Mnangagwa camp says Mugabe ill advised

Posted by on Friday, July 27, 2012 in Mnangagwa, Mugabe, ZANU PF, Zimbabwe politics | 8 comments

Mnangagwa and Mugabe

By Tichaona Sibanda
27 July 2012

Members of Emmerson Mnangagwa’s inner circle in the Midlands province have accused Robert Mugabe and the politburo of waging a ‘merciless war’ against the Defence Minister, which they claim has hurt the former ruling party.

The Midlands province has traditionally been a stronghold for Mnangagwa and it didn’t come as a surprise when his camp reacted with astonishment and fury after the politburo disbanded the party’s District Coordination Committees last month.

The politburo decision was influenced by the fact that Mnangagwa had imposed candidates on the electorate using ‘bribes.’ His supporters argue that he’s not the only one to breach these rules as most senior members in the party were also guilty of using cash and influence to sway voters.

SW Radio Africa is reliably informed that angry ZANU PF officials aligned to Mnangagwa have vowed to fight against the dissolution of the DCCs, claiming Mugabe was ill advised.

The issue of the DCCs has remained a highly emotive subject for the politburo. Discussion on this matter had to be deferred from Wednesday to Friday after they failed to agree. A source told us the brains behind the ‘rebellious’ province’s stance to go against the politburo is businessman and deputy chairman of the Midlands province, Larry Mavhima.

Instead of accepting the dissolution of the district structures, the province, under Mavhima’s influence, has hit back saying the entire politburo should instead be dissolved.

This has been viewed as an open challenge to Mugabe’s grip on power in the party. The politburo was due to meet Friday and reports said the provincial chairman of the province, Jaison Machaya had been summoned to explain this rejection of the party’s decision to disband the DCCs.

‘While the DCCs were disbanded countrywide, the structures in the Midlands province are intact and they still hold meetings. They said they’re prepared to challenge the dissolution in front of the politburo,’ our source in Gweru said.

It is believed the Midlands province is strongly against a clause in the new draft constitution that empowers the President of a political party to choose his or her running mates.

‘They refer to it as the Mnangagwa clause because it eliminates him from succeeding Mugabe. They want it scratched off or substituted by another clause that allows the central committee to vote for the President’s running mates,’ the source added.

Didymus Mutasa, the party’ secretary for administration and the man who has become Mnangagwa’s nemesis in his quest to succeed Mugabe, said: ‘it will be abnormal and not possible for him to succeed the ZANU PF leader ahead of the party’s two vice presidents and national chairman.’

While Mnangagwa still has ambitions for the top post, his party does not believe that he appeals to people. He was twice trounced by the MDC-T’s Blessing Chebundo in the KweKwe parliamentary elections. Most people in ZANU PF believe that close rival Vice-President Mujuru stands a better chance in a national election than Mnangagwa.

 

  • dumbu

    Let these killers fight against each other now. It is their turn.

  • Chorosi Chidzero

    IT MIGHT BE A CHEAP PLOY TO CREATE ANOTHER ZUM IN THE MAKING. TYPICAL MUGABE TACTIC TO SET ONE ASPIRANT LEADER AGAINST THE OTHER. YESTEDAY GWANA WAS BAD BECAUSE OF TSHOLOTSO DECLARATION. AFTER GUKURAHUNDI AND MARCH 2008 NGWENA DIRTY WORK HE WAS MUGABE’S DARLING AND TEURAYI ROPA WAS ACCUSED OF AN MDC COLLABORATOR. NOW SHE IS STING AND BOUTLICKING MUGABE.
    Instead of the two succumbering to Mugabe’s dictates why cant they openly challenge Mugabe and be brave, for he will set one against another until one has either a car accident or dies in some an explained or mistrious fire.
    Thus Mugabe for you the Vice PRESIDENT, opah MUCHINGURI AND Margret Dongo knows a lot from the Tongogara to the MUJURU ISSUES.
    God willone day open the eyes of Zimbabweans. Ngwena is used like Vice president also used when it suits MATIBILI best. Muzorewa once said gwati uno rishandisa wo rasa kugomba namarara kana worida wonotora kugomba zvakare. Thus why MATIBILI STANDS FOR TWO VICE PRESIDENTS HE IS A GOOD CHASE PLAYER.

