Sources said the gathering to which some 1,000 students were summoned, which started at 10am and ended at 1pm, was meant to drum up support for President Robert Mugabe and Zanu (PF).
Mzilikazi, whose name has been linked to violence during the run-up to the 2008 elections, is said to have opened the rally by preaching peace before coercing the students to vote for Mugabe and Zanu (PF).
“The army and people who share our line of thinking will never allow the country to slide back to the colonial era by voting unwisely. Zanu (PF) is the party and Mugabe is the man,” Mzilikazi allegedly told the disinterested students.
To appreciate the gravity of brutality visited upon Zimbabweans by the former Rhodesian regime, they were promised an educative tour of Chimoio mass graves in Mozambique, where hundreds of fighters and refugees were killed in an aerial raid at the height of the struggle.
An inside source at the college told The Zimbabwean that in a vote-buying gimmick lecturers were promised residential stands.
Mzilikazi, a former director of military intelligence, is reportedly moving around educational institutions under the guise of a “military civic education” programme. Efforts to contact him for comment were unsuccessful. Army spokesperson Col Alphios Makotore, asked for questions by email but had not responded at the time of going to print.
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