There was shock last week after ZANU PF’s secretary for administration, Didymus Mutasa, rubbished news that liberation war army general Josiah Magama Tongogara’s elder brother, Michael died a week before. Mutasa with his denials, has since triggered a series of shifting inconsitent explanations for ZANU PF’s shocking failure to honour the Tongogara family.
Michael Tongogara (a liberation war cadre) could not have died, Mr Didymus Mutasa told ZimEye as he dismissed the yet verified reports that Tongogara passed on and was, two weeks ago, buried in Mt Darwin’s Chesa area.
When asked by ZimEye why his party failed to attend the funeral despite Mr Michael Tongogara’s status as a liberation war, and a ZANU PF party icon since the 70s, Mr Mutasa dismissed the news widely reported last week.
He replied:
“Michael (ani?) Michael who?
“Ah, hatimbozivi kuti akafa ba isu – We do not know at all that Tongogara died.
“Hatimbozivi kuti akafa isu.
“Hazviite ka pachivanhu chedu kuti munhu ofa munhu momuregerera ….. – It cannot happen in our culture that we neglect a person after he has died.
“But ku Mt Darwin aienderei mukoma waTongogara? – But in Mt Darwin what had Tongo’s brother gone there to do?
“Handiti anogara ku Masvingo neku nhingirikini uku, kuSelukwe?…. Zvino varikuti akandoradzikwa kuMt Darwin kuna ani ko?
“So the story may just be fake really,” said Mr Mutasa.
Mutasa’s statement comes after ZANU PF’s spokesperson Rugare Gumbo also dismissed the same story saying he did not know at all that Mr Tongogara had passed on.
According to the Standard paper’s Jennifer Dube, Michael died a bitter man and he complained that Zanu PF and Tongo’s former comrades in arms had neglected the family left behind by the Zanla chief who died in a mysterious accident on December 26 1979, a few months before independence.
But the party is reported as having actually deliberately snubbed his burial and reports suggest that President Robert Mugabe’s group actually took an intentional stance ignoring the Tongogara family because of standing political grudges against them which date back to the 70s.
Michael Tongogara has lived in the Chesa area since the early 1980s when he was resettled there and until the time of his death, continued as a party loyale. Despite the party bosses stating that they do not know him, he however for several years featured in ZANU PF’s own media during several lenghty interviews for which he was largely regarded as a spokesman of the fami;y.
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Ko kuvigwa neZanu ndokunei? If he is a war vet people will remember him for that. What more is needed. Hondo haina kurwirwa personal gain but the liberation of the nation. After all the majority of blacks then had a role to play in that war. If anything he died a proud man kuti the dream was realised. Zvekuda kuvharwa neZanu kunge ndovega vakarwa hondo.
Hanzi Tongogara our greatest war hero!! Pakayi? He fought like everybody else.
hilarious….selukwe! i must admit, i didnt know of selukwe…only knew shurugwi. thanks didymus
Selukwe iripi?
Serukwe, Selukwe Kikikikiiiiii. This old man is still in Rhodesia. Silly diesel politician.
Jumpdark it is Shurugwi, ok!
Ah sure, I remember now. Thanks Jumpdaki, but don’t overdose on that glue stuff and weed. Otherwise the terrorists will take our Rhodesia whilst we are asleep. Long live the dead Queen!!!
Mutasa is correct stupid! It is called Selukwe
Ku Selukwe??? Chii ichocho? The manyika syndrome of loving chirungu pese pese.
Hon Kurira, Zanu PF is a bird of prey that devours its own children. If you want to see the ruthless streak of Zanu PF, look at how they treat those within their own ranks with whom they have had even disagreements. If you want evidence that they killed Tongogara, I will not provide you any DNA samples, but just look at the way they treated the family of probably the greatest hero of our war of liberation. And now to top it all up, they don’t even attend or care about his brother’s death? Does that seem normal to you?
Handina kuMbozwa nezavke, until now Zimeye repoorts that he is dead
Greyhora i respect you very much.But on your comment i just want to ask wetha thoz are not allegations.Any piece of evidence pliz?
After all, it is an open secret that Mugabe and Zanu PF killed Josiah Magama Tongogara. So why should they care when his older brother dies?
We don’t care whether they know or not , to us ,he is just another useless Mtshabi.
Kurira kwejongwe hauna nyaya. Pane asina kuzvinzwa kuti mukoma waTongogara akashaya? Rimwe bato rikato deedzera kuti ririkuenda ikoko. Asi iwe na Cde Dydmus munogara mumwena musina nhau kani?
Insane idiots who have submited tosh above.You wanted Cde Mtasa and Gumbo to confirm the news they dont know anything about? They didnt know about it PERIOD you spargetti heads.
Good observation Brigadier General Live. Mutasa denies everything which is true, as long as it does not favour Zanu PF
Dear Zimbabweans forgive this fool.He is the Secretary General of a certain party imagine.He is the same one who few weeks ago after murdering an innocent 12 year old boy by burning him inside a hut claimed that he was the boy’s father best friend, he is the same Rockdiesel guy.Dont mind him he has always been in need of psychiatric attention.
Aiwa kwete ini ndati bodo kani bodo vanhuwe. Shiri yadya mazai ayo chete apa.
Correct me if I’m wrong, before someone gets buried, they need a death certificate don’t they? The death certificate is issued by proxy by the registrar of deaths & births.
The Registrar is Tobaiwa Mudede who is a known Zanoid. That Zanu-pf didn’t know of Mr Tongogara’s death is ludicrous since they are the custodians of death records. Also that no one thought of informing chef of such developments is absolutely ridiculous