Mr B Musonza's views!

I have had to intervene.

I do agree with Mangwengwende on the trend of opposition forces being viewed as "enemy" in the war-like spirit, eventually leading to a defacto one party state. I attribute this scenario to the failure of the current leadership or their cynical eager to prolong the colonial structures well into an independent Zimbabwe in order to crush opposition forces in the same way the racial war was fought. Without being scientific, or over reliance on textbook theories, I will state out the facts and where Bob and Joshu lost it.

"The first head of the CIO was Deputy Commissioner Ken Flower; during his tenure the BSAP Special Branch Headquarters were incorporated within the CIO, while the Special Branch retained its internal security function within the BSAP.

Astonishingly, Prime Minister Robert Mugabe was content to keep Ken Flower in the role of Head of the CIO after majority rule in 1980, when the country's name changed to Zimbabwe. This was seen by some commentators as proof that Flower had worked covertly and intermittently with the British intelligence services to undermine Ian Smith's government, and was in sharp contrast to the treatment of General Peter Walls, chief of the Rhodesian Armed Forces, who was exiled and deprived of Zimbabwean citizenship in 1980"

In cahoots with the South African double agents, these Rhodesian CIO operatives planted some weapons in ZAPU farms, to fix Nkomo for what they thought was his brutal act in bringing down two civilian Air Rhodesia Viscount aircrafts in 1977,79 and his close alliance with the Russians, while South Africans feared he could influence Inkonto We Sizwe, the ANC armed wing. They succeeded and Joshua Nkomo got into trouble and so is the whole of Matabeleland region.
In that context, Mugabe undermined himself early in his leadership credentials to transform the liberation politics into a fully fledged democracy, because he felt he had to brutally crush, unknowingly, a Ken Flower-South African manufactured rebellion in Matabeleland that was only stopped by a Zanu-Zapu Unity Accord initiative which eventually swallowed a vital regional opposition party and with politicians from both sides conniving to the extension of Ian Smith's oppressive legislation to thwart their perceived enemies using State machinery hence the Law and Order Maintenance Act still exist today.

So, Mugabe was duped big time by Ken Flower and his 1980 delegation into the intelligence integration process led by the grossly over-hyped Emerson Munangagwa was found wanting as they chased shadows, while Prime Minister got obsessed with playing to the gallery and did not bother to look at the bigger picture of transforming a nation from the post liberation politics. How a Socialist party worked with Ken Flower as head of the CIO, is incompatible with reality?
Joshua Nkomo made his own fatal errors of judgement in his over ambitious engagement of the Russians who supplied him with sophisticated weaponry, like the armoured tanks stationed in Angola and Zambia an the well equipped ZIPRA overzealously shot down civilian aircraft in search of one man, General Peter Walls and asked about it on BBC Nkomo was making it a laughing matter, bragging and so when he went into exile fleeing Mugabe and Ken Flower-South African Agents' unholy alliance, he could not get asylum in the Western World forcing him to get back home into a forced truce with Mugabe.

Contrary to what many now think, Joshua Nkomo was much more brutal, in the eyes of the Western World, than Mugabe, and so hence there was no grand condemnation of Gukurahundi killings even up to now. In Western Capitals, they thought Nkomo was the mischief-maker and so he must suffer the quencequences. Nkomo was the face of Cold War Russia in the Southern African conflict and this proved to be his worst enemy.

So, overall, our two giants in the liberation struggle, Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, lacked foresight of their actions and we will be paying for their mistakes for years to come. The MDC or any other opposition party are only victims of dodgy liberation politics.