7.8 Bulawayo
Provincial
Highlights
The highlight of the
province was the hate
speech and tribal conflict
between national and
regional political party
supporters.
For example, Mthwakazi Liberation party
supporters assaulted each other while
squabbling about the relevance of the
MDC Alliance president, Nelson Chamisa
to Zimbabwean politics.
In another incident, a Zanu PF member,
Natious Dube, got assaulted at
Makhokhoba Bus rank over his praises
for President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
One of the perpetrators allegedly said, in
reference to Dube ‘It is only a stupid and
foolish Ndebele that can shower praises
on Mnangagwa who killed thousands of
Ndebeles.’
Mnangagwa has been accused of having
played a significant role in the
Gukurahundi massacres of the 1980s,
where over 20,000 people in
Matebelaland and Midlands were killed
by a North Korean trained Fifth Brigade
of the Zimbabwe National Army.
Mnangagwa was the State Security
minister at the time.
There has been a lot of hate speech in
the ZAPU party following the election
process where son to nationalist Joshua
Nkomo, Sibangilizwe won. Other party
members, denounced Nkomo as a fool, a
mafikizolo (new comer) who rides on the
fame of his father.