Mzila-Ndlovu pays the price for revealing dark secrets of the past.

Delving into ZANU PF’s dark secrets of the past led to the arrest of
National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration Minister, Moses
Mzila-Ndlovu, sources told SW Radio Africa on Tuesday.

Mzila-Ndlovu was arrested last week Friday after police accused him of
addressing an ‘illegal’ memorial service for Gukurahundi victims and
survivors, at a Roman Catholic Church Mass in Lupane on 13th April.

But MDC-N President Welshman Ncube told Newsday that the Bulilima West MP is
being persecuted for revealing that in 1984 the late CIO deputy Director
General, Mernard Muzariri, shot and killed Njini Ntuta, a former PF ZAPU MP
and Central Committee member. Mzila-Ndlovu is believed to have also talked
about this in Lupane last week, saying that Ntutha was shot at point-blank
range at his farm along the Victoria Falls Road, at the height of the
Gukurahundi massacres.

Ntuta was shot dead in the Nyathi area of Matebeleland North in November
1984. Three days before his death, Ntuta openly accused ZANU PF of being
behind the killing of six foreign tourists who had been kidnapped along the
Victoria Falls road.

In mid 1982 it was reported that six tourists had been kidnapped and troops
were sent into Matabeleland to find them. But their bodies were later found.
The government of then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe blamed the deaths of the
tourists on ZAPU, who were accused of sponsoring dissident activity in the
area at the time.

So when Ntuta, credited for being among the pioneers of free speech in
Parliament, accused ZANU PF of murdering the foreign tourists while blaming
it on ZAPU, he sealed his fate. Three days after his speech in the House of
Assembly the elderly Ntuta was chased from his homestead at his farm and
executed.

‘He was an old man who couldn’t outrun his assailants. He was first tortured
and was eventually shot dead at close range. This is what Mzila-Ndlovu told
people in Lupane last week and I hear it has left people in ZANU PF
indignant,’ a senior former ZAPU official said.

He added; ‘The state media blamed dissidents for his death but everyone
knows that dissidents did not target ZAPU leaders. In fact Mzila-Ndlovu is
believed to have directly said Muzariri shot Ntutha in cold blood.

Muzariri was never included on the EU or US targeted sanctions list,
despite being well known for masterminding violence and targeting the MDC.

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