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President Emmerson Mnangagwa (photo archive).
By Tendai Mugabe
President Mnangagwa first opened up to the circumstances surrounding his arrest in 1964 after bombarding the Rhodesian steam locomotive at Fort Victoria (now Masvingo), revealing how he had been obliged to hold an explosive device during interrogation by Ian Smith's security staff.
The bomb almost cost him his life before being thrown out the window by one of his interrogators, making it the second incident involving dangerous explosives targeted on his life
. , the president miraculously survived another bomb attack at the Bulawayo City Stadium that left two dead and more than 40 wounded.
The Herald may also reveal that the President escaped castration by admitting that he was responsible for the bombing of the Rhodesian train
In a broad interview with The Herald, President Mnangagwa stated that "there is no such thing as". he was the only surviving member of the famous crocodile gang. "After my arrest, I was taken to Harare Central Prison," said President Mnangagwa. small room that they (Smith's diet) called butchery A20. In this room, there is a long steel bar that stretches all over the room with round hooks like those used to hang meat in a butcher's shop. Saka vanoisa table seapo see musoro wako pachair vokusimudza see maleg iron wopinda muhook muya see maleg iron rimwe gumbo futi uku vobvisa zvese izvi (clothes) musoro wako warembera pasi. Notebook Vokuratidza itsva nepenzera itsva. Vanobva vati zvandichanyora umu zvinobva kwauri kusvika notebook tazadza. Saka wainzi bhuuu kuno uku woti rirrrrr uchienda uku kana waguma wonzi bhuu uchienda uku but you will not last long. You go out vombokubvisa but you come back again. Vokubvunza unoda kudzokera here kunze kwenyika? Wakatrainer kuEgypytwewewe nekuChina woti handizvizive vokudzorera futi
"So I do not know what happened, nanhasi handizive.Pandakaita came in a female cell.At that time there was a toilet that was flashed nemvura Inobva Panze vakadzi vaive vakasungwawo vaipiwa mvura panze vachidira saka pavakarova door amuka-amuka ndobva ndauya kuzotorwa zvikanzi we failed but we have all the clues you trained in Egypt, you trained in China.
"Then they Took him to another room with an open window facing Rail Avenue, now called Kenneth Kaunda. There were five white men called Inspector Beans, Brad Show and Smith. I do not remember the names of the other two
"In this room, they took an explosive TNT and a fuse and pinned them with an explosive cable, when you lit it exploded in a few minutes and because J & # I did engineering in China, I knew that if it exploded, we would all die.
They wanted to test if I was trained militarily then they asked me to hold this explosive by standing at the window and usually a trained person was bound to throw it out the window before it exploded.
"Saka vakabva vatungidza ndikati haa pano apo nhasi tinoenda tese asi uku ndichibuda hangu dikita. Pachakangoti fuuu one of them jumped and grabbed the bomb and threw him out the window and he exploded on the outside. He said that guy was innocent if he was a trained person that he would have thrown out the explosive. Ndakabva ndaona kuti ndapasa pano.
President Mnangagwa continued: "I was then transferred to another office where the Minister of Justice, Law and Order, Desmond Lardner Burke, had signed my restraining documents since five years. He said that I am sending you for restriction for five years then sign here but before we let you go, we want to castrate you so take off your shoes.
"They undressed me and asked me to sit on a bench where they I looked at it and at the moment they tried to castrate me, I said no, no, let me tell you the truth, it is I who bombed the steam locomotive and I was also trained in China and Egypt. was enough to hang you and they took me to remand. "
Complete story to serialize in The Saturday Herald.
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