I am in shock at the death of Cde Victor Matemadanda. I speak not as a politician but as a man who served in the liberation war and watched brothers-in-arms give their lives for this country.
What has happened to Victor Matemadanda is not an ordinary death. This was an assassination.
Cde Matemadanda was one of us a political commissar, a key figure in the 2017 events, and a man who understood what it means to stand for principle.
He is now dead vomiting after a family meal and dying at West End Clinic within hours. That is not the pattern of natural illness; that is consistent with poisoning.
The same network that targeted Cde Blessed Geza appears to have taken Matemadanda. Geza was in regular contact with allies and was promised army support for a planned revolt promises that never materialized.
Cde Geza was surveilled. Cde Matemadanda who sympathized with General Chiwenga, opposed CAB3, and urged ZANU–PF MPs to reject what he called a constitutional theft has been eliminated.
CAB3 is the death certificate of Zimbabwe’s democracy. It abolishes direct presidential elections and effectively extends President Mnangagwa’s term to 2030 without a referendum, without ballots, and without the people. General Chiwenga was conspicuously absent from that Politburo session; that absence was not accidental it was a statement.
Cde Matemadanda was monitored from the day he received his ambassadorial appointment. He knew he was a target. In 2020 he warned “they want me dead” after an alleged poisoning at a meeting he survived then.
This time, they succeeded.
The pattern is unmistakable: liberation war veterans are being purged. Cde Geza was expelled,Cde Matemadanda is dead, Retired Rugeje narrowly survived car crashes. This is not internal party discipline; this is systematic elimination.
We did not fight for this. We fought for a Zimbabwe where brothers do not poison brothers over power.
Retired Lieutenant General Winston Sigauke Mapuranga.
Smith’ ministers drove to work in their personal cars & used Peugeot 504s’ during official visits. After work they parked official cars in govt carport and drove themselves home. Post 1980 every minister had a Mercedes EClass with a driver 24/7. That’s why we are here. #NoTo2030
During my interview, Victor Matemadanda clearly identified to me the person who poisoned him in this first meeting with Mnangagwa. Now the same victim had returned to Zimbabwe and suffered another suspected food poisoning attack, that has now ended his life.
During my interview, Victor Matemadanda clearly identified to me the person who poisoned him in this first meeting with Mnangagwa. Now the same victim had returned to Zim and suffered another suspected food poisoning attack (at another ED meeting) that has now ended his life.
Under Mugabe, war veterans were brutalized, harassed with arrests, tear gas, and state violence for demanding three meals a day.
Under Mnangagwa, they are being humiliated in a different way — by zvigananda who are flaunting wealth to promote values and interests completely detached from what the liberation struggle stood for. In the meantime, they are consigned to a liberation style uniform.
This is the betrayal of the revolutionary promise. The same people who fought for Zimbabwe are now expected to watch as the nation is auctioned to the highest bidder.
My question is simple: Zimbabwe yenyu ichauya rinhi?
Matemadanda is today dead; may his family be comforted. People die in different ways.
CAB3 is a nullity says @ProfMadhuku . When all this nonsense is out of the way, Zimbabwe must gazette a law on constitutional issues that will criminalise intellectual dishonesty like what @ProfJNMoyo is doing by deliberately confusing citizens.
🔹When listening to Ambassador Matemadanda express his feelings about the deteriorating situation under the Second Republic and the neglected state of the graves of those who died in Mozambique fighting for an independent Zimbabwe, one wonders: was this the reason the political establishment took him out?
Matamandanda has passed away … aaah 😦. Firstly, they will make you an ambassador to get rid of you. If you continue to be a threat, then they will take you out. Trust this Zvigananda Cabal at your own peril! RIP Ambassador Matemadanda🙏🏽
🚨 Thierry Henry sur le raté de Simon Adingra face à l'Allemagne :
🗣 « Il [Adingra] a donné au sélectionneur toutes les raisons de le mettre sur le banc à chaque match jusqu'à ce qu'il apprenne à tirer. »
« Tu joues contre l'Allemagne, tu as une occasion énorme comme ça et tu la rates ? Il doit baisser la tête de honte et s'excuser auprès de ses coéquipiers. »
« S'il avait tiré et manqué, ça aurait été une autre histoire. »