Zimbabwe's Mugabe: Beware of death on road to presidency

Record ID: 936683

  • Title: Zimbabwe's Mugabe: Beware of death on road to presidency
  • Date: 8th November 2017
  • Summary: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA (NOVEMBER 8, 2017) (REUTERS) MEDIA AT ZIMBABWE NATIONAL LIBERATION WAR VETERANS ASSOCIATION (ZNLWVA) BRIEFING (SOUNDBITE) (English) HEAD OF ZIMBABWE NATIONAL LIBERATION WAR VETERANS ASSOCIATION, CHRIS MUTSVANGWA, SAYING: "The best thing we have is that the vice president is safe, he is in a place where those who would be, who would have been assassins to the vice president can no longer reach to him. And he probably could be traveling very soon to Joburg (Johannesburg, South Africa)." MUTSVANGWA'S ASSISTANT LISTENING (SOUNDBITE) (English) HEAD OF ZIMBABWE NATIONAL LIBERATION WAR VETERANS ASSOCIATION, CHRIS MUTSVANGWA, SAYING: "As revolutionaries, we don't subscribe to coups. We work on the premise of organising the populous so that they express their will, and that's what the war veterans have been doing, that's why I'm saying the whole country to a person, is agitated by what has been going on. Because if you want to build stability, build it on the basis of national consensus, not on the decision by a few." MUTSVANGWA TALKING (SOUNDBITE) (English) HEAD OF ZIMBABWE NATIONAL LIBERATION WAR VETERANS ASSOCIATION, CHRIS MUTSVANGWA, SAYING: "If there is any spilling of blood, caused by the wayward actions of a power-hungry clique, there will be consequences." MEDIA AT BRIEFING/ MUTSVANGWA'S ASSISTANT TALKING
  • Embargoed: 22nd November 2017 16:42
  • Keywords: Grace Robert Mugabe Vice President Mnangwagwa War Veterans
  • Location: HARARE, ZIMBABWE AND JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
  • City: HARARE, ZIMBABWE AND JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
  • Country: Zimbabwe
  • Topics: Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA00876M8I87
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: PART AUDIO AS INCOMING
    Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday (November 8) said the route to leadership was long and full of pitfalls and death, as he accused his fired deputy and former protege of showing impatience in his bid to succeed him.
    Addressing supporters at the headquarters of his ZANU-PF party in Harare, 93-year-old Mugabe accused Emmerson Mnangagwa of consulting witchdoctors and prophets as part of a campaign to secure the presidency.
    Mnangagwa said he had fled Zimbabwe because of death threats and was safe.
    The head of the influential war veterans association, Chris Mutsvangwa, said that Mnangagwa, who was sacked on Monday (November 6), would travel to Johannesburg in neighbouring South Africa "very soon".
    Mugabe said Mnangagwa, nicknamed "Crocodile", had made the same mistakes as Joice Mujuru, who was the president's deputy for 10 years until she was fired in 2014.
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