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Supporters walk out on Mugabe
19 Jul 2013 at 05:40hrs | Views
Scores of Zanu-PF supporters yesterday walked out on President Mugabe while he was halfway through his two-and-a-half-hour-long speech loaded with historical lectures on the liberation struggle, forcing party commissariat Webster Shamu to plead with them not to "embarrass" their leader.
Shamu chided them to desist from leaving as it was embarrassing in front of Mugabe.
Mugabe made the long historical lectures to a crowd of more than 15 000 that thronged Chinhoyi University of Technology grounds, resulting in many of them walking out.
Despite Shamu's calls for the restless crowd to sit out Mugabe's address, there was unease and notes could be seen written and passed on to Mugabe.
In his speech, Mugabe touched on the infighting within Zanu-PF and the controversy surrounding special voting this week, where thousands of members of the uniformed forces failed to cast their ballots.
Shamu chided them to desist from leaving as it was embarrassing in front of Mugabe.
Mugabe made the long historical lectures to a crowd of more than 15 000 that thronged Chinhoyi University of Technology grounds, resulting in many of them walking out.
Despite Shamu's calls for the restless crowd to sit out Mugabe's address, there was unease and notes could be seen written and passed on to Mugabe.
In his speech, Mugabe touched on the infighting within Zanu-PF and the controversy surrounding special voting this week, where thousands of members of the uniformed forces failed to cast their ballots.
Source - newsday
