via Mugabe ‘admits’ Tsvangirai won by 73 percent (Video) – Nehanda Radio Dec 3 2014
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe may have gone someway into solving the great mystery of the 2008 presidential election which saw the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) withhold results for over a month and state security operatives kill hundreds of opposition supporters ahead of a run-off election.
The commission packed with Mugabe loyalists released figures that showed opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had won the election but without an outright majority and therefore a re-run was ordered.
But on Tuesday while addressing service chiefs and the new leadership of the war veterans association at the Zanu PF headquarters President Mugabe made a telling “Freudian slip” of the tongue when he said Tsvangirai had garnered 73 percent of the vote.
Before Mugabe could mention his own percentage, dozens of loyalists in the room interjected shouting 47%, 47%, 47%. Mugabe promptly took the cue and said Tsvangirai had garnered 47 percent while he got 43 percent of the vote.
But by then the damage had already been done. The 90 year old had let the proverbial cat out of the bag.
Psychologists describe what Mugabe experienced as a “Freudian slip”, named after famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. This is defined as a mistake in speech that shows what the speaker is truly thinking.
Speech science experts says “the more the conscious mind (prefrontal cortex) wants to suppress a thought, the more the unconscious has to check to make sure we’re not thinking it; so we think about it more.”
COMMENTS
SADC has a lot to answer for so does South Africa.
If this is true-Those thugs who are part of the Dictactors Club will not answer believe you me they will probably go the Thabo Mbeki route and say like him they do not owe anyone an apology – remember it was them that gave the geriatric the chair take this a step further to those who will listen.
The Human rights lawyers need to put their heads together and deal with International Community
Mlimo and Petal, thats where you miss it. It is not about SADC nor the Human Rights Lawyers nor the international community but about the people of Zimbabwe, in their masses. We must say enough is enough!
If this is true-Those thugs who are part of the Dictators Club will not answer believe you me they will probably go the Thabo Mbeki route and say like him they do not owe anyone an apology – remember it was them that gave the geriatric the chair take this a step further to those who will listen.
The Human rights lawyers need to put their heads together and deal with International Community
Not South Africa ,But the corrupt South African goverment..
There is a saying Manners maketh a man and not the clothes he wears. these theiving thugs have no manners and that goes for Thabo Mbeki who probably was taught manners by his mother