Msika comments raise fresh fears about his health

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By Staff Reporter

ZIMBABWE'S second Vice President Joseph Msika who has been plagued by illness in recent months has said time is running out for him, without elaborating whether on his job or life.

Msika, 81, was talking at a shrine in Jotsholo at the invitation of the Mafela Trust to remember 11 Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (Zipra) killed by Rhodesian soldiers at the height of the country's liberation war in 1979.

His remarks were reported in the state-controlled weekly, The Sunday News. The paper did not make a clarification.

In the report, Msika said time was running out for him to “tell the true story of the liberation struggle”, claiming it was being distorted.

He said: “The history of the struggle should be told. I feel l have a duty to correct this blatant lie before I go but time is running out. The struggle to liberate Zimbabwe started in Bulawayo at Stanley Hall, when we formed the African Youth Congress."

He added that at one the meeting he chaired, they decided, “to invite people from Mashonaland."

Joshua Nkomo, who was based there came into the fold but others refused.

Msika was also qouted as saying some of the people they had invited later on became "vultures feeding on what they had not killed", but did not mention names.

A heart problem this year saw Msika being hospitallised for days in South Africa.

His poor health has sparked an internal race within Zanu PF to succeed him with House of Assembly Speaker John Nkomo, Industry and Trade Minister Obert Mpofu, Zimbabwe’s envoy to South Africa Simon Khaya Moyo and former Home Affairs Minister Dumiso Dabengwa said to be in the ring.
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