When asked what his birthday message for Mugabe was, DA leader Mmusi Maimane said on Tuesday that he wished President Robert Mugabe would realise he is old and step down.
Said Maimane:
I wish that he would recognise that at his age he should not continue being the president of Zimbabwe. He must step aside so that we can enter into a post-liberation era. He has ruled for too long and must step aside.
Maimane said the African Union and specifically South Africa, had not sought to acknowledge democratic processes. He said:
We must stand for democracy. The Zimbabweans won the elections, the opposition won the elections and we (South Africa) negotiated a government of national unity, undermining the will of the people.
IOL writes that he said “we must do to Zimbabwe” what had happened in Gambia, where the Economic Community of West African States troops were deployed, leading to Jammeh leaving the country. Meanwhile the Zimbabwean Government has responded and you can read the response HERE
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