- President Robert Mugabe has commissioned the construction
of a multi-billion dollar security radar at his rural home in Zvimba, it
was reported last night.
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- Zimbabwe's independent SW Radio Africa said the construction
work will be undertaken by the country's electricity utility company Zesa.
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- The radar, recently acquired from China, would be linked
to other security gadgets being installed at Mugabe's mansion in Harare
on the outskirts of the upmarket Borrowdale Brooke suburb.
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- "Military sources have told SW Radio Africa that
the construction of the security radar could be a cover for a more sinister
plot by the government for concealing weapons in the Darwendale area,"
it reported.
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- A few kilometres from the home, a secret Airforce of
Zimbabwe hangar was built into the mountain ranges of Darwendale commercial
farming area. The hangar was built a few years after independence.
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- A former logistics officer in the army, retired colonel
Esau Sibanda, said the radar could be there to protect an arms cache. He
explained that the hangar being talked about could actually be hiding sophisticated
military hardware such as air defence missiles.
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