Word: stuttaford
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pretoria's support for a coup attempt against Mugabe. The South Africans, charged Mugabe, refused Nkomo's request at both meetings. The Prime Minister also maintained that Nkomo had met with "other parties" to plan a strategy to overthrow his government. Among them: Member of Parliament Wally Stuttaford, 64, who has been detained by the Mugabe government since December on suspicion of having approached ZAPU to plot a joint coup attempt...
Whites have also been angered and alarmed by some of the Prime Minister's recent actions. Invoking the emergency powers once used against insurgent blacks, Mugabe has jailed Wally Stuttaford, 64, a grandfatherly Member of Parliament, on suspicion of having plotted a coup against the government. A 24-year-old Dutch-born auto mechanic was detained in Salisbury and later deported simply for drawing mustaches and horns on posters of Mugabe and Zimbabwe's President, the Reverend Canaan Banana. In addition, whites complain that groups of tourists have been roughed up by soldiers-in one instance, for stumbling...
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