Word: tongogara
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...Masuku, 40, commander of the 15,000-man ZIPRA forces loyal to Joshua Nkomo's wing of the Patriotic Front. The guerrilla general had arrived in Salisbury to oversee the peaceful withdrawal of his men to their cease-fire assembly camps. Following the death of ZANLA Commander Josiah Tongogara in a car crash two weeks ago, Masuku remains a key military figure in the guerrilla leadership. In an exclusive interview with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter, conducted in an unassuming dormitory he shares with officers of Robert Mugabe's ZANLA forces, somewhere in Salisbury, Masuku provided...
Potentially the worst blow to the tenuous cease-fire was the sudden death of General Josiah Tongogara, military commander of Mugabe's ZANLA forces, who was killed when his car crashed head-on into a truck while he was driving to his base camp in Mozambique. Officials there, as well as diplomats, judged the death accidental, but among some of his followers there was speculation that he might have run afoul of rivalries inside the guerrilla movement. A magnetic, ruthless soldier, Tongogara, 41, had played a key role in favor of a settlement, and British officials fear it might...
...guerrilla factions. The left-leaning Mugabe, backed by the far more numerous Shona, sees a chance of winning outright a parliamentary majority and is reluctant to commit himself to any power-sharing scheme. In fact some observers believe this very issue caused a recent falling out between Mugabe and Tongogara, who had been a staunch advocate of guerrilla unity. The British sponsors of the settlement could only hope that such rivalries would not frustrate the prevailing desire of a long-suffering people. Said Dr. Edward Chitate, a black physician near the farming town of Gatooma: "The people...
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