Zanu PF supporters are like ‘pigs’ – Ncube

By Richard Chidza

HARARE – Zanu PF leaders and their supporters are “like pigs”, Industry minister Welshman Ncube said yesterday.

Ncube, who leads the smaller MDC faction, was addressing journalists on the sidelines of a party community outreach programme in Mahusekwa, Marondera West constituency.

The programme included the painting of classrooms at Mutero Primary School.

“If you wash a pig, it will always return to the mud and they are a party which is naturally violent. They have piggish behaviour and it is in their DNA,” said Ncube.

“We cannot stop living because sometimes there is really nothing we can do except continuing to persuade their leadership to rein- in their supporters,” Ncube said.

Ncube added Zimbabwe’s political leaders will continue to work around the issues of violence but there has been a misconception around the issues of the “so-called joint rallies”.

“I think there has been a misrepresentation. There was never an agreement to hold joint rallies but we agreed that the leadership, which includes Mugabe, Tsvangirai and me will address party structures.”

“This is like what happened with the meeting that included the national executive committees of the two MDC formations and Zanu PF’s central committee.

“The feedback we are getting is that Mugabe’s diary is holding the programme because he is busy,” Ncube said.

He added the three coalition parties’ negotiators are working to get a date when the three leaders will go to Bulawayo to meet structures in that province and implore on them to desist from violence.

Violence has followed Zimbabwean elections like a plague culminating in the bloody 2008 poll in which Tsvangirai’s MDC claims over 200 of its activists were murdered. Daily News