Mugabe taken down memory lane

After their first efforts to register their concerns with President Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu-PF ended in humiliation with armed police battering and teargassing them in February, war veterans yesterday held their own against the veteran leader telling him point-blank they still had the same fighting spirit which won them the liberation struggle 36 years ago.

The City Sports Centre reverberated not only to liberation war songs, but to ululation and applause as presenters of the various thematic committees took turns to highlight in black and white how Mugabe's party had neglected them and literally failed to provide direction to the former liberation movement.

They warned of imminent implosion if internal fights continued unabated.