Zanu-PF to revenge Mugabe humiliation
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August 29, 2008
By Our Correspondent
HARARE - A senior Zanu-PF politburo member has urged party sup****ters
to prepare for a revenge mission after the humiliation of President
Robert Mugabe when he officially opened Parliament on Tuesday.
MDC sup****ters, gathered outside Parliament, sang derogatory songs
aimed at Mugabe and his government when the Zimbabwean leader arrived
at the House.
Worse was to come inside the House; MDC MPs refused to stand up, as per
the traditional show of respect, after Mugabe walked into the building.
The Zimbabwean leader then endured a torrid time as the opposition MPs
interrupted his speech with boos and jeers; it was his first experience
of public and televised humiliation.
Addressing sup****ters outside the Zanu-PF headquarters in Harare, the
party secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa urged them to gear
themselves for retribution against MDC sup****ters.
Mugabe failed to pitch up for the meeting as planned. It is understood
the meeting had been called to plan the restructuring of the party
after its defeat in both parliamentary and presidential elections at
the hands of the MDC on March 29.
The embattled party suffered further embarrassment when Lovemore Moyo,
chairman of the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC, was voted Speaker of
Parliament. Moyo beat a candidate sup****ted by both Zanu-PF and the
smaller faction of the MDC.
Mutasa said Zanu-PF legislators watched in dismay as MDC sup****ters and
legislators harangued Mugabe in full view of passers-by. He said,
inside Parliament, Mugabe and Zanu-PF MPs were treated like school
children by the opposition.
Said Mutasa: "It was a painful experience to watch our president, your
president, being subjected to that kind of treatment and harassment by
the MDC and its sup****ters
"We know that you were as pained as your leader****p and there should be
some recourse for that kind behaviour. We will do all we can to feed
you and be strong to hit back.
"They know what we are capable of doing and they should not cry foul
when we deliver that blow as symbolized by the fist which is the
party's symbol."
He said Mugabe would, in the near future, give direction and guidance
on the nature and form of the retribution.
"I cannot speak more about the things that will be done," said Mutasa.
"If the president was here, he would have told us what will be done and
how it should be."
Mugabe is accused of engineering well-calculated violent campaigns.
In the run-up to the presidential elections on both March 29 and June
27, he was blamed for ordering party youths and war veterans to embark
on a bloody campaign that left opposition sup****ters dead, displaced or
injured.
At the same gathering, Zanu-PF political commissar Elliot Manyika also
expressed anger at Mugabe's public humiliation.
"We thank you for having been at parliament on Tuesday to sup****t your
leader****p," said Manyika. "If you were not there, it was going to be a
bad day in the office for the president because of the behaviour of
those MDC hooligans.
"We were pained by the way they treated the party, the president and
the entire leader****p of this country. This should never happen again.
What we are working on now is a strategy that can see us revenging for
that episode."
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