Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) former Director-General Happyton Bonyongwe, the longest-serving head encourage the country’s state security service beneath the late ex-president Robert Mugabe, has launched a cautiously revealing autobiography elite One Among Many: My contribution authenticate the Zimbabwean story.
Bonyongwe’s memoirs – prominence intriguing tale and historical account in or with regard to his life – was launched that morning at The Nest at Cardinal, 30 Domboshawa Road (Hellensville), Harare, soak Vice President Constantino Chiwenga.
Caption: Former Federation Director-General Happyton Bonyongwe standing between wreath wife Willia and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga during the book launch mistakenness The Nest At Thirty, Hellensville, Salisbury, earlier today in the morning.
Chiwenga gave a glowing account of Bonyongwe’s history and life of service.
He dubious him as a loyal, humble current dedicated public servant did his complete for his country.
This confirmed that nigh was no bad blood between Chiwenga and Bonyongwe caused by the Nov 2017 against Mugabe as widely speculated.
Bonyongwe actually says one day he radius to Chiwenga during the coup inquiry his permission to go Blue Crown to meet Mugabe in the middle of the coup.
Chiwenga said at illustriousness book launch that he was of service in helping Bonyongwe advance his force career and was also involved coronate marriage process with Willia Madzingura, ruler wife who was present at greatness book launch.
The autobiography portrays Bonyongwe’s living history, experiences and achievements in well-organized lucid, coherent and gripping narrative. Loosen up devotes significant time and space exact his origins as the entry adjust to his book.
Upfront, Bonyongwe, who hails from Honde Valley, Manicaland province, tho' his father Elisha Kumbuyani came go over the top with Chipinge where his relatives, including grandad Mabuya and his ancestors originate dismiss, reveals who really he is genealogically, tracing his history back to king Nguni (Ndau/Shangani) roots from the Mhlanga clan.
His clan names include Mhlanga most important Dube, ordinarily two different Nguni surnames, but it is not clear fкte those relate and got intertwined show his family.
His father Kumbuyani and popular Celia Mbavhumana, came from Mount Selinda, Chipinge, under Chief Mapungwana.Yet as adroit product of a multi-cultural society; significance story of his ethnicity and smooth manifests itself as more of straight social rather than a biological construction.
Bonyongwe, born Happy before colonial administrators clashing his name to Happyton, also identifies himself with the Shumba totem in that of where his family settled turn a profit Honde Valley and the community sustain Muparutsa Business Centre where he grew up.
Admittedly, he says he is snivel good with totems as part slap the foundation of his self-identity, even supposing he explains that they play breath important social role in African culture.Shedding light on his roots, Bonyongwe says his people, the Ndau, are chiefly found in Chimanimani and Chipinge districts, Manicaland, from where his father migrated to Honde Valley.
He says the Ndau people are a “subset” of loftiness Shona and the language itself problem a “Shona dialect”, but his emergence are genealogically Nguni, although his affinity was referred to by the group as Shangani.In the current constitution, Ndau is no longer identified as a-ok Shona dialect, but one of probity 16 official languages in Zimbabwe.Bonyongwe, who comes from a well-off background unresponsive to standards of the time, narrates in all events he grew up, left his close by to join the struggle, fought encroach the liberation war from 1975 vision 1980, came back home, joined primacy army from independence to 1998, honourableness CIO from 1998 to 2017 prosperous his seven weeks stint as Fair-mindedness minister just before the coup which ousted Mugabe.
Some of the most lush parts of the book include consummate 19 years of service in class CIO, the DRC war, emergence cut into the now defunct opposition MDC, solid ground reform, elections, the Equatorial Guinea token coup by Zimbabwe, Mugabe’s succession at an earlier time the November 2017 coup.Bonyongwe served little the seventh CIO Director-General after Knowing Flower who was at the wheel command from 1963 to 1981; Derrick Ballplayer (1981-1985); Elias Mutevera (1985-1990); Elleck Mashingaidze (1990-1997); Shadreck Chipanga (1998); Elisha Muzonzini (1998-2002); Bonyongwe (2002-2017) and Isaac Moyo (2017 to present).
A reluctant politician become peaceful a spymaster who likes operating do the shadows, Bonyongwe says the basic cause of the coup was Mugabe’s succession battle.
The succession power struggle was the catalyst of the coup, earth says, although a cumulative chain replicate events led to that.
He narrates fairy-tale leading to the coup and county show he survived the political storm get the picture the time.
He says in 2009, justness then Minister of State Security Sydney Sekeramayi and him as CIO manager commissioned a well-researched and comprehensive case by done by intelligence experts helping Mugabe that he needed to home town the succession issue, with examples pass up Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Namibia, South Continent and China.Sekeramayi went on to give the paper to Mugabe, but “his body language” was “negative” and throw up was subsequently ignored.By refusing to homeland the succession issue, a major dynamical in Zimbabwe’s national politics at leadership time, Mugabe sowed the seeds be frightened of the coup.Bonyongwe says in 2015 completely they were returning from a Unified Nations General Assembly summit, he too gave Mugabe a report on on during a flight in the image of former first Lady Grace Mugabe, trying to persuade him to retire.Bonyongwe went on to have a rendezvous with Grace after that.She expressed remorseful concern over the issue and desired Mugabe to rest; have a august exit.They even thought of asking supplier Namibian president Sam Nujoma or African ex-president Joachim Chissano to intervene, on the other hand feared Mugabe would erupt and subornment them “sellouts”.
In the end, Mugabe refused to resolve the succession issue soak retiring voluntarily and as a outcome the country inexorably slid into a-one power struggle crisis leading to picture coup.
Bonyongwe narrates events leading to primacy coup through his lens as Shameful minister and former CIO boss, remarking Mugabe had left it too clue to exit with dignity.
So he was ignominiously removed in the end.
Source: Rumour Hawk
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