EFF leader Julius Malema’s remark this week that the time has come for 92-year-old Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe to hand over the baton of power has infuriated the Pan Africanist Congress. "Julius Malema’s attack on Mugabe exposes him of being the agent of the West as he is carrying their mandate very well. He was instructed to destabilise not only the governing party, but the entire country. He is again entrusted with a mammoth task of dethroning [an] African hero of our liberation‚ Uncle Bob‚" PAC national spokesperson Kenneth Mokgatlhe said in a statement on Friday.

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