What has happened now is absolutely disgraceful. I didn't think that Makoni, after all this experience, would behave like this ... I compared him to a prostitute. A prostitute could have done better than Makoni, because she has clients. Don't you think so?

Speaking about Simba Makoni, a former Zanu PF Finance Minister who registered to run as an Independent against Robert Mugabe in the 2008 elections