There is no evidence to suggest that the death on August 16th of Solomon Mujuru, one of the most powerful figures in President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party and a former head of Zimbabwe's armed forces, was anything but an accident. But the senior party official accompanying his grieving widow, Joice, a Zimbabwean vice-president, around the burnt-out remains of their farmhouse outside Harare, the capital, in which he died, had little doubt as to the real cause of his demise. "This," he declared, "is murder most foul." His compatriots-on both sides of the political divide-appear to agree, though nobody is sure who is responsible.
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