Savage attack on Mujuru

Former Minister of National Healing  Moses Mzila Ndlovu's party Alliance for National Salvation (ANSA) has savaged Joice Mujuru for denying that she knew anything about state-sponsored violence during the Gukurahundi period as well as towards the 2008 election runoff and Operation Murambatsvina. ANSA said that Mujuru was complicit and the least she could do was to apologise openly and not make any excuses.

Mujuru was cabinet minister and later deputy to President Mugabe before her shock ouster 2014 over an alleged plot to dethrone the veteran leader, charges she continues to deny.

In a statement sent to NewZimbabwe.com party spokesperson Mangoye Dlamini said:

"She claims dictates of collective decision making bound or bind her to side with the system's decision. What a shame!" party spokesperson Mangoye Dlamini wrote in a statement.

"She has the audacity to claim that her approach was to change things from within – this is the most absurd thinking I have heard from someone who believes she can lead the country."

"She should tell the nation that she fully supported the decisions taken with regards to Murambatsvina, and be brave enough to live with it.

"If then she wants to apologise, she should do so openly – without offering any excuses."

"It is not a question of whether it is ‘my father or mother'; if the decision is to kill one has to stand up and take anon- ambiguous stance because there is always a tomorrow.

"Blind loyalty to fatherly figures should be limited to a certain age group that could be gullible by virtue of young age, not old and mature men and women."

"She should just be woman enough and face the fact that she was part of this national destruction policy for too long to just escape through pathetically low intellectual level responses in the interview," Dlamini said.

"Mujuru should not fool herself into believing people from the regions have forgiven her for her role in the killing of their relatives.

"She is just an opportunist, a great one. People of this nation deserve better leadership," said the party.