By Own Correspondent| President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he has no regrets about anything that happened in the course of his life insisting that he has worked for his country throughout.

In an interview with Peta Thornycroft, President Mnangagwa used his predecessor former president Robert Mugabe’s words to describe the Gukurahundi massacres calling them a “moment of madness.”

Below are excerpts from the interview:

Peta Thornycrof: Is there anything you regret in your life?

Emmerson Mnangagwa: I don’t think I regret anything. I have no other life I know except politics from when I was 17. I never worked for anyone but the people and the party. I don’t regret I chose that life. At the end of the day, I did what I did for my country.

Peta Thornycrof: Will the new truth commission you signed into law, to deal with thousands of murders of opposition supporters from the 80s, get enough money to operate properly?

Emmerson Mnangagwa: When they (commission officials) want money, they don’t go to journalists… let them come to me. You must first ask them, did you go to the president?

Peta Thornycrof: What do you say about those massacres, known as Gukuruhundi, following independence?

Emmerson Mnangagwa: Well, our former President (Mugabe) described it and said it was a ‘moment of madness’.

That’s how he described that event. I have said we can’t live in the past, and that should never again happen in our country. Let us be a family and forge ahead, whatever wrongs we regret and they should never again visit our country. I second the position taken by our former president – a moment of madness.”-IOL