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was alleged that he began to harbour ambitions of being the president of the party. He tried to gain the support of the detained members of the High
Command but he failed. Mugabe is said to have blocked Kombayi's ascendancy to power as he was also alleged to be harbouring ambitions of being at the helm of the party. This was on the basis that he was a senior member of the party, who had taught Kombayi for his primary education in Gweru.
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on 24 March, three days before the elections for campaigning against Simon
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ex-ZANU PF senior member. He was controversially shot in 1990 and it was reported that he was shot by Simon
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Mugabe had been coincidentally released from prison at the time when most of the senior party members were being arrested. Hence according to him, he was the ideal candidate. It has been claimed that from then onwards, tension between Mugabe and
Kombayi began to blossom to such an extent that Kombayi
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During the detente period, 1975-1976 (a period when the liberation struggle had gone into abeyance), he filled the power vacuum created by the arrest of senior Zanu PF leaders on the basis that they were implicated in the assassination of
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Reports from the police stated that
Kombayi incited the violence which turned out to be nasty in the end. It was reported that before the shooting, Kombayi had followed Muzenda's vehicle, shot the tyres before setting the vehicle on fire. Kombayi brushed this, arguing that it was only a pretext for
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Events The 1990 Tragedy
Kombayi defected from Zanu PF and he became a member of ZUM which was formed by Edgar Tekere in the late 1980s after he had been expelled from Zanu PF in 1988. He was appointed as the National Organising Secretary of ZUM. Whilst campaigning for the 1990 elections he was shot
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Service / Career He was a former mayor of Gweru, served as a Member of
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Kombayi was a member of ZANU PF during the liberation struggle and he aided the party's military wing financially. He procured arms and ammunition of ZANLA. He is also credited for distributing food stuffs and clothes to both families of the detained ZANLA guerrillas and the party members and the
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but was shot during his campaign. He was left permanently disabled. This wound was to kill him 19 years later. The men responsible for the shooting were convicted of the crime but never spent a day in prison, as they were pardoned by Mugabe.
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After failing to clinch the highest and most prestigious post in the party, Kombayi began to demand to be repaid for all what he had done for the party. He however died yet to receive a dim from his former party.
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Kombayi’s 2006 Case In March 2006 Kombayi won a defamation suit against Emmerson Mnangagwa for making false claims about his role in the liberation struggle. This had been published in an autobiography of
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guerrillas who used to collect war equipment from his club. For this sterling work he was doing, Kombayi was appointed as the head of the Food Committee during the liberation struggle.
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