ZANU-PF Manicaland Women's League Chair Removed
October 19, 2015
Zimbabwe Newsday
THE Zanu PF Manicaland Women’s League provincial has reportedly passed a vote-of no-confidence on provincial chairlady Happiness Nyakuedzwa accusing her of fanning factionalism and disrespecting the First Lady Grace Mugabe.
By Everson Mushava
A provincial executive member who spoke to NewsDay on condition of anonymity said Nyakuedzwa was axed over the weekend after over 25 of the executive’s 40 members signed the petition to boot her out of the party’s structures.
Part of the petition read: “Cde Nyakuendzwa is taking long, if not refusing to recognise the women’s league leader, the secretary of Women Affairs Dr Grace Mugabe thereby resorting to report to the former Women’s League secretary (Oppah Muchinguri) thereby breaching party protocol and procedures since the constitution clearly states the provincial women’s league is answerable to the national women’s league,” part of the petition read.
The members signed the petition despite efforts by Muchinguri last Friday to discourage members against signing it.
“The petition will now be forwarded to the women and main wings, which will then send forward it to the (Zanu PF national) disciplinary committee for determination,” the official said.
However, Nyakuedzwa yesterday professed ignorance over the matter.
“It is news to me. If there are issues against party members, the party has a way of dealing with them,” Nyakuedzwa said.
On allegations that she still reports to Muchinguri, Nyakuedzwa said: “It’s not true. I will not comment on that.”
Muchinguri’s mobile phone went unanswered yesterday.
“Nyakuedzwa is accused of disrespecting the First Lady. In a briefing before the Chimanimani rally, she disobeyed an order by the First Lady to sit when she wanted to defend herself on the allegations leveled against her by (Provincial Affairs minister Mandi) Chimene,” the source said.
According to the source, Grace was almost losing her temper after telling her several times to sit down and she refused “persisting in wanting to absolve herself from Chimene’s allegations.”
The petition stated that the provincial chairlady was accused of using her husband, Albert, to set parallel structures in Makoni district where she plans to contest in the 2018 general elections.
At the Rushinga rally, Nyakuedzwa was allegedly stopped by Sarah Mahoka, Mabel Chinomona and Tabeth Kanengoni from making a slogan on behalf of her province.
First Lady Connecting With the People
October 19, 2015
Felex Share Senior Reporter
Zimbabwe Herald
“I cannot just sit in the State House polishing my nails while people are starving. I come and take people’s messages to their President. That is my duty.” These were the words of First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe while addressing thousands of people in Rushinga last week.
The above words have several connotations, yet they point to one thing that in any given political set up, the wife of a President or King, in the case of monarchies, has a certain role to play in the body politic.
While to any well meaning listener these words show motherly love, Zimbabwe’s opposition and its private media hacks appear lost to this wisdom.
Whenever Amai Mugabe reaches out to the people, they go ballistic, twisting her messages to suit their western backed political agenda.
It reminds one of the fly that upsets a whole bottle of perfume, as some passage in the Bible says.
The First Lady, having assumed the role of Zanu-PF Women’s Affairs secretary last December fully knows she has a mandate to deliver and to achieve that, she has to take a bottom-up approach.
This means connecting and interacting with the grassroots and taking their messages to their President.
The First Lady is entitled to the enjoyment of the trappings of power given that power is indeed sweet by its nature. But she thinks otherwise, and has braved the heatwave that is sweeping the country to come face to face with the sanctions induced challenges the people are enduring.
Her view, it has become evident, is to proffer home-grown solutions.
Having been raised like any other rural girl and in the spirit of Ubuntu, the First Lady sees it fit that she cannot sit at home while villagers are starving.
In any case, what would be a better choice, sitting in the comfort zones of State House and doing petty house chores of cooking, polishing nails or rather concentrate on cosmetology, than braving the scorching heat, talking to people, facing the reality of their hardships and extend a hand in the best possible way to alleviate suffering?
