Military Intervention Was Not About Repudiating Mugabe, It Was About Preserving His Legacy: Charamba

George Charamba, the permanent secretary’ in the ministry’ of Media, Information and Broadcasting Services has said that the Zimbabwe Defence Forces’ Operation Restore Legacy was actually meant to preserve the legacy of former president Robert Mugabe. Charamba said that in the new post-Mugabe era, people should not repudiate the former president as he is a symbol. Speaking to the Daily News, Charamba said:

One misconception that must not be there is a failure to interpret the full import of Operation Restore Legacy. Now, people think that the revolving politics post-Mugabe amount to a repudiation of Mugabe the man, the leader, the veteran, the symbol. Handiko kwatiri kuenda (we are not going that way)

The operation was meant to extricate that symbolism in order to restore it so that it could shine large and bright as a beacon for the future. I don’t find anything in-between – the notion of an RG University and the evolving politics post-Mugabe.

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