Zanu PF Axes Top Mujuru Ally
December 16, 2015
SYLVESTER Nguni, the ex-Minister of State in former Vice-President Joice Mujuru’s Office, became the latest casualty of the Zanu PF purges after he was booted out of Parliament yesterday at the instigation of the ruling party.
BY VENERANDA LANGA
Zimbabwe NewsDay
Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda told MPs yesterday the decision to fire Nguni from the House and declare the Mhondoro-Mubaira seat vacant followed a letter from Zanu PF dated November 25 requesting his recall.
Nguni, who was Mhondoro-Mubaira MP, was expelled over his alleged close links to the Mujuru camp and its quest to unconstitutionally oust President Robert Mugabe from power.
Mudenda immediately declared the Mhondoro-Mubaira seat vacant, paving the way for a by-election soon.
“On November 25, I was notified by Zanu PF that with effect from December 1, 2015, Nguni ceased to belong to the political party in which he was a member when he was elected to Parliament.
“The political party concerned, by written notice to the Speaker, or President of Senate, declares that the member has ceased to be a member of the party.”
Mudenda said appropriate steps would be taken to notify the President and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission of the vacancy in terms of Section 129 (1) (a) of the Constitution.
Several Cabinet ministers and legislators believed to be sympathetic to Mujuru have been relieved of their Zanu PF and government positions, while others have been expelled or suspended from the ruling party.
Meanwhile, opposition MPs yesterday threatened to block passage of the 2016 National Budget after Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa allegedly smuggled in a supplementary budget of $252 235 000 without seeking condonation by Parliament.
In 2015, Chinamasa caused a storm after he used the same ploy, forcing Mudenda to intervene and publicly chide the minister for deliberately defying parliamentary procedures.
The budget was later passed after Chinamasa had profusely apologised for the misdemeanour.
Yesterday, MDC-T chief whip Innocent Gonese raised the issue, accusing Chinamasa of breaching Section 305 (3) of the Constitution, which stipulates that there should be separate allocations for constitutional commissions, instead of allocating them funds through their respective ministries.
“I believe the Finance Bill should not be debated until the minister has rectified these issues,” Gonese said.
Mudenda ordered Chinamasa to rectify the anomalies, and he promised to do so.
Tsvangirai, Mujuru sign ‘elections’ deal
Dec 17, 2015
By Blessings Mashaya
Zimbabwe Daily News
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and former Vice President Joice Mujuru have come closer to forging an alliance to oust the post-congress Zanu PF from power after the People First movement signed the National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) document that agitates for crucial electoral reforms before the next national elections are held in the country.
A top cleric who is leading the process to unite the splintered opposition in their demands for a raft of electoral reforms ahead of the eagerly-anticipated 2018 elections, Bishop Ancelimo Magaya, told the media in Harare yesterday that Mujuru’s People First movement had finally signed the document which at least 10 other opposition parties, including the MDC, have already inked.
“Yes, I can confirm that People First signed the Nera document on Tuesday through Didymus Mutasa,” Magaya said yesterday, a development that Mutasa himself also confirmed.
“Yes, I signed the document. We are prepared to take the necessary steps to create a conducive electoral environment in the country,” Mutasa told the Daily News.
Well-placed sources inside both the MDC and People First said their signing of the document set in motion the process of the two outfits eventually coming together in a long-mooted electoral pact between Tsvangirai and Mujuru — despite concerted efforts by President Robert Mugabe and the post-congress Zanu PF to torpedo such a deal before it happens.
Magaya said it was the church’s responsibility to take part “in an agenda that will see Zimbabwe united”, adding that discussions had also taken place with various civil society organisations.
“We have talked to a number of different political parties. I have been to the offices of the People’s Democratic Party and those for the Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe.
“The whole idea behind this effort is to make sure that Zimbabweans put aside their small differences and start to concentrate on the bigger picture,” Magaya said.
The cleric also revealed that the parties to the signed agreement would meet tomorrow for a national convergence gathering dubbed the Zimbabwe National Agreement Platform, where Zimbabweans from across society are expected to come together “to discuss the situation which is affecting our country”.
He added that the meeting, which would take place at the City Sports Centre in Harare, would treat all parties in attendance as equals.
