By Agencies
CONTROVERSY over Zimbabwe’s disputed elections continues to hog the global limelight as foreign Parliaments debate the polls which saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa being declared winner last month.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Namibian counterpart, Hage Geingob, were this week grilled in their Parliaments for endorsing Mnangagwa’s controversial victory in the August 23 and 24 elections.
Ramaphosa, Mozambique’s Filipe Nyusi and the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Felix Tshikekedi were the only heads of State who attended Mnangagwa’s inauguration on Monday.
Geingob and others sent congratulatory messages, while somes countries were represented by their ministers at the ceremony held in Harare on Monday.
Ramaphosa was the first to be taken to task on Tuesday by opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen for siding with Mnangagwa despite the unresolved election dispute.
“By aligning South Africa with these so-called members of the clan (BRICS), you are standing with autocrats and dictators, sacrificing the principles enshrined in our own Constitution,” Steenhuisen said.
BRICS is an economic bloc comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
“It’s the same reason why you attended the inauguration. You know full well that your party (ANC) is following in (Zanu PF) footsteps,” the DA leader added.
-AMH
