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Manyika dies in a car accident


Sunday Mail/TZG

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0000



THE Minister Without Portfolio and Zanu PF national political commissar, Elliot Manyika died in a car accident along the Zvishavane-Mbalabala Road on Saturday morning.

He was pronounced dead on arrival at Mater Dei Hospital in Bulawayo.

Manyika was believed to be travelling from Mutare to Gwanda in Matabeleland South where he intended to preside over the election of Zanu PF leaders in that province.

A report in the weekly Sunday Mail reported: “The official Mercedes-Benz in which he was travelling burst a tyre, resulting in the driver losing control. The vehicle then rolled once and veered off the road before uprooting several small trees.”

“Both the minister and driver were trapped. A doctor, who was driving by, later ferried them to hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The driver is, however, said to be recovering,” added the weekly.

Manyika rose through the ranks of the Zanu PF party becoming the youngest provincial secretary for administration in 1986. He worked in different capacities in Government, including that of under-secretary in the President’s Office. He was Foreign Affairs Ministry under-secretary (administration) before being promoted to deputy secretary for administration and finance in March 1992. He became the deputy secretary for political and economic affairs in May 1996.

He was elected to the Zanu PF central committee and also became Zanu-PF deputy secretary for information and publicity and in 1999 was appointed Zimbabwe’s High Commissioner to Malawi before returning home in 2000 to become Mashonaland Central Governor and Resident Minister.

He became Zanu PF national political commissar in 2001, a position he held until the time of his death. Among his duties as political commissar were organizing party structures and mobilizing support ahead of national elections.

Manyika was 53 years old at the time of his death.

Sunday Mail/TZG


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Mafirekureva n/a
Subject: Manyika
Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:19:37
Editor,it is good that divergent views about manyika are being published here.

He was a hero to others (Joseph and most in Zanu PF) and he was a living curse to the rest who we killed, raped, maimed and dispossessed on his orders and sometimes directly by him.

Joseph, in the world of the spirits and souls, where there are no guns the army, militia and policy to back him I wonder what he will say to his black victims, will they let him rest in peace? Just a thought haa...

I know in our culture wafa wanaka, but the way he lived was also against our cultural norms, we respect life and the spilling of blood is taboo, especially of innocent people.


n/a n/a
Subject: Manyika
Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:31:27
May the gallant son of Zimbabwe rest in peace.May the God Lord be with your family at this sad time.
You fought hard to uphold the liberation credentials of Zimbabwe.The fight continues and patriotic Zimbabweans will take over from where you left.No one can kill ideas and the ideas of total freedom instilled into us during the war of liberation remain strong to this day. Aluta Continua.


Moza MArshallaw@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Accidents?
Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:36:18
Ndiwo mafiro emagamba
1. Tongo
2. Nadangana
3. duri zororo
4.Ziyenge Rwizi
5.Chris
6. Border
7.Rukarwa
Nhasi 8. Manyika
Ndine urombo ne short life (to die in order to gain more and enjoy). This seems feels paradoxical and metaphorical.


n/a n/a
Subject: n/a
Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:17:02
wafa wanaka???????????????????


tenje amagona04@yahoo.com
Subject: tine urombo
Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:23:54
VaManyika vatisiya. Kuda kwaMwari .Zvino tichaimbirwa nani mhururu kuenda nokudzoka mhurururu

mWari atanha shizha rake


True Zimbo N/A
Subject: Tsvagai Ishe
Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:54:02
Tsvagai Mwari hama dzangu musiye nzira dzakaipa. hapana chisingaperi asi hupenyu hunouya ndihwo hwakakosha. As we shall stand before God what shall we say?


joseph Chiteza n/a
Subject: Tribute to a hero
Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:05:52
This is my eulogy to a man who died doing what he loved most,that is defending the territorial integrity of Zimbabwe.This happened in the time when the heirs to the American and European empires cynically transformed our country into Africa's whipping boy because of their love for 'hate'.This when sanctions stand tall over our heads while Uncle Sam and his colour hover and snarl over our heads like the monstrous thin air that comes in gales and uproots trees and fells infrastructures. Elliot you were a fighter and you died fighting. You died doing what you loved most and this is my tribute to you. I read that you had your formative years in Rosa and Bare. Chiweshe was brutalised by Smith.People lived in protected villages and suffered.Chiweshe saw death and mayhem because the white world have always believed that Afircans are second class-even in their own homes. Bare,Chaona, Chinehasha, Majome, Nyakudya and the provincial capital are very familiar places.It is unbelievable but true that you are gone. I am very sore with sadness to see you go but the struggle continues. While the uninitiated blamed our troubles on poor leadership,you never faltered. I loved your consciousness to bits. I loved your singing because it resonated the tune of a true African identity. Nora,Nora,Nora vakomana X2. Kuenda nekudzoka vakomana zvinoda vakashinga.....you sang. People doubted your motives but I believed you.You were right,we need more than determination to become one people.We need more than consciousness to see how black and black means brotherness.We are one as a people but we are divided by lack of identity and want. The noise of invasions coming out of western capitals sums up the danger looming on our black horizons.The noises from far away are not about freedom but a surrender of it.We live in perpetual darkness in Africa because we have never been a free people.We live on handouts because we have never been unleashed by the empire's people to chart our destiny.I love your efforts dear brother.I will always do. You died on the road to the people.You died trying to reach your own kith and kin and that makes you a hero.Your place lies with us.We will remember you ad infinitum. Go well dear brother,father and true Zimbabwean.Go well comrade Manyika.May your soul rest in peace.


mwana wevhu N/A
Subject: matambudziko
Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:24:01
Tineurombo kuti varwiri vevhu varikuenda vachirisiya.
Zvinosuwisa zvikuru. Ko achararama kusvika narini ndiyani. Sakatinopedzerani chiiki nhai hamadzangu. zvinhu ngazvigadziriswe zvipere izvi.



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