via Bob’s problem with Mujuru doctorate – NewZimbabwe 26 February 2015
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has claimed that his disgraced former deputy, Joice Mujuru, thought she could depose him after graduating with a PhD at the University of Zimbabwe.
Mujuru has since been deposed as both State and Zanu PF vice president over claims she plotted to topple Mugabe from power, with assassination said to have been considered as a contingency if the veteran leader refused to step down.
Commenting on the fallout during an interview with State television to mark his 91st birthday, Mugabe said Mujuru allowed her educational achievements and vaulting ambition to get the better of her.
“The woman grew ambitious and did not want to buy her time to see the President either retire or die,” he said.
“The man has just won an election and you want to remove him, you think it is that easy.
“We don’t know who misled this woman. I put her in that position not that she qualified, there were men who were better qualified than her, but we wanted to groom her there.”
Mujuru joined the liberation struggle after completing just two years of secondary education. At the end of the war she became the youngest member of Mugabe’s cabinet and fitted secondary school in between her busy schedule after she was appointed minister.
She continued to study until she attained a doctorate alongside Mugabe’s wife Grace in September last year.
But Mugabe said the university education fooled Mujuru into thinking that she was ready to take over power.
“She went to university, now she has become a doctor and thought now I can be a President,” he said. “It is not those things that count, you must be a person with capacity and experience apart from that you must be disciplined and obedient.
“You follow procedures of the party, you don’t go against the rules of the party, you abide with the rules of the party, you respect the hierarchy and not plan a coup de tat, worse still an assassination.”
Several senior Zanu PF officials and cabinet ministers have since been fired by Mugabe for supposedly working with Mujuru to topple him.
The veteran leader also warned that he was not done cleaning up the ruling party.
COMMENTS
What is at stake here is the nation and a singular lack of performance in leadership. The only consistent thing about this regime has been a complete failure to deliver to the Zimbabwean citizens as would only be reasonably expected.
When will there be an end to Mad Mugabe’s gibbering? In this report he comes over no better than a spiteful four year old. Everyone knows that Joice Mujuru persevered for years to finish her schooling, which she lost out because of her involvement in The Liberation Struggle. She then went on to complete her junior degrees and then finally, after honest hard work and determination, qualified honestly for her PhD.
Now why does Mad Mugabe not talk about that other woman that “got” a PhD. And that while sitting on his knee, as he was marking her examination script. We cannot say thesis, as the existence of this essential element in all PhDs, seems to have gone absent without leave.
Come on Mugabe, stop your ranting against everything that your crazy old mind sees as an enemy. Don’t you think that you have already imposed enough suffering on us, the people of Zimbabwe. Realise for goodness sake that you are in your dotage and push that power crazy wife off your knee and then take a walk into the sunset.
Perhaps then Zimbabwe will rise again as a nation…one we all can be proud of.
Enoch Dumbutshena, Zimbabwean Chief Justice, said: “In Zimbabwe PhD stands for Pull Him Down”. He should have said “him or her”.