TheBlackRussian | Dumiso Dabengwa worked with the ANC's military wing Umkhonto weSizwe in operations that brought together Zipra and MK.
Former Zimbabwe minister of home affairs Dumiso Dabengwa and independent presidential candidate Simba Makoni salute supporters during the launch of his presidential election campaign at White City Stadium, in Bulawayo, March 1 2008.One of southern Africa's liberation stalwarts, Dumiso"The Black Russian" Dabengwa, has died at the age of 79.
At the time of his death, Dabengwa was the president of the revived Zimbabwe African People's Union which broke away from a 1987 unity agreement with the Zimbabwe African National Union that formed the Zanu-PF. During Zimbabwe's war of independence, Dabengwa was the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Party's intelligence chief.
The Gukurahundi massacres that claimed at least 20,000 lives in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces began at that time. At the signing of the unity accord between Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo in 1987, Dabengwa reluctantly joined Zanu-PF and served as an MP and later home affairs minister from 1992-2000. "Whilst history does record the long-standing co-operation between Zapu/Zipra and ANC/MK in the 1960s and 1970s, very little has been said or recorded about how Zapu/Zipra continued its support for Umkhonto we Sizwe after Zimbabwe's independence in 1980.
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