The news headlines read: “Zimbabwe Fighter Jets Collide At A funeral Of A Powerful Zimbabwe General” or “Zimbabwean Fighter Jets Brush Feathers”. This is all connected to the war in Libya and what the war represents to the dictators of this world. In addition to the actions of NATO, events in Libya never would have reached the
point they have reached today without Libyan army defections. Most of the time when an army defects it’s actually the commander of that unit defecting and his junior followers taking his order. Zimbabwe could be the next Libya and Solomon Mujuru would have led the revolutionary army against Mugabe and his evil regime. It’s not a matter of if, but when.
All over the media, rumours have been circulating about a possible alliance between MDC-T and the Mujuru-led fraction, the moderate faction of Zanu (PF). In the next election, this is what is going to happen: Mujuru`s faction will break away from Zanu (PF) and form an alliance with MDC-T. It is not clear how candidates from the alliance are going to be fielded. In that regard, some say Mujuru was killed so that his
faction would be left without a leader. Mujuru was said to be close to Tsvangirai, the president of MDC-T, and was going to be the bridge between the two divergent parties. That thought is true but not complete.
In the next election, after the alliance, it was the thought that the hard-line faction of Zanu (PF) was going to lose. It would have some seats, but not enough to have any form of power. Robert Mugabe would be defeated as Zanu (PF)’s presidential candidate. The army would then attempt to stage a coup, but the junior officers would defect under the command of Mujuru to form a revolutionary army.
The revolutionary army would have driven the current generals away from Zimbabwe and a new and Democratic Zimbabwe would have been formed.
Killing General Mujuru doesn’t leave the Mujuru faction without a leader, but it leaves it without a commander. Anyone can lead a camp, but not just anyone can command the respect of the army. It is well known that the army is the one keeping Robert Mugabe in power. Zanu (PF) can survive a split by a faction of its party,
and an alliance between that faction and MDC, but it cannot survive the alliance if it’s backed by the army.
There are many General Mujurus in the army and together they are strong.- www.letterswithateardrop.com
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