Since Mujuru launched her Blueprint to Unlock Investment and Leverage for Development manifesto, which received widespread approval, the widow of the late liberation struggle icon, Solomon Mujuru, has come under heavy political attack from her former comrades in the post-congress Zanu PF.
Tsvangirai has also accused the ruling party of trying to throw spanners in the works and scuttle the mooted alliance between him and the former VP, allegedly including using some elements in the MDC to do that.
With the post-congress Zanu PF consumed by vicious factional and succession wars pitting Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa on one hand and the ruling party’s ambitious Young Turks known as the Generation 40 on the other, the opposition is confident that it is only a matter of time before the ruling party is turfed out of power — particularly given that the economy is also in free-fall.
The Daily News has previously reported that Tsvangirai and Mujuru have been talking through emissaries over the past few months, to explore how they can work together to challenge Mugabe and the post-congress Zanu PF in the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national elections.
And Tsvangirai and Mujuru’s aides, including Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo have also gone on record to reiterate their political outfits’ eagerness to work together.
Tsvangirai said in October that Zanu PF was working hard to stop him and his party from working with Mujuru and her People First movement, whose transformation into a political party is said to be imminent.
The veteran opposition leader said it was clear that Mugabe was rattled by the prospects of the MDC working with Mujuru to turf him and the ruling party out of power in the 2018 national elections.
He said so desperate had Zanu PF become about the issue that the party was allegedly trying to infiltrate the MDC and other opposition parties with a view of scuppering the mooted pact.
In that vein, Tsvangirai urged the opposition, including senior officials from his own party, to be careful about being used and manipulated by Zanu PF.
“I am worried about the apparent infiltration by Zanu PF agents who want to destabilise opposition alliances. They have gone into overdrive in making sure we are divided going into the 2018 elections.
“Speaking as the president of the MDC, I would like to make it clear that we are, and that we will work with Mai Mujuru and all other opposition parties to ensure that we deliver real freedom and a better life to all Zimbabweans.
“We need to unite with other progressive forces instead of raising alarm about non-existent posts,” Tsvangirai said.
Mugabe’s warring party split into two bitterly-opposed formations at the end of last year at the height of its internal ructions, with its purged liberation struggle stalwarts moving to initiate the re-establishment of the “original” Zanu PF — which uses the slogan People First. Daily News
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I don’t miss Zanu PF: Mujuru
December 13, 2015
Former Vice-President Joice Mujuru says she is at peace as an ordinary citizen and does not miss Zanu PF or the luxury of being a vice-president in President Robert Mugabe’s government at all.
By XOLISANI NCUBE
In an exclusive interview with The Standard while Zanu PF was in the middle of its annual conference in Victoria Falls on Friday, Mujuru said she had nothing to miss there.
“Looking at what is happening after the so-called congress of 2014, I have nothing to miss there. I enjoy being an ordinary citizen enduring, like everyone else, the pain and anguish of the economic crisis we find ourselves in,” Mujuru said.
The former VP, who was axed from both Zanu PF and government 12 months ago on allegations of plotting to overthrow Mugabe, said she was enjoying living the life of an ordinary Zimbabwean although it brought her sadness to watch people she fought along side during the armed struggle tear each other apart in factional fights.
“It’s unfortunate that in all this, the economy and the ordinary Zimbabweans are the ones paying the ultimate price as leaders fight for power. As for me, I am missing nothing there, there is nothing to miss both as VP in government and in the party,” Mujuru said.
With expectations high that she would soon launch her own political party, the country’s first female VP has chosen to keep her cards close to her chest.
After kicking Mujuru out in December last year and replacing her with Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko, the ruling party has remained engulfed in factional fires that have seen suspensions and expulsions becoming the order of the day.
Her ouster from the party has also not stopped Mugabe and his supporters from making Mujuru their political punching bag, even when she does not respond.
Although she has not featured prominently in public, except at funerals of associates, her name has remained on the front pages of newspapers which link her to a political project dubbed People First.
The project is currently being championed by ex-Zanu PF stalwarts, Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo, along with freedom fighters and former high officials of Zanu PF and ministers who were chucked out of the party along with Mujuru.
Once in a while Mujuru has heightened expectations of launching a political party by releasing statements. But as soon as these are released, she retreats into her shell, leaving friends and foes alike guessing about her plans.
