Zipra veterans push for return of properties

THE Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu has this year resolved to intensify pressure on President Robert Mugabe to release its properties seized by the government at the height of the Gukurahundi era.

Zapu deputy spokesperson, Iphithule Maphosa said party members were increasingly growing impatient and frustrated by the government’s delays in returning Zapu and Zipra (Zapu’s military wing) properties that were confiscated by Mugabe and his Zanu PF government during a brutal crackdown that is commonly referred to as Gukurahundi.

“There is legal action currently underway, but our members are showing signs of impatience and have been calling on the leadership to allow them to go into the streets to demand their properties back unconditionally,“ he said.

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