Zimbabwe: President Deserves His Rest

9 January 2014
opinion

Remarks by the MDC-T spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora that President Robert Mugabe's annual holiday is "immoral and abnormal" are rather disrespectful, incomprehensible and a shining emblem of his crumbling party's ideological barrenness. Mwonzora was reported in a local independent paper castigating President Mugabe for taking his annual holiday in January. He was quoted as saying: "This holiday is a clear negligence by the President. The fact that the President leaves the country at a such time shows that he is no longer fit to meet the daily demands of his office."

What claptrap! Who could question the President for taking such a well-deserved vacation? Mwonzora and the MDC-T want to appear oblivious of President Mugabe's rigorous countrywide electoral campaigns that forced them to bite the proverbial dust.

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