I thought it was Emerson Mnangagwa behind it?
He is, and ideally they want Mnangagwa to take over right now, and lead a transitional
government for 5 years, and then there would be elections at that point. But Mugabe is
refusing to resign. He wants to serve out his term, and whether that means until the
Zanu-PF conference next month, or until the general elections next year, has not been
stated. The thing about Mugabe is that he's ruthless and cold hearted. If he retains power,
Chiwenga and Mnangagwa had better watch out. Far too many people have died deaths
that are unexplainable, who have crossed Bob.... There is a businessman called Pamire,
who was suspected of fucking Grace Mugabe, who died suspiciously a couple of years ago.
There is a very beautiful girl from Zim, that I was after a couple of years ago, whose
father was a member of parliament from Mugabe's Zanu-PF, who died a death that
the girl regularly told me was suspected to be of Mugabe's doing. There is the case of
Josiah Magamo Tongogara, who died just before Mugabe and Zanu-PF were about to
return to Zimbabwe to contest the 1980 elections. Tongogara had been the commander
of the Zanla guerrillas who were the armed wing of Zanu-PF. He was well-loved, widely
respected and expected to contest the leadership of the party, but he met a strange and
suspicious death in a car, one dark night in Mozambique...There was the death of the
husband of Joyce Mujuru, a senior general in the army, who claimed to have been the
power that conferred the leadership of Zanu-PF upon Mugabe, when the party had been in
Zambian exile. That circumstance itself was such a bloody spectacle that Kenneth Kaunda,
who was president of Zambia pretty much chased Zanu out of Zambia and into Mozambique,
opening a wound which has not fully healed to this day, at least as far as many Zanu
members are concerned....
Years later, a cac wrote a book saying the cac secret service of Ian Smith, the Rhodesian
prime minister, concocted and sowed the divisions with Zanu, in order to weaken it..He
stated that cacs are the ones who set up that car bomb that killed Zanu leader Herbert
Chitepo, in the Chilenje township of Lusaka Zambia, in 1973. At the time, everyone,
Kaunda included, concluded that members of Zanu were behind the assassination.
But that is another story