Harare - The wife of Zimbabwe's army commander threatened to kill a white farmer, telling him as she occupied his farm that she had "not tasted white blood" for 22 years, according to court documents obtained here on Wednesday.
Jocelyn Chiwenga, a senior figure in President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party and her husband, Lieutenant-General Constantine Chiwenga, the commander of the army, were ordered by high court judge Anele Matika to stop selling the export produce of the farm she and her husband illegally occupied in April this year.
Roger Staunton, owner of the 1 275ha farm, Shepherd Hall, about 30km east of Harare, said Mrs Chiwenga arrived at his homestead on May 23, "breathing fire," according to affidavits accepted by the judge.
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With her were several men carrying AK47 automatic rifles, said Constantine Mkiya, Staunton's lawyer.
'I could be in a coffin' "They were not in uniform, but because of her husband's position in the army, we are confident they were soldiers," he said.
When Staunton offered a handshake, "she told me she had no intention of shaking hands with a white pig," the farmer said.
"She stated that she had not tasted white blood since 1980 (independence) and missed the experience, and that she needed just the slightest excuse to kill somebody," said Staunton.
"She ordered one of her guards to 'kill the white bastards'," he said. The gunman cocked his weapon, but did not open fire.
General Chiwenga is reported to have been allocated another highly sophisticated farm in the Marondera district, in an area where one of his neighbours is Air Marshal Perence Shiri, the commander of the air force who has forced about 300 previously resettled peasants to get off the farm he has seized.
During the occupation, Mrs Chiwenga declared herself to be "the new Mbuya Nehanda," a woman spirit medium venerated in Zimbabwe as the leader of an uprising against white occupation in 1896.
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