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Mugabe's 'gay
gangsters' exposed
16 Feb 2010- Zimbabwe- In November 1999 President
Robert Mugabe accused the British Government of setting ‘gay gangsters’
on him over his violent land reform exercise.
Three activists from gay pressure group Outrage, led by
Peter Tatchell, stopped Mugabe’s car and tried to carry out a citizens’
arrest in October 1999 accusing him of “homophobia and human rights
abuses against the people of Zimbabwe".
A furious Mugabe later told the state owned Sunday Mail
newspaper that the UK Labour government was behind the gay activists who
ambushed his car.
The Zanu PF leader has over the years made his homophobic
views clear describing gays and lesbians as ‘worse than pigs. With this
history in mind it is astonishing that Mugabe’s own Youth Development
and Indigenisation Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has now been outed as
gay.
What makes the irony click into place is that Saviour is
one of the most violent Zanu PF ministers around with a track record
only matched by the ruthless Defence Minister Emerson Mnangagwa and Air
force Commander Perence Shiri.
Kasukuwere is the godfather of the Chipangano hit terror
squad that caused mayhem and suffering for MDC supporters in the run-up
to several elections since 2000.
Kasukuwere as deputy youth minister was nicknamed
‘Paraquat’ for encouraging party youths to rub the poisonous herbicide
onto the torture wounds of MDC activists. This meant that it was almost
impossible for the wounds to ever heal and caused enormous suffering and
a number of deaths.
Nehanda Radio can also reveal that Saviour amassed his
wealth through many gay liaisons with rich businessmen and ministers
while he was still a blue-eyed Central Intelligence Organization (CIO)
hitman in Mutare.
Last year, he reportedly stole livestock where it was
being kept at a farm in Concession with “students” from the Border Gezi
infamous school of violence keeping guard on behalf of the corrupt
minister.
Although some farmers tracked their beasts to the
minister’s hideout, they were told to keep mum lest they faced
unspecified action of retribution. So when Mugabe complained of gay
gangsters being set on him in the United Kingdom in 1999 he was probably
thinking of the many gay gangsters in his own party.
Only last year a 31 year old Bulawayo man, Mncedisi
Twala, sensationally claimed that the then ZANU PF National Chairman,
John Nkomo, molested him in April 2002.
After first fleeing to South Africa Twala says he came
back after the formation of the unity government and filed a police
complaint in July. The police however refused to investigate the
complaint and even arrested Twala.
Former Foreign Affairs Minister Stan Mudenge has in the
past also faced accusations of having gay liaisons. The CIO launched a
manhunt for gay activist Dumisani Dube after he made a stunning
disclosure that he had a love affair with the cabinet minister.
Dube also claimed Mudenge infected him with the deadly
HIV virus several years ago. Relatives close to Mudenge concede his
health has dramatically deteriorated over the years and he was literally
‘in the departure lounge.
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