Harare – President Robert Mugabe deserved to win China’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize this year however scornful Zimbabwe’s opposition is of it, ruling party apologists and state media said on Sunday.

Zanu-PF MP Psychology Maziwisa told the state broadcasting corporation that Mugabe’s winning the Confucius Peace Prize was “a milestone for the whole nation”.

“We feel it was long overdue as he has exhibited that he deserves it over the past 35 years,” Maziwisa said.

Sunday Mail columnist Vukani Madoda criticised the “revolting opposition conspiracy to scorn good achievements that can never be hidden”.

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