Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo has been accused of lying in his response that Ndebele liberation war fighters were being killed at Mgagao.
In his response Moyo said:
I gave to the Standard Newspaper published on 2 July 2017 that I was taken to Mgagao from Zambia in mid-June 1976 and arrived there knowing not a single Shona word after the 6 June 1976 massacre of Zipra and Ndebele speaking Cdes. This is a fact whose evidence I know will be corroborated without fail because the truth always prevails.
However, in an interview with The Herald, Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) Joel Samuel Siyangapi Muzhamba who was known as Joseph Khumalo during the Second Chimurenga and was one of the first commanders at Mgagao, dismissed Moyo’s allegations that Ndebele speaking fighters were killed. He said he spoke Ndebele and cited a number of other Ndebele speaking war veterans who stayed at Mgagao.
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