{"id":2657,"date":"2010-12-17T00:11:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T00:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2010-12-17T00:11:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T00:11:01","slug":"bobs-your-uncle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/bobs-your-uncle\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob&#039;s your uncle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a colleague of Robert Mugabe\u00a0greatly increases your chances of an early death, especially in a car accident.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Here&#8217;s a list of people who met unexpected ends while working with Bob (showing the year of their death).\u00a0 No doubt the car accidents are due to chance.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Herbert Chitepo (1975), ZANU leader, killed by car bomb in exile in Lusaka.<\/li>\n<li>Josiah Tongogara (1979), ZANLA leader, died in a car accident in Mozambique during return from exile.<\/li>\n<li>Charles Tazvishaya (aka Lovemore Mawisa) (1986), personal private secretary to Prime Minister Mugabe, survived a gunshot wound to the head inflicted in the bedroom of his house and then died in Parirenyatwa Hospital, Harare,\u00a0a fortnight later, after\u00a0his medical drip was detached from the source medication.<\/li>\n<li>Maurice Nyagumbo (1989), Minister for Mines, died from ingesting pesticide.<\/li>\n<li>Border Gezi (2001), Minister for Gender, Youth\u00a0and Employment, died in a car accident.<\/li>\n<li>Moven Mahachi (2001), Minister of Defence, died in a car accident.<\/li>\n<li>Elliot Manyika (2008), Minister Without Portfolio and National Political Commissar for ZANU-PF, died\u00a0 in a car accident.<\/li>\n<li>Susan Tsvangirai (2009), wife of Morgan Tsvangirai, the new Prime Minister in the Government of National Unity, died in a car accident.<\/li>\n<li>General Solomon Mujuru (aka <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2010\/02\/memories-of-underdevelopment\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rex Nhongo<\/a>) (August 2011), former Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Armed Forces and husband of Vice President Joice Mujuru, died in a house fire which destroyed his farmhouse near Beatrice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a colleague of Robert Mugabe\u00a0greatly increases your chances of an early death, especially in a car accident.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Here&#8217;s a list of people who met unexpected ends while working with Bob (showing the year of their death).\u00a0 No doubt the car accidents are due to chance. Herbert Chitepo (1975), ZANU leader, killed by car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-history","p1","y2010","m12","d17","h00"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}