And forget not, it is not only talking to the people but relaying such critical information to the President who owes the people action, given that it is the people who constitutionally gave him the mandate to preside over the affairs of the nation according to the results of the ballot, further attested by numerous surveys conducted home and abroad by various highly esteemed think tanks.
It takes two to tango, they say.
The President cannot shoulder blame while his wife receives praises or vice versa.
The First Lady has taken upon herself to do what some people fail to do that is going to the grassroots and giving an ear to the people who matter – the electorate.
Never minding the scorching sun and other elements, the First Lady has traversed the length and breadth of Zimbabwe to keep Zanu-PF alive and vibrant and in a short space of time, together with other members of the Women’s League, has been to Matabeleland North, Mashonaland West (twice), Manicaland and just recently Mashonaland Central.
She is connecting with the people and has brought a new approach that politicians do not have to wait for elections to find out what challenges the people face.
Unlike last year, when she went around castigating factionalism and its godfathers and mothers, this time the major gospel is empowerment, development and unity.
Of course, those rekindling factionalism have not been spared and have been warned that if they don’t “Stop It!”, they will go the Mujuru putschist cabal way.
During her tours, she has vowed to transform lives of the rural folk and turn dreams into reality by resuscitating the many irrigation schemes that have been lying idle.
Tractors and supporting agricultural equipment have been distributed to the people in the process.
Never mind retrogressive minds which say the First Lady is abusing the Government $98 million agricultural equipment sourced from Brazil.
She is the President’s wife and a Zanu-PF official and mind you it is Zanu-PF,by virtue of being the ruling party, which gives instructions to Government.
Her efforts have surpassed those of many Cabinet Ministers, some who to date cannot even unpack the Government’s economic blueprint, Zim-Asset.
For the First Lady it has become a must that in each of her addresses, she has to unpack the blue print giving people updates on the progress made in implementing it and what is expected from the people.
Remember, Zim-Asset is everyone’s baby and it means everyone should have an input for its success.
For opposition forces and the private media, Amai Mugabe’s tours should not surprise them considering we are talking about a well-documented philanthropist.
Dr Mugabe who is well known for her big-hearted projects-that have received the adulation of locals and foreigners-runs the Mazowe Chidren’s Home, Amai Mugabe School, Gushungo Dairy and is matron of many charitable organisations to mention just a few.
Her life is all about charity work, pursuance of noble humanitarian causes and social work.
These are the aspects that seem to give her power everyday.
First Lady and her team have shown us what President Mugabe last week termed the “Zanu-PF way.”
In his words, while addressing the 99th Ordinary Session of the Zanu-PF Central Committee, the President said: “In Zanu-PF, there is no time for vegetating and sleeping in between elections. When people face challenges this is the time to be with them. That is the Zanu-PF way and the party must go to the village to be at one with the hungry.”
And this is exactly what Amai Mugabe and her team are doing. The First Lady has become perplexed by media reportage, and she is a human being too.
The most disturbing aspect is that if she does good, the eyebrows in certain sections are raised, where is the source of all the donations, where is the money coming from and all such override the virtue of doing good at the right time.
Like the overzealous Biblical Pharisees, who questioned the reason why Jesus healed and saved lives on Sabbath Day instead of questioning whether the deed was for the good of humanity or not, the concern has been redirected to the source and funders of Amai Mugabe’s humanitarian donations.
Is it good or bad to give to people who are in need, who are starving and definitely needing a hand?
The question which we should rather ask is: are we judging Grace Mugabe on what she does or what she says she shall do?
Let us focus on the actions, pragmatics and practicalities not the “ought to”.
By virtue of her being, Amai Mugabe, is news!
Whatever she does is news worthy, but when all eyes are on her at an escalated scale, it ceases to be news, it becomes an orchestration.
But we, however, understand the panic in the opposition and its media hacks, Amai Mugabe’s rallies are not only drawing crowds, they are showing Zanu-PF is alive and can be mobilised, and that is a scary thought to the fractured opposition ahead of the 2018 harmonised elections.
