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SATA Says NO To MUGABE’s Zanu PF INVITATION
REPUBLICAN President, Michael Sata will not attend Zimbabwe’s Zanu PF’s national conference starting in Bulawayo on Wednesday 12/7, it has emerged.
Sata, elected Zambia President in September, was expected to be the high profile guest at the conference which will, among other things, endorse President Robert Mugabe as Zanu PF’s candidate for polls due early next year.
However, Sata confirmed he would not attend the conference during a meeting held Saturday with Mugabe on the Zambia side of the Victoria Falls resort.
Zimbabwe foreign Affairs Minister, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi said Sata would now be represented at the ‘highest level’.
“It was basically a bilateral exchange of views which also happened to be the two leaders’ first meeting since Sata took over as President,” Mumbengegwi said of Saturday’s meeting.
“It was a very good meeting where the leaders discussed a number of issues of mutual interest but I cannot go into detail.”
Meanwhile, Zanu PF national commissar and information Minister, Webster Shamu said the four-day event would confirm Mugabe as the party’s candidate for next year’s elections.
“We are going to reaffirm the position of our last congress in Mutare where President Mugabe was confirmed as the party’s sole candidate in any election between the last congress and the next,” Shamu said.
“The provinces have since affirmed that position at their respective inter-district meetings and we intend to focus our debate on other pressing matters such as indigenisation.”
Party chairman, Simon Khaya Moyo said the conference would also launch preparations for the elections demanded by Mugabe to replace the coalition government.
“We will chart methods on how to move fast in mobilising everyone with particular focus on young and female voters. This is a very key constituency that should be given the utmost priority,” Moyo said.
“We are not only interested in their vote, but also to have them play a significant part in the country’s economy through our programmes such as the Land Reform Exercise and indigenisation.”
Some 6000 delegates are expected to attend the conference, party officials said.
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love
December 5, 2011 at 9:22 am
way to go shikulu sata……..you are down to earth……love you with the love of God
Didi
December 5, 2011 at 9:22 am
Yes, Your Excellency, for now suspend all foreign trips. All the thieves and plunderers will run away in your absence.
kabezo
December 5, 2011 at 9:50 am
Sata to be represented at the highest level! What is the meaning of that? Is sata and mugabe best of friends? Is mugabe a type of person sata can support? In my opinion, let sata stay away from mugabe! He will be misunderstood!
matcox
December 5, 2011 at 10:22 am
WELL DONE MR.PRESIDENT!YOUR PRESENCE COULD HAVE MEANT ENDORSING MUGABE AS WELL.HOPE M.C.S ADVISED MUGABE NOT TO RUN.
edgar chibuta
December 5, 2011 at 10:46 am
thanx ba sata does not enjoy visiting visiting.why shud he attend a meeting to endorse a dictator?sata shikulu walikwata amano that is why we voted 4 u.
Jomie
December 5, 2011 at 10:52 am
Good move. Remember Mwanawasa had a stroke and died after having a quarrel with old Bob. After telling Zim to pay back ma millions of dollars, Old Bob could definitely annoy Sata to the extent that Sata could have a heart attack and die.
zambian
December 5, 2011 at 11:07 am
uncle bobby wants to die in power cause his past haunts him what did in matebeleland south in the early 80s .the brother is a selfish old dude.mr sata is right not to go there for his image and respect or the ka ma old man wanted to hear what Bush wanted
Zambia 1
December 5, 2011 at 11:18 am
If this invitation was served on Rupiah, knowing Rupiah, he could have left together with Mugabe.
Tripoli
December 5, 2011 at 11:34 am
Tell him to invite RB the tourist .
Zambia 1
December 5, 2011 at 11:43 am
If RB was invited, he would have added more fun by first going to Jamaica, Alaska, Nicaragua, San Antonio-Texas before attending the conference in Bulawayo.
Chingz
December 5, 2011 at 11:51 am
MUGABE RUNNING AGAIN? THATS WHY SEX SCANDALS WON’T COME TO AN END. SEX IS THE DEVILS HOBBY WHEN DONE OUTSIDE MARRIAGE. MUGABE’S DECLINE WILL BE WORSE THAN GADDAFI’S.
The UNIP Patriot
December 5, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Sata! Sata! Sata! Sata! Sata! pankoloko!! or sorry, ppabbwwwaaaatoooo!!!!!
Katwishi
December 5, 2011 at 3:16 pm
WE CALL IT ‘PRINCIPLE’
Lonti
December 5, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Bashi balikwatisha amano.|Congrats
Nacimbusa
December 5, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Ala umwana wamano bamumwena kumilandile. Bashi Chilufya cimo na Solomon imfumu yamano. Hats off mwebafyashi. Ala Bee ngaciya mukufwaya ama infestors kuti nelyo eshibe ati abanankwe yalikakana.
lovemore
December 5, 2011 at 7:00 pm
ALAAA MUGABE ICIBELESHI,,,
Alfred N Mushinga
December 5, 2011 at 7:44 pm
Way to go Mr President keep setting the pattern, alittle saving goes a long way
Filamba Fya Nkalamu
December 5, 2011 at 7:46 pm
If it was RB he would have gone for the ZANU-Pf conference,via London.
Zebb Mpinganjira
December 5, 2011 at 8:55 pm
RB could have gone with no remorse or second thoughts, viva ba kateka!!!
Ant-corruption
December 5, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Thumbs up we mufyashi!!!!!
Special agent Dr. M
December 5, 2011 at 10:52 pm
Of course we the best for now could to keep a distance from Bob, but dont demonise him bloggers, you should look at the West who has made that situation in Zimbabwe, why did they ruthlessly grab land in the first place and could not honour the Licester agreement? Just like in Sudan and many parts of Africa, they come in the name of agencies helping out and condemning wars in Africa meanwhile they are the ones manufacturing, supplying and profting from the supply of arms, war-planes, landmines, etc do we ever manufacture such things in Africa Lets wake up continent ots too much. GOD BLESS AFRICA.
kibo
December 6, 2011 at 3:46 am
Please mwebantu mwilachilubula chi RB pantu kuti naluka,ask that monkey at state house how we feel about RB kuti twachisundila nakabili
Uko
December 6, 2011 at 4:46 am
@Special Agent Dr.M I feel your point. May our ancestral spirits be with us in the name of Shakapanga, Munshifukatilwa na Kesushamilongo.