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'Selfish' Grace Mugabe criticised for her ruthlessness
08 Jan 2015 at 12:49hrs | Views
The Welshman Ncube led Movement for Democratic Change on Thursday criticised The First Lady Grace Mugabe over recent eviction of hundreds of farming families from Manzou farm in Mazowe.
According to MDC, evictions were reportedly ordered by Grace Mugabe to pave way for her private game reserve.
In a statement today MDC National Spokesperson Nhlanhla Dube said: " While Grace Mugabe's notoriety for ruthlessness, selfishness, arrogance and disrespect is well documented, we believe this time she has scaled new heights and demonstrated that she can abuse people's rights to her heart's content with absolute impunity."
Read full statement below:
RESS STATEMENT
8 January 2015
The MDC condemns the recent eviction of hundreds of farming families from Manzou farm in Mazowe reportedly under orders from Grace Mugabe, to pave way for her private game reserve.
The use of the national police force to perform this anti people act, which renders wild animals more important than humans is shocking to the core. It is despicable that more than 200 families have been left out in the open at the mercy of the brutal rain, cold and mosquitoes after the callous eviction and destruction of their homes and crops while Grace and her family are living in the cosy comfoft of the Far East.
While Grace Mugabe's notoriety for ruthlessness, selfishness, arrogance and disrespect is well documented, we believe this time she has scaled new heights and demonstrated that she can abuse people's rights to her heart's content with absolute impunity.
As first lady Grace should be a mother to the whole nation, unfortunately she stands at the opposite end of this expectation in spirit and in deed. Her gluttony and egotistical behavior is despicable, inexcusable and shameful; left unchecked she will turn our country into a banana republic.
We demand urgent justice for the evicted farmers and their families. Grace needs to understand that Zimbabwe, unlike Zanu PF is not her personal property which she can manipulate and abuse at will. Zimbabwe is for us all, black, white, yellow rich or poor.
It is particularly sad that the affected are mostly Zanu PF members who were hoodwinked into occupying the land in return for votes. Those same voters are now sacrificed and shown that they are of less value than tradable wild animals.
As MDC we believe Zimbabwe deserves much better than this. We stand radically opposed to Grace's attempts to render our country lawless and chaotic. We believe that the rule of law can and should prevail through the equality granted every citizen in our national constitution.
According to MDC, evictions were reportedly ordered by Grace Mugabe to pave way for her private game reserve.
In a statement today MDC National Spokesperson Nhlanhla Dube said: " While Grace Mugabe's notoriety for ruthlessness, selfishness, arrogance and disrespect is well documented, we believe this time she has scaled new heights and demonstrated that she can abuse people's rights to her heart's content with absolute impunity."
Read full statement below:
RESS STATEMENT
8 January 2015
The MDC condemns the recent eviction of hundreds of farming families from Manzou farm in Mazowe reportedly under orders from Grace Mugabe, to pave way for her private game reserve.
While Grace Mugabe's notoriety for ruthlessness, selfishness, arrogance and disrespect is well documented, we believe this time she has scaled new heights and demonstrated that she can abuse people's rights to her heart's content with absolute impunity.
As first lady Grace should be a mother to the whole nation, unfortunately she stands at the opposite end of this expectation in spirit and in deed. Her gluttony and egotistical behavior is despicable, inexcusable and shameful; left unchecked she will turn our country into a banana republic.
We demand urgent justice for the evicted farmers and their families. Grace needs to understand that Zimbabwe, unlike Zanu PF is not her personal property which she can manipulate and abuse at will. Zimbabwe is for us all, black, white, yellow rich or poor.
It is particularly sad that the affected are mostly Zanu PF members who were hoodwinked into occupying the land in return for votes. Those same voters are now sacrificed and shown that they are of less value than tradable wild animals.
As MDC we believe Zimbabwe deserves much better than this. We stand radically opposed to Grace's attempts to render our country lawless and chaotic. We believe that the rule of law can and should prevail through the equality granted every citizen in our national constitution.
Source - Nhlanhla Dube, MDC National Spokesperson
