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Matemadanda Must Quit Whatever He Is Smoking, Mavhaire Berates War Vets Leader For 'Presidential Age Limit' Remark

5 years agoFri, 14 Dec 2018 13:05:32 GMT
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Matemadanda Must Quit Whatever He Is Smoking, Mavhaire Berates War Vets Leader For 'Presidential Age Limit' Remark

Former Energy Minister and ZANU PF supremo Dzikamai Mavhaire have condemned the utterances made by war veterans’ secretary-general Victor Matemadanda.

Matemadanda proposed that Parliament should amend the constitution to raise the minimum presidential age limit from the current 40 to 52 years.

Mavhaire was a confidant of former vice president Joyce Mujuru who was sacked from ZANU PF in 2014 at the height of ZANU PF’s internecine factional fights.

According to a Mail and Telegraph report, Mavhaire said

Matemadanda must quit whatever he is smoking and come back to his sober senses. War veterans do not have title deeds to this country because there are a lot of people who participated in the liberation struggle.

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The fact that you trained as a soldier does not give you exclusive rights over other people who helped the freedom fighters during the struggle. Matemadanda should know that Zimbabwe is bigger than him and should not just make such reckless utterances.

The reason why the economy is in this mess is that Zanu PF uses bush tactics which scare away investors. No one wants to invest with us because of the methods which are retrogressive. How can you want to amend the constitution to block Chamisa?

We have a lot of young Presidents world over who have done remarkably well regardless of them being young.

France has a very young leader who presides over a very big economy and former United States of America President Barack Obama did well despite his age. Zanu PF has to realise that age is not an issue, it’s all about mentality. We should rather let these young people take a lead while the old guard gives advice.

Mavhaire said that war veterans think they are high and mighty because they plotted a coup which usurped power from former President Robert Mugabe.

I am a war veteran and the first person to say Mugabe must go in 1998 and these people turned against me. Had they listened to me back then we would not have arrived where we are today.

These war veterans are the same people who cause a lot of chaos in the country working in cahoots with soldiers to terrorise our people. Where is the democracy we fought for?

Matemadanda and his crew must know that we are not foolish and they should mend their ways because this time we will take a stand.

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