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Mugabe will not accept defeat: Grace
Roy Chinamano, Zimbabwe Metro
May 29, 2008

http://zimbabwemetro.com/2008/05/29/mugabe-will-not-accept-defeat-grace/

Grace Mugabe President Mugabe's wife has said her husband would never surrender to the majority Party leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

"Even if Baba (Mugabe) loses" , "he will only leave State House to make way for someone from ZANU-PF," she said to ZANU-PF's faithful.

She added that even people's backing the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in the event is not going to force ZANU-PF into a retreat.

Tsvangirai "will only get to hear about what it looks like inside State House from people who have been there", she added.

"President Mugabe is a modest man who does not want to gain anything from ruling the country. He works for the people. But the whites are saying he is clever and they want to get rid of him.

"Tsvangirai has done nothing for the nation. He survives from what he gets from his white masters and comparing President Mugabe and Tsvangirai is an insult. People will only realise this after they have lost their land because they want sugar, salt and other foods.

Grace nee Marufu, later Guriraza is 40 years younger that Mugabe she divorced from her first husband, an air force pilot who was swiftly transferred to the Beijing embassy. She began cohabitating with the president before the death of Ghanaian first wife, Sally, 11 years ago.

They have three children Bona (named after Mugabe's mother) Robert (junior) and Chatunga ,earlier this year the Robert (junior) and his younger son, Chatunga appeared in full military regalia at a campaign rally. Some political analysts have speculated that Grace is urging Mugabe to stay in power because that keeps him busy and gives her a chance to run errands.

The recent utterances by the first lady are in sharp contrast with Rural Housing Minister,Emmerson Mnangagwa who was quoted in Redcliff saying, "If the president loses, he will be the first one to go on national television to acknowledge the result,".

However it has since emerged that Mnagagwa told a different audience that ZANU PF and its candiadte Robert Mugabe will not accept the decision of the voters.

'There's no way we are going to lose the run-off," . "We are going to make sure of that. If we lose. Then the army will take over.Never be fooled that Tsvangirai will rule this country. Never." he said.

Earlier Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa who himself a losing candidate, told BBC News,"If people attempted to un free themselves, moves would be made to free them."

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