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Mugabe orders ministers off social media
09 Aug 2015 at 09:02hrs | Views
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe on Friday hit out at ministers and senior party officials unhappy with his recent party and Cabinet reshuffles and using social media to emote over the changes.
"If you want to depend on the Internet for your own direction then you are being wrong-minded," Mugabe said while addressing the Zanu-PF central committee in Harare.
He added: "Let's also not undermine each other.
"Throwing on the Internet this about so-and-so. No. If you're making objective accusations, why should they go to the Internet first?
"They should come to us. You've the various fora, the various levels where you can make your reports. We'll accept those reports and address them, receive them. But the Internet mind you is the ground where all sorts of people play.
"It becomes the swimming pool for everybody and you go to the Internet you want to see what the Internet says today, you get what it says, what the newspapers, the opposition papers say. You can get South African also, some filthy stories about (President Jacob) Zuma. But that doesn't work. If you want to depend on the Internet for your own direction then you're being wrong-minded."
The Zanu-PF leader told his ministers to be content with the jobs he gave them.
Said Mugabe: "... when (some of you) are shifted ... you shout 'why was I changed'?
"I don't want this ministry which I have been given. I preferred this. It is me who did this or who did that, now the President does not recognise me'.
"I don't recognise you for working for a place. I recognise you for working for the people, for the party not for a post. We are not there to work for posts.
He added: "When you are in a position, that position is a party position. It does not become your post.
"Just as in Government, you are minister of this, Minister of Industry, Minister of Mines. The fact that you are that minister does not mean you own that ministry.
"It means you are put as a servant of the people to supervise that ministry. You may be changed tomorrow and someone else takes the place."
"If you want to depend on the Internet for your own direction then you are being wrong-minded," Mugabe said while addressing the Zanu-PF central committee in Harare.
He added: "Let's also not undermine each other.
"Throwing on the Internet this about so-and-so. No. If you're making objective accusations, why should they go to the Internet first?
"They should come to us. You've the various fora, the various levels where you can make your reports. We'll accept those reports and address them, receive them. But the Internet mind you is the ground where all sorts of people play.
"It becomes the swimming pool for everybody and you go to the Internet you want to see what the Internet says today, you get what it says, what the newspapers, the opposition papers say. You can get South African also, some filthy stories about (President Jacob) Zuma. But that doesn't work. If you want to depend on the Internet for your own direction then you're being wrong-minded."
Said Mugabe: "... when (some of you) are shifted ... you shout 'why was I changed'?
"I don't want this ministry which I have been given. I preferred this. It is me who did this or who did that, now the President does not recognise me'.
"I don't recognise you for working for a place. I recognise you for working for the people, for the party not for a post. We are not there to work for posts.
He added: "When you are in a position, that position is a party position. It does not become your post.
"Just as in Government, you are minister of this, Minister of Industry, Minister of Mines. The fact that you are that minister does not mean you own that ministry.
"It means you are put as a servant of the people to supervise that ministry. You may be changed tomorrow and someone else takes the place."
Source - the herald
