Independent member of parliament for Norton Constituency Temba Mliswa, has showered praises for disgraced Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement, Retired Air Chief Marshal Perence Shiri for apologising for his unwarranted slur on opposition members of parliament on Wednesday.

Mliswa shockingly described Shiri as a principled man who stooped too low to apologise for his shocking behaviour.

Mliswa gave his praises in parliament on Thursday ahead of the presentation of the supplementary budget by Minister Mthuli Ncube.

Mr. Speaker Sir, let me also recognise and appreciate Hon. Shiri’s remarks.  It is real magnanimity for him to do that.  It is not many leaders of his level: he was a commander of the liberation struggle, ZANLA in the Tete Province, that he can stand up and make such an apology.  That is something that has humbled me and because of, that I would want to be schooled by him on how to do things.  

I do not know if he can agree to be my mentor, though late but I think that is something I have never thought a man of his stature would stand up to do that.  There is a lot that we can learn from him.