AGAINST MUGABE:

A senior Zimbabwean clergyman has issued an unprecedented plea for a peaceful Ukraine-style “popular mass uprising” to remove President Robert Mugabe after elections this week.

The highly respected Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, the Most Rev Pius Ncube, said that the parliamentary elections on Thursday were certain to be rigged. “I hope that people get so disillusioned that people really organise against this government and kick him [Mr Mugabe] out by non- violent popular mass uprising,” said Archbishop Ncube. “As it is, people have been too soft with this government. So people should pluck up just a bit of courage and stand up against him and chase him away.”

Archbishop Ncube, who is a prominent critic of Mr Mugabe and the ruling Zanu-PF, made the radical suggestion, in an interview with The Independent, as evidence was mounting of more subtle forms of intimidation and coercion than the overt violence that characterised the previous two elections. “I am simply backing a non-violent popular uprising, like that in the Philippines in 1986 and such as in Ukraine,” he said.

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Via Sed Contra.