Mugabe's end of rule very sad

Zanu PF legislator for Harare Terence Mukupe has bemoaned the manner in which President Robert Mugabe was coming to an end saying if he had handled it properly his legacy would have remained untainted.

He blamed all the problems that Mugabe is now facing on those who surrounded him and misled him to ditch his liberation comrades.

"Today represents one of the saddest day in my life probably at par with the day I lost my mother. My President, Commander in Chief of the Defence Forces, His Excellency Robert Gabriel Mugabe is my hero and will always be my hero. What has happened to his legacy shouldn't have happened. This should be a lesson to all of us who are in leadership that we should know when it's time and how to properly handle succession," he said.

"I still say Pamberi nemi Gushungo, we as the Zanu PF cadres will always view you as the father of our great nation Zimbabwe. What is important right now is that we unify as a country and rebuild this great nation under a new dispensation."