Tendai Biti went off on ZANU PF over on X, calling them murderers and fascists while dragging up some really old dirt. The former finance minister from Zimbabwe brought up Herbert Chitepo, a ZANU chairman who got killed back in 1975, and said the party did it instead of the Rhodesians. He also pointed to the 2018 shootings in Harare, where civilians got shot.
Biti said Vernon Mwanga, who was running Zambia's foreign ministry at the time, backed up his claims about Chitepo. Apparently, Chitepo got accused of working with some rebel leaders, and Zambia ended up arresting Josiah Tongogara, plus other ZANU people, over the whole thing.
He didn't stop there and listed a bunch of other deaths he's pinning on the party, ending with Gukurahundi, where he says around 30,000 people died. His whole point was that ZANU-PF has a long track record of political killings.
Biti said Vernon Mwanga, who was running Zambia's foreign ministry at the time, backed up his claims about Chitepo. Apparently, Chitepo got accused of working with some rebel leaders, and Zambia ended up arresting Josiah Tongogara, plus other ZANU people, over the whole thing.
He didn't stop there and listed a bunch of other deaths he's pinning on the party, ending with Gukurahundi, where he says around 30,000 people died. His whole point was that ZANU-PF has a long track record of political killings.
