The former archbishop of Bulawayo Pius Ncube said Zimbabweans, both educated and uneducated, were unhappy with President Robert Mugabe and were waiting for someone to lead them but Movement or Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai was too weak to do that.
He told this to the then United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Walter Kansteiner when he visited him at the Catholic Cathedral in Bulawayo just before the 2002 presidential elections.
Ncube said the people of Zimbabwe, and Matabeleland in particular, were so scared, they would not rise up against the government, even if Mugabe won re-election,
United States embassy officials who accompanied Kansteiner said Ncube stood with Kansteiner’s delegation as it arrived and briefly kept them outside his office building, apparently so that suspected Central Intelligence Organisation agents in the Cathedral compound could see that he was meeting with American officials.
The CIO ended his career a few years later when they trapped the clergyman and video-taped him having sex with a married woman. Ncube was forced to resign and was briefly transferred to Rome but that cut short his activism.
Ncube said Tsvangirai was too weak to lead the people of Zimbabwe because he too was intimidated by the government.
He said that he would be equally opposed to the MDC if it proved to be just as corrupt as ZANU-PF.
Below are the first 80 of 726 Wikileaks cables on Tsvangirai.
Continued next page
(197 VIEWS)
This post was last modified on August 11, 2017 9:09 pm
Twenty-five white Zimbabwean farmers who took their R2 billion land damages claim to the South…
Africans must now tell their own stories because if they continue to denigrate themselves they…
Quarterly taxes, which are due next month, will force businesses to sell a quota of…
Zimbabweans will soon be able to change their ZiG to United States dollars and vice-versa…
Senator Sengezo Tshabangu yesterday expressed dismay at the pace at which the government is constructing…
Zimbabwe has ordered providers of goods and services to use the official exchange rate or…