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REVEALED – Mutambara’s plan to have Mugabe rule Zimbabwe ‘forever’

By David Kurima
for ZimEye.org

Published: October 20, 2009

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Harare(ZimEye)Zimbabwe’s vice Prime Minister, Arthur Mutambara has planned to have Robert Mugabe rule Zimbabwe ‘forever’, the ZimEye can reveal. The controversial leader who is the most vocal in Zimbabwe’s government told a select number of business people in Harare three months ago that Mugabe’s presidency would be perpetuated into ‘eternity’ throwing the impression that Zimbabwe’s elections now due in a few months time had been cancelled.

“A lot of questions are being asked about the lifespan of this government. I can assure you that stability is guaranteed for five years. The agreement (to form what was to be a transitional government) is silent on the duration of the government. After the constitution is concluded and there’s a referendum we’ll sit down and decide whether to carry on or go for elections.”

However, Prof Mutambara did not stop there, but went on to declare saying:

“People are not in an election mode. If we have elections after two years we’ll be campaigning and not working. We need to give this government time to work. Stability is guaranteed for five years, or forever,” Arthur Mutambara said.

The secretive arrangement to retain Mugabe in office, believed to have been entered into by Mutambara and Mugabe just after he lost elections in 2008 has riled Zimbabweans. The opposition vice Prime Minister is also reported to have confirmed that he will be attending a meeting with Mugabe today (Tuesday) despite a boycot by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai who is currently ignoring Mugabe until all outstanding GPA issues are resolved.

However, since Roy Bennett’s case became an international matter last week, Mutambara has come out stating stating to the media:

“What we have right now is a dysfunctional marriage. We are very upset and very angry. Mugabe lost to Morgan Tsvangirai in last year’s elections. The only election was in March last year. How can he run this country alone? If this Global Political Agreement is to collapse I would say to Robert Mugabe, you are not the President of Zimbabwe. You are an illegitimate leader. If this GPA is to collapse I would say to Morgan Tsvangirai please no grandstanding. [PIC above-Mutambara chats secretly with President Mugabe's nephew, Phillip Chiyangwa in Harare](ZimEye, Zimbabwe)


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25 Comments on "REVEALED – Mutambara’s plan to have Mugabe rule Zimbabwe ‘forever’"

  1. FARAI ZUZE on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 2:15 am 

    THIS DAVID KURIMA NEEDS TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL.

    JUST BECAUSE MUTAMBARA SAID IT TO A FEW PEOPLE IN SECRET DOES NOT MEAN THAT HE MEANT IT. IF HE DID, HE WOULD HAVE MADE THIS CLEAR IN PUBLIC.

    MUTAMBARA IS A HIGHLY EDUCATED PROFESSIONAL WHO POSSESS MORE BRAINS TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE A FOOL DAIV KURIMA

  2. Mpunsi on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 3:52 am 

    Farai, you have just made a few typical zanupf styled demeaning statements. You attack the person not the issue.
    There is enough debris and disaster in Africa caused by hightl educated professionals. Mutambara has somthing in common with many African “leaders”. He has no mandate from the people to hold such a position. His mandate came to him from Welshman Ncube who in turn got his mandate from Mbeki. So Farai, whilst Mutambara tells people to put up and shut up, most Zimbabweans cringe whenever this man opens his mouth. In fact I suggest you read what you have posted, again. You have no neticate and what you say is utter rubbish.

  3. Terry on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 5:12 am 

    Artie for PM!

  4. J. Ndluli on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 5:40 am 

    Keep in mind that Politicians are CIVIL SERVANTS. The term implies – those individuals who are employed on the basis of professional merit as proven by competitive examinations. This should be the norm & not the exception!
    Additionally, Civil SERVANTS are expected to exhibit the traits of honesty, sincerity & integrity in their dealings. Regards.

  5. Thabani Mukombe on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 6:32 am 

    @ David, unless if I dont nkow how to read in english. Where is it in your story that Mutambara had an official plan to let Mugabe remain as a leader? In that story I see someone who spoke his own point of view. So was he wrong? You are free to take it or leave it. Kwete zvako zvekuda kuti we believe your own channelled school of thought.Mutambara remains unique in the inclusive grvt because he tells it like it is. Majaira vanokuudzai nhema vachiti they are going to remove Mugabe by ‘Violence’. Hoyo ka nanhasi aripo. Wake up- unzwe munhuwi wekofi kani

  6. john Banda on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 7:19 am 

    apa Thabani Mukombe wataurawo. No comment. vanofarira chokwadi, hecho chataurwa. kufadzana ne nhema hakuna kunaka.

