he letter, with the address of army KGV1 headquarters in Harare sent to “Robert Mugabe of Number 7 Chancellor Avenue in Harare”, which is the address for the State House, Mugabe’s official residence.
The letter is signed off at the bottom by “1000 soldiers fed up with you” and sources say it was
submitted to Mugabe last week after revelations of a suspected coup plot emerged to dominate the Zimbabwean political scene.
“We are fed up and we will get you soon,” the first sentence reads. “We are after you and you better pack and go because we can’t continue suffering because of you Robert.”
The short letter only has one paragraph and is on a letterhead of the Zimbabwe National Army.
CAJ News got a copy of the letter through senior army sources, who also revealed that Mugabe has resorted to sleeping at his rural home in Zvimba, some 120 kilometres west of Harare.
This news agency has also established that Mugabe has been spending less time in Harare since his return from a visit to Libya and Egypt on Sunday.
In addition to the State House, Mugabe also has in Harare his recently finished mansion in the expensive suburb of Borrowdale and to which his family has been confined of late.
Army sources say that attempts at toppling Mugabe have also seen some members of the
army “visiting” his Borrowdale mansion.
Mugabe’s spokesman, George Charamba dismissed the letter and these reports as rubbish.
“That is rubbish and I shouldn’t even explain further regarding this nonsense about coup,” he said.
Although Charamba arrogantly tried to brush aside the coup plot, six men are in custody at Chikurubi Remand Prison and were denied bail on Friday on charges of terrorism based on allegations that they planned to oust Mugabe.
It has also been established that more senior army officials have been put on house arrest as
the state spreads its net investigating the coup plans.
Part of the coup saga have been executions of unconfirmed numbers of members of the army feared to have tried a go at either arresting or assassinating Mugabe.
Mugabe summoned his ministers of State Security, Defence and Home Affairs upon arrival on Sunday over the coup plot and is said to have put them to task over the matter-CAJ News.