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Original Post Date: 2001-08-21 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 8/21/2001 10:12:01 PM
Mugabe makes space for influx of Gadafi"s thugs
Hello everyone
On the downward spiral, Mugabe has to adjust his circle of friends
accordingly.
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From the Sunday Times: 19/9/01
Mugabe makes space for influx of Gadaffi’s thugs
RW Johnson, Johannesburg
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.
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.