Mbeki said there was an intelligence report which he was privy to as president at the time, that lists the people and the motives behind the attacks.
JOHANNESBURG - Former state president Thabo Mbeki has suggested the deadly 2008 xenophobic attacks in Alexandra were part of a planned operation to drive Zimbabweans back home to vote out Robert Mugabe.
He said there was an intelligence report which he was privy to as president at the time, that lists the people and the motives behind the attacks.After Morgan Tsvangirai and Mugabe failed to get a 50% majority, a run-off election was announced to take place in June. Mbeki, who was president at the time, said the motives behind the attacks were to drive Zimbabweans back home to vote in the run-off elections.
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