Police hold 11 protesting 'life presidency'
HARARE - Zimbabwe's former vice president Joice Mu uru has advised under fire Deputy President Emmerson Mnangagwa to quit following recent attacks by President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace, a report says.
According to The Standard, Mujuru urged the embattled vice president to join the ranks of opposition parties in dislodging Mugabe in the upcoming 2018 polls.
"As for Ngwena (Mnangagwa), it's time to resign and openly join colleagues in the trenches of the electoral battle against this ill-fated dynasty. Free advice Cde (Mnangagwa) is that no matter how you hope to continue putting lipstick on a frog hoping that it will become a queen, it won't.
"At least such a courageous act would redeem some semblance of honour and dignity to Ngwena if at all any still remains," Mujuru was quoted as saying.
Mujuru said that the on-going attacks against Mnangagwa and his supporters were "a free lesson" to all willing to learn the politics where Mugabe and his wife only used their supporters when it suited the conditions of "the Gushungo dynasty."
This came after recent reports claimed that the Mugabes accused Mnangagwa of fanning factionalism within the ruling Zanu-PF party.
or the first ti e in pu ic the Mugabes accused Mnangagwa of leading a faction calling itself "Team Lacoste" that was angling to take over power from the veteran leader when he e entua eft office
Another faction made up of young Turks calling itself Generation 40 was reportedly backing First Lady to torpedo Mnangagwa's presidential ambition.
irst to fire the sa o on Mnangagwa in front of thousands of party supporters who gathered at Chipadze Stadium for the 8th Presidential Youth Interface rally was the First Lady, who challenged the deputy president to rein in his supporters whom she accused of insulting the presidency in their quest to succeed her husband.
Grace Mugabe was also the leading architecture of Mujuru's exit from the ruling Zanu-PF party and government in 2014.
Following the First Lady’s ra ies u uru was fired fro both Mugabe’s government and the ruling party for allegedly plotting to assassinate the nonagenarian and engaging in corrupt activities.
Mujuru was now one of the leading opposition candidates poised to lead a coalition that would challenge Mugabe’s 37 year rule next year.
Meanwhile, Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is “out of danger” in hospital in South Africa after being airlifted from Harare at the weekend following the sudden onset of severe vomiting, a party source said yesterday.
Tsvangirai, who is due to challenge President Robert Mugabe in elections next year, was recovering well but had been told by doctors to avoid stress and strain until at least the weekend, the source said.
- NEWS24/REUTERS.. KAMPALA - Ugandan police have detained a lawmaker and 10 others who were arrested while protesting against a plan that they charge would enable the country's long-term president to rule for life.
Emilian Kayima, a police spokesperson in the capital Kampala, said they are holding a prominent opposition member of parliament and others accused of staging an unlawful assembly on Monday.
Dozens of lawmakers with Uganda's ruling party said last week they will support a bill to remove a clause in Uganda's constitution that prevents anyone aged 75 and above from seeking the presidency.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who turned 73 last week, is ineligible to run again if the clause remains. Museveni has held power in this East African country since 1986. – AFP.