Dabengwa Wants "Unqualified Apology"
Harare, Zimbabwe, 11 August 2009 Dumiso Dabengwa, the ZAPU leader and former ZAPU Commander, who is being offered the vice-presidency of Zimbabwe by Mugabe, is holding out and repeating his oft-stated demand for an apology from Mugabe over Gukurahundi. This is one of his two demands. Dabengwa is said to have also demanded that the healing process currently underway encompass Gukurahundi. You will recall I told you when I broke the story about a Reconciliation Commission that Mugabe had told Tsvangirai that Gukurahundi had "nothing to do" with him and he could only speak for the violence that followed the formation of the MDC. Very few people are aware of just how mortified Mugabe is over the Matabeleland massacres termed by then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's government "Gukurahundi" - the early rains that wash away the chaff". The only time Mugabe ever came even close to making a public apology over anything was over the Gukurandi massacres, which he said ...