Jabulani Sibanda was thrown out of Zanu-PF for daring to say what is increasingly heard: the party is little better than a mafia plundering the country while ordinary people sink deeper into poverty.

"I was suspended from the party for calling all the leadership thieves. It's true," he said. "We've reached the stage where we are ruled by highway economic bandits.

It's obvious to everyone what is happening."

"It is not only that the nation being betrayed but the party is being misled.

The entire leadership must go.

Mugabe must go.

They have lost the confidence of the people."

Mugabe responded by saying that the people did not like him only because he wears pink nail varnish.

Mugabe then pointed out that he only wears it on one finger.

“Anyone who says I’m like Banana will be made to cry,” he said.