Source: Suspended Masvingo Zanu PF members fight back – DailyNews Live
Blessings Mashaya 12 August 2017
HARARE – Suspended Masvingo Zanu PF members are seeking their
reinstatement, arguing they will win their case as they are facing the
same charges with party political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere, who is now
off the hook.
Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, deputy provincial chairperson Amasa
Nenjana, who was suspended more than two months ago on factionalism
allegations together with provincial political commissar Jappy Jaboon,
said the province’s party bigwigs must lift the suspensions.
Zanu PF has two distinct factions: G40, which reportedly enjoys the
support of First Lady Grace Mugabe and the Lacoste one, which is
sympathetic to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Fierce factional fights in the volatile Masvingo province led to Jaboon
and Nenjana’s suspensions by the provincial executive.
But the two insist the meeting which resolved to fire them was
unconstitutional.
Nenjana was fired without charge and replaced by Ailess Baloyi, who now
doubles as the secretary for administration.
Jevas Masosota was appointed acting provincial commissar to replace
Jaboon, who is Bikita South MP.
Both Baloyi and Masosota are from Chiredzi.
“They don’t want to listen to national leadership. They laid charges which
were similar to political commissar… Kasukuwere, but as the first lady
said, these are false and cooked up charges. Now, as for me, I remain as
the provincial vice chairperson of the party. Baloyi is the chairperson of
their group and I am the vice chairperson of the party,” Nenjana told the
Daily News yesterday.
“We are going to elections and some people are busy destroying the party,
they created false charges against commissar Kasukuwere and the party
discovered that their allegations were false. This is high time the party
unites and they must know that our suspensions are now null and void.”
Recently, Kasukuwere, who has been facing a slew of charges – including
setting up parallel structures to topple President Robert Mugabe – was
exonerated by Grace at a youth interface rally in Chinhoyi, Mashonaland
West province.
In the past months, he was subjected to fierce criticism, including
demonstrations from the party’s provinces, with party members calling for
his ejection or resignation.
The all-powerful first lady said that the same trick that was used to push
out her former deputy in the women’s league, Eunice Sandi Moyo and
treasurer Sarah Mahoka, was being used against Kasukuwere.
“After the issue of Sandi and Mahoka, people used that to victimise
Kasukuwere, they thought that if the president allowed his wife to remove
Mahoka and (Sandi) Moyo, they will do the same. They mobilised people to
demonstrate against Kasukuwere claiming he wanted to remove the president.
“This is not true, do you think Kasukuwere and his brothers can remove
Mugabe – they are only three, do you think that is possible? Toda
kutaurirana chokwadi, chokwadi ngachichibuda izvozvi iko kamukomana ikaka,
nyangwe une zidumbu hako simuka iwe muri vaviri imimi kubvisa mudhara ane
zimhomho rakadai iri, chokwadi ngachibude izvozvi (Kasukuwere is very
small he cannot remove Mugabe even though he has a big belly, he is still
a young man).
After Moyo and Mahoka’s expulsion, there were similar countrywide
demonstrations against Kasukuwere, with his enemies demanding his head on
a platter.
However, Kasukuwere accused the rival Team Lacoste faction of having
hijacked a purely women’s league event to perpetrate its agenda.
In the end, nine out of 10 provinces passed votes of no confidence against
him and a probe team led by National Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda was
dispatched to investigate the allegations that the Mt Darwin legislator
had set up parallel structures.
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