via Mutsvangwa’s central committee bid flops – DailyNews Live 25 November 2014 by Lloyd Mbiba
HARARE – Newly-elected war veterans’ leader Christopher Mutsvangwa has failed to secure a nomination into Zanu PF’s central committee.
Mutsvangwa failed to garner a nomination at the Zanu PF Mashonaland West inter district meeting held on Sunday.
Party insiders who attended the meeting said the vociferous war veterans leader styling himself as part of the “critical mass generation” that prosecuted Zimbabwe’s liberation war against white-minority rule was not nominated.
“Mutsvangwa lost,” one source said. “It seems he did not garner enough support to get a nomination from his district. Everyone thought he would be nominated and we were surprised.”
Mutsvangwa, who is also Foreign Affairs deputy minister, will only attend the December congress as the war veterans leader.
The central committee is Zanu PF’s most powerful organ outside congress and consists of members drawn from the party’s 10 provinces.
It acts on behalf of congress when it is not in session and among other things implements all policies, resolutions, directives, decisions, and programmes enunciated by congress. It meets once in three months.
Temba Mliswa, the ousted provincial chairman, was blocked from seeking nomination into the party’s central committee.
Mliswa had won the right to represent Hurungwe district but the provincial leadership said he could not represent the province as a central committee member following his suspension as party chairman last month.
Ignatius Chombo, Local Government minister and head of the congress coordinating committee in the province, said anyone who has been brought before the party’s disciplinary committee over the past five years could not be allowed to get into the central committee.
He said even though the province had allowed some names to be seconded for the central committee, the politburo had the final say after a thorough vetting process.
Businessman Philip Chiyangwa bounced back after receiving a nomination for a central committee seat from Makonde district.
COMMENTS
Just one problem, Zanu is not a democratic party which is why those elected have to be endorsed by politiburo. If there was democracy in this sick party even mugabe would lose the presidency. Mugabe has for many years fooled many but now they see through his cheap schemes. The writing is on the wall.
True! Rodlin tell them