Chief declares Zimbabwe a monarchy not a REPUBLIC

Chief Musarurwa has called the REPUBLIC of Zimbabwe a monarchy at the Chiefs' Annual Conference which kicked off on Wednesday in Bulawayo.

Chief Musarurwa who is also the Mashonaland East provincial chairman for traditional chiefs has declared President Robert Mugabe as "King and who will die in office".

"Zimbabwe is ruled by a monarch and President Robert Mugabe is our King. Mugabe is our King who will die ruling Zimbabwe. Those who are saying we should remove him through elections are wasting their time," Musarurwa said.

"Elections and democracy were brought by the white colonialists. As Zimbabwe traditional chiefs, we do not believe in that, but we believe in our monarch that is why we still support Mugabe, we want him to continue as Zimbabwe's leader and not only as Zanu-(PF) leader," he said

Musarurwa also blasted magistrate and police saying "they do not respect traditional chiefs' courts as they don't enforce their judgments."

The country's chiefs are increasingly becoming bold in their demands and in the recent past and at the event they have demanded guns, board membership in mining companies and diplomatic passports because they found normal ones 'demeaning' as they were being treated like 'commoners.'