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The former leader of South Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance has told President Emmerson Mnangagwa to shut up over the current situation in South Africa, saying the Zimbabwean president is the “biggest thug” in southern Africa.
Mmusi Aloysias Maimane, who was the DA leader from 2015 to 2019, made these remarks when he was reacting to Mnangagwa’s appeal for calm in South Africa following several days of violence and looting, sparked by the jailing of former South African president, Jacob Zuma.
In a tweet, Maimane said, “Of all people you must shut up the most. You have been brutally killing civilians for 41 years. You know nothing of peace and everything about violence. Thula (shut up) Mnangagwa. South Africa needs no advice about peace from the biggest thug in the region. The reigning champion of oppression in SADC. Sies.”