Former Vice President Joice Mujuru says her late husband Solomon Mujuru was probably shot before his house was set alight.
“There was a blue, blue flame, almost 1 and a half to 2 meters high, not normal at all. It seemed to me there was some kind of accelerant,” she described the inferno in an interview with the Sunday Times (UK) newspaper. A local white farmer who rushed to the scene said he believed a white phosphorus grenade was used to burn the body.
“I can’t say who did it, but they know the people in power. It will come out,” said Mujuru.
Asked if she thought President Robert Mugabe was involved, she simply “pursed” her lips, according to the report.
Despite the suspicious death of her husband, Mujuru remained in government only to be fired three years down the line on accusations of plotting an insurrection against Mugabe, whom she looked upon as a “father”.
“It was the shock of my life,” she said of her sacking in December 2014.
Ahead of her sacking, Mujuru says, she approached Mugabe one day after a cabinet meeting to find out if he really believed the reports that she wanted to kill him. “I am hearing it from the ministry of intelligence,” Mugabe reportedly answered her.
“Father, If you are my shed and protecting me from the sun, how can I take an axe and destroy that shed? I would be a mad person. I am only banking on you to look after me,” she recalls telling Mugabe before she left the meeting in “fear”
“My mouth was completely dry,” she said.
According to the report, that fear may not have left her up to now as she never referred to Mugabe by his name during the interview, preferring to call him “He” “as if he was a deity”.
But she had no kind words for her former boss still, referring to him as a “backward” “liar”.
She said, “I am a Christian and a member of the salvation army. I have never used magic. A head of state using his platform to lie and believing stories about frogs being kept in a calabash and if one dies dies then he will die. I said to myself what a backward man.”
Mujuru went on to reveal how an aged Mugabe depended on her when he was tired during cabinet meetings.
“He would speak for 15 minutes and then nod off. I would then chair the meeting with everyone ignoring the fact that he was asleep,” she said.
Mujuru is not the first to reveal this trend as former industry minister, Welshman Ncube, also said, a few years ago, that Mugabe routinely slept during cabinet meetings. According to Ncube, when that moment came, Mugabe’s entire body tended to “collapse”.
On Mugabe’s wife, Grace, who led a vicious campaign against her, Mujuru says the First Lady “saw me as a threat”. “Her (Grace) power only lasts as long as he (Mugabe) is there,” said Mujuru.
According to Mujuru, who recently registered her People First party, dramatic events in Zanu PF and in the country could be an indicator that Mugabe’s rule was coming to “an end”.
She said, “I think this is pointing to an end. He no longer has the energy to tell them to stop, and no one listens to him. He has no respect now-from anybody. It’s painful.”
Mugabe was, last Friday, forced to take to the national TV to call for calm and rebuke his ministers who have been divided into warring factions over the succession issue.
Mujuru describes herself as a grandmother and a farmer. She has ten grandchildren and 135, 000 chicken which she keeps at her farm she got during Mugabe’s land grab exercise.
She, however, believes that Mugabe owed a lot to the Mujurus. She said: “My husband used to risk his life to go and talk to [Mugabe]… then come back and talk to other commanders to accept him. Mugabe owed a lot to him and the family.”
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Something is happening to Zimbabwe or is
it me? Every time I sit down and try to write something I have to restart
after a few lines because events are moving so fast. It seems no one in Zanu
has a heartbeat let alone brain and it really excites me. Her October
revolution in 2013 looks now like a kids party in the park. It is true to say,
since the elections of 2013 the ship called Zimbabwe has been floating
rudderless on the high seas. The engines stopped a long time ago and the
captain and his crew are nowhere to be seen. All over the world parties split.
New parties are formed but are the leaders and supporters in Zanu that stupid?
I feel like I am in one of those dreams you don’t want to end and when you wake
up you actually feel disappointed. I have never enjoyed witnessing the pain in
Zanu like I am right now. Please this dream must continue!
There is a danger though. The conditions are almost ripe for a minute
spark to start an inferno which might engulf this ‘revolution’ party, if not
the whole nation. Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. And I am still in my slumber,
dreaming! Events are now catching up with Zanu and here they stand in front of
the world and us without shame. Without shame because they stand in front of us
in their birthday suits. What a sight! The kid from Zvimba, Mugabe, might be
playing his troops against each other but events can take a momentum of their
own. Indeed he is playing with fire.
Somebody did ask me, ‘where is the opposition?, This is the time to mobilise’ I
said that the opposition should lie low just in case Zanu realises they are
naked and regroup. Besides, one should respect those who are grieving. And what
about my dream? I added. Grace is a blessing in disguise and one day the nation
will thank her——when she is in exile! These are exciting times indeed. A
few weeks ago, that dead sheep with lipstick on, Mujuru, actually managed a
rare smile when questioned about the current goings in Zanu. She still insists
all the opposition parties should unite ———-under her. Business as usual,
as far as she is concerned, and Zanu has a lot to answer for! I was seething with anger towards her when her husband
died mysteriously.
Angry because, there she was as vice president and war vet whose husband
had been ‘murdered’ by the state and she responded by doing sweet FA! He was
also a war hero and she could not even organise an independent autopsy. Whose
corpse was it? Now this dead sheep thinks she can lead the nation? God help us.
After independence those two had hit the jackpot and she always said Zimbabwe
was a peaceful country, —–for some. Thus her husband was a roving ambassador
in this paradise and did not need security, besides their millions. Besides
they, especially him, knew how their party operated. Now she is the victim and
she wants people of sound mind to join ‘her’ party without questions. I say
dead sheep because I serious believe she did not know what Zanu was up to and I
would be surprised if she knows what year we are in. And that is a compliment.
