Last week, the new Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, was injured and his beloved wife killed when his car was hit by a truck on a busy highway outside of Harare.
At the time of the accident, news reports played down that this was an assassination attempt, pointing out that the truck was carrying HIV medicine and health supplies for a US funded project.
This fact was immediately latched onto by Mugabe’s henchmen, who promptly blamed the US/UK and local farmers (even arresting the head of the farmer’s union trying to photograph the accident scene). Perhaps they were worried that he was documenting the non existence of that “hump” that the driver blames for causing the accident.
Mugabe and his lackeys are trying to blame the US/UK or white farmers for the accident. To use Shakespeare’s famous quote: Me thinks he doth protest too much. After all, it is well known that many Mugabe opponents have died or been injured in mysterious car crashes.
But at this point, the plot thickens.
A South Africa tabloid, the Sunday Sun, published a report tracing the truck’s registry to Cum oil, a company owned by the notorious Saviour Kasukuwere, who has links with the CIO, and has been suspected of previous assasination attempts against Mugabe opponents. The suspicion is made worse because Kasukuwere was one of the first visitors to Tsvangirai’s sick bed in a private clinic in Harare after the accident.
Kasukuwere, a former bodyguard for Mugabe, has the nickname is “Tyson”, after boxer Mike Tyson.
But other reports dismiss this claim, saying that the truck belonged to the JSI (John Snow International) group of charities, an unlikely source of an assassination attempt.
But now reports say that the truck was not driven by a JSI driver, and that the JSI group was doing an investigation into the matter, trying to find out how a now suspended supervisor authorized a delivery using an outside driver, and why the truck, which should have been empty after delivering it’s supplies, was fully loaded.
The local conspiracy theories are not helped by recent deaths of MDC leader Muswere in a car accident last week, or with the arrests of MDC politicians and activists under charges of “public violence”, while the police routinely ignore arson attacks against Mugabe’s opponents.
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Nancy Reyes is a retired physician living in the Philippines. Her website is MakaipaBlog
5 users commented in " The mystery of the truck behind the Tsvangirai accident "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI come from the region and have been following this story closely. If there is any susciption at all concerning this accident, which I doubt very much, then intelligent analysis should lead you to the door of the British govt.
Who would benefit from the elimination of Tsvangirai? Is it Mugabe who has been very well covered by Tsvangirai or the British who were angered by his joining the government and his call for the liftinh of sanctions?
I know Zimbabwe is an emotion story especially with the British who control most of the press and to that extension most people’s thinking. But intelligence has to prevail. If there is anything at all to this accident then it is the British.
Malamba is not Mashona name, so perhaps you are from another African country, or are Ndebele. Since Mugabe’s atrocities against the Ndebele are infamous, I must assume you are not Zimbabwean at all or else have been drinking too much “malamba”.
I am not british, nor are my sources, most of which are in South Africa.
Your analysis ignores the history of Mugabe’s murderous destruction of that country, his arrest of democracy advocates, harassment of the opposition by arrest, beatings, and arson of their houses, and don’t forget things like the Kabila/diamond connection.
I agree with Nancy. It seems to me to be too much of a coincidence that the vehicle in which Mr & Mrs Tsvangirai were travelling (in the centre of their convoy) just happened to be the one hit by the truck. British interests would not be served by the assassination of Mr Tsvangirai or his wife. Mugabe and ZanuPF interests are served by this so called “accident”. International media and aid agencies seem too willing to sweep the suspicious circumstances of this assassination attempt under the carpet, and I thank Nancy Reys for asking the right questions. I fear thet the Zimbabwean Police and Judicial system are too corrupt to take the necessary action.
the accident i believe was not a coincidence, it was planned and investigations I mean tit ones should be taken and the truth has to be exposed
The registration of the truck was AMERICAN. It was a USAID truck. It has been photographed many times.
The UK Foreign office rushed to call it a genuine accident when they found this out. Why?
Mugabe and ZanuPF have nothing to gain from this, think about it. Without an inclusive government, the west could easily continue sanctions citing a corrupt government.
Your article is woefully misguided. The commercial farmers who feel betrayed by tsvangirai are the only beneficiaries of harm to him and his wife.
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