Staff Reporter| Exiled Chimurenga music guru Thomas Mapfumo says that young Zimbabweans should go to war to remove ZANU PF from power once and for all.
Speaking in an interview on Voice Of America’s Studio 7 on Thursday evening, Mapfumo said that the onus to change the future of Zimbabwe lies in the hands of young Zimbabweans who must stand up and fight ZANU PF.
The renowned musician says that President Mugabe has failed to run the country and is no longer a hero.
“Mugabe is no longer a hero but a dictator and thief, he must be removed,” said Mapfumo.
According to him the only solution to Zimbabwe’s ills is to completely remove ZANU PF, Mugabe and all those who once belonged to ZANU PF from ever running the country.
“We don’t want to hear anything called ZANU PF anymore including those that call themselves People First, they must also go because they were part of ZANU PF,” he said
Mapfumo has been living in self imposed exile in the USA for over a decade. In the early years into independence, he was one of the most faithful ZANU PF musicians composing several ZANU PF and Robert Mugabe praise songs. During the liberation struggle he was arrested several times for his Chimurenga revolutionary music.
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Iwe usiri gwara uye uri pa front-line waiteyi chatawona?
Iwe usiri gwara uye uri pa front-line waiteyi chatawona?
Unongozivawo magwara, anongokuza from a safe distance
Those who are against Mapfumo’s suggestion should offer alternatives.What Mapfumo is saying is fully understandable. We have tried elections, and clearly, there is no hope ZNA, ZRP & Mudede will allow Mugabe to lose an election. Mugabe will continue to monopolise ZBC and den any meaningful private radio or TV reform.
Stayaways do not work in Zimbabwe. Waiting for Mugabe to die is not a strategy. In 2008 and 2013 people put too much hope in elections and look what we got.
I can understand most people dread war, but what other plans are there ? Please provide alternatives other than war .
Voting is useless, rigging munenge maibvisa ????????
You only have to watch Grace Mugabe’s rally statements to understand where Mapfumo is coming from. When a person no more than ‘the president’s wife’ goes around achiti “ndakamutsiura asi haade kuteerera”, that referring to the vice president, that’s when you know your country has become a joke. Meanwhile the same bunch of supposedly reasonable men and women endorse an old, as a matter of fact, too old he’s now graduated to sleeping while standing on the podium in front of live TV, iyoyo chembere ndoyavanoti we have unanimously endorsed to run for another term in office… SUCH A JOKE OF A COUNTRY, the joke will bee on you when Mugabe dies and suddenly realize you’ve been left behind in the stone age.
You only have to watch Grace Mugabe’s rally statements to understand where Mapfumo is coming from. When a person no more than ‘the president’s wife’ goes around achiti “ndakamutsiura asi haade kuteerera”, that referring to the vice president, that’s when you know your country has become a joke. Meanwhile the same bunch of supposedly reasonable men and women endorse an old, as a matter of fact, too old he’s now graduated to sleeping while standing on the podium in front of live TV, iyoyo chembere ndoyavanoti we have unanimously endorsed to run for another term in office… SUCH A JOKE OF A COUNTRY, the joke will bee on you when Mugabe dies and suddenly realize you’ve been left behind in the stone age.
Vako vana pamberi, kana usina you are still young unogona kungo tungamira iwewe.
Vako vana pamberi, kana usina you are still young unogona kungo tungamira iwewe.
The last war brought Mugabe what is there to say the next war will not do the same?
The last war brought Mugabe what is there to say the next war will not do the same?
Mukandipa pfuti ndotanga Hondo
Mukandipa pfuti ndotanga Hondo
If you stand for nothing you will fall for anything Mapfumo is basically saying we should not tolerate Mugabe aand his cohorts’ excesses and intransigence any more!!
Tungamira torikuuya behind u its not a new thing that there is not a single Zimbabwean who wants to shed blood …..hangman chaiye varikushaya wani kwakuzoti tikukwira ndege kuenda kunotanga hondo kuZim kubvisa Mugabe takadeedzwa naThomas Mapfumo…umm hameno ipapo
A very stupid advice indeed by Mapfumo. A war would be expensive economically and in lives to be lost. A clever advice is that Zimbabweans should vote against Mugabe in 2018,if they are no longer happy with him as country leader.
A very stupid advice indeed by Mapfumo. A war would be expensive economically and in lives to be lost. A clever advice is that Zimbabweans should vote against Mugabe in 2018,if they are no longer happy with him as country leader.