Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe Monday said if MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai could not fathom losing the harmonised elections, he was free to go hang. <\/p>\n
The Zanu-PF First Secretary and President who triumphed in the Presidential race after polling over 61% against Mr Tsvangirai\u2019s 33,9%, made the remarks while addressing thousands of people who thronged the National Heroes\u2019 Acre for the Heroes Day main celebrations in Harare.<\/p>\n
Zanu-PF also scooped 160 out of the 210 National Assembly constituencies, wrestling back 61 constituencies the MDC formations won in the 2008 elections.<\/p>\n
A visibly shaken Mr Tsvangirai refused to accept results announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and has since approached the Constitutional Court seeking nullification of the results citing alleged irregularities.<\/p>\n
\u201cSaka vanenge vachirwadziwa nekukundwa hameno zvavo kana vachizvisungirira ngavazvisungirire. Kana imbwa hadzimbofa dzakanhuwidza nyama yavo vakafa vakadaro,\u2019\u2019 President Mugabe said.<\/p>\n
He said Zimbabwe held elections in line with the electoral democracy the West claims to advance.<\/p>\n
\u201cTakavhotaka maererano nechinangwa chikuru chinonzi democracy. Ndozvamakataura vemhiri zvikabvumwa pasi rose kuti kuve nedemocracy. Heyoka tauya nayo. Tauya nayo munotii?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are delivering democracy on a platter. Do you take it? We say take it or leave it, but the people have delivered it and forward ever. Never will we go back on our achievement, on our victory. Tinoramba tichienda mberi. Hatisi vekudududza isu.\u201d<\/p>\n
The UN, AU, Sadc, Comesa and other observer groups from Africa have endorsed the elections while the United States, Britain and its dominion Australia \u2014 who were not invited to observe \u2014 have joined MDC-T in condemning the election.<\/p>\n
This has effectively put MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai and his Western sponsors on one side, and Africa and Zanu-PF on another side aping the contestation in Zimbabwe over the past decade.<\/p>\n
President Mugabe said two themes defined this year\u2019s Heroes\u2019 Day commemorations.
\nThe first was a day when Zimbabweans reflect in remembering all the departed cadres who sacrificed their lives to liberate the country.<\/p>\n
The President said it was an opportunity for Zimbabwe to prove to the heroes and heroines that their sacrifices were not in vain as Zanu-PF\u2019s resounding victory ensured that objectives of the liberation struggle would be safeguarded.<\/p>\n
\u201cNdima yepiri inoti nhaka yavatisiira heyo yanga iri mumaoko edu, tiine shoko rabva kwavari rekuti kuenda taenda asi heyo nhaka yatakupai moichengetedza.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018Pakati apo ndokuita bishi. Ny\u2019any\u2019a hedzo dzotungamira dzichitungamidzwa sezvimbwasungata kuti vaye vatakamborwisa vachitorazve nhaka iyi vogova ndivo vanotigovera. Ndimi inoti tinotenda vana veZimbabwe.<\/p>\n
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