President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s pledge of a new dispensation stands a challenge after he announced that his predecessor “Robert Mugabe never made mistakes,” during his time as Head Of State.
Mnanggwa has now opposed the patrons of the New Dispensation, the war veterans whose uprising against Robert Mugabe was solely on the basis that he has done a lot of harm including assassinations going back to Rhodesian times and for more than 37 years after independence.
Mnangagwa, in an interview with a Russian news agency, Sputnik, stated that Mugabe “never made any mistakes” during his 37 year tenure until the G40 came on the scene. Mnangagwa had been asked to state one of the mistakes which Mugabe had made and which he wished to avoid making as the new President.
Mnangagwa instead chose to blame Mugabe’s failings on the G40 Faction which only came on the political scene 4 years ago.
Below was an excerpt from the interview:
Sputnik: And summarizing the political situation in your country now, in your opinion, what was the main mistake of the previous leadership, of president Mugabe, which you would not like to repeat?
A: No, the president never made any mistakes. There was a small cabal of individuals in the relationship around the first lady. Because the president is now quite advanced in age, they took advantage of his age, and we were having persons who were making executive decisions, which is against the constitution of the country. And our people reacted to people usurping power, which is not given to them by the constitution, so this was corrected by the masses of Zimbabwe.
Sputnik: The level of corruption grew pretty high during the time of President Mugabe…
A: With the new disposition, the new order, one of the primary issues that we’ve put forward is that we need zero corruption, we will not tolerate any corruption at all. I’m now about 54 days in power, and so many people now have been taken to court on the case of corruption. So it’s one of the things that we want to eradicate in our society, we want to have a clean society. People must work hard to earn their living, and we must provide those of talent, we must have the environment where people who have talent must be rewarded and become rich if they can, but properly and honestly.
We are not dumb as you might think, if you had power to remove the president from power why did you not just target the G40 and live him as president if he made no mistakes. If Tyson had to fire anyone who was linked to lacoste without the army backing why didn’t you do the same as you had the upper hand.
20000 where massacred and Mugabe had no mistake, Munangagwa refuses to apologise for the massacre so who ordered, was it Smith??. My party supporters where touched, beaten me included and some lost their lives was it Smith? Whites were killed for their farms raped etc was it Smith? Dzamara no where to be seen was it Smith? Morgan beaten and suspected poisoned was it Smith? Linda thrown in male maximum prison and tortured was it Smith not forgetting my icon Jestina Mukoko was it Smith? Where is the G40 here so Mr. Crocodile who made a mistake or you are simply saying everything above was normal. G40 ndeyanezuro.
We in Mthwakazi have always said that. Gugurahundi was planned back in Mozambique. The 1979 ZANU Grand Plan says so and ZANU PF has never proved the plan to be false!
So according to Munangagwa, Gukurahundi was not a mistake, it was well planned.He has finally revealed that at last, well, elections are around the corner.
He is just trying to imply that there was no reason for a coup.
We are very happy that Mugabe is gone. Very few people have damaged black people’s aspirations like he did.
And if it was not for the election rigging, he would have been kicked out years ago.
So much for that Thabo Mbeki that propped up his position.