via I quit— Goche – DailyNews Live 24 November 2014 by Fungi Kwaramba
HARARE – Politburo heavyweight Nicholas Goche dramatically quit Zanu PF’s violent central committee elections in Bindura yesterday, charging angrily that he was now completely fed up with the ugly factional and succession wars that are devouring President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party.
Goche’s sensational abandonment of the elections, which leaves his Cabinet position in doubt, came after violent hired thugs, who were baying for his blood, besieged a tempestuous provincial meeting in the Mashonaland Central capital.
Traumatised witnesses at the chaotic meeting variously described the scenes on the ground as “hell” and “completely bewildering”.
Goche confirmed to the Daily News last night that he had withdrawn his name for election into the party’s powerful central committee.
The Bindura anarchy comes a mere week before Zanu PF holds its crucial elective congress in Harare, amid untested claims by State media that Goche, former party spokesman Rugare Gumbo and Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa are allegedly plotting together with embattled Vice President Joice Mujuru to assassinate Mugabe.
The thugs that terrorised attendees at yesterday’s meeting were allegedly hired by a party faction rabidly opposed to Mujuru, which has been buoyed by Mugabe’s relentless attacks on senior party members, as well as his purging of provincial chairpersons perceived to be sympathetic to the beleaguered VP.
The hired Bindura mob, many of them said to have come from the Mt Darwin area where Environment minister Savior Kasukuwere comes from, damaged cars and beat up anyone who was suspected of supporting Goche and Mujuru, forcing the minister to withdraw from the elections.
“It was hell for all of us who were rooting for Comrade Goche. We were assaulted and chased away by the drunk thugs who disrupted the meeting. I can understand why he (Goche) pulled out,” said one of his supporters who requested anonymity fearing that the thugs would follow him to “finish me off”.
The eyewitnesses say it was during this mayhem that an exasperated Goche stood up, laid the blame for the anarchy on Kasukuwere for hiring the thugs to disrupt the meeting, and then announced that he was quitting the elections as everything that was happening ran contrary to his principles and conscience.
“Cars were stoned and the anti-Mujuru protestors besieged the meeting accusing Goche of plotting to assassinate the president. They were uncontrollable and not even the police could stop them.
“Goche pointedly blamed Kasukuwere for organising the demonstrations.
He said all his life he had worked for Zanu PF and would not take the abuse anymore. That is why he refused to have his name among nominees for the central committee,” one of the sources said.
The State-controlled weekly newspaper, The Sunday Mail, alleged last week that its “investigations” had revealed that Goche, “made contingencies for such a scenario (Mugabe’s assassination) during recent meetings with potential hit men in South Africa and Israel”.
Mugabe, who turns 91 soon, is the only leader Zimbabwe has had since the country attained its independence from Britain in 1980. During this period, virtually all of Zimbabwe’s neighbours have had at least four leaders, leaving Mugabe — Africa’s oldest and one of the longest serving on the continent — the odd man out in the region, and with no obvious successor in sight.
Mugabe railroaded his party into changing its constitution at the weekend, a move that now allows him to sideline Mujuru and appoint his preferred successor.
The changes, which were forced through at Saturday’s tense politburo meeting in Harare, will empower the nonagenarian to appoint his party deputies once they are formally adopted — a marked change from the current status quo where his lieutenants are elected into their positions, which also sees them automatically taking up the same posts in government.
Analysts say Mugabe’s perennial encouragement of Zanu PF’s factional wars shows that he is “a master of divide and rule politics”.
University of Kent law lecturer, Alex Magaisa, said there were a lot of things happening around Mugabe and in Zanu PF that did not make any sense.
“There are too many contradictions, but the one explanation for this is simply that Mugabe is a master of divide and rule politics.
“He thrives on the vulnerability of those around him. The more they feel unsure and insecure, the better for him,” Magaisa said.
He added that this was the reason why Mugabe was not protecting Mujuru from the scathing attacks she was receiving from his wife Grace and Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa’s supporters.
“Thus Mugabe has all parties where he wants them to be, fighting each other and vulnerable.
“He remains unscathed, looking powerful and untouchable,” he said.
COMMENTS
These Zanu pf idiots never cease to amuse. In Zimbabwe, where zanu pf thugs have licenses to maim and kill with the blessings of the ‘most high’, how can these zanu pf lunatics describe the mere smashing of cars be hell in such lawless country? People have been burnt alive by well known zanu pf functionaries and nothing was done about it.
So, hapana zvamuri kuhukura apo. Dai makanyotso tambwa chigandanga dai Makati zii. Tibviiriyi apo vanaGoche nezvimbwa sungata zvenyu.
Goche and colleagues must concentrating on come clean, if indeed they clean.
