Zanu PF yesterday blasted South Africa’s opposition
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema, calling him a “restless
and careless” leader whose criticism of President Emmerson Mnangagwa exposed
him as a political novice.
The attack came after the EFF leader accused Mnangagwa and
Zanu PF of hounding the late former President Robert Mugabe to death.
He was speaking at Mugabe’s Blue Roof mansion in Borrowdale
on Monday, where he had gone to pay his last respects for the late former
Zimbabwe leader, who passed on early this month in Singapore at the age of 95.
But his attack on Mnangagwa drew the ire of Zanu PF, which
released a statement yesterday accusing Malema of not only being a stooge of
the Western imperialists that Mugabe fought against all his life, but also for
confusing verbosity to wisdom.
“Malema needs to be reminded that his illusion to equate
youthful exuberance and verbosity for wisdom and grounded intellectuality
exposes him for the political novice which he is,” Zanu PF spokesperson Simon
Khaya Moyo said yesterday.
“It is sad the he used the Zimbabwean soil, the bastion of
revolutionary mantra and the fortress of black consciousness, to lampoon the
regional body, Southern African Development Community (Sadc) leadership and its
ethos.”
He added: “In that regard, the party finds it reprehensible
for Julius Malema to use such a solemn and sombre occasion to spew political
propaganda and to score cheap political mileage.”
Khaya Moyo said Mugabe was a national, regional and
continental and globally esteemed revolutionary icon who relentlessly fought
against colonialism and “it is sad to have a puppet of the same colonisers Cde
R G Mugabe fought in the form of Malema to demean all he solidly stood for.”
Mugabe was removed from power in a military coup in
November 2017. Since his removal, top Zanu PF officials had taken turns to
lampoon him, with some declaring that he would not be buried at the National
Heroes’ Acre.
But after his death, the party changed tone and started
describing Mugabe as an icon who deserved the national shrine honour.
Khaya Moyo said Zanu PF would always defend and uphold
Mugabe’s legacy as the country’s founding father, urging everyone to respect
and defend the legacy of country’s leader of 37 years.
“Charlatans and figures of controversy need not disfigure
such illustrious virtues which define the larger than life character of the
late Cde R G Mugabe by having Press conferences which disparage the African
values and ethos which he stood for,” he said. Newsday
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