  7. dhora rangu on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 8:37 am 

    vanhu varikunyora ma articles aya ma reporter here kana kuti angoda anongopfekedzera zvaada. content yacho kunge munhu arikutsvaga kutengerwa beer ba bottle store.

  8. Tired on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 9:55 am 

    Zimeye u must hev something refreshing, this utter nonsense was said my Mutambara a long time ago-mapererwa.

  9. Gordon Darangwa on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 10:09 am 

    Tired, you really have a tired brain. ZimEye is giving us hot-news. Some plans take time to hatch, as is Mutambara’s.

    you see, he said in July, and now as is evident, his plan is folding into place. Didn’t you read yesterday that Mutambara is meeting Mugabe today on his own? Does that not show you something? Oh, maybe not, because you are obviously tired!

  10. Brown on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 10:13 am 

    A GOOGLE search of Roy Bennett will give some interesting results. Foreign readers of Zimbabwean news would be shocked to find out some of the information regarding Bennett which is concealed by those people who populate such online encyclopedias like wikipedia.

    It is interesting that people like Roy Bennett, among others, have no history recorded online or elsewhere easily accessible, dating back to the pre-1980 period.

    It looks like there has been an orchestrated attempt to hide the chequered history of such people, in order to protect their previous associations.

  11. Gordon Darangwa on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 10:21 am 

    Brown – whoever, you are, pleae come out int eh open and say clearly what you want. We all know you have links to Mugabe and you are in fact a Shona residing in the southern part of Sidney, Australia.

    Buda pachena tione

  12. talk back on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 10:26 am 

    B4 i comment, i would like it to be known 4 the benefit of those that see everythg only thru the prism of political affiliations.

    that i am neither a zanu nor an MDC T/M supporter but rather simply a concerned Zimbabwean interested in free zimbabwe with a free & responsible media.

    As regards this article it is utter nonsense. Typical cheap & shoddy journalism one would associate with ‘the herald’. This article quotes Mutambara out of context. If u read Mutambara’s interview with Violet Gonda which is readily available on Swradioafrica.com where he talks of the lifespan of the GNU one will see that this article is just hogwash.

    As for the comment on the foto. this is very pathetic. Yes! Mutambara has sat and talked to Chiyangwa at business meetings, which Biti attended & sat and chatted with Gono. so no secrecy there.
    We all want a democratic & free media in Zimbabwe but it comes with responsibilities. Dont replicate Zanu pf style reporting so as to create nonsensical headline grabbing stories. Defamation is not the way to go.

  13. Makwembere on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 10:37 am 

    Talk-Back, you are altogether ignorant!

    Do you know Mutambara well?

    How are you related to him?

    Just because Mutambara has had an interview with Violet Gonda does that authenticate him in any way at all.

    I am neither MDC nor ZANU PF, but I do know that the same Mutambara recently had an argument with an EU emmisary in Harare in which he defended ZANU PF militants saying confidently,

    ‘Do you want to arrest our own people?’

    Talk Back, come out ninto the open, are you not Mutambara himself or his loyal disciple?

  14. Bruce Derere Ph.D on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 11:06 am 

    Tired is tired.

    is 3 months a long time to exonerate a person?

  15. Gari on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 12:00 pm 

    you guys all sound the same. DIASPORIANS.

    So your are all deluded to think that you know who Roy Bennet is, just because you have spent a couple of years there working with whitees.

    Your are not in touch with reality and have the audacity to make comments on things going on in Zimbabwe, none of your are Zimbabwean including the dilusional writer of this article who is masquareding as a journalist. leave Zimbabwe to the Zimbabweans.

  16. talk back on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 2:14 pm 

    @Makwembere…well i expected some1 to come out with such sentiments.
    The question you have posed of who i am displays everythg wrong about zim & some zim pple.its that narrow-mindedness which assumes that if some1 makes a statement contrary 2yo belief then they are the enemy.
    Nonetheless i will answer your question 4the record, i am not Mutambara or a relation/associate of his.

