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The Commander of the combined Zimbabwe Defence Forces, General Constantine Chiwengwa, is so gravely ill that on Friday night, he was admitted to the Manyame Air Force Base Hospital in Harare and was only released on Sunday afternoon.  The General arrived at Manyame Air Force Base with an oxygen mask on him, apparently. The release on Sunday was apparently a self-discharge. Doctors at the hospital had insisted that Chiwengwa needed at least a week under observation in hospital but, "like a true soldier", (according to sources close to him), he checked himself out on Sunday afternoon, saying he had important work to attend to. President Mugabe visited the General alone on the night he was admitted, Friday. I understand the president stayed for close to three hours. The Generals wife, Jocelyn, who nearly assaulted Morgan Tsvangirai at a wholesalers a couple of years back, has not been seen in public for some months and it is rumoured that she is also extremely ill and that doct...

Tsvangirai and Mugabe sat and chatted amicably at Heroes Acre Today, with Mugabe once again referring to his former foe as the "Honourable Prime Minister", thanking him for attending the ceremony and saying, "That is at it should be." But in his speech, Mugabe resurrected the ghost of Gukurahundi with his words, which were echoing the political orders issued by his top commander on Thirsday The last time Robert Mugabe uttered the words "enemies of Zimbabwe" in reference to his own citizens, we ended up with more than 20 000 people in Matabeleland. The words triggered a genocidal orgy of violence that even Mugabe has called a "moment of madness." Gukurahundi. Of course, the leader of that momentary state madness is today the Commander of the Zimbabwe Air Force, but that is another matter entirely. Today Mugabe uttered those words again, describing those who continue with the "recent violence" as " enemies of Zimbabwe." This ech...