IN an unprecedented and daring move, war veterans yesterday came out guns blazing against President Robert Mugabe, describing him as a manipulative, self-centred and failed dictator who has betrayed the ideals of the liberation struggle creating an explosive confrontation amid rising social unrest.
Leaders of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association also declared they had withdrawn their support for Mugabe, whom they accused of promoting factionalism to entrench his rule, at an emotionally charged meeting in Harare yesterday.
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