PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe must step down from power because he has failed the country, opposition MDC-T vice-president Thokozani Khupe has told thousands of party supporters.
Khupe was addressing MDC-T party supporters, who yesterday brought business in Mutare to a standstill as the opposition party’s demonstrations against alleged misrule by Mugabe’s government.
She read the speech on behalf of MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who failed to attend yesterday’s event reportedly because he was scheduled to undergo “a routine medical review”.
“We all witnessed Zanu PF’s grand political corruption in their lootings of $15 billion from Chiadzwa here in Manicaland. Mutare city is supposed to be like Sandton in Gauteng, South Africa, and you, the team of Manicaland, should be richest because of diamonds,’’ Khupe said in the short speech.
Early this year, Mugabe claimed at least $15 billion of the country’s diamond revenue had been looted, but could not provide details.
Khupe added Mugabe should hand over power because “he is leading an illegitimate government”.
“The Zanu PF regime is essentially an illegitimate regime after notorious rigging of the 2013 elections. It is a regime that has neither the political nor the moral authority to remain in power a day longer,” she said.
“The hour has come for Zimbabweans to stand up and fight to the last drop of their blood.”
Other top party leaders who took part in the demonstration included secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora, national spokesperson Obert Gutu and shadow home affairs minister Giles Mutsekwa.
The demonstration started mid-morning, with some vendors at Sakubva flea market — normally perceived to be Zanu PF supporters — joining the snaking crowd that stretched for at least five kilometres from Sakubva Beit Hall to Meikles Park in the city centre.
Khupe chronicled the collapse of industries in Manicaland and said Zimbabweans must demand of Mugabe’s administration “re-industrialisation and job creation”.
The demonstration was a follow up to those that were successfully held in Harare, Bulawayo and Bindura respectively.
The MDC-T is planning to move a motion to impeach Mugabe in the national assembly despite the fact that it is a minority in the legislature.
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Yes Tendai Biti did indeed say that diamond revenue was being looted and Mugabe in March this year has confirmed that $15 billion of diamond revenue was looted in the six year period 2010 to 2015. The im-portant question here is what did Tendai Biti and the MDC do to stop the looting?
Morgan Tsvangirai was the most senior government official who was allowed to visit Marange in 2012 to investigate what was going on. He came back and gave the operations there a thumbs-up! There was wholesale looting and plunder going on here, a lot more than the official $ 15 billion, and Tsvangirai failed to see any of it!
A few weeks later Tsvangirai was on an all-expense-paid sea cruise in the Seychelles which he certainly could not afford on his official Prime Minister’s wages. No price for guessing where he got the idea of the trip from and, more significantly, who paid the bill.
We are in this hell-hole because we were naïve and gullible in granting Mugabe dictatorial powers and we are certainly not going to get out of this hell by granting corrupt and incompetent opposition leaders, even those who have already proven beyond doubt that they are corrupt and incompetent, our blind loyalty too!
There are many in SADC, notably President Ian Khama of Botswana, and in the international community who wish us well and would like to see Zimbabwe out of this political and economic hell. We have made it impossible for these people to help us because by burying our heads in the sand and sheepishly follow failed leaders we have shown the world that we are not serious about wanting to get out of the hell-hole. It is not for the world to drag us of the hell-hole against our will because even if they did, in our naivety, we will elect another corrupt and incompetent government and be back in the hell-hole!
It is me and not you who should be asking “What is wrong with you?” MDC leaders have already proven beyond all doubt that they are corrupt and incompetent and there is a mountain of evidence to see for yourself and yet here you still bury your head in the sand and follow them like sheep to the slaughter!
Yes Tendai Biti did indeed say that diamond revenue was being looted and Mugabe in March this year has confirmed that $15 billion of diamond revenue was looted in the six year period 2010 to 2015. The im-portant question here is what did Tendai Biti and the MDC do to stop the looting?
Morgan Tsvangirai was the most senior government official who was allowed to visit Marange in 2012 to investigate what was going on. He came back and gave the operations there a thumbs-up! There was wholesale looting and plunder going on here, a lot more than the official $ 15 billion, and Tsvangirai failed to see any of it!
A few weeks later Tsvangirai was on an all-expense-paid sea cruise in the Seychelles which he certainly could not afford on his official Prime Minister’s wages. No price for guessing where he got the idea of the trip from and, more significantly, who paid the bill.
We are in this hell-hole because we were naïve and gullible in granting Mugabe dictatorial powers and we are certainly not going to get out of this hell by granting corrupt and incompetent opposition leaders, even those who have already proven beyond doubt that they are corrupt and incompetent, our blind loyalty too!
There are many in SADC, notably President Ian Khama of Botswana, and in the international community who wish us well and would like to see Zimbabwe out of this political and economic hell. We have made it impossible for these people to help us because by burying our heads in the sand and sheepishly follow failed leaders we have shown the world that we are not serious about wanting to get out of the hell-hole. It is not for the world to drag us of the hell-hole against our will because even if they did, in our naivety, we will elect another corrupt and incompetent government and be back in the hell-hole!
It is me and not you who should be asking “What is wrong with you?” MDC leaders have already proven beyond all doubt that they are corrupt and incompetent and there is a mountain of evidence to see for yourself and yet here you still bury your head in the sand and follow them like sheep to the slaughter!
Wilbert ,what is wrong with you? Tendai Biti said this when he was the minister of Finance and the ZANU PF guys said he is lying .even the president said Tendai Biti is lying when he said I can not pay the teachers because the diamond revenue is not coming through. He also mentioned the ghost employees and zanu PF was blocking everything. It is only the die hard who will continue to defend this party. Shame
Wilbert ,what is wrong with you? Tendai Biti said this when he was the minister of Finance and the ZANU PF guys said he is lying .even the president said Tendai Biti is lying when he said I can not pay the teachers because the diamond revenue is not coming through. He also mentioned the ghost employees and zanu PF was blocking everything. It is only the die hard who will continue to defend this party. Shame
Mugabe said the $15 billion was looted in the last six year which means 2010 to 2015, which means the GNU too was responsible for the looted money and MDC leaders where part of the GNU. Mai Khupe too must resign!