President Robert Mugabe says he will not bow down to
machinations by those bent on sabotaging the economy in a bid to make people
uprise against the government.
Addressing mourners during the burial of Gogo Maria Msika
at the National Heroes Acre today, Cde Mugabe said he is aware of the hidden
hand behind the recent price madness and panic buying, describing the culprits
as ‘some of us.’
“Ndovaya vakataurwa naJesu pa last supper kuti vandinodya
navo ndovachandipandukira. Vana Judas Iscariot varipo pakati pedu. Ivavo
kongativadzukureika, tivanyadzise. Ivavo ndovanoda kuti kudzipurwe hurumende,
kuuye vamwe. President vabve pachigaro. Ko ini chigaro ichi handina kuita
zvekubvuta, ndakachipiwa nevanhu, ndechevanhu saka handidi nacho (They are like
Biblical Judas Iscariot, who Jesus talked about during the last supper that he
will betray him. We have such people in our midst but we should uproot and
shame them. They want regime change but I am saying I was given the mandate to
rule by the people so I am vacating the post.),” the President said.
“Kwanhasi ndakati zete pachiri ngativei nemaziso akavhurika
masikati nehusiku kuchengetedza chigaro ichocho. Toda kuti Gogo Msika kana
vazosangana nemurume wavo vavati nanhasi chigaro tichirinacho. (As I am
occupying this post, let us all be alert at all times and guard against
detractors. We want Gogo Msika to go and tell his husband that we are still ruling),”
he said.
“Ava vanoda kukanganisa nyika kuti vanhu vapandukire
hurumende hakuna kwavanosvika, tinemaziso hatisati tava mapofu tinenge tichiona
kuti idzi itsoro dzirikutambwa. (These detractors will never succeed, we have
eyes to see all they are trying to do.),” said Cde Mugabe.
The President also said from Gogo Msika, Zimbabweans have
learnt the spirit of sacrifice, and that of love of the family, adding that she
belongs to the league of the likes of Gogo Mzenda and other wives of
nationalists buried at the national shrine.
“Nhoroondo yavo inhoroondo yevarume vavo. Zvaiita varume
vavo ndozvavaiitawo vachivatsigira varikumba. (Their history is the history of
their husbands. They supported all that their husbands were doing during the
liberation struggle.),” he said.
He also called for patriotism and unity among Zimbabweans.
“Tingasiyana mafungiro ne zvimwewo asi mashandiro edu
ngaanangagane nezvinangwa zvedu zvenyika. Kushanda kwedu ngakuve kunoratidza
kubatana. Takatanga tiri ZAPU neZanu PF asi takaona kuti kubatana kwakakosaha
(We might have different ideas and cultures but whatever we do should be in
support of the national agenda. We must show unity just like we did by uniting
Zanu PF and ZAPU.) We are inseparable; we are all bound together because we all
belong to this geographic entity called Zimbabwe. We are equal as the children
of the country, we are now free in Zimbabwe as we are no longer Rhodesia,” he
said.
Cde Mugabe says he first knew the late Vice President Msika
when he was teaching at Hope Fountain in Bulawayo and when Cde Msika was not
yet married.
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