via Grace Mugabe plans second round of rallies 10 November 2014
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe is reportedly preparing for another round of campaign rallies as she seeks to leave no stone unturned in her quest to land the Zanu PF Women’s League top post at the party’s elective congress next month, NewsDay has learnt.
Although the exact dates and venue of the rallies could not be authoritatively established, party insiders said the whirlwind tours were tentatively scheduled to start on November 15.
“The dates and venues are still to be decided, but she would be addressing some more rallies before the Zanu PF December elective congress. The rallies would possibly start on November 15,” said a Zanu PF source who declined to be named.
Just like her previous campaign rallies held last month, where she sensationally accused Vice-President Joice Mujuru of corruption and plotting to unseat President Robert Mugabe, details about the First Lady’s planned rallies and their cost are being kept under wraps.
Her last rallies, which were organised by the Women’s League amid reports that they were heavily funded from State and public entities’ coffers, generated a lot of controversy with party and government officials believed to be aligned to Mujuru’s camp sidelined in the planning process.
Outgoing Women’s League boss Oppah Muchinguri yesterday declined to comment, saying she was in a meeting.
“I don’t want to talk to people these days. I don’t want to be misquoted,” Muchinguri said before she hung up on her mobile phone.
Presidential spokesperson George Charamba’s mobile phone went unanswered.
Grace was nominated to lead the Women’s League in June this year taking over from Muchinguri, before she hit the road running in October when she addressed campaign rallies in all the country’s 10 provinces. Since
then, party members from almost all party structures have formed a beehive to her Mazowe Orphanage Centre in Mashonaland Central to endorse her candidature.
However, Grace last month accused some provincial party leaders among them Ray Kaukonde (Mashonaland East), Amos Midzi (Harare), Callistus Ndlovu (Bulawayo), John Mvundura (Manicaland) and Killian Gwanetsa (Masvingo) of being divisive and fanning factionalism.
She also accused some of the provincial leaders of decampaigning her and mobilizing party youths to heckle her. The majority of these chairpersons have since been booted out by their executive on charges of incompetence and plotting to dethrone the First Family.
The First Lady also openly campaigned for Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is believed to be the leader of a rival faction fighting to succeed Mugabe.
It was during her campaign rallies that deragoratory slogans “Down with Gamatox” and “Down with weevils” became popular before they were banned by the politburo for being divisive.
The slogans were directed at any party member believed to be aligned to the Mujuru camp.
COMMENTS
If Grace, is clever she has to stop these rallies, otherwise she is just fast tracking the ouster of the old idiot. And she musn’t forget in terms of support its 50 – 50, we have already seen that from war vets, they r already divided, even in army is the same as well as the police. For the police and army to be quiet it doesn’t mean they support Robert and his wife. If Robert and his wife, are not careful this is the end of them. This issue is so fragile, otherwise if not handled well its going to trigger another war, you wait and see.
God save us from this evil woman.
Predators and bullies know how to identify suitable victims. The dysfunctional pairing between the Mugabes and us Zimbabweans is no cruel accident of fate.
If Grace decides to go on another helicopter tour of the country (be it to terrorize the Zanu PF provincial committees again, or perhaps more carrot and less stick this time round), she will get away with it.
Villagers will be herded away from their fields to attend her rallies (if the skies finally give us rain) and we city dwellers will shake our heads, mutter and mumble.. or make up new jokes on WhatsApp to cover our pathetic state. Then we will all collectively get back to the business of living.
@Rwendo – so true yet so unfortunate and tragic.
STOP IT!!!! KKKK.