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Angry Mugabe reacts to Zanu-PF demonstrations
08 Apr 2017 at 07:18hrs | Views
President Robert Mugabe has criticised his followers for demonstrating against corrupt Zanu-PF party officials as that gives Morgan Tsvangirai and the West something to "smile about".
Mugabe reportedly said demonstrations were destructive to Zanu-PF, as they exposed it to the opposition and Western countries who wanted to see it disintegrate.
He said if any officials in his party were disobedient they should be brought before the disciplinary committee.
The 93-year-old leader made these remarks as he addressed the 105th Ordinary Meeting of the Zanu-PF Central Committee at the party's headquarters in Harare on Friday.
Mugabe said: "So, why should we give them that chance to smile, to laugh and to wish us death?" said President Mugabe. "How does that help us? We say we are from the same family. To go to the streets to insult each other?
"When we insult our leaders who are in the wrong, people like Morgan (Tsvangirai) will say just look and listen to what they are now doing. Those that are doing something bad and they are members of the party, you sit down with them and solve the problem. If the person is from a branch, you sit down and solve the problem. Not to go out shouting saying, aah this is what our chairman is doing, Talk about it and if there problem it should be referred to the top leadership and let it be solved there.
"If the problem is in the district, those from the district have no right to invite those from other districts to hear the case or to invite them to join them in demonstrations because they no longer want their chairman. No they must sit down and follow the procedure, the charges he is facing, what wrong he is doing and you forward the problem to the provincial leaders."
"If the person is a provincial chairman, haa. we no longer want him/her so who are you complaining to?" he said.
"You are the ones who chose him, sit down and have a meeting with delegates from other provinces and at the disciplinary committee you raise the issue, like what happened the other day.
"That is where problems like that are dealt with. We will always listen to the problems. We might take long to deal with the case, maybe the whole night, trying to solve the problem but will eventually deal with it, that is what we do in Zanu-PF."
"We cannot run the party from newspaper headlines or angry placards or from Twitter or social media. We can't run the country that way. These phones are now a problem."
"We look with glee as they daily turn on each other, while pretending to chase a mirage they have termed 'grand coalition' apparently unaware of the grand defeat that stares at them in the face," said President Mugabe.
"Unable to face our mighty party, they have now turned their guns on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, itself a constitutional body mandated to run elections in our country.
"Afflicted by madness, which knows no bounds, they even seek to interfere with mundane Government tendering processes, hoping for some opportunistic fissures that might give them some slender chance."
Mugabe reportedly said demonstrations were destructive to Zanu-PF, as they exposed it to the opposition and Western countries who wanted to see it disintegrate.
He said if any officials in his party were disobedient they should be brought before the disciplinary committee.
The 93-year-old leader made these remarks as he addressed the 105th Ordinary Meeting of the Zanu-PF Central Committee at the party's headquarters in Harare on Friday.
Mugabe said: "So, why should we give them that chance to smile, to laugh and to wish us death?" said President Mugabe. "How does that help us? We say we are from the same family. To go to the streets to insult each other?
"When we insult our leaders who are in the wrong, people like Morgan (Tsvangirai) will say just look and listen to what they are now doing. Those that are doing something bad and they are members of the party, you sit down with them and solve the problem. If the person is from a branch, you sit down and solve the problem. Not to go out shouting saying, aah this is what our chairman is doing, Talk about it and if there problem it should be referred to the top leadership and let it be solved there.
"If the problem is in the district, those from the district have no right to invite those from other districts to hear the case or to invite them to join them in demonstrations because they no longer want their chairman. No they must sit down and follow the procedure, the charges he is facing, what wrong he is doing and you forward the problem to the provincial leaders."
"If the person is a provincial chairman, haa. we no longer want him/her so who are you complaining to?" he said.
"You are the ones who chose him, sit down and have a meeting with delegates from other provinces and at the disciplinary committee you raise the issue, like what happened the other day.
"That is where problems like that are dealt with. We will always listen to the problems. We might take long to deal with the case, maybe the whole night, trying to solve the problem but will eventually deal with it, that is what we do in Zanu-PF."
"We cannot run the party from newspaper headlines or angry placards or from Twitter or social media. We can't run the country that way. These phones are now a problem."
"We look with glee as they daily turn on each other, while pretending to chase a mirage they have termed 'grand coalition' apparently unaware of the grand defeat that stares at them in the face," said President Mugabe.
"Unable to face our mighty party, they have now turned their guns on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, itself a constitutional body mandated to run elections in our country.
"Afflicted by madness, which knows no bounds, they even seek to interfere with mundane Government tendering processes, hoping for some opportunistic fissures that might give them some slender chance."
Source - Chronicle
