Mugabe under fire

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe crude attacks on Vice-President Joice Mujuru’s “simplicity” and her gender has a reduced all the gender equality progress the country has done since independence, academics said.

PAIDAMOYO MUZULU
SENIOR REPORTER

Mugabe on Tuesday while addressing war veterans and service chiefs at the Zanu PF party headquarters attacked Mujuru’s ambition to succeed him calling her “simplistic” and undeserving to lead Zimbabwe.

Mugabe said: “Don’t fight for positions, it’s what destroys organisations.

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