The Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF) has said it is working with an unnamed group of lawyers in finalising a document “that will be used to set the people’s restoration agenda at an accelerated pace than before”.
Report by Khanyile Mlotshwa Staff Reporter
The party has also said it will use this year to meet the government of Zimbabwe for dialogue as it sought “peaceful routes to Matabeleland independence”.
MLF chairman Crispen Nyoni told NewsDay that the secessionist party would use 2013 to take the “Mthwakazi independence” agenda to all available platforms in the world.
“It is also prudent to mention that the 1980s atrocities that were used to silence Mthwakazi nationals will be presented in court with certain names of key personnel being mentioned as respondents,” he said. “Countries that actively participated in the so-called Gukurahundi atrocities have also been cited and it is up to them to come clean in the courts of law, needless to remind that North Korea is among them.
“MLF is set to intensify the already afloat public awareness through different floors across the globe, through regional and international bodies and embassies. Our struggle is holistic in approach and all devices of oppression and those that reinforce and perpetuate insecurity will be uprooted and disposed of.”
Nyoni said the party was not closing out the possibility of meeting with the government of Zimbabwe over “Matabeleland’s calls for independence”.
“It is on record that MLF intends to send a delegation to the occupying regime for the purposes of deliberating on the plight of restoration,” he said. “MLF has said it time and again that it will use all universally acceptable routes towards restoration.”
