This article was originaly published March 8, 2002, a few days *before* the Zimbabwe elections. Now we areabout to see the actions of the soundly defeated MDC and the British government to punish the country and overturn the election results. Note the last paragraph of this article about the MDC being supplied with counterfeit ZD $100 notes to finance it's subversion and to wreck havoc on the Zimbabwean economy.
| From: | "Jim Yarker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |
| To: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| Subject: | Brit/MDC subversion plans for Zim |
| Date: | Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:51:43 -0500 |
ZIMBABWE FACES MAYHEM, CHAOS AS MDC CONCEDE TO POLL DEFEAT
by Morgan Handidi
Highly placed intelligence sources have reported that revelations made by the British Foreign Commonwealth Office to the effect that Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) candidate in the March 9 and 10 presidential elections, is already privately admitting that he is a beaten man in free and fair elections, has sent shock waves across the MDC rank and file.
Four weeks ago, the British Foreign Commonwealth Office projected that 60 percent of the vote will be won by President Robert Mugabe to 40 percent of the vote for Tsvangirai.
The sources say that the warning has been received by the MDC as a signal for Mr Tsvangirai to claim that he was not able to campaign in most parts of the country because of alleged violence or the threat of violence, and that the election results were rigged.
There is a growing consensus by intelligence and political analysts that if the violent elements in both MDC and Zanu(PF) now heed calls by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) leadership for non-violent elections and those elections are thereafter interpreted as "reflecting the will of the majority of Zimbabweans", then Mr Tsvangirai's subsequent claims will, in the main, fall on deaf ears.
The consensus has been reinforced by British officials who pointed out that it is now highly questionable whether such violence is in the best interests of President Mugabe and Zanu-PF. Rather, they see the violence as largely stemming from the MDC.
The British government has become frustrated with the failure of the MDC and Tsvangirai to enunciate clear-cut alternative policies in response to those of President Mugabe and his Zanu-PF Government. "The MDC thinks that it knows what it is against. But it does not know what it is for," said one diplomat. British Foreign Office sources cite conspicuous contradictions within the MDC leadership over land policies as well as Mr Tsvangirai's personal call for sanctions against his fellow Zimbabweans that badly backfired on the MDC leader.
Yet Mr Tsvangirai's call for sanctions was in line with those British politicians and white Southern Rhodesians who are obsessed with sanctions against Zimbabwe.These people, however, are sadly out of touch with the historical and present realities of Zimbabwe and, conspicuously, the region. Even MDC politicians in Zimbabwe realised that Mr Tsvangirai's statement calling for fuel and electricity sanctions against his own country was politically disastrous.
They swiftly tried to distance themselves from their leader's call but by then the damage had been done. A further British admission is that Zanu-PF, while it may have its in-house spats, is largely unified and contains most of the country's intelligent politicians. In sharp contrast, the MDC contains only a handful of Zimbabwe's intelligentsia. The British also admit that the MDC is an urban-based workers party but that not all of the urban workers support the opposition.
Furthermore, the British have finally discovered that the rural bonds of urban Zimbabweans are deeper than they initially supposed and that the suffering and losses of the war for independence form stronger ties than they once believed. All of these factors add up to what British diplomats based in Harare are reporting to London and reinforce Dr Ibbo Mandaza’s synopsis or guide to presidential elections published in last week’s issue of the Sunday Mail where a victory for President Mugabe and a defeat for Mr Tsvangirai was predicted.
ZERO OPTION
According to the intelligence sources, the realisation of an impending defeat at the hands of Zanu(PF) has forced the MDC to activate the zero option whose main objective is to disrupt the forthcoming elections.
The sources revealed that the in the last seven weeks or so, the MDC has put into operation two units known as the National Resistence Group (NRG) and the Operations Fund Raising Team. These teams are said to compliment each other.
The sources say that the NRG is commandeered by a team of six senior MDC officials, namely
Clive Puzey (Chairman)of No5 Sylvn Hessel Road, Borrowdale;
Topper Whitehead(Secretary) of 15 Pirase Villa, 36 Oxford RD, Avondale;
Marco Garizo (Treasurer)of 7 Radar Rd, Emarald Hill;
K. Christopher (Organiser) of 7 Bantry Rd, Alexandrar Park;
Chris Thorne (Co-ordinator)of 20 Hadson Ave, Alexandra Park and
R.R.J. Putterill (Military Strategist) of Daver Court, 1 Josiah Chinamano
while, the Operations Fund Raising Team is comprised of :
Gift Chimanikire of 7-75th Avenue, Mabelreign
Gordon Chavhunduka, of 40 The Chase, Mount Pleasant;
Judith Todd of 505 Rossshire Heights, Mazoe/Baines
Marvellous Mloyi of 40 Quarn Rd/Bowood Rds Mount Pleasnt
Rensen Gasela of 4 Bray Close, Greystone Park
THE NATIONAL RESISTANCE GROUP
The NRG was specifically set up to mobilise MDC youth who have been receiving military training on commercial farms in Zimbabwe and South Africa to spearhead violent campaigns over the period leading to the Presidential elections. A special unit has also been set up for deployment on the 9th and 10th March with the purpose to disrupting the actual elections.
