Levi Mukarati and Farirai Machivenyika Zanu-PF has booted out Joice Mujuru as the party’s Vice President and Second Secretary with President...
Levi Mukarati and Farirai Machivenyika
Zanu-PF has booted out Joice Mujuru as the party’s Vice President and Second Secretary with President Mugabe saying her boycott of Zanu-PF’s watershed 6th National People’s Congress had reduced her to an ordinary card carrying member.
Sources say President Mugabe had wanted to accommodate VP Mujuru in another capacity with less influence, but her conspicuous absence demonstrated total disregard for the party and its members, and a lack of remorse for her leading role in the plot to unseat the First Secretary.
Also absent were former secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa and ex-secretary for transport and welfare Nicholas Goche.
Both failed to get Central Committee nominations, a humiliation also experienced by VP Mujuru.
And yesterday President Mugabe and Women’s League Secretary Amai Grace Mugabe both expressed their disappointment with the VP’s behaviour, pointing out that she had no one but herself to blame for her demise.
Closing the Congress last night, President Mugabe said: “If people are shifted they should not cry foul. If you are dropped, well, we say sorry; but we will say goodbye to you and there will be many goodbyes.
Some have already chosen, through their own irregular acts, to bid us farewell. Those who are not here have said goodbye to us I don’t see us having them back in the Central Committee.”
This was in part reference to President Mugabe’s prerogative to appoint ten people to the Central Committee. None of the rebels made the cut.
However, he said VP Mujuru and her cabal would not be expelled from the party, but urged them to self-introspect and re-acquaint themselves with the values that inform Zanu-PF.
“We are not sending them away, no, except for those we expelled. But the others, if you don’t expel them and thus get them out of the Central Committee, get them out from the management of the provinces etcetera and say you can be an ordinary member. They will never be dismissed or expelled so they will become ordinary members.
“They will have more time to do their farming, to grow maize and potatoes. But if they seek to be members of the party, they must start to learn what Zanu-PF is, what to be a member of Zanu means, what does Zanu-PF stand for. Zanu-PF, what does it stand for? Do you know it really? Do you know its origins, its history? Do you know how it moved from that history to its present position?”
VP Mujuru’s cabal includes nine former provincial chairpersons and scores of other officials who were given votes of no confidence for seeking President Mugabe’s ouster – including discussions of a possible assassination.
Cde Goche is said to have been active in planning the assassination plot while Cde Mutasa reportedly told his girlfriend that the President would be shot if he blocked VP Mujuru from assuming the presidency.
Another conspirator, expelled spokesperson Rugare Gumbo, reportedly spoke of eliminating President Mugabe in the manner that DRC’s slain leader, President Laurent Kabila, was murdered.
In addition, VP Mujuru faces allegations of corruption, abuse of office and illicit dealings in diamonds and gold.
President Mugabe warned Zanu PF members against seeking positions in the party to enrich themselves saying people should look at the example set by departed party stalwarts like the late national heroes and VPs, Dr Joshua Nkomo, John Nkomo and Simon Muzenda.
“And the leaders we have, unfortunately many have gone, many are new and the new ones think to be in the party is to be placed in an organisation that will make you rich, no. In fact we want you to bring your own abilities and capacities into the party so the party can fend for your people as a whole,” he said.
“We are not there in order for the party to become a benefactor and you a beneficiary of the party, no. It is the party which should be your beneficiary; you are the benefactor, you are the one who should have greater value to the party and not try to diminish the standing of the party . . .
Zanu-PF has booted out Joice Mujuru as the party’s Vice President and Second Secretary with President Mugabe saying her boycott of Zanu-PF’s watershed 6th National People’s Congress had reduced her to an ordinary card carrying member.
Sources say President Mugabe had wanted to accommodate VP Mujuru in another capacity with less influence, but her conspicuous absence demonstrated total disregard for the party and its members, and a lack of remorse for her leading role in the plot to unseat the First Secretary.
Also absent were former secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa and ex-secretary for transport and welfare Nicholas Goche.
Both failed to get Central Committee nominations, a humiliation also experienced by VP Mujuru.
And yesterday President Mugabe and Women’s League Secretary Amai Grace Mugabe both expressed their disappointment with the VP’s behaviour, pointing out that she had no one but herself to blame for her demise.
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| Zanu-PF has booted out Joice Mujuru as the party’s Vice President and Second Secretary with President Mugabe |
Some have already chosen, through their own irregular acts, to bid us farewell. Those who are not here have said goodbye to us I don’t see us having them back in the Central Committee.”
This was in part reference to President Mugabe’s prerogative to appoint ten people to the Central Committee. None of the rebels made the cut.
However, he said VP Mujuru and her cabal would not be expelled from the party, but urged them to self-introspect and re-acquaint themselves with the values that inform Zanu-PF.
“We are not sending them away, no, except for those we expelled. But the others, if you don’t expel them and thus get them out of the Central Committee, get them out from the management of the provinces etcetera and say you can be an ordinary member. They will never be dismissed or expelled so they will become ordinary members.
“They will have more time to do their farming, to grow maize and potatoes. But if they seek to be members of the party, they must start to learn what Zanu-PF is, what to be a member of Zanu means, what does Zanu-PF stand for. Zanu-PF, what does it stand for? Do you know it really? Do you know its origins, its history? Do you know how it moved from that history to its present position?”
VP Mujuru’s cabal includes nine former provincial chairpersons and scores of other officials who were given votes of no confidence for seeking President Mugabe’s ouster – including discussions of a possible assassination.
Cde Goche is said to have been active in planning the assassination plot while Cde Mutasa reportedly told his girlfriend that the President would be shot if he blocked VP Mujuru from assuming the presidency.
Another conspirator, expelled spokesperson Rugare Gumbo, reportedly spoke of eliminating President Mugabe in the manner that DRC’s slain leader, President Laurent Kabila, was murdered.
In addition, VP Mujuru faces allegations of corruption, abuse of office and illicit dealings in diamonds and gold.
President Mugabe warned Zanu PF members against seeking positions in the party to enrich themselves saying people should look at the example set by departed party stalwarts like the late national heroes and VPs, Dr Joshua Nkomo, John Nkomo and Simon Muzenda.
“And the leaders we have, unfortunately many have gone, many are new and the new ones think to be in the party is to be placed in an organisation that will make you rich, no. In fact we want you to bring your own abilities and capacities into the party so the party can fend for your people as a whole,” he said.
“We are not there in order for the party to become a benefactor and you a beneficiary of the party, no. It is the party which should be your beneficiary; you are the benefactor, you are the one who should have greater value to the party and not try to diminish the standing of the party . . .
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