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By Stella Mapenzauswa
CHIVHU, Zimbabwe (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has denounced a prominent archbishop as a “half-wit” for calling for his overthrow and says the opposition in this week’s parliamentary election are Western stooges.
In the final round of campaigning before elections on Thursday, Mugabe joined a barrage of government attacks against Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube, who has accused the 81-year-old leader of starving opposition supporters to win the vote.
Ncube, in a series of interviews on Sunday and Monday, called for a peaceful popular uprising after the election and told the Economist magazine the people of Zimbabwe were praying Mugabe should die.
“I don’t know to which God he prays. His prayers are not as pious as his name suggests apparently. He is … a half-wit. I don’t know why the Vatican tolerates prayers of that nature,” Mugabe said in Chivhu, south of Harare, hometown of his wife Grace. …
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CHIVHU, Zimbabwe (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has denounced a prominent archbishop as a “half-wit” for calling for his overthrow and says the opposition in this week’s parliamentary election are Western stooges.
In the final round of campaigning before elections on Thursday, Mugabe joined a barrage of government attacks against Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube, who has accused the 81-year-old leader of starving opposition supporters to win the vote.
Ncube, in a series of interviews on Sunday and Monday, called for a peaceful popular uprising after the election and told the Economist magazine the people of Zimbabwe were praying Mugabe should die.
“I don’t know to which God he prays. His prayers are not as pious as his name suggests apparently. He is … a half-wit. I don’t know why the Vatican tolerates prayers of that nature,” Mugabe said in Chivhu, south of Harare, hometown of his wife Grace. …
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