Muzorewa, Zimbabwe's First Black Prime Minister Dies. Mugabe is Scathing In His Condemnation
Bishop Abel Muzorewa in the garden of his home in Borrowdale, Harare. The former Prime Minister died of cancer day before yesterday while mourners were gathered for the funeral of his brother, who had died a few days before. Harare, Zimbabwe, 10 April 2010 Bishop Muzorewa, who was the first black person to become Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (then known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia), has died. The president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has not sent a message of condolence or acknowledged the death of the Bishop in any way. At least not in public. In private, though, I am told the president reacted to the news by saying that he still thinks that the blood of the "children"who died at Nyadzonya (a camp for Mugabe's fighters in Mozambique during the 1970s which was bombed when Muzorewa was Prime Minister in a Unity Government with Ian Smith) was "dripping from Muzorewa's hands". This is not a surprise. Mugabe considered Muzorewa a worse person than even Ian Smith, who put...