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April 8th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mr Tsvangirai, who is prime minister in a shaky coalition government with Mr
Mugabe, says he has been told by senior security officials that “anyone
other than President Mugabe, even if they win an election, will not be able
to take up their mandate”.
Mr Mnangagwa, 65, helped orchestrate Mr Mugabe’s battle against white rule in
the 1970s, during which he was arrested and tortured by white Rhodesian
policemen, rendering him deaf in one ear.
Zanu-PF colleagues say he is the one man feared even more than Mr Mugabe, a
reputation he gained as CIO head during the suppression of the rival Zapu
party in 1980s, in which thousands of civilians were killed and in some
cases forced to dance on the freshly-dug graves of relatives.
In later years he has been seen as Zanu-PF’s chief “money man”,
helping organise lucrative concessions linked to gold and diamond mining.
Last month he met Mr Ahmadinejad to discuss further co-operation between
Zimbabwe and Iran, which is known to be eyeing Zimbabwe’s uranium for its
disputed nuclear program. Mr Ahmadinenjad said that their shared
difficulties as targets of Western sanctions could be converted into “new
opportunities for further development and progress”.
In return, Iran’s defence minister, Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi, pledged to
help beef up Zimbabwe’s armed forces. “We will help strengthen their
military so that they are able to protect their land and culture, especially
so they are prepared against the pressures and threats from Western
countries,” he said.
The pact between Mr Mugabe and Mr Mnangagwa is alleged to have taken place at
State House in Harare in April 2008, after the president failed to secure an
outright majority over Mr Tsvangirai.
According to a long-serving Zanu PF minister who witnessed the meeting, the
embattled Mr Mugabe offered Mr Mnangagwa the future presidency if he could
help ensure that things went Mr Mugabe’s way in the second round.
“It is common knowledge within the high ranks of the party that Mnangagwa
delivered the presidency to Mugabe, and that we are in power today because
of his efforts,” the minister said.
“It is on the basis of this understanding that Mugabe said in his own
words that the ‘job is yours when I leave’, receiving nods from senior
military generals who were also present that day.”
Another source close to senior defence chiefs told The Sunday Telegraph:
“Mnangagwa was told that he had to deliver victory for Mugabe by
whatever means or he would go down with the old man. After that, the two are
glued together so tightly unless Mnangagwa commits a cardinal sin, he is
assured of the succession.”
Others insist that there are still considerable hurdles – most notably the
feisty Joice Mujuru, Zimbabwe’s vice-president who is known to be favoured
by Zanu-PF moderates as Mr Mugabe’s successor for her friendly relationship
with Mr Tsvangirai.
Together with her husband Solomon, a retired army chief, she led a rival
faction to Mr Mnangagwa. But last year, Mr Mujuru died in a mysterious fire
at his rural farm, depriving his wife of a real power base. Some suspect
foul play in his death, although it has never been proved.
So far no date has been planned for future elections. While Mr Mugabe wants
them held this year, opponents say they should be postponed until new
constitutional changes designed to guarantee a fair political playing field
are finalised.
However, one minister claimed that if any election result did not go Zanu-PF’s
way, Mr Mnangagwa’s backers also had a plan to roll out “choreographed
anarchy” which would allow them to declare a state of emergency.
“In a state of emergency, civil and political rights get suspended, thus
the constitution itself gets suspended, meaning that the army can
potentially impose a ruler of its choice under the pretext of enforcing
peace and stability,” the minister said.
While Mr Mnangagwa has personally profited from white land seizures – he owns
a 1,000 acre farm – in public he strikes a less anti-British tone than Mr
Mugabe.
In a rare interview
with The Sunday Telegraph
last year, he told after Zanu-PF first came to power, he had even
offered promotions to the white policemen who tortured him in the name of
reconciliation. He dismissed talk of Britain having a vendetta against
Zimbabwe – a common claim of Mr Mugabe – and described himself as a “humble
man”, baffled as to why so many spoke his name in fear.
In 2010, he also claimed to have found God, telling mourners at his brother’s
funeral: “For those of us comrades who were taught to destroy and kill
and have seen the light in the last days of our lives… our rewards are in
heaven.”
Among those backing Mr Mnangagwa are said to be air force chief Perence Shiri,
police commissioner general Augustine Chihuri, secret service chief Happyton
Bonyongwe, and prominent Zanu PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo.
They are said to have been told to keep quiet about it, but Maj-Gen
Nyikayaramba, recently promoted into post by Mr Mnangagwa, could not resist
a boast at a recent rally in Bikita in Masvingo province: “President
Mugabe will rule for a while and then leave office for his top lieutenant,
the Crocodile,” he told shocked villagers.
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