From its inception Zanu PF has been run through the dictates of its constitution. It was a punishable offence during the liberation struggle for one to transgress the rules, hence the incarceration of Rugare Gumbo and others for revolting against the party. However, since 1980 the constitution has not been adhered to.
By Mudya Ndichiwomba,Our Reader.
Saviour Kasukuwere, the party national political commissar, has been suspending people willy-nilly under the guise of votes-of-no-confidence, yet his key mandate, among others, is to mobilise people to join the party and not to fire. Kasukuwere will go down the annals of Zanu PF history as the most divisive, incapable and incompetent political commissar ever.
The entry of First Lady Grace Mugabe into Zanu PF politics as the secretary for Women’s League did not bring joy either. She has since monickered herself mafirakureva (will say it), yet what she says with gusto is political mumbo-jumbo, if not drivel. Her outbursts, body language and actions leave a lot to be desired. How could the First Lady and mother of the nation, for that matter, be seen enjoying and clapping hands in approval of what Sarah Mahoka, the secretary for finance in the Women’s League did, while haranguing Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa left, right and centre without restraining her.
Grace didn’t even bring on disciplinary charges against her, but has the guts to give a nod to fire another woman, Esphina Nhari, the secretary for administration in the Women’s League for shouting down the Generation 40 faction. Women’s League under Grace Mugabe has actually gone to the dogs.
And not to be outdone, Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko is now renowned for his open-mouth shut-mind outbursts.
What he does and says, if not all has, profound negative political, economic and security consequences. How can a Vice-President stoop so low to the extent of introducing the First Lady at any political rally claiming she is at presidential level, yet he is number two in both Zanu PF and government and the First Lady a distant number 15 in the Zanu PF structure?
In fact, it is Grace who must introduce Mphoko to the people, not vice-versa. And the fact that he has taken Rainbow Towers Hotel as his home for more than a year since his appointment as one of the vice-presidents because his wife doesn’t like houses that were and are still being offered to him by the government as too small just shows his ostentatiousness and moral bankruptcy, taking into consideration the floundering economy and liquidity crunch Zimbabwe is experiencing.
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Now that it is in the public domain that Mnangagwa in the last politburo reminded President Robert Mugabe and others that there are only three current members of the first 1980 politburo left, that is Mugabe himself, Sydney Sekeramayi and himself who used to run the party in a professional manner and adhering to the constitution and that they never experienced prolonged conflict of a serious magnitude that Zanu PF is now known for.
Mnangagwa said that never in the history of either Zapu or Zanu and now Zanu PF had members of the politburo defied the order of the party president of not discussing internal matters of the party in the media or social platforms.
The concerns of deliberately weakening of the party by some members in the politburo raised by Mnangagwa, of which was totally agreeable to, have brought a sigh of relief to party members.
To steer Zanu PF back to its unconquerable revolutionary ethos and values, Mugabe has since met his war-time colleagues — the war veterans, where they agreed on a raft of measures, among them that the party slogans should be approved by the central committee and that no living individual other than Mugabe himself should be eulogised in slogans such as pamberi naye (forward with so and so) at any Zanu PF function.
War veterans also pointed out that never in the history of the liberation struggle had wives or children of leaders eulogised. Classical examples were Joana MaFuyane Nkomo, the late wife and heroine to the late vice-president Joshua Nkomo and also the late first lady Sally Mugabe. All were never eulogised despite their husbands being presidents of Zapu and Zanu respectively.
War veterans also demanded to know the brains behind the printing of T-shirts inscribed Munhu wese kuna Amai, referring to the First Lady. One war veteran, Black Jesus from Masvingo province, sarcastically asked if all people go to Grace Mugabe, who then is to remain with the father, referring to Mugabe with whom they have been with in the trenches.
Sekeramayi, the secretary for war veterans, has since stamped his authority in the affairs of the war veterans. He has since called to order Mandi Chimene, the Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister to stop masquerading as the leader of the war veterans there.
He also reminded her that Zimbabwe and Zanu PF subscribe to the rule of law and that the court gag order not for her to refer herself as the leader of war veterans remains in force and that war veterans only recognises Christopher Mutsvangwa as the leader of war veterans.
All Zanu PF supporters are now in total agreement that in Mugabe, Mnangagwa, Sekeramayi, Kembo Mohadi and few other old guards have a formidable job to restore Zanu PF’s waning glory and pride. Besides, all are ready to deal decisively with anyone no matter what position in the party or government they hold as long as they flout the party constitution.
