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Mutasa reveals his disdain for Mnangagwa
22 Jun 2015 at 10:36hrs | Views
FORMER intelligence minister Didymus Mutasa has revealed his disdain for VP Emmerson Mnangagwa who is widely seen as the engineer of the demise of the Joice Mujuru faction to which Mutasa belongs.
Mutasa told the South African Sunday Independent newspaper that Mnangagwa never won an election.
"He (Mnangagwa) never won an election for that post. Mugabe appointed him, and he is not popular. He can't win elections," said Mutasa.
Mutasa also revealed for the first time that the MDC-T actually won the 2008 election by a narrow margin.
Zanu-PF people were so shocked by the result that he, as security minister, rushed to protect President Robert Mugabe at the State House.
According to the report, Mutasa denied any knowledge of specific events such as Gukurahundi.
On the 1980s Gukurahundi genocide he said: "I did not know about Gukurahundi as I was Speaker of Parliament in Harare for the first 10 years of independence.
"We didn't speak about it in parliament. No one told me about it. I would only know about violence if I read it in the newspapers," Mutasa said.
Mutasa, who is now guarded by private security after he was fired from government and Zanu PF, admits that he is now aware that his former party is violent.
"I do now know that Zanu-PF did violence. And cheated in elections. But both sides did violence, I accept it was mostly Zanu-PF violence. I am very sorry about that."
"Zimbabwe has become a miserable place. I say this about the state, my country," Mutasa said.
"Now everybody is broke. The economy is broke, mining, agriculture, and we should have done something about that 10 years ago.
"Now it is too late."
Mutasa told the South African Sunday Independent newspaper that Mnangagwa never won an election.
"He (Mnangagwa) never won an election for that post. Mugabe appointed him, and he is not popular. He can't win elections," said Mutasa.
Mutasa also revealed for the first time that the MDC-T actually won the 2008 election by a narrow margin.
Zanu-PF people were so shocked by the result that he, as security minister, rushed to protect President Robert Mugabe at the State House.
According to the report, Mutasa denied any knowledge of specific events such as Gukurahundi.
On the 1980s Gukurahundi genocide he said: "I did not know about Gukurahundi as I was Speaker of Parliament in Harare for the first 10 years of independence.
"We didn't speak about it in parliament. No one told me about it. I would only know about violence if I read it in the newspapers," Mutasa said.
Mutasa, who is now guarded by private security after he was fired from government and Zanu PF, admits that he is now aware that his former party is violent.
"I do now know that Zanu-PF did violence. And cheated in elections. But both sides did violence, I accept it was mostly Zanu-PF violence. I am very sorry about that."
"Zimbabwe has become a miserable place. I say this about the state, my country," Mutasa said.
"Now everybody is broke. The economy is broke, mining, agriculture, and we should have done something about that 10 years ago.
"Now it is too late."
Source - online
