Tsvangirai lashes at Mugabe

MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has described calls by Mugabe at the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Summit that there is need for a new world order as misplaced and proof that the veteran ruler had lost touch with world realities.

Tsvangirai said Mugabe's remarks showed that there was no hope for Zimbabwe with the Zanu-PF government.

Mugabe told the summit that humanity was on the verge of a new world whilst calling upon other leaders to be committed to that new world.

However, Tsvangirai said it was misplaced to think of a new world order because that had already been overtaken by the concept of globalisation.

"The government that we have is very unstable. They fight among themselves and there is no recovery to talk about on our plight as a nation," Tsvangirai said at the official launch of an ambitious poultry project sponsored by MDC-T Zengeza West MP Simon Chidhakwa.

"At the UN when you call for a new world order people will ask whether you are from [the planet] Mars. The world has become globalised and there is no new order besides the fact that we are in a global village. You cannot break the global linkages of trade. This shows that we have a leadership that is out of date."

The former Premier said there was need to open up lines of trade with other nations just like what other global giants were doing to unlock channels of development.

Chidhakwa said the revolving poultry project will come in three phases for the general populace, churches and marginalised groups such as the disabled and child-headed families.