The former Minister of Information under Mugabe, "born again" as an independent Member of Parliament and fierce Mugabe critic, correctly describes the disinformation campaign Mugabe and the CIO are running to paint pro-democracy forces as "domestic terrorists":
"As the political challenges against him from his own party begun gaining momentum following the Goromonzi Zanu PF conference last December, and as the national consensus started building up with the chorus that he must retire now, Mugabe had to find a desperate way out. For obvious reasons, he had to look to the CIO.
A convenient fiction of foreign-sponsored "domestic terrorism" came in handy because it is the sort of stuff lifted from the arcane methods of organisations like the CIO steeped in dirty and brutal Rhodesian roots without any public accountability whatsoever. Many Zimbabweans still remember only too well how the same CIO in Rhodesia used to infiltrate the liberation movement and how it impersonated freedom fighters and abused their guises to unleash violence worse than the current fiction of "domestic terrorism". That Rhodesian book of dirty tricks is still there."
Read the whole article in Friday's Zimbabwe Independent.