    • Chimbwido Warvet

      That is what politics is all about. It is about satisfying one’s political fortunes. You are at liberty to say all this stuff but the bottom line is that both mai Mujuru and comrade Mnangagwa respect the old man. These guys have come a long way and are obviously seasoned politicians who know where their mouths are and can never be fooled or divided by this cheap politicking of yours. Icho!

  • Chorosi Chidzero

    Why should millions of Zimbabweans suffer and be convinced by Mugabe that they all fit on a bicycle carrier and MuGABE IS THE ONLY ONE TO CYCLE THEM TO THE PROMISED LAND AND NO ONE ELSE.
    Now he has finished with MDC PFAND HAS BOUGHT CHIEFS AND HERDMAN TO REJECT THE PEOPLE’S CONSTITUTION.
    aSI AKA PIWA NA KAMUZU karibekantu ino futsirwa na magaro kanhi for every Zimbabwean becames weak to challenge him even if he takes their mums na vakadzi vavo vonongoti torayi henyu gushongu votovhenekera.

  • Rod_tisky

    The controversy sterm from the fact that Zanu pf does not have a clear succession policy say like the ANC which has always seen that the vice president replaces the outgoing president of the party.
    On a different note its my humble notion that Diymus Mutasa is jealous because he knows he cant be nominated for president so he is at the fore front of scuppering Mnangagwa’s rise to the president position. But you cant stop that from happening coz that man seems destined to succeed i have read about him from Wikipedia and other sources he is a silent schemer and will rule Zim post mugabe. The fact that he lost to Chebundo is neither here nor there, didnt Tswangirai loose in Buhera but where is he now?

  • super mondo

    what is the pupose of the two vp”s that are there now.

  • Friendly warnings

    The problem is that this Zanu PF party simply plagiarized the constitution of the Chinese Communist Party which works only in totalitarian one party states. Such a constitution does not work in a multi-party democracy which Zimbabwe is trying to be one. The constitution of Zanu PF has medieval succession structures which dictates that members ascend to the top of the party hierarchy by starting from the cell, then move to district, then province, then congress, and then politburo and finally presidium as happens in China. In this backward system, one does not need to run for any public position or office and all what is required is to be a dumb and unambitious card carrying member of the party. In such a system criteria for going to the top of the party is measured by loyalty to the party which must be demonstrated through aggressive boot licking and open worship of the higher ups, extra ordinary talent for shouting slogans, harassing and killing fellow country men in the name of the party. This is borrowed from practices of criminal organizations such as the mafia and biker gangs such as the Hells Angels. To their credit, after the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party now cuts out overzealous party criminals from their ranks.

    In a multi-party democracy, anybody can run for any position or public office and is elected by the public. One can run for office on their own or they can seek the sponsorship of a political party. In advanced democracies, political parties actually look for talented individuals who give their party the best chance of winning. All what they want is for the individual to share the ideals of their party and carrying a party card or duration of membership is irrelevant. That is why you see kids such as Barack Obama in the USA, David Cameron in the UK, Stephen Harper in Canada and many others manage to occupy the highest offices in their lands when they are barely 40.

    The problem with Zanu PF and their followers who are ignorant of democracy is that they don’t know that positions in their own party such as party president, deputy presidents etc are not public positions or public office. Public positions or office are open to other parties or individuals and are decided by the electorate or public. As said by the late vice-president of Zanu PF party, Simon Muzenda, Zanu PF can even put baboons to positions of power and still expect to win. Zanu PF is most likely to nominate a baboon or baboons for the 2013 elections. The question is how many baboons are they are field. Mnangagwa, mai Mujuru, Mutasa and other Zanu PF leadership hopefuls have to compete with baboons in their party first before they think of running against folks like Tswangirai.

    • Chimbwido Warvet

      Aya mamwe maduzi ehoromba regudo. Iyi Friendly warning inotaura seyakafemerwa mugotsi na Tswangirai. Inofanira kunge yakatoiswa nekumuk..ho kwayo na Tswangirai. Ngaitibvere kumhepo irege kutinhuwira neungoch.na hwayo.