ZANU PF secretary for administration, Obert Mpofu has said victims of the Gukurahundi killings do need development, not a reminder of their painful history.
Gukurahundi is a term used to refer to killings in Matabeleland and Midlands in the 1980s which resulted in the death of an estimated 20 000 people.
It was carried out by the North Korean trained 5th Brigade which was an elite regiment of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces. Gukurahundi is derived from a Shona language term which loosely translates to “the early rain which washes away the chaff before the spring rains”.
The nation has so far failed to find an everlasting solution to the issue with the Unity Accord signed by Zimbabwe’s two major nationalist movements namely the Zimbabwe African People’s Union led by Joshua Nkomo and the Zimbabwe African National Union led by Robert Mugabe only managing the situation thus far.
Speaking in Jotsholo on Saturday, 28 May 2022 at the burial of a traditional leader, Chief Vusumuzi Khumalo Mabhikwa of Lupane, Mpofu said everyone talking about Gukurahundi was not a nation-builder. He said:
… abantu kabafuni ukuti babe lokuKhunjuzwa izinto ezibuhlungu bafuni intuthuko besiya phambili [people don’t want to be reminded of painful things, they want development going forward.]
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Others say truth, justice and reconciliation is the only solution to the matter.
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Ubonakala ngokukhamisa kwakho ukuthi lawe uyinswelaboya.
He is a perpetrator who told ZanuPF and the former Rhodesians who to kill in Zapu. What can he say ? He sold out Zapu people.
I agree with Cde Mpofu. Let us bury the ugly moments of madness and move on as united Zimbabweans in peace. Our national history goes back to years before 1890, before 1980, before the current New Dispensation. We learn from that history to avoid any mistakes. Yes development that promotes national welfare should be our focus. 🙏
Wathengisa i Zapu watshotshozela i Zanu ukuthi ibulale abantu ngo 1983 & 1984