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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe delivers a speech during the Zimbabwe ruling party Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu PF) youth interface Rally in Bulawayo. PHOTO: AFP.

 

Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe, who was ousted in November, said Sunday that he would not vote for his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa in the presidential election.

“For the first time ever we have now a long list of aspirants to power,” Mugabe said at his Blue Roof private residence in the capital Harare on the eve of the vote.

“I cannot vote for those who tormented me… I will make my choice among the other 22 (candidates), but it is a long list.”

Mugabe spoke slowly but appeared in good health sitting in a blue-tiled pagoda set on a lawn outside the sprawling luxury mansion in the upmarket suburb of Harare.

“I was sacked from the party I founded, ZANU-PF,” he said. “I was regarded now as an enemy, but… how come that I am treated now as a nonentity, an…



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