via ‘Zanu PF purges confirm Mujuru’s total control of key structures’ – NewsDay Zimbabwe June 9, 2015
THE increasing number of Zanu PF politburo and Cabinet members purged on allegations of sympathising with axed former Vice-President Joice Mujuru confirms that the ex-Mt Darwin West MP was in total control of the ruling party’s key structures, analysts have said.
BY MOSES MATENGA
This followed Zanu PF’s suspension from the party of at least 141 top party officials at national and provincial level for reportedly being aligned to the Mujuru camp.
These included nine out of the 10 party provincial chairpersons, Cabinet ministers occupying some influential government positions and others holding key party posts namely secretary for administration (Didymus Mutasa), secretary for commissariat (Webster Shamu) and spokesperson (Rugare Gumbo).
Academic Ibbo Mandaza said the continued purge of Mujuru allies was clear indication of how her camp was popular within the Zanu PF structures.
“It’s a revelation of the extent to which Mujuru and her group were so entrenched throughout the country,” Mandaza said.
“It exposes also the shallow sense of those who have remained in the side. If her constituency is so large as revealed and by what we see, what is the constituency of the other side?”
Mandaza questioned the wisdom of firing people and letting them maintain their Parliamentary seats, suggesting that it was out of fear to face Mujuru loyalists in by-elections as that would humiliate Zanu PF.
He added: “It exposes the nature of the last election and leaves questions like, ‘why are you firing and leaving them to retain their seats in Parliament?’ It’s clear the Weevils can’t afford by-elections willy-nilly. There are problems in these by-elections apart from costs.”
Analyst Earnest Mudzengi also said: “The suspensions that are ongoing do not augur well for the popularity of the party. The resort to suspensions points to the denting of the popularity and contribute further to the lack of popularity.
“It is the people within the structures that are being suspended and they command support and probably they can go with their support base.”
Some senior party members who were recently suspended, but allowed to keep their parliamentary seats urged Mugabe to intervene and lift the ban to save the ruling party from humiliation at the next election in 2018.
Commenting on different social media platforms following the latest purge on pro-Mujuru functionaries, several people said their suspensions confirmed that she had a huge following all over the country.
COMMENTS
ZANU PF never ceases to amaze me but above that I am now convinced that some of these people who claim to have been our liberators by having paricipated in the political and armed struggle for the liberation of Zimbabwe may not have been genuine cadres after all.
The driving force for the struggle as I understand it was the deep passion for removing the misery of the oppressed people such that they put their own lives on line for the sake of people. A closer look at some of the characters masquerading as liberators does not show that zeal to remove the misery of the suffering people. There are many stories which cast doubts that some of these characters were genuine freedom fighters and that they could have been working for Smith and other ‘like-minded’ organisations.
Take Jonathan Moyo for example, he is reported to have been to the training camps in Tanzania and deserted on two occasions and the question is what was his mission, does he appear to have the genuine interests of people at heart. He was possibly on the CIA payroll.
Mnangagwa is reported to have been trained and operated as a ZANLA fighter and took part in the sabotaging of railway services in Masvingo area. He was arrested and ‘uncharacteristically’ pardoned and sent back to Zambia by the Smith regime. Really, pardoning a trained ‘terrorist’ by Smith. How many defenceless children were murdered by Rhodesian soldiers during the war but they would let a ‘trained terrorist’ who actually entered the country to kill and actually undertook ‘terrorist’ activities’ go ‘scot-free’ back to a country harbouring ‘terrorists’ to attach them. Is there any other terrorist who was treated in the same manner by the Smith regime. No wonder he has no interest in the general welfare of common people.
Robert Mugabe a notorious ‘terrorist leader’ really. Does he show any signs of having genuine concern for the people he claims to have put his life on line to liberate them. Just look at what he did to genuine fighters in Mozambique and nearer home to Amai Mujuru not to talk about several ‘disappearances’ of people such as Itai Dzamara. How did he manage to evade the ‘elite’ Rhodesian forces on his way to Mozambique on foot, Heidi Holland’s ‘DINNER WITH MUGABE’ would provide insight into the man who the Police along his route were instructed to let him pass possibly to assist him pass through. Doing such benevolence to a ‘terrorist leader’ really. To say the truth Mugabe hated Ndabaningi Sithole, Joshua Nkomo,Bishop Muzorewa etc with a passion but had a soft spot for Ian Smith. Smith’s farm was never invaded, why. Smith boasted while in London that he enjoyed seeing ‘terrorists’ being killed and when he returned to Harare many people including myself thought he would be taken to task but alas!! nothing was done. It is on record that that he boasted again on arrival at Harare airport asking where the people who threatened to arrest him were and the ‘Guerilla’ leader was nowhere to be seen or to say anything.
So these are our ‘gallant liberators’.
Incest!