Expelled Vice President Joice Mujuru is dead President Robert Mugabe has said.
He said Mujuru and her group of supporters have no more life politically.
President Mugabe said there is no more challenge against his life and position after Mujuru tumbled down just before the 6th National People’s Congress in December 2014.
Mujuru’s scheme, Mugabe alleged, involved targeting key party organs, beginning with the youth. She once donated 20 computers to Chinhoyi university.
“When we went to Congress last year, some of our erstwhile comrades whose faces we do not see here today, were the ring-leaders behind a well-orchestrated subversive activity that, really, was about planning, planning of a coup de tat.
“They had their secret methods, which we discovered later. The clandestine use of money, use of certain privileges, exchanging them to certain persons of their own choice and promises made to many people; to some of us who are even here. ‘We will make you this, we will make you that’. Who were they to say so?”
He continued: “It was then I knew that something was afoot; that some of these evil plans had been hatched. They said, ‘Let the youth wing fail and then it would be the failure of the leadership of the party.’
And if that was so, then it was an occasion to say, ‘You see, under the leadership of President Mugabe and so and so . . . this is what they have done, let’s change it.’
“Of course, you know what the plan was: The youth were told that come Congress, they would all, in unison — women later — this was to be the case; they will all, in unison, say, ‘We want change, change, change and so change.’
“And that noise, if it was to have a heavy impact, would be regarded as the voice of the people. And that would then be the sentence passed on President Mugabe in favour of Mai Mujuru. You would think that such was naïve and the work of mature people turned into idiots.”
The President also said, “After those multitudes of people who voted me into power, then you get the Gamatox to say ‘go’. I say, ‘Who are you? Shout the loudest and I will not hear, but let the Congress say so, my Congress, the people’s Congress, but not you’.
“(Dr Mujuru) was a great believer in witchcraft . . . you would think that with all that understanding that she had gained in the party, all that apparent religion and education, through her doctorate, that one would certainly at least ask oneself: ‘Is this real?’”