By Simba Chikanza | ZimEye | 30 July 2025
As he marks his 89th birthday, Zimbabwe’s former State Security Minister and ZANU founding elder Didymus Mutasa has broken his silence, responding to claims by President Emmerson Mnangagwa that accuse him of “abandoning ZANU PF” and wiping clean his office in order to hand over power to the late MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, after the disputed March 2008 elections.
In a rare and defiant 17-minute interview extract aired by ZimEye, Mutasa dismantles the allegations, calling them “a complete fabrication,” and insists that he remained committed to ZANU PF throughout the turbulent post-election period.
“There was no truth. There was no integrity. It was a lie, totally untrue,” Mutasa said in reference to Mnangagwa’s accusation.
🔴 Mutasa denies fleeing the country:
“How would I have fled results that are not there? Elections that are being said that each individual must look out for their own results?”
🔴 Says elections were not ‘fought for’ in offices:
“The elections were being done in the rural areas… the counting was done there.”
🔴 Challenges Mnangagwa’s authority in 2008:
“I was Secretary for Administration.
I was his senior. He could not have sent me. It was a lie.”
Source: Zimeye
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