By Own Correspondent| The expelled former deputy President of the MDC-T Thokozani Khupe at the weekend was caught red handed on her party motives.
It was revealed that Khupe has followed Emmerson Mnangagwa to exclude the crucial subject of truth and reconciliation concerning the Gukurahundi massacres.
The development, many said, suggests that Khupe’s new political outfit is directly sponsored by ZANU PF since Emmerson Mnangagwa’s party has done the same, to avoid the subject of reconciliation procedures necessary to attend to Gukurahundi issues.
It was all exposed by the Bulawayo broadcast journalist, Zenzele Ndebele of the CITES organisation who said, “I just went through MDC-T lead by Khupe’s Manifesto, I didn’t see any reference to dealing with reconciliation issues, for instance, Gukurahundi. For a party that is headquartered in Matebeleland that is a glaring omission. We want to know how you are going to deal with these issues.”
“Amiel Sibanda wrote on the Facebook website saying, “Khuphe is just an extension of mnagwagwa’s ZANU pf mina angimangali.”
To this Khupe’s party spokesperson Linda Masarira offered the following written reply saying, “The MDC-T B.E.S.T. Manifesto we unveiled is a shortened version for the voter, and does not offer full context to all the root causes of the problems we have. Admittedly, as pointed out, Gukurahundi is part of the root causes of the lack of development and marginalisation of Matebeleland which our manifesto packaged under the Devolution bullet point. The full version of our manifesto which will be posted on line later will address geographic specific contexts of the problems the country has, and will specifically portray the Gukurahundi issue as a causality to some of the lack of development in Matebeleland. It is however not accurate to say that the party is headquartered in Bulawayo, given the legal challenges yet to be settled. In any case Dr Khupe leads a national party whose location of offices headquarters have absolutely no reflection in the party policies.”