Source: Mugabe attacks Khama over AU post – NewsDay Zimbabwe October 4, 2017
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday mocked Botswana leader Ian Khama for his unenthusiastic attitude towards campaigning for Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, who wanted to succeed Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as African Union chairperson.
BY OBEY MANAYITI
Venson-Moitoi failed to reach the required two-thirds majority of votes to be elected chairperson before another round of election was called, where she failed to land the position.
Mugabe, while introducing Zimbabwean Foreign Affairs minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi in Pretoria at the Bi-National Commission yesterday, said Venson-Moitoi lost because Khama didn’t do much to support her.
He said everyone else had put up a spirited fight to support Venson-Moitoi only to be let down by Khama.
“They tried again yesterday and it was another lady from Botswana, but you know with Dlamini-Zuma, Africa had no problem,” Mugabe said while commending Mumbengegwi for supporting Venson-Moitoi.
He said Dlamini-Zuma enjoyed the support of many as compared to Venson-Moitoi.
“We worked hard. They worked hard, sweated, they sweated, you sweated, we sweated, (but) one man didn’t sweat. He stayed at home and expected that wonders would happen and they didn’t happen. We were very sorry, everybody just said: ‘Aah, you. We have not seen your President here. He doesn’t attend our meetings and what would happen if we placed our organisation in your hands, in his hand? So sorry, lady’.
“She worked hard. She was very sorry to lose, we were sorry also, but we knew in advance that we were trying a very impossible one,” he said before bursting into laughter.
Mugabe is in the habit of throwing jibes at other Presidents whom he doesn’t agree with in terms of policy.
His relationship with Khama has been frosty since the days he accused him of supporting the country’s main opposition MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
Recently, he has been attacking South Africa over its alleged pursuance of white capital monopoly against the black majority.
COMMENTS
Ah, but you see, Khama has a white mother and we all know what a racist Mugabe is.
Ah, but you see, Khama has a country that works…..me… I am jealous!!!!
aah but you see…Mandela can not be accused of selling out to whites as much as Mugabe can be accused of maintaining the oppressive legal and constitutional status quo of the smith regime at independence…which country would you rather love in and bring you children up…South Africa with its shining nee constitution that guarantees the rights of even the least in their society…or Zimbabwe with the same repressive laws as in the smith government…we are not fools boss…