Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter Vice President Joice Mujuru and her close confidants Cde David Butau and Mr Tirivanhu Mudariki met Un...
Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter
Vice President Joice Mujuru and her close confidants Cde David Butau and Mr Tirivanhu Mudariki met United States diplomats on different occasions where they discussed plans to topple President Mugabe and asked for funding in the event they succeeded.
They sought to replace the President with VP Mujuru, with the VP herself meeting with the then US ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Charles Ray secretly at one of her properties on December 16, 2009 in a meeting that was arranged by Cde Butau.
In the meeting, whose cables were released by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, VP Mujuru told the US ambassador that the “zanu-pf old guard” was giving way to young blood that included her and the likes of zanu-pf national chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo.
“Turning to politics, Mujuru said the zanu-pf old guard was giving way to “young blood.”
She noted that she (55-years-old) and new party chair Simon Khaya Moyo (64) are on the younger side and form one half of the zanu-pf Presidium (along with Mugabe and new Vice President John Nkomo). The Presidium would be together for five years. Mujuru concluded, ‘Let’s work together’,” reads the cable.
In a Facebook post over the weekend,
US ambassaador to Zimbabwe Bruce Wharton tried to distance himself from President Mugabe’s revelations that the VP had sought the support of western countries to depose the President but the WikiLeaks cache confirms his predecessors were working with the Mujuru faction from as early as 2007.
Mbire National Assembly representative Cde Butau told US diplomats in 2007 of plans by a faction led by Vice President Joice Mujuru to topple President Mugabe and asked for funding from the West in the event they succeeded.
Cde Butau, who was a representative for Guruve North then, met the diplomats on May 31 2007 as revealed by.
“David Butau, Zanu-PF MP and member of the faction allied to ex-military commander Solomon Mujuru, told poloff (political official) on May 31 2007 that Mujuru had determined that the time to unseat President Robert Mugabe was now,” a summary of the cable reads.
“Mujuru had flexed his muscle and wrested control of the party structures in Masvingo and Bulawayo, and his subordinates had begun to chip away at Mugabe’s key backers. Butau added that while pressure on Mugabe was needed, the US government needed to quietly weigh into this intra-party battle to help block Mugabe’s bid.” Herald
Vice President Joice Mujuru and her close confidants Cde David Butau and Mr Tirivanhu Mudariki met United States diplomats on different occasions where they discussed plans to topple President Mugabe and asked for funding in the event they succeeded.
They sought to replace the President with VP Mujuru, with the VP herself meeting with the then US ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Charles Ray secretly at one of her properties on December 16, 2009 in a meeting that was arranged by Cde Butau.
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| This graphic depicts the WikiLeaks footprint that puts the US government at the centre of VP Mujuru’s plot to depose President Mugabe. Here, she is shown with former US ambassador Charles Ray and his successor Bruce Wharton |
“Turning to politics, Mujuru said the zanu-pf old guard was giving way to “young blood.”
She noted that she (55-years-old) and new party chair Simon Khaya Moyo (64) are on the younger side and form one half of the zanu-pf Presidium (along with Mugabe and new Vice President John Nkomo). The Presidium would be together for five years. Mujuru concluded, ‘Let’s work together’,” reads the cable.
In a Facebook post over the weekend,
US ambassaador to Zimbabwe Bruce Wharton tried to distance himself from President Mugabe’s revelations that the VP had sought the support of western countries to depose the President but the WikiLeaks cache confirms his predecessors were working with the Mujuru faction from as early as 2007.
Mbire National Assembly representative Cde Butau told US diplomats in 2007 of plans by a faction led by Vice President Joice Mujuru to topple President Mugabe and asked for funding from the West in the event they succeeded.
Cde Butau, who was a representative for Guruve North then, met the diplomats on May 31 2007 as revealed by.
“David Butau, Zanu-PF MP and member of the faction allied to ex-military commander Solomon Mujuru, told poloff (political official) on May 31 2007 that Mujuru had determined that the time to unseat President Robert Mugabe was now,” a summary of the cable reads.
“Mujuru had flexed his muscle and wrested control of the party structures in Masvingo and Bulawayo, and his subordinates had begun to chip away at Mugabe’s key backers. Butau added that while pressure on Mugabe was needed, the US government needed to quietly weigh into this intra-party battle to help block Mugabe’s bid.” Herald
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