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Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) former Director-General Happyton Bonyongwe, the longest-serving head of the country’s state security service under the late ex-president Robert Mugabe, has launched a cautiously revealing autobiography titled One Among Many: My contribution to the Zimbabwean story.

Bonyongwe’s memoirs – an intriguing tale and historical account about his life – was launched this morning at The Nest at Thirty, 30 Domboshawa Road (Hellensville), Harare, by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga.

Caption: Former CIO Director-General Happyton Bonyongwe standing between his wife Willia and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga during the book launch at The Nest At Thirty, Hellensville, Harare, earlier today in the morning.
Chiwenga gave a glowing account of Bonyongwe’s history and life of service.

He described him as a loyal, humble and dedicated public servant did his best for his country.

This confirmed that there was no bad blood between Chiwenga and Bonyongwe caused by the November 2017 against Mugabe as widely speculated.

Bonyongwe actually says one day he spoke to Chiwenga during the coup seeking his permission to go Blue Roof to meet Mugabe in the midst of the coup.

Chiwenga said at the book launch that he was instrumental in helping Bonyongwe advance his military career and was also involved his marriage process with Willia Madzingura, his wife who was present at the book launch.

The autobiography portrays Bonyongwe’s life history, experiences and achievements in a lucid, coherent and gripping narrative. He devotes significant time and space on his origins as the entry point to his book.

Upfront, Bonyongwe, who hails from Honde Valley, Manicaland province, although his father Elisha Kumbuyani came from Chipinge where his relatives, including grandfather Mabuya and his ancestors originate from, reveals who really he is genealogically, tracing his history back to his Nguni (Ndau/Shangani) roots from the Mhlanga clan.

Zimbabwe's March 29 elections were held in an atmosphere that everybody saw as impossible for the opposition. There was virtually no media freedom, no campaign time for the opposition, and so much violence that being merely associated with the opposition MDC could very well mean death, and the Zimbabwe electoral commission, run by the fanatical Mugabe loyalist, Tobaiwa Mudede, was handpicked by the ZANU PF administration and is heavily in favor of ZANU and Mugabe. In addition, it can easily be argued that much of the election was rigged long before the election itself took place. Election observers found that the numbers on the voter's roll were far greater than the numbers of the voters on the ground. Many of the names were simply created to inflate the numbers in the constituencies that supported Mugabe, while another big number was comprised of the deceased. Plucky Zimbabwean humor suggested in the run up to the election that Mugabe had recruited the dead since the living had no more time for him.

To make matters even worse, in the period before the election, the military generals got together and announced that they would never serve under, or submit to being led by, a person without anti-colonial war credentials. In other words, they were saying that if Mugabe did lose to Tsvangirai they would just hold on to power through the use of force and ensure that Mugabe, the man they have served unquestioningly through several decades, stayed on. In real terms, this was a threatened coup: if Tsvangirai won, there would be a coup, Mugabe would stay on, and life would go on as usual.

In spite of all of these factors, the seemingly impossible happened. Mugabe and his party lost control of the parliament and lost the presidential elections to Morgan Tsvangirai. At this point, the question became whether the generals would carry out their threatened coup. Events, and reports from the insid

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Happyton Mabhuya Bonyongwe is a retired army general who briefly served as Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs in the cabinet of Zimbabwe from October to November 2017.

Background

Prior to this he was the director general of the Zimbabwean government intelligence agency, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) from 2002 to 2017. He is a retired Brigadier in the Zimbabwe National Army. As Director General of the CIO he reported directly to president Robert Mugabe, bypassing the Minister for Security. He was appointed Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs on 9 October 2017 and he was sworn in on the 10th of October 2017, thereby vacating his CIO post in line with the constitution.

Bonyongwe replaced Emmerson Mnangagwa who previously served as head of the intelligence agency. Mnangagwa had held both posts of Minister of Justice and First Vice President at the same time. In a cabinet reshuffle in October 2017, Mnangagwa's ministerial position was given to Bonyongwe. After the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'etat, Mnangagwa was sworn in as Zimbabwe's 3rd president but did not retain Bonyongwe as Minister of Justice.

Since 2008, Bonyongwe is placed on the United States sanctions list.

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