“Let’s Rebury Gukurahundi Victims By Force”
23 December 2017
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Paul Nyathi | ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa may have struck a wrong code in his efforts to find closure to the Gukurahundi atrocities of the eighties.

Addressing about 300 people at a function held in Bulawayo on Friday, Dabengwa invited the people of Matabeleland to gather in August next year and rebury all the Gukurahundi victims in descent graves even without authority from government.

“Let us rise in numbers next year around August to October and go out through the entire region with picks and shovels and dig up all the people lying in the shallow graves and bury them,” said Dabengwa.

“You need not worry about the coffins we will be able to get those,” he said.

Further to that Dabengwa said that Matabeleland people should not invite the Gukurahundi atrocities perpetrators, chief of who he singled out President Emerson Mnangagwa, to apologise to the victims claiming that there can never be an apology on premeditated murder.

“In do not agree with sentiments that say Mnangagwa must come and apologise to us for the atrocities before we can start accepting him as president, they executed the murders after careful planning that’s why they have not apologised in 30 years, leave them like that don’t ask for their apology,” he said.

Dabengwa urged the people of Matabeleland to begin to realise that the solution on the Gukurahundi issues lies within the region and not from the same government which executed the killings.

Responding to Dabengwa’s calls, Alliance for National Salvation ANSA leader Moses Mzila Ndlovu said that Dabengwa’s call was out of order as it is tantamount to tempering with evidence “which will be required soon.”

“Dabengwa’s call doesn’t work, we can not at a time when we are pushing for investigations on the killings start tempering with the evidence,” he said.

Mzila said that what needs to be done first is to work at voting out the government that harbours the perpetrators of the atrocities so that a new government can effectively deal with them.

Another Bulawayo veteran politician, Felix Magalela Mafa also dismissed Dabengwa claiming that his call for the tempering with the mass graves is out of order as it will disturb vital evidence of the killings.

Mafa also said that reburials can not just be done without consulting the families of the murdered people as per cultural requirements.

At least 20 000 people are suspected to have been killed and buried in shallow graves and disused mines throughout Matabeleland and part of Midlands province during the Gukurahundi era of 1982 to 1987.

10 Replies to ““Let’s Rebury Gukurahundi Victims By Force””

  1. One of the ministries under Munangagwa govt has a compensation department. go back and study them. How do you know Gukurahundi was not covered Instead Dabengwa wants to scuttle any plans Munangagwa has. WHy is that? Munangagwa may not be a insensitive as yu people are being made to believe. If I were from matebeleland I would question Dabengwa position. it does not foster peace . kind of agitating for a fight. A fight that will cause more death. Are you sure Munangagwa has no plans for Gukurahundi. You guys have not given him a chance

  2. People, do you now see why the Shonas end up at the recieving end of Gukurahundi attacks?

    Here we have Dabengwa and others attacking Mnangagwa and others over Gukurahundi. Nowhere do I see the word or name Shona.

    But look who is talking on his behalf – some Shona people.

    I have alaways said and will say it again – Gukurahundi is not tribal at all; its a political issue thats been tribalised into Ndebele Shona by the Shona people.

    It is them, who choose to be the self appointed spokesmen of the accused Politicians like Mugabe, Mnangagwa, Sekeramayi and Nkala.

    Again, it is them who immediately raise the issue of tribal wars, the moment the word Gukurahundi is mentioned; if only to tribalise the whole issue and shut people up.

  3. You seem desperate and easily defeated. Why cant you deal with your Matebeleland opponents and outshine them in your arguments without mentioning the word ZULULAND?

    Its like shouting “racism” when you cant beat a whiteman at his game.

    “Zululand” – what a meaningless and useless argument and primitive too. Shame!!

  4. Mnangagwa does not need to go on a pulpit to apologise. He just needs to pay a visit to the Chiefs one by one and seek their cooperation in approaching the victims families to show remorse and request that we open and start on a new chapter.

    This standing on public platforms and demanding to let bygones be bygones will never work. Especially when seen against his promise to compensate white farmers who committed far worse crimes against the black people through colonialism!!

  5. your comments are tribalistic and at the same rate demostrate stupidity and total ignorance.In any organization the leader calls the shots and he’s fully accountable. In this case it was Bob ,so DD must must push for Bob to shade some light before either him or Bob is dead .Calling people mad wont get you anywhere.

  6. tell those who were in the hall to make a choice between,,,Heaven or hell, home or jail, zululand or Zimbabwe. ok

  7. dd. you’re shamefully reversing Nkomo’s legacy. Where you mentioned ED, put the name chatunga.ED is answerable to post mgabe events. we’re watching you and your 300 youthful warmongers. Infact go back to Zululand if Zim is too peaceful to house your war hungry youths. Why in August?????????

  8. Ohlanyayo nguwe for sure. Your ED is the chief gukurahundist. If the reports are correctly quoting Mzila then he is a double tongued confused politician. He agreed totally with these sentiments in the hall. As for this Felix Mafa who is now described by his own people as a confused fool, no body takes him seriously anymore. His party has lost a lot of ground support while he is wasting time on political jealousies.Since when has he started to defend ZanuPf and gukurahundists?

  9. big politics at play ,I think once you become a politcian you also become a killer.Dabengwa is mad ,considering the time line he has given.I think its time to retire.The first person to be focussed on about these attrocities is Bob himself and I think he (Bob) hinted responsibility when he naturally attered that it was a “moment of madness”.Its suprising because this is the first time Dabengwa is boldly mentioning the name “Mnangagwa” in pubic since he came out of jail in the mid 80s. Dabengwa must leave our Boy ED alone.

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