So far the NRG has succeeded in stepping up violence against targeted Zanu(PF) officials. On 6 February, two MDC Members of parliament , Patel Nyoni (Hwange constituency) and Abednico Bhebhe (Nkayi constituency) were arrested by the police in Nkayi after attempting to overrun officers manning a joint ZRP/ZNA read block. The two Mps in the company of 36 MDC youth were all arrested after being found in possession of an assortment off dangerous weapons. They were on a mission to disrupt a Zanu(PF) Presidential campaign meeting. A list of Zanu(PF) members, war veterans and security officer’s names targeted for elimination was found in Bhebhe’s car. Literature on the murdered war veteran Cain Nkala was also discovered in the same car.
The intelligence sources say that to date, the Midlands and Matebeleland North Provinces have produced tangiable evidence suggesting that the MDC has plans to cause pandemonium at polling stations on the voting days by assigning unregistered youths to cause problems at the centres.
Of equal sinister proportion are reports that the MDC have acquired Zanu(PF) regalia which the youths are using to in the party’s violent campaign. Plans to abduct war veterans who were former dissidents in Matebeland North Province are reported to be in place and are intented to plant deep suspicion among Zanu(PF) supporters in the region ahead of the election.
In other parts of the country, the intelligence sources claim that the NRG operations were cited in Manicaland Province on 6 February. For instance , at Watsomba Business Centre in Mutasa District, two MDC Members of Parliament namely Evelyn Masaiti and David Coltart accompanied by an MDC security official Mike Hogan told an MDC meeting that the party was in the process of setting up information centres and bases for MDC hit squads whose main purpose is to cause mayhem prior and during the voting days.
Some of the NRG tasks include gathering of convincing video evidence capturing violent incidents that would have been perpetrated by MDC youth disguised as Zanu(PF) supporters.
Attack on Observers and Planned Bombings
The intelligence sources say that as a result of these developments, evidence suggesting that these MDC youth might already have infiltrated Zanu(PF) youth groups leading to the Kwe Kwe and Chinhoyi attacks on Saouth African Observers is being carefully scrutinised.
The sources say that Tawanda Spicier, an MDC activist and member of the Harare Youth League has continued to engage in acts of violence despite the fact that he is out of custody on bail facing charges of attempted murder and public violence.
The NRG operatives are strongly being suspected by intelligence authorities as having a clue on a number of unresolved bombings in the past. The Daily News, Samora Machel office in the city centre and its Press in Southerton were bombed by yet to be identified people. Sources indicated that the lack of any meaningful evidence in both acts of terrorism has led the security forces to widen their hunt for the culprits.
In these latest investigations, the sources say that evidence suggesting a new wave of bombings has been uncovered and is being scrutinised by relevant authorities. The prime targets of the NRG activists in include the US Embassy in Harare and Mr Morgan Tsvangirai’s residence in Strathaven.
These bombings are aimed at discrediting the presidential poll and to make the statement issued by the ZDF, ZRP and CIO heads appear like a clear declaration of war against the MDC. The sources have named an MDC official , Soloman Ncube CHIKOWERO as the man who has been tasked to spearhead the bombings.
Also named in the planned NRG attacks are;
Gabriel Chaibva, who has been tasked to oversee the burning down of Vivian Mwashita’s residence in Harare,
A personal advisor to MDC President (name supplied) whose task is to infiltrate and handle agents spying inside the Central Intelligence Organisation.
L. Mharapara volunteered to train MDC youths in military combat and has offered to register MDC firearms under his security firm.
The Operations Raising Fund Team
Intelligence sources say some of the small operations of the NRG plans might have failed to be to take off due to prioritisation of tasks, with the bigger and most effective ones getting the largest portion of the fund.
The sources say that The Operations Rating Fund Team (ORFT) is being assisted by the US Ambassador to Zimbabwe who is using his personal account to receive money from American donors. The money is being raised in the USA under the ‘Friends of Zimbabwe’ programme.
The ORFT, is said to have allocated funds to a white MDC organiser (name supplied) for the sole purpose of ensuring the availability of fake ballot boxes and papers in order to enure that the MDC claims of election rigging are proven correct.
Of concern to the Security Department of the Reserve bank of Zimbabwe, the sources say is the importation of counterfeit ZD$100 notes by the ORTF into funding the MDC illegal operations. The Importations came as a result of difficulties in convincing the MDC white membership and companies to continue funding the party in the face of the impeding defeat. Sources say that a range of serial number were supplied to RBZ for cross checking and the process is still underway.
8 March 2002
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