Mukonori chides self-centred politicians

RESPECTED Roman Catholic cleric Fidelis Mukonori has urged all the 23 presidential candidates in this month’s make-or-break elections to put the interests of Zimbabweans ahead of their own.

Mukonori, who brokered a peace deal between the military’s command element and former President Robert Mugabe, leading to the veteran politician’s resignation last November, yesterday said Zimbabweans were looking for servant leadership.

Speaking at the launch of a paper titled Taming the Beast in Us 2018 by the Centre for Conflict Management and Transformation (CCMT), Mukonori said: “We are looking for people who are going to take care of the people of Zimbabwe, not themselves.

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