Time for Mugabe to retire, says Msipa

Zimbabwe Zanu-PF elder, Cephas Msipa, says keeping Robert Mugabe in power is tantamount to punishing the nonagrarian and urged him to retire immediately.

Msipa said Mugabe's 56 years in politics were long enough for a "normal human being to hang the boots". Msipa said Mugabe had played his part which why he now needed to pass on the button.

He challenged Zanu-PF hardliners who were advocating for the no agrarian's further stay in power to be "human and stop punishing" him.

Msipa said Mugabe was a difficult character to understand further noting that he was the type of leader who would often indicate right and then turn left.