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The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC), a body of churches responsible for fostering peace in the country, has set the record insisting it did not participate at the recently ended 7th Zanu-PF National People’s Congress.
Zanu PF has shut the door to anyone who wants to contest for the party presidency against its current leader Emmerson Mnangagwa by hinting that there will not be any elective meeting ahead of the 2023 harmonised general elections.
Civil servants and desperate villagers are often forced to bankroll Zanu PF projects and functions like the Independence and Heroes anniversaries and the money rarely gets to the empty party coffers but is instead diverted for personal use.
President Robert Mugabe has acceded to convening a special Zanu-PF Congress this December and the gathering will not be used to fire his lieutenants, a senior party official has said.
The dog-eat-dog war between the two major Zanu PF factions angling to influence President Robert Mugabe’s hotly-contested succession is set to get nastier after the ruling party decided to cancel its annual conference in December and replace it with a special congress.
The ruling Zanu-PF party, beset by vicious infighting, is one vote shy of an Extraordinary Congress in December after four provinces on Saturday reportedly said they wanted the special indaba.
HARARE – Analysts said yesterday that a palpable fear of a still popular former vice president Joice Mujuru, as well as President Robert Mugabe’s urgent need to anoint a trusted successor were behind her summary expulsion from Zanu PF this week without her facing disciplinary proceedings.
By Moses Matenga and Obey Manayiti Two Zanu PF formations have emerged from the chaos that has rocked the party with ousted spokesperson Rugare Gumbo yesterday announcing he, together with his purged colleagues represented the leadership of the “real” Zanu PF. He branded the others led by President Robert Mugabe as the “2014 Zanu PF”. […]
HARARE – Former Zanu PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo yesterday said ousted Secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa should proceed to take President Robert Mugabe to court to challenge the outcome of the December congress because the ruling party no longer had structures to deal with internal disputes.
Former vice president Joice Mujuru and her supporters have kicked off a campaign in the Zanu (PF) structures nation-wide to lobby for a fresh congress.