In apparent reference to Mujuru and her perceived allies, Mugabe, during his opening speech at the Sixth Zanu (PF’s) National People’s Conference bemoaned that some party members were working with the MDC-T and Western countries to remove him from power during the tenure of the inclusive government.
He said Mujuru and her allies were driven by the agenda of breaking Zanu (PF) from within “Leaders are custodians of the values of our party. When they fail these same values they are entrusted to keep, they disqualify themselves, thereby going one way down, down and down to the dust. Spat out like dark gobble, spat out by the people.
“We raise you in the struggle, grant you leadership, build your stature , impart consequence to your person, often against your intrinsic worth. Instead of recognizing all these efforts, you turn against the party and the President!. Today the people reject you, spit you out, push you into the arms of the very opposition you sided with,” said Mugabe.
He said he had never thought Mujuru would one day try to rebel against him. Mugabe said Mujuru had chosen to desert the party by trying to rebel against him and as such, deserved to be rejected by the people.
“I never thought a true cadre of the revolution would decay to that level. When you desert your own comrades, desert the ideals of your own revolution, abandon principles that mobilised you for the struggle, commit the infamy of joining quislings, you suffer the fate of quislings.
“The people will reject you,” said Mugabe to wild cheers from delegates. He said that Zanu (PF) was at the brink of collapse during the tenure of the inclusive government as Mujuru and her allies were siding with opposition forces.
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