President Robert Mugabe deploys troops across the country to secure another
hotly disputed re-election followed by the imposition of his ally Defence
Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa as his successor, highly placed sources in the
State intelligence and the military revealed.
A member of the army stationed at the Zimbabwe Military Intelligence
Directorate (MID) revealed to The Zimbabwe Mail with supported secret
military communications documents marked "Highly Classified" that the
Zimbabwe National Army is on course for a full scale deployment across the
country with their full combat equipment and orders to carry out raids on
innocent villagers.
SADC, South Africa and Thabo Mbeki
The source said Zanu PF, with the assistances of South Africa's ruling party
ANC and other regional SADC States are involved in a plot to influence the
imposition of a requirement in the new Constitution which will see a sitting
President retiring from office and his party nominating his successor. A
majority vote will then be passed in Parliament for the new President to
take charge for the remainder of the term without calling for general
elections.
Mugabe has reiterated that the country will go for elections before June
next year to undo the ill conceived power sharing agreement signed with the
two MDCs in September 2008, but we can reveal that this is all according to
the long political process backed and crafted with the assistance of the
government of former South African President Thabo Mbeki.
High level Zanu PF sources this week made the startling revelation that the
defence minister unknown to many, has had an invisible hand in the crafting
of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) whose brainchild is former South
African leader Thabo Mbeki. Mnangagwa we gather spent considerable time
going up and down to South Africa soon after Mugabe was defeated by MDC
leader Morgan Tsvangirai, where he would meet up in Pretoria with Mbeki then
President on several occassions to nudge a solution whose outcome would
protect Mugabe and Zanu PF from losing political power. The GPA forming the
coalition government in Harare was then initiated secretly by Mbeki, with
cosmetic broadbased participation of the two MDC's negotiators sources said.
"Mnangagwa, Mbeki, Mugabe and the army generals really know where this GPA
thing is going," a Zanu PF central committee member has said in privacy.
"You see they somehow control the process, because they conceived it way
ahead of our partners in the inclusive government. Mnangagwa himself is
using it for his own political calculations, that's why you hear talk of
elections and not surprising the re-surgence of violence at these
constitutional meetings. It's all meant to test the waters and position Zanu
PF for future victory. The problem in this country is that investigative
journalisim is dead, therefore our people will continue being in the dark
with regards to the political matrix in government."
The Zimbabwe succession plan has been foisted to the less sophicticated new
South African government led by Jacob Zuma.
China and Russia
The Chinese and the Russians have weighed in as part of a whole raft of a
package to assist South Africa obtain a sit in the UN Security Council and
an invitation for Africa's richest nation into the BRICs – a coalition of
World's vibrant emerging economies made up of Brazil, Russia, India and
China.
China is also understood to be backing Mnangagwa as a better replacement to
Mugabe. Interestingly, the defence minister seems to have deep chemistry
with the chinese after having attended the Beijing School of Ideology, run
by the Chinese Communist Party in the 1970s. Mnangagwa also received
military training from China and later in Egypt.
Diamonds
In recent months, South Africa's ruling party's ANC key figures have been
secretly awarded access to Zimbabwean diamonds and other mineral riches in
exchange of key roles and the backing of a transitional political process
that would keep Zanu PF in power long after Robert Mugabe is gone.
It is this political process unravelling in Zimbabwe which was authored by
President Robert Mugabe himself with the assistance of former South African
President Thabo Mbeki and executed by former South African Presidency's
Director-General Reverend Frank Chikane, the chief principal negotiator for
the Zimbabwe coalition talks.
Reverend Chikane is the brother of the controversial Kimberley Process's
Zimbabwe diamonds monitor Abbey Chikane.
The two Southern African liberation political parties, ANC in South Africa
and ZANU PF in Zimbabwe both share the same history in violence and
mentality and therefore, for them tolerance of a new party coming into
power, especially emerging from the union movement like the Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC) in Zimbabwe, and South Africa's Cosatu simply is not
on the agenda.
The discovery of immensely rich diamond fields in Zimbabwe have emboldened
South Africa's ruling elite and this has raised the grand scale of political
skulduggery using SADC to work against the Movement for Democratic Change or
any other opposition movement in Zimbabwe.
With an election coming up in Zimbabwe, the MDC and most opposition parties
faces the predicament of staying out of the poll or facing another stolen
election with the South African government and a majority of SADC States
playing key roles in the trampling rough shod on the will of Zimbabwean
people leading to the imposition of a man who is much more ruthless than
Robert Mugabe himself. The man who has lost Parliamentary elections in his
own backyard.
Senior ANC official, secretary general Gwede Mantashe has already uttered
statements warning that criticism of the South Africa government from
Cosatu, ANC's coalition partners from the South African labour union
movements, is tantamount to a Zimbabwe's MDC-like flirtation. Zimbabwe's MDC
was found with the backing of the country's main labour union ZCTU.
