Mugabe tears into Zuma

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A diplomatic row has blown up between South Africa and Zimbabwe - 10 days before the latter's crucial general election.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe tore into his South African counterpart, President Jacob Zuma, at a political rally at the weekend - comparing him scathingly to his predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, and accusing him of taking too much of a back seat in his role as a facilitator of the Zimbabwean July 31 poll.

He was also heated in his criticism of Zuma's international relations adviser, Lindiwe Zulu.

Earlier this month Mugabe referred to Zulu as a "stupid and idiotic South African street woman". He called on Zuma to rein her in.

Last night The Presidency tried to defuse the row.

Presidency spokesman Mac Maharaj acknowledged the concerns expressed in Zimbabwe about comments made by "one or other members" of Zuma's technical team regarding the election process.

"Zuma is the only one authorised by the Southern African Development Community to speak on Zimbabwe," said Maharaj.

"To the extent that there have been statements allegedly made by one or other member of the technical team, including Lindiwe Zulu, President Zuma regrets the unfortunate statements ... they were unauthorised and include inaccurate remarks carried in newspapers reporting that President Zuma had contacted President Mugabe to express his unhappiness [about] the Zimbabwe elections.

"President Zuma has been alerted that there are comments on social media networks attributed to a member of the technical team, which is unfortunate," Maharaj said.

Zuma was appointed facilitator for the Zimbabwe election by the SADC.

Zulu is said to support the Movement for Democratic Change's call for a delay in the vote following alleged irregularities in the special voting for the election and her reported comments on the issue on social networks in Zimbabwe.

Mugabe on Saturday said he believed that Mbeki had been a better mediator than Zuma in the Zimbabwean political crisis. Zuma, he said, "takes a back seat and gives advisers a free role on his presidential duties".

He said he was interested only in hearing Zuma speak about Zimbabwe, not Zulu.

"We were given one facilitator with one mouth and that is President Zuma himself. That is the voice, the only voice, we want to hear.

"May I say that the persistent negative voice from South Africa ... could it please be stopped? I appeal to President Zuma to stop this woman of theirs from speaking on Zimbabwe.

"Yesterday it was President Thabo Mbeki who was facilitator and only his voice spoke, no other voice spoke," Mugabe said.

Mbeki has been severely criticised for his "quiet diplomacy" on Zimbabwe, which analysts say yielded no results.

Last night Maharaj said: "We realise that Zimbabwe has just a few days to go before the elections and we want to assure that no future incident will arise ... Statements with regard to the election process will only come from President Zuma."

He said Mugabe's concerns had not been on the agenda of the meeting of the SADC's peace and stability troika in Pretoria on Saturday.

"No questions arose over the removal of any of President Zuma's technical facilitation team ... no investigation is being conducted.

"There was a simple question ... did anyone make a statement out of turn; has the statement caused any problems; are these problems such that they deflect from the real issues Zimbabwe faces? Our statement is intended to remove this [contention] from the table."
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Just cut all ties and close the border.

EDIT: In other news, The Rand strengthens as SA tells Mogabe to piss off
 
And don't we 'supply' them with cheap electricity?
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I think we supply them with plenty more than just electricity.
If they anything like Botswana, Namibia etc. their shelves are all stocked with products from SA?
 
OGroteKoning said:
Just cut all ties and close the border.
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Haaaaahahahahahaha!

Last week I and a bunch of other travellers visited the banks of the Limpopo river last week, down a 'farm' road.

I stood there, taking photos of the surrounds, as DOZENS of Zimbabweans walked past me without a worry in the world. In the few minutes that I was there, there must've been 60-70 of them walking around. I'm told that many of them cross at will, do their shopping and return home, but many don't. Some of them were friendly enough to greet me back.

There's no fear, no control and no border. Period.
 
Redeemed said:
South African whities love their honest, hard working Zim cheap labour so.
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Yea.. my local dude which I paid good money to help out, stole my tools, clothes etc. My current Zim helper , not a single problem. Phones and tells me the he will be off/sick etc. I pay him extra, to keep him.
 
Redeemed said:
South African whities love their Zim cheap labour so.
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Interesting though, at least these whities is providing an opportunity, why can’t they work in Zimbabwe earning above their current wage (cheap labour)?
 
Fulcrum29 said:
Interesting though, at least these whities is providing an opportunity, why can’t they work in Zimbabwe earning above their current wage (cheap labour)?
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Exactly... I provide him opportunity to earn good money so he can send that money back home. I don't have a gun against his head, he is free to stop working anytime.

He is actually so good, we have 4 people using him during the week. Earns good money for his wife and 6 kids at home. Everyone

I have spoken to him about Zim many times. He is screwed in Zim, so he has to be here to earn money. It's sad to listen to Zim people, and thinking our goverment agrees to Mad Bobs rule...
 
Zim, Africa's greatest success .. from breadbasket to basket case under the leadership of Mugabe, yet he's still considered a struggle hero. So funny if it wasn't so sad, you cannot make this stuff up!
 
lol. this old man is still full of kark. he would probably beat zuma like he stole something.
 
Redeemed said:
South African whities love their Zim cheap labour so.
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Maybe also because Zimbabweans have more spunk, are more trustworthy are not so lazy and not at least have some intellect.
 
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evilstebunny said:
Zim, Africa's greatest success .. from breadbasket to basket case under the leadership of Mugabe, yet he's still considered a struggle hero. So funny if it wasn't so sad, you cannot make this stuff up!
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Are we that far behind? i.r.o. South Africa, perhaps just replace the Mugabe name with that of his SA conterpart
 
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