“I will not be pushed around. I will do what the people of Zimbabwe want me to do at an appropriate time — to help each other as Zimbabweans,” Mujuru has said.
In one of her statements, Mujuru requested that she be allowed to be free and be as she pleased, without “Zanu PF being obsessed with me”.
Defacto spokesperson of the so-called People First, Gumbo has said Mujuru’s silence should not be misconstrued for weakness as it was part of their strategy.
“We are not there to entertain doubtful people. We are serious and we are doing all we can underground. Currently we are mobilising and strategising; building structures silently while the post congress Zanu PF continues to tear one another apart,” said Gumbo.
Analyst Alexandra Rusero, however, said if Mujuru was serious about forming a party, she had to do it now before the public sympathy she enjoyed dissipated.
“No doubt Mujuru’s formal entry into opposition politics will shake-up the political scene, but on the flipside, her dillydallying may also be damaging,” Rusero said.
After the dramatic fall of Mujuru and her cabal, the torch bearers of the project have presented themselves as poor people with nothing to show for the 35 years they were in government.
Mujuru Has the Last Laugh As Mutsvangwa Bites the Dust
By Sij Ncube
RadioVOP
HARARE, December 18,2015 – FORMER Vice President Joice Mujuru is probably rubbing her hands in glee after Zanu PF fired her tormentor-in-chief war veterans’ leader Chris Mutsvangwa, proving indeed there are no permanent friends in politics.
Leading to Mujuru’s ouster from Zanu PF in December 2014, Mutsvangwa was in the fore-front of demonising the former vice president, calling her names as well as going as far as disputing the wildly held version that she downed a plane at the height of the war of liberation.
The war veterans’ leader is also on record as having accused Mujuru of looting millions of dollars earmarked for a telecommunications company for the former freedom fighters and allegedly gave some of the money to exiled businessman James Makamba.
Mutsvangwa has also crossed swords with Zanu PF political commissar Saviours Kasukuwere who labelled war veterans drunkards.
Ahead of the Zanu PF conference held in Victoria Falls last week there were reported political machinations to push for the removal of Kasukuwere from the post of national political commissar but these was allegedly crushed President Robert Mugabe who said it is only the congress with powers to change leadership.
Mutsvangwa, whose wife Monica has suffered the same fate of being fired from the party, has reportedly also rubbed the wrong way Mugabe’s wife, Grace.
Macdonald Lewanika, the former director of Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition now studying in the United Kingdom, says the fate which has fallen Mutsvangwa, is a clear demonstration of how there are no permanent friends in politics just interests.
Lewanika said Mutsvangwa is a victim of the age old wisdom that if you live by the sword, often enough you die by it.
“But perhaps more importantly, Mutsvangwa’s ousting shows us that the succession debate in ZANU PF was not resolved by the axing of Mujuru, in the same way it is not settled by the axing of Mutsvangwa who ironically has met the same fate he meted to Mujuru and (Sylvester) Nguni, whose recent ouster he probably supported without knowing that the same fate awaited him. It is indeed a long way to the Presidency in ZANU PF for the pretenders, and we are likely to see heads continue to roll at different levels, for as long as the party refuses to institute a democratic, participatory way to settle the issue.”
Vivid Gwede, a Harare-based political analyst closely following developments in Zanu PF, says Mutsvangwa now knows that what goes around comes around.
“It reminds of Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller who said: "...then they came for the Jews,
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew... When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out."
“Anyway, what all these politicians miss is that they are all trapped by a system of oppression which is easily angered by any semblance of criticism. Apart from the fact that they here and there benefit from the patronage and help strengthen the unjust system, they are all part of the oppressed,” said Gwede.
Takura Zhangazha, Harare-based popular political blogger and analyst, weighed in pointing out that Mutsvangwa’s own methods are now back being used against him by his former allies.
“The only lucky part is that he is not actually in the provincial structure and therefore his retaining his position is up to the president more than it is about lower level structures,” said Zhangazha.
But other critics charge that Mutsvangwa, a disgraced former ZBC director general and former diplomat in the USA and China forgot that people who stay in glass houses should not throw stones
SYLVESTER Nguni, the ex-Minister of State in former Vice-President Joice Mujuru’s Office, became the latest casualty of the Zanu PF purges after he was booted out of Parliament yesterday at the instigation of the ruling party.
