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| ZANU-PF sez Bob's not leaving... |
| 2003-01-13 |
| Reports that senior officials are making plans for President Robert Mugabe's departure have been denied by Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had told the BBC he had been approached with an offer of talks from two of the most powerful figures in the ruling Zanu-PF party. He said, Parliamentary speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa and General Vitalis Zvinavashe, head of the armed forces, had wanted to discuss the possibility of forming a power-sharing government. Now that it's come out, what're they going to do? Depose the old loon, or kiss his, ummm... ring, and hope he doesn't have them killed? But Zanu-PF's spokesman Nathan Shamuyarira dismissed the alleged plans for Mr Mugabe's departure - also published in Britain's Times newspaper - as "wishful thinking". "Nobody told me about it..." "The British would like to see that happening but it is not going to happen," he told a news conference. "We'd rather starve." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 It's gonna take a bullet to Bob's head to get the country going again....not that that's necessarily a bad thing |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-01-13 10:50:57 |