PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE yesterday for the first time since his wife went on a cyclonic anti-Mujuru rant, publicly knifed Vice President Joice Mujuru following the so called ‘secret Mujuru tapes’ handed him months earlier.
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Until yesterday analysts had speculated that Grace Mugabe was acting of her own volition in her countrywide crusade against Mujuru.
But Mugabe brought clarity to shore when he tore into Mujuru saying she is too simplistic to lead anyone.
“We are experiencing it (problems) for the first time in Zanu PF,” Mugabe told a group of senior ZANU PF politicians last night.
 
He continued,
“And for that matter it’s a woman who says she wants to lead.
“She doesn’t even ask whether she’s able to handle the country, the pressures.”
Mugabe linked up Mujuru with the MDC parties.
“We know the infiltration that has been going on, we know the discussions that have been going on that they will link up with the MDC and America and Britain will pour lots of money,” he said to applause from the delegates.
“That simplistic thinking, I don’t trust a white man at all.”
He added alleging that Mujuru was working with the MDC and this is evidenced in that she did not want the country to have elections last year.
“Mujuru didn’t want elections, why?,” he asked.
Mugabe said Western countries influenced a number of African countries and leaders to discourage Zimbabwe from conducting a run-off election after the inconclusive March 29, 2008 harmonised elections where MDC-T leader, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai led in the first round by securing just more than 47 percent while President Mugabe had 43 percent though Zanu-PF beat MDC-T in both houses of parliament amassing 45.94 percent of the vote to MDC-T’s 43.56 in the Senate; and 45.94 percent to 42.88 in the House of Assembly suffrage.
Yet the Constitution stated that for a Presidential candidate to be declared a winner, they were supposed to garner 50 plus one percent.
“Even Thabo Mbeki was saying no what use is there, the Europeans will not recognise you if you go for another election and win? Ah do I care for European recognition?
“The Inclusive Government was a humiliating thing but infact even in politics you must have also a strategy that ah now this is what needs to be done. And Jabulani (Sibanda) was saying ah matengesa kuti muve in association naTsvangirai. Even my child Bellarmine was saying ah mabva mukubata Tsvangirai handidi. Dad I won’t shake you. So you can see how humiliated I was. When you are rejected by your own son,” President Mugabe said.
He spoke of the alleged conspiracy by Mujuru,
“But I knew of course that well we would get them. Fine we worked together, I gave Tsvangirai tea. He thought I had put poison in the tea so I drank the tea and gave him. But later on he was asking for more like Oliver Twist. In the meantime we were building our party. Ivo vakanakirwa nawo saying no we should not have elections…
“Even our side, our people didn’t want elections. Vana Mai Mujuru didn’t want elections. Why? There you are. So we had those elections our own way and we emerged 31st July with that resounding victory,” said President Mugabe.
He said it was important for party cadres to remain steadfast on principles than sacrifice them for expediency or money.
He said some people including Americans and former Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe Xin Shunkang thought Zanu-PF would lose the elections.
Mugabe thanked the war veterans for throwing their weight behind his sole candidacy at the Zanu-PF 6th National People’s Congress.
He said he would continue as President as long as God wished him to remain there.
Mugabe urged the war veterans to remain united and principled so that Government can recognise them even through creation of a specific ministry for them.
He said Government would endeavour to empower war veterans through various interventions.