The gukurahundi crisis involved a combination of the following: Ex-ZIPRA guerillas, Ex-ZANLA guerillas, Ndebele dissidents, Super-ZAPU, Five Brigade, ZAPU and the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) of the government of Zimbabwe.

Ex-ZIPRA guerillas who became dissidents deserted the Zimbabwe National Army and took to the bush again on allegations of ethnic persecutions that targeted them within the army.

Mugabe accused ZAPU of sending trains from Zambia laden with weapons of war for which Kenneth Kaunda, the then Zambia President, apologised. Dabengwa (ZAPU) admits that these weapons were offloaded from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, and that they had been given to them as a gift from the Soviet Union that they could not reject but as ZAPU, they had plans to surrender all these weapons to the new Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA). However, small weapons were taken to Gwayi and big tanks were transported to Esigodini where they would be kept under the supervision of former Rhodesians.

Any government, as that of ZANU-PF did, could have sufficient reason to suspect an armed insurrection given the political and military volatility that engulfed the early post-liberation era in Zimbabwe.

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The diversity in the dissident community-ex-ZIPRA cadres, persecuted youths, Super-ZAPU, ZANU-PF pseudo dissidents-were responsible for the mayhem in the countryside involving the murder of 33 white commercial farmers and civilians classified as sell-outs, robberies on buses and stores and rape.

In an interview with a British correspondent, Joshua Nkomo held the view that gukurahundi was not a tribal war and that it would be a mistake for anyone to regard it as such: rather it was a political issue.

The British government considered the gukurahundi as an inevitable political dynamic and hoped that sooner rather than later the affected regions would return to normalcy.

There were loose associations of ex-ZIPRA guerillas who became dissidents and were responsible for murder, assault, mutilation and destruction of property. ZAPU had no control over these renegades. There were ex-Rhodesians who collaborated with South Africa to undermine the newly attained political independence in Zimbabwe. They still were bent on acts of sabotage to destabilise the country in the same way South Africa was doing to Mozambique and Angola, exploiting the deep-seated traditional hostilities between ZANU-PF and ZAPU with the hope of politicising ethnicity in areas affected by gukurahundi. Some of these operatives had been drafted into the ZNA and acted beyond bounds in a bid to discredit the Five Brigade by making it solely liable for accountability.

The South African Apartheid regime sponsored a clandestine Super ZAPU that terrorised the greater part of Matabeleland South, equipping it with the most brutal forms of torture and murder resulting in the killing of people indiscriminately and creating despondency amongst eye-witnesses.

I sometimes wonder what is wrong with Mwafrika leaders. Mugabe built this opulent mansion at a time when half of Zimbabweans were starving and going without medical care and jobless.

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So what? Sonko built this home when his voters were living in slums, jobless and without healthcare. Deal with kenya problems first before going to zimbabwe.