Time to have wartime register
EDITOR — As a citizen, I think it is time for Zanu-PF that when we have different accounts of whether someone participated or did not participate in the war of liberation, a commission comprising members of the war veterans association, non-members who are still former liberation fighters and members from war collaborators be set up to vouch to the person’s claims.
The case of Professor Jonathan Moyo is not unique. Others have escaped such scrutiny.
The said group can corroborate the claims, since they know the relevant questions to ask.
Using Prof Moyo’s narrative as a case analysis, one would want to know why a teenager from Matabeleland would go to Zambia and join ZANLA?
What attracted him when his colleagues were joining the other wing, ZIPRA?
He says that when he got to Mgagao as a recruit who was not well, he was made to sleep at the commander’s bed? With all the protocol in the military, how possible or easy was this?
According to accounts we have been reading in The Sunday Mail, apart from the vetting system, would-be freedom fighters would immediately assume a new identity.
This was done for their safety and that of their families. What was his nom de guerre?
How many freedom fighters were ferried to Tanzania in OAU vehicles? The contradiction about joining the ZANLA forces also has an ethnic tinge. During the one night stand at Mgagao, he learns about the slaughter of Ndebele-speaking fighters, but still refuses to go to Morogoro, the ZIPRA camp. It does not make sense. This is why such vetting commissions are important.