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(NEWZIMBABWE) WikiLeaks exposes MDC-T conspiracy: Mugabe

WikiLeaks exposes MDC-T conspiracy: Mugabe
by Staff Reporter
16/12/2010 00:00:00

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has said revelations by WikiLeaks have exposed the conspiracy between Western governments and their local partners to remove his Zanu PF party from power.

Mugabe told a meeting of his Zanu PF central committee that efforts by Western ambassadors accredited to Harare to organise against his party contravened the United Nations Charter on non-interference in the domestic affairs of another country.

"For those who take time to learn, it is our hope that the WikiLeaks exposures will by now have shown them the evil and dangerous nature of the policies being followed by our former colonisers and their partners," Mugabe said.

The Zanu PF leader said his party felt betrayed by its partners in the coalition government in the wake of revelations Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai privately urged Western countries to maintain sanctions against the country.

[Hee, hee, as if he hadn't expected. :) - MrK]

"What is galling is the discovery or perhaps, confirmation, that the people we thought were our partners in running the country, were most of the time, serving other masters who are not the people of this country.

[You can say the same thing for the Government of Zambia. This is the nature of the neoliberal/placeholder governments. Africa needs national leaderships that are pro-African, not pro-Western. - MrK]

"This is why even as we tried to call for a united and uncompromising stance against sanctions, we could not get the level of commitment we hoped for," he said.

Mugabe said the duplicitous behaviour by coalition partners had made it necessary to call elections in order to end the arrangement.

"This is where we want to find the party ready for campaigns, ready for elections, so that we can, once more, show that Zanu-PF is here to stay," he said.

Party spokesman, Rugare Gumbo also reiterated calls for Tsvangirai to resign in the wake of the WikiLeaks revelations.

"If he is a man of integrity he has to resign. I am surprised and baffled that the Prime Minister says he is not concerned when every body is concerned," Gumbo said.

Labels: NEOCOLONIALISM, ROBERT MUGABE, RUGARE GUMBO, WIKILEAKS

posted by MrK @ 2:36 AM