He equated Mugabe to the biblical Moses who delivered Israelites from bondage in Egypt to their promised land of Canaan.
“You pretend to see, but you do not really see. You hear, but you do not understand. Today I want to tell you that President Mugabe is divine. He is our Moses from the bible who salvaged Israelites from captivity in Egypt.
“Presdent Mugabe gave us farms. He gave us rights to exploit and be rich with minerals. In cold weather, in hunger and in any state of tribulation, we will stand by President Robert Mugabe,” Mnangagwa told thousands of the Zanu (PF) supporters at the rally held outside Gweru Teachers College in Mkoba surbub.
The Defence minister, who is leading a faction in Zanu (PF) aiming at outdoing another one linked to VP Joice Mujuru in succeeding 89 year old Mugabe, chanted the party’s slogan 16 times, praising Mugabe and denigrating MDC-T leader PM Morgan Tsvangirai.
Mnangagwa is considered the biggest beneficiary of Mugabe’s controversial policies like the land reform exercise and the indigenisation programme which has seen him amass eye-watering wealth. On the other hand, he commands the respect of Mugabe, having been his Chief Elections Agent in 2008 elections. During that period, he played a pivotal role in ensuring Mugabe retained power after losing to Tsvangirai in the first round of polls which resulted in a bloody run-off where MDC was forced to pull out.
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Couldn’t be written any better. Reading this post reminds me of my old room mate! He always kept talking about this. I will forward this article to him. Pretty sure he will have a good read. Thanks for sharing!