When opportunity presented itself in the form of widespread warfare in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwean military leaders were quick to provide troops in exchange for permission to establish Zimbabwean corporations to exploit Congolese raw materials.
Tags:
Air Commodore Mike Tichafa Karakadzai,
Air Marshall Perence Shiri,
Brigadier General Sibusiso Busi Moyo,
Burundi,
Colonel Simpson Sikhulile Nyathi,
Colonel Tshinga Dube,
Congo gold and diamonds,
Democratic Republic of Congo,
DRC President Laurent Kabila,
economic "structural adjustments",
Economic Structural Adjustment Program (ESAP),
elites,
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa,
General Vitalis Musunga Gava Zvinavashe,
Jean Damu,
John Mikembe,
Joint Operations Command,
Joseph Kabila,
Morgan Tsvangirai,
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC),
National Security Council,
personal enrichment of military leaders,
political elite,
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe,
Rhodesia,
Rwanda,
Sidney Sekeramayi,
Solomon Mujuru (aka Rex Nhongo),
Thamer Bin Said Ahmed Al-Shanfari,
Uganda,
wealth accumulation,
Western economic sanctions,
ZANLA Deputy Commander Solomon Mujuru,
ZANU-PF,
Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA),
Zimbabwe Executive Vice President Grace Mujuru,
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe
When I arrived in Rhodesia, 1968 had already been a momentous year in the United States. U.S. setbacks in Vietnam had led Lyndon Johnson to announce his withdrawal from the 1968 presidential campaign. Days later, on April 4, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on June 5. Meanwhile, Black Power activists in the United States, led by young Blacks like me, were urging Black Americans to be proud of our African heritage. I felt lucky to be in Africa.
Tags:
Africa & the World,
African Diaspora,
anti-apartheid,
Black liberation,
Black majority rule,
Black newspaper,
Black Panther Party,
Black Power,
JoNina Abron,
Old Mutare,
Rev. Shirley DeWolf,
Rhodesia,
Shona,
ZANU-Patriotic Front,
Zimbabwe
English