The NewsDay newspaper said the war vet leader made the comments during a three hour public lecture he addressed at Chinhoyi University of Technology early this week.
Sibanda is quoted as saying: “Mugabe is a man of God who came to deliver Zimbabweans from a history of dependence on whites to independence. Mugabe’s way is the way of God. Stand firm behind Mugabe because the war in our country is now between God and Satan.
“God has one leader who is Mugabe and one party ZANU PF. These whites who have imposed sanctions on us have a tendency of dictating to us, but we won’t budge. I hate whites; I only like them when they are in their own countries. I am not a racist, but a realist.”
Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (JOMIC) co-chairperson Elton Mangoma said he is shocked by the reports but not surprised: “We have had several complaints about the language used by Jabulani Sibanda. He basically does not want to preach peace at all. He is a person who wants to intimidate people and that kind of behavior has no place in Zimbabwe now.”
The notorious leader, who is one of only 10 individuals including President Robert Mugabe and service chiefs remaining on the European Union sanctions list, said war veterans will take up arms to defend the country’s sovereignty.
“Tsvangirai has sabotaged this country. He is an agent of the devil who is bent on confusing our graduates to become subjects of the devil. If we see anyone with an MDC-T party card, that person is a sellout and they deserve to be added to the unenviable list of the devil’s servants. Down with MDC-T, down with Tsvangirai,” Sibanda added.
Senior Assistant Police Commissioner Rangarirai Mushaurwa and provincial ZANU PF officials are reported to have attended the public meeting which Sibanda used to attack other opposition leaders including Simba Makoni and Dumiso Dabengwa, and National Constitutional Assembly chairman Lovemore Madhuku.
Mangoma told SW Radio Africa that the monitoring group has no arresting powers, but cabinet resolved recently that from now on the JOMIC will present reports every two weeks in which “areas that require cabinet decisions will now be tabled.”
“That is what we will deal with Jabulani Sibanda – to be able to raise this matter, bring it to cabinet so that cabinet as a whole makes a decision,” Mangoma said.
He said JOMIC is in communication with the Southern African Development Community, the guarantors of the Global Political Agreement, about these “unacceptable” issues.
“In most cases some of his intimidation is so blatant that we expect the police to take action and we have written to the police to take the necessary action and we wait to see what they will do,” Mangoma said.
An official at Chinhoyi University of Technology confirmed the meeting took place but referred all other questions to the university registrar who was said to be out of office.
Sibanda was not reachable for comment. – SW Radio Africa
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Bollocks. He can just be silenced and quite easily done.