By ZPRA War Veterans Team | Walking on the carpet with a Ndebele wife born in the province that was badly hit by the tribal killings in the 1980s- This is Vice President Constantine Chiwenga (once known as Dominic Chinenge) and was employed in the army during the Gukurahundi massacres when he operated from Brady Barracks in 1983. He was commander of 1 Brigade & later took over 5th Brigade after Perance Shiri was moved elsewhere. He was a key figure in the Gukurahundi killings from the very beginning. Whilst at 1 Brigade, men under his command, (all now late), Derek Flint Magama (born Mavima), Paul Armstrong Gunda & a Major Mutumbi, were instrumental in the arrests, abduction & subsequent extra-judicial killing or disappearance of hundreds of ex-ZPRA soldiers serving in the national army. Magama & Gunda were also implicated in the hunting down & execution of ZAPU National Executive member & ex deputy minister, Njini Ntuta, which the Zanu Guk fascist government blamed on so-called dissidents.
Chiwenga played an equal if not bigger role in Gukurahundi than Perance Shiri. He was Emmerson Mnangagwa’s key player in Gukurahundi, an ethnic program against unarmed men, women & children committed by cowards, terrorists, not fit to be called soldiers & their Zanu PF fascist leaders.