Zimbabwe: Chiwenga, Reaching for History, Missing the Future

opinion

The recently-published interview given by the Commander of Zimbabwe's Defence Forces (ZDF) General Constantino Chiwenga to state-controlled media was a politically significant one. Not only for the ruling party, but more as an indicator of how the ZDF leadership perceives its role in Zimbabwe's contemporary national politics as determined by their role in our then collective struggle for national liberation.

And for this, despite the fact that there are laws that protect his office from being "undermined in the interest of national defence and security" any Zimbabwean citizen can safely claim to be publicly responding to what is tantamount to a public political statement from a serving commander of our national defence forces.

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