Luke-ing the Beast in the Eye: The Motlanthe Commission of Inquiry: An expensive grand charade
By Luke Tamborinyoka
“The Commission’s finding, on a balance of probability from all the evidence received, is that the deaths of these six people and the injuries sustained by 35 others arose from the actions of the military and the police .” (Motlanthe Commission Report )
I know the majority of our Zimbabwean citizens are justifiably chastened by yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling. The attempt to prevent Bulawayo citizens from electing their own representatives was in its own unique way a form of electoral genocide. Yes, another Gukurahundi.
But my story this week is about the callous, State-sanctioned murders of innocent Zimbabweans by the Mnangagwa regime and the resultant Presidential Commission of Inquiry whose recommendations have been largely ignored.
On the eve of the 2023 election and on the fifth anniversary of the murder of innocent Zimbabweans, we have to revisit that issue as it explains why Mnangagwa does not deserve another murderous term, even a stolen one.
Only yesterday, ZANU PF thugs in in Harare’s Glen View suburb killed an innocent change champion who was part of CCC activists going about their lawful political business.
But regardless of whatever murderous prowess he exhibits in his bloody campaign, Zimbabweans this time are determined to consign him to an overwhelming defeat.