Tshinga Dube slammed for organising Grace Mugabe booing, ordered to apologise

Former War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube has been criticised for confessing that he organised youths who booed Grace Mugabe at an interface rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo on November 4.

The Dumiso Dabengwa led Zapu said that Dube should reform and refrain from using unemployed youths to further political agendas. Zapu deputy spokesperson Iphithule Maphosa also said Dube should apologise to Bulawayo. Said Maphosa:

We roundly condemn Tshinga Dube for his disgraceful admission and bragging that he is the one who hired the Zanu PF thugs who booed (former President Robert) Mugabe and his wife at White City Stadium recently. Dube’s admission is testimony to the long-held fears and complaints that old politicians are in the habit of abusing youths by giving them sick monies to engage in violence on their behalf

The tired politicians, old and in conflict among themselves, take advantage of desperate unemployed youths and use them to fight their wars. It is worrying that Tshinga Dube can brag about paying Magura Charumbira and his sick-minded crew this time as the country prepares for elections by July 2018. Our fear as Zapu is the proliferation of such madness as it seems Dube may not account for his irresponsibility at White City.

Dube, instead of using the unemployed youths, should advise his counterparts to rebuild the economy they so destroyed in the last 37 years, in the process rendering millions destitute and desperate. We, however, condemn his actions, confession and boasting about buying youths as machines of anarchy, especially considering that the same Magura Charumbira he paid for violence has been terrorising Bulawayo vendors in the aftermath of White City. We, therefore, demand an apology to Bulawayo from Dube, or else he satisfactorily absolves himself from the violence on vendors and ordinary citizens by Charumbira.

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