26 years ago today, my father died; suddenly, unexpectedly. It was a Sunday & I had last spoken to him from Harare on the phone the day before on Saturday evening. A rare thing because we hardly spoke on the phone, ever. He had asked me to come & see him at Parliament on Tuesday. 2| I had expressed doubt because on that same day I had been injured playing soccer at the UZ inter faculty games.I'd spent the afternoon at Parirenyatwa trying to get help but had given up waiting as the casualty dept battled to attend to a car accident that had many casualties.

1/ Today I attended the commemoration of the end of the Gukurahundi genocide which was brought about by the Unity Accord between PF ZAPU & Zanu PF. I had the honour & privilege to speak at the event.Before I share what I said in my remarks I would like to share some observations. 2/ I was struck by the extraordinarily high police presence.There were more police than participants. The police cld argue they put most of their pple to support but given the history of conduct this cld only have been meant to intimidate pple from not attending. And it worked.

1/ What is treason? Everybody who criticizes the government, calls on people to exercise their power to pressure the govt to resign or calls for the government to go is charged with it. Remember that the VP Chiwenga was accused of treason by Mugabe in that statement by SK Moyo. 2/ He had warned Mugabe against purging Comrades and threatened that the army would not stand aside and watch this happen. This was after ED had run to exile.