BY VENERANDA LANGA
Zimbabwe NewsDay
Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda told MPs yesterday the decision to fire Nguni from the House and declare the Mhondoro-Mubaira seat vacant followed a letter from Zanu PF dated November 25 requesting his recall.
Nguni, who was Mhondoro-Mubaira MP, was expelled over his alleged close links to the Mujuru camp and its quest to unconstitutionally oust President Robert Mugabe from power.
Mudenda immediately declared the Mhondoro-Mubaira seat vacant, paving the way for a by-election soon.
“On November 25, I was notified by Zanu PF that with effect from December 1, 2015, Nguni ceased to belong to the political party in which he was a member when he was elected to Parliament.
“The political party concerned, by written notice to the Speaker, or President of Senate, declares that the member has ceased to be a member of the party.”
Mudenda said appropriate steps would be taken to notify the President and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission of the vacancy in terms of Section 129 (1) (a) of the Constitution.
Several Cabinet ministers and legislators believed to be sympathetic to Mujuru have been relieved of their Zanu PF and government positions, while others have been expelled or suspended from the ruling party.
Meanwhile, opposition MPs yesterday threatened to block passage of the 2016 National Budget after Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa allegedly smuggled in a supplementary budget of $252 235 000 without seeking condonation by Parliament.
In 2015, Chinamasa caused a storm after he used the same ploy, forcing Mudenda to intervene and publicly chide the minister for deliberately defying parliamentary procedures.
The budget was later passed after Chinamasa had profusely apologised for the misdemeanour.
Yesterday, MDC-T chief whip Innocent Gonese raised the issue, accusing Chinamasa of breaching Section 305 (3) of the Constitution, which stipulates that there should be separate allocations for constitutional commissions, instead of allocating them funds through their respective ministries.
“I believe the Finance Bill should not be debated until the minister has rectified these issues,” Gonese said.
Mudenda ordered Chinamasa to rectify the anomalies, and he promised to do so.
Tsvangirai, Mujuru sign ‘elections’ deal
Dec 17, 2015
By Blessings Mashaya
Zimbabwe Daily News
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and former Vice President Joice Mujuru have come closer to forging an alliance to oust the post-congress Zanu PF from power after the People First movement signed the National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) document that agitates for crucial electoral reforms before the next national elections are held in the country.
A top cleric who is leading the process to unite the splintered opposition in their demands for a raft of electoral reforms ahead of the eagerly-anticipated 2018 elections, Bishop Ancelimo Magaya, told the media in Harare yesterday that Mujuru’s People First movement had finally signed the document which at least 10 other opposition parties, including the MDC, have already inked.
“Yes, I can confirm that People First signed the Nera document on Tuesday through Didymus Mutasa,” Magaya said yesterday, a development that Mutasa himself also confirmed.
“Yes, I signed the document. We are prepared to take the necessary steps to create a conducive electoral environment in the country,” Mutasa told the Daily News.
Well-placed sources inside both the MDC and People First said their signing of the document set in motion the process of the two outfits eventually coming together in a long-mooted electoral pact between Tsvangirai and Mujuru — despite concerted efforts by President Robert Mugabe and the post-congress Zanu PF to torpedo such a deal before it happens.
Magaya said it was the church’s responsibility to take part “in an agenda that will see Zimbabwe united”, adding that discussions had also taken place with various civil society organisations.
“We have talked to a number of different political parties. I have been to the offices of the People’s Democratic Party and those for the Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe.
“The whole idea behind this effort is to make sure that Zimbabweans put aside their small differences and start to concentrate on the bigger picture,” Magaya said.
The cleric also revealed that the parties to the signed agreement would meet tomorrow for a national convergence gathering dubbed the Zimbabwe National Agreement Platform, where Zimbabweans from across society are expected to come together “to discuss the situation which is affecting our country”.
He added that the meeting, which would take place at the City Sports Centre in Harare, would treat all parties in attendance as equals.
Since Mujuru launched her Blueprint to Unlock Investment and Leverage for Development manifesto, which received widespread approval, the widow of the late liberation struggle icon, Solomon Mujuru, has come under heavy political attack from her former comrades in the post-congress Zanu PF.
