Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe attempted a number of fake coups through his CIO and other undetectable intelligence collaborators last year, Wikileaks cable revelations reveal.
Several people approached the US, UK and Australian embassies begging for weapons as they claimed they could easily remove president Robert Mugabe through a coup and the most prominent leader of these groups ZimEye has tracked and found him freely roaming the country without problems, despite the damning cables having been released ten days ago.
The fake coups would if succesful have helped to distract attention from international outrage over Operation Restore Order by implicating the West in an effort to overthrow the Government Of Zimbabwe. An Australian official said he had declined to have the plan vetted and had also rejected requests for financial and material assistance, noting that the Australian Government did not support the violent overthrow of the Mugabe regime.
A cable dated 31st December 2010 reveals that in the eight months up to the end of last year, a great number of people approached the UK, US, and Australian governments requesting for assistance so they could topple Robert Mugabe. One such person is one hunting safaris businessman Learnmore Muzvidzwa who introduced himself as the Managing Director of one company by the name Dreiford Trading. 
Muzvidzwa is the only person who managed to obtain audience of the Australians although he was rejected by the US embassy.
“Muzvidzwa repeated his claim to represent a group that had 500 men under arms in the Chihota district. He wanted advice and support from the Embassy,” the cable reads.
The businessman claimed that he could coordinate a coup on Mugabe while the president was out of the country.
Muzvidzwa was however dismissed by the US embassy after it was believed that his plan could be part of a CIO effort to distract attention from the government. “He said he had approached the Australian and UK embassies with the same plan. Poloff told him the U.S. did not and would not
provide support for violent overthrow of Zimbabwe’s government and closed the meeting,” the US envoy’s cable states.
The US findings may be true since more than a week after the Wikileaks cable was made public, Muzvidzwa has been roaming freely in Zimbabwe without any security problems or attacks from ZANU PF and Mugabe loyalists.
-FULL TEXT OF WIKILEAKS CABLE:
S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 02 HARARE 001007
SIPDIS
NOFORN
AF FOR DAS T. WOODS
AF/S FOR B. NEULING
NSC FOR SENIOR AFRICA DIRECTOR C. COURVILLE
DS FOR IP/AF AND IP/ITA
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/31/2010
TAGS: PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC ZI
SUBJECT: ARMED RESISTANCE GROUP SEEKS US ASSISTANCE
Classified By: Charge d,Affaires, a.i., Eric T. Schultz under Section 1
.4 b/d
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Summary
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¶1. (S/NF) The Embassy has received several requests from
various groups for meetings with the Ambassador/CDA in the
past few weeks to discuss overthrowing the Mugabe regime. We
have rejected all of these meetings, out of concern that they
could have been attempts by the GOZ to implicate the USG in
such an agenda. However, the Australian Embassy did meet
with one of these groups and provided us with a readout. The
same group then obtained a meeting with an Embassy political
officer under false pretenses. The readouts of these
meetings indicate that there may be growing interest in armed
resistance on the part of some regime opponents. The MDC was
not implicated in the group,s plans. End summary.
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Australian Readout
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¶2. (S/NF) On July 13, the Australian DCM, Mark Lynch, called
on CDA to provide a readout of a meeting he had had the
previous day with Learnmore Muzvidzwa. Lynch said Muzvidzwa
had introduced himself as the Managing Director of Dreiford
Trading, a firm that specialized in hunting safaris. (N.B.
At CDA,s request, RMAS ran a background check on this
individual, which came up negative.) Lynch said Muzvidza had
said Zimbabweans were at the end of their patience with the
Mugabe regime. He had said he was part of a group with
contacts in the CIO, the military, and the police that
planned to overthrow the government. The group did not
include the MDC. He had claimed to have 500 men under arms
in the Chihota region southeast of Harare. The group,s
operations plan, which he had requested the Australians vet,
called for the coup to occur when Mugabe was out of the
country.
