via I’m a good guy, says ‘gamatox’ Mutasa 18 July 2014
OUTSPOKEN Zanu PF politician and cabinet minister Didymus Mutasa has showered praise on self-styled war veterans’ leader Joseph Chinotimba for leading the February 2000 farm invasions, which destroyed the country’s mainstay agricultural sector.
Speaking Friday during a national field day organised by Pioneer Seeds in Nyanga South, the Zanu PF secretary for administration also berated sections of the local media for continuously casting him in bad light and demonising President Robert Mugabe.
“Joseph Chinotimba was brave enough to move around telling white commercial farmers in no uncertain terms that they should go back to their countries of origin such as United Kingdom, Germany and Italy to own land and pave way for locals.”
Chinotimba, now Zanu PF MP for Buhera South, rallied hordes of former freedom fighters into the farms, demanding back land seized a century ago by white settlers.
The violent farm seizures, dubbed the Third Chimurenga Mugabe’s revolutionary party, received a seal of approval by Mugabe’s regime.
Mugabe and his party were still shocked by the embarrassing rejection of the 2000 Constitutional referendum, which was sponsored by government.
The ‘NO’ vote was strongly backed by the country’s white farming community and an emerging opposition, something Mugabe and his party found to be a sign of a looming poll defeat the same year.
Turning to himself, Mutasa, who is also Presidential Affairs Minister, was up in arms with what he felt had been unrelentingly bad publicity about himself by the country’s media.
“I am speaking as Didymus Mutasa whom I know myself not the one you read in the newspapers,” Mutasa said. “The newspapers always write bad things about me and things that I never say.”
Mutasa also directed his venom at the country’s private media for their alleged fixation with his boss, insisting they were being funded by the hostile west to create a demon out of the long serving leader.
“They are being funded by western countries to peddle lies about President Mugabe and Zanu PF but they should know that we are angered when they insult our leader, President Mugabe.
“They want people to believe that what comes out in UK media is the truth. More so, they write their stories from abroad.”
The controversial Zanu PF politician did not spare his party’s opponents either for alleged peddling of lies about the Zanu PF leadership.
“If the MDC wants to be leaders they should come out straight without peddling lies. We are not leaders of corruption but we are straight forward leaders who fought for this country and gave you land,” Mutasa said.
Pioneer Seeds, which offered Mutasa time to talk, was honouring small scale farmers from across the country who fared well in their National Small scale farmers farming competition which was funded to a tune of over $250,000.
COMMENTS
“in no uncertain terms they should go back to their countries of origin” he should go back to his place of origin. The trees!!!!!
You Rhodies will never get tired of this racism nonsense. Comeon man, racism is out of fashion. Where have you been all these years?
oh and siphon, does that racism only come from white guys?do you support the most racist government in the world run by Bob and Zanu?how can you as a normal human stand by and watch the destruction of your country and people by this megalomaniac-or let him keep you as his vendor slaves?
Agreed
Where have you been for the past 34 years
Mutasa is definitely one of the main centers of the disease that is destroying Zimbabwe. That he is too stupid and lacks the self awareness to see this is no excuse. It him and his kind that need to be dumped in the dustbin of our history.
And if he went back to his place of origin it would be as a sloppy second rate badza operator
probably the next we will hear he is saying he is a good looking man phew puke
we don’t care we will continue to insult Bob AND THE ZANU MURDERERS ,you will be looking from the other side of bars when ‘real’ law comes to Zim, hokoyo nyoka….
Gamatox! Leaders must not use strong negative examples if they want positive press coverage. An old man talking of being “angry”! I however like the clarity of Zanupf’s consistent message to whites, not that I agree with by any means as it appears but that it is said time and again to prove the corruption of whites like the EU Ambassador to Harare and the adventurous French and Belgian ambassadors. “WHITES MUST GO BACK TO THEIR COUNTRIES…………”
Apologies Sipho the comment was not meant to generalize any group of people more a specific individual
Well done, I understand where you come from and I wish that the Zimabbwean comunity would also stand up and condem the racism dished out by people like Mutasa. His (Mutasa) is a far more dangerous one to name calling, rather he and Mugabe encouraged people to comit murder, rape and theft.
Note to Epidydimis Mutasa
It’s not for you to tell us you are a good man. We know what good men look like and how they behave. You are not one of them.
I will tell you what you are. You are an old nasty, greedy ,selfish self-serving man who thrives on the degradation and bullying of ordinary Zimbabweans. You hate anyone who tells it as it is. Your constant defending of old toothless Mugabe is sickening. Just go away.
This Mutasa boy is sickening to say the least. The way he worships Bob it raises more questions than answers. Were you incererated together at one point in history! This may clear some mist! !!!!
Incarcerated! !!!!
Mutasa is typical of most Zanupf Ministers and that is they are uneducated crass buffoons who do not know how to run a Country and Government, the mess Zimbabwe is in right now is proof of that. What we have here is a bunch of 100 % certified village idiots who previously were qualified to roast mielies and brew tototo!