Mutasa fires another salvo at Mugabe

Former Zanu-PF Secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa has fired a fresh salvo at President Robert Mugabe, criticizing the veteran politician's Look East policy and land reform programme.

In a wide–ranging interview with the Mail & Guardian last week, Mutasa said he was surprised Mugabe was also now labelling him a fool when they had been working closely together for the past 35 years.

Mutasa said he regretted some of the policies implemented by Zanu-PF and was worried that farmland grabbed from white farmers had not been effectively utilised while millions of Zimbabweans have settled in South Africa.

He has always wondered about our Look East policy that confines Zimbabwe to Russia and China. You then see how faulty some of our policies are, he said, adding that some of the policies were never really discussed in Cabinet and the Zanu-PF politburo.

He labelled Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo, Environment minister Saviour Kasukuwere, Information minister Jonathan Moyo and Mugabe's nephew Patrick Zhuwao as the architects of the Zanu-PF dictatorship, adding that each of them had "skeletons" in their cupboards.