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I have read a lot of bios the late ZPRA Commander Stanley Gagisa Doko Nleya and there is little that is said about him after 1980. Any special reason why? #Asakhe
Talking to Gagisa in 2018. he said " We used to think that ZPRA military training was the toughest guerilla training South of the Sahara until we went to Lebanon. Gagisa was attached to to Palestine Liberation Organisation 1974-75.
He was stationed South of Beirut at a PLO camp called Jalub ,10 kilometres from Hebron . He was with Ananias Gwenzi(General Valerio Sibanda). Elias Ndou, Alexander Assaf Katema and Joel Dambudzo.
Northern Front one commander was John Nyamupingidzi . His region covered areas such as Tsholotsho, Hwange and Umguza.The regional commander of the Northern Front was Rodwell Nyika Retired Brigadier-General Collin Moyo
The Southern Front, there was Mahlole (Consent Maphosa) as the commander after his death in combat Carlos Mudzingwa was appointed then later Barbatone.(Retired Major Irvine Sibhona).
"In any war the biggest prize is the capital city, we would have been foolish to deploy more troops far away from the capital city, we had to be closer to Salisbury becoz to us the war was going to be settled through the barrel not at the round table."
"By deploying more troops in areas like Hurungwe we were creating a corridor for our regular forces to move with speed to the capital"( sunday news interview)
ZPRA had two fronts ,the northern and the southern. The northern front stretched from around Tsholotsho up to Feira, it ended l in the then Sipolilo Mash central.
The southern front started from Plumtree, up to Mutare.
At some point the Selous Scouts had a fake Gagisa and they tried to trap the ZPRA troops in Karoi using this. fake Gagisa as a decoy.
each front was divided into three regions.
