President Robert Mugabe yesterday warned the two MDCs the army will get them for wanting to change the sacred colours of the national flag.
Speaking at the launch of the Gwanda Community Share Ownership Trust Scheme at Colleen Bawn Secondary School yesterday, Mugabe said: If these parties want to change the colours of the national flag that symbolise the gains of the liberation struggle, then they are a threat to their own existence. Those parties will not live.
Mugabe accused the former opposition parties of attempting to remove the red colour from the national flag, saying this would never be tolerated as it symbolises the blood lost during the liberation war.
Mugabes threats echo those of the army generals who have issued statements threatening those whom they perceive as going against the principles of Zanu PF.
The senior army officers have openly said they support Zanu PF and would go all the way to ensure its philosophies are inculcated in both army recruits and civilians.
Said Major General Martin Chedondo last week: Now that soldiers are being recruited from every village, we want to see a village that will go against national values, he said.
We cannot be seen supporting a political party that is going against the ideals of a nation, which came by as a result of a liberation struggle, which saw many of the countrys sons and daughters losing their lives, Chedondo said.
In Gwanda yesterday, Mugabe also accused the MDCs of trying to smuggle homosexuality into the new constitution, saying Zanu PF would not allow the move.
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They want your grandmother and my grandmother to marry. What is that? Back in the old days we would say you have upset the spirits. This is against laws of natural order, said Mugabe.
He also maintained his indigenisation stance, saying those foreigners unwilling to cede 51% equity in their companies would be driven out of Zimbabwe.
Join us on our terms and 49% in terms of equity. If the company is worth 100 million, then it means you get 49 million and we get 51 million.
Is that blameable because some people from outside are saying we are nationalising mines but nationalising is taking 100%? Join us today because tomorrow you might find yourself out of our country, said Mugabe.
