President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe has fired his deputy, after accusing her of ‘plotting to kill him’ and calling her a witch.
90 year old Mugabe fired Joice Mujuru,
59, and eight other Cabinet ministers aligned with her, accusing them of
corruption and trying to assassinate him..
He spoke yesterday saying he was informed she and her people took two tadpoles to a witchdoctors
“One of the witchdoctors said look for
two tadpoles of different colours one should be named (President) Mugabe
and the other should be called (Ms) Mujuru and put them in water,”
“That’s what happened. “They were made to
fight and if (President) Mugabe’s tadpole dies then she will rule. Now
if mine won against yours, it seems that is what happened then,
“I go to elections, fight an election and
I am expected to bow to my deputy and say I won an election, you can
take over?Did I not hear that or read that this man was going to die in
September. But the man refused to die in that September and is still
refusing to die,”
Mrs Mujuru had been tipped as the person
most likely to succeed Mr Mugabe until his second wife, Grace, launched a
three-month campaign against her and accused her of being too ‘dull’
and ‘corrupt’ to lead the party.
Experts say the
First Lady is now being groomed to succeed her husband, Mrs Mugabe, 49,
had repeatedly accused Mrs Mujuru of plotting against her husband.
In a statement, she said
‘A vociferous attempt has been made to
portray me as “a traitor”, “murderer” and “sellout”, yet no iota of
evidence has been produced to give credence to the allegations.’
Mrs Mujuru is the first vice president to
be fired since Zimbabwe gained independence in 1980.Her four
predecessors all died in office.
Culled from Reuters
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