Chimene lashes out at SA politician for calling Zanu-PF a "rural party"

Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Mandi Chimene has lashed out at south African politician Blade Nzimande for labelling Zanui-PF a “rural party.” Chimene in an angry response said:

It goes to show how daft he is as a politician because he thinks we went to war so that we could take residence in suburbs when the fact is that we fought for land and that is why we value the rural vote.

He (Nzimande) doesn’t know where the people are, hence his thinking is misplaced. The war of liberation was fought in rural areas, not in towns. Whether people are educated or not, they all have rural homes, so what is wrong with us putting our emphasis there,

“Even the African National Congress (ANC) knows the importance of the rural folk and I really don’t understand where this comrade is getting his political ideology from. It’s silly, really,

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