FORMER Zanu PF Matabeleland South secretary for lands, Jabulani Petshu Sibanda, has blamed the ruling party for allowing itself to be infiltrated by reactionaries who have been hounding out its genuine cadres since 2014.
BY SILAS NKALA
The war veteran was one of the first groups of Zanu PF members who were suspended from the party for their alleged links to former Vice-President Joice Mujuru in 2014 and resigned when his disciplinary hearing was still pending.
“I support the stand taken by the revolutionaries in the military against the reactionaries in Zanu PF. What the army did was purely a revolutionary or liberation fighters’ action to correct the situation in the revolutionary party,” he said.
“This revolutionary decision will help the masses who want stability of prices, money availability in banks and the citizens who have gone out of the country for greener pastures to come back and work for the nation.”
Sibanda said if the political situation was corrected, Zimbabwean experts working in the Diaspora would come back home to alleviate the shortage of professionals such as teachers, doctors and nurses.
“I was in the first group of the revolutionaries ditched by the party together with Mujuru, Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo, among others, at the instigation of the reactionaries working with some of the revolutionaries [aligned to former Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa],” he said.
“We were hounding each other out of the party without noticing that we were being used by the reactionaries who wanted to take control of the party in our absence. There was another second group of youth revolutionaries who were hounded out the same way and the third group was that of Mnangagwa and allies who have recently been targeted by the reactionaries.”
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Sibanda said there was need to unite to build the ruling party and the nation and improve citizens’ livelihoods.
He said it was the duty of revolutionaries to correct the deteriorating situation in the country.
Sibanda’s remarks come in the wake of the military intervention in the political situation.
