JABULANI Nkomo, son of the late Vice-President John Landa Nkomo, on Sunday told senior Zanu PF officials who had come to console his family that he and his father hardly discussed politics because they held different political views.
Report by Blondie Ndebele Own correspondent
Nkomo made the remarks at his family home in Worringham suburb after Matabeleland South governor Angeline Masuku and politburo member Sikhanyiso Ndlovu invited him to join his late father’s party.
“We used to spend a little time talking about politics because we would end up clashing,” he said.
“We knew where our father belonged and he was very clear what he wanted.
“I am going to get into politics but gradually. We grew up in politics.
“Our father was in Zapu then later Zanu PF and we knew his position.”
Ndlovu had proposed that Zanu PF must introduce a system where veteran party leaders’ children should inherit their parents’ positions.
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“We haven’t amended the constitution so that when a politburo member dies, his son automatically takes over his position,” he said. Speaking at the same occasion, Masuku encouraged Jabulani to follow the footsteps of his father and continue his political legacy.
She asked John Nkomo’s younger brother Philip to allow the late hero’s son to join politics.
“Politics was started by God himself. We want you in politics. You should follow your father’s footsteps,” she said.
In response, Philip, told the gathering that the Nkomo family had been involved in politics for a long time and would allow Jabulani to make his own choice.
However, Jabulani told the politburo members to first seek his mother Georgina Ngwenya’s consent.
“You will have to consult my mother on the issue and I will need guidance from you (senior politicians),” he said.
Nkomo was buried at the National Heroes’ Acre last Monday after succumbing to cancer at the age of 78.
