via Zimbabwe: Mujuru takes control Mail & Guardian 08 NOV 2013 by Takudzwa Munyaka
The vice-president’s faction now dominates, but opponents are saying the polls were irregular.
Vice-President Joice Mujuru has strengthened her grip on Zanu-PF after members aligned to her faction controversially won elections in Midlands, considered to be her rival Emmerson Mnangagwa’s strongholds.
Although elections in eight provinces: Harare, Mashonaland West, Mashonaland East, Mashonaland Central, Masvingo, Bulawayo, Matabeleland North and Matabeleland South, are yet to take place, Mujuru’s win in the two provinces placed her firmly on course to dominate the majority of provincial structures, putting her in the lead to succeed President Robert Mugabe when he leaves office.
Zanu-PF will hold its elective congress in December next year and the provincial executives who are being elected will play a crucial role in nominating candidates for the party president, two vice-presidents, national chairperson and secretary for administration, among other positions.
The Mujuru faction already dominates the Zanu-PF presidium, which comprises Mugabe, Mujuru and her key allies – national chairperson Simon Khaya Moyo and secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa.
It also dominates the Zanu-PF politburo, the party’s highest decision-making body outside of congress, as well as Zimbabwe’s Cabinet. Both the Cabinet and politburo are influential in shaping and directing the party and country.
The Mujuru faction is expected to win control of all the Mashonaland provinces, which are her traditional strongholds, where she and Zanu-PF political commissar Webster Shamu are expected to use their influence to the group’s advantage.
COMMENTS
Why does she bother – ZANU-PF is history. The fat cow should take General Mujuru’s stolrn loot and emigrate to Tristan da Cunha (world’s remotest island.
“the polls were irregular” ……… SURELY NOT !!!
They have made millions since independence yet they itch for more. Some of the millions came from foreign adventures such as the Congo but unlike Bush or Blair who take war spoils back home our lot ship the loot to banks in Europe. The same places which they spend endless hours condemning and pouting nonsense. Nearly 35 years after independence none of them have a vision of what the next 35 will bring. Pavakati siya ipapo ndepapo. MDC made a very huge mistake in rescuing them from the middle of a raging river and now all the signs are we are going back to square one. Land , dear land has become our albatross round the neck. Take a look at how the Russians, Chinese and Arabs are pouring money into London and other parts of the west. The British know that at the end of the day one cannot take the soil back where you came from when they tell you to sling your hook. The Russian looters have the temerity to fight for the ill-gotten loot in London courts. They also knock each other out in London hotels just like you know who do at home with amazing efficiency. And our lot are also busy bringing our resources to London in suitcases hence the cry about ‘sanctions’ because they cannot come to do their shopping. Now they are at each other’s throats and the tragedy is they will drag us down with them simply because, sorry, we are asleep. Am I missing something? It is painful but there is some truth when they said, ‘the sun will never set on the British empire’. We are fools and should admit it. We should at least open our eyes to see why we got no running water or electricity when our ‘liberators’ are busy liberating our resources to foreign lands while we look the other way. Man We Got A Problem! While we await more slogans!
Simon M Tozvireva Chete.
Billions actually, not millions. The exterminator who demolished Zimbabwe.
FATS OLD GOATS!
Webster Shamu? “Influence!” Where he get that from?
The government’s land reform program, characterized by chaos and violence, has badly damaged the commercial farming sector, the traditional source of exports and foreign exchange and the provider of 400,000 jobs, turning Zimbabwe into a net importer of food products
Why all the concern of bogus zanu congresses elections factions etc, the party of master criminals is already in the dustbin. Why talk of 2018? The next inevitable chapter in zim history will be determined by economics…then street barricades and protests of gross discontent
Big thieves.
The late Gen. Sanni Abacha stashed away 134 Billion US Dollars in Swiss Banks.
The Judge who pontificated at the Discovery hearings of his Estate decided that the money now rightfully belongs to the Abacha Family…….and that it can remain in Switzerland.
General Momar Ghaddafi and his son Saif Ghaddafi were found to have a sum total of almost 200 Billion US Dollars in various Offshore Accounts.
Saif’s brother escaped to Mali where he now resides and has a fortune of his own.
Several Saudi Arabian Princes each own mega-yachts that are anchored in Mediterranean marinas. The cost of the most recently-launced mega-yacht was reported to exceed One Billion US Dollars.
Bank Ki Moon and Tony Blair remained silent.
Alcohol and Pork are forbidden to the Arabs yet the most expensive Whisky is available exclusively in a Super-Hotel in Abu Dhabi when you occupy the $17,000 USD per night room. The finest Bacon is served Breakfast-in-bed.
I have received several letters from Readers who do not
concur with certain aspects of my published viewpoints…… notwithstanding the fact that they are unable to refute any specific observation, opinion, or prognostication.
Some of them have insisted that I should manifest myself and my biases.
Until my retirement four years ago I was a full-time Buddhist Monk and a University Faculty Clergy-Scientist.
I resided in a Monastery and did not receive a Salary.
All of my needs were provided by the Institution and they were ultimately sourced by proxy via the traditional Begging Bowl.
I did not handle money and I harboured no biases or political preferrences.
I am now Honorary President of the Buddhist Group of North America, and implicit within that role is the undertaking to remain completely detached from polemics and mundane and mercantilistic concerns.
I have recently focussed upon Robert Mogabe and Zimbabwe because my scrutiny of World History indicated to me that Mogabe was unique as a Patriot and National Hero and that Zimbabwe’s rich and ancient history have been lost in the mists of Time.
Consequent to my indulgence in these matters I realised that Secretary Bank Ki Moon had been derelict in his Office when he approved of the interrogation and the denunciation of Mogabe by the Assembly of Nations.
The inquisition was a travesty as well as ultra vires because the triumph of Mogabe was the fructification of his duty as a Patriot.
Bank Ki Moon was obligated to remain impartial, unbiased, and opaque to rumours.
But he has brazenly aligned himself with the anti-Mogabe regimes.
Bank Ki Moon and his cohorts have failed to intervene in Nigeria where oil spillage has permanently ruined the largest Delta in the country. And the population has not benefitted from petroleum revenues.
They have remained silent about refugees who had their lips sutured without anaesthetic, and then put back to sea when they recently sought shelter in Papua-New Guinea.
Mogabe’s Zimbabwe has been economically lynched and mercantilistically strangulated by the campaigns that were orchestrated by embittered former White Farmers of Rhodesia.
They would prefer to see Zimbabwe implode and disintegrate rather than survive without them.
They are colluding with the unpatriotic diaspora and they expect to replace the Mogabe regime with discombobulation, bloodshed, arson, savagery, and total dissolution.
I will rally support to bring Bank Kin Moon to account.
He must compensate Mogabe and the Zimbabweans for conspiring to ruin the country’s image and economy.
Please join me in my plight !
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