Outspoken opposition politician Job Sikhala says he will expose those who want to assassinate him at a trial in South Africa scheduled for early this month.
Sikhala is out on bail after explosives were allegedly found in a car he was travelling in last November while in the neighbouring country.
He remains in South Africa and is expected to return home once the trial is concluded.
The former Chitungwiza legislator insisted that the explosives were planted in his uncle’s car by people targeting him.
“In their relentless desperation, they followed me from Botswana—where I had addressed the Botswana Patriotic Front congress as an invited international guest—to South Africa to assassinate me,” Sikhala said.
“They ended up planting explosives in the car of my uncle, Alexander Thema, to blow me up.
"After realising their plan had failed, they tried to recruit rogue elements within the South African intelligence system to incriminate me—an antic that has horribly exposed them.”
“Much of the evidence will come out at trial. I will expose how the people in Harare have become so desperate that they resort to trying to assassinate opponents.”
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The founder and chief facilitator of the National Democratic Working Group said those targeting him were desperate and panicking.
“It shows they are panicking and have resorted to terrorism against the masses," h said.
"Zimbabweans know what they want and will not be deterred from demanding their country back from dictatorship and tyranny.
“All efforts to subdue the masses will fail. It has failed before, and it will fail forever.”
Sikhala said this year will mark the resurgence of people power, as the masses demand their country back from oppressors.
“No oppressor will defeat the united force of our people,” he vowed.
"Fear not, for God is the one who knows everyone’s life—not anyone else.”
Sikhala added that he was poisoned by a waiter serving him at a South African hotel last October.
“I survived by the grace of God. The poisoning bore all the footprints of the evil regime,” he said.
Last year, his house in Chitungwiza was bombed while he was in South Africa launching his book, Footprints in the Chains: The Life of Job Sikhala.
