By A Correspondent- Zimbabwe Divine Destiny leader Bishop Ancelimo Magaya has described the late Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe as an enlightened despot compared to his predecessor President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

In an exclusive interview with ZimEye, Bishop Magaya said Mugabe was subtle in his conduct unlike the current leader who is “openly vernomous and cruel”.

He said:

“Things have not been well in Zimbabwe… We are in one of those cycles today where Zimbabwe continues to suffer under the regime in this case headed by the current President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is a different face but certainly no different.

The system, we still have toxic bloodstream infact, we are in a worse off situation. Well you will note that both Mugabe and Mnangagwa, they are principally born of the same mother, ideologically they belong together in terms of the foundations of wickedness, they belong together in terms of their being driven by their hunger and insatiable thirst, they are born of the same mother, they belong together.

Mugabe was, he was somewhat an enlightened despot. He would be able to put up a false picture. People would be abducted during his times, people would be maimed.

The late Robert Mugabe was subtle, yes but they were done in a more discreet way… What is different is he (President Mnangagwa) is more vernomous. President Mugabe has never unleashed, to the best of my knowledge, unleashed soldiers into the streets, he never dispatched soldiers from the barracks to shoot at unarmed civilians. But President Mnangagwa has done that.

On 1 August 2018 and from the 14th to the 16th of January 2019, people were also killed and women reportedly raped when people demonstrated nationwide. So president Mnangagwa he is more brutal, he is more cruel. But also, there is a way in which Mugabe would be able to demonstrate a sense of being in charge, which is totally different from the current leader.”

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