‘ANC Had Good Relations With ZAPU & None With ZANU,’ -Mbeki

‘ANC Had Good Relations With ZAPU & None With ZANU,’ -Mbeki

Historically, with regard to the Zimbabwe liberation struggle, the ANC had good relations with ZAPU and none with ZANU when it broke away from ZAPU. This was a product of a continuous process in Zimbabwe which had started with the establishment of the Southern Rhodesia African National Congress in that country and the membership in the South African ANC of Zimbabwe students and workers while they were studying and working in South Africa. ANC relations…

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Dabengwa reveals ‘Rhodesian Air Force Plot To Blow Up Joshua Nkomo’s Plane’

Dabengwa reveals ‘Rhodesian Air Force Plot To Blow Up Joshua Nkomo’s Plane’

THE late Vice President Joshua Nkomo could have never seen independent Zimbabwe in 1980 had a plot to gun down his plane by the Rhodesian Air Force succeeded in 1979. VP Nkomo who died on this day 16 years ago was at the time travelling back to Zambia from a meeting in Maputo, Mozambique when the Rhodesian forces hatched a plan to intercept and shoot down the Zambian military plane he was travelling on. This…

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