GARFIELD TODD'S DAUGHTER WAS RAPED BY MUGABE'S SOLDIER DURING GUKURAHUNDI!

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By Ntando Ncube

 

JOHANNESBURG, July 10, 2007 - Veteran human rights activist and author Judith Todd said in an interview published yesterday that she was raped by a Zimbabwean army officer after she criticized President Robert Mugabe's regime.

Judith, the daughter of former South Rhodesia prime minister Garfield Todd spoke to The Daily Telegraph from South Africa, where she now lives in CapeTown. She said the assault occurred the day after she told the then army Commander, Lieutenant General Rex Mujuru, now Retired General Solomon Tapfumaneyi Mujuru, and another senior officer that the North Korean-trained Five Brigade was massacring civilians in a campaign of atrocities in Matabeleland.

This was at the height of the Gukurahundi Massacres, perpetrated by the infamous Five Brigade against innocent civilians in Matabeleland and parts of the Midlands.

The next morning a senior officer had picked her up in a car and driven to a house she believes was in the Chikurubi prison complex.

"A servant let us in, not looking at us," she wrote in a newly- published memoir, Through the Darkness: A life in Zimbabwe, in which she names the man, The Telegraph reported. For some reason The Telegraph did not identify Todd's attacker, only saying that he has gone on to have a distinguished diplomatic career, and could not be reached when the paper attempted to contact him.

In the book Todd, however, identifies her attacker as Brigadier Agrippah Mutambara.

"The (senior officer) led me into a bedroom, opened a bottle of beer for each of us, unstrapped his firearm in its holster, laid it on the bedside table next to my head and proceeded.

"I did not resist."

In her first interview on the subject, she told The Daily Telegraph: "It was rape. I was in a complete state of terror.

"Now and again you have to face destiny... What happened was actually a relief because I thought I was going to be killed. At least I was alive."

Todd said that Mugabe's Zanu-PF party was at the root of the problems in Zimbabwe and had to be abolished, telling The Telegraph that, "Zanu-PF is the instrument of evil in Zimbabwe.

"For the future wellbeing of Zimbabwe Zanu-PF must be eliminated. We need to be cleansed."

Garfield Todd was prime minister of Southern Rhodesia, as Zimbabwe was formerly known, from 1953 to 1958 and both he and his daughter were outspoken supporters of Zimbabwe's crusade for independence from Britain.

Mugabe, the target of a limited range of Western sanctions after allegations that he rigged his re-election five years ago, frequently blames the country's plight on Western critics and in particular the former colonial power Britain.

Zimbabwe is in the throes of an economic crisis characterised by four-digit inflation, a thriving foreign currency black market, chronic shortages of basic foodstuffs such as maize-meal, bread, cooking oil and sugar, and massive unemployment.

(Judith Todd signed a declaration waiving her right to anonymity as a rape victim for her interview. Through the Darkness: A life in Zimbabwe is available on www.amazon.co.uk)