Why in 2008 did you decide to support Simba Makoni as a presidential candidate?
The way I see it, ZANU PF and MDC have become giant parties, but they don’t address the problems. Instead ZANU PF says, MDC is a bunch of sellouts, and MDC say the problem is Mugabe, he’s a Dictator. They’re actually not addressing real things. I think it was important to say no; there are real problems here. They are not necessarily caused by Mugabe, whether Mugabe was there or not the problems would have been there. The issue is, did we tackle the problem? I mentioned earlier that land resettlement was always a problem and we neglected it for 17 years. The issue of unemployment was always there; it’s not a new story. The new story is, in 1980, the unemployed were illiterate, now the unemployed have degrees or a secondary education. How would you have tackled unemployment, had you been given the opportunity? I was. I was actually Minister of Employment for a year, but I failed. I think the problem is that the ZANU PF government from the beginning thought its responsibility was educati
