By Godfrey Tembo
Harare, Zimbabwe (News of the South)-A senior Zimbabwean war veteran, who is now the interim leader of the opposition Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) party, has reportedly described as “better” the repression “under under the whites in the then Rhodesia” than under the current government.
According to media reports Retired Brigadier General, Agrippa Mutambara said this while addressing ZimPF party supporters at the Moffat Hall in Mutare over the weekend.
Mutambara said that oppression during the former minority white Rhodesian government was better than that under the current administration of President Robert Mugabe.
“The level of oppression we fought against during the white minority rule was better than what we are currently experiencing from our own government,” Mutambara was quoted as saying.
He said that it pained him to see “brave”
Mugabe, 93, has been in power since 1980 when Zimbabwe gained its independence from British colonialism.
The nonagenarian has over the years been accused of hanging on to power through vote-rigging.
He has ruled through the country’s dramatic economic collapse – hyperinflation wiped out savings more than 10 years ago, unemployment is sky-high and economic output has halved since 2000, when many white-owned farms were seized.
Zanu-PF has already endorsed him as its candidate for the forthcoming 2018 presidential elections.
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