
THE Zanu PF youth league has come out guns blazing calling former Botswana President Festus Mogae to order in the wake of his comments on President Robert Mugabe early this week. Mogae, who is Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko’s business partner in the Choppies Supermarket group currently spreading its tentacles in Zimbabwe, accused Mugabe and his Zanu PF administration of “thinking they are more important than his country”. The ex-Botswana leader also took a pot shot at Mugabe’s well-known disdain for homosexuals, urging the Zimbabwean President to accept “second generation rights”. But Zanu PF youth league leader Pupurai Togarepi said Mogae should concentrate on “gaps in Botswana politics and leave us alone”. “Mogae was never at any stage President of Zimbabwe. We never as a people gave him a mandate to speak on our behalf. We do not need anybody, whatever their stature, to lecture us on how to handle our democracy,” an angry Togarepi said on Friday. “Mugabe did not elect himself. Zanu PF sat down and agreed he would be our candidate in 2013 and we presented him to Zimbabweans and fortunately the majority of citizens agreed with our view. We were aware that he was old and Zimbabwe knew…