Tsvangirai has also accused the ruling party of trying to throw spanners in the works and scuttle the mooted alliance between him and the former VP, allegedly including using some elements in the MDC to do that.
With the post-congress Zanu PF consumed by vicious factional and succession wars pitting Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa on one hand and the ruling party’s ambitious Young Turks known as the Generation 40 on the other, the opposition is confident that it is only a matter of time before the ruling party is turfed out of power — particularly given that the economy is also in free-fall.
The Daily News has previously reported that Tsvangirai and Mujuru have been talking through emissaries over the past few months, to explore how they can work together to challenge Mugabe and the post-congress Zanu PF in the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national elections.
And Tsvangirai and Mujuru’s aides, including Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo have also gone on record to reiterate their political outfits’ eagerness to work together.
Tsvangirai said in October that Zanu PF was working hard to stop him and his party from working with Mujuru and her People First movement, whose transformation into a political party is said to be imminent.
The veteran opposition leader said it was clear that Mugabe was rattled by the prospects of the MDC working with Mujuru to turf him and the ruling party out of power in the 2018 national elections.
He said so desperate had Zanu PF become about the issue that the party was allegedly trying to infiltrate the MDC and other opposition parties with a view of scuppering the mooted pact.
In that vein, Tsvangirai urged the opposition, including senior officials from his own party, to be careful about being used and manipulated by Zanu PF.
“I am worried about the apparent infiltration by Zanu PF agents who want to destabilise opposition alliances. They have gone into overdrive in making sure we are divided going into the 2018 elections.
“Speaking as the president of the MDC, I would like to make it clear that we are, and that we will work with Mai Mujuru and all other opposition parties to ensure that we deliver real freedom and a better life to all Zimbabweans.
“We need to unite with other progressive forces instead of raising alarm about non-existent posts,” Tsvangirai said.
Mugabe’s warring party split into two bitterly-opposed formations at the end of last year at the height of its internal ructions, with its purged liberation struggle stalwarts moving to initiate the re-establishment of the “original” Zanu PF — which uses the slogan People First. Daily News
- See more at: http://nehandaradio.com/2015/12/17/tsvangirai-mujuru-sign-elections-deal/#sthash.YDZ5R3b0.dpuf
I don’t miss Zanu PF: Mujuru
December 13, 2015
Former Vice-President Joice Mujuru says she is at peace as an ordinary citizen and does not miss Zanu PF or the luxury of being a vice-president in President Robert Mugabe’s government at all.
By XOLISANI NCUBE
In an exclusive interview with The Standard while Zanu PF was in the middle of its annual conference in Victoria Falls on Friday, Mujuru said she had nothing to miss there.
“Looking at what is happening after the so-called congress of 2014, I have nothing to miss there. I enjoy being an ordinary citizen enduring, like everyone else, the pain and anguish of the economic crisis we find ourselves in,” Mujuru said.
The former VP, who was axed from both Zanu PF and government 12 months ago on allegations of plotting to overthrow Mugabe, said she was enjoying living the life of an ordinary Zimbabwean although it brought her sadness to watch people she fought along side during the armed struggle tear each other apart in factional fights.
“It’s unfortunate that in all this, the economy and the ordinary Zimbabweans are the ones paying the ultimate price as leaders fight for power. As for me, I am missing nothing there, there is nothing to miss both as VP in government and in the party,” Mujuru said.
With expectations high that she would soon launch her own political party, the country’s first female VP has chosen to keep her cards close to her chest.
After kicking Mujuru out in December last year and replacing her with Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko, the ruling party has remained engulfed in factional fires that have seen suspensions and expulsions becoming the order of the day.
Her ouster from the party has also not stopped Mugabe and his supporters from making Mujuru their political punching bag, even when she does not respond.
Although she has not featured prominently in public, except at funerals of associates, her name has remained on the front pages of newspapers which link her to a political project dubbed People First.
The project is currently being championed by ex-Zanu PF stalwarts, Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo, along with freedom fighters and former high officials of Zanu PF and ministers who were chucked out of the party along with Mujuru.
