Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has responded to African National Congress (ANC)’s secretary general Gwede Mantashe. Mantashe responded to Mugabe’s attacks on Nelson Mandela and said that the Zanu-PF Government had destroyed the Zimbabwean economy compared to the ANC Government whose policies have resulted in Zimbabwean and South African Billionaires.
In his response, Mugabe said Mantashe had reacted stupidly. Said Mugabe:
I made this remark in regard to South Africa and what do they call him? Gwede, stupidly reacted. Yes, they only fought to remove apartheid. This was it. We talked to them. I remember TG Silundika and myself talking to (Oliver) Tambo to say aah you are just fighting for the removal of apartheid not for independence and freedom as we were doing and they said independence was given to us by Britain in 1910 on May 31.