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Mugabe to play balancing act
14 Jun 2017 at 06:50hrs | Views
The ruling Zanu-PF party's supreme decision-making organ in between congresses, the politburo, meets in Harare today for another crunch meeting that could end the uncertainty surrounding Saviour Kasukuwere's future as the revolutionary party's national political commissar.
This follows the completion of a report by a team appointed by the President in April to probe instability in Mashonaland Central Province, which some party officials blamed on Kasukuwere and his half brother Dickson Mafios.
President Mugabe then dispatched a three-member team led by Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda on a fact-finding mission to Mashonaland Central.
The team has since compiled its report and yesterday Adv Mudenda refused to disclose if they had already presented it to President Mugabe.
The 47 year old Mount Darwin legislator goes into today's potentially explosive meeting to ensure whether he will keep his job, which he assumed only three years ago.
Growing factional fights, countrywide demonstrations against political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere and internal polls to choose a substantive chairman in Masvingo are likely to dominate proceedings.
Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo would neither confirm nor deny a meeting of the ruling party's administrative body was on the cards. Zanu-PF is bitterly divided between two distinct factions, one declaring allegiance to Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, and another known as G40, which has been oscillating between different personalities in a bid to present a factional face as Mugabe's health problems mount and age takes its toll.
This follows the completion of a report by a team appointed by the President in April to probe instability in Mashonaland Central Province, which some party officials blamed on Kasukuwere and his half brother Dickson Mafios.
President Mugabe then dispatched a three-member team led by Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda on a fact-finding mission to Mashonaland Central.
The team has since compiled its report and yesterday Adv Mudenda refused to disclose if they had already presented it to President Mugabe.
The 47 year old Mount Darwin legislator goes into today's potentially explosive meeting to ensure whether he will keep his job, which he assumed only three years ago.
Growing factional fights, countrywide demonstrations against political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere and internal polls to choose a substantive chairman in Masvingo are likely to dominate proceedings.
Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo would neither confirm nor deny a meeting of the ruling party's administrative body was on the cards. Zanu-PF is bitterly divided between two distinct factions, one declaring allegiance to Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, and another known as G40, which has been oscillating between different personalities in a bid to present a factional face as Mugabe's health problems mount and age takes its toll.
Source - dailynews
