HARARE – Former Finance Minister Tendai Biti has launched a scathing attack on the ruling ZANU PF, describing the party as “murderers and fascists” in a post on his X account.
Biti referenced the 2018 Motlanthe Commission of Inquiry into the 1 August 2018 shootings of civilians, claiming witnesses pointed to ZANU PF’s culpability. He further alleged that the party was responsible for the death of Herbert Chitepo, the former ZANU chairman, in 1975.
“ZANU are murderers and fascists. At the Motlanthe Commission of Inquiry into the 1 August 2018 shooting of civilians, I testified that Chairman Chitepo was killed by ZANU and not Rhodesians. Vernon Mwanga, Zambia’s foreign minister at the time, confirmed this to me in conversations at Tswalu in the Northern Cape,” Biti said.
He claimed Chitepo was accused of collusion with Thomas Nhari and Dakarai Badze, leaders of the Nhari rebellion of November 1974, and that the Zambian Government arrested Josiah Tongogara and other ZANU leaders over Chitepo’s death.
Biti added that many of those implicated gave evidence at the Commission of Inquiry into Chitepo’s death, represented by senior UK counsel, and that some remain connected to the current regime.
He described Chitepo as a “brilliant legal mind” and “compassionate family man” devoted to his wife Victoria and their daughters, before accusing ZANU PF of a long history of political killings.
Biti cited the deaths of Solomon Mutuswa (2011), Tichaona Chiminya and Talent Mabika (2000), Beta Chokururama and Godfrey Musoja Kauzani (2008), Tonderai Ndira (2008), and victims of the Chaona massacre (2008), as well as the estimated 30,000 people killed during Gukurahundi.
“They have blood on their hands. They have blood in their DNA,” Biti declared.
Source – Byo24news
