Kunonga spokesman Bishop Alfred Munyanyi dismissed the contents of Williams’s dossier saying the Gandiya faction was peddling lies. Munyanyi said he does not see Mr. Mugabe doing anything to alter the situation of Zimbabwe’s Anglican Church.
Bishop Gandiya, present at the meeting Monday with the president, told VOA that it was frank and that Mr. Mugabe seemed concerned when confronted with the dossier. He said he hopes Mr. Mugabe will ensure dialogue ends the dispute with Kunonga….
But David Moore, a professor of development studies at the University of Johannesburg told VOA’s Delia Robertson that he does not believe President Mugabe is likely to follow through to end the standoff, noting that he often says one thing then does another.
Actually, the Kunonga group have been ranging far and wide beyond the borders of his original diocese of Harare, grabbing property in the east and south-east. Only in the west, in the diocese of Bulawayo (Zimbabwe’s second largest city) is the Anglican Church untouched, according to my sources. That area is solidly Ndebele, the minority tribe in Zimbabwe directly descended less than 150 years ago from the Zulus, and they would, to be frank, beat the you know what out of anybody trying to seize their property. And oh the delicious and so accurate quote at the end that Mugabe often says one thing and then does another. How true.
Yes. My thinking was Mugabe will be Mugabe. Dictators have a different set of needs in their hierarchy than archbishops.