Otherwise, from were majority stand, these people are thieves, corrupt, conspirators, and so forth; as publicly preached by their beloved party. So, all those being expose should spare us all their crying nonsense and prove their innocence; if they are.
This is the same Goche who evicted families of farm workers from the farms he looted last year. I mean he literally left women and children sleeping in the open. The trouble with using thugs to enforce policy is that those thugs can easily be turned against you when you fall out of line. The most worrying problem in Zimbabwe is the “Absence of the rule of Law”.
Many people have repeatedly stated that zanu pf is not a mass org but a private org owned and run by Mugabe. If he can hire thugs to prevent members of his own party what more to members of the opposition. If he displays publicly such a lack of conscience who would expect him to conduct a credible election and accept defeat when he loses and not if he loses because he hs been losing elections held after 2000.
May God have mercy on your souls. You have created a snake and allowed him to terrorise your mother, your father, your brother, your wife.
Too late know people, this situation is now so embedded in the soul of our country it will take a generation of solid education and unbiased education to hopefully put our homeland on track.
One more word of down down with Brown, Blair and his gay gansters, down with the Breeetish and so on.
If anyone of us will not stand up and admit that a great wrong has been committed and allowed to be committed. What happened to Pundutso.
There is a saying ‘If man stands aside and observes the injustices around him and does nothing, it makes a coward of him’
Who is going to stand up. Hindler or Shickelberger or the little man from Europe with the little moustache lasted no more than five years.
Lets be brave, only the people can put this mess right.
Jesse James
There was once a song in Zanu puff that had the words ‘ZANU VANHU, VANHU IZANU’ but well that was all lies the truth was and is Zanu ndiMugabe, Mugabe ndiyeZanu..Dongo was right all those in Zanu are Mugabe’s wives. Mugabe is a homo. Every true revolutionary and genuine freedom fighter must quit Zanu and leave Mugabe and his mercenaries and politiburo wives.
Where were the mapolice at this time. Conveniently sitting in the shebeens . What a joke of a country we have become.
Just registered my new company TFH (Thugs For Hire). Only ruthless and brainless thugs need to apply
Kelly- What are rates like? Can I have a breakdown please
Those who previously watched and maybe even participated in the scheming of evil against the Zimbabwean people find themselves on the receiving end. And there is still many within Zanu who are gloating because they are the current “untouchables”. I wish they could realize that their usefulness will also soon run out and the swords will be pointed at them. I agree with you Mvelase, true revolutionaries in Zanu should for once stand up and be counted through their actions.
I think as long as Zanu is fighting each other let them continue to decimate each other. Unfortunately that’s the only language they understand, having a difference of opinion is not tolerated. Worse still just to say Mugabe may be wrong is treated as treason.
At this point I wonder what is the point of the Congress. I can see them throwing chairs at each other at the Congress if anyone is suspected of being a Mujuru sympathiser.
Let them kill each other,it was nice when they were killing other people now its them and we must feel pity for them hahaah very gudhuu beat each other up
To imagine that a person like Goche can be forced not to participate in an election, kuzoti mbuya vangu varikwaMazviwa if threatened with violence would her vote be cast freely.
Abaiwa ngaabude,
They created these young monsters,therefore they have no reasons to complain unless they have allowed fear to override their logical thinking and it is now producing irrational behaviour from them.
They should test what we have been subjected to for so many years.Our own children address us as if we are nonentities as long as they perform party dirty politics.We are now used to these hooligans so we have developed means to survive among them,therefore these ministers should use their board guards to control misguided and naive youngsters since they are responsible for their inhumane behaviour.
Their Bulawayo youth tried to belittle the party heads in the presence of their top personnel from the central committee with impunity.This clearly shows that they are now beyond control,so who will control these illiterate fools who spend time in bottle stores drinking and smoking mbanje!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They created these young monsters,therefore they have no reasons to complain unless they have allowed fear to override their logical thinking and it is now producing irrational behaviour from them.Only cowards quit under pressure.Is he one of these cowards?
They should test what we have been subjected to for so many years.Our own children address us as if we are nonentities as long as they perform party dirty politics.We are now used to these hooligans so we have developed means to survive among them,therefore these ministers should use their board guards to control misguided and naive youngsters since they are responsible for their inhumane behaviour.
Their Bulawayo youth tried to belittle the party heads in the presence of their top personnel from the central committee with impunity.This clearly shows that they are now beyond control,so who will control these illiterate fools who spend time in bottle stores drinking and smoking mbanje!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Three Cheers for Mixed Race
That’s very very true Mixed Race. That’s exactly is happening now in Mugabe pf
Does Zimbabwe need Mugabe? It is time every Zimbabwean patriot asked himself/herself this question and provide an answer for it. If the answer is no then it is time to send him and his superwhore packing and running.