Mnangagwa Spy Agent In Mysterious Death – Eduzim News

By Crime and Courts Reporter-A member of the Zimbabwe Military Intelligence, has died under unclear circumstances.

Hillary Nleya was reported missing last month after having been last seen at Redwood along the Plumtree-Bulawayo road.

His body was later discovered hanging from a tree in Figtree, Matabeleland South.

While law enforcement authorities are treating the case as a potential suicide, sources close to the investigation have linked his death to his work in military intelligence, raising speculation about foul play.

Zimbabwe Military Intelligence operates as a covert arm of the Zimbabwe National Army, tasked with managing high-level state security matters.

Its methods reportedly include eliminating individuals deemed security risks, with a chilling record of disappearances and killings.

The department is believed to have been involved in the disappearance of journalist and activist Itai Dzamara on March 9, 2015, whose fate remains unknown nearly a decade later.

Another infamous case tied to military intelligence is that of Rashiwe Guzha, a typist with the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) who disappeared in May 1990, amid reports of her romantic involvement with the late CIO Deputy Director Edson Shirihuru.

Shirihuru himself died in 1993 after vowing to reveal the truth behind Guzha’s disappearance if convicted in court.

Following the 2017 military coup that ousted President Robert Mugabe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa restructured the state security framework, sidelining the CIO, which he viewed as pro-Mugabe, and consolidated state security responsibilities under Zimbabwe Military Intelligence.

Critics have accused Mnangagwa of using this unit to target his perceived enemies and suppress dissent.

The mysterious death of Hillary Nleya has drawn public attention, particularly after his relative, Senator Lwazi Sibanda, who delivered an emotional address in Parliament.

Speaking during a debate on the Death Penalty Abolition Bill, Sibanda described Nleya’s death as a murder by unknown assailants.
“I rise with a heavy heart,” she said. “I am a woman, a mother, and a Senator of this country, yet I stand here with a cousin lying in the mortuary—Hillary Nleya—whom we searched for over two weeks, only to find him dead in Figtree. He was murdered by a person we do not yet know.”
The Senator recounted the anguish of planning her cousin’s burial while fulfilling her parliamentary duties. Nleya is to be buried in Dombodema, Plumtree.

In her address, Sibanda condemned the increasing violence in Zimbabwe, citing a recent case in which a family’s hut was burned down by unknown assailants while they were asleep inside.

She also lamented the challenges of forgiving perpetrators who show no remorse, highlighting the pain felt by families of murder victims.

Her remarks resonated with broader concerns about the state of law and order in Zimbabwe, where politically motivated killings and disappearances have long been a source of public fear and distrust.

Efforts to obtain a comment from the Zimbabwe National Army were unsuccessful.

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