Mugabe Booed in Parliament

President Robert Mugabe was recently booed and heckled at a sitting of parliament after MP’s expressed their disdain in the 91-year old President.

Opposition lawmakers disrupted the sitting of parliament by loudly and consistently heckling the President about the economic crisis the country is in.

Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) lawmakers questioned his economic policies, jeering as the 91-year-old delivered a policy speech which lasted less than half an hour.

Amidst the heckling, Mugabe — not known for not brooking dissent — continued unfazed and read his speech through to the end.

His Zanu PF lawmakers then burst into a song praising their leader while the opposition countered singing “Zanu PF is rotten”. It is not the first time Mugabe has been jeered in parliament.

In August 2008, MDC deputies roundly booed the president during a speech to show they did not recognise his legitimacy following a flawed presidential vote held earlier that year.