Own Correspondent | Former War Vets Minister, Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube, has warned the country’s leaders against toxic power.

Dube said in an interview on local radio, “For instance, now we have all these problems. I am certain that our leaders can find a solution instead of thinking about power because power intoxicates. Absolute power intoxicates absolutely.”

Dube recently published a book, ‘Quite flows the Zambezi’, which documents his early life and his participation in the armed struggle, up to the time of the ceasefire.

The book also covers the Gukurahundi era, including untold stories of the tensions that characterised the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) in its formative years because of deep- seated suspicions between Zipra, Zanla and Rhodesian forces.

“We have to realise that we have no other country except Zimbabwe and if we are going to make Zimbabwe a country that we are proud of, we have to think seriously and forget selfish tendencies.”