HARARE – The special Zanu PF Politburo meeting which was held on Saturday at the party’s headquarters in Harare has endorsed the results of the Mashonaland Central provincial elections which were won by Luke Mushore.
The Politburo also proclaimed that elections for the remaining seven provinces will be held simultaneously next Saturday, the 30th of this month.
Meanwhile, Zanu PF First Secretary and President, Robert Mugabe urged loyalists to unite and ensure the success of the ZIM ASSET programme.
The power struggles that have broken out within Zanu (PF) since the election earlier in the year have been driven largely by competition at provincial level to gain access to the spoils of victory, although the race to succeed the geriatric Mr Mugabe is never far from the surface.
The party is now divided into two factions, one backing Vice-President Joice Mujuru for the top job and the other rooting for Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa.
But political control will mean little if the economy implodes and ordinary Zimbabweans’ daily battle to get by becomes a matter of life or death. The cupboard is all but bare, and decades of underinvestment and generally poor governance have left the infrastructure in a state of collapse.
For all its rhetoric about redistributing the means of production to indigenous Zimbabweans, Zanu (PF) has reached the point where it is trying to squeeze blood out of a stone.
There is hardly anything of productive value left, and apart from Chinese investment in the mining sector — in return for which you can be sure they are extracting their pound of flesh — foreign capital steers well clear. Zimbabwe Mail