    Tsvangirai went to the Uk & publicly said at a tym when reports of pple still being persecuted were still rife, “Zimbabweans must go home,the coalition is working, Mugabe is not a problem”. Today he has ’suspended’ MDC T from it. In making that statement did it make MDC T pro-Zanu pf??

    So does Mutambara becoz of your chose of interpreting words, which seems not to apply to MDC T, become pro-Zanu pf?

    NOTE: Pliz lets not divert from point i made on a responsible media
    pliz give us a break. Why not try commenting on that instead

  17. Thabani Mukombe on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 2:45 pm 

    Zanu pf supporters, Mutambara, Tsvangirayi or Zapu supporters this wont change the truth. The article lacks authenticity, it is shoddy and it encourages us to loathe Mutambara on unfounded reasons.The purpose of the media is to give us the truth. It is for us to choose what we want out of that. We are sick and tired of the media forcing us to support their own point of view. A terrible disease crippling zimbabwean media. Those for the gvrt support Zanu those who are anti grvt are busy publishing hate speech. STOP IT

  18. talk back on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 3:10 pm 

    @Thabani Mukombe….Refreshing to read an article from a Zimbabwean who appreciates the value of a free & responsible media.

    Not some ‘mickey mouse’ reporting with hidden agendas as shown by this article.

  19. Bruce Derere Ph.D on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 3:31 pm 

    I believe (in part) in what both talk-back & Thabani are saying.

    However, I also think that the two seem to have been blinded by their emotions in rushing to conclude that this story is fake. An old friend of mine from UZ, Skumbuzo Moyo was there at this meeting with business crooks in Harare when Mutambara said this, and he was clearly referring to the issue of elections and the disbanding of government just before elections.

    Evidently, it apears Mutambara seemed concerned about loosing his job as vice PM which he obtained by default and not by merit.

    How can a professor use words like ‘forever’ withoutn knowing the implicatins thereof?

  20. Thabani Mukombe on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 3:57 pm 

    @ Bruce what we are simply saying is ‘let the media give us the truth nothing else.’ If Mutambara really said this, then give us and we see it ourselves. As it is he was quote out of context…And you start telling us about your friend who is a bogus someone also. So you want us to believe the story because your friend said its true? Which editorial policy can allow such a behavior like yours? So you mean your friend is an indelible source? If you hate Mutambara its okay for you but don’t hate the truth.

  21. Bruce Derere Ph.D on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 4:40 pm 

    I don’t hate Mutambara at all. Above all I wish all things in Zimbabwe’s politics to be weighed.

    For your own infor I support Arthu in a number of issues.

    Just out of interest Thabani do you have the fulle text? You say he was quoted out of context. It will be exiting to see your full text of Mutambara’s speech. I am happy to discuss with you if this helps these journalists’s work. Maybe that will also help this website who knows, just my thoughts.

  22. ANDERSON BAKATWA on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 4:45 pm 

    I HATE MUTAMBARA AND WILL NOT HIDE IT.

    HE HAS SENSE AND YE HAS NO SENSE

  23. Thabani Mukombe on Tue, 20th Oct 2009 6:30 pm 

    @ Bruce to me u sound like David.I think you are the one who wrote this story.I don’t support Mutambara but what am saying is show me in this story where it truely shows Mutambara as having endorsed mugabe as the leader. You continue to tell us about Mutambara having to meet mugabe but recently Tsvangirayi met him also. Whats unique about that. Who said they are going to discuss Mugabe’s stability for the next five years? Maybe you could ve asked for the full text before you poisoned millions. Get rid of your bogus source Skumbuzo…if ever he exists..

  24. Bruce Derere Ph.D on Wed, 21st Oct 2009 12:16 am 

    Thabani.

    The reason for my saying this is not to discredit you Thabs.

    You have made an allegation against David Kirima saying that he quoted out of context. For the benefit of us outsiders, why don’t give us the full text without having to start throwing matombo on others.

    I don’t care if Kurima is shamed, i have nothing to do with him, i just want the truth.

    BD

  25. John on Thu, 22nd Oct 2009 3:07 pm 

    this is very unfounded
    http://arthur-.mutambara-zimbabwe..blogspot.com/

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