Liberation Movements: Africa should be grateful to Julius Nyerere,
says Robert Mugabe.
Julius Nyerere pictured on January 31, 1985 in Dar es Salam, Tanzania.
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In Summary
Mugabe said African leaders should do more to honour Dr Nyerere who
made his country a sanctuary for liberation movements
By Kitsepile Nyathi
HARARE. Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has described the failure by
African leaders to honour Julius Nyerere, Tanzania's first president,
for his role in liberating the continent as embarrassing.
The 90 year-old leader was speaking at a belated birthday party hosted
by his staff shortly after returning from Singapore where he had had
an eye operation on Saturday.
He said African leaders should do more to honour Dr Nyerere who made
his country a sanctuary for liberation movements.
The veteran nationalist is believed to have played a key role in
President Mugabe's rise to power, reportedly preferring him to the
late Dr Joshua Nkomo.
"I want to say, when all honour has been showered on heroes in Africa,
the man who has been humiliated is Mwalimu Julius Nyerere," President
Mugabe said on Saturday.
"There we are, liberation movements, there we were - depending on the
resources in Tanzania.
"But there has been nothing said about this man and his country at the
OAU (Organisation of African Unity).
(Kwame) Nkrumah (of Ghana), yes, he had that support."
ZIMBABWE SHOULD TAKE THE LEAD
The new African Union deputy chairperson said the continent should be
reminded of the gratitude it owes Dr Nyerere.
"I want us, Zimbabweans, to stand for Nyerere. Africa should be
reminded of the responsibility that it thrust on this man, a burden to
train all liberation movements," he said.
"At the end of the day, there is no one to say Tanzania deserved to be
even mentioned, just mere mentioning as having accomplished that
mission, that mission to have us as friends, that mission to make us
train our liberation movements in Africa.
"We all went in various ways, in various dimensions, to Tanzania to
liberate our countries and we have not gone back to Tanzania.
"Well, I am going to be chair of the AU and I am going to tackle this
issue," he said.
He said Zimbabwe should take the lead in expressing gratitude to the
former Tanzanian statesman.
"There is none at all who have recognised what Nyerere did.
"We of Zimbabwe are not ungrateful, we are not ingrates. We are a
grateful nation and we shall undertake to honour this man."
President Mugabe is one of the few leaders from the generation of
liberation war fighters still in power.
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