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Original Post Date: 2001-08-20 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 8/20/2001 10:27:00 AM
Gadaffi in Zimbabwe
This is an ominous development for sub-Saharan Africa. Your readers will
want to be aware of this. From The Sunday Times of London, 19 August 2001.
Gordon Frisch
August 19 2001 AFRICA
Pariahs united: opponents of Mugabe fear that men brought in by
Gadaffi could form hit squads to assassinate rivals and back up the
‘war veterans’ involved in evicting white farmers from their land.
Photograph: Amr Nabil/Joe Alexander/Howard Burditt Mugabe makes
space for influx of Gadaffi’s thugs
RW Johnson, Johannesburg
Gadaffi buys Mugabe’s mansion for his thugs (124)| Britons offer homes
and jobs to fleeing farmers (124)| Lawyers denounce editor’s arrest WHEN
Robert Mugabe married Grace Marufu, his glamorous former secretary,
in August 1996, he resolved to provide her with a home fit for a
first lady. Now the 32-room mansion he built her on the outskirts of
the capital, Harare, could be turned into the Libyan embassy, or
“people’s bureau” – the latest bizarre sign of growing links between
Muammar Gadaffi and the embattled Zimbabwean leader.
Security sources revealed this weekend that the brown brick building
– nicknamed Gracelands – is among 20 properties bought by the Libyan
leader in recent months in Zimbabwe.
Oppposition politicians fear they could be used as safe-houses for
thugs supplied by the Libyan dictator to help intimidate opponents
of his comrade-in-arms and, in the process, enhance Gadaffi’s own
influence at the opposite end of Africa.
The sale will not only provide Libya with by far the largest embassy
building in Zimbabwe, dwarfing the British and American missions; it
will also provide considerable personal gain for Mugabe.
The house was built for Grace using nearly (194)Â(163)£100,000 from a fund set
up ostensibly to provide low-cost housing for junior civil servants.
The first lady was deeply embarrassed when the press found out and
refused to use the home after it was finished in 1997.
It was then put on the market for (194)Â(163)£350,000 but found no takers –
until Gadaffi turned up and offered (194)Â(163)£100,000 more.
It was not the first example of his recent largesse to Mugabe’s
pariah state: last year, unable to pay for fuel and dogged by power
cuts and civil unrest, the Zimbabwean leader made several successful
trips to Tripoli with his begging bowl.
Analysts have always noted there are few free lunches as far as
Gadaffi is concerned; he sees his role in Zimbabwe as his pathway to
developing diplomatic clout across black Africa.
To keep Mugabe sweet, he advanced him a loan of (194)Â(163)£70m, and then made
a special trip to last month’s Organisation of African Unity summit
in Lusaka – the first he had attended since 1977 – to give all-out
support to Mugabe’s land-grabbing and anti-white policies. So large
was Libya’s delegation that Gadaffi even upstaged Nelson Mandela,
the former South African president.
From Lusaka, Gadaffi then drove in a 150-car motorcade to Harare,
where his army of amazon women bodyguards virtually took over the
capital. In an extraordinary television appearance, he announced
that Africa was for the Africans and that whites must go back to
Europe, or be allowed to stay on only as servants.
Gadaffi also promised Mugabe an extra (194)Â(163)£418m in fuel supplies, on top
of a (194)Â(163)£640,000 election contribution to Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF
party. More sinister was Gadaffi’s command to Harare’s Indian
Muslims for a jihad, or holy war, in support of Mugabe’s anti-white
policies. Otherwise, he warned, he would bring in the notorious
Pagad movement from South Africa, a fundamentalist Muslim vigilante
group linked to murders in the Cape, including bomb attacks on
American- backed enterprises such as the Planet Hollywood
restaurant.
New embassy: Gadaffi’s 32-room mansion in Harare. Photogaph: Sarah
Jane Poole
Most of Harare’s hard-working Muslims were aghast, and they fear
their subsequent failure to take up the jihad is the reason for a
spate of attacks against their businesses by Zanu’s dreaded youth
wing. “For heaven’s sake, we all do business with whites all the
time,” said one. “It’s obvious we’re being punished for not
complying.”
Gadaffi has also left behind two extra bodyguards for Mugabe and
four specialist “co-ordinators”. They are believed to have
experience in the training and handling of death squads, which it is
feared could be based in the houses acquired by Gadaffi. The
properties are strategically located around the country, with four
in Harare and one in every region.
The squads are said to have a list of assassination targets,
including politicians from the opposition Movement for Democratic
Change (MDC) and troublesome journalists.
Pagad activists have already been linked to an assassination attempt
against Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC leader, in which his car was
ambushed during the recent Bindura by-election.
Tsvangirai alluded to the squads last week, when the local
independent press revealed that when Gadaffi’s motorcade lumbered
north on its return from Harare last month, the Libyan leader
stopped off in Chinhoyi, a white farming area 70 miles northwest of
Harare, to give an incendiary speech calling on locals to throw out
the whites.
It is difficult to know how far the ripples of Gadaffi’s
intervention will spread, but statistics show Zimbabwe is becoming
increasingly unsafe.
The respected Zimbabwean Human Rights Forum recently published a
46-page report in which it details a catalogue of state-sponsored
terror, including assaults with whips, batons, electricity, water
and even melted plastic, dripped on to victims’ torsos and
genitalia.
Nothing in Zimbabwe now lies beyond Mugabe’s tentacles of terror;
even the genteel realm of the Zimbabwean Cricket Union is being
subjected to the black-power principle. Those who run it are now
under strict instructions to pick more blacks for the national side,
which had been scheduled to play England later this year.
Mugabe is sufficiently hard pressed to be willing to make alliances
with a lexicon of pariah states. Besides Libya, the ranks of his
foreign supporters have dwindled to China – which last month
extended a further (194)Â(163)£2.57m loan to him – North Korea, Iraq and a
scattering of mainly impoverished African states. These include
Sudan, where Mugabe has his eye on oil reserves.
The Sudanese, like Gadaffi, are delighted to find a friend in need,
and confirm that negotiations are under way.