via Grace ejects Zanu youth leader | The Zimbabwean 17 September 2014
Grace Mugabe ejected the newly elected Zanu (PF) youth leader, Kudzai Chipanga, from her Mazowe children’s home when youths went to endorse her nomination as chairperson of the Women’s League ahead of the Zanu (PF) congress.
The ejection took place in early August and was reportedly motivated by the fact that Chipanga was linked to a faction in Zanu (PF) led by Joice Mujuru.
Thousands of youths went to endorse Grace after a similar act by the Women’s League before they converged in Harare to hold a conference at which Chipanga landed the top post in the junior organ.
Senior Zanu (PF) sources told The Zimbabwean that Chipanga confronted President Robert Mugabe at a hastily-arranged meeting after the youth conference and challenged him to clarify his position on factions, accusing Grace of taking sides.
“President (Mugabe), I would like to know from you if you belong to any of the factions that exist in the party. I am asking this question because the First Lady barred me from Mazowe because I am perceived to belong to a faction led by Mai Mujuru,” Chipanga is reported to have said.
While media reports indicated that the meeting that brought together senior and junior party members to discuss the manner in which the youth conference was tense, Chipanga’s outburst has not been mentioned.
The sources said Grace, through some youths reported to belong to the Mnangagwa faction, sent a cook to order the youth leader off the premises and he obliged. “Chipanga was particularly riled that a mere cook was sent to eject him. He saw it as a way of humiliating him and Mai Mujuru. President Mugabe insisted that he was could not have a faction because he was elected by all the people in the party. He spent some minutes looking at Chipanga before responding,” said one of the sources.
The sources could not rule out the possibility of Mujuru encouraging Chipanga to ask the question as jostling for positions intensifies ahead of the December congress. The meeting was held to discuss vote buying, ill-preparedness and meddling by the party’s main wing ahead of and during the youth conference.
Tempers became heated as members traded accusations and counter-accusations. When Grace was endorsed as the Women’s League top post candidate, her handlers, among them outgoing boss Oppah Muchinguri, claimed she would dispel the factionalism that has riddled the party.
When contacted for a comment on three occasions, Zanu (PF) spokesperson, Rugare Gumbo, said he was locked up in meetings. Efforts to talk to Chipanga were fruitless.
COMMENTS
GOOD MOVE GRACE…….
s-The only GOOD MOVE dis-Grace can do
is to Papua, New Guinea or maybe the
island of Krakatau.
As far away as possible!
As much as t he implosion of ZANU PF, maybe a welcome development to many and an emotionally palliative, thepractical consequences are going to be disastrous to many. A lot of the misguided ZANU PF supporters are going to declare a caliphate for themselves, and terrorise innocent civilians. It’s not that I support the decay in ZANU PF. Let the inevitable happen, but for Pete’s sake let’s us be prepared for in and take necessary measures to cushion the terror.
How can Grace dispel factionalism when she already belong to a particular faction
Hang on, she has a PhD now. But really this is becoming a bit of a circus. It doesn’t bode well for smooth regime change. There is going to be some rough stuff
“Soft” or insider PhD’s are also known in the West as PHluffy Ducks. Heaven forbid Disgrace has a Western PhD – rigorous, methodologically sound and reporting original research. What an insult she is to genuine Africa Doctorates who did the hard research and laboured hard to write it all up for scrutiny by three international experts in their field of research. Doctoral research which is the engine of a nation’s innovation and prosperity is being reduced to a show-toy – useless, worthless and beneath contempt.
Chipanga had better be very careful whist driving around. Army trucks seem to mysteriously collide with those that anger the old kleptomaniac.
its false story.
its almost impossible to reach to see Mugabe. its a lie that chipanga saw Mugabe. who would have organised for that meeting and Mugabe himself I doubt if he would have sanctioned it.
its just newspaper speculation to sell the papers.