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  President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party has reportedly remained mum after the African National Congress (ANC) Secretary General Gwede Mantashe this week moved to call on the Zimbabwean leader to stop attacking Nelson Mandela's legacy.
  Mantashe on Tuesday told the media in Johannesburg that he had lodged a formal complaint in a telephonic conversation with his counterpart in Zanu-PF for Mugabe to stop making "unwarranted and unfortunate attacks" on Mandela.
  But according to Zimbabwe's privately owned NewsDay newspaper, Zanu-PF spokesperson professed ignorance of Mantashe's telephonic conversation.
  "Nobody has talked to me about it. If they wrote a letter of protest, it would have been directed to [Ignatius] Chombo (Zanu-PF secretary for administration). I cannot comment on things that have not been communicated to me. The secretary for administration is better placed," Moyo said.
  Chombo was reportedly unavailable for comment.
  "What was the most important thing for (Mandela) was his release from prison and nothing else. He cherished that freedom more than anything else and forgot why he was put in jail," Mugabe said, in comments translated by news website NewZimbabwe.com.