Mugabe stops Zanu PF jeering Tsvangirai at Mujuru's funeral

President Robert Mugabe on Saturday departed from the norm and for the first time reprimanded his party followers in public, for booing Morgan Tsvangirai during the burial of the late Solomon Mujuru at the heroes’ acre.

Whenever the Prime Minister's name was mentioned, Mugabe’s supporters would jeer and burst into anti-Tsvangirai songs.

“We are here to bury a national hero and all the three political parties are represented, we are united therefore we do not want anyone of you to jeer at anyone of us since we are giving respect to a national hero,” Mugabe angrily declared.

Immediately Mugabe went on to acknowledge the presence of Tsvangirai and the jeering stopped, proving that only Mugabe can stop the indiscipline in ZANU PF.

Mugabe went on to call for an end to political violence, and urged his supporters to let people choose leaders of their own choice.

He urged Zimbabweans to create peace in their hearts and commended the peace that, he says, has prevailed for the past six months in Zimbabwe.

The 87 year old leader who spent almost 75 percent of his speech time narrating the history of the liberation struggle, also condemned corruption.

“Zimbabweans now are going for high prices, you form a company today and get rich today, don’t exploit others,” Mugabe said

Although Mugabe spoke for almost two hours he said nothing that could have given a clue to the cause of a mysterious fire that killed Solomon Mujuru on Tuesday.

A record crowd of more than 25 000 people gathered at the national shrine to pay their last respect to Mujuru, although some went merely to get an idea of what could have killed him.

Mugabe said he is still baffled by Mujuru’s death and will continue to question why, each time he thinks of the former party stalwart.

“Comrades and friends today is a very sad day indeed that sups our energies and devastates our hearts, the tragic occurrence which has brought us all here will forever baffle us. For a very long time we shall continue and always ask why, why, why. True, the ways of the Lord are hard to find and harder to question.

As humans we ask questions and to some events we can never get answers to questions we ask,” Mugabe said.

In conclusion Mugabe acknowledged the differences of party ideologies of those in the GPA and asked people to respect that.

He likened the political parties in the GPA to different churches worshipping the same God.