In an interview for the book “No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists Over a Half Century,” Dumisani Kumalo recalled the struggle to cut off the U.S. funds that were sustaining the apartheid government of South Africa.
According to Chamisa, the fast will ensure a smooth transfer of power from the ruling Zanu-PF to the MDC Alliance, the local NewsDay portal said.
The first couple will be able to remain in their sprawling mansion known as the Blue Roof, in Harare. The state will pay for their medical care, domestic staff, security and foreign travel.
Many expressed concerned that the stage-management by military officers was not the return to democracy that many had hoped.
While Zimbabwe attempted a land reform program that gave land owned by whites to liberation war veterans and others, South Africa’s reform program was delayed for years.