Zimbabwe Newsday
THE Zanu PF Manicaland Women’s League provincial has reportedly passed a vote-of no-confidence on provincial chairlady Happiness Nyakuedzwa accusing her of fanning factionalism and disrespecting the First Lady Grace Mugabe.
By Everson Mushava
A provincial executive member who spoke to NewsDay on condition of anonymity said Nyakuedzwa was axed over the weekend after over 25 of the executive’s 40 members signed the petition to boot her out of the party’s structures.
Part of the petition read: “Cde Nyakuendzwa is taking long, if not refusing to recognise the women’s league leader, the secretary of Women Affairs Dr Grace Mugabe thereby resorting to report to the former Women’s League secretary (Oppah Muchinguri) thereby breaching party protocol and procedures since the constitution clearly states the provincial women’s league is answerable to the national women’s league,” part of the petition read.
The members signed the petition despite efforts by Muchinguri last Friday to discourage members against signing it.
“The petition will now be forwarded to the women and main wings, which will then send forward it to the (Zanu PF national) disciplinary committee for determination,” the official said.
However, Nyakuedzwa yesterday professed ignorance over the matter.
“It is news to me. If there are issues against party members, the party has a way of dealing with them,” Nyakuedzwa said.
On allegations that she still reports to Muchinguri, Nyakuedzwa said: “It’s not true. I will not comment on that.”
Muchinguri’s mobile phone went unanswered yesterday.
“Nyakuedzwa is accused of disrespecting the First Lady. In a briefing before the Chimanimani rally, she disobeyed an order by the First Lady to sit when she wanted to defend herself on the allegations leveled against her by (Provincial Affairs minister Mandi) Chimene,” the source said.
According to the source, Grace was almost losing her temper after telling her several times to sit down and she refused “persisting in wanting to absolve herself from Chimene’s allegations.”
The petition stated that the provincial chairlady was accused of using her husband, Albert, to set parallel structures in Makoni district where she plans to contest in the 2018 general elections.
At the Rushinga rally, Nyakuedzwa was allegedly stopped by Sarah Mahoka, Mabel Chinomona and Tabeth Kanengoni from making a slogan on behalf of her province.
First Lady Connecting With the People
October 19, 2015
Felex Share Senior Reporter
Zimbabwe Herald
“I cannot just sit in the State House polishing my nails while people are starving. I come and take people’s messages to their President. That is my duty.” These were the words of First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe while addressing thousands of people in Rushinga last week.
The above words have several connotations, yet they point to one thing that in any given political set up, the wife of a President or King, in the case of monarchies, has a certain role to play in the body politic.
While to any well meaning listener these words show motherly love, Zimbabwe’s opposition and its private media hacks appear lost to this wisdom.
Whenever Amai Mugabe reaches out to the people, they go ballistic, twisting her messages to suit their western backed political agenda.
It reminds one of the fly that upsets a whole bottle of perfume, as some passage in the Bible says.
The First Lady, having assumed the role of Zanu-PF Women’s Affairs secretary last December fully knows she has a mandate to deliver and to achieve that, she has to take a bottom-up approach.
This means connecting and interacting with the grassroots and taking their messages to their President.
The First Lady is entitled to the enjoyment of the trappings of power given that power is indeed sweet by its nature. But she thinks otherwise, and has braved the heatwave that is sweeping the country to come face to face with the sanctions induced challenges the people are enduring.
Her view, it has become evident, is to proffer home-grown solutions.
Having been raised like any other rural girl and in the spirit of Ubuntu, the First Lady sees it fit that she cannot sit at home while villagers are starving.
In any case, what would be a better choice, sitting in the comfort zones of State House and doing petty house chores of cooking, polishing nails or rather concentrate on cosmetology, than braving the scorching heat, talking to people, facing the reality of their hardships and extend a hand in the best possible way to alleviate suffering?