¶3. (S/NF) Lynch said he had declined to have the plan vetted
and had also rejected requests for financial and material
assistance, noting that the Australian Government did not
support the violent overthrow of the Mugabe regime. That
said, Lynch said Muzvidzwa had struck him as a credible
figure. He added that Muzvidzwa had said he was requesting
meetings with the American and British Embassies as well.
The CDA responded that he had already declined the meeting,
out of concern that it could be part of a CIO effort to
distract attention from international outrage over Operation
Restore Order by implicating the West in an effort to
overthrow the GOZ.
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Embassy Meeting
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¶4. (S/NF) On July 20, poloff met with Muzvidzwa, ostensibly
to discuss the plight of Zimbabweans as a result of Operation
Restore Order. Muzvidza repeated his claim to represent a
group that had 500 men under arms in the Chihota district.
He wanted advice and support from the Embassy. He said he
had approached the Australian and UK embassies with the same
&plan.8 Poloff told him the U.S. did not and would not
provide support for violent overthrow of Zimbabwe,s
government and closed the meeting.
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COMMENT
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¶5. (S/NF) It is probably inevitable that given the GOZ,s
turn to more repressive tactics to maintain its hold on
power, the idea of armed resistance may begin to appeal to
some Zimbabweans. Certainly there are plenty of weapons in
the country and plenty of experience using them. That said,
our judgment is that the military and the police remain
largely loyal to the regime and would be able to handle a
coup attempt or an armed uprising with little difficulty. We
will continue to monitor this situation but will also
continue to attempt to avoid direct meetings with groups such
as Muzvidzwa,s. The GOZ is quite capable of running such an
operation at us and of using the very fact of a meeting to
distract attention from the GOZ,s current travails.
SCHULTZ
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WikiLeaks Pane Nyaya Apa, woti kambwa kaye kanonzi Miki unokaona here apa? Kanongobuda chete kachitujirira kana someone afananidza kumseo kwaMugave neganda rema-che-nde rakasviba kuti zvii setsubvu nekuunyana semache-nde.
Kanobudazve if someone raises his/her ideas, iko kobva kagambira kachitunhidza Zanu or kachitukirira MDC naTsvangson.
Pane nyaya dzinenge dzadhuuka kanomirira kupihwa script.
the problem is that in Zimbabwe any politician can play dirty tricks as long as it does not kill any Shona speaking person.Mugabe did many dirty tricks to ZAPU supporters and killed 30 000.But all Shona people believed his lies until he started doing it on MDC. YOU hypocrites..come elelction time I want him to beat you up again so that next time you will know how evil tribal politics is.I celelbrate each time when he beats you up because you supported this barbarica attitude from ther beginning…Mugabe batshyae futhu next elelctions how can they benefit from you in the name of tribalims and betray you? Beat them up hard next elelction MR gUSHUNGO, HATEVER THAT MEANS.
@CHANDO KUPISA WikiLeaks are the best thing that has happened to Zim In the last two years. BLA MIKI muripo here? I t will be very interesting to see how the Oldman responds to this scenario that’s playing it’s self out. We’ll be watching!
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More PLANTED Wiki-LIES misinformation & disinformation & GOSSIP from the historically lying, deceptive & divisive pale devils!
Bones of Nehanda will know to not take as credible the ever-divisive words of the KNOWN EURO LIARS!
The words of historically lying, deceptive, DIVISIVE, devilish, destructive & wicked white man are worthless!
The historical goal of the pale devils is division, domination, destruction, PLUNDER & DISPLACEMENT of Africans in their Ancestral lands!
No awake Africans are going to divide and destroy themselves on account of the worthless GOSSIP of the pale devils. lol
Icho, chimwe charira cheZANU. Read following:
Mnangagwa wanted to be Tsvangirai’s subordinate
Bulawayo 24
by Staff reporter
2011 September 11 18:12:25 | 416 Views
DEFENCE minister Emmerson Mnangagwa allegedly pleaded with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai five years ago to include him in a future MDC government, a leaked United States embassy cable has revealed.