Once in a while Mujuru has heightened expectations of launching a political party by releasing statements. But as soon as these are released, she retreats into her shell, leaving friends and foes alike guessing about her plans.
“I will not be pushed around. I will do what the people of Zimbabwe want me to do at an appropriate time — to help each other as Zimbabweans,” Mujuru has said.
In one of her statements, Mujuru requested that she be allowed to be free and be as she pleased, without “Zanu PF being obsessed with me”.
Defacto spokesperson of the so-called People First, Gumbo has said Mujuru’s silence should not be misconstrued for weakness as it was part of their strategy.
“We are not there to entertain doubtful people. We are serious and we are doing all we can underground. Currently we are mobilising and strategising; building structures silently while the post congress Zanu PF continues to tear one another apart,” said Gumbo.
Analyst Alexandra Rusero, however, said if Mujuru was serious about forming a party, she had to do it now before the public sympathy she enjoyed dissipated.
“No doubt Mujuru’s formal entry into opposition politics will shake-up the political scene, but on the flipside, her dillydallying may also be damaging,” Rusero said.
After the dramatic fall of Mujuru and her cabal, the torch bearers of the project have presented themselves as poor people with nothing to show for the 35 years they were in government.
Mujuru Has the Last Laugh As Mutsvangwa Bites the Dust
By Sij Ncube
RadioVOP
HARARE, December 18,2015 – FORMER Vice President Joice Mujuru is probably rubbing her hands in glee after Zanu PF fired her tormentor-in-chief war veterans’ leader Chris Mutsvangwa, proving indeed there are no permanent friends in politics.
Leading to Mujuru’s ouster from Zanu PF in December 2014, Mutsvangwa was in the fore-front of demonising the former vice president, calling her names as well as going as far as disputing the wildly held version that she downed a plane at the height of the war of liberation.
The war veterans’ leader is also on record as having accused Mujuru of looting millions of dollars earmarked for a telecommunications company for the former freedom fighters and allegedly gave some of the money to exiled businessman James Makamba.
Mutsvangwa has also crossed swords with Zanu PF political commissar Saviours Kasukuwere who labelled war veterans drunkards.
Ahead of the Zanu PF conference held in Victoria Falls last week there were reported political machinations to push for the removal of Kasukuwere from the post of national political commissar but these was allegedly crushed President Robert Mugabe who said it is only the congress with powers to change leadership.
Mutsvangwa, whose wife Monica has suffered the same fate of being fired from the party, has reportedly also rubbed the wrong way Mugabe’s wife, Grace.
Macdonald Lewanika, the former director of Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition now studying in the United Kingdom, says the fate which has fallen Mutsvangwa, is a clear demonstration of how there are no permanent friends in politics just interests.
Lewanika said Mutsvangwa is a victim of the age old wisdom that if you live by the sword, often enough you die by it.
“But perhaps more importantly, Mutsvangwa’s ousting shows us that the succession debate in ZANU PF was not resolved by the axing of Mujuru, in the same way it is not settled by the axing of Mutsvangwa who ironically has met the same fate he meted to Mujuru and (Sylvester) Nguni, whose recent ouster he probably supported without knowing that the same fate awaited him. It is indeed a long way to the Presidency in ZANU PF for the pretenders, and we are likely to see heads continue to roll at different levels, for as long as the party refuses to institute a democratic, participatory way to settle the issue.”
Vivid Gwede, a Harare-based political analyst closely following developments in Zanu PF, says Mutsvangwa now knows that what goes around comes around.
“It reminds of Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller who said: "...then they came for the Jews,
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew... When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out."
“Anyway, what all these politicians miss is that they are all trapped by a system of oppression which is easily angered by any semblance of criticism. Apart from the fact that they here and there benefit from the patronage and help strengthen the unjust system, they are all part of the oppressed,” said Gwede.
Takura Zhangazha, Harare-based popular political blogger and analyst, weighed in pointing out that Mutsvangwa’s own methods are now back being used against him by his former allies.
“The only lucky part is that he is not actually in the provincial structure and therefore his retaining his position is up to the president more than it is about lower level structures,” said Zhangazha.
But other critics charge that Mutsvangwa, a disgraced former ZBC director general and former diplomat in the USA and China forgot that people who stay in glass houses should not throw stones
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