'Life goes on,' says Mujuru

Former VP Joice Mujuru says she has accepted her recent dismissal by President Robert Mugabe and wishes him, his wife Grace, the new VPs Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoo, and all the new Cabinet appointees well.

Mujuru said she has "absolutely nothing" against those who had been chosen by Mugabe to replace her and lead the country.

She also dispelled unfounded speculation that she was heading for top US College, Harvard University, to further her studies, saying emphatically that she was staying put in Zimbabwe.

Mujuru has also denied that she is under house arrest.

Speaking from her residence in Chisipite, Harare, she said news wire reports that she had been placed under house arrest were "mere rumours".

"I was at the farm now, who is peddling those rumours?" she asked the Daily News in a terse message yesterday.

Reports suggested that Mujuru, who was booted out of the presidium by President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday after being accused of attempting to remove her 90-year-old boss from power through unconstitutional means, had been placed under deadly surveillance.

She was  sacked together with  eight Cabinet ministers.

They were also accused of being corrupt and fanning factionalism within Zanu-PF.

Mujuru staunchly denied the accusations.

She has since been replaced by ex-Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, who took oath of office yesterday.   

Following her dismissal, she told  Studio 7: "You know some people say politics is a dirty game, this time in Zanu-PF it has become dirtier. I have no capacity of doing those things. There is no way, and nobody has ever even suggested to me that these things that you are trying to do VP are wrong.

"It's politicking; these are some of the things that were started towards congress. We were some of us, especially I, not given a chance to explain even to discuss some of these things,"she said.