Breaking; Finally Robert Mugabe is retiring
Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, one of the longest serving heads of state, has hinted about his possible retirement but declined to state when.
The 92-year old president hinted about retirement when he
warned veterans of the 1970s independence war against trying to
influence the choice of his successor when he eventually leaves office...
Mugabe
on Friday in Harare said leaders of the influential Zimbabwe Liberation
War Veterans Association had indicated their willingness for his
retirement.
Mugabe said he would have considered their opinion, if they had asked him directly.
He,
however, warned that the veterans should stick to looking at the
welfare of men and women who fought against colonial rule and not dabble
in ZANU-PF’s succession politics.
“War veterans must know that it
is the politics that leads the gun, not vice versa, as the war veterans
are not bosses of the party.’’
Mugabe, a war veteran himself, warned that the war veterans have no business to talk about succession in the party.
Meanwhile,
the president has previously said his successor must be chosen
democratically and no automatic ticket for his wife Grace.
Mugabe
said the veterans, who have publicly accused some ZANU-PF members of
trying to manipulate the president by rallying behind his wife, were
behaving like dissidents.
He recalled that in Zimbabwe, that term
revives memories of a 1980s crackdown against Mugabe’s political rivals
by an elite North Korean-trained brigade in which rights groups say some
20,000 civilians, most from the minority Ndebele tribe, were killed.
“Are we seeing another dissident rise and activity again?
“The dissidents tried it and failed,’’ he said
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