Addressing an event to commemorate the Unity Day which was
born out of the Unity Accord signed by Mugabe and Nkomo in 1987, Zapu
spokesperson Iphithule Maphosa claimed the accord was only to end the
Gukurahundi massacres which human right groups say claimed 20 000 lives from
Matabeleland and Midlands.
“Zanu PF only had one condition that it wanted met in order
to stop the madness, and it was that PF Zapu must be swallowed by Zanu PF and
cease to be an opposition party. This was the condition that summed up what is
now known as the Unity Accord Agreement document,” Maphosa said.
“The 1987 Unity Accord document is quite weird and makes
for sorry reading. There is nothing about unity discernible in any of its
clauses. It is just a requirement that PF Zapu surrenders to the British
Conservative Party project of 1963 with Mugabe as its leader in perpetuity,” he
said.
He said for Zimbabweans, the 1987 Unity Accord document
meant PF Zapu ceding all its rights to existence to Zanu.
“The party then and now uses ethnic lenses in deciding
every aspect of national policy. To them, anybody and anything that was not
Zanu at that time represented the enemy, hence the use of the toxic reference
to dissidents equating PF Zapu and the Ndebele speaking people alone with that
term. It is a tribalist mindset,” he said.
Maphosa said it was sad that for 34 years Zimbabwe had been
celebrating what is disguised as unity day after the loss of thousands of lives
in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces. Newsday
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