According to the secret cable dated June 2006, made public by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks last week, MDC-T secretary general Tendai Biti allegedly told a US embassy official Eric Schultz that Tsvangirai had been secretly discussing a power-sharing deal with Zanu PF officials.
Biti allegedly identified the Zanu PF officials as Mnangagwa and the late former army commander Solomon Mujuru. Mnangagwa could not be reached for comment yesterday. He said while Mngangwa was willing to be Tsvangirai’s subordinate in the proposed government, Mujuru wanted the then popular opposition leader to be a junior partner.
“According to Biti, Mnangagwa was willing to subordinate himself to Tsvangirai in exchange for cabinet slots and protection guarantees for affiliated businesses,” reads part of the cable.
“Biti said Mujuru was only offering to take Tsvangirai in as a junior partner, which he said reflected the Mujuru faction’s continued primacy.” The cable also alleges that MDC leader Welshman Ncube had offered Biti the post of president in his faction before they brought in Arthur Mutambara.
“He said Ncube had offered him the presidency of the pro-senate faction, but that he had no regrets about remaining with Tsvangirai in spite of his faults,” Schultz wrote in the cable.
Biti is also quoted accusing Education, Sport and Culture minister David Coltart of being obsessed with race. Coltart had allegedly written an email to an official at the US embassy accusing the MDC-T faction of being behind the intra-party violence that led to the split of the MDC in 2005.
Biti, who could not be reached for comment, compared Coltart, who could also not be reached for comment, to MDC-T treasurer Roy Bennett, who speaks Shona fluently. “Bennett was culturally Zimbabwean; Coltart, who spoke not a word of the local language, would always be an outsider,” Schultz wrote in the cable.
Zanupf has always behavedlike this. During the war they would speak in ndebele and thn wipe zipra supporters who would tashupika huku dzedu dzapera
Muzvidzwa has always been a double dealer who bears much loyality to Zanu-pf. Few years ago he was part of a group that pretended to be pro-MDC trying to launch some sporadic violent protests against the GOZ. Most of his close friends suspect that he might be a CIO informer. He started a safari game business after being given a previously white owned farm during the land grabs. His name is found in almost all the Zim political parties’s papers. To his community, he is Zanu today and MDC tommorrow, they dont know where he belongs.
who knows the real truth but muzvidzwa himself?ah, so!
Silly zanu muppets up to monkey tricks.
Please give us a break,we are sick and tired of the so called Wikileaks .
Iwe Serpeant kwako kunenge kunyo kwebere unokuona here kumeso. Stupid silly little untailed one legged foolish monkey
this muzvidzwa is related to colonel joe muzvidzwa the commandant of the staff college it could be possible that there was such a deal given what the colonel always says at the KGVI mess hall with his close confides colonel dzihwema and brigadier thomas moyo these guys must be probed
Well–well– they suspected he was from the CIO, so rejected his request, right? Does this mean that had they thought he was guenuine they would have had a deal or what? Dzimwe nyaya dze ZIMEYE dzinohwisa wusimbe shuwa.So?
Cheap zanu pf plot conceived by mupets doomed to failure, and they wander why they lose elections ?
Again, where are you Bla Miki?
I know this kid, he left school with no qualifications at all. He went to St David’s Nyandoro School and went to Vic Falls after o levels where his mother was into some business. He is a proper crook and I believe he would have been arrested now if this was not part of the CIO plot.
No wonder why, for a house divided against itself will fall.
Ganda rekumeso kwaMugabe kuita kunge re Mache……..nde.
i just believed so, though i was so genuinely concerned , if he was a normal civilian like myself, then he was supposed to be in danger .. i did some facebook tracing to find out and talk to him, all his friends told me that he was a pro zanu-pf.. and they where wondering why he can do such a thing to topple cde mugabe.. i am now relieved with this article , thanks zimeye.