And forget not, it is not only talking to the people but relaying such critical information to the President who owes the people action, given that it is the people who constitutionally gave him the mandate to preside over the affairs of the nation according to the results of the ballot, further attested by numerous surveys conducted home and abroad by various highly esteemed think tanks.
It takes two to tango, they say.
The President cannot shoulder blame while his wife receives praises or vice versa.
The First Lady has taken upon herself to do what some people fail to do that is going to the grassroots and giving an ear to the people who matter – the electorate.
Never minding the scorching sun and other elements, the First Lady has traversed the length and breadth of Zimbabwe to keep Zanu-PF alive and vibrant and in a short space of time, together with other members of the Women’s League, has been to Matabeleland North, Mashonaland West (twice), Manicaland and just recently Mashonaland Central.
She is connecting with the people and has brought a new approach that politicians do not have to wait for elections to find out what challenges the people face.
Unlike last year, when she went around castigating factionalism and its godfathers and mothers, this time the major gospel is empowerment, development and unity.
Of course, those rekindling factionalism have not been spared and have been warned that if they don’t “Stop It!”, they will go the Mujuru putschist cabal way.
During her tours, she has vowed to transform lives of the rural folk and turn dreams into reality by resuscitating the many irrigation schemes that have been lying idle.
Tractors and supporting agricultural equipment have been distributed to the people in the process.
Never mind retrogressive minds which say the First Lady is abusing the Government $98 million agricultural equipment sourced from Brazil.
She is the President’s wife and a Zanu-PF official and mind you it is Zanu-PF,by virtue of being the ruling party, which gives instructions to Government.
Her efforts have surpassed those of many Cabinet Ministers, some who to date cannot even unpack the Government’s economic blueprint, Zim-Asset.
For the First Lady it has become a must that in each of her addresses, she has to unpack the blue print giving people updates on the progress made in implementing it and what is expected from the people.
Remember, Zim-Asset is everyone’s baby and it means everyone should have an input for its success.
For opposition forces and the private media, Amai Mugabe’s tours should not surprise them considering we are talking about a well-documented philanthropist.
Dr Mugabe who is well known for her big-hearted projects-that have received the adulation of locals and foreigners-runs the Mazowe Chidren’s Home, Amai Mugabe School, Gushungo Dairy and is matron of many charitable organisations to mention just a few.
Her life is all about charity work, pursuance of noble humanitarian causes and social work.
These are the aspects that seem to give her power everyday.
First Lady and her team have shown us what President Mugabe last week termed the “Zanu-PF way.”
In his words, while addressing the 99th Ordinary Session of the Zanu-PF Central Committee, the President said: “In Zanu-PF, there is no time for vegetating and sleeping in between elections. When people face challenges this is the time to be with them. That is the Zanu-PF way and the party must go to the village to be at one with the hungry.”
And this is exactly what Amai Mugabe and her team are doing. The First Lady has become perplexed by media reportage, and she is a human being too.
The most disturbing aspect is that if she does good, the eyebrows in certain sections are raised, where is the source of all the donations, where is the money coming from and all such override the virtue of doing good at the right time.
Like the overzealous Biblical Pharisees, who questioned the reason why Jesus healed and saved lives on Sabbath Day instead of questioning whether the deed was for the good of humanity or not, the concern has been redirected to the source and funders of Amai Mugabe’s humanitarian donations.
Is it good or bad to give to people who are in need, who are starving and definitely needing a hand?
The question which we should rather ask is: are we judging Grace Mugabe on what she does or what she says she shall do?
Let us focus on the actions, pragmatics and practicalities not the “ought to”.
By virtue of her being, Amai Mugabe, is news!
Whatever she does is news worthy, but when all eyes are on her at an escalated scale, it ceases to be news, it becomes an orchestration.
But we, however, understand the panic in the opposition and its media hacks, Amai Mugabe’s rallies are not only drawing crowds, they are showing Zanu-PF is alive and can be mobilised, and that is a scary thought to the fractured opposition ahead of the 2018 harmonised elections.
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