FORMER Zimbabe African People’s union vice-chairman, and now national chairman of the ruling Zanu PF party, Joseph Msika, has asked the government to return the now-defunct party’s properties, which he said should assist unemployed former Zipra guerillas. The properties, which include farms and factories, were confiscated during the dissident era in Matabeleland in the 1980s. Msika raised the issue during a politburo meeting three weeks ago, but President Robert Mugabe is understood to have said that he needed time to consider the issue before he could respond.
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