‘Zanu PF sell-outs worse than dogs’

By Pindai Dube

BULAWAYO – War veterans’ leader Jabulani Sibanda yesterday increased pressure on Zanu PF regime change merchants and sellouts who connived to remove President Robert Mugabe from power with the Americans when he described them as worse than dogs.

Sibanda brought the roof down at the conference reminding delegates including Mugabe that the party’s real enemies were those who were within the party especially those in the politburo who bootlick the 87-year-old leader during the day and plot his ouster in darkness.

Sibanda’s astonishing attack on the Zanu PF regime change merchants, was met with rapturous applause from the delegates, who urged him on as he made the no-holds-barred speech. The war veterans’ leader was speaking in Shona which the Daily News has since translated into English.

“Those people are serious sellouts, who pretend to like the President in his presence but go to the enemy behind him and criticise him. Dogs are even better than these people.

“A dog is not educated but it can understand better and defend its home than these people. Some of these people are even educated and some of them are even holding degrees.”

“These people are also the ones who are causing divisions in the party,” Sibanda also said Mugabe will rule forever despite his advanced age saying that those who think he will go are wasting their time. “We are not worried about the President’s age as long as we are happy with his leadership,” he said.

Most of the Zanu PF officials implicated in Wikigate are at the forefront of praising Mugabe whenever given an opportunity yet they were plotting his ouster with foreigners. With the statement, Sibanda appeared to be setting an agenda which some Zanu PF officials want included at the conference.

Zanu PF secretary for administration, Didymus Mutasa has in the past said those implicated in the WikiLeaks plotting ways to oust Mugabe were sellouts who needed to be punished.

WikiLeaks released US diplomatic cables which contain confidential information which exposes most top Zanu PF officials for passing on information to the US government about the party and its leader Mugabe whom they said “should go”.

The top Zanu PF leaders who were  mentioned in WikiLeaks for either plotting the “Mugabe must go” campaign or who were implicated by association are Vice Presidents Joice Mujuru and John Nkomo, Jonathan Moyo, Saviour Kasukuwere, Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, Dzikamai Mavhaire and Cephas Msipa among others.

Reports indicated yesterday that Sibanda’s lightning speech had caused commotion within the top Zanu PF leadership most of whom were yesterday evening said to be in meetings trying  to manage the situation.

Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe for the past 31 years. His Zanu PF party has already endorsed him as a candidate for any future elections that the country will hold. The Zanu-PF conference ends today and a musical gala scheduled for White City Stadium will cap the proceedings. Daily News