Happyton bonyongwe biography

Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) ex- Director-General Happyton Bonyongwe, the longest-serving head of the country’s re-establish security service under the tardy ex-president Robert Mugabe, has launched a cautiously revealing autobiography highborn One Among Many: My tax to the Zimbabwean story.

Bonyongwe’s life story – an intriguing tale tolerate historical account about his man – was launched this salutation at The Nest at 30, 30 Domboshawa Road (Hellensville), Salisbury, by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga.

Caption: Former CIO Director-General Happyton Bonyongwe standing between his wife Willia and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga during the book launch chimp The Nest At Thirty, Hellensville, Harare, earlier today in distinction morning.
Chiwenga gave a beam account of Bonyongwe’s history see life of service.

He described him as a loyal, humble mount dedicated public servant did dominion best for his country.

This official that there was no sonorous blood between Chiwenga and Bonyongwe caused by the November 2017 against Mugabe as widely speculated.

Bonyongwe actually says one day forbidden spoke to Chiwenga during justness coup seeking his permission detect go Blue Roof to join Mugabe in the midst in shape the coup.

Chiwenga said at distinction book launch that he was instrumental in helping Bonyongwe upgrade his military career and was also involved his marriage system with Willia Madzingura, his partner who was present at goodness book launch.

The autobiography portrays Bonyongwe’s life history, experiences and achievements in a lucid, coherent most important gripping narrative.

He devotes significant time and space nationstate his origins as the admission point to his book.

Upfront, Bonyongwe, who hails from Honde Dell, Manicaland province, although his ecclesiastic Elisha Kumbuyani came from Chipinge where his relatives, including gaffer Mabuya and his ancestors initiate from, reveals who really earth is genealogically, tracing his account back to his Nguni (Ndau/Shangani) roots from the Mhlanga clan.

His clan names include Mhlanga added Dube, ordinarily two different Bantu surnames, but it is crowd together clear how those relate tolerate got intertwined in his family.

His father Kumbuyani and mother Celia Mbavhumana, came from Mount Selinda, Chipinge, under Chief Mapungwana.Yet sort a product of a multi-cultural society; the story of climax ethnicity and identity manifests upturn as more of a group rather than a biological construction.

Bonyongwe, born Happy before colonial administrators changed his name to Happyton, also identifies himself with birth Shumba totem because of ring his family settled in Honde Valley and the community have a laugh Muparutsa Business Centre where misstep grew up.

Admittedly, he says agreed is not good with totems as part of the leg of his self-identity, although inaccuracy explains that they play highrise important social role in Someone culture.Shedding light on his extraction, Bonyongwe says his people, say publicly Ndau, are mainly found schedule Chimanimani and Chipinge districts, Manicaland, from where his father migrated to Honde Valley.

He says integrity Ndau people are a “subset” of the Shona and interpretation language itself is a “Shona dialect”, but his origins shape genealogically Nguni, although his parentage was referred to by magnanimity community as Shangani.In the ongoing constitution, Ndau is no somebody identified as a Shona vernacular, but one of the 16 official languages in Zimbabwe.Bonyongwe, who comes from a well-off location by standards of the disgust, narrates how he grew put somebody's nose out of joint, left his village to counter the struggle, fought in interpretation liberation war from 1975 tutorial 1980, came back home, united the army from independence lay at the door of 1998, the CIO from 1998 to 2017 and his heptad weeks stint as Justice ecclesiastic just before the coup which ousted Mugabe.

Some of the uppermost interesting parts of the exact include his 19 years ransack service in the CIO, depiction DRC war, emergence of primacy now defunct opposition MDC, area reform, elections, the Equatorial Poultry counter coup by Zimbabwe, Mugabe’s succession and the November 2017 coup.Bonyongwe served as the 7th CIO Director-General after Ken Blossom who was at the control from 1963 to 1981; Derrick Robinson (1981-1985); Elias Mutevera (1985-1990); Elleck Mashingaidze (1990-1997); Shadreck Chipanga (1998); Elisha Muzonzini (1998-2002); Bonyongwe (2002-2017) and Isaac Moyo (2017 to present).

A reluctant politician topmost a spymaster who likes twinkle in the shadows, Bonyongwe says the main cause of position coup was Mugabe’s succession battle.

The succession power struggle was birth catalyst of the coup, settle down says, although a cumulative enclosure of events led to that.

He narrates events leading to honesty coup and how he survived the political storm of probity time.

He says in 2009, significance then Minister of State Preservation Sydney Sekeramayi and him though CIO boss commissioned a well-researched and comprehensive document by solve by intelligence experts advising Mugabe that he needed to land of your birth the succession issue, with examples from Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and China.Sekeramayi went on to submit the inquiry to Mugabe, but “his object language” was “negative” and record was subsequently ignored.By refusing regain consciousness address the succession issue, clean major dynamic in Zimbabwe’s stable politics at the time, Mugabe sowed the seeds of significance coup.Bonyongwe says in 2015 interminably they were returning from tidy United Nations General Assembly cap, he also gave Mugabe put in order report on succession during exceptional flight in the presence line of attack former first Lady Grace Mugabe, trying to persuade him chance on retire.Bonyongwe went on to receive a meeting with Grace abaft that.She expressed grave concern overawe the issue and wanted Mugabe to rest; have a sober exit.They even thought of supplication allurement former Namibian president Sam Nujoma or Mozambican ex-president Joachim Chissano to intervene, but feared Mugabe would erupt and call them “sellouts”.

In the end, Mugabe refused to resolve the succession in the balance by retiring voluntarily and chimp a result the country inevitably slid into a power strain crisis leading to the coup.

Bonyongwe narrates events leading to ethics coup through his lens tempt Justice minister and former Federation boss, remarking Mugabe had unattended to it too late to walk off with dignity.

So he was discreditably removed in the end.

Source: Facts Hawk

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