Hon speaker, we want to take this opportunity to agree with what comrade Maswangwanyi said, particularly on the sanctions, that we should unite as a country and demand imperialist forces to drop the sanctions against Zimbabwe. We also want to make a clarion call to President Mnangawa to allow the Zimbabwean Zanu-PF comrades who are in exile to return back home. There should be a high level of political tolerance because the disagreement should not lead to targeting and victimising those who hold a different view. If Zimbabwe is going to succeed, all the progressive forces will have to come together in defence of what president Mugabe stood for.
We also want to avail ourselves to engage in facilitating that type of an agreement between the comrades in exile and those who remain in Zimbabwe. There are small minded people always get tempted to blame comrade Grace Mugabe for whatever reasons. We see that as a direct attack on the legacy of President Mugabe. You must have courage to confront President Mugabe and leave his wife out of your hatred of his politics, because it is only fools who target wives when they are defeated by husbands
[Applause.] You must accept that the husband defeated you when he was still alive and leave his wife and children alone. Allow them to live in Zimbabwe in peace. We do not want to wake one morning and be told that Grace is no longer staying there, because she is victimised for the political stands that were taken by the husband.
I heard someone saying here in 1988 Malema was this or that age, that is the problem of an ageist. You are an ageist of note, because whether I was eight or six years at the time, politically if we were to compare what I have achieved and what you have achieved, you do not come anywhere close [Applause.] You always hide behind the dress of your mother's credentials. You use your family wrongly for personal accumulation and you always irritate your parent's credentials as if they are yours. They are not yours; you have no credentials at all.