MTHWAKAZI Liberation Front (MLF) senior member, Crispen Nyoni has bemoaned fragmentation of political parties fighting for the restoration of the so-called Mthwakazi State, a development which he said was delaying the process.
BY SILAS NKALA
MLF is one of the political formations, which raised eyebrows when its members burnt a Zimbabwean flag in South Africa in April 2011, as they called for the restoration of the Mthwakazi State which they said was abolished by colonialists.
MLF was formed in 2010 and is led by Fidelis Ncube popularly known as General Nandinandi.
Other political groupings which have been formed in Matabeleland with the same agenda are the Mthwakazi Republic Party led by former Zapu youth leader Mqondisi Moyo and Matabeleland Liberation Organisation (MLO) led by the exiled Paul Siwela.
Siwela skipped the border during a treason trial involving him and two others — John Gazi and Charles Thomas – who have since been acquitted.
They were accused of planning to oust President Mugabe through unconstitutional means after they allegedly distributed MLF flayers, which were deemed as subversive to the State.
Nyoni said to his surprise all the political parties were pursuing the same agenda and he wondered why they could not come together to form a formidable force to push government to consider Matabeleland as a sovereign State.
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“Many groups which have been formed with the same agenda in Matabeleland are a cause for concern and I wonder why these groups could not come together,” Nyoni said.
“The developments are weakening the efforts of Mthwakazi restoration.”
MRP was formed in January 2014.
Nyoni said it was sad that some of the people who formed groups defected from MLF because of being too ambitious to occupy leadership positions.
Siwela who was a presidential candidate in the 2002 election and was a president of Zapu Federal party is one of the people who founded the MLF but he dropped out to form his MLO.
Nyoni said people like Siwela were not trustworthy and must be treated with care.
“Siwela’s problem is that he always wants to occupy influential positions in a party,” he said.
“If you do not give him presidency or secretary general position he leaves.”
Nyoni who is based in South Africa said their fight had been taken to the Zimbabwean embassy in that country and South African President Jacob Zuma.
He said the South African authorities knew their agenda and discontent over Zanu PF rule.
“We have met and discussed with Zuma, he knows our agenda and we know his thinking about us and Zimbabwe,” Nyoni said.
“What we can say now is that we have Mthwakazi government in waiting and soon we will be taking charge. The only problem we have is fear by local people back.”