A few days ago a blogger wrote a
brilliant piece under the heading, ‘Opposition
must not be fooled by Zanu PF ‘squabbles’. His main point was that what is happening in Zanu is a
pretence and a game they have always played to distract the people. Well
written but I beg to differ. This is for real and I am enjoying every minute of
it. In years gone by Zanu has always shown discipline even at street
level. The average tow rag at the bottom has always given the same answers
churned from the top. Sanctions. Right now they are completely lost and I must
admit one actually feels a modicum of sympathy. I still rub it in though!
If
all this is just pretence then Zimbabwe is full of them, actors. For the first
time in our history tear gas and water cannons have been turned on the war
vets. Pasi papinduka/ the world has changed. Zanu is imploding. It is strange
because this is not a result of the general population revolting but of greed
and ambition. There is no more diplomatic protocol and each time one of the
goons opens his/her mouth lambasting another, they openly name names. It’s
exciting and definitely no acting! This was an accident waiting to happen
and they have, for years, all been rushing to the scene. They have all
been complacent and thought they were untouchable. Nearly forty years in charge
it has to end. During this period they have been digging a hole and in order to
get out they don’t realise they have to stop digging. This is why it is vital
the opposition does not rock the boat. The opposition has thrown them a rope
too many times and should concentrate on how to cover the hole after the storm
has passed.
Simon M Tozvireva.
Something is happening to Zimbabwe or is
it me? Every time I sit down and try to write something I have to restart
after a few lines because events are moving so fast. It seems no one in Zanu
has a heartbeat let alone brain and it really excites me. Her October
revolution in 2013 looks now like a kids party in the park. It is true to say,
since the elections of 2013 the ship called Zimbabwe has been floating
rudderless on the high seas. The engines stopped a long time ago and the
captain and his crew are nowhere to be seen. All over the world parties split.
New parties are formed but are the leaders and supporters in Zanu that stupid?
I feel like I am in one of those dreams you don’t want to end and when you wake
up you actually feel disappointed. I have never enjoyed witnessing the pain in
Zanu like I am right now. Please this dream must continue!
There is a danger though. The conditions are almost ripe for a minute
spark to start an inferno which might engulf this ‘revolution’ party, if not
the whole nation. Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. And I am still in my slumber,
dreaming! Events are now catching up with Zanu and here they stand in front of
the world and us without shame. Without shame because they stand in front of us
in their birthday suits. What a sight! The kid from Zvimba, Mugabe, might be
playing his troops against each other but events can take a momentum of their
own. Indeed he is playing with fire.
Somebody did ask me, ‘where is the opposition?, This is the time to mobilise’ I
said that the opposition should lie low just in case Zanu realises they are
naked and regroup. Besides, one should respect those who are grieving. And what
about my dream? I added. Grace is a blessing in disguise and one day the nation
will thank her——when she is in exile! These are exciting times indeed. A
few weeks ago, that dead sheep with lipstick on, Mujuru, actually managed a
rare smile when questioned about the current goings in Zanu. She still insists
all the opposition parties should unite ———-under her. Business as usual,
as far as she is concerned, and Zanu has a lot to answer for! I was seething with anger towards her when her husband
died mysteriously.
Angry because, there she was as vice president and war vet whose husband
had been ‘murdered’ by the state and she responded by doing sweet FA! He was
also a war hero and she could not even organise an independent autopsy. Whose
corpse was it? Now this dead sheep thinks she can lead the nation? God help us.
After independence those two had hit the jackpot and she always said Zimbabwe
was a peaceful country, —–for some. Thus her husband was a roving ambassador
in this paradise and did not need security, besides their millions. Besides
they, especially him, knew how their party operated. Now she is the victim and
she wants people of sound mind to join ‘her’ party without questions. I say
dead sheep because I serious believe she did not know what Zanu was up to and I
would be surprised if she knows what year we are in. And that is a compliment.
A few days ago a blogger wrote a
brilliant piece under the heading, ‘Opposition
must not be fooled by Zanu PF ‘squabbles’. His main point was that what is happening in Zanu is a
pretence and a game they have always played to distract the people. Well
written but I beg to differ. This is for real and I am enjoying every minute of
it. In years gone by Zanu has always shown discipline even at street
level. The average tow rag at the bottom has always given the same answers
churned from the top. Sanctions. Right now they are completely lost and I must
admit one actually feels a modicum of sympathy. I still rub it in though!
If
all this is just pretence then Zimbabwe is full of them, actors. For the first
time in our history tear gas and water cannons have been turned on the war
vets. Pasi papinduka/ the world has changed. Zanu is imploding. It is strange
because this is not a result of the general population revolting but of greed
and ambition. There is no more diplomatic protocol and each time one of the
goons opens his/her mouth lambasting another, they openly name names. It’s
exciting and definitely no acting! This was an accident waiting to happen
and they have, for years, all been rushing to the scene. They have all
been complacent and thought they were untouchable. Nearly forty years in charge
it has to end. During this period they have been digging a hole and in order to
get out they don’t realise they have to stop digging. This is why it is vital
the opposition does not rock the boat. The opposition has thrown them a rope
too many times and should concentrate on how to cover the hole after the storm
has passed.
Simon M Tozvireva.
why didn’t yo say that at the right time, respecting a fool has cost you a husband and a job-better say it all now for the whole nation to believe your new party. Say how you rigged the elections aswell
why didn’t yo say that at the right time, respecting a fool has cost you a husband and a job-better say it all now for the whole nation to believe your new party. Say how you rigged the elections aswell
too bad
too late