Panic in Mugabe's bunker: Dictator losing grip???

The First Post's exclusive reports of Robert Mugabe's plots- first to assassinate his critics, including ex-Archbishop Pius Ncube, then to destroy Ncube with charges of sexual misconduct - have enraged Zimbabwe's President.

But publication has caused him temporarily to call off the conspiracies.

Scenes reminiscent of the last days of Hitler were witnessed at a late-night meeting at State House, called by Mugabe on Monday.

The President raved and screamed at his top security men, threatening to sack some of them, including Central Intelligence Organisation boss Happyton Bonyongwe, unless they put a stop to the damaging leaks.


Bonyongwe confessed to the president that the latest plots against Ncube , which were attempting to link the former Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo with false charges of sodomy, adultery and deliberately spreading Aids, had all fallen apart, thanks to The First Post's reports. Several of those lined up to make accusations against Ncube had already disappeared.


Mugabe, frothing with rage, screamed at the hapless chief: "Get out of the kitchen if you cannot handle it, Bonyongwe. Since when have you failed to handle your boys? Or maybe you are one of those that think I should leave my job." Then he ordered a visibly shaken Bonyongwe to call off the anti-Ncube campaign for the moment, and instead launch a manhunt to track down the informants who gave information
to The First Post - and "deal with them first."
The government has been unable to pass off the reports about the Ncube honeytrap and the attempts on his life and reputation as fiction, because The First Post showed documents about the plans, passed to me at great risk by my sources.

Mugabe has now ordered that in future there must be no paperwork about such plots, and all briefings must be made strictly by telephone or in person, face to face.
The Monday night meeting was at the highest level of government. It included, apart from Bonyongwe, the defence forces commander General Constantine Chiwengwa, the army chief Phillip Sibanda, air force chief Perence Shiri, police commissioner Augustine Chirhuri, and the home and defence ministers, Kembo Mohadi and Sydney Sekeramayi.
Significantly absent was Security Minister Didymus Mutasa, who is out of favour because of his involvement with the 'magic diesel' affair.

When I spoke to Pius Ncube yesterday I warned him that the hiatus in the attacks on his reputation was only temporary. He told me: "I am not worried. I have said before that I only fear God, and Mugabe is not God. I will continue to fight for a better life in Zimbabwe."

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