“Ndiri kukuudzai (I am telling you) straight forward. I don’t care what will happen to me…
“Anoda kuona mutumbi wevanhu everyday, achazoona kuti vanhu vachazoda kuona mutumbi wake iye. Ndinoti kumasoja stop killing people!…”
By A Correspondent| President Robert Mugabe, the former head of state has hinted that he will be punished for criticising ZANU PF leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa. Speaking at his birthday celebration, Mugabe told Mnangagwa he is wrong by surviving on killing people.
Mugabe also told Mnangagwa that he is not God.
Below were written excepts of Mugabe’s speech published by National Patriotic Front Spokesman Jealousy Mawarire who attended the 95 year old’s birthday celebration.
Below is Mawarire’s narration of Mugabe’s speech:
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2) Speaking in Shona & English (code mixing) he said “Vamwe vanofunga hukuru hunoreva kuponda vanhu, handizvo!” (Some believe being a leader entails murdering people, that’s not it.
(3) “Vana vaNkomo, vaMuzenda, nevanwe vakaenda handizvo zvatakasikira masoja. Masoja haatungamirire politics.” (Mr Nkomo, Mr Muzenda and I did not create the army to kill people. The army does not lead politics).
(4) “Ko zvino tinonzwa kunemakuva nemakuva evanhu akafa vachiurawa nemasoja, vachafushunhurwa nani?” (Now we hear there are countless graves of pple killed by the army, who is going to unearth or exhume those bodies?)
(5) “Zvamurikuita [zvekuuraya vanhu] izvi zvichakudzokerai, mangwana, mangwana, chaiwo”. (What you are doing [killing people] is going to catch-up with you very very soon. Just tommorrow, it would have caught up with you).
(6) “Anoda kuona mutumbi wevanhu everyday, achazoona kuti vanhu vachazoda kuona mutumbi wake iye. Ndinoti kumasoja stop killing people! “(He who is obsessed with seeing corpses everyday will soon realize that people would clamour to see his corpse 1 day. I say to soldiers stop killing people!)
(7) “I say to soldiers be followers of the people you want to lead, you are not even qualified to lead them. Take your places in recognition that you are not trained to lead but to follow the people, to protect them.”
8) “Iwe uri pamusoro uri kuda kuzvirumbidza? (You who is on top, you brag?) You are not God ED (Mnangagwa). Today you are at the top, tomorrow you will be at the bottom. Zvizive izvozvo (know that). God has his own way of punishing rogues and cruel people.”
(9) “You can’t do without seing dead bodies? Uri munhu akaita sei anopona nendufu?” (What kind of a person are you? You feed on death? )
(10) “No! no! no! to soldiers being leaders of the people? Get the soldiers to their rightful place.”
(11) “Hatimbotaura zvekunyara, zvekutya kwete. (We will not shy away or be afraid to talk, no!) Let’s be frank with each other.”
(12)”Hatingati vanhu varambe vachingorohwa musoro. (We can’t continue with pple being bashed on the head.) So I say to you, get your lessons correct. Let’s create an environment where our people are happy, not what’s happening now.”
(13) “Vanhu ngavade masoja not vamatye” (People should love their army, they should not fear the army.)
(14) “This is not the environnent we wanted to create navaMsika nanavaNkomo. Tinoda kuti vanhu vafare.” (This is not the environment we wanted to create with Mr Msika and Mr Nkomo [late VPs], we wanted people to be happy. “
(15) “Tinoda kuti vanhu vaone nyika senyika yavakarwira kwete yakarwirwa nevamwe vasiri ivo. Kwete yakarwirwsa nemasoja chete.” We want pple to see the country as the one they fought for, not one that was fought for by soldiers alone)
(16) “Ndiri kukuudzai (I am telling you) straight forward. I don’t care what will happen to me.”
(17) “Ndoda kutenda kunyange vandirikutuka ivava, tinovatenda nokuuya kuzoterera” (I want to thank even those I am chiding, we thank them for coming to listen).
(18) “We are one people in Zimbabwe. Tinosungirwa kubatwa nevatungamiri sevanhu vaMwari kwete sezvikara zvemusango. (Leaders are bound to treat us like God’s people, not beasts of the forest).
(19) “When we started our struggle we had principles and those principles have been abandoned.”