Mantashe has labelled the Movement for Democratic Change a creation of the
West, and this follows recent rabid attacks on the MDC by ANC Youths League
President Julius Malema.
Already, the plan to kick start the election rigging process in Zimbabwe has
began with the massive ID cards and passport registration process currently
being carried out in South Africa and Harare for exiled Zimbabweans, albeit
with the aid of South African government agencies.
Early next year South African authorities will drive out millions of
Zimbabwean refugees ahead of Zimbabwean elections and hence the South
African's Home Affairs Ministry's' deadline of December 2010 for is well in
schedule to the Zimbabwean elections.
It is therefore not rocket science that Robert Mugabe is insisting on
elections next year and South African President Jacob Zuma was the first to
pronounce the same earlier this year, only to be rebuked by Prime Minister
Morgan Tsvangirai.
Violence and rigging elections
Meanwhile, in Zimbabwe, the success of the proposed Mugabe-Munangagwa
succession plan is build on the basis of Zanu PF securing a landslide
majority in Parliament and this will be enabled by massive unprecedented
State assisted political violence on rural populations by joint security
forces aided by party militia and mercenaries from the Great Lakes region.
The plan is to carry out these atrocities well ahead of the arrival of
foreign election observers and international monitors, a source said on
condition of anonymity.
The political cleansing operation in the country side will see Zanu PF re-
take the majority of rural constituencies including those held by the
Movement for Democratic Change.
SADC states who are mainly loyal to President Robert Mugabe with the backing
of South African government will immediately declare the elections free and
fair and pressure will be mounted on the opposition not to contest the
results. South African bases for the opposition will be closed down and
arrest warrants issued for any exiled MDC leaders stationed in South Africa.
On retaining power, President Mugabe will step down in a year's time and his
party will nominate Mnangagwa as his successor, a process which will be
rubber stamped by Parliament by a majority vote.
With its new position in the UN Security Council, South African government
and its SADC allies will crank up the pressure to the international
community to accept Mnangagwa as the new undisputed leader in Zimbabwe.
Key figures in the Western governments, the United States and United Kingdom
will be given access to the country's mineral resources alongside the
Chinese on condition that they lobby for the acceptance of "President
Emmerson Mnangagwa" into the international fold.
Efforts are already underway to approach the new British coalition
government through business and mining investors linked to Mnangagwa's proxy
business associates who have been awarded rights to mine platinum and Gold.
Meanwhile, the rural pre-election political cleansing operation which will
be administered by the Zimbabwe National Army's Brigade commanders and has
been dubbed "Operation Last Chimurenga" will soon establish "defensive
barriers" and enforce no-go areas for the opposition in the months ahead.
Small groups of heavily armed army patrol units will move into villages to
carry out "re-education" campaigns aimed at instilling fear through mental
torture of rural people.
Identified opposition supporters will be silenced and those who resist will
be killed in front of villagers with their heads decapitated in what will be
dubbed "Operation headless chicken".
Every village head is now a Zanu PF ward leader, doubling up as the Village
Development Committee chairman (VIDCO), who replaced the colonial times
Kraal heads.
In the Zimbabwe Voters Roll Register Database Management System batch
header, the VIDCO Chairman will be ordered to mobilise database member
batches of all people in the his cell or ward (Village) and he will be
assisted by security forces and the data will be submitted to provincial
Governors in those in batch headers and their members.
The Governors will then submit the data to the Registrar General who will
manage it on behalf of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and by the
time the elections are conducted Zanu PF will be in a position to know
exactly the precise numbers in the each rural constituencies and on the
polling day, no member in the batch will be turned away, while those in
urban areas struggles to find their names – "enda kwawakambovhotera last
time" (go where you voted last time).
Reports say, the Zimbabwe electoral voters register database management
system software was designed and is still being run by an Israel company
called Cogniview.
However, in recent months the company has denied any association with Robert
Mugabe's regime and writing on his blog Cogniview CEO Yoav Ezer has called
the story "codswallop".
In the country side, the office of the Registrar General is already busy
issuing National ID cards and birth certificate whereas those in the urban
areas have to put up with long queues and high standards set to put them off
or they are asked to go to rural bases.
The information on new birth certificates and national ID cards is being
secretly relayed to village VIDCO chairman who would then mobilises young
villagers to take ID Cards and Birth Certificates from mobile government
agents. This is usually carried out during the legendary food-for-work
programmes.
The whole process is organised by the provincial Governors and it is
therefore not rocket science that Robert Mugabe has remained adamant on the
appointment Governors in the face of the MDC's bitter protests.
Meanwhile, alongside the military terror plan there are deadly Zanu PF
militia hit squads trained in Angola and they will be working with Hutu and
Tutsi refugees recruited from a refugee camps located in the Manicaland
province.
A fugitive former Rwandan general who is wanted by the UN for war crimes
will be leading the mercenaries.
Some of the refugee hit squads participated in the aborted 2008 Presidential
run-off and they are renowned for their role in brutal cutting off hands in
what was called "Operation short sleeve", and the gruesome cutting off of
tongs and toggling of eyes of abducted MDC supporters.
The hit squads will target opposition leaders at grass roots level,
particularly in both the urban and rural areas to decimate the party's
structures.
An internal army command signal which has already been circulated to all
commanding officers is ordering them to cancel all leave days for serving
members in the coming year and massive cash payments will be made in
exchange.
Political monster
The newly created and expanded Zimbabwe National Security Council (ZNSC) to
be chaired by Mnangagwa will replace the current Joint Operations Command
(JOC).
The Minister of Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Patrick Chinamasa has been
tasked to fast track the Bill in order to create the legislation which will
transform JOC into a massive political monster called Zimbabwe National
Security Council (ZNSC) which will catapult Mnangagwa into power.
ZNSC will include military commanders; State spy agents, police and prison
Generals in addition to senior high ranking Zanu PF officials. In the coming
year, its first role will be to roll out a full program of seeking Robert
Mugabe's re-election, ahead of the national constitutional referendum.
The Zimbabwe National Security Council will be divided into various
committee groups and former Information and Publicity Minister Professor
Jonathan Moyo, Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa's long time campaign
strategist will be tasked to run its operations as chief strategic
operations officer.
Moyo, who will become the country's Prime Minister when Mnangagwa takes
charge, is said to be central to the overall plans and heading the strategic
think-tank involved in the dark arts of Zanu PF power gamesmanship scheme
and sources said he has already secured two floors at the Zanu PF HQ with a
strong team making preparatory stages for the final assault to the close
down of Robert Mugabe's era.
Across the country, soldiers and intelligence officers on reconnaissance
missions have already been deployed in towns and country side across the
country, reportedly to monitor MDC activities and positions.
They have set up camps at local police stations and teamed up with local
Zanu (PF) members in joint operations conducted at ward level, according to
well placed sources.
"We were deployed to take note of people's grievances around town. Three-man
teams comprising a CIO, Army and Zanu (PF) official would monitor political
proceedings in various wards. The exercise was meant to bring back 'normalcy'
among the electorate.
Several army control stations have been established country-wide, equipped
with stand-by generators to maintain a round-the-clock radio communication
with other sub-stations and army headquarters," said the source.
Other sources in the army confirmed that the reconnaissance teams were
assisted by local Zanu (PF) members to identify influential MDC officials in
each ward for future action.
"It was felt strategically correct to deploy the army now, as deploying it
towards election time would raise eyebrows among the international
community. This is a military state and the army would not want to take any
chances. The political playing field has to be tilted in favour of Mugabe
and Zanu (PF) now," said another soldier.
Mugabe's succession is a very serious matter in Zimbabwe, particularly in
Zanu PF. Over the years, the two persons thought to be heading the race are,
Emmerson Mnangagwa, and former military supremo, Solomon Mujuru, whose wife
is one of Mugabe's vice presidents. Mujuru is backing his wife in the race.
Last month, at the burial of his brother Mnangagwa made a startling
confession, that he was taught to destroy and kill, but in the same breath
immediately said he had turned a new leaf and had found comfort in the arms
of God.
However, this week Mnangagwa told hundreds of people in the midlands city of
Kwekwe that Zanu PF will continue to rule Zimbabwe even if Zimbabweans
rejected it.
"If you disagree with what is being said here, then there is nothing I can
do about it and if you don't vote for us in the next election, this country
is huge, we will rule even if you don't want," Mnangagwa said.
Mnangagwa, is one of the most shrewd politicians in Zimbabwe who is referred
to by those that know him well as "Ngwena" (the Crocodile), for his deadly
ruthless streak in maiming opponents who crosses his path.
"Ngwena" is fingered in most political murders and torture in both the
opposition and Zanu PF that have taken place during Robert Mugabe's 30 year
rule.
A United Nations report has also fingered him and the late army General
Vitalis Zvinavashe as some of the individuals involved in the plunder of
Democratic Republic of Congo, late in the 90s.
Mnangagwa a qualified lawyer is said to have ganged up with Justice minister
Patrick Chinamasa, in tilting the GPA pendulum in favour of Zanu PF thus
expalining the current order where the party has a grip on all powerful
ministries such as defence, mining, justice, police and agriculture.
Some of the key support which Mnangagwa secretly has inside Zanu PF, through
a power plotting scheme fronted by his chief political strategic Jonathan
Moyo reportedly includes, but is not limited to: Sydney Sekeramayi, Didymus
Mutasa, Patrick Chinamasa, Ignatius Chombo, Joseph Made, Kembo Mohadi,
Obert Mpofu, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, and Webster Shamu. - *Additional
reporting: Zimbabwe News Intelligence featuring Tsitsi Madiro (South Africa)
and Gilbert Mushonga (Canada).
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