua Nkomo to sacrifice his party Zapu resulting in it being swallowed by Zanu PF in order to stop the 1980s Matabeleland genocide.
Addressing an event to commemorate the Unity Day which was born out of the Unity Accord signed by Mugabe and Nkomo in 1987, Zapu spokesperson Iphithule Maphosa claimed the accord was only to end the Gukurahundi massacres which human right groups say claimed 20 000 lives from Matabeleland and Midlands.
“Zanu PF only had one condition that it wanted met in order to stop the madness, and it was that PF Zapu must be swallowed by Zanu PF and cease to be an opposition party. This was the condition that summed up what is now known as the Unity Accord Agreement document,” Maphosa said.
“The 1987 Unity Accord document is quite weird and makes for sorry reading. There is nothing about unity discernible in any of its clauses. It is just a requirement that PF Zapu surrenders to the British Conservative Party project of 1963 with Mugabe as its leader in perpetuity,” he said.
He said for Zimbabweans, the 1987 Unity Accord document meant PF Zapu ceding all its rights to existence to Zanu.
“The party then and now uses ethnic lenses in deciding every aspect of national policy. To them, anybody and anything that was not Zanu at that time represented the enemy, hence the use of the toxic reference to dissidents equating PF Zapu and the Ndebele speaking people alone with that term. It is a tribalist mindset,” he said.
Maphosa said it was sad that for 34 years Zimbabwe had been celebrating what is disguised as unity day after the loss of thousands of lives in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces. NewsDay.
Akatogona coz maipera Kut hwaaa
And where were they
And nkomo agreed to the force nxi
There was bloodshed there was perfection Nkomo fled to Britain over 30 000 were killed panga pakaipa
Lance Moyo Dissidents started it all
Bullshit
40 years on and zanu pf is still recruiting and mending dictators.
Story of our miserable Zimbabwe
People actually believe Nkomo and Zapu were forced to abandon life of opposition to being Mercedes Benz driving Vice Presidents and Ministers,a luxury they enjoy to this day
So what do you want people to do?
Yep US15 Billion dollar thief then left us with his clone to continue his legacy through New Dispensation Zimbabweans rejoiced Amazing
Mugabe gave orders Munangagwa, Perence Shiri directly executed pple, thousands these guys where practically involved, absolutely evil… feel something for another human being be it Shona speaking person or Ndebele… surely may God forgive these pple, they have done so much wrong to humanity driven by greed
Muzi Ndlovu dissidents
Muzi Ndlovu nonsense maida kukura misoro vanambwa imi
No one was forced into doing anything. Nkomo sold out, fullstop.
Gift Menzi Cele just like how Lobengula sold the country to the whites
@Kundi, do you believe in that absurd history written by Mudenge, Chigwedere and Zvobgo. it’s all hogwash
Gift Menzi Cele so yu believe he is a sellout
Pathetic reporting. Irrelevant Zapu.
Fake unity😂
40years vozvitaura nhasi ,so stupid ,
No force used
I feel like right after Independence Nkomos agenda should have been to seperate Matebelaland from Mashonaland whilst they were still militant in nature .It would have given Nebele right to rule themselves and not blame Mashonaland for all its problems .
Sinatra Gunda Not everyone from so called Matebeleland is a Ndebele
Sinatra Gunda He tried it and got a thorough beating
James Gordon Phiri I wonder why would they name it Matebeleland if the habitants weren’t a majority of Ndebele
Kudzanai Shito You think the genocide was the case ?
Sinatra Gunda
They wanted to try,if I fight a war for over a decade I would also want to rule.
I myself would have tried it
Wether Nkomo was forced or not but okusalayo Zimbabwe is being ruined by ZANU made by both Ndebele , shona and tongaz … ZANU is the enemy
How was it possible to force a heavy weight into agreeing to such?
Ko Akamanikidza here?
Isn’t Dabengwa left Zapu…continue fighting guys you never know. ..maybe with God’s will Zapu will rule one day. Keep the fire burning.
What’s wrong with that?
Nxaa nonsense,, it all started in 1963 ,,ZANU singlehandedly overthrew the settlers whilst Joshua was enjoying coffee with Kaunda .Hondo yakagwiwa neZANU ..varungu pavakaona kuti vave kukundwa sezvo vasingade kunyadziswa they arranged the Lancaster Conference to stop the war which ZANU didn’t want ,bcoz they believed in capturing Salisbury ,Mugabe aida kubata Smith arimupenyu muStateHouse chaimo ,,ZANU was betrayed by Frontline states which were led by Nkomo’s friend Kaunda who pressured Machel not to host Mugabe anymore if he didn’t agree to the arrangements of Lancaster Negotiations.. Mugabe had no choice but to accept,, We all know that ZANU didn’t sign the document for three months bcoz of the land issue which was not in favour of Africans taking it back …
Tinashe Makamure
You speak undiluted truths.
Zapu cadres are cowards,noone opted to take over the welfare of the party after the death of the former VP.The party was and still can pose a major threat to both Zanu and MDC.One clever Ndebele guy wake up and lead the movement.