What happened to Imbovane Pressure Group?

“I have since closed that chapter, but, I will give you a brief as I recall our grueling time during Imbovane time. As far as I know, there were six people who spearheaded the formation of Imbovane Yamahlabezulu. That name was derived from the youth wing of vukani mahlabezulu and the name was proposed by Mr Mqondobanzi Magonya (also living in Britain),” said Mr Nkomazana.
“Imbovane Yemahlabezulu was formed in 1997 and the meeting was conducted in the boardroom of the Rainbow hotel in Bulawayo,” he said.

“This was to be a radical pressure group which was aimed at opening up the debates on issues affecting Matabeleland inter alia; the Gukurahundi atrocities, the marginalisation of Matabeleland, the importation of labour from Mashonaland,” said Mr Nkomazana.
“This was to be achieved through public debates/meetings, rallies where people like Enos Nkala and Joseph Msika were invited to explain to the people as to who gave the instruction to commit the attrocities. We also had meetings with Thenjiwe Lesabe and the then South African Ambassador Mamabolo,” he said.
Mr Nkomazana added: We sought to concietise our people their right to demand answers on many questions affecting Matabeleland and our meetings were always a full house. You are aware that every struggle has some people who do not stick to the objectives of the organisation, we had such people, and that led to Lovemore Moyo being removed from his position at a meeting held at Speciss College”.

“There were incidences of suspicious connections with the ruling Zanu-PF among some of our members such as Themba Ngwenyama and Bekithemba Sibindi. We got exposed to state agents and our lives were at risk. I was working for the bank then and I got a number of visits from state agents some of them masquerading as bank customers. It was really bad until I was forced to leave my job that I went back to university. We did our own investigations and we discovered that some of our executive members had sold out,” said Nkomozana.

Contacted for comment, Mr Magonya also former ZAPU-UK treasurer said: Francis Nkomazana was an important member of Imbovane Yemahlabezulu. He was always there when it was crucial for him to be there”.
“Nkomazana is one of our members who went through persecution like most of us,” he said.
Liqhwa Gama told The ZimDiaspora that: "We were summoned to the CIO Bulawayo Head Office, Magnet House and told that abadala are not happy with our organisation". This story first appeard in ZimDiaspora.com