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'Go hang on a banana tree,' Mutsvangwa told
21 Nov 2015 at 09:02hrs | Views
Presidential spokesperson George Charamba and War Veterans minister Chris Mutsvangwa are embroiled in a vicious fight over President Mugabe's parliament wrong speech mistake.
The pair is squaring off on Whatsapp.
Mugabe in September re-read a speech which he had delivered in his state of the nation address in August, with Charamba explaining the humiliating fiasco as a mix-up in the president's office secretariat. However, this triggered a fierce slanging match — a prolonged exchange of insults - between Mutsvangwa and Charamba via Whatsapp.
Mutsvangwa yesterday confirmed the clash, although Charamba refused to comment.
Charamba accused Mutsvangwa of being ignorant of how the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) works, intellectually-challenged and having an inferiority complex.
"Sir, I thought you knew who does what in the OPC.
Apparently you don't, except to let blind anger lead your better judgment and pose as the only flawless one. Do better next time Sir" wrote Charamba
This angered Mutsvangwa who furiously shot back: "No one has any business embarrassing our political icons and the state we created. No brooking to whatever incompetence for whichever reason or excuse."
Charamba responded by lashing out at Mutsvangwa: "Get back your youthfulness you super war veteran, the Rambo who won the war single handedly. You have a horrible complex. An acute deficiency that overpasses your meagre personality.
"… For far too long we have allowed you to hide behind the parapet of struggle as if you are the only fighter in town. We will pluck those feathery horns if you take matters too far."
Mutsvangwa hit back saying he respected war veterans, not those "ensconced in the material comfort of a state we created".
Charamba would not be outdone, accusing Mutsvangwa of going about extorting "genuflection from the whole society" which he said was being held hostage by the minister's revisionist history.
"What do you know about the workings of the OPC," Charamba fumed. "I am not like you who knows no boundary. I keep my sphere of work, and not pretend to be a self-appointed prime minister. You hoped to be the minister of information. Which is why you were dishing out orders to me as if I answer to you? Go hang on a banana tree."
The pair is squaring off on Whatsapp.
Mugabe in September re-read a speech which he had delivered in his state of the nation address in August, with Charamba explaining the humiliating fiasco as a mix-up in the president's office secretariat. However, this triggered a fierce slanging match — a prolonged exchange of insults - between Mutsvangwa and Charamba via Whatsapp.
Mutsvangwa yesterday confirmed the clash, although Charamba refused to comment.
Charamba accused Mutsvangwa of being ignorant of how the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) works, intellectually-challenged and having an inferiority complex.
"Sir, I thought you knew who does what in the OPC.
Apparently you don't, except to let blind anger lead your better judgment and pose as the only flawless one. Do better next time Sir" wrote Charamba
This angered Mutsvangwa who furiously shot back: "No one has any business embarrassing our political icons and the state we created. No brooking to whatever incompetence for whichever reason or excuse."
Charamba responded by lashing out at Mutsvangwa: "Get back your youthfulness you super war veteran, the Rambo who won the war single handedly. You have a horrible complex. An acute deficiency that overpasses your meagre personality.
"… For far too long we have allowed you to hide behind the parapet of struggle as if you are the only fighter in town. We will pluck those feathery horns if you take matters too far."
Mutsvangwa hit back saying he respected war veterans, not those "ensconced in the material comfort of a state we created".
Charamba would not be outdone, accusing Mutsvangwa of going about extorting "genuflection from the whole society" which he said was being held hostage by the minister's revisionist history.
"What do you know about the workings of the OPC," Charamba fumed. "I am not like you who knows no boundary. I keep my sphere of work, and not pretend to be a self-appointed prime minister. You hoped to be the minister of information. Which is why you were dishing out orders to me as if I answer to you? Go hang on a banana tree